DU Album of the Day: Radiohead - OK Computer

[LynneSin]

Well as you might have read yesterday, Westboro Baptist Church - that organization of inbreeder homophobic Phelps family lead by Fred Phelps decided they were going to protest a Radiohead concert. Why? Who knows - do idiots ever give us logical reasons behind what they do. I think their comment was that Radiohead was 'Monkey Freaks with Mediocre tunes'. I'm guessing the Phelps family never spent an evening together enjoy the music wonder that is 'OK Computer'. Of course if I was going to do protest of 'Monkey Freaks with Mediocre Tunes' I wouldn't be posting here but following the world tour of the Nickelback, Daugherty, Creed mega tour and protesting.

If you ever look at a list of the greatest albums of the 90s, "Ok Computer" is usually in the top 5 listed with such albums like Nirvana "Nevermind", Beck "Odelay", and U2 "Atchung Baby". It's an amazing album, mesmorizing and much better when listened to as a whole.

But if I had to single out my favorite song - the one that made "OK Computer" one of my favorite non Led Zeppelin albums - that would be "Subterranean Homesick Alien". What a beautiful haunting music. I defy you to find a band of Monkey Freaks that could make a song as amazing as this one!! Eat dust Fred Phelps!!

Another amusing song I love is 'Fitter, Happier' which really is something other than a song - you decide

So enjoy!

[JCMach1]

1. Got the album as a gift... played it and initially thought

bleh...

A few months later plugged it in and listened passively to the whole thing and it began it sink in.

It was bloody brilliant and quite unlike anything else created in the 1990's.

One of my favorite songs...

[greyl]

2. Check out the hidden stuff:

There's a way to combine the tracks from OK Computer (hereinafter referred to as 01) and In Rainbows (hereinafter referred to as 10), to form one huge mega-album. As Puddlegum explains, "To create the 01 and 10 playlist, begin with OK Computer's track one, "Airbag," and follow this with In Rainbow's track one, "15 Step." Alternate the albums, track by track, until you reach "Karma Police" on OK Computer, making "All I Need" the tenth track on the 01 and 10 playlist." It's not that they sound nice together; it's that these songs were definitely meant to make us shit our pants when played like this. In the way that "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight" and "The End" all flow into each other on The Beatles' Abbey Road, these songs all flow into one another as well, as if they were all recorded in one big session.

Don't believe us? Just listen to it. To get the full effect, you need to set your player with a 10-second crossfade between tracks (more 10s!), but you can notice most stuff without doing that. Then shit your pants.

more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html