OK Computer

Back_Pedal
Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
edited November 2008 in Other Music
What a fucking awesome album. "Airbag" is amazing.
Thanks EPOTTSIII!
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  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    Let Down is sparkly :D
    Look Alive,
    See These Bones
  • K.LO
    K.LO Posts: 163
    The first time I heard Paranoid Android I thought to myself "what the heck is that?". It grew on me. Let Down is a beautiful song, and of course Karma Police is too. The music video for Karma Police is one of my favorites.
  • release30
    release30 Posts: 2,051
    Great album The Bends is better....
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    OK Computer was the one...their best album for me. I bought it on the day of release after I saw the Paranoid Android video. It was impossible to get tickets to see them then. I had to wait a few years. They filmed a concert in New York and it came out as a promo VHS. That was my live experience for quite a while.

    The Bends is good but there's a couple of tracks on that one that I find pretty bland. OK Computer was at a whole other level and that was clear when it was first released. That's why it made them so huge.
  • McCreadyFan
    McCreadyFan Posts: 35
    I love OK computer. Paranoid Android, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Lucky, The Tourist are the best songs.

    Btw, In Rainbows is also one of their best albums.
    "I'm Still Alive!!"
  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    release30 wrote:
    Great album The Bends is better....


    The Bends doesn't come close to the beauty of OK Computer....


    OK Computer flows beautifully.....
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    release30 wrote:
    Great album The Bends is better....
    No, no it is not.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • clkelley5v1
    clkelley5v1 Posts: 9
    radiohead will go down as the greatest band of our generation.
    Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
  • The Long Road
    The Long Road Posts: 183
    release30 wrote:
    Great album The Bends is better....


    Here we go again. The people who think the Bends is better than OK Computer either don't know music or is saying it because they want the world to know they THINK they know Radiohead better than anyone else.
    It's not even close. OK Computer ranks among the best pieces of music in the history of music. The Bends isn't even on that list.
    I guess Bleach is better than Nevermind and Binaural is better than No Code too right? Give me a break!
    "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives"--Ed
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    The Long Road wrote:
    Here we go again. The people who think the Bends is better than OK Computer either don't know music or is saying it because they want the world to know they THINK they know Radiohead better than anyone else.
    It's not even close. OK Computer ranks among the best pieces of music in the history of music. The Bends isn't even on that list.
    I guess Bleach is better than Nevermind and Binaural is better than No Code too right? Give me a break!
    The rare time I grab for a Radiohead album, it is the Bends. I don't even think that I own OK Computer anymore and I could care less.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    The Long Road wrote:
    Here we go again. The people who think the Bends is better than OK Computer either don't know music or is saying it because they want the world to know they THINK they know Radiohead better than anyone else.
    It's not even close. OK Computer ranks among the best pieces of music in the history of music. The Bends isn't even on that list.
    I guess Bleach is better than Nevermind and Binaural is better than No Code too right? Give me a break!

    Wait, you're arguing that an opinion is wrong when saying that since OK Computer is on an opinion based "history of music" article, that you're more right than him? Haha.

    Personally, I do think OKC is better than the Bends, but the Bends is a extremely amazing sophomore album.
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • SiD
    SiD Posts: 76
    The Long Road wrote:
    Here we go again. The people who think the Bends is better than OK Computer either don't know music or is saying it because they want the world to know they THINK they know Radiohead better than anyone else.
    It's not even close. OK Computer ranks among the best pieces of music in the history of music. The Bends isn't even on that list.
    I guess Bleach is better than Nevermind and Binaural is better than No Code too right? Give me a break!

    Word.

    "The Bends" *is* a great album, though. But it's impossible to compare to "Ok"
  • jasonw
    jasonw Posts: 435
    The Long Road wrote:
    Here we go again. The people who think the Bends is better than OK Computer either don't know music or is saying it because they want the world to know they THINK they know Radiohead better than anyone else.
    It's not even close. OK Computer ranks among the best pieces of music in the history of music. The Bends isn't even on that list.
    I guess Bleach is better than Nevermind and Binaural is better than No Code too right? Give me a break!

    Dude you sound like an ass. Music is subjective and to say you know why thousands of people (and i'm sure there are several thousands of people if not millions) like one album better than another is just absurd. Get off your high horse and get a life.
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    The Bends > OK Computer

    But I love OK.
  • TallGuyCM
    TallGuyCM Posts: 328
    The Long Road wrote:
    Here we go again. The people who think the Bends is better than OK Computer either don't know music or is saying it because they want the world to know they THINK they know Radiohead better than anyone else.

    See, I like The Bends better because it's the album that got me into Radiohead sometime around the year 2000. There are so many songs with this unspoken tension that are really heavy underneath their alt-rock surface. "My Iron Lung", "Just", "The Bends", "Fake Plastic Trees".

    OK Computer's amazing, don't get me wrong, but it has one critical flaw IMO - "Climbing Up The Walls". By far my least favorite song in Radiohead's entire catalog. The inclusion of that one song on the album is what puts The Bends higher up in my book.
  • The Long Road
    The Long Road Posts: 183
    TallGuyCM wrote:
    See, I like The Bends better because it's the album that got me into Radiohead sometime around the year 2000. There are so many songs with this unspoken tension that are really heavy underneath their alt-rock surface. "My Iron Lung", "Just", "The Bends", "Fake Plastic Trees".

    OK Computer's amazing, don't get me wrong, but it has one critical flaw IMO - "Climbing Up The Walls". By far my least favorite song in Radiohead's entire catalog. The inclusion of that one song on the album is what puts The Bends higher up in my book.


    Fair enough. But was Pearl Jam's Ten the 1st PJ album you heard and do you think it's "better" than the others for that reason?
    "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives"--Ed
  • The Long Road
    The Long Road Posts: 183
    jasonw wrote:
    Dude you sound like an ass. Music is subjective and to say you know why thousands of people (and i'm sure there are several thousands of people if not millions) like one album better than another is just absurd. Get off your high horse and get a life.


    Dude, music is as subjective as the ones that are listening to it. Hmmm....
    "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives"--Ed
  • TallGuyCM
    TallGuyCM Posts: 328
    The Long Road wrote:
    Fair enough. But was Pearl Jam's Ten the 1st PJ album you heard and do you think it's "better" than the others for that reason?

    Bands and the way people get into their music vary by situation.

    I was in 6th grade when Ten came out, and I loved it. But Vitalogy really grabbed me because it sounds like it was recorded in a garage compared to the first two albums, all the glossy production from the first two albums was gone. Which I thought was brilliant.

    I disliked Radiohead when OK Computer came out...I had only heard Karma Police on the radio, and I didn't see what the big deal was about them. The Bends is what got me to give the band a second chance, and thus has the most nostalgic pull.

    Not looking for an argument here, just telling my little story about how I came to like the band.
  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    danny72688 wrote:
    The Bends > OK Computer

    But I love OK.
    In Rainbows > OK Computer > The Bends

    It's like comparing a Da Vinci with a Michaelangelo though really isn't it :)
    Look Alive,
    See These Bones
  • The Long Road
    The Long Road Posts: 183
    itsevobaby wrote:
    In Rainbows > OK Computer > The Bends

    It's like comparing a Da Vinci with a Michaelangelo though really isn't it :)

    You got a point there!
    "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives"--Ed

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