 "The album that made me Radiohead's Slave 0.o Damn you Radiohead!" | 2009-09-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVN00ASBFTMN6 |
After 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000.positive reviews It didn't doesn't seem like there is much to say besides "This is my favorite album ever". And it is, Sorry I out of everybody hate being the 2 millionth person to say that.
But I will say that this is one of those albums that completly opens your eyes. For example my older brother an Avid Nickelback, Daughtry, and Creed fan, came to me asking for advice on how to make his band better. I said that he should expand his horizons on and that he should listen to more music, besides linkin park. So being a good younger brother I gave him this cd, along with Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited", "London Calling, "And Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". My brother first looked at this and told me:" Are you kidding me, Radiohead sucks there only good song is creep. Besides what kind of name for a song, is "Subterranean Homesick Alien" or "Paranoid Android". After a couple of months I came back to him and asked him "Have you listened to those albums?" He said he had been listening to this album for 6 months straight on repeat, and continues to do so. He had not even touched the other cds, and had completly abandoned all of the crappy modern radio music. Basically this album makes you it's slave, and refuses to let you go, It keeps you wrapped in chains around your stereo.
But after it lets you go you have a new appreciation for what music is. That it can experimential and bold, yet beautiful. There aren't many records that remain so fresh and exciting, after so many listens. I guess it's because every song on here is beyond perfect. I know my ranting sounds cliche , but some albums are worth cliche ranting. And yeah this is definitly the motherload. |
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| "Favorite Prog Rock album ever?" | 2009-08-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A18WGFV1LFBJB6 |
| It's really hard to confirm this feeling but I really feel like this is the best progressive rock album ever. At least since the 90's to now. Every track has a different feeling to it. Best listened to on headphones on an adventure in another country or somewhere beautiful you've never been before. |
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| "Radiohead is a gift to music lovers" | 2009-08-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVKRTWFUOJX5W |
I listened to this album many many many times for many years, i can not count. Now we are in 2009. But still everytime I listened, I pass to another world. It never gets old and it will never.
I like many music groups and I listened different music styles which I love to do. But for me Radiohead's music is like an ocean if other groups are like a river. It is deep, mystic, creative, realistic, fantastic, sad, happy, dark, beautiful. It's simply no group sounds like Radiohead. There are many creative groups, But I don't think they truly understand what Radiohead was doing.
Radiohead could be a group just doing one of the best albums of our time, Ok Computer and maybe countinue to do the same thing. Bu they didn't. They countinued their journey making different challenging music. They truly understand human's lonelyness and problems and reflected them to their music. They didn' care about popularity and went in their way with honesty, with respect to art and creativity; which was a few group could achive in history.
Listening to Radiohead is just difficult to describe. It takes you to a different a higher level. Every album they made is a beauty which I always saw them as gifts to the music world and music lovers. |
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| "It's everything you've heard it was" | 2009-08-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: A147PJ0NRKWNIY |
| If for some reason you've still not heard OK Computer and you're on the fence about whether or not to get it, all you need do is look at the volume of responses this album has received. At the time of writing, over 2,051 reviews have been logged. Truly great works are always provocative, they provoke responses one way or another. To be sure, most reviews give this album the 5 stars it deserves, but even the haters, in an odd way, pay tribute to this masterstroke. This is easily one of the 5 greatest albums in rock history. Listen for yourself. ;-) |
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| "Sit back and shudder" | 2009-08-10 |
| - Reviewed By blackbeardo |
Radiohead
OK Computer; 1997
Capitol Records
My Rating: 96/100
All things considered, THE BENDS was essentially an outstanding mope-rock record. I've already expressed my deep appreciation for what the band did there, but looking back, it was OK COMPUTER that made me (and many other music geeks) believers. When it all comes down to it, there are records that better describe what it was like to be alive in the late-1990's, but none that speak so profoundly as OK COMPUTER. With acts left and right embracing their inner electronic selves, OKC was the album that injected it all with a healthy dose of skepticism and irony. Note well: OKC is also the lone CLASSIC record from that era and genre. Still, it's not that OK COMPUTER is preachy at all. On the contrary, Yorke and company masterfully paint twelve pictures of what it means to be living in a time such as this. When Yorke howls "Pull me out of the air crash/Pull me out of the wreck/Cuz I'm your superhero" he seems to foreshadow our present turmoil, sprung upon the world just four years later. Maybe that's because, while their Brit-rock counterparts were busy boozing it up and swapping headlines in the tabloids, this was a band with an eye the world around them. Overall, OK COMPUTER is a harrowing listen and experience, from the opening riffs of "Airbag" to the extraterrestrialisms of "Subterranean Homesick Alien," right on through nine tracks that, though diverse in style, are thematically linked. Though it is forever anchored in the late 90's, in light of Yorke's closing plea to "slow down," OK COMPUTER becomes a truly timeless record. Go on - sit back and shudder.
TRACKS:
1. Airbag (5/5)
2. Paranoid Android (5/5)
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien (5/5)
4. Exit Music (for a Film) (5/5)
5. Let Down (5/5)
6. Karma Police (5/5)
7. Fitter Happier
8. Electioneering (4/5)
9. Climbing Up the Walls (5/5)
10. No Surprises (5/5)
11. Lucky (5/5)
12. The Tourist (5/5) |
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 "The Artwork of RadioHead's Ok Computer and its Relevance with the Songs Airbag and The Tourist" | 2009-08-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: ACR9HLY9OYCLM |
Within the album Ok Computer there are two songs titled Airbag and The Tourist. It is obvious that Radiohead is attempting to spread a message of what their songs are about. The artwork inside the CD case itself is a meticulous portrayal of their songs, with the two aforementioned songs being the most intricately expressed by the artwork. In Airbag there seems to be a strong connection between an idea of incarnation and the self-proclaimed Evangelical Christians' concept of being born again -- although this belief of being born again is shared by most, if not all, of those who confess a belief in Christianity; however, the interpretations of how to obtain this are disputed. In The Tourist, the resounding theme is to "slow down." Pictures of planes, subways, and a picture of Seattle with planes and helicopters hovering over it are expressive of a world that is ever moving and never resting. These songs, coupled with the artwork, attempt to promote the message of Radiohead by stirring emotions and abstraction.
Airbag repeats the phrase "I am born again" three times. It of course brings to mind, at least to anyone raised in or knowledgeable of American culture, the close association of these four words with Christianity. However, when people who claim to be Christians use this phrase, they typically mean that they have accepted Jesus as their lord and salvation from a second death, but Radiohead is not embracing this idea literally expressed by the words because the song states that he has come back as the matter between the stars (interstellar), a strong force with a knife (jackknifed juggernaut), a neon sign, and finally an entity inside a fast German car. The Christian principal overtone is confirmed in the artwork of the CD. There is a statue, perhaps a representation of Jesus, with his hand held out towards a circular object (most likely a representation of some planet) and a young couple dressed up with a baby in their arms looking upward at the statue. Below the statue's neck is a drawing of an airport path with "take off" references. The airport drawing ties into the rest of the CD that is expressive of our modern times. It is difficult to determine if Radiohead is mocking these Christian principles, or that they believe these principles have psychological value (e.g. there is a picture of a man looking outside a plane with fire and the brief quotation above) -- perhaps it is to be left to the listener and viewer of the song and artwork. Regardless of the interpretation one may take from this song, it is clear that Radiohead expected one to be thinking of the modern world as viewed through Christian principles.
The Tourist is all about life going too fast. Radiohead seems to reiterate this by the pictures in the CD. The pictures immediately following the song are of a subway system and people running and waiting for it, a plane, and a city that has helicopters landed and one flying above the city. There are the words "by a fast-track career that ...modern world" which indicates that society has become so engrossed in work, that it has forgotten to slow down, reflect on things that are important, and take time out to enjoy life. The song ends with "idiot, slow down, slow down." Surely, this is a warning for people in the industrial world to look at what they are missing as they hurry about their business. The idea that "life is precious" may perhaps be losing its profoundness with many. It does often seem as though we are just rats running through a maze, as the cliché goes, and that society is only concerned in getting a job done, making money, getting another job done and repeating this endless circle. The Tourist expresses what many are guilty of -- society gets angry when it is overcharged, but little to no tinge of anger is felt as a host of legal and moral injustices are committed. A view point from this artwork and song is that this fast track, career oriented world has lost its focus and is no longer enjoying life and pursuing to make it better, because we are simply too busy rushing to work, making money, and then repeating the cycle. It seems to be the warning of Radiohead that we are all just tourists, and that our days are few -- should we spend them running a "rat race?"
Work Cited
Radiohead. "Ok Computer." Perf. Johnny Greenwood, Ed O'brien, Phil Selway, and
Thom Yorke. EMI and Capitol Records, 1997.
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