i didnt write this (you might know who did)
but its X-Okay
Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that’s driven into frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.
The OK Computer album is probably the best British rock album of the whole of the 90s, I’m struggling to think of a better one. I’ve been into Radiohead for some years and think that they’re amazing…
Mr. Kebop, that part was the unnecessary part of the album, they didnt need it in there, but it done good to brake things up. I was also a radiohead nut, bought the t-shirt, listened to all there albums, listened to there last few efforts and moved politely along before upsetting people.
Kid-A was just as good as Ok Computer, just less Beatles et el set-up to it.
Imp, Saxons best was in the eighties wasnt it, strong arm or something or other?
kesh: i wasn’t going to let you get away with comments like that.
fitter happier is an important part of the album. radiohead’s albums are concept albums. even the title (ok computer) gives away why a song like fitter.happier. is essential to the album.
radiohead is not like the beatles. um, yes…they are both british. sure.
the only reason why radiohead doesn’t upset large groups of people is that people who aren’t radiohead fans are people who don’t understand them anyways.
Alexistentialism, i agree, radiohead are a concept band. I meant them been like the Beatles because they used few, if any drums, guitar work etc for Kid-A. As a concept band you only need to go to there website, they sell drink coasters with bizarre messages, clothes, posters with proverbial folklore and such. Ok Computer and Paraniod Android were taken from Douglas Adams’ book ‘HitchHikers Guide to the galaxy series.’ There’s a paragraph somewhere in that book containing Ok Computer, Paranoid Android, a sentence from one of the songs and something else i cant remember.
There last good album was Amnesiac. I dont listen to there later stuff because it bores me, the singer no longer sings but whinges and the music is appalling.
i see where someone could call his voice whiny, but Thom’s voice is so incredible you cant bash it, no one else in the world can duplicate the noises that come from his vocal chords.
I love it.
mmmm…