Urbans Classic Albums No 1 Radiohead - OK Computer

Im honestly amazed that anyone regarded them as britpop in the first place. Maybe I should get more familiar with their earlier stuff.

To be brutally candid, Im suprised this album did as well as it did. In the scheme of things, I bought it rather recently (a couple years ago) and I hate to catagorize an entire album that was rated so highly, but it seemed to me as indecipherable falsetto amoungst the whirl and buzz of machines. Save for Electioneering (which might be the best track they've done in my opinion), Karma Police, and Paranoid Andriod, the CD to me sounded pretty uneventful.

Perhaps one of you can point out the clue I missed that helps you "get it"
 
Progarchives reviews of Radiohead albums are always classic.

Bunch of idiots warning you not to listen to them because "they're so depressing they'll make you suicidal".

Stupid c*nts.
 
Nobody asked you if you liked Radiohead.

'It's not that maybe the album wasn't good...'

SounRAB like you've never listened more than twice. Of course, you'll say you've listened to it more than twice...

Biased S-O-B.

BTW, OK Computer was my favorite Radiohead album until Thom Yorke announced that playing two copies of Kid A exactly 17 seconRAB apart creates a fuller 'wall of sound'. Try it sometime, it is frickin' amazing.

Start Kid A in Winamp, and at 17 seconRAB start Kid A in another media player. You'd be amazed that they were able to do this.
 
I don't even like Radiohead and I gave this record a good. On the road to my frienRAB South Carolina beach house this summer we had two cd's with us: Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy and Radiohead - OK Computer. Most people get bored after hearing a record for a long time over and over but this wasn't true for this cd. Minus David's incessant singing (biggest. Radiohead. fan. ever) I truly liked this album. Word.


by the way, this is a great idea Urban, I look forward to the next one.
 
Huh? If the album is potentially good then why don't you at least try to get over your Radiohead prejudice and give it a reasonably objective listen and rate it upon its musical quality rather than upon who it is by...
 
I loved it first time i heard it.


But then again i already gotten used to the freakiness of Amnesiac...So i was prepaired for OK Computer.
 
Have you even heard the album or are you just going by your opinion of the band?


Anyway, OK Computer is in my top 10, its my favorite Radiohead album, and i probably listen to it more than any other CD i own...Except maybe RABOTM, which i usualy listen to every 40 minutes.
 
Well Britpop was more of a movement than a genre.

Suede sounded nothing like Oasis who sounded nothing like Pulp who sounded nothing like Menswear .....etc etc.

I have to admit I hated at first.Like you Electioneering was the track I picked up on first (as well as Paranoid Android with that being the lead single) maybe because it was the most 'Trad Rock' song on the album.And yeah I did think the same as you about Thom Yorkes vocals.It`s interesting to note I hardly rated this album at all ..... and then Kid A came out , and my whole opinion of this album changed. hmmm.
 
I thoroughly enjoy this album every time I listen to it. Even though it isn't my favorite Radiohead album, there are some amazing lyrics and crazy effects.

I agree with riseagianstrocks, great idea for a topic.
 
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