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!
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
(nah, durant/harden/westbrook the actual deal)
― shook, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
w/pusha t
― shook, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
i look forward to this epic battle of the bends!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
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".
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ...or fold laundry? (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Never underestimate the internet's capacity to both overrate and underrate this band's legacy.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda feel like Radiohead is a special case though, in terms of the extremity of the underrating and overrating.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
well they are the worst band ever
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
like, who outside of "Q" or whatever would say okc's anything other than "aiite" anymore? underrate/overrate zzz not actually happening on that one?
― shook, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
You don't read many Radiohead threads on the internet do you shook?
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Those who would file it next to "Definitely Maybe"?
― Y.O. Mini (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
it's aight
let down could almost be a country single in 2012 think abt it
― q: are we not bel biv men? a: we are bel biv devo (m bison), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, now that you say that I kind of want to hear Miranda Lambert cover that song.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
like, who outside of "Q" or whatever would say okc's anything other than "aiite" anymore?
It *was* Pitchfork's best album of the 90s iirc, but that poll was some time ago, so yeah, maybe things have moved on?
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
I voted "fucking terrible," because that best reflects my lack of any desire to listen to it. It's obviously more ambitious and made by brighter guys than the average dross out there, but it's also a pretentious bore, offered too little in the way of melody, rhythm (lol), or interesting ideas to command my attention once I figured out that I didn't have to listen to something because people on my peer group regarded it as "important." Also, they're British.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
paranoid android is the litmus test 4 me, bc I like the first section of the song, looks like it would lead to a jam, but then it goes into the oh no the android is really paranoid now time to rock part and then it's the rain down I'm sad now part and I'm just like fuck this shit, skip to the Miranda lambert cover
― q: are we not bel biv men? a: we are bel biv devo (m bison), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand who would rep for OKC as their best album. Hell it's not even the best release RH put out in 1997! (How Am I Driving knocks it sideways) but I know with this band (or any band w a large fairly consistent output) ppl tend to rate highest the album they heard first and for most ppl it was this one.
I'm so repetitive at this point I'm boring myself. Need a pint of Proper Job waiting for me in Mousehole.
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Need a pint of Proper Job waiting for me in Mousehole
^British
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
www.rateyourmusic.com
― ...or fold laundry? (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Bored now. Can we skip to the bit where Thom Yorke gets his tits out?
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
there are lots of pretty pop songs on this not sure how you could quantify that "too little in the way of melody"
but in rainbows is the only radiohead album I go back to
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
king of tits
xp
― q: are we not bel biv men? a: we are bel biv devo (m bison), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
i remember when this came out everyone was all track 6 man youve got to hear track 6, i was like people refer to songs by their track number now
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
I think Ed won King of Tits.
Radio Ed, not "there's another pub, right round this massive granite mountain I swear look at the OS map" Ed.
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I feel like everyone here would probably like this album if it weren't, you know, Radiohead
― ...or fold laundry? (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
prob not
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
I don't about "everyone", but "more people", yeah.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
eh, and was like what? wild beasts? prob not
― shook, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Blimey just remembering what Internet album hype was like before there was an ILX.
I was trying to explain early Internet music fandom to someone on twitter and realised I thought of atease.web as "that new site" after I got thrown off the official forum. Wandering back into a fandom after you've been out of it for 10 years is Fucken weird, like in-jokes that stay the same and become canon and ones that wither away.
I mentioned "cheesecake" to someone and they knew what I was talking about but "the White chocolate Farm" drew a blank. What happens to the ancient strata of the Internet? (hiking is gonna make me start thinking of Thable Thom then I'll laugh so hard beer comes out my nose)
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Makes me wonder, what if real ILM is sunk forever what if yhe sandbox becomes all there is?
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
When they have to point out the melody for you, there's a problem. These guys started making listenable music when they acknowledged their "song"-writing limitations. Not that it's any more my style.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
When they have to point out the melody for you, there's a problem.
what the hell are you talking about
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Don't you remember that part in "Karma Police" where Thom kicks off that verse with "ch-check out my melody".
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
i like the album "OK Computer"
― n/a, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
I suggest thinking about the phrase. Perhaps while listening to, say, "Kama Police."
a starchy, coldly insensitive, often highly patronizing jerk, from and of a wealthy class seeking to preserve its privileges
Hey, I'm just upper middle class (and downwardly mobile). I also try to reserve my freezerburn for assholes.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
I thought that was referring to Little Thommy Yorke
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
Me, too.
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/07/100779,xcitefun-1190039274-congrats11.gif
http://cache.dealbreaker.com/uploads/2010/06/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report1.gif This is now the certified 1,000,000,000th internet thread dedicated to people fighting over Radiohead!!
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― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
man people have really confused ideas about the word 'melody'
― iatee, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Should I mention on this thread too that they're headlining (Saturday nights at) Coachella?
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
(And I think Bonnaroo?)
I don't really think that TY can really refer to himself as "middle class" any more though lord knows he tries. That rlly wound me up on the OLSX video - and the Fucken narcissism of small difference of claiming with a smirk "I couldn't be PM I didn't go to the right school" as if there's such a massive difference between Eton and Abingdon but this is where I calm down and remember I'd still lick his bald patch and there's a pint with my name on it down in the next village. Night all.
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Ha-ha, I put that on the wrong thread, didn't I?
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
David Cameron has a bald patch? (xp)
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
...
Maybe YOU'RE the one who should relisten to this song since the only reasonable interpretation of that sentence (an instrument plays the melody before Thom sings it) doesn't happen in it? Also, even if an instrument DID play the melody before the singer came in, that is a perfectly acceptable way to introduce the listener to the song and not actually a "problem", unless you also have problems with all kinds of classical and baroque music too.
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
One last complaint about the prevalence of Thonny slash over the far superior and more canonical Thozzie slash and kids today they don't know they're born before I drop over the last granite Carn and lose reception forever!
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
To say nothin' of the prevalence of Fozzie Slash...
http://cdn3.hark.com/images/000/005/055/5055/original.0
― Y.O. Mini (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
yr mum is terrible album
― Foolio Iglesias, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
what is the proper amount of whitespace
― lukas, Saturday, 25 February 2017 06:34 (seven years ago) link
hmmm
really it has to
this much
not
― lukas, Monday, 6 March 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
sorry to ruin
this thread
this
is
a quote
agree
― lukas, Monday, 6 March 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
so now
― lukas, Monday, 6 March 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
oops
― lukas, Monday, 6 March 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
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― lukas, Monday, 6 March 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
no need
to get all welsh
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
Eat it
― Foolio Iglesias, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link