is OK Computer a terrible album y/n

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It's a pretty good left-of-mainstream (but not really all that far-out) epic-sounding guitar rock album, kind of like the Ocean Rain of the 90's or something.

At the time it felt like the most incredible album to me. In retrospect, it's a transitional record with some really great singles that bridged the gap between The Bends and Kid A.

Basically, it's OK and some of the songs are about computers.

It even has a computer on one track... as the singer!

That song for me was like the moment when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov in 1996.

I do really really like Karma Police and Paranoid Android. Never keen on Electioneering or Let Down (although the Easy Star Allstars version is fab!)

it was the bridge between the bends and kid a, alright, so it's half great half shite

a terrible album to discus, but rather nice to occasionally listen to.

Loved loved loved it at the time, but sold it ages ago. Horribly dated production sound, and and not as good The Bends or Kid A - which are much better at what they do, but I wouldn't ever choose to listen to any of them now.

You lot KNOW I'm in a wee village in Cornwall and I p much have to climb to the elevation of St Michael's Mount to get half a bar on my iPhone so you decide *now* is a good time to start 17 RH threads? BARSTRDSZ!

Ocean Rain of the 90s is a p p good description. Now sod you lot, I'm off to Lamorna, I can see the seals are gathering on the rocks there already.

:)

I love Ocean Rain fwiw

Seals are better dancers than Thom Yorke TBH.

singers too

's ok

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i159/tekkaus/SealKissFromARoseInPerson.jpg

I also love Ocean Rain, I get it out far more frequently than ~better~ albums of the 80s.

I'm also looking at ocean rain right now and trying to decide if it's gonna get to Lamorna before I do and I don't even know if the Wink is open for a brandy.

Like I said on t'other thread I got this album out recently and was surprised how much of it was so forgettable. The highs are so amazing it leaves a lasting good impression but it's patchy as hell. Ocean Rain is wall to wall amazing, yes even Thorn Of Crowns. I'd love to hear TY do a "c c cucumbers c c cauliflowers c c cabbages men on mars April showers!" it would suit him.

Great singer, terrible fishy breath xp

Iiiiin ICe Camp Fire, Im wolrldsmm doom, and worlds of Wirehhhhhhh

etcet.

http://img.skitch.com/20081018-qqgecqhicckktc3ns34d5bsfii.preview.jpg

"c c cucumbers c c cauliflowers c c cabbages men on mars April showers!"

certain aspects of pavement's "killing moon" cover now make more sense to me. yeah i've never heard ocean rain. no plans to change that anytime soon.

it's a good, but not great, record. I would take it over OK Computer, personally.

Radiohead stuck forever being Echo & the Bunnymen to Richard D James' Julian Cope. It would explain the megalithic long barrow guitar solos.

Anyway I need my attention for crossing this v v swollen stream. I wish I could show you where I'm posting this from but I would probably need to reexamine my life priorities.

haha I know you're using the comparisons loosely but Radiohead are nothing like RDJ beyond their appropriation of IDM-influenced bleepiness, whereas in the grand scheme of things the Teardrop Explodes and the Bunnymen might as well be the same band if you zoom out far enough

i r joeking

ocean rain is great
ok computer is great
hooray for records

well, Ian Mac was always the guy that 'bought' the long jacket, whereas JCope was born wearing the jacket.

(Ooh, I like that one, really pleeased I said that)

Ian's the sort who gets out of the bath with a dirty face while Julian says "How was the gear? They don't sell things to you over there"

I'm about to disappear round a crag of radioactive Cornish granite where my signal will disappear again. Anything else to add about Thom Yorke, Julian Cope or Ocean Rain or can I go back to hiking in the stone age again?

Anything else to add about Thom Yorke, Julian Cope or Ocean Rain or can I go back to hiking in the stone age again?

yes. ok computer is a very good album, which has held up almost as well as paris hilton's debut disc.

ive never really listened to this but i like to read the title as thom yorke getting frustrated w/his computer

no no it is a deep (deep deep deep) examination of the growing threat of a technology-driven fascist state. set to music.

OKComputer was an early dating site set up to find a Victorian Porn loving girlfriend for Colin.

iiiiiiiiii've been kissed by a rose

OKC is not only a great concept rock album, it is going to represent the western-conference in this year's NBA finals.

go clips

go clipse

It wasn't even seals in the end! It was a frogman! He came out of the sea all wrapped in scuba gear at Lamorna Cove!

(nah, durant/harden/westbrook the actual deal)

w/pusha t

i look forward to this epic battle of the bends!

ive never really listened to this but i like to read the title as thom yorke getting frustrated w/his computer

I do this too! "OK computer, I'm tired of these error messages now".

can't believe we're really debating this, c'mon guys I'm not even really a fan of Radiohead but this is a pretty good album all things considered

Never underestimate the internet's capacity to both overrate and underrate this band's legacy.

any band's legacy.

the internet has even caused me -- briefly -- to question my belief that foghat is the greatest rock band of all times.

I kinda feel like Radiohead is a special case though, in terms of the extremity of the underrating and overrating.

well they are the worst band ever

Radiohead are a good solid band! I mean they're not in my personal Top 10 (I have no idea how TY got in my all time Top 10 WS but there you go) but they are a kind of focus for loving or hating a certain millennial seam of music, pop culture, etc. Middlebrow always attracts more consternation than Hi or Lo brows put together.

Do you even know what a hitler hairdo is?

FWIW my drone friends still like to listen to fridge buzz

This has to be one of the stupidest threads in ILX history.

I just can't believe Geir hasn't shown up yet.

idk if geir is on the sandbox.

"It would be interesting to see how the world would be different if Dick Cheney really listened to Radiohead's OK Computer. I think the world would probably improve. That album is fucking brilliant. It changed my life, so why wouldn't it change his?" - Chris Martin

That guy should not give interviews.

or make music

Or make anymore records IMO IIRC.

Cross-post, but Oh Noes beat me to it.

the easier the zing, the faster my fingers

the faster your treefingers

fitter happier
more reductive

Ha!

"It would be interesting to see how the world would be different if Dick Cheney really listened to Radiohead's OK Computer. I think the world would probably improve. That album is fucking brilliant. It changed my life, so why wouldn't it change his?" - Chris Martin

― that wiener from Emearlds (step hen faps), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 11:56

XD

if by "changing his life," chris martin means ok computer inspired him to make music, i'm changing my vote to "fucking terrible album."

I want a Chris & Gwyneth reality show so I can hear more shit just like that

Chris Martin is right! I don't like his music but if listening to OK Computer got him that babe Gwyneth then you can't say it's that terrible!

Gwyneth was totally insufferable and intolerable until, like, 3 years ago?

and now she's . . . ?

vegan!

lol

what *is* on dick cheney's ipod

lil b.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc

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This thread still makes me all like http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/55008369/Thom+Yorke+Dance.gif

man I miss Cornwall

dookay computer

aiite computer

I knew the computer in question and it was pretty overrated imo.

there's no option for "i have never heard this album"!

cmon of course youve heard it its not the beatles

lol

hey, i heard the beatles almost 10 times in the last year!

jeez were you counting or something

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Congratulations, Secondary Boyfriend and yr fabulous dancing belly!

yr mum is terrible album

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