L4titudes
11.24.15 | Vote or don't.. you know freedom man |
zakalwe
11.24.15 | Kid A expanded boundaries.
OKC obliterated everything.
OKC |
beefshoes
11.24.15 | Ok Computer is great for sure, but I've always prefered Kid A and In Rainbows. |
Artuma
11.24.15 | it's a tie |
Ryus
11.24.15 | kid a
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Ryus
11.24.15 | "it's a tie"
it's a tie between kid a and in rainbows |
claygurnz
11.24.15 | OKC |
altertide0
11.24.15 | kida |
Artuma
11.24.15 | that's true as well ryus |
Conmaniac
11.24.15 | OKC |
trve
11.24.15 | its a pie |
KrazyKris
11.24.15 | kid a |
trve
11.24.15 | used to like kid a more, now its okc |
claygurnz
11.24.15 | IT'S A TRAP |
brainmelter
11.24.15 | in rainbows tho
but naw, Kid A is much more significant to me |
apert
11.24.15 | Kid A |
jtswope
11.24.15 | Kid A
Meanwhile, check the movie Boy A. |
TheMagicalBlender
11.24.15 | Ok Computer |
TumsFestival
11.24.15 | hey cool i'm the 2nd person to say In Rainbows is best radiohead |
theBoneyKing
11.24.15 | Ok Computer ftw |
Bromero
11.24.15 | Ok Computer |
FilipeGomes
11.25.15 | OK Computer
Its a close one though |
bagof4grapes
11.25.15 | ok computer, but kid a did introduce me to radiohead |
ExtinguishingTheSun
11.25.15 | OK Computer, by a few centimeters. |
Archael
11.25.15 | kid a is miles better, you're wrong if you think otherwise |
Ryus
11.25.15 | its better by a sizeable amount ya |
Mutantsnowstorm
11.25.15 | I'm biased, a bunch of friends and I were a part of a music school and we once recorded a cover album of Ok computer so it has a special place in my heart |
ChopSuey
11.25.15 | Okc |
Asdfp277
11.25.15 | Me personally, I like Thomas' Vectorial Calculus, 12 ed |
CamiloG
11.25.15 | Ok Computer no questions asked. |
YetAnotherBrick
11.25.15 | OK Computer because every song is completely alive and as powerful as it could be within its context. it's perfect, really. it was daring for its time and for the position it held in culture, and without sporting a Treefingers. Kid A is a masterpiece too, but OKC is the defining masterpiece imo |
Ovrot
11.25.15 | OK Computer |
BigPleb
11.25.15 | Kid A by a country mile!
In fact, there's like 5 RH albums better than OK Comp... |
user
11.25.15 | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Paul_Lanksy_-_Mild_und_Leise_%28sample%29.ogg |
Muisc4Life26
11.25.15 | I would say Kid A but its very close |
user
11.25.15 | they seem too different to really compare. each have their ambitions and each have their faults. |
DoofusWainwright
11.25.15 | Ok Computer wins, it changed the music scene totally in 1997 and inspired roughly a trillion other bands. Kid A only changed Radiohead (it's still v good though) |
altertide0
11.25.15 | "it changed the music scene totally in 1997 "
did it? how? |
Pangea
11.25.15 | Kid A |
DoofusWainwright
11.25.15 | Alt it finally killed off most britpop. Paranoid Android was the strangest hit single you ever did hear in 97. The critical praise was crazily universal, still seen nothing like it, it was the rebirth of the 'serious album' you could write essays about for music nerds and it booked a spot on every 'best of the 90's' list from here to eternity lol. It was declared that this generation now had their definitive band basically, on a near-Beatles level.
Kid A was just a head scratcher for a lot of people at the time of release and its impact could never be as huge. |
altertide0
11.25.15 | ah, so you mean it changed music in like a "social" way. Yeah, I suppose it did change the focus of the mainstream scene and brought it back to a more serious way of making music (because the underground has never stopped doing "serious albums"). I thought you had meant it inspired an entire new wave of bands playing new styles, like Slint did with post-rock and math rock or The Clash and Ramones did with punk rock. Which I think it didn't. |
Artuma
11.25.15 | man altertide you care too much about creating something out of nothing (which is really admirable but honestly musical greatness is about so many other things too) |
altertide0
11.25.15 | Some people like football, other like cooking, some like simply listening to music, others are also interested in the history and development of it. Just what I fancy, nothing wrong with that I think.
And what I consider musical greatness is simply a matter of the criteria I choose. It just so happens originality is important for me. It doesn't have to be for you at all and there's nothing wrong with that as well. |
DoofusWainwright
11.25.15 | Erm, they did probably inspire a million copycat bands and I'd say nothing sounds quite like Ok Computer. To say it's not a true original is misguided - It's prog in disguise, clean and pristine sounding, it blew away the stale old man pipe smoking murk that everyone associated with that genre. It did all this while also selling by the million. It's rightly considered one of the best albums of all time. But you're right, it didn't create any genre labels. |
Artuma
11.25.15 | true, it's all subjective after all |
BandNewbac
11.25.15 | Kid A 10000x times over.
i don't even really like OK computer. |
Ending
11.25.15 | OK Computer is an outstanding collection of phenomenal songs that manages to come together in a very organized and sensible fashion, creating a strong candidate for the definitive alternative rock album and maybe THE definitive album of the 90s. It's got some amazing material and I absolutely love it.
But Kid A is just something totally different. It dared to venture away from nearly everything that made OK Computer such a success and somehow, almost miraculously, managed to become something even better. At the cost of accessibility, it was able to achieve a greater sense of overall cohesion and minus Treefingers is about as strong as OK Computer on a track-by-track basis.
I've gotta vote for Kid A, but it's pretty close. |
zakalwe
11.25.15 | Doof knows.
When it comes to telling you how it is, trust empirical input dudes. Subjective or objective if you haven't lived it something will always be amiss. |
808muzik
11.25.15 | kid a
boring question |
KingdomOfTyrant
11.25.15 | kid a
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L4titudes
11.26.15 | Some good posts on here. Gonna add up the tallies soon for whoever's interested |
Source
11.26.15 | Ok Computer no contest |
Ocean of Noise
11.26.15 | Kid A is way better sometimes but OKC is an album I can return to at any time, anywhere and it still means just as much as it always did. So OKC for me |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
11.26.15 | almost all of radioheads albums are infinitely better than ok comp
except pablo and bends which are the same |
Ocean of Noise
11.26.15 | Disagreed hard Potsy but I understand where you're coming from. Their more electronic, experimental stuff is definitely more interesting sometimes for me and I preferred that side of them for a long time |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
11.26.15 | not as much as pretty much your entire catalogue of 5's, 4.5's, 4's, 3.5's and 3's blow asshole tho sach and thats an indisputable fact |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
11.26.15 | but congrats on confirming yourself as one of those people so desperate to be edgy that they hate on radiohead |
ArsMoriendi
11.26.15 | Prefer OK Computer to Kid A, but their 2000s stuff is better on the whole to their 90s stuff.
Especially Amnesiac :)
Can my vote go to Amnesiac? |
Royl123
11.26.15 | This is a hard one! I think they're both equally great, however, I feel OKC has more substance than Kid A, and is far more influential. So maybe OKC. |
deathschool
11.26.15 | Kid A |
CamiloG
11.26.15 | Amnesiac might own both OKC and Kid A |
Royl123
11.26.15 | Amnesiac is beautiful but I think it's a little exaggerating to say it's better than these two landmark albums. Maybe in rainbows would be more debatable. |
user
11.26.15 | "but congrats on confirming yourself as one of those people so desperate to be edgy that they hate on radiohead"
is it only edgy and desperate when they're hating on bands that you like? because it seems like half of your posts are you edgily hating on bands, and it almost always comes off as pretty desperate. |
user
11.26.15 | but ok computer has a few more bumps than kid a imo. everything in its right place/motion picture soundtrack & airbag/the tourist are both very very good bookends, though.
overall i guess kid a. not a huge fan of optimistic, though. |
Archael
11.26.15 | i'm unable to see how anyone could think that kid a has less substance than okc but idk |
sapient
11.26.15 | Kid A, I love both but that record just does something more for me |
CamiloG
11.26.15 | "Not a huge fan of optimistic, though."
Optimistic is one of the best tracks in Kid A imo, if not the best. |
Ocean of Noise
11.26.15 | Optimistic is alright, don't mind it but it's not amazing |
KILL
11.26.15 | comp
blip blops are for turds |
Titan
11.26.15 | in rainbows |
Pangea
11.26.15 | optimistic is honestly one of my favs of kid a. i love the lyrics |
user
11.27.15 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38m16xd6p64
mmmboptimistic |
