5/5 no notes

It was aicht

it was ok. the interludes were too cute

HELLLL YEAHHHHHH BOIIIIIIII

Woke nonsense, but actually they are right about most of the things. Even though I'm not a commie or an anarkist, it's true that the US has done a lot of really bad stuff in the past. But like also, the US government IMO is too stupid to do stuff like control the populace using the media, and all the other weird conspiracy shit.

A little weird but nice

it was ok, not a huge metal guy but the soft guitar bit was nice

pretty good and funky

it was mid. some all right parts but not for me

it was mid. some all right parts but not for me

????? This is a really odd selection and i couldnt even find it on apple music, we'll see how it is though. it feels like the lyrics and the rest of the instrumentals are slightly off from each other which makes it sound not so great but that may be a function of the translation yeah it definitely sounds better when she sings in german but unfortunately in the english version she sings mostly in english so low rating.

pretty good soft alternative tbh

pretty all right

started off slow, but picked up pretty decently well what the fuck is sexy (interlude) doing

solid 3/5 album, most of the tracks are pretty serviceable, and the title track is pretty good, do you realize is also a classic

pretty ok, but not my main style/

lets' fucking go this is a solid 5/5 classic i think it may have cured my anxiety for the night

waiter! waiter! more mid punk please!

more metallica? ok, i'll take it. HEEEERE COME THE LITTLE CYCLOOOOOOOOONESSSSSSSSS!!!!

It was pretty good

This album is really fucking triggering my anxiety, though i don't know if that's unrelated. I don't know why, oxygene is really calming, but this just isn't. i want to like it, but it's just not for me i guess.

what a banger album, maybe not as good as parachutes imo, but still amazing.

holy shit another classic

I really like this, even though I'm not usually a fan of modern country. It still has the sort of twang and instrumentals that you'd expect out of country, but it doesn't have that fucking annoying Dixon Dallas Blake Shelton voice that every country artist nowadays has a copy paste version of. It's got some serious character to it.

I would say it was pretty good. I recognized the title track even though I hadn't remembered hearing it before and overall it was a nice listen.

very solid album with lots of good tracks.

it was ok, not my style.

one of the greats

pretty good psych rock

one of the greats

it was ok.

it was all right

steak for the son...

it was all right metal, i'm not a huge fan of the genre but this wasnt bad by any means

pretty decent, i enjoyed but probably wouldnt go out of my way for it.

this was actually quite good even though i didnt expect much from it.

reallly good

it was fine.

this was pretty good.

this was pretty good.

pretty solid punk album even though i didnt really get what she was on about.

very calming aughts rock, i need more of this.

full of classics honestly.

solid

it was honestly quite calming. not too shabby, but not something i'd go out of my way to listen to. not really a huge taylor swift fan, but she has some good stuff and this is some of it.

very very good, another classic by STING and THE POLICE!

incredibly solid, very calming

it was just too weird for me

it was pretty solid

it was all right, not a huge metal guy but i see the appeal.

this was pretty good, obviously roundabout is a classic but the rest was also very solid.

i quite likeed this album, especially the cover of higher ground.

this was quite a good album as well.

this was pretty good honestly

it's all right, just a little too hard rock for me.

I just cant' man

really good country albumn

very good shit

it was all right, started and ended strong/

what a drag it is getting old

the music is good but the vocals just SUCK!

i dont want to listen to this

sure it's ok fine

honestly pretty good

his voice is kinda odd but he is like david bowie. very underrated gin id never heard of him before

weird af

instrumentals are good but lou reed's voice and lyrics are too weird

very good

surprisingly good

pretty aigcht

yeah it was good

good album not as good as bornt o run

weird at the end

5/5 no notes

it was pl

it was all right i suppose

jade visions is the stand out track, overall everything is very solid though.

lots of bangers

solid, if generic british invasion fodder time of the season is a classic though

HOLY MID PUNK

yeah it was good

yeah it was good

i like

i like

it was all right but the ending interstitals were FUCKING ANNOYING

it was ok but not much memorable other than in da club, many men and high all the time

mid except common people and disco 2000

yeah it's good

fine but it is just incredibly much longer than it has any right to be

honestly liked it more than i expected to

i like

also really good

it was all right i guess. better than most mid punk

good but a lot of the songs were done better by others

yeah it was good

it was all right

yeah i really really like this actually

it would have been a 4/5 but the first half is such a fucking slog

it was decent

it was decent

it was godo!

ball ball ball

i liked it

Airbag - The guitar part for this song is pretty good, but Mr. Head's intolerable moaning is a discredit to the song. It's like he actually doesn't want you to know what he's singing about while he pathetically mumbles through the lyrics. Plus the last minute with the random machine sounds is a little cute but also a little too cute, giving off the snobbish air of pseudo-experimentation in place of melody. Rather than being hip-hop or industrial influenced it just sounds like the background hides some of the sound effects of my tinnitus. Paranoid Android - I like the musical part a lot better on this one than I did on Airbag (which was honestly pretty good as well. Honestly the vocals sound like if the singer of the Barenaked Ladies was an Oxford dropout, trying way too hard to simultaneously sound both posh and edgy. The worst part is that I legitimately cannot make out what he's saying except for the chorus, which is just "What's thiiiiis" repeated over and over in the slurred cadence of a drunk. The slow section is also pretty good, especially because the singer is not trying to sing actual words (to the best of my knowledge) which makes the song less of a pain to decipher what's actually going on. I also quite liked the transitions between the fast and slow sections and the machine sounds in the last minute of this song (I think I can start to see a pattern forming here) fit in a lot better with the song rather than sounding grating. Plus I liked the bass hook a lot. Subterranean Homesick Alien - I think a part of the music I've underrated so far is the drum part, which is very solid and consistent. However, the singing continues to be terrible (I can only make out two words "alien" in one of the verses, plus what I think is the word "uptight" repeated over and over? to make up what seems like a pathetic attempt at a chorus). The distortion on the guitar as well, while it doesn't really add a huge amount to the song, still sounds pretty good and fits in with the "industrial" theme of the album so far so I do have to give it that. The bass and guitar riffs in this song also sound similar to "High Speed" by Coldplay, which is a song I do like a lot and they are also done very well here. Exit Music (For a Film) - The acoustic guitar bit in the opening reminds me a bit of some Quebecois music, which is an interesting departure from the trend set so far I suppose. It seems like Head is singing very soulfully about something, but again I have no idea what he is moping about given how it's impossible to parse what he says. Something about waking up and breathing? I don't really know that I like the acoustic guitar part in this song (it doesn't really seem to fit but being generous maybe that's the point?). When it transitions to the violin and electric guitar I feel like that does the juxtaposition of old style and new style a lot better. The synth part throughout the song that sounds like chanting is also a nice touch I suppose, but I don't really see what the seagulls chirping (or whatever that loop is) really adds to the song. Let Down - I've heard this song, and honestly it is pretty good. The guitar, bass, drums and whatever is playing the riff in the background (maybe a xylophone?) all fit together really well. But again I can't tell what is being sung (something something "Let Down") is really all I got. If I'm being kind to this album maybe in a weird postmodernist sense that's the point maybe? The incomprehensibility of modern life is reflect in the incomprehensibility of the lyrics and you shouldn't try to find meaning in it as there is none? I don't know, but what I do know is that I liked the interlude section where all of the instruments slowly come back in. Karma Police - Another song I've heard before and liked. The drum part is really outstanding plus the violin merged with human voice that fades in and out (it's probably not that but it's what it sounds like). Plus I can actually make out what the vocalist is singing which is very helpful for establishing a meaning for the song. Plus the piano/guitar and drums synergize really well to sort of (I hate to use the word juxtaposition again but that's what it is) juxtapose the fast and slow pace, sort of creating conflicting feelings. The message of the song is also pretty interesting, from my personal interpretation it's about "cancel culture" before that really existed as a concept, but specifically how the "Karma Police" of society sort of dictate what our cultural mores are and you either follow them and lose your individuality ("I lost myself") or you become a pariah ("this is what you get when you mess with us") Fitter Happier - This is a weird "song" if you can even call it that. At this point now that I can tell what the speaker is saying (it's a robotic voice) I'm on board with analyzing some existing message of this album. The robot basically lists things that like a "functional adult" would do in order to live a "good life" and then says at the end that it makes you docile and trapped (basically like a sheep slave to the broader culture's prescription for how you should live). This sort of ties into the point of Karma Police, but I don't really get what the album is saying should be done instead? Like, I would like to go the gym and get better sleep and find love etc. not because society tells me that's good for me and I'm a liberal sheep but because like it is healthy in some objective sense (but maybe I'm such a sheep that I can't even recognize that I'm being oppressed?). Maybe the point is that by reaching some sense of "adulthood" you lose the risk, idealism and flexibility of youth in favor of pragmatism and the status quo and that makes you weak in some sense? One good thing I will say about this song though is that all of the "instrumental" backing and samples do a really good job of creating a sense of unease while the robot talks and it's a really stark break from the driven guitar+bass+drums. Electioneering - Honestly could be my favorite song on the album so far. I really like the western/heartland vibes given by the guitars combined with the tambourine and cowbell(?). Again, I still can't really tell what the singer is singing about but I think he said "Electioneering" at one point in the song? Plus something about "going forwards and backwards", if I had to take my best guess, maybe the lyrics are some sort of trashing of compromise since it "compromises" the goals of idealists. If that's right it would fit with the broader message of being anti the sort of principle of like collaborating with others to form a broader society. Maybe it's a comment on the two party system (even Britain had one at the time even though they're up to like 4 now), and the idea that the singer doesn't really like either of the two choices presented to them since they have done things that are less than perfect. Honestly, I don't really know. Climbing Up the Walls - I don't really have much to say about this song except that the singer is even less understandable than usual since unfortunately in their infinite wisdom they decided to put a distortion effect on his voice. But speaking in terms of vibes and music, I thought everything meshed together pretty well. No notes on that front. When it switches to the interlude part (I feel like a common theme is that I think the best parts of all the songs are the interludes since that's when they can really go wild with all of the different sounds in a good way without being hampered by the vocals bringing them down) that's also really good. Also he starts shouting at the end which might have been meaningful to me if I knew what he was yelling about but instead we got whining robot. No Surprises - I never really noticed the bass part beneath the xylophone and picked guitar but it does a really good job of tying the motif together. Again I can't really tell what the song is about except he says "No Surprises" over and over to make up the chorus (not very lyrically interesting this album is) and "I'll take a quiet life", which could be a contradiction of the earlier message that people who try to live normally are pigs being fattened up for the slaughter? Or maybe the point is that the singer is someone you're not supposed to sympathize with since they made the choice to become a sheep, but empathize with how they've been beaten down by the societal pressures at large? What does the album title mean? OK Computer as in like society wants to turn everyone into unthinking computers all living the same cookie cutter life? I don't know but it might be helpful if I could tell what they were saying 80% of the time. Lucky - The guitar part for this song reminds me of something I can't quite put my finger on, maybe something by Tom Petty or Counting Crows? "Pull me out of this something something", the singer whines on but it really pisses me off that I can't tell where I recognize the hook from. It's pretty interesting to say the least that the chorus is so different from the rest of the song, and I wonder if it might have been better if they chose a style that fit better with the rest of the song like they did in the interlude sort of. There are also a lot less machine sounds in this song (at least that I could hear) and the only way you could really tell it was a song on this album was the droning voice of the singer, otherwise I probably couldn't have guessed it was a Radiohead song. The Tourist - Another very Coldplay-ish song, but in a sort of a good way. The simple guitar and drums with a minimal extra accompaniment is a nice denouement to the album, compared to how chaotic a lot of the previous songs have been. Plus, I really like how the simple riff is sort of repeated in different keys along with the harmonies to the vocals. Both sort of combine under the singer's voice to make it much more tolerable in this song. One thing I noticed a lot throughout the album is how they used machine sounds to sort of create a "chanting" effect that was pulled off pretty well, especially in this song, and that too reminds me of something I've heard before (maybe by the Moody Blues or Pink Floyd?), but I can't quite put my finger on it. Final Thoughts: Honestly I hated this album a lot less than I thought I would. Most of the songs were actually quite good and stuff I'd consider listening to again! However, the one thing that really dragged it down for me was the singer's voice, which was so whiny, grating and incomprehensible that it undercut the entire message of the album (since I could barely make out what he was talking about) and ruined a lot of the beautiful soundscapes created by the instruments for me. Because of that, I would have to give this album somewhere between a 3-4/5, depending on how generous I'm feeling at the current moment.

i liked the southwestern vibes :)

5/5 no notes

mid!

fine i guess

not bad but wouldnt go out of my way to listen again

surprisingly really good actually

yeah it was ok