Radiohead Survivor - OK Computer - Round 4

[xaviMF22]

"of all these weird creatures
who lock up their spirits,
drill holes in themselves
and live for their secrets. "

 

[Zoots]

transport, motorways and tramlines
starting and then stopping
taking off and landing

 

[xaviMF22]

transport, motorways and tramlines
starting and then stopping
taking off and landing

You know, you know where you are with,
you know where you are with,
floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
and one dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, I'm gonna grow wings,

 

[LemonMelon]

you are so right

I love you dawg

I think even I will vote Karma Police at some point.

 

[phanan]

Airbag and Let Down are constantly in my top two. The third slot tends to be interchangeable. So many to choose from...

 

[Zoots]

one dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Such a euphoric tears-of-joy moment in a song called Let Down!

 

[LemonMelon]

I HAVE to bang my head during the Paranoid Android solo. It isn't even optional.

 

[xaviMF22]

Such a euphoric tears-of-joy moment in a song called Let Down!

orgasmic moment

 

[UberBeaver]

No Surprises took me a little while to get into, but now I love it. That little step up towards the end where the song picks up just so slightly, but enough to really cause it to plow forward. This album is genius. No wonder they all snapped and started making weird noises for the next ten years.



When I saw them play in 2001, when Exit Music started, it got dead silent and the guy in front of me said, "It's like church," and he was totally right.

 

[Dalton]

No Surprises .... don't argue my decision. It was based on a proven and very scientific for judging this sort of thing.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe....

 

[the tourist]

Let Down. It's always been my least favourite. I even like Fitter Happier better.

 

[namkcuR]

Just a heads up - there won't be a new thread tomorrow, and there may not be a new thread on Wednesday either(up in the air) because I'm going up to Cleveland to see the Rock Hall of Fame.

 

[the tourist]

No excuses!

 

[FitzChivalry]

Let Down
Airbag
and Paranoid Android are my Top 3.

Mine too.

Airbag

Let Down

Paranoid Android

OK Computer

 

[phanan]

I like No Surprises and don't wish for it to leave this early, but I'm going to vote for it to make sure Let Down doesn't go anywhere.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Just a heads up - there won't be a new thread tomorrow, and there may not be a new thread on Wednesday either(up in the air) because I'm going up to Cleveland to see the Rock Hall of Fame.

They don't have computers in Cleveland?

 

[Dalton]

They don't have computers in Cleveland?

They don't have INDOOR PLUMBING in Cleveland.

 

[LemonMelon]

Just a heads up - there won't be a new thread tomorrow, and there may not be a new thread on Wednesday either(up in the air) because I'm going up to Cleveland to see the Rock Hall of Fame.

Why would you want to go there?

John Mellencamp is there.

 

[Lancemc]

NO SURPRISES is winning this?! :shock:


Appalling.

 

[cdisantis83]

They don't have INDOOR PLUMBING in Cleveland.

Don't disparage my hometown like that. Oh wait, you're right.

 

[the tourist]

I'm surprised people like Let Down as much as they do. It was kind of a ... heh ... let down to me.

 

[DaveC]

I'm surprised people like Let Down as much as they do.

Yeah, me too. I thought it was almost universally regarded as one of the weakest songs on OK Computer, after Fitter Happier of course.

 

[FitzChivalry]

I'm surprised people like Let Down as much as they do. It was kind of a ... heh ... let down to me.

I'm surprised that people think this.

Everyone I've ever discussed OK Computer with has always mentioned Let Down and Airbag as the best songs on the album. I thought that was the popular opinion.

 

[xaviMF22]

I'm surprised people like Let Down as much as they do. It was kind of a ... heh ... let down to me.

no .

Let Down is regarded as one of the best tracks on OK Computer.

It always comes up high in top 20 lists.

1. Paranoid Android
2. How To Disappear Completely
3. Idioteque
4. Let Down
5. Pyramid Song
6. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
7. Fake Plastic Trees
8. There There (Boney King of Nowhere)
9. Everything In its Right Place
10. Karma Police
11. Exit Music (For a Film)
12. Reckoner
13. Nude
14. Lucky
15. 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
16. No Surprises
17. Climbing Up The Walls
18. Airbag
19. National Anthem
20. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
21. Jigsaw Falling Into Place


not that it matters...

 

[lazarus]

Nothing will ever surprise me as much as the love for How to Disappear. Boring, boring, boring, not even close to one of their better ballads.

You call that a chorus?

 

[xaviMF22]

Nothing will ever surprise me as much as the love for How to Disappear. Boring, boring, boring, not even close to one of their better ballads.

You call that a chorus?

I'm not here...this isn't happening .

 

[intedomine]

I suppose Let Down probably seems a little too lightweight, trivial and cruisy, if you compare it with the extraordinary and truly out-there sound of some of the other songs (Paranoid, Exit Music, No Surprises, Lucky) which aren't necessarily better songs, just more memorable and left-field

 

[FitzChivalry]

I suppose Let Down probably seems a little too lightweight, trivial and cruisy, if you compare it with the extraordinary and truly out-there sound of some of the other songs (Paranoid, Exit Music, No Surprises, Lucky) which aren't necessarily better songs, just more memorable and left-field

How is "Lucky" considered left-field? It seems like a pretty straight-forward verse, chorus, verse, chorus, guitar solo, chorus song to me.

 

[Zoots]

Everyone I've ever discussed OK Computer with has always mentioned Let Down and Airbag as the best songs on the album. I thought that was the popular opinion.

Yeah I thought so too.

 

[GibsonGirl]

The poll closed before I could vote.