OK Computer best album ever?
January 17, 2006 4:29 AM Subscribe
Q Magazine Readers' Top 100 of the Greatest Albums Ever! According to the readers of Q Magazine, Radiohead's OK Computer is the greatest album ever, is it?
This post was deleted for the following reason: what the hell dude? self-link
Let me be the first to say it: your favorite band sucks!
posted by bering at 4:43 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by bering at 4:43 AM on January 17, 2006
An interesting piece on the cultural phenomena of list making and prize giving.
posted by johnny novak at 4:43 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by johnny novak at 4:43 AM on January 17, 2006
Top 100 lists are so 20th Century.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:52 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:52 AM on January 17, 2006
Any list with Coldplay on it must be a list of really mediocre bands that sound like everyone else despite all the "indie" bullshit. Add any 20 decent rock albums (I don't like Disco, but the Brothers Johnson, that's another story) from the period 1977 to 1982 and get rid of all 20 albums from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Pixies, fine. But The Strokes? WTF?
posted by MarshallPoe at 4:56 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by MarshallPoe at 4:56 AM on January 17, 2006
They got the highest ranked Beatles album right.
posted by grabbingsand at 4:57 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by grabbingsand at 4:57 AM on January 17, 2006
Q Magazine fans decide to pool their horrible taste, Metafilter quibbles over it.
posted by baphomet at 5:08 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by baphomet at 5:08 AM on January 17, 2006
Three Radiohead and two Oasis albums in the top 100 of ALL TIME? Uh, thanks, I'll stop reading right there.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 5:21 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by GhostintheMachine at 5:21 AM on January 17, 2006
Yeah, where's "ZipZapRap" by Devastatin' Dave?
posted by NinjaPirate at 5:23 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by NinjaPirate at 5:23 AM on January 17, 2006
I'd rather argue the bits of grit surrounding each of these pearls: Q Magazine says "OK Computer" and I think "yeah, but 'Fitter, Happier'?" How about that wonderful glow felt near the end of just about any Beck CD rudely interrupted by the sonic crapfest he pulls on the last track. Are the Zep and Nirvana false starts or the ObLaDi and Her Majesty fillers blemishes or beauty marks? Which songs from these albums make you fumble for the Next button?
posted by hal9k at 5:25 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by hal9k at 5:25 AM on January 17, 2006
These guys are from England and who gives a shit?
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:26 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:26 AM on January 17, 2006
I agree that Radiohead's OK Computer is the greatest album of all time. I will go on to say that Radiohead is the great band of all time ... IMHO of course.
posted by patcoston at 5:27 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by patcoston at 5:27 AM on January 17, 2006
This is some kinda joke, right?
posted by thirteenkiller at 5:29 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by thirteenkiller at 5:29 AM on January 17, 2006
These guys are from England and who gives a shit?
*snicker*
posted by sourwookie at 5:32 AM on January 17, 2006
Top n lists of the greatest x ever seem to be proliferating more virulently than H5N1, with as little a prospect for a vaccine. The British music press is so thoroughly infected that perhaps it ought to be quarantined for six months until it either dies, or there is some collective promise they’ll ease up on the endless bloody lists just a little. Even when one is so fed up with the lists that one refrains from buying the magazines, one still ends up seeing them reproduced on the bleedin’ internet, which is hardly short of pointless bleedin’ lists of its own...
posted by misteraitch at 5:33 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by misteraitch at 5:33 AM on January 17, 2006
These guys are from England and who gives a shit?
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:26 AM PST on January 17 [!]
Please tell me that was
"These guys are from England... and therefore will vote for their own"
and not
"These guys are from England... and therefore their opinion doesn't matter"
'cause I might actually take offense to the latter.
posted by slimepuppy at 5:34 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:26 AM PST on January 17 [!]
Please tell me that was
"These guys are from England... and therefore will vote for their own"
and not
"These guys are from England... and therefore their opinion doesn't matter"
'cause I might actually take offense to the latter.
posted by slimepuppy at 5:34 AM on January 17, 2006
OK Computer isn't even the best Radiohead album. Gimme The Bends anyday.
posted by chris24 at 5:37 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by chris24 at 5:37 AM on January 17, 2006
MarshallPoe: The Pixies, fine. But The Strokes? WTF?
This is all just opinion. I happen to have absolute devotion to the Strokes and the Pixies as in I've listened to every song they ever wrote over 100 times.
I'm bummin' The Cure didn't rank higher.
As for some bands I'm not into that were in the list ... David Bowie (I tried to like him, I really did), Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix (I tried), Van Morrison, Beck (I tried again), The Velvet Underground and Kraftwerk.
I never heard of a few of these bands like Love, Pulp and Muse.
posted by patcoston at 5:40 AM on January 17, 2006
This is all just opinion. I happen to have absolute devotion to the Strokes and the Pixies as in I've listened to every song they ever wrote over 100 times.
I'm bummin' The Cure didn't rank higher.
As for some bands I'm not into that were in the list ... David Bowie (I tried to like him, I really did), Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix (I tried), Van Morrison, Beck (I tried again), The Velvet Underground and Kraftwerk.
I never heard of a few of these bands like Love, Pulp and Muse.
posted by patcoston at 5:40 AM on January 17, 2006
In this hasty rush to judgement aren't we all just missing the fact that it's a freakin' self link?!!
posted by LinnTate at 5:47 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by LinnTate at 5:47 AM on January 17, 2006
I find that "Best of" lists, when it comes to music, tend to go heavily on more recent bands because, well hey, that's what's fresher in the mind.
Personally, I don't agree with this list at all. OK Computer was so-so, and personally not my favourite Radiohead album, let alone favourite album of all time. But really, all this list says to me is - "The readers of Q Magazine have vastly, VASTLY different taste than I do."
posted by antifuse at 5:48 AM on January 17, 2006
Personally, I don't agree with this list at all. OK Computer was so-so, and personally not my favourite Radiohead album, let alone favourite album of all time. But really, all this list says to me is - "The readers of Q Magazine have vastly, VASTLY different taste than I do."
posted by antifuse at 5:48 AM on January 17, 2006
Please tell me that was
"These guys are from England... and therefore will vote for their own"
and not
"These guys are from England... and therefore their opinion doesn't matter"
'cause I might actually take offense to the latter.
posted by slimepuppy at 1:34 PM GMT on January 17 [!]
It was a quote from Casey Casem about U2. Negativland immortalised it on their track U2, available for legal download here.
posted by bouncebounce at 5:48 AM on January 17, 2006
"These guys are from England... and therefore will vote for their own"
and not
"These guys are from England... and therefore their opinion doesn't matter"
'cause I might actually take offense to the latter.
posted by slimepuppy at 1:34 PM GMT on January 17 [!]
It was a quote from Casey Casem about U2. Negativland immortalised it on their track U2, available for legal download here.
posted by bouncebounce at 5:48 AM on January 17, 2006
A self-link, well, sir, that puts the tin hat on it! Lets have this thing removed forthwith.
posted by misteraitch at 5:51 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by misteraitch at 5:51 AM on January 17, 2006
This is the third time they have done this list in the last 5/6 years. They have also done the following lists :
100 Best Singles
50 most exciting Tunes.
100 Best British Albums
100 Craziest Rock Stars
100 Greatest Acts of Rock Star Folly
100 Greatest Women in Rock
50 Best Gigs
50 Best Rock Books
50 Most important Band.
100 Greatest Rock Icons
and many many more....the lists are pointless and predictable. People seemed to get obsessed with them coming up to Y2K, which is understandable, but now they are just a waste of time.
posted by kenaman at 5:53 AM on January 17, 2006
100 Best Singles
50 most exciting Tunes.
100 Best British Albums
100 Craziest Rock Stars
100 Greatest Acts of Rock Star Folly
100 Greatest Women in Rock
50 Best Gigs
50 Best Rock Books
50 Most important Band.
100 Greatest Rock Icons
and many many more....the lists are pointless and predictable. People seemed to get obsessed with them coming up to Y2K, which is understandable, but now they are just a waste of time.
posted by kenaman at 5:53 AM on January 17, 2006
Top ten most recent (predominantly single) link-to-a-list posts.
1. Music Videos
2. The 90s
3. Board Games
4. Fake Rich People
5. Lists of Lists
6. Citations
7. Design
8. Soundtracks
9. Are you bored yet?
10. I certainly am
posted by allen.spaulding at 5:54 AM on January 17, 2006
1. Music Videos
2. The 90s
3. Board Games
4. Fake Rich People
5. Lists of Lists
6. Citations
7. Design
8. Soundtracks
9. Are you bored yet?
10. I certainly am
posted by allen.spaulding at 5:54 AM on January 17, 2006
OK Computer is obviously not the greatest of all time; or at the least, we can't say so from our 2006 perspectives. It was certainly one of the best albums of the 90s (though I think In the Aeroplane was superior). It's also the best Radiohead album. There's no comparison with The Bends.
posted by ludwig_van at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by ludwig_van at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2006
Oh yeah, and this list, like most lists, is really dumb.
posted by ludwig_van at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by ludwig_van at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2006
Oh man, all that effort just to lose it to a deletion.
posted by allen.spaulding at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by allen.spaulding at 5:55 AM on January 17, 2006
Any list that omits Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute is no list I need to be reading. Screw your list.
posted by iconomy at 5:56 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by iconomy at 5:56 AM on January 17, 2006
Michael Jackson is the only "black" person on the list?! Whackass.
posted by DenOfSizer at 5:57 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by DenOfSizer at 5:57 AM on January 17, 2006
*bashes through brick wall*
Self-link? SELF-LINK?!?!
posted by Baby_Balrog at 5:59 AM on January 17, 2006
Self-link? SELF-LINK?!?!
posted by Baby_Balrog at 5:59 AM on January 17, 2006
Lists are done to create a buzz. If they are not controversial, then no one will talk about them and buy the magazine or watch the show or whatever.
That said, I found it pretty funny to see Ray of Light by Madonna ranked directly ahead of Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones and Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan. I am sure that the first time Dylan ever heard Ray of Light he thought to himself, "The torch has been passed."
posted by flarbuse at 6:01 AM on January 17, 2006
That said, I found it pretty funny to see Ray of Light by Madonna ranked directly ahead of Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones and Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan. I am sure that the first time Dylan ever heard Ray of Light he thought to himself, "The torch has been passed."
posted by flarbuse at 6:01 AM on January 17, 2006
Iconomy, which do you like best: Lamentation of a lonely Shepherd, or Music by Candlelight?
posted by misteraitch at 6:03 AM on January 17, 2006
posted by misteraitch at 6:03 AM on January 17, 2006
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