THIS IS NOT A CRITICISM

You know how, when punk first emerged, a lot of people heard it and said, "Shit, I could do that"? That's exactly what I think when I listen to Thom Yorke's The Eraser. That being said, I like it a lot better than Hail To The Thief, or, in the category of "Things I Definitely Couldn't Do Myself," the Phish Live In Brooklyn triple-CD I tried to get through yesterday. (For the record, I made it all the way through Disc 1 and about 10 minutes into Disc 2 before bailing for good - they're not bad exactly, just totally unmemorable. By Track Five of Disc 1, I couldn't remember one thing I'd heard in Tracks 1-4.)