OK Computer is the greatest album of all time
 

Sgt Peppers? Dark Side of the Moon? All well and good, very impressive accomplishments for their time. But Radiohead caught lightning when they made OK Computer. It is genius.

I'll move it ahead in my queue.

*scoff* *snort* pshaw, fuck that half-assed shit.

Underwhelmed, I am.

Led Zeppelin II

Field of 64¿?¿

seconded. f64 that is, not Zep II. I like Zep III better even i think.

You know what? We should not only do a field of 64: Albums; we should do it book-club style. One pair of albums a week, say; you HAVE to listen to both albums during that week, no matter how many times you've heard them before, and discussion is encouraged before voting. So no leaving out worthy votes just because you've never heard something before!

I LOVE that idea!!

I'm more or less with UT on this one. Not sure I'd go with the greatest, but certainly one of the greatest.

I can't listen to it these days. It takes me to such a strange place. That was my go to album during the dying days of my relationship with J. 'No Surprises' in particular is like timetravel for me.

My faith is shaken.

"No Surprises" Jonny experiments with making the guitar sound like a bell. And then they put a bell sound over it. And then the bell and guitar interchange. It is deeply "pretty"... and then Thom writes the most sarcastic lyric, which subverts it. Takes all that brightness and makes it deeply dark.

You cannot deny the pretty and you cannot deny the ugly. It's something that runs all through OK Computer.

fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics

And Led Zep 2 is a fine work... but who wrote it?

OK Computer is so totally original, you can't see where it came from. That's part of its charm.

A lot of old blues men, from america wrote it. A British band distilled it. John Henry Bonham made it bounce off your bones.

You can invent a lot of flowery descriptions of an average album, and fool some people. You can come to appreciate the beauty of a cat poop if you spend enough time gazing at it.

Lz2 is your favorite album the first time you hear it. 30 years later, it still gives you nipple erections.

All that said, I only listened to ok comp once and didn't feel it

OKC is a difficult work, you have to listen to it 3 times before it settles in. And you know, that's what I like about it.

I love the video to No Suprises as well.



"No Surprises"


A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal

You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

This is my final fit, my final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)