Never at a loss for clever quips and opinions, Thom Yorke spoke to The Independent recently in a Q&A where he declares that In Rainbows is the “classic” Radiohead album and shares his thoughts on how the band is perceived as having saved rock 'n' roll once again:

“I've heard it said that we are saving rock music so often over the past few weeks that I'm going to have it printed on toilet paper soon. We would have never thought that the whole thing would create such a fuss. In Britain, it's all over the prime time news on the BBC, sixty-year-old stock exchange tycoons are congratulating us on our fabulous business idea, and cynics imply we plotted an ingenious advertising coup. But that's all rubbish.”

As for the “classic” comment:

“In Rainbows is a conscious return to this form of forty-five-minute statement. Of course, it was possible to make it shorter. But our aim was to describe in forty-five minutes, as coherently and conclusively as possible, what moves us. In Rainbows is, at least in our opinion, our classic album -- our Transformer, our Revolver, our Hunky Dory.”

And if you haven’t seen it yet, you can see the members of Radiohead play the whole album front to back at their Oxford studio as it appeared on Current TV at the stroke of midnight New Year’s Day. Hands down the best in-studio concert of 2008 thus far:
http://current.com/items/88803042_radiohead_s_scotch_mist