Open thread for Sunday, April 12th: ‘Fake Plastic Trees’

 Here is the open thread for Sunday, April 12th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.

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  For the musical selection this week I am going to begin the “Swiss Defence League Challenge” and start the countdown of my top ten favorite bands of all time. Coming in at number 10 is a band which would have ranked much higher if they had stuck to the formula of their first three studio albums. However, not wishing to be pigeon-holed into one genre, they began recording more electronic/techno sounding music and while these albums still highlight the band’s talent I stopped following the new material.

  Here is Radiohead performing “Fake Plastic Trees” live in 2003:

  And here is the song which started the whole thing off: