OK Computer - Radiohead Zoverstocks @ Amazon £1.27 (0.01p plus £1.26) [Used / Very good]
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At the grand cost of a penny, every record collection should have a copy :-)
Whilst one suspects some kind of pre-millennial hysteria prompted Q magazine's readers to vote OK Computer The Greatest Album Ever Made scarcely five months after its release, it certainly doesn't look stupid up there in the pantheon. Following the hot red rock attack of 1995's The Bends, OK Computer heads out into the cold deep space of prog-rock and comes back with stuff that makes mere pop earthlings like Stereophonics tremble. Whilst the eight-minute-long "Paranoid Android" comes across like "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a gun held to its head, and "Electioneering" is a little too like a kiddy-version of Blood And Chocolate-era Elvis Costello to be truly revelatory, the rest of OK Computer spans the sublime to the ridiculously sublime. Thom Yorke had been obsessed with Ennio Morricone during the recording of the album (in a haunted mansion, fact-fans), and it shows on the expansive space-dream of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and the endlessly comforting closer "The Tourist". And if neither "No Surprises" (played on a toy guitar with Yorke and Ed O'Brien harmonising like a two-man Crowded House) nor "Lucky" (recorded in one day for the Bosnian aid album War Child--it reduced Yorke to tears the first time he heard it played back) make the hairs on your skin spit with electricity, then maybe you're with the Q reader who voted for Anita by Anita Dobson. --Caitlin Moran
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Jump to unread Post a CommentAlso the postage costs on Amazon marketplace are set by amazon.
So for a CD like that will probably cost 69p for them to post 2nd class as a large letter as it will be less than 100g
http://www.royalmail.com/delivery/business-delivery-options-uk/second-class-mail/prices
So they probably making less than 50p on that CD, again depending on how they post it, bubble wrap etc.
Oh yes... that this is an overrated pretentious album.
Not as good as The Bends or Pablo Honey, but before they went really crap with Kid A and all the nonsense that followed
Welshman10 - can safely say I've never skipped past "Fitter, Happier" ;-)
It's just sad all round really.
Not as good as The Bends or Pablo Honey, but before they went really crap with Kid A and all the nonsense that followed
Everyone has an opinion, true, but to say PH is better than OK Computer is laughable. All RH albums after OK Computer have their moments, and In Rainbows (the extended version) is their best work so far.
I cannot stand TKOL, however.
Oh yes... that this is an overrated pretentious album.
I think that's what martinelsen is saying (tiresomely), not the 'unborn chicken voices'. And Martinelsen ALONE, I might add. Why don't you find some music critics who agree with you? Oh wait, you can't.
If I were king, you would be first against the wall
With your opinion, which is of no consequence at all...
It's just sad all round really.
I get the strong impression martinelsen has got to the stage where his musical tastes are so overlooked by virtually everyone, he'll repeatedly criticise one of the greatest albums of all time regardless.
Critical acclaim? Enormous.
Music sales? Enormous.
Envy from every other band? Enormous.
Martinelsen? Who?
It's just sad all round, really.
I bought and enjoyed this album in 1997. Then I moved on. I do wonder what caused the space in your life that this album is filling so that you can't do the same...