Sofa_King wrote:


It is that phase in life, when most promises seem to be made ubiquitously throughout nature.

Wow! I think this gets better every time I hear it. Chills. Watery eyes.  Raised hairs. 10

 cavemanleong wrote:

I believe we can just go with the WHOLE ALBUM is a "10". No need for added discernment stress! ;)

Listened to this album again recently and reached the conclusion that it has become even more relevant today than it was back then...

I could never decide which song I loved more,  Lucky or Let Down. OK Computer is a phenomenal album.

This follows a cover version of Creep. I see what you did there RP! 👌

 damonlazer wrote:


  love this response.

 MassivRuss wrote:

It's a cyclical rating system, so if want to vote one lower than 1, you rate it a 10.

Radiohead's music has always had the spiritual punch needed to lift me out of life's most trying times. When does a band go from being good for the ears to being good for the soul?

10 of course.

Have missed Radiohead/ Don't always love their songs,  but I always am convinced of their uniqueness.

Long live ok computer! 

The album when Radiohead became Radiohead. 25 years of this album and it has not lost one bit of its lustre.  Every song is a 10. Everything fits. This song sounds like exhausted exuberance, which is fitting as it's the second to last song on a relentlessly brilliant album. I'll love it forever.

I remember a friend having an extra tic to see Radiohead around '07. I had only heard the song Creep but he said it was one of his favorite bands so I went. After the first song I was like damn, that was really good. And after the second song I was like, damn how are they going to top that one. And then went on to say that after nearly every song... no way they can top that last one! Sometimes musically and sometime through really interesting use of video, but each song somehow outdid the one before it.

Ended up being one of the best shows I'd ever seen, and I've seen plenty. Extra odd because I usually need to be at least somewhat familiar with the bands catalog to enjoy a big venue show. But as mentioned, the only song I knew was Creep... and they didn't even play that!

Not my one of my favorites on the album.  8

Radiohead are a bit like Marmite - love or hate.  Personally I could listen to them all day long 

 paloeguevo wrote:

True but yours is kind of like an answer that a teacher would give. I would say that if someone doesn't like any of those bands he's probably listening to the wrong station.

I saw Radiohead live at Shoreline Ampitheatre back in the days before Google took over that part of the world. With a customer, who brought along a date called bunny... Quite a memorable evening.

So Lucky there is skip button.

How does one create something like this? Unfathomably mega

Radiohead is hit or miss for me. This is a HIT!!!

RH - one of the many great groups I've discovered on RP.  Missed a lot of rock during my years listening to jazz on public radio stations.  Doing my best to catch up.

LLRP!

 DaidyBoy wrote:

..the dehumanization caused by technology.

 lucyvp wrote:

No sure it's even arguable as at least ONE of the BEST...

11 all the way 

 pjw1200 wrote:
Exactly. 
Some artists make songs about self-destruction. 
RH make songs to inspire self-destruction.

Anything lower than 1?

 pktinkler2984 wrote:
Wonderful album.  Set the bar pretty high.  I don't know what they were thinking when they included "Fitter, happier", though...

Is it just me or do all there stuff sound really miserable? Music to kill yourself too?

So Lucky there's a PSD.

 Bosami wrote:

I agree.  A perfect piece of musical art.

This is a 10!!!

Gratingly awful from note 1. 

 lucyvp wrote:

No arguments - it was!

I find it odd: I like Radiohead okay. If I had to rate the band as whole, I might give them a 7. But I don't get the love for this album. I like some of the others more. Oh well. We're all different. No right or wrong. Wish I got it though - feel like I'm missing out.

 chyk5 wrote:
 
Wow...thanks for that connection....gob smacked that I never heard it before...cheers!

I never understood why they denied being or being influenced by prog rockers. They certainly are prog rock.  BTW this a a great album and song..."9"....

 paloeguevo wrote:
 

Me too - it's one of the greatest albums of the 20th C in my view.

 dmcanany wrote:
 
Nothing wrong with not liking Radiohead, or pink floyd, or the beatles or the stones etc. Music like all art is a subjective matter. I muself give a 10 to any song in this album.

I'm mellowing with age - I find I can enjoy a Radiohead song!

A somewaht overlooked song on onw of the best albums of all time.  No matter.  Powerfully good.

 dmcanany wrote:
 

Umm because they are terrible?  Uh-oh, now you're on the pretentious music fans' bad list.  Tsk tsk.

Just can’t get into Radiohead. Don’t know why. They are obviously hugely popular on RP.

still a firm 10.

Lucky for us, this song is at the tail end of this great album.

So UN Lucky when Radiohead comes up on the list. 

So Lucky to skip ahead.

 lucyvp wrote:
 
I would not argue with that :)

Not an original style, but still one I enjoy, and they do it well.

8

Lucky... to have a SKIP THIS SHIT button.

Fucking genius!!!!!! 

Reading a lot of Mark Hollis tributes today. Never made the connection of Spirit of Eden as an influence on bands like Radiohead. I absolutely hear it now. Both of these albums are masterpieces. 

Arguably up there among the best albums of all time. 

My favourite Radiohead album, full of great songs like this one. Superb.

Such an amazing song from an equally amazing album. 

Pablo Honey -> OK Computer -> Kid A -> Amnesiac = Meddle -> Dark Side -> Wish You Were Here -> Animals

Oh my!!! I just moved it up to a 10.

For me One of the most beautiful song in the world

one of the great songs to come out of the 1900s

I can almost hit those notes when I sing along in my car.
But I make up for my failing with volume.

 MassivRuss wrote: 
Radiohead is definitely an acquired taste, much like Joni Mitchell.  Here's hoping you'll get it someday.

SUBLIME

 kcar wrote: 
#alternativebroccoli

я вернулся в прошлое на 10 лет...

I'll never forget, having to work late one night, when my coworker came in, pulled out the CD that I was listening to, and dropped in ( the just released) OK Computer  - and she said "listen... THIS is yummy."  Yeah, I was instantly blown away.  Amazing CD.

I'm up to 9 with it 

Among the most important albums in my collection, and this song in particular is one of the primary reasons I learned to play guitar. I still enjoy playing it today. Peak Radiohead was quite a thing to behold live.

So bummed I missed them at Lolla on Saturday - heard they played for 2.5 hours! Who went how was it....?

Dark is good. Good and dark!

Still perplexed at the sheer originality & impact of songs like this that Radiohead created as a matter of course. Back when so many figured creativity in music was waning.

 kingart wrote: 
I tune their lyrics out but yeah, "chronically downbeat" hits the mark. RP plays Radiohead too much. Wish it played more Knopfler, even though he's been overplayed here in the past. 

Sorry, Radiohead fans. RH joins Arcade Fire, Chris Isaak, and a few others, in the dubious pantheon of my auto PSD. I'd stick around If I wanted a dirge, a drone, a whine, a thin off key voice, and a chain of artistic, well-produced but garbled and relentlessly non-rock downbeat ballads. 

SO, so overrated. Their only good song is the creep. Because it's autobiographical, simple and true.

Hello Sarah it's the Radiohead who almost made all public.

Radiohead could produce an album of children's nursery rhymes and it would be a masterpiece.

Transcendent stuff, to be sure... Was just re-acquainting myself with this very album earlier this afternoon... Staggering, monumental...

I'm not a hater. I listen with interest. This is interesting. But I don't fathom the adulation for this band. 9s? 10s? This band, this dude, seems chronically downbeat. Like he and they are standing on a window ledge and contemplating a leap from it to briefly improve their view. 


Pull me out of the aircrash, pull me out of the lake
Hey, darken those lyrics, they're too cheery for me.

 

Interestingly, Amazon's own "product description" for OK Computer puts it quite succinctly, I think:

"Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British "new wave of new wave" band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning "We hope that you choke." Sluggish, understated, and hard to get a grip on, OK Computer takes a few listens to appreciate, but its entirety means more than any one song." 

Well 'm just about a moonlight MI-ILE
On DOWN the RO-OO-OAD

Solid NI-I-INE.

it's all in the production.     10.

Sad. Beautiful. Awesome.
The crest of the Radiohead bell-curve.
 

hauntingly beautiful.

They make other bands wonder why they make music at all
 

 valeriogonzalez wrote: 

Yes it is

Amazing that fingernails on a blackboard can be tuned to produce such brilliant music.

It's my birthday, thanks Bill! 

pull me outta that car crash..

T.Y., drone home. 
 

 Rachoh wrote: 
MTV was showing music videos in 1997?  I thought they stopped such unthinkable practices by the mid-1980s.

Lucky...

lucky there's PSD.

 rdo wrote: 
It did have a good run the summer of '97 when OK Computer came out. I remember seeing the video on MTV quite often, and I heard it on the radio here in Boston a few times too - but we had an AMAZING alt-rock station, so might have been special.

However, the song/vid didn't endure play beyond the summer. 

 

 malvey254 wrote: 
It was added in January 2014 perhaps thanks to your comment.

I have a couple things to address your comment by way of speculation, with the caveat that I really have no idea what in the fuck I am talking about.  K?

I think there might be some sort of business consideration at work where it becomes a matter of what the cost is and what the royalty payments are.  No?

Also, I think there SHOULD be a limit on the number of songs for a CD in the playlist because RP needs to keep in mind that if you play the whole CD on the air then no one will need to purchase it.  I think this must be a consideration because I can't imagine the bands being in favor of the whole CD played on the air -- they want to make money.

Also, i am not sure why you think Paranoid Android is such a hit song ----- not in the US it wasnt.   I have never heard that played anywhere.  Karma Police was the hit single from OKC.

 malvey254 wrote: 
Because this would happen and we'd never be able to return to our working-worlds again. 

 

This song's a fucking 10!!!

Not even the usual clever little hook to start, just right into Yorke's "voice". Eeyuulchh.

Pretty good - 6 from me.

 btt wrote: 
It's not your fault.

 fredriley wrote: 
That is precisely why I keep a helmet handy .
It wards off the Yorke worms . 

 Businessgypsy wrote: 
This has to be one of the most insightful comments that I've ever read.

I was climbing up O'Cebreiro, on the way of St. James, while playing this song. It was cold, windy, rainy and snowy. But it was such a glorious day.
11!!!

 Businessgypsy wrote: 
Damn, you nailed it.....I am equal brain power, an artist, designer, a landscaper and a cook. NO math thought, well, the average overall  is good for radiohead. I love them.........

 Jmr1371 wrote: 
RH, or Top 40? That's the A to Z of your music universe? I'll keep that in mind next time I notice some smug hipster griping about too much Pink Floyd, or Jazz, or Classical, or anything else on RP that ISN'T Top 40. "Don't like this one band? Leave RP and find a Top 40 station."

You seem to imply that RH is ALL there is on RP. God forbid. Fortunately, RP is Paradise for real music lovers as well as RH's fans.

 MassivRuss wrote: 
The Essence of Life. Want some?

 MassivRuss wrote: 
If you don't like this song then you are probably listening to the wrong site. Just Google "Top 40" and i'm sure you will find some music more suited to your taste.

 Sasha2001 wrote: 
God what drugs does it take for this dirge to "soar"?

This is my favorite track on this album. Soaring.

 lemmoth wrote: 
Indeed

 MassivRuss wrote: 

I'm sorry.  I know everyone has different tastes. But you have to be kidding.  This is MAGNIFICENT.  Where's the 11

Ahhhhh...


NOW HERES some QUALITY MUSIC!

 

Good music, mediocre singing, excellent mumbling.  Almost PSD'd it but I like any moment of the song where Yorke's voice is on hiatus. 

One of the RH crew's finest guitar layer cakes

Played live in small leisure centre.  Greenwood playing guitar and keyboard at the same time.  Mesmerising performance.  Top of my adoration tree.

Lucky...

Lucky I can hit the Stop or PSD buttons.

Please Great FSM, make RadioHead and Thom Yorke's teeth go away.

Anyone have any theories for why Paranoid Android hasn't made it onto RP yet?  It's the equivalent of "Losing My Religion", "Like A Rolling Stone" or "Alive" not being on this station (all of them are, obviously, and are played semi-regularly).

I'm assume many have tried to LRC it and failed.  What gives?

I am not a conventionally religious man. 

Quite frankly I worship at the church or rock and roll.

And this is one of my all time favorite hymns.

10

OK Computer and Automatic for The People.  Lonely Island albums.
Of course 10