"OK Computer": Classic Or Dud?

all radiohead cover art &c is kind of hilariously awful in its relentless confusing of cryptic nothingness with Big Meaningful Messages - ok computer no exception. i can't really remember what their other albums looked like.

mental note: lex owns a radiohead album

not as of...TONIGHT, bubba.

(btw the reason 'lucky' is tolerable and the rest isn't for me is because on 'lucky' there is this one great moment where thom yorke sings really low, and it turns out that when he does that his voice is kind of rich and great! but when he sings high, ie 99% of the time, it is a quite, quite disgusting noise.)

I cannot accept this.

Time to get off the computer for a while methinks ;)

I finally added this to my iPod and joy is mine.

Absolute classic. This is one of those records that has always and consistently been an undercurrent in whatever musical identity I've had at a given time. Not embarrassed to say.

It's got very pretty songs.

Tails off a bit towards the end. Maybe it's a sequencing problem 'cause the songs aren't actually bad - ok Electioneering is a bit weak and I've never liked The Tourist. 1-6 is unbeatable though. I find myself returning to Let Down more than any of the others.

Remains (so far) the only album I've ever defenestrated.

dud

PARANOID ANDROID WILL DEAL WITH ALL OF YOU

I own this but forget what it sounds like.

I'm totally happy when one of these songs comes on shuffle, except "Electioneering" which is lame.

Funny this should be revived today, I heard Lucky/The Tourist (I think) playing out of the window of an apartment I walked by today and was amazed at how, well, uninteresting and big-whooshy-melodramatic mega rock song it was. While the 14 year old in me died a little, nevertheless it's still classic.

I KNOW THE GODDMAN THING OF TONGUE-ISH Killng Joke or whatever

But seriously, I have got your back now.

Got your back.

Karma Police.

pfft. The Tourist is gorgeous.

I lost myself I lost myself

Can I also state for the record for those who remember old Radiohead threads here that I have just talked to the Reverend on the phone and we get along fine. And I told him to say hi to Timi Yuro & Brian in Seattle. And Matos too. I told him to say hi.

For a minute there
I lost myself

You lost yourseee-eeee-eeeelf

Classic, but overhyped and overrated. I prefer warm, luxurious Radiohead to cold, paranoid Radiohead, so I'll take In Rainbows over OKC almost anytime.

"Lucky"

Does OKC - Kentucky Fried Chicken?

Look, I've got some mother fucking Pat Beneatar with reggae shit man.
Oh yeah., bob marley go to hell

Yeah, though "Lucky" never mind. That was the first track on my live CD that would knock your fucking socks off.

Radiohead, baby.

LOOK I REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT RADIOHEAD IF ONLY THE GODDAMN
SONGS
ABOUT THE RADIOHEAD SONGS
ABOUT ALL MY LOVERS WERE THERE WITH ME ALL MY PAST AND FUTURE
THERE WAS NOTHING TO FEAR NOTHING TO DOUBT
IT'S THE GODDAMN RADIOHEAD I HATE YOU ALL

WHEN THEY PLAY HERE IN SEATTLE I WILL CRUSH YOU ALL WITH MY LITTLE FINGER

I'LL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU THEN

DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL
AUG 20TH

I DIDN'T MEAN THIS IN A BAD WAY FOR ILXORS BUT SHIT...
rECkoner mother fuckers

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Yes, I know, I'm drunk as hell. but please tell John D. I salute him. Thanks.

loooool

Look I don't give a fuk about this shit.

who wants to take me to Airbag? Because your little sister is a pansy.

I'm back to save the universe.

Fast german car

INTERSTELLAR BURST
BACK TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE

I don't care you all are pussies!!!
Oh yes you are fuck off@!!!
Pussies!

paranoid android

shhhhhhh

First two tracks = great, rest = oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Interestingly I know this because I've just been loading the iPod for our Zeppelin, and only Airbag and Paranoid Aandroid made it on there from this.

You really should give "Let Down" another go.

most of this album is crap, and the lyrics are just annoying and pretentious. the only standout track is "let down." Dud for the most part.

Ultraclassic, always will be. I love it as much now as I did 11 years ago. If I could only listen to one album for the rest of my life, it would be this one.

Answers like that scare me.

I can't listen to one album for an hour, let alone a lifetime.

very scary.

I'm not necessarily saying that I want to listen to this one album for the rest of my life, but if I had to choose, in a Desert Island Discs-type situation, I'd pick this. I'm sure there's people here who feel the same way about, say, Loveless or Laughing Stock.

If I could listen to only one album the rest of my life, it would definitely be anything by Tone-Loc.

I ruined both OK Computer and Kid A by playing them to death in the years following their releases. I haven't gone back to OKC in quite a while. When I was listening to it obsessively, I was 14-16 years old and messages of alienated cold detachment sort of struck a chord with me. Now that I'm an old wise man of 25 (lol), I'm not sure I'd hear it in the same way or like it nearly as much as I once did.

pfft. The Tourist is gorgeous.

-- Turangalila, Sunday, 10 August 2008 03:20 (12 hours ago) Link

Oh, I still very much think it is as well.

this and Kid A seem so big and important (and I do like them) but for some reason I listen to Hail to the Theif and In Rainbows a lot more.

Answers like that scare me.

Nick, what would you pick?

or since I'm sure you're resistant... what does your first instinct tell you to pick?