Re-discovering OK Computer
Posted by qmonkey on September 5, 2007
I remember that about 10 years ago, polls of The Best Album of All Time had Radiohead’s OK Computer up there with the likes the Revolver and St Peppers. It felt too soon to assign it classic status - and I presume now that Amy Winehouse or Klaxons are probably in the top 10 in these polls.
I listened to OK Computer again today for the first time in possibly years and remember why it is what it is.
Restrained but occasionally euphoric
Beauty
Bleak
Screechingly emotional
Tense
Technical yet organic
Free form yet meticulous
Other worldly
Abstract
Great Moments:
0:15 into Airbag
1:40 into Paranoid Android
2:45 into Paranoid Android
5:05 into Paranoid Android
3:00 into Exit Music
1:35 Into Sub homesick alien
0:15 Let Down
2:35 Karma Police
0:15 Electioneering
0:01 No Surprises
1:10 Lucky
3:40 Lucky
