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The smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet for cracks in the pavement
Up above, aliens hover making home movies
For the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets
They're all uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it
I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right, all right
I'm all right, all right
I'm just uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
y'all can play this tune every day if ya like. :)
Please don't. Not all of us RP listeners are patrons of their art.
I love this album as a whole, but this particular track does nothing for me. I've never been able to hear whatever it is that so many do. It just meanders and doesn't seem to have an emotionally punch-y moment. What am I missing?
It's hard to place it, but part of it is those ethereal, soothing bell-like EP sounds, part of it is the idea of being taken away by aliens to ride on a spacecraft, but I think mostly it's Jonny Greenwood's beautiful guitar textures and melodies.
Yes, I feel often the same way. Unfortunately, the knowledge we gain when we are aging doesn't fit the younger self. Or as Billy Corgan strikingly puts it : Youth is wasted on the young.
And before Billy Corgan was George Bernard Shaw - “Youth is the most precious thing in life; it is too bad it has to be wasted on young folks.”
...you're welcome...
I wish I could go back to 1997 and start again.
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
Oh, man. People are still discovering Bach. 26 years is nothing.
I wish I could go back to 1997 and start again.
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
Yes, I feel often the same way. Unfortunately, the knowledge we gain when we are aging doesn't fit the younger self. Or as Billy Corgan strikingly puts it : Youth is wasted on the young.
The Bends = Meddle
OK Computer = Dark Side
Kid A = Wish You Were Here
Amnesiac = Animals
it took me a while to process this post, but i totally get it now. spot on.
The Bends = Meddle
OK Computer = Dark Side
Kid A = Wish You Were Here
Amnesiac = Animals
The math checks out...
i have to go to the cd and play it all in one sitting. i always found it was best to experience it that way.
OK Computer = Dark Side
Kid A = Wish You Were Here
Amnesiac = Animals
but they're above ground
unless that's shag carpet and a hanging light
I'll show myself out
I wish I could go back to 1997 and start again.
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
Yeah me too!
In the spring and summer of '98 I was writing the Fodor's JAPAN travel guidebook, working on the Western Honshu chapter, and I was staying in the surreal time-machine town of Matsue, Shimane-ken; together with Tsuwano, probably my favorite part of the country; and at nightfall I found one of the coolest bars in all Japan. It was called Filaments, and the master-san, who spoke great English, put on this record as he began serving me some excellent sake (I was living 8 years in Noto Hanto, Ishikawa, and I believe that the quality of the rice and water there make for the absolute freaking best in the country, along with Niigata, of course -- KoshinoKanBai RULES!), and we both agreed, even though it had been only a year, that OK Computer was truly a landmark record. Every couple years when I went back to do an update, Master-san and I rocked the bar till dawn (this is quite common in Japan) with our collaborative selections. I loved how fond he was of Cheap Trick, and he loved how fond I was of everything in and about his incredibly unique town, from its exquisite crackle-glaze pottery to the most delicious hon-maguro zushi and uni-don I've ever had. Hearing this from this masterpiece record sends me back to my endless nights at Filaments! Thanks, RP!
I know so little about Japan and Japanese culture, but this is why this place and its music are so important. Want to read that guide and make that trip to Filaments.
I wish I could go back to 1997 and start again.
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
I saw them live at a small venue when this album came out and it was stellar...
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist...
If only we could go back and put things right sometimes, but I'd need to go back to way before 1997 to sort my messes out...
Well, O Enlightened One, why don't you tell us mere mortals what is "the greatest album, ever"?
The Rutles, "Let It Rot." Amazing album. Defined its times. And it's still the bestselling rock album of all time.
I hear Netflix is making a new documentary on the recording sessions. It's supposed to have never before seen video that will show Chastity was not the cause of the band's breakup. Mind officially blown here if that's true!!!
Well, O Enlightened One, why don't you tell us mere mortals what is "the greatest album, ever"?
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols. Oh, sorry, you weren't asking me. But still!
I wish I could go back to 1997 and start again.
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
I did appreciate them when they were current... but ditto to starting again in 1997 knowing what I know now....
I see the radiohead obsessives are commenting.
but this is one overhyped band.
they did not create the greatest album, ever.
their fans need a reality check
Well, O Enlightened One, why don't you tell us mere mortals what is "the greatest album, ever"?
but this is one overhyped band.
they did not create the greatest album, ever.
their fans need a reality check
bunch of wankers
Go piss in your hat twerp.
bunch of wankers
Maybe I'm getting nostalgic in my old age but I just bumped this to a 10.
It's not just your nostalgia, it is a great song, from a near perfect record. It's completely understandable.......
Or, like Bob Seger said in "Against the Wind" - "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
And I'm going +1, calling this a 9, as I recently acquired this (and several other) RH discs, and I'm (22 years later) starting to dig the band a lot! Long Live RP!!
Samesies. I still can't necessarily reconcile how much I dislike Oasis and Coldplay in general with how much I love these guys.
"I'm tired.. I'm tired..."
damn..
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
Interesting point. SO...the question becomes who is that band NOW that we don't want to regret being present to in 22 years?! ;)
Or just the whole album
Not feeling/hearing the attraction to Radiohead...
janac13 wrote:
I'm with you not that I dislike their music it's just I don't connect. My mind tells me this is really good but my heart is just Meh...
Radiohead's put out some great, great music and some seriously annoying crap. I'm not even a lukewarm fan but they're definitely worth paying attention to. As long as Thom avoids his moments of histrionic "vocals", I don't mind Radiohead.
I'm with you not that I dislike their music it's just I don't connect. My mind tells me this is really good but my heart is just Meh...
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
22 years ago.... I was 20!
Better late than never I say
Or, like Bob Seger said in "Against the Wind" - "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
And I'm going +1, calling this a 9, as I recently acquired this (and several other) RH discs, and I'm (22 years later) starting to dig the band a lot! Long Live RP!!
Thank you, dear royal reptile for that cool Seger quote!!
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
Or, like Bob Seger said in "Against the Wind" - "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
And I'm going +1, calling this a 9, as I recently acquired this (and several other) RH discs, and I'm (22 years later) starting to dig the band a lot! Long Live RP!!
Yeah, some people don't "get" Radiohead. Quite sad really.
"Show me the world as I'd love to see it"
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
I hear you! Mind you, the sad thing is that if we're still around we'll be telling ourselves the same thing in twenty odd years.
And also, better late than never man!!
I would do things differently in my life knowing what I know now and while I was at it I would appreciate Radiohead when they were current rather than looking back 22 years.
We agree...
I don't dish out many 10s, but really, what was I thinking?
Now corrected to the 10 it rightly deserves.
Well I will bump my rating of 8 and take your vacant 9 rating slot!
I don't dish out many 10s, but really, what was I thinking?
Now corrected to the 10 it rightly deserves.
No. The main culprit isn't the music but his "odd" voice, to say at the very least. Simply put, when I hear him, my hand does PSD for me.
but wouldn't it be great to listen to this album without the lead vocals
maybe keep the background vocals
I'm uncertain whether you asked a question or not. If you did, my answer is NO!
but wouldn't it be great to listen to this album without the lead vocals
maybe keep the background vocals
Jackpot,Cracks in the pavement.
My memory is short, and my fuse at he fire side.
And I need to find what to do with the money.
No, but that's a fine suggestion for next up.
more than usually.
fits my mood...
thanks!!
Worked for me.
One of THE best albums ever made - numerous journalists would/do agree. Not that that means much necessarily but relevant probably!
I don't do drugs. Drugs are bad. Baaaaaad.
But 2 beers in a quiet and lonesome place works too in my experience.
Yes agree, beer is a beautiful drug, sometimes.
-- Dan Hicks
Worked for me.
I don't do drugs. Drugs are bad. Baaaaaad.
But 2 beers in a quiet and lonesome place works too in my experience.
Is this a bad thing?
ha, you got that right..
I guess I'm finally starting to get your thing, Lazarus... After reading about 99 of your comments stating
"Everybody in my church loves this song... we be dancing..."
...or ANY possible combination of the first and the second half PLUS a lot of others I can't recall right now
,
I finally discover the very first variation on your Mantras with a dozen words used in other heavily RE-occuring combinations.
I'm guessing (just guessing, right?) that if you combine all your elemental praising formulas in one single comment,
you must REALLY be into that song (as opposed to ALL the others you just 'like (a lot?)'...?) - which is cool, because I am too
Now if I'm completely besides the point, anyone please explain Lazarus' heart to me, I'd be really grateful
No, you are spot on. I think??
Singing on key is what you want? Try Bruno Mars. This is the big leagues, buddy. Take that bush league crap outta here. You are not living up to your handle "King of art"
Kinda mean and unnecessary.
Speaking honestly from my heart and kidneys, all I humbly ask for from everybody on the planet is unbridled unabated unquestioning unconditional adulation and worship... considering how humble and special I am, is that too much to ask?
Hope life is grand for you right now, fedtho...
this song is marvelous... everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches loves it...
all i want is (are) anchovies on my Caesar... and. apparently, that's often too much to ask
Speaking honestly from my heart and kidneys, all I humbly ask for from everybody on the planet is unbridled unabated unquestioning unconditional adulation and worship... considering how humble and special I am, is that too much to ask?
Hope life is grand for you right now, fedtho...
this song is marvelous... everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches loves it...
Seems reasonable. Enjoy.
I see the radiohead obsessives are commenting.
but this is one overhyped band.
they did not create the greatest album, ever.
their fans need a reality check
I totally agree with this statement. I bought this album years ago because something I read said it was one of the best albums of all time. I wish I hadn't, for it went the wrong direction for me and was difficult to get to the end. Radiohead and I are oil and water, plane and simple. For all you "Radioheaders" out there, enjoy their music, I'm glad they make you happy.