Do people genuinely believe this is the greatest album of all time? WHY?
Do people genuinely believe this is the greatest album of all time? WHY?
Jonathan Myers
Jace Lewis
as you get older you start losing touch with reality, so boomers will champion things that are just meh to the rest of us
Eli Cox
It's hits a great balance between accessible and out there (for pop music at least) that helps to create an interesting experience. Say what you will about Radiohead, but they really hit on a great album here.
Bentley Campbell
It sounds good.
Joshua Reyes
Its a great album, but faaar from the greatest lol
whoever thinks this ought to listen to more music for the next decade
Noah Bennett
Because it is
Leo Ramirez
No, I've heard and love too much music to be able to narrow it down to one album as my all time favorite. That being said, there are a lot of albums I would scoff at if someone told me they thought it was the greatest of all time, this is not one of them.
Ian Anderson
There really isn't a lot of people who say this. I think it's a pretty valid opinion to have, if this is the album that connects with you the most I can see it. The only reason people think that OKC is thought of as the best album by other people is because of RYM. But the way the top 100 works is that they take into account the amount ratings and the rating average. There's many albums in the top 100 that have a higher rating average than OKC but more people have rated it so it dominates the charts. If it was purely based on how acclaimed it was, something like Fishmans 98.12.28 or Darkside would be the real number one.
Plus another thing about how RYM charts work, if an album was rated by every user as a 4.5/5 then it would number one of all time without anyone thinking it was perfect or 5/5. They could have many other 5/5s in their catalogue, but since that one album is the most universally enjoyed (without anyone thinking it's perfect) it will be the number 1 on the site.
TL;DR end the fucking "peeple think okc is the best album evr is ovrated!!!" meme
Cameron Wood
It captures the mood of an era very perfectly.
Landon James
>It captures the mood of an era very perfectly.
if it does this it cant be greatest of all time
Easton Garcia
It's when their style perfectly matched up with the song writing / compositions. And it also came at exactly the right time
Robert Ward
They really didn't
Kid A, Amnesiac, The Bends, those are great albums... OK Computer is just boring
Lincoln Martin
Some do
Jason Davis
Why would that be the case?
Jackson Peterson
Nothing made by Radiohead is greatest anything
Jack Barnes
test
Evan Smith
What about the greatest song made by Radiohead?
Jackson Smith
Nobody apart from RYM rockists adn boomers think this is "the greatest album of all time"
Jack Kelly
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't see OK Computer as a big Boomer album. More a Gen X album. Perhaps SOME of the youngest Boomers would like it, but they're more likely to be up REM's, U2 and AC/DC's asses.
Here's the deal. For any generation, they form the tightest bond to the music they loved when they were 15, and that stays with them the rest of their lives. Doesn't mean they don't keep their minds open to new stuff, but when you ask them for their GOAT artists and albums, they're gonna fall back to what they liked at 15.
Eli Morris
(OP)
Bandwagon effect
Landon Garcia
Bandwagon effect
Isaac Stewart
Cos it’s sexxy :)
Logan Cox
Radiohead, the most hyped and probably the most over-rated band of the decade, upped the ante for studio trickery. They had begun as third-rate disciples of the Smiths, and albums such as Pablo Honey (1993) and The Bends (1995) that were cauldrons of Brit-pop cliches. Then OK Computer (1997) happened and the word "chic" took on a new meaning. The album was a masterpiece of faux avantgarde (of pretending to be avantgarde while playing mellow pop music). It was, more properly, a new link in the chain of production artifices that changed the way pop music "sounds": the Beatles' Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Michael Jackson's Thriller. Despite the massive doses of magniloquent epos a` la U2 and of facile pathos a` la David Bowie, the album's mannerism led to the same excesses that detracted from late Pink Floyd's albums (lush textures, languid melodies, drowsy chanting). Since thee production aspects of music were beginning to prevail over the music itself, it was just about natural to make them "the" music.
Daniel Cruz
because it becomes out of phase when the era is over