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Review Summary: The one LP of the 90s that didn't redo what has already been done--it rewrote it. Up until 1997, Radiohead had just been an average British rock band. Just five guys: singer and frontman Thom Yorke, guitarist Jonny Greenwood, bassist Colin Greenwood, drummer Phil Selway, and extra guitarist Ed O’Brien. Their debut release "Pablo Honey" (1993) received mixed reception, and was classified as “Nirvana lite” due to its grungy sound. (Vindication over the years has now seen a lighter change of heart.) They quickly grew out of this with "The Bends" (1995), which got higher praise and focused on a more traditional rock sound and incorporated the darkly cryptic lyrics that would be a staple for the band. They were getting their foot in the door...but with this album, the door was left hanging by its hinges.
"OK Computer" (1997) isn’t just an album. It’s an experience. You could listen to it thousands of times and still unearth a new message in each song. The songs are saturated with universal themes like consumerism, politics, and social/emotional ostracism. It also sounded completely different from anything that preceded it; it was 53 minutes of musical experimentation, per se. They tinkered with their sound as if it was Playdoh. The result has gained a huge following, and is considered by critics and even other musicians to be one of the greatest albums of its time, and having a prophetic vision of the economic value of the century to come. I agree.
The album is atmospherically unsettling, and it goes from eerie ("Karma Police", "Paranoid Android") to straight-up-and-down terrifying ("Climbing Up the Walls"), and with a bleak and somber coat of paint on top of all of that ("Lucky", "Let Down"). It's like a dark rock version of "Sgt. Pepper", perfectly encapsulating the time period in which it was released and having an effect on its genre and music in general for decades to come.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Not bad but you don't really talk about the songs enough.
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One review per day
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we needed another radiohead review
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'Just an average Rock band' who had released one of the most critically lauded and much loved albums of the last 10 years in 'The Bends'
That album was huge dude.
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'The Bends'? Never heard of it.
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As much as I love this album it did not need another review, especially a mediocre one like this. I could probably get more info on this just by reading their damn wiki page.
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This album has 18 positive reviews, all done by users over the course of years. What would anyone
from this point have to offer in their own review besides what has already been done before? At
least reviewer #19 had the balls to do something different and give it a 2/5 rating.
Aside from that, a review for a 5 star album should never be this short. You need to go into the
songs and the product to tell us why theyre so good. Why the production, the execution, the
instrumentation, the vocalists, it's impact, and its personal impact on you as a person to justifies
it's rating. Two paragraphs and half of an unfinished thought don't make a cut.
Also the presentation of the review, mainly how you mention the song titles is really ugly and makes
the last paragraph a chore to read. Rather this needs to be cleaned up and extended, or it should be
removed. Then again, im being hard on you. This is only your second review and my writings aren't
anything better. But do take whats been said into consideration :p
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good rec i'll check this out
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
What VaxXi said.
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
God forbid anyone who feels a particular record that is special to them post a review about it on a music website.
Fascists!!!
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Let's go start our own music website with malt liquor and hookers, Zak.
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Ignoring the 19+ reviews this is still a badly written review.
But I do agree, we need a music website with liquor and hookers.
| | | Album Rating: 3.0
Opening paragraph was good, but kinda disappointed of the lack of everything that followed
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
Fuck yeah.
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
Classic death bro
Lol Futures
I'll bring the hookers, sloppy Deb will let you go in bear back for an extra five quid.
| | | Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
kid a is better
most overrated album of all time
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I never really got the hype behind Kid A. There are a few good tracks, like Idiotque, How To Disappear, and The Nation Anthem. But everything after Treefingers is just forgettable. Well in my opinion.
Is it because people like to pretend that there is some artistic integrity with the "fuck you" that the album brought to every person on earth? And that in itself is a way to merit and give the album one of the most cohesively stellar rating from critics everywhere? Or is this just an album that I don't enjoy, other people actually do like its songs, and I shouldn't be complaining about it?
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I never really got the hype behind Kid A.
i never really got the hype behind this
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
Dude, hype wasn't generated in order to force this down peoples throats.
This was a revolutionary game changer for traditional guitar based rock. Nobody had heard anything like it and as a result it was a genuine mind blower for the masses the likes of which we haven't seen since.
This was a band who had hopped on board with Creep and delivered a defining record of the times that still resonates.
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but it lacks on the most important part: it's simply dull for the most part
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