lazarus
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Who gives a fuck? It's an album title.
Also, Hail To The Thief/In Rainbows = less experimental (at least within the context of their discography) than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/A Ghost Is Born. Radiohead hasn't been truly experimental since Amnesiac, and there is little to nothing about the past two records that could be considered experimental for the band. They both feel like rehashes to me, the latter far more convincing than the former. Of course, Wilco wussed/sold out with Sky Blue Sky, so, by my estimation, neither band could possibly be considered experimental at this point. Of course, I don't listen to music classified as "experimental" regularly (as I've often found that such sonic experimentation had been previously left untried for a reason), so perhaps I'm not the best person to decide these things. In any case, I love both bands, and I couldn't care less whether one, the other, or both were/are considered indietastic easy listening. I just like the songs, dammit.
Who said anything about Radiohead still being experimental, or being more experimental than Wilco? There's a point where you can't go any further or you're not even making remotely accessible music any more. So what if Radiohead eased off on the gas pedal? While HTTT and In Rainbows don't push the envelope, they're still inventive albums, and HTTT was going for more of a live/visceral sound anyway. Bottom line is, I'm not hearing carbon copies of old songs. They still sound fresh.
Also, I personally never found Foxtrot experimental. Compared to Being There, yeah, it's weirder. But I was never like OMG WHAT IS THIS NEW MUSIC?? It's not about them being indie, it's about them being fucking boring. It's rather whitebread, and it occurred to me that a good comparison would be calling them the American Coldplay, but Wilco's not that derivative. Or lame.
As for the album title: Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep okay tonight. And it's not just a stupid album name, it's a stupid song name as well. And if U2 had done the same thing my god would people be jumping all over that shit.