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I think it's quite good, favourite track 'Exit Music (For A Film)
Prefer The Bends though.

it kinda becomes like an automatic entry now like most of the albums in top 100 lists, best album ever...yeh that radiohead one, or one of the beatles ones, chuck pet sounds in there...


ive never really listened to it but i think i might now

hah, well I'm missing the 'subterranean' part but yeah, I THINK OF ME TOO!!

it's a great album though.

'Climbing Up The Walls' is my favourite track, 4 and half minutes of pure misery and dispair - awesome.

Such an amazing album.

Every time I listen it astounds me a little more and I start to think the 'greatest album of all time' label is justified.

It eclipses 'the bends' in so many ways.

Johnny Greenwood = amazing.

"I never listen to it anymore. I've had it since the day it came out 8 years ago or so. I might have to listen to it now whilst drifting off to sleep, though, to remind myself of how good it is."

Exactly the same here. Ocassionally I have to dig it out and remind myself of its greatness.

But yeah. It's easy to forget nearly a decade down the line that "OK Computer" basically re-wrote the guitar music rulebook. Set new standards in every department. It's an album that I've spent years absorbing, so in a way it's difficult for me to separate "it" from my own experience of it. But as an emotional / aesthetic statement, I'm not sure I've heard anything that quite compares. Amazing, amazing stuff.

Personally I don't think its as good as the bends, simply because that record connects with me emotionally more than OK computer. But it does have some of Radiohead's best musical moments on it. Its just all abit too considered and caluculated for me but I guess that was the point it was a comment upon the alienation that is bred by modern society.
Best album of all time?No.

"Although it was pretty good, I don't think it can match some of hte albums it beat."

Which albums, specifically? While I agree that no album can be that good, it's always the best bar far (in my opinion) of any albums that slink into a top 100 that is compiled.

And despite loving a lot of very different bands now, the only album I can think of that vies with it for my number 1 place is Nirvana's In Utero (which never really seems to even touch such lists).

Personally I've never really liked Let Down. I tolerate it in its place but I always thought it was overlong and a bit 'mushy'. When Travis god Godrich in for The Man Who and tried to make every song sound like 'Let Down' I hated them that bit more than I would have done otherwise...

it's main influences come from two of my favourite albums in bark psychosis' 'hex' and my bloody valentine's 'loveless' and i think that when taking into account what the average music listener has actually heard it is definitely the best album of all time, it's probably in my top ten personally, certainly my favourite rh album... but nowhere near my number one.

not as good as KidA or Amnesiac. Cheers!

its brillibrilliant, but i just plain dislike the crappy jeff buckley tracks (SHA, lucky, let down, the tourist, well theyre not all jeff buckley-y, but they all stop me really liking the album from start to finish), but exit music and airbag and climbing up the walls are ALL TIME FUCKING GREAT. and the singles are overplayed. and if you prefer the bends, you're probably and oasis fan. yes. i said that.
and whoever said that their subsequent career was trying and failing to be OKC is a NONCE. if they had wanted to do more OKC stuff, they could have very easily. but infact they took one of the bravest and greatest leftturns in Rock History. Im no simpering radiohead fanboy, but thats an opinion id stand by.

I'm pretty surprised that everyone here loves it. Its a class album, yeah, but there's usually four or five people that despise the band the majority of people on the thread love... if that makes sense.

Anyway, well done boys and girls!

I'm listening to it now for the first time in a good few months and... while it does, unfortunately, remind me of being 19 (not a good thing), it's also ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and I love it to bits.