OK COMPUTER RADIOHEAD REVIEW CRACKED

It's the kind of innocent discussion you'd expect from a group that had, up to this point, put out a couple of respectably reviewed, straight-up rock records, but were yet to become the biggest band in the world.

OK COMPUTER RADIOHEAD REVIEW CRACKED

O'Brien and Greenwood cracked jokes, gently brushed off questions they didn't care to get into and attempted to explain why this album was so different from the band's previous two releases. In the summer of 1997, when All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer sat down with Colin Greenwood and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead to talk about the band's new album OK Computer, it sounds (in retrospect) like none of them – not our host nor the guys in the band – entirely knew what they were sitting on. Until a minute passes, and I find myself again.Radiohead's original cover art for the 1997 release of OK Computer My opinion is complicated my life is complicated

As I have grown, I have seen how detrimental it has been to myself.īut I still have those profound moments, where I’m taken back to my youth, and the music is still powerful, still relatable and that itself is great. That loneliness, as hard as it is to escape – I still haven’t escaped it – is also selfish, toxic, querulous, and prefers to languish in obscurity, than have anything done about it. OK Computer has become more childish to me, as a result. In the most horrifying words I will ever say: I’ve grown up. While that is, in many ways, a good thing, they don’t support that kind of isolation anymore. It made that unhealthy loneliness bearable. More than that, it fed my loneliness, which is my natural state of being. When I listened to this record, with its monstrous soaring guitars, its intricate constructions, I was wowed by the technical proficiency. I still have those profound moments, where I’m taken back to my youth, and the music is still powerful, still relatable More than that though, it is the changes I have gone through in the last nine years. Part of it is Radiohead fans, who can be absolutely insufferable part of it is Thom Yorke, whose invitingly real isolation is also horribly off putting at times. My relationship with this record strains, as I grow older. The lyrics recall 1984 the song structures are novel, and it makes some truly interesting musical statements, within the pop music credo.However I’m sure you saw that coming a mile away. OK Computer was, and is, a comfort for me when I’m alone – or feel lonely – as that is its defining musical statement. I remember my weight, vacillating between too heavy and too light I remember the nights in my room, playing guitar for an audience of none, and being comforted by that solitude. I hear rainy nights in my parents’ cars, watching the murky blue suburbs slashed with orange when I listen to this album. That’s why I love this record.įurther, this album was my 10 th-grade life. Songs like “Airbag,” “Karma Police,” and “Lucky” all sit in this gray murk of loneliness, that, for many people, is relatable.

Yorke’s affected airiness takes you further into isolation, than closer to people. This record – and in many ways, the idol of Thom Yorke – represent loneliness at the extreme: the sounds are distant, ethereal thick moments create space, rather than bring anything together.

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