WELL: Chris suggests a good discussion topic questions in the comments of the post below, which I submit for general consideration while I'm busy translating a Latinized version of The Three Little Pigs back into English:
What, if anything, is Radiohead ripping off on The Bends*?
First two answers that come to mind are Jeff Buckley (the falsetto that's everywhere, especially compare the pacing of "Fake Plastic Trees" to "Lilac Wine;" and I'll claim there's some similarity between "Just" and "Eternal Life"), and U2's Achtung Baby (particularly in track sequencing). But I suppose there could be others; this also prompts the question as to whether anything actually ever gets created ex nihilo in popular music, broadly speaking. Anyway, have fun, if you like.
*I narrow the question intentionally because from OK Computer on, the list of references is far too obvious to even be worth recounting: early 70s Miles Davis, Can and Kraftwerk, the Beatles (see "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" in "Paranoid Android," or the generous lifting of "Sexy Sadie" in "Karma Police"'s bridge), and then there's really nothing else but some weird electronica people (I'm not so fond of Kid A, in case you couldn't tell).
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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