Jonny: “Time is always the great leveller. If you look at polls from 1973 you’ll find you’ve got Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones up in the top five with Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes. Half of these band are irrelevant and awful and the other ones aren’t.”
“Which ones are we?” Ed wonders aloud.
“We don’t know,” sighs Jonny. “We have no way of knowing.”

Determined to form his own conclusions, Greenwood listened to the likes of Genesis, King Crimson and Pink Floyd, "though I didn't even bother with Yes, seeing as how they were met with so much derision."
And?
"It *is* all awful and terrible," Greenwood says, his brown eyes widening. "I found the one good Pink Floyd album, 'Meddle,' which is amazing, though that's supposedly the one that made Johnny Lydon say he hated them. I came out after listening to all these terrible Genesis records with the realizations that the Mellotron is a great instrument, and that you should never have a song with 'unicorn' in the title. So a few lessons were learned."

Craig: "Do you... cause I know before we started the interview you had a sort of problem... I perceive the problem... how you feel Radiohead are perceived.... you kind of think... Are you seen as posh boys, is that what you are?

Ed: "Well I think we were. But you know...and for years people put us into this sort of... They're the new Pink Floyd, and I personally...I mean, you know, no disrespect to Pink Floyd but I couldn't stand their music...I grew up...you know, it did nothing for me...it was, it was, I thought...I remember being a 10 year old and loving what I heard from, you know, punk and the reaction, and the reaction was to bands like Pink Floyd. But you know in all honesty, when I saw the making of Dark Side of the Moon with my girlfriend, and it was really interesting cause I've been fighting... We're not like Pink Floyd "no we're not, no no no" and she turns to me at the end and says, You are. So I mean you know, you can't fight it sometimes and I don't think...I don't think we've been misperceived, I think we've been quite cagey and also when you're dealing with the British music press you're dealing with, you know...