Ah, Radiohead. At one point in time I used to consider them to be the best band in the entire universe, next to Eric “God” Clapton, but those times passed once Radiohead released this monstrosity into the world, with the demonic tongue of Tom Yoke and the airy guitaristry of Jimmy Greenbalm.
The main problem with OK Computer, and music in general, is that there’s too much fucking noise in the songs. I mean seriously, what the fuck is up with all that clicking and what sounds like Greenbalm setting his guitar on fire before the chorus to “Creeper” is really beyond me. And sadly, “Creeper” is likely the best song on OK Computer, and even more likely to be played endlessly by Yoke & company.
But getting back on track, the first track that the album begins with is a somber piece known in some languages as “Airbag.” What the song has to do with vehicles and shit I really don’t know, but I think Greenbalm accidentally plugged a cello into his amp rather than a guitar, and that first mistake kind of ruins the rest of the song. I mean what the hell, cellos have no place in rock and rolling music, especially not in an album from 2000 like this one. I don’t get it. Whatever.
Anyway, Clapton is really fucking amazing and it’s pretty clear to me that Radioheads stole the riff from “Paranoid Android” from Eric Clapton. I mean, I haven’t actually ever heard Clapton playing that song but by God if it sounds good it’s probably Clapton. (Little known fact: Clapton actually simultaneously played all of the guitar parts to “Layla” live once, but it blew peoples eyes out in its awesomeness thus was not ever recorded.)
I skipped the next track and then got to track five somehow, which is called “Let Down” and boy howdy does that describe this album to a T. I don’t know what Yoke was thinking with this one, rather than shifting more towards the sound of their previous effort, “Hail to the Kid,” Tom options to basically copy Clapton AGAIN. This time he sets his sights on Clapton’s seminal masterpiece, “Champagne Supernova,” (and no fuck you it’s not a fucking Oasis song) complete with the exact same chord-progression. To his credit, Yoke did change the lyrics a bit, but the melody to the song is actually just “Champagne Supernova” played in reverse with like a shitton of reverb effects and stuff on it.
The next song is actually a cover of NWA’s “Fuck the Police”, with a sample from Vanilla Ice’s hit “Cop Killer.” To avoid lawsuits, Radio Hat changed the name of the song to “Karma Police” probably because no one knows what the hell a karma is anyway ( I believe it’s something from the cartoon Naruto). Actually it’s a pretty kickass cover and a highlight of an otherwise stagnating album, only hampered by the fact that whoever that dude from NWA was didn’t sing it.
I skipped “Fitter Happier” mostly because about two minutes in I realized that someone just left their robot on in the recording studio and it was really dumb anyway. OK Computer indeed.
“Electronating” is the title of the following song, a song in which Tom Yoke yells about going backwards or forwards or something because he can’t make up his damned mind when it comes to directions. Pretty pitiful.
“Climbing Up The Walls” accurately describes the feeling of listening to OK Comodore at any length greater than four minutes and forty-five seconds, which is the exact length of this song in an ironic twist, also being the best song on the album because it features Slash of Guns N’ Roses (and more recently Lincoln Park) on vocals.
And as we reach the final track on the album, since all the ones in between this and “Climbing up the Walls” are just static, we come to the closure that is OK Computer. I forget what the name of this song is but I don’t give two shits since it’s a pretty boring song and I can’t understand anything Tom Yoke sings as it is.
While I didn’t particularly like the album, I can see why the critics are jumping all over it, since most of them probably haven’t listened to Eric Clapton.
Four out of Six Chords
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