re: Am I alone on the Radiohead kinda sucks island?

I do agree that there came a point when they got too artsy for their own good. For instance, compare the studio version of "Like Spinning Plates" with the live version. It turns out there is a breathtakingly beautiful song hidden underneath all the over-the-top processing. Thom Yorke is perfectly capable of crawling up his own arse from time to time. I think Hail to the Thief, their follow-up album to Amnesiac, was a conscious effort on their part to return to earth. There's a reason the first sound you hear on the album is a guitar being plugged in.