I listened to this for the FIRST ever time last night. I thought it was not bad at all. However, seeing it get the greatest album of all time thingy is a little strange. Although it was pretty good, I don't think it can match some of hte albums it beat.
What does you think of it?
MY favourite track is 'Homesick Alien'. When I saw the title of it, I immediately thought of the Drowned in Sound character too! Teehee.

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Prefer The Bends though.
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ive never really listened to it but i think i might now
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I think it's one of the better contenders for "best album ever". It is genuinely and consistently brilliant, and will be so for a very large number of people. It gets as close as anything to pleasing everyone, except for perhaps some Beatles stuff...
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It just isn't really very interesting, and it's not fun either.
Twas the last radiohead album i heard, and my least favourite.
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Or possibly, you're missing the fact that the bends is undisputably the best rock album of the 90s?
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The Bends is dull.
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it's a great album though.
'Climbing Up The Walls' is my favourite track, 4 and half minutes of pure misery and dispair - awesome.
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Every time I listen it astounds me a little more and I start to think the 'greatest album of all time' label is justified.
It eclipses 'the bends' in so many ways.
Johnny Greenwood = amazing.
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Oh, and my favourite song on it is 'Let Down'. The bit from where the vocal lines diverge in the final verse (at "One day you'll know where you are") is fucking heartwrenching.
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while we're on the subject, totally rediscovered amnesiac the other day...its fucking buff tings.
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the intro of Electrioneering
the effects on Lucky
the whole of Paranoid Android
it may not be the greatest album ever, but it comes damn close.
love to all, igethitbyemokids.
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I love OK Computer. If anyone asked me what my favourite album ever is, I'd immediatly say that without thinking. Which must mean something.
But, yeah - as someone else said, it's a perfect take on late 90s / early 00s society, and Electioneering is in many ways absolutely spot-on..
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(Masterpiece. FACT.)
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Agreed. I'm not quite sure if it's my favourite Radiohead album, but it's definitely up there with my favourite albums of all time.
Gotta love the Hitchiker's references.
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Moreso in the later stuff though. Incredibly creative guitarist and weird noise making, analogue synth fiddling genius.
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but best of all time? not sure
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Exactly the same here. Ocassionally I have to dig it out and remind myself of its greatness.
But yeah. It's easy to forget nearly a decade down the line that "OK Computer" basically re-wrote the guitar music rulebook. Set new standards in every department. It's an album that I've spent years absorbing, so in a way it's difficult for me to separate "it" from my own experience of it. But as an emotional / aesthetic statement, I'm not sure I've heard anything that quite compares. Amazing, amazing stuff.
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Best album of all time?No.
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Which albums, specifically? While I agree that no album can be that good, it's always the best bar far (in my opinion) of any albums that slink into a top 100 that is compiled.
And despite loving a lot of very different bands now, the only album I can think of that vies with it for my number 1 place is Nirvana's In Utero (which never really seems to even touch such lists).
Personally I've never really liked Let Down. I tolerate it in its place but I always thought it was overlong and a bit 'mushy'. When Travis god Godrich in for The Man Who and tried to make every song sound like 'Let Down' I hated them that bit more than I would have done otherwise...
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I'm in a pedantic mood. I can only apologise.
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and whoever said that their subsequent career was trying and failing to be OKC is a NONCE. if they had wanted to do more OKC stuff, they could have very easily. but infact they took one of the bravest and greatest leftturns in Rock History. Im no simpering radiohead fanboy, but thats an opinion id stand by.
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Karma Police all the way, by the by.
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How right you are. I agree.
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*!fight*fight*fight*fight!*
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*runs away from the crazy oasis fan*
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That statement is nonsense. Also its not a question of being contented with the bends I just happen to prefer the bends as it connects with me personally, in terms of its melodic power.
But saying that Ok computer does have some of their best musical moments: karma police, paranoid android, no suprises ect.
But don't belittle people just because they prefer one album to another.
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I'm coming to get you, cunt.
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Anyway, well done boys and girls!
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*slow sarcastic clap*
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They didn't necessarily agree.
Anyway, your taste couldn't be immesurably shit since the whole point was that Raanraals was measuring your taste quite exactly, surely?
its a good LP not great but good
2 years later....
I'm gonna listen to this on the way home
on my NEW HEADPHONES