"The Bends" influenced a generation of British pop rock acts, including Coldplay, Keane, James Blunt, Muse, Athlete, Elbow, Snow Patrol, Kodaline, Turin Brakes and Travis. After its release, Acts including Garbage, R.E.M. and k.d. lang began to cite Radiohead as a favourite band. In 2006, "The Observer" listed it as one of "the 50 albums that changed music", saying that it had popularised an "angst-laden falsetto ... a thoughtful opposite to the chest-beating lad-rock personified by Oasis" and which "eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound". According to Godrich, Yorke held contempt for the style of rock "The Bends" popularised, feeling as though the bands that played it "copied" him.