is OK Computer a terrible album y/n

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

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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.

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?

You don't read many Radiohead threads on the internet do you shook?

Those who would file it next to "Definitely Maybe"?

it's aight

let down could almost be a country single in 2012 think abt it

Actually, now that you say that I kind of want to hear Miranda Lambert cover that song.

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?

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.

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

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.

Need a pint of Proper Job waiting for me in Mousehole

^British

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Bored now. Can we skip to the bit where Thom Yorke gets his tits out?

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

king of tits

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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

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.

tbh I feel like everyone here would probably like this album if it weren't, you know, Radiohead

prob not

I don't about "everyone", but "more people", yeah.

eh, and was like what? wild beasts? prob not

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)

Makes me wonder, what if real ILM is sunk forever what if yhe sandbox becomes all there is?

there are lots of pretty pop songs on this not sure how you could quantify that "too little in the way of melody"

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.

When they have to point out the melody for you, there's a problem.

what the hell are you talking about

Don't you remember that part in "Karma Police" where Thom kicks off that verse with "ch-check out my melody".

i like the album "OK Computer"

what the hell are you talking about

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.

I thought that was referring to Little Thommy Yorke

Me, too.

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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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man people have really confused ideas about the word 'melody'

Should I mention on this thread too that they're headlining (Saturday nights at) Coachella?

(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.

Ha-ha, I put that on the wrong thread, didn't I?

David Cameron has a bald patch? (xp)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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