In 2000, Virgin's "Top 1000 Albums of All Time" ranked "The Bends" at number two, second only to "Revolver" by the Beatles. "The Bends" took second place behind "OK Computer" in both 1998 and 2006 reader polls in "Q" for the best album of all time. The album was also included in the 2005 book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". It appears at number 110 on "Rolling Stone"'s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and 111 in a 2012 revised list. "The Bends" was the highest of three Radiohead albums to make the list, until an updated list in 2012 placed "Kid A" higher. In 2020, "Rolling Stone" ranked "The Bends" at 276 on their list of 500 Best Albums of all time. In 2006, "British Hit Singles & Albums" and "NME" organised a poll in which 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums; "The Bends" placed at number 10. "Paste" ranked it 11th on a list of the greatest albums of the 1990s. In 2020, the "Independent" named it the best album of 1995, writing: "Downbeat, melancholic, yet wonderfully melodic and uplifting ... "The Bends" stood apart from Britpop and everything else in the storied year of 1995."