How's this for a review of OK Computer?

I'd have to disagree with the review...

How can songs like Karma Police, Paranoid Android and No Surprises NOT fail to engage the listener..

Thom Yorke (I take issue with the spelling) is actually (in my opinion) a songwriter of great calibre.

What annoys me, is that people always seem to call any radiohead song 'music to slit your wrists to' - but its not! It may not be the most upbeat music in the world, but you cant deny the talent. Not to mention the record sales speak for themselves!

As for RHCP and Coldplay being overrated - thats utter tripe..

Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, as I am mine..

I think so called 'revolutionary' bands like the Arctic Monkeys et al are more overrated!

As I say, just my 2p..

As an aside, I will say that Pablo Honey is my fave radiohead album...

EDIT// @ carzy - you may wanna ninja edit the 'T' word...
 
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i appreciate some of their work but i think they are overated.

Although i mainly like Rock some Hip-Hop artists don't get the recognition they deserve.
 
I've listened to it 4 times, each time with the hopes that I'd "get" it, but I never did. :(

It's a nice album, I just don't see what's so special. Maybe I need to check out their earlier work to appreciate it?
 
itsallaboutyou said:
I'd have to disagree with the review...

How can songs like Karma Police, Paranoid Android and No Surprises NOT fail to engage the listener..

Thom Yorke (I take issue with the spelling) is actually (in my opinion) a songwriter of great calibre.

What annoys me, is that people always seem to call any radiohead song 'music to slit your wrists to' - but its not! It may not be the most upbeat music in the world, but you cant deny the talent. Not to mention the record sales speak for themselves!

As for RHCP and Coldplay being overrated - thats utter tripe..

Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, as I am mine..

I think so called 'revolutionary' bands like the Arctic Monkeys et al are more overrated!

As I say, just my 2p..

As an aside, I will say that Pablo Honey is my fave radiohead album...

EDIT// @ carzy - you may wanna ninja edit the 'T' word...
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I'll stick with it and hope for the best. I think it's okay, I've definitely seen it on these here forums before!
 
H2F Scott said:
I've listened to it 4 times, each time with the hopes that I'd "get" it, but I never did. :(

It's a nice album, I just don't see what's so special. Maybe I need to check out their earlier work to appreciate it?
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I never listen to OK Computer... I think it's good, but not brilliant. Listen to Kid A, a few tracks off Hail To The Thief (Sit Down, Stand Up etc), and In Rainbows. That's my favourite Radiohead stuff. OK Computer has some GREAT tracks, but it's no masterpiece. But Radiohead the band...ARE a masterpiece.
 
no idea how someone can call RHCP overrated.

OK Computer has some wikkid tracks, but also some dire ones. It's by no means a brilliant album, but it is a good album.
 
hilly said:
no idea how someone can call RHCP overrated.
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After what I saw of them, with their late half-assed headline set at Leed's festival last year I can't blame people.

I got crushed, and it certainly wasn't worth it.

I like their records, but damn, I'm not going to go out of my way to watch them live again, so I wouldn't really call myself a fan anymore.
 
I'd probably disagree with the review but I think that calling Radiohead untalented is an absolutely insane thing to say. Really.

Wither or not you think the music is any good, isn't the really in question here. You'll love it or hate. But you can't deny the scope of the this album, and those preceeding it. I don't particularly like anything after OK Computer for Radiohead, but to call them untalented at any point is ridiculous. They're so very passionate too, just playing what they want to hear and not what people would like them to play.
 
I don't like Radiohead, never have and no matter how many times I've listened to them I can't see that changing, there is something about their music that just doesn't appeal to me. However even I wouldn't call them untalented or without vision, I just accept that it isn't for me and leave it to people who do like it.
 
I love them and always will, I think. OK Computer isn't their best, but it's still way ahead of what most people churn out.

In my opinion of course. :)

And the live version of 'Like Spinning Plates' is one of the most incredible things I've ever heard.
 
I think OK Computer is a very very strong album. There is hardly a weak track on there and there first 6 or so tracks are astonishing.

I was a huge Radiohead fan until relatively recently. I took the advice of a friend that this sort of music was making me sad. I disagreed but I gave it a try. He was right, it really was making me sad.

Now I have grown up from listening to Radiohead and belonging to the 'Ooo look at my elitest musical taste' crowd that I used to be part of. Looking back, I find some of their work appaling. The Bends and Kid A are both good albums (the latter mainly because it is different rather than being anything 'good'), but Amnesiac and Hail the the Theif are quite frankly the worst two albums I have ever bought. Just beyond terrible.

It makes me laugh how I used to sit there listen to it. I think to enjoy Radiohead you have to be the sort of person who enjoys getting lost in melonchony (I can understand the appeal). Saying that, to enjoy the two albums I previously mentioned negatively, its probably fair to say you are pretentious about music.

Hail to the Theif is a joke to me. I have grown to like melody in my music and I have realised that difficult music isn't always investing the time in to appreciate. I think its so bad I havn't even bothered buying their latest album because it has turned me off the band so much. How can a band release an album so threadbare of simple melody?!

Radiohead have made some masterpieces of music, they really have. However, most of their later work is rather difficult to enjoy. And sometimes, you really just can't be arsed.
 
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Hail to the Theif is a joke to me.
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It's different, but for them it's a weak album. The only albums of theirs I care about are Kid A, Amnesiac and OK Computer - in that order. I'm not really bothered about any of the others.

Kid A is a very dark album - and I heard it at a dark time of my life, when it came out in October 2000. It fit very well with what I was going through. I remember listening to Everything In Its Right Place for the first time and thinking, "what the hell is this??" but grew to love the album. Songs like Idioteque and Optimistic intrigue me [imagine running two time signatures concurrently - excellent], whereas songs like Morning Bell and How To Disappear Completely are sheer brilliance.

I love the kind of crap that people talked about with regard to Pyramid Song, such as 'it has no time signature'. It's just in 4/4.
 
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Lysander said:
It's different, but for them it's a weak album.
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Very weak. Far too many songs and very few of them memorable. Even then the melodies and riffs are just hideous, particularly that bass riff from Myxomatosis, which is just ghastly to listen to.

A Wolf At The Door is by far the best song on there. And thats about it.

Lysander said:
Kid A is a very dark album - and I heard it at a very time of my life, when it came out in October 2000. It fit very well with what I was going through. I remember listening to Everything In It's Right Place for the first time and thinking, "what the hell is this??" but grew to love the album. Songs like Idioteque and Optimistic intrigue me [imagine running two time signatures concurrently - excellent], whereas songs like Morning Bell and How To Disappear Completely are sheer brilliance.
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My only peeve at that album is the title track, which I loathe. It amazes me how a band can flip between quality so dramatically, even within an album. Don't even get me started on amnesiac - the emperor's favourite new clothes.
 
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