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Originally Posted by Gucci Little Piggy
Um, The Bends is "what you see is what you get": There's 12 tracks, there's not an ongoing concept behind them, no secrets hidden behind them, that kidn of stuff. In Rainbows, however, has a ton of little hidden "easter eggs". And of course there's 01 and 10.
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There's one and ten, and then there's love songs.The concept doesn't hold up nearly as well as TKOL yet it gets much more attention. The Bends did have a lyrical consistency to it in the sense of something physical being broken down. You could say that's just coincidence or vague but it is there. Besides, it still trumps most Complaint Rock to this day. And there was at least one easter egg in "Planet Telex," which pointed (faintly) to ethereal experimentalism two albums away.