OK Computer
by Radiohead

From ProfessorSquid 02/09/2012 17:04 | #36628 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I think making such a big deal about OK Computer only takes away from the great music they made after. This is a great album but unlike a lot of 90s bands Radiohead didn't try to ride this any further. From here on out they became a genre all their own. (Edited)

I first listened to this when I was 18. It was my final year of Sixth Form. I was emotionally crippled by unrequited love, doing poorly in my exams, and terrified about the future. I was lost.

This album was therapy for my soul.

Two years later, I’m still mind blown by how impossibly good OK Computer is, to the point where I’m jealous - it doesn’t seem fair that this quintet from Oxford have achieved a work of such astronomical brilliance! It should be compulsory for everyone to listen to this, regardless of generation or preferential music taste.

OK Computer changed my life. It also converted me into an obnoxious music loving snob. It's what brings me here! I'm constantly listening to an expanding variety of new albums in the hope I’ll discover something that will move me just as much. Because of OK Computer, one of my sad goals in life is to amass a perfect collection of wonderful music that I'll want to listen to until the day I die. (Edited)

From Steff3n 11/02/2009 18:06 | #6940 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I only really discovered Radiohead 2 jears ago. Didn't like Yorke's voice at first. Then one day stuck in traffic, I listened to OK Computer from beginning to end... I still get goosebumps... the moment when the 'second' Yorke falsetto screams 'You know where you are' towards the end of 'Let Down'... (Edited)

Close your eyes, throw on some headphones, and float away... (Edited)

Over time I have delved into to several Radiohead albums,The Bends, OK Computer, Pablo Honey and again recently I went back to them several times based on the enthusiasm of so many charts and members here - the band and their music is good, even very good - but I just cant see them as great; listening to rock going back to the late 60s thru 70s, 80s 90s, they are comparatively talented but I just cant feel that spark that would make their work exceptional enough to be considered a greatest of all time. If I had listened primarily from the late 80s then I think maybe they would seem so much more ... anyway I won't be throwing their albums out and maybe one day I will "get it" but at this point not.