Best of Music: Classic Albums Of The Month (CAOTM)

Broadcasted 4 times per month

Every month we select 7 “Classic Albums Of The Month” (CAOTM) in 7 different music categories and announce these albums in this show section. Bookmark this page and join us in this nostalgic journey.

The album “Ok Computer” from Radiohead released on 21 May 1997, has been shortlisted, amongst 6 others, as one of the CAOTMs and will be broadcasted in March 2022.

In the meantime, look at the YouTube video “The Genius Of Radiohead’s “Ok Computer” | Classic Album Under Review | Amplified” below.

We have extracted some of the comments to this video:

“Radiohead, Thom Yorke, and Jonny Greenwood, individually, are all simply musical geniuses that produce the most beautiful music ever composed. And Thom just happens to have the voice of an angelic choir boy, whether it’s with Radiohead or all the beautiful soundtracks they’ve written.”

Susan Barry

“One thing that I don’t think really comes across is that while The Bends was a very respected album, the band were still kind of treated like a one hit wonder. Maybe in England there was a sense that Radiohead were on the cusp of creating something big and important, but that same anticipation did not exist everywhere. We thought for sure they were going to fade into obscurity with Creep being their biggest legacy. (which probably contributed to Thom’s resentment of that song) The genuine shock of OK Computer’s release can’t be overstated.”

Jaspertine

“In the end, no-one was able to point out what makes this album the work of genius. Typical rock journalism which is not worth it’s weight pickled in brine. The unease felt by Thom is not exceptional in itself, there are hundreds of artists who express it in their songs. The sounds created in the studio are also quite easily reproduceable if one is in the know, What I feel about this documentary is that yes, Radiohead is a very good band, possibly the best of the last 25 years, but there were others that were very good, only the critics don’t admit it. Ultimately, it boils down to what the speaker at the piano mentioned fleetingly somewhere near the beginning: that dirty word: prog/art rock. It’s a chip on the shoulders of most so-called critics but, as the saying goes, if it swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. They poured so much vitriol on the ambitious artists, they cannot fathom how a band that started off as an indie darling ended up betraying them writing 6 minute singles like Queen, mixing experimental chord sequences like the rest of the “old farts”, and daring to juxtapose it conceptually like a bona fide album of old. Sorry, but after watching the whole documentary, I am none the wiser.”

Paul Attard