The Official Radiohead Thread

[Howard the Duck]

Originally Posted by TomClancy11

Most Radiohead albums are monotonous and lifeless, I would hesitate to say it is their intention.

but they are more layered and textured

i mean my fave Radiohead song is "Pyramid" - it's a dirge, but how they layer it and the melody makes it an awesome "dirge"

OKC sounds completely unremarkable to me

[Sneer]

Originally Posted by Il Duce

but they are more layered and textured

i mean my fave Radiohead song is "Pyramid" - it's a dirge, but how they layer it and the melody makes it an awesome "dirge"

OKC sounds completely unremarkable to me

OKC is very layered, dynamic and hugely imaginative for what is essentially an alternative rock album. It signalled the death knell of Britpop, and its highly sophisticated sound became influential on a number of bands (of wildly varying quality, granted) following its release.

I'm not trying to debase your personal opinion, I just fail to see how it's monotonous or lifeless... There's so much going on in those 50-odd minutes, Paranoid Android in itself comprises of about three different songs in 6 minutes!

It has a schizophrenic, somewhat unhinged quality that perfectly conveyed the paranoia prevalent in British society as it edged ever closer to the millennium. It's a commentary on humanity and it's relationship with capitalism, technology and death, which for me makes it an engrossing listen.

I'm not accusing you of this at all, but I do feel as if some people give it raw deal because they resent the adulation it has received, it's just too 'mainstream' and 'conventional' for Radiohead fans. It's a shame, because I think it's an album that oozes quality.

[The Fascinating Turnip]

I cetainly fail to see how OK Computer is a monotonous album. It's not as if it were a mere wave of melancholy sound and whining about computers.
I certainly don't want to attack anyone's personal taste, but I believe it's quite evident that a great deal of emotion was placed into many of those songs, and I definitely fail to grasp how, say, Exit Music (For a Film) is monotonous.

[GuitarBizarre]

Originally Posted by Unchained Ballad

I cetainly fail to see how OK Computer is a monotonous album. It's not as if it were a mere wave of melancholy sound and whining about computers.
I certainly don't want to attack anyone's personal taste, but I believe it's quite evident that a great deal of emotion was placed into many of those songs, and I definitely fail to grasp how, say, Exit Music (For a Film) is monotonous.

I just don't think the album has as much contrast as it needs. I'm sure some people think of it as "cohesive" or "thematic" but to me a lot of OKC sounds like the same song. Compare that to HTTT, where you have Sail To The Moon, Backdrifts, and Go To Sleep within the space of 3 songs, the Gloaming, There There, Punch Up at a Wedding, and Myxomatosis, on the album too...

HTTT has way more straight variety than OKC, but it still feels, if anything, more like a single, solid structure of an album, than OKC does, because of the contrast if anything.

[Howard the Duck]

Originally Posted by TomClancy11

That's fine, as I said, my favourite is T'Bends (I'm Northern, okay!?) but I pretty much like all of their albums to a degree. I just didn't understand how you could call OK Computrer a "crock of sh!te" when it is clearly not that bad.

i can't make it through half of the album before "okay, moving along"

Originally Posted by Stu

OKC is very layered, dynamic and hugely imaginative for what is essentially an alternative rock album. It signalled the death knell of Britpop, and its highly sophisticated sound became influential on a number of bands (of wildly varying quality, granted) following its release.

I'm not trying to debase your personal opinion, I just fail to see how it's monotonous or lifeless... There's so much going on in those 50-odd minutes, Paranoid Android in itself comprises of about three different songs in 6 minutes!

It has a schizophrenic, somewhat unhinged quality that perfectly conveyed the paranoia prevalent in British society as it edged ever closer to the millennium. It's a commentary on humanity and it's relationship with capitalism, technology and death, which for me makes it an engrossing listen.

I'm not accusing you of this at all, but I do feel as if some people give it raw deal because they resent the adulation it has received, it's just too 'mainstream' and 'conventional' for Radiohead fans. It's a shame, because I think it's an album that oozes quality.

it just puts me to sleep