Posted on 06/20/2005 9:34:09 AM PDT by Millee
Spin magazine named Radiohead's "OK Computer" the top album of the past 20 years, praising a futuristic sound that manages to feel alive "even when its words are spoken by a robot."
The British band's album edged out Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and Nirvana's "Nevermind" on a list in Spin's 20th anniversary issue, currently on newsstands.
"Between Thom Yorke's orange-alert worldview and the band's meld of epic guitar rock and electronic glitch, ('OK Computer') not only forecast a decade of music but uncannily predicted our global culture of communal distress," reads the editorial note on what separated the 1997 disc from the other 99 ranked albums.
Sandwiched between Radiohead's straight-ahead rock disc "The Bends" and the more experimental, electronic "Kid A," "OK Computer" was the album that propelled Radiohead to worldwide, stadium-sized popularity. Though it never went higher than No. 21 on the Billboard charts, it won critical raves and a Grammy for best alternative music performance.
Spin's Chuck Klosterman says the album "manages to sound how the future will feel. ... It's a mechanical album that always feels alive, even when its words are spoken by a robot."
Years earlier, Spin ranked Nirvana's "Nevermind" the greatest album of the nineties. In the time since, however, editor-in-chief Sia Michel and others simply found they were reaching for "OK Computer" more than the slightly less relevant "Nevermind."
"Whereas when Nirvana came out, everybody was talking about negation and slackers and everything like that -- seven years later, it was the dot-com boom and 22-year-olds were making $80,000 on Web sites," Michel recently told The Associated Press.
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EXACTLY my reaction.
Spin works its way further into oblivion.
Tweedy was listening to the Conet Project at the time, and a couple of bits of it are sprinkled in the recording, so you get some disembodied voice call letters. That's really about it.
1) MoP
2)...and Justice for All
3) Black Album
When I think of the black album I think "Ruff to never-never land!". That, to me, is James Hetfield jumping the shark.
"ruff"...lol. I know what you mean, but it's not that bad when you hear it in the context of the whole song. Enter Sandman was the first released song off TBA and it was played non-stop on the radio at the time. I had to turn it off at times it was getting so over-played and annoying.
Metallica, as a band, pretty much "jumped the shark" ten years ago.
ok well I act like I am in my late 20's, except that I am only in my mid 20's :)
As I said, Load had like one good song, but I hated that album and all the rest of them have sucked.
I don't agree - but that's a hell of a choice.
blond on blond by bob
I LOVE the color-coded alert. I think it's useless, but it gives us so much mileage because it drives wimpy liberals inSANE.
yes the ff does.
picked up the latest one last week.
wow.
I got a chance to them live last year here in SF. They were in the middle of a 40 shows in 40 nights swing. There were only about 15 people in the audience, but they sounded good.
15 people? In SF? I thought y'all were more attuned than that. I think the Silos would draw a lot better than that here in Atlanta.
"HANSEN LIVE"...............THE BOX SET........hee hee hee
Well Jon Spencer "wanted" to be Sonic Youth at one point. SY talked of doing a cover version of the Beatles' White Album but Jon's band Pussy Galore did a full release of the Stones' Exile On Main St. (recorded in 3 days).
It was a limited cassette only release (250 copies I think).
"Jon's band Pussy Galore did a full release of the Stones' Exile On Main St. (recorded in 3 days)."
You're correct. Exile on Main St. was first released as a cassette then a very limited CD run. I had the CD at one point (long, long time ago).
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