One of the more brilliant albums from a brilliant band.

/cue the egotistic, arrogant, overrated, self-absorbed comments

I can think of no album that shaped my perception of win more than this one.

big_pth:/cue the egotistic, arrogant, overrated, self-absorbed comments

radiohead farking sucks their own whiny penises.

No alarms and no surprises, please

... but Entertainment Weakly said that "In Rainbows" was better in their new classics list.

I still listen to OK Computer from start to finish at least twice a year. It's as close to perfect as they come.

Being a Radiohead fan can have some awful consequences:

"No Surprises" is a great farking song.

August 1st can't get here soon enough. That is going to be a great night.

For a minute there, I lost myself

Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),

I'm back to save the universe.

And I feel really old.

azmoviez:... but Entertainment Weakly said that "In Rainbows" was better in their new classics list.

Britney Spears is on that list. Sooo, yeah....

/OK Computer is one of the greatest CDs ever.

Best rock album of the 90s hands down.

Got this cd days after it originally came out, just a few weeks before my senior year of high school. I was so young then.


Now I have several friends who are actually high school teachers (including some at our old high school). I have a few friends that are married; some of them have children. And two of my friends actually have bought a house (which, in the Bay Area, is no small feat).


I'm so old now.



But it's gonna be a glorious day. I feel my luck could change.

Best album of the 90's. Up there with the very best of the last 30 years. OK Computer. Front to back. There is no argument.

/Transport
//Motorways
///Tramlines

Used to listen to this album religiously in 11th grade. To be honest, I still listen to it a good bit. Let Down is still probably my favorite Radiohead song.

Ah, the summer before my freshman year of high school. As a 14 year old I was a fan, and I'm still a fan now.

I loved The Bends so much that I went and bought OK Computer the day before it was released (slipped some kid at the counter an extra ten to give me a copy). I went home, put it on and stayed up all night listening to it over and over. I haven't been as moved by an album since that day, and the way things are going, I'm guessing I never will.

Too bad everything they did afterwards was boring as hell.

OK computer was an album that you could put in and let play for days straight. But for some reason it sounded awful on random. Subliminal?

athoughtcomes:mitchcumpstein
Best rock album of the 90s hands down.

Pitchdork agrees with you.

You're both wrong.

Hum? Never heard of them. I'd also add that 'California' by Mr. Bungle is the second best rock album of the 90s.

Radiohead - OK Computer
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

holy trinity of perfection

I was living in Paris when this album came out, and the cartoon video for 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' was constantly played on MTV Europe. And I never got tired of it. That, Blur's 'Beetlebum' and Oasis' 'Wonderwall' were seemingly played every hour.
(And no crappy ganster rap was ever played on MTV Europe, either.)

Play one of those tunes on a bar jukebox and the whole pub would stop conversations and rock out.

Brit pop was a very cool thing to experience first hand.

I've always preferred The Bends personally, but OK Computer was their peak, without question.

My favorite album from the Britpop era though was Blur's Parklife

There is no greater atmospheric audio orgasm than Exit Music (For a Film.)

Is it just me, or does Thom's voice in "No Surprises" kind of sound like Ron Sexsmith's??

I heard that The Tourist was added at the last minute. i'm glad they did. It's a great song. But it also would've been neat to end the album with "Lucky" --- because at the last line, "we are standing on the edge"...
at that moment you are literally standing on the edge of "the album" itself... the very end... i think it's pretty clever.


/but then again... "there's a fine line between stupid... and clever"

I love Subterranean Homesick Alien. I was late to the Radiohead party. I didn't really pay attention to them until 2004 when, during a trip to Puerto Vallarta, I put OK Computer in our rental house's CD player and did nothing but sit there and listen to the entire CD. I hadn't just sat and listened to an entire album for a looooooong time.

karma_police
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

holy trinity of perfection

[bold]
does not compute.

one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong...

lol ... i'm only half joking.
i think "london calling" is a pretty good album... with a bunch of great songs... but it has too many / goes on for too long... if they would've trimmed a few tracks from it, then yes it would've been late 70's perfection, to me, anyway

Why is OK Computer always the one touted as Radiohead's definitive "breakout" album? I was far more blown away by Kid A.

doxonrox99:Too bad everything they did afterwards was boring as hell.

I really liked a few song off Hail to the Thief, like "2+2=5" and "Go to Sleep".

I think OK Computer is probably their best album, but The Bends is their most underrated and under appreciated. I put it right up there with OK Computer with some of my all-time favorites. If you could wear out CDs by playing them, I probably would have worn that one out.

awfulperson:I was far more blown away by Kid A.

Yeah I'm more of a Kid A, Amnesiac kind of guy myself. OK Computer is still phenomenal though. I just got into them way late in the game.

I finally just got around to picking this up on vinyl (it was hard to track down).

It's not my favorite album of theirs though - I think Amnesiac is the one I liked the most. In Rainbows, if I keep listening to it enough times, may end up taking that cake.

Radiohead is one of the best and most important bands of my generation, and I have no problem with that.

Is it mid-June again? Subby's a couple of weeks late.

tallguywithglasseson:The Bends is their most underrated and under appreciated.

This is still my favorite. Then comes Kid A, IMHO.

I don't know, I guess I was too old for OK Computer to do it for me. That and I recognized the computer voices from the Macintosh I worked on every day doing what was multimedia eleven years ago.

Airbag still gives me the chills. It's amazing.

The Bends, OK Computer, & Kid A: The best back to back to back albums since Bob Dylan in his prime.

Dusk-You-n-Me:That is going to be a great night.

It's a farking awesome show. (pops)

This video was shot roughly 15 rows behind me, and of course it doesn't do it justice. I don't think anyone sat down during the show.

Really guys? Even Radiohead doesn't like Kid A. National Anthem was awesome live though.

My top 3, in order:

Bends
OK Comp
In Rainbows

2wheeljunkie:Dusk-You-n-Me:That is going to be a great night.

It's a farking awesome show. (pops)

This video was shot roughly 15 rows behind me, and of course it doesn't do it justice. I don't think anyone sat down during the show.

Hell yes. I went and saw them down in Charlotte and it was perfect.

Here's the paranoid android from that show (pops).

flaminglip:Can't wait to see em Aug 3!

/long time fan, first time caller

I'll see them Aug 1, hooray!

I just saw them at the beginning of June and they were SO incredible. Thom Yorke's voice is a force of nature. They played almost all of Kid A (which is my favorite album--gorgeous) but I definitely could have done with more of The Bends. I will continue to go to their shows for as it takes to see the acoustic version of Black Star. That would be my own personal heaven...

10 decades from now, this album will be considered the greatest thing to ever come out of this generation of music. "Paranoid Android" is a work of art.

OK Computer will probably always be my personal favorite album by anyone. Amazing, powerful, chilling.

The Bends -> OK Computer -> Kid A -> Amnesiac
not to different a progression than
Meddle -> Dark Side -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals

10 decades from now, this album will be considered the greatest thing to ever come out of this generation of music.

fark no.

and p.s.:

The Bends -> OK Computer -> Kid A -> Amnesiac
not to different a progression than
Meddle -> Dark Side -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals

Do NOT compare Radiohead to Floyd.

dmax:The Bends -> OK Computer -> Kid A -> Amnesiac
not to different a progression than
Meddle -> Dark Side -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals

Amnesiac wasn't really a progression, just left-over tracks.

I'd compare it more to Talk Talk's trajectory:

The Party's Over -> It's My Life -> Colour of Spring -> Spirit of Eden -> Laughing Stock.


From innoculous debut album (Pablo Honey), second album that proves there's more to the band that cookie-cutterness (The Bends), the band's "Art" album (OK Computer), the complete left-turn (Kid A/Amnesiac), and even the follow-up that finds a band somewhat struggling to figure out where to go with their new sound (Hail to the Thief)


granted, i wouldn't call Kid A and Amnesiac a complete left-turn from OK Computer, but there's quite a few who think so. whatever.

ConnieLingus:Do NOT compare Radiohead to Floyd.

I think Pink Floyd would be Radiohead if they formed 20+ years later.

ConnieLingus:Do NOT compare Radiohead to Floyd.

Good call. Radiohead blows them away.

Connielingus


Good call. Radiohead blows them away.

ftfy