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by wrightylew
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.
wrightylew | 07 Oct '05, 23:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think it's quite good, favourite track 'Exit Music (For A Film)
Prefer The Bends though.

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it kinda becomes like an automatic entry now like most of the albums in top 100 lists, best album ever...yeh that radiohead one, or one of the beatles ones, chuck pet sounds in there...


ive never really listened to it but i think i might now

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It's a good album. But not as good as The Bends. And everything else they have done seems to be a poor copy of it.

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Much much better than the Bends (bits of that just sound like Travis) Not as good as Amnesiac though.

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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You mean Travis sound like bits of 'The Bends'.

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Whatever, my point is more that if the two sound the same then the accusations levelled against Travis (excluding a case for originality) are equally prescient in the case of the Bends.

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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*raises eyebrow*.

Or possibly, you're missing the fact that the bends is undisputably the best rock album of the 90s?

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I dispute that, so you can never say it again.

The Bends is dull.

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hah, well I'm missing the 'subterranean' part but yeah, I THINK OF ME TOO!!

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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I know! I deliberately missed it out because I didn't know how to spell it.

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Such an amazing album.

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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I never listen to it anymore. I've had it since the day it came out 8 years ago or so. I might have to listen to it now whilst drifting off to sleep, though, to remind myself of how good it is. I remember the first time I heard it, it blew me away. Not many records do that on first listen, so it must be up there with the best.

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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its a pretty unbelievably brilliant record. it seems silly to compare it with the bends as the two are from pretty different places.

while we're on the subject, totally rediscovered amnesiac the other day...its fucking buff tings.

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Ok Computer is clearly the greatest album ever, its intensity, claustrophobia, it sums up how so many people feel living in Western society today more than any other album has managed to do, a total masterpiece, i'm quite drunk

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the harmonies on Let Down

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 prefer the bends as well to be honest. however i do remember being 11 or 12 and hearing paranoid android for the first time and being totally blown away.

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Have to agree on Let Down - the lyrics all the way through as so despairing anyway, but the end.. yeah. Not one to listen to on headphones when drunk, anyway ;P

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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i don't think there can be such thing as greatest album ever, but ok computer must come close. i can't think of anything else that even comes near to it in terms of the number of ideas, the musicianship, even the artwork is fantastic. and i don't think any band ever has been better recorded than on ok computer.

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Well, it's alright. ;-)


















(Masterpiece. FACT.)










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"(Masterpiece. FACT.) "

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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Johnny greenwood DOES equal amazing.

Moreso in the later stuff though. Incredibly creative guitarist and weird noise making, analogue synth fiddling genius.

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my favourite album.
but best of all time? not sure

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I got OK Computer about a month ago. A bit late i know but its an amazing album. I listened to it constantly for 2 weeks and its still great now. My favourite track is probably Exit Music ( For A Film) its incredible. Paranoid Android is my other favourite just becuse of the guitar solos. Its a brilliant album but its not the best of all time. To be the best of all time you have to be better than Grace by Jeff Buckley

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"I never listen to it anymore. I've had it since the day it came out 8 years ago or so. I might have to listen to it now whilst drifting off to sleep, though, to remind myself of how good it is."

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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Utter masterpiece. I can't convey how fantastic this album is in words, they don't do it justice. I'm not sure if it's as good as Kid A or Amnesiac though, but then it's hard to choose seeing as I love all Radiohead, from start to finish.

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Personally I don't think its as good as the bends, simply because that record connects with me emotionally more than OK computer. But it does have some of Radiohead's best musical moments on it. Its just all abit too considered and caluculated for me but I guess that was the point it was a comment upon the alienation that is bred by modern society.
Best album of all time?No.

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Rather a coincidence that I listened to it (for the first time in about 6 months) only 2 days ago. My problem was that I tried to use it to send me to sleep. It had the opposite effect. Exit Music and Let Down kept woke me up again and I just continued on. Truly amazing album. The best of all time for me.

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"Although it was pretty good, I don't think it can match some of hte albums it beat."

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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Heard it once, didn't like it. Twice, still didn't like it. 10 times. Still didn't like it. Meh.

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it's main influences come from two of my favourite albums in bark psychosis' 'hex' and my bloody valentine's 'loveless' and i think that when taking into account what the average music listener has actually heard it is definitely the best album of all time, it's probably in my top ten personally, certainly my favourite rh album... but nowhere near my number one.

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well it's quite near your number one if it's in your top ten. it's within, at most, 9 places of your number one. surely?

I'm in a pedantic mood. I can only apologise.

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Bends is more accessible and OK is more creative/interesting in my opinion. I like both equally but probably give more time to Bends.

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It's a brilliant album, one every radiohead fan should make an effort to obtain and not just be contented with 'The Bends'. However, I think it doesn't deserve the title of greatest album ever, I think it ends up in most 'top 100' lists because there are a lot of people who quite like it and so therefore gets voted for a lot. I'm pretty sure a lot of people that voted for it didn't actually vote for it to be 'the best album ever' but just put it in there because it's a good album.





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not as good as KidA or Amnesiac. Cheers!

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its brillibrilliant, but i just plain dislike the crappy jeff buckley tracks (SHA, lucky, let down, the tourist, well theyre not all jeff buckley-y, but they all stop me really liking the album from start to finish), but exit music and airbag and climbing up the walls are ALL TIME FUCKING GREAT. and the singles are overplayed. and if you prefer the bends, you're probably and oasis fan. yes. i said that.
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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Even if you think The Bends is better, you should support it because it seems unlikely that such a weird, self-loathing, anti-establishment and awkward album will ever rise so far in the public's affections ever again. It beats The Joshua Tree, put it that way.

Karma Police all the way, by the by.

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Electioneering's my favourite. If only because so many people seem to hate it.

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"and if you prefer the bends, you're probably and oasis fan"

How right you are. I agree.

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hear that Patricide??

*!fight*fight*fight*fight!*

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eep...

*runs away from the crazy oasis fan*

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I prefer the bends. Who want's a piece of me?

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That sentence was very well constructed for an oasis fan. Well Done there.

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except for the superfluous apostrophe.

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He was referring to my first sentence.

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"and if you prefer the bends, you're probably and oasis fan"

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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and whats wrong with being an oasis fan? dont belittle people just because they prefer one band to another.

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I take it that you are calling me a NONCE.

I'm coming to get you, cunt.

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I'm pretty surprised that everyone here loves it. Its a class album, yeah, but there's usually four or five people that despise the band the majority of people on the thread love... if that makes sense.

Anyway, well done boys and girls!

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Didn't Radiohead come out as the only band everyone on here liked last year when we did a thread trying to agree?

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I think it turned out some thought they were boring. Hendrix came closest to a full house, but then someone screamed "Guitar wankery" and the thread died.

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no, i'm not ahuge fan of hendrix. pixies were there or there abouts weren't they? and joy division perhaps?

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I'm listening to it now for the first time in a good few months and... while it does, unfortunately, remind me of being 19 (not a good thing), it's also ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and I love it to bits.

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Radiohead are shit

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Suck my balls.

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That's not even a possible opinion to have, I reckon. They're objectively not shit at all.

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Agreed.

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Thats my opinion, and it counts

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you're clearly an informed and empowered member of society

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So Green Day get 5 stars and Radiohead are shit?

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maybe he meant to say "the shit".

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Comedy Gold!

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Yep - your point?

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You have immeasurably shit tastes?

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"You have immeasurably shit tastes?"

*slow sarcastic clap*

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You are wrong.

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I wasn't agreeing with finestlittlespace. I was sarcastically clapping his/her enlightened contribution.

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Thats cool Darcy, i was refering to finestlittlespace too :-) post went in wrong position.

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Err, to be fair to FinestLittleSpace they were simply suggesting what 'Raanraals' was implying when tre_cools_sticks questioned it.

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?