Music Article  Reassessing Radiohead  A look at the band's
enduring legacy, from ''Pablo Honey'' to the latest Thom Yorke
side project.  In 1993, Amid an avalanche of post-Nirvana alt-
crunch, a mumbly minor-key dirge called ''Creep'' lurched its
way into the public consciousness. The song (not to be confused
with the other song that year called ''Creep,'' by ersatz San
Diego grunge gods Stone Temple Pilots) was the American calling
card of a wan English fivesome named after a semi-obscure
Talking Heads album track. There's little on Radiohead's debut,
Pablo Honey (first released in the U.K. 20 years ago this week),
that signaled the arrival of a group that would become the most
influential band of the 21st century. The critical and
commercial success of albums like 1997's OK Computer and 2000's
Kid A may have retroactively made it sound better, but most of
Pablo isn't very good; the production is flat, the songwriting
pedestrian.  It's the post--OK Computer Radiohead that we've
anointed and worshipped as alt