April 10, 2002
OK Computer

Believe it or not, I actually listened to OK Computer today for the first time in about a year and a half. It was refreshing, to say the least, and it brought me back to the marvelous year that was 1997. I can still remember buying the album in Montreal that Summer and listening to it for the first time through while driving out of the city and back to Upstate NY. What a great year...

You may just be on the other side of this map, but you're so far in reality that I cringe when I think about the time when, outside of Montreal, you bought that two dollar necklace with the huge, I mean HUGE, fake diamond from the gumball machine. You let me keep it and I cherish it. I want to make more memories like that with you.

--from 1997


Now where's my copy of The Bends. 1995, now that was a year! hehe...

-10:37 PM

comments
steph says:

i pulled ok computer out from not listening to it for a month. i don't think i can go too long without listening to 'let down'

April 10, 2002 10:53 PM
Jonathan says:

The beginning of "Let Down" is amazing, in my opinion... The transistion from "Exit Music" to "Let Down" always gives me goosebumps!

"Subterreanean Homesick Alien" is also one of my favs...

April 10, 2002 10:59 PM
christopher says:

i listened to ok computer recently on my plane trip from new york back to seattle. i was really feeling sad the entire flight, but it wasn't until "exit music" ended and "let down" almost finished that i started to cry all to myself in the window seat..i am too emotional and fragile these days. it seems like things like music cause emotional outbursts..i have to stop that

April 11, 2002 02:44 AM
christopher says:

good night by the way..

April 11, 2002 02:45 AM
kim says:

i recently put the bends, ok computer and the live i might be wrong cd on my mini disc, one after another. it is good train-commuting music.

April 11, 2002 05:58 AM
matthom says:

I cannot even go two weeks without listening to OK Computer in its entirety. It is too magnificient.

Jonathon -- you are right about the transition from Exit Music to Let Down - it is incredible. My favorite part of the album is, however, the END of Let Down, the part that goes, "You know, you know where you are, etc" The whole band comes crashing together at once, every person playing their part in perfect unison.

I could talk about that album for days!

April 11, 2002 07:07 AM
Paul says:

wtf? A yar and a half? I listen to it like once a week!

man.. I can't comprehend 1.5 years of no OKC.

April 11, 2002 09:25 AM
Jonathan says:

Paul... hehe.. yeah, it's embarrassing, isn't it?

I have a hard time explaining to people why I never listen to Radiohead. Don't get me wrong, they are my favorite band and I love every album. I would say that The Bends is my favorite but they're all great, including OKC. I guess I get so burned out by Radiohead because every day for the past five years, the word "Radiohead" has popped into my mind or has been said to me by someone in one form or another, mainly because of greenplastic.com. I guess I don't ever feel the urge to listen to them for that reason...

Oh damn... I guess I shouldn't make excuses... I'll have to be better about listening to OKC! ;)

April 11, 2002 10:33 AM
andybs says:

I should dig OKC out again. It's too emotional nowadays though, I jus wanna drift away to Kid A instead.

I've really been listening to Amnesiac tooooo much. I was hooked on IMBW and it's jus slipped down to You And Whose Army. It's all I've thought about lately. And then I can't switch off the player without listening to LIAG first. Man that's class.

>a

April 11, 2002 05:49 PM
ali says:

I'm so glad to hear how much Let Down means to so many people...it's absolutely one of my favorites to listen to especially when i'm having an identity crisis..it's such an epiphany to hear at the end of the song "you know where you are with, you know where you are with..." i'll try not to get sentimental..

April 11, 2002 06:08 PM
adam says:

there is something about playing a record by a band that means so much to youu.....it can be really draining.....you get picky and it has to be the right frame of mind to match a certain atmosphere and so on.........that being said i still find the time for OKC twice a week.....i dont know at those bleeps at the very end of airbag just before paranoid android i always find myself brimming with anticipation........

April 11, 2002 10:23 PM
Greg says:

I never really got into radiohead until I bought Ok computer a few years ago. After I heard that entire album, it stuck in my head all day, everyday. every song was just wonderful. Let down and exit music are my favorite though. two of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard.

April 16, 2002 05:24 PM
 
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