I'm buying either Radiohead: OK Computer or Hail to the Thief

Which is better?

2/23/2006 7:21:53 PM

OK Computer is more accessible

2/23/2006 7:22:28 PM

kid a

2/23/2006 7:23:47 PM

OK Computer

not even close

2/23/2006 7:26:20 PM

Quote :

"OK Computer not even close in the same sphere of being"

2/23/2006 7:45:14 PM

if you ahve to ask this question:

OK Computer.

2/23/2006 7:46:12 PM

Pablo Honey

I mean OK Computer

2/23/2006 7:54:12 PM

I love them both but i am a pretty big Radiohead fan.

OK Computer had the most radio recognition if you are going for songs you may have once heard. It is a really great album. Hail to the Thief is awesome in its own right. My personal favorite is Amnesiac cause it was the first album i was really introduced to

[Edited on February 23, 2006 at 7:57 PM. Reason : as]

2/23/2006 7:56:21 PM

OK Computer

2/23/2006 8:01:37 PM

The Bends

2/23/2006 8:05:00 PM

^

2/23/2006 8:06:18 PM

looks like they are finally gonna release Big Ideas with the next album (album or bside). YAYAYAYA!

2/23/2006 8:08:13 PM

Hail to the Computer

2/23/2006 8:14:14 PM

^^haven't they been saying that for the last two or three albums?

(that they've been tinkering with "big ideas")

2/23/2006 8:22:14 PM

Hail to the Thief is much much better, but

Quote :

"if you ahve to ask this question: OK Computer."

2/23/2006 8:29:28 PM

yea, but thom said this on dead air:

Quote :

"nude monday morning. jonny is hastily writing out scores for a string quartet who are comign tommoro. right now we are working on nude, it sounds beautiful, as far as i can tell. i hope we dont get i'll. there is a lot of sickness about. especially for the children. thm"

we are getting the song finally in some way

2/23/2006 8:37:19 PM

i hope they don't get i'll too.

2/23/2006 8:42:44 PM

Quote :

"OK Computer"

OK Computer is by far their best.


If not that, get The Bends.... it's second.


Those two are much better than anything else they've done, IMO

2/23/2006 8:44:42 PM

If its your first ever Radiohead album, get The Bends.

2/23/2006 9:07:53 PM

kid a

2/23/2006 9:23:12 PM

i'd wait for them to put out a cd that doesnt suck.

2/23/2006 9:33:44 PM

PABLO HONEY

2/23/2006 11:20:21 PM

kid a

the bends if you don't like "weird shit"

2/23/2006 11:21:17 PM

buy Kid A, then if you have more $, buy OK Computer, then finally, Hail to the Thief..

or just dload all the songs 4 free

2/23/2006 11:26:41 PM

chicken el douche head
wheee

2/23/2006 11:40:20 PM

more like Phillipa Chickenhead, am i right...

2/23/2006 11:42:31 PM

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2/24/2006 2:06:38 AM

OK Computer has more good tracks but There There is their best song...so Hail to the Thief

2/24/2006 4:58:57 AM

amnesiac

2/24/2006 11:53:15 AM

You should just buy both to be safe.

2/24/2006 12:07:43 PM

Quote :

"yea, but thom said this on dead air: Quote : "nude monday morning. jonny is hastily writing out scores for a string quartet who are comign tommoro. right now we are working on nude, it sounds beautiful, as far as i can tell. i hope we dont get i'll. there is a lot of sickness about. especially for the children. thm" we are getting the song finally in some way"

this has been said before during previous studio sessions. (for instance, those for ok computer and kid a/amnesiac)



in addition:
ok computer is probably your best place to start. if the bends is your best place to start, you probably won't like the rest of their catalog too much.

[Edited on February 24, 2006 at 12:38 PM. Reason : +]

2/24/2006 12:34:16 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4110278.stm

Quote :

"Radiohead's album OK Computer has been named the best of the past 20 years by US music magazine Spin. The British band beat Nirvana's Nevermind and Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back in the publication's 20th birthday issue. The band's 1997 release was chosen because it "uncannily predicted our global culture of communal distress". Other British acts to make it into the magazine's special issue were The Smiths and singer PJ Harvey. BEST ALBUMS 1985-2005 1 Radiohead - OK Computer 2 Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back 3 Nirvana - Nevermind 4 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted 5 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 6 Pixies - Surfer Rosa 7 De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising 8 Prince - Sign O' The Times 9 PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me 10 NWA - Straight Outta Compton Source: Spin magazine More than a quarter of the top 100 albums were from hip hop artists, while Spin is primarily a magazine for rock music. Editor-in-chief Sia Michel said releases from 1985 were chosen for their "basic brilliance, innovation and overall relevance". She added that record sales did not affect the choices. The Pixies, who landed at number six with Surfer Rosa, did not sell millions before their initial split in 1993. The Spin list contrasts to the Rolling Stone top 500 list, which included The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones in its upper echelons. The more recent albums which made the reckoning included Kanye West's College Dropout (2004), and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Fever To Tell from 2003. "

[Edited on February 24, 2006 at 5:45 PM. Reason : []

2/24/2006 5:44:57 PM

buy every album.

i can't wait for this new album to come out. i follow the news updates every day on it.

but i'd buy ok computer as a "getting into radiohead" album. i did my senior thesis on it in high school, not like that should influence your decision. but HTTT is not as interesting. buy the bends too. but then amnesiac is my fave album. and kid a has my fave song...sigh...such great music

2/24/2006 10:24:45 PM

2/24/2006 11:25:32 PM

Before TWW, I used to be really in to alt.music.radiohead.

YEAH BITCHES, I'M COOL.


p.s. so were sarijoul and vinylbandit.

2/24/2006 11:29:54 PM

i used to be a big ateaser but i got tired of 200 pages of "thom yorke and cheescake" threads

[Edited on February 24, 2006 at 11:35 PM. Reason : errrrrr]

2/24/2006 11:34:16 PM

We looked down on you people.

2/25/2006 12:32:17 PM

ok computer

2/25/2006 5:53:15 PM