― Manny Parsons, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I didn't know that everyone thought this alb was great. If by everyone= media, then they are not 'everyone' are they?
― Julio Desouza, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dare, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Really? I thought everyone raved about this album. I've only ever found one other person who thought it was so-so. Everyone else I know thinks it's one of the best albums every. I can't, for the life of me, figure out what the hell they're talking about.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The next two keep me more satisfied. I think they are the true classic albums. OKC sounds very passengers to me, and also early floyd. And that last roger waters lp, last march, stand final cut thats it. I think radiohead were lucky that people were looking for an album to be the saviour of rock....
― John, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why are you being so nice to it?
''Ten to twenty years from now we'll have learned to just appreciate it for the pretty melodies (just like ppl did with "The Wall").''
Not after the avant-garde REVOLUTION is over and done with. We will not be needing 'melodies' any longer hurrah.
― JUlio Desouza, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dear God, it may be one of the best albums ever!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH!!!!
oops. I need to change my underwear.
― Philip Gomez, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
To the people who badmouthed "OK Computer": Ordinarily, there are reasons why some people like some albums, while not liking other albums; we have different tastes, for whatever underlying reasons. However, "OK Computer" transcends this. This leads me to believe that you are:a) A fool running his/her mouth without having given the album a proper listening.b) A fool trying to be different by slagging off a universally recognized masterpiece.c) A waste of fucking space who shouldn't be posting on any sort of list where people will have to hear your shit ramblings.d) All of the above.
― doesn't matter, Friday, 17 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 18 January 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
Don't even get me STARTED on how great the Replacements were. Let's just say you had to be there.
― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 18 January 2003 03:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cotton poos, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Unknown User, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost -- yeah, I forgot about that. 9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING MAN.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Were I to be limited to one Radiohead album for the rest of my days, I'd go with The Bends.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
...even though this album perhaps thinks it's The Wall, it's really The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway with a marketing degree. Thankfully the degree was top notch.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
good point, Ned.
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I like the Lamb lies down on Broadway a damn sight more.
― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
then why listen to an album with "Paranoid Android" as a single?
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Ned, what do you mean by this? I haven't heard Lamb, not sober and paying attention at least, so maybe it would make more sense if I had. I know you don't really like The Wall and do like some Genesis (and like this album) so I don't think this is supposed to be a dis.
There's lots of great stuff on this album. I really like the sprawling riff in "Airbag", and the delayed guitar sounds and electronic bits all over the record. The first six songs are flawless, the next three are junk, and by then I'm not usually in a mood for the remainder. Albums are too long anyway.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
It isn't. If I had to break it down to individual elements I suspect that my head would hurt but if I had to try and spell it out a bit more off the top of my head, The Wall is strictly internalized angst that begs for a conflation of narrator/creator (ie Mr. Waters) whereas Lamb, while pushing for some sort of narrative connection, feels more fragmented and more self-consciously divided, separating Gabriel from the chosen role of his Nuyorican lead figure. Inasmuch as I've never identified Yorke directly with his subject matter -- I've NEVER thought he was specifically the figure 'telling' the songs, when I've cared to focus in on that aspect -- I think it bears comparing there, say. Similarly I also get much more of a sense of a band creating Lamb in the way that a band created OKC where The Wall is One Guy and his obsessions translated for the reduced-to-session-musicians folks to record -- with the exceptions notably being Gilmour's efforts (and unsurprisingly "Comfortably Numb" is my favorite song from the album for that reason).
The marketing degree bit is mostly acknowledging that if there is a thematic obsession on OKC and Radiohead at that time in particular, it was the whole busines of buying/selling/commodification, not that that's alien to a lot of what else they've done. But the whole two figures shaking hands and the trashed/altered celebrations of airports and travel and 'business' and everything else in the artwork, etc. It was all VERY carefully conceived and then sold, and all the reflexiveness in the world on the band's part (or Yorke's in particular if one likes) -- thus Meeting People is Easy as well -- doesn't change or hide that. Which is obvious, granted.
Still, I'd have to relisten to Lamb again to see if they tried to do something as ridiculously and yet wondrously obvious in terms of Waters Floyd cramming a DISCO number into their two disc slab o' pain (and scoring a massive hit as a result!).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link