it's ok

radiohead stan here, it's brilliant but not nearly as good as Kid A

I've always loved it. I never once thought it was "pleb tier shit" because some contrarian fucks said so on here.

mindblowing at 13 and potentially important to eventually having good taste but don't get hung up on it forever because it's still a pleasant pop album after everything's said and done

'let down' is still real pretty though

>>66190672
I think it's more consistent than Kid A

>>66190704
I still don't get what you're trying to say

>>66190720
i'd argue the other way, Kid A to me is immaculate, every song is crucial and cohesive

i also think that Karma Police is not that great of a song, nor is Electioneering

>>66190650
I feel like people on /mu/ place it low compared to their other albums because it's always put at the top of "greatest of all time" lists and the fact that it's in the library of congress, etc.

If you take a good look at OKC, it's definitely an accessible alternative rock album. But there's so many aspects of avant-garde to it as well. The massive feedback and noises placed throughout the tracks, non-standard song structure and time signature, the fact that Fitter Happier exists.

It's really amazing in my opinion because it's both an album that almost everyone will enjoy, but also contains a ton of interesting, abrasive sounds.

>>66190784
it's better to have been really into radiohead than to be really into radiohead, but both are better than never bothering

>>66190650
Several of the tracks are technically intriguing. For instance, Paranoid Android has time changes from 4/4 to 7/8 back and forth during the middle section, and the guitar part in Let Down is in 5/4, not to mention key and tempo changes out the wazoo, while the rest of the instruments are in 4/4 (albeit i can't really figure that out aside from reading about it).

It's also pretty notable for having more electronics/distorted noises in it than an average 90s alt band. Exit Music (For a Film)'s climax amps up the bass at a ridiculous amount, while songs like Climbing Up the Walls and a bit of Karma Police have distortion to add to the frantics of the song. Electioneering is also pretty electric, but I don't really care for it after my initial love for the album so let's move on.

The album has an overall theming of isolation in the society that the protagonist(s?) live(s) in. Paranoid Android was apparently written after Thom Yorke witnessed a bar fight, and releases a bit of anger about his frustration with peers around him. In fact, that's pretty much most all the album. Subterranean Homesick Alien is about a daydream of leaving Earth and taking a breather from the batshit insane stuff going on here, Exit Music (For a Film) is (in my interpretation, at least) about a couple running away and rebelling from some parent, Fitter Happier is supposed to be a satire about society's bizarre materialism or something (it's a weird-ass interlude), No Surprises is a darker turn down a man's life as he opts for suicide in his depression, and The Tourist is about the character finally slowing down and enjoying life for what it is as he tells others to. There are several theories about this album's concept (or if there is one); for instance, the 'ding' at the end of The Tourist is the car crash at the beginning of Airbag, meaning the album is some loop.

>>66190650
i dont like it

>>66190650
great album, and solid evidence that nigel godrich is the brains of radiohead