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Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
edited November 2008 in Other Music
What a fucking awesome album. "Airbag" is amazing.
Thanks EPOTTSIII!
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    Let Down is sparkly :D
    Look Alive,
    See These Bones
  • K.LOK.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.
  • release30release30 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 RulesEvacuation 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.
  • McCreadyFanMcCreadyFan 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!!"
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 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
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 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"
  • clkelley5v1clkelley5v1 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 RoadThe 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
  • SongburstSongburst 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 MelonBlind 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.
  • SiDSiD 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"
  • jasonwjasonw Posts: 424
    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.
  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    The Bends > OK Computer

    But I love OK.
  • TallGuyCMTallGuyCM 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 RoadThe 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 RoadThe 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
  • TallGuyCMTallGuyCM 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.
  • itsevobabyitsevobaby 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 RoadThe 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
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Everyone here is missing the point. Appreciation of music is subjective but the music itself is not. It's fine to prefer The Bends to OK Computer but it is objectively NOT a better album.

    This fact is supplied to you for free with my kind regards.

    kthxbai.
    "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"
  • The Long RoadThe Long Road Posts: 183
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Everyone here is missing the point. Appreciation of music is subjective but the music itself is not. It's fine to prefer The Bends to OK Computer but it is objectively NOT a better album.

    This fact is supplied to you for free with my kind regards.

    kthxbai.


    I couldn't have said it any better myself. Just beware of the "you're an arrogant ass" posts. Don't listen to them because you are 100% correct on your assesment.
    "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives"--Ed
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    TallGuyCM wrote:
    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.

    WHAT!?!?!? Climbing up the Walls is my favorite song on the album.....to each their own I suppose
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    The Long Road wrote:
    I couldn't have said it any better myself. Just beware of the "you're an arrogant ass" posts. Don't listen to them because you are 100% correct on your assesment.
    Oh I don't care if anyone says I'm an arrogant ass, there's no arrogance involved, it's not like I'm a rabid Radiohead fan who thinks OK Computer is the best album ever, I've no vested interest in this, I just think it should be clarified that OK Computer IS definitely a better album :)

    One guy: "Nah nah, music is subjective, the last Kid Rock album is better than Mozart's Requiem, it is because I prefer it!"

    another guy: "Here's a wacky idea chief, maybe Kid Rock is just more to your taste, he's not better than Mozart, if you think that then I hear they have a cell waiting in Broadmoor for you".
    "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"
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Yeah, people are going to prefer the more mainstream generic rock of The Bends, but OK Computer stands alone as a true masterpiece of our times.....


    Like Jeremy1012 already stated, it simply is a better album.....it's richer in ideas, it flows as an album.....
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • jasonwjasonw Posts: 424
    The Long Road wrote:
    I couldn't have said it any better myself. Just beware of the "you're an arrogant ass" posts. Don't listen to them because you are 100% correct on your assesment.


    Nah, he wasn't arrogant because he didn't assume to know why people prefer one album over another. You told people why they like an album and gave two insulting reasons.

    And by the way OK Computer gets more play at my house than The Bends.
  • jasonwjasonw Posts: 424
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Oh I don't care if anyone says I'm an arrogant ass, there's no arrogance involved, it's not like I'm a rabid Radiohead fan who thinks OK Computer is the best album ever, I've no vested interest in this, I just think it should be clarified that OK Computer IS definitely a better album :)

    One guy: "Nah nah, music is subjective, the last Kid Rock album is better than Mozart's Requiem, it is because I prefer it!"

    another guy: "Here's a wacky idea chief, maybe Kid Rock is just more to your taste, he's not better than Mozart, if you think that then I hear they have a cell waiting in Broadmoor for you".

    Let's calm down with the absurd examples.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    jasonw wrote:
    Let's calm down with the absurd examples.
    Why? It might be an exaggeration but it's an extension of the same ideal. Why if some music can be objectively appraised as being superior (ie Mozart over Kid Rock) can we not also appraise other music in the same way? It's neither here nor there to me if someone prefers The Bends but OK Computer is a richer artistic creation than The Bends, people can tell me that's just my opinion if they want, I'll disagree and tell them it's a fact, in just the same way as Mozart's Requiem is a better piece of music than All Summer Long, even though I know a guy who would much prefer the latter. There's nothing wrong with that, he's just more fond of the inferior work.

    If a person said they thought Pablo Honey was a BETTER album than OK Computer (not that they prefer it mind, that's ok too, although a little odd in my opinion), any sentient being with an ear for good music would laugh at them. I don't see why the line should therefore be blurred between two albums that are critically praised and fan-favourites like OK Computer and the Bends. It should still be possible to say which is the better album without earnest fans pulling out the subjectivity card.
    "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"
  • jasonwjasonw Posts: 424
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Why? It might be an exaggeration but it's an extension of the same ideal. Why if some music can be objectively appraised as being superior (ie Mozart over Kid Rock) can we not also appraise other music in the same way? It's neither here nor there to me if someone prefers The Bends but OK Computer is a richer artistic creation than The Bends, people can tell me that's just my opinion if they want, I'll disagree and tell them it's a fact, in just the same way as Mozart's Requiem is a better piece of music than All Summer Long, even though I know a guy who would much prefer the latter. There's nothing wrong with that, he's just more fond of the inferior work.

    If a person said they thought Pablo Honey was a BETTER album than OK Computer (not that they prefer it mind, that's ok too, although a little odd in my opinion), any sentient being with an ear for good music would laugh at them. I don't see why the line should therefore be blurred between two albums that are critically praised and fan-favourites like OK Computer and the Bends. It should still be possible to say which is the better album without earnest fans pulling out the subjectivity card.

    It's just such an exaggeration. I really just don't think the gap between ok and the bends is that big. And to bring Mozart into the conversation, you can't Mozart to any modern rock album that will be forgotten by the next generation.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    release30 wrote:
    Great album The Bends is better....

    This

    OK Computer is Radiohead's masterpiece, and it deserves the title, but guitar based alternative rock doesnt get any better than The Bends. Nothing on there is more generic than Karma Police, Airbag, or Paranoid Android.
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