touche. the same reason i adore such artists as pearl jam and the smashing pumpkins. you know what you can expect from the radio-and-mtv-friendly singles, but if you've never bought a record, then, much like in radiohead's case, you have no clue what the fuck you're in for. i recall somebody telling me once that due to the popularity of tracks such as today, cherub rock, quiet, bullet w/butterfly wings, the end is the beginning is the end, etc etc., he thought they were nothing but another hardcore Slayer clone. Imagine this dipshit's shock when i played "Twilight to Starlight" start to finish, with its vast array from thirty-three, to 1979, to tales of a scorched earth, to lily (my one and only), to bodies, where boys fear to tread, back around the spectrum to stumbleine. THOSE artists are the ones who truly deserve our adulation.