Have you ever pulled up the GPS application on your phone, centered on your location, and just stared at it? You don’t mean to, you’re trying to find an ATM or something, but now you’re just standing and staring at that blue dot. I’m here to talk about something different. But I’m not sick of reading about it and I’m willing to bet you aren’t either so hold back your snarky comments for a second, if you want to read about how great “Paranoid Android” is you’ve got 5 pages to choose from. On this website alone there is five friggin’ pages of reviews for it already.
Endless think pieces, lists, retrospectives, skeptics wondering if its really all that, and enough breathlessly glowing write-ups to fill a library.
I get it this album has many a word devoted to it. “Whom should I call first”, your internal monologue raced frantically as you fumbled for your cell phone, “I could call the mayor? The governor? Or maybe I should go right for the president!” The coffee mug slipped from your hands and crashed onto the floor, you didn’t notice. “Oh my god” you must have thought, “Someone gave OK Computer a perfect score”. No song epitomized their blooming creativity better than “Paranoid Android,” a six-and-a-half-minute behemoth that - despite Jonny Greenwood’s hot and cold feelings on the subject - single-handedly made prog-rock relevant again.Review Summary: A Chemical Reaction: The Core of OK Computer Back in their triple-guitar days, critic legend Robert Christgau dismissed the band’s 1995 classic, The Bends, writing that “the words achieve precisely the same pitch of aesthetic necessity as the music, which is none at all.”Įverything changed with 1997’s OK Computer, which expanded beyond the alternative roar (“Just”) and grandfather-of- Coldplay falsetto balladry (“Fake Plastic Trees”) with a sonic arsenal that included strings, drum loops, psychedelic guitar effects, glockenspiels and keyboards. Kid A Reaches Adulthood: Radiohead’s Mesmerizing Fourth Record Turns 20ĭecades removed from the 120 Minutes age, it’s easy to forget that Radiohead weren’t immediately hoisted onto the shoulders of journalists and paraded through the industry as saints. Rosie Carney Releases Acoustic Cover of Radiohead’s ‘Bones’ Skullcrusher Shares Cover of Radiohead’s ‘Lift,’ New Track ‘Farm’
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