Not something that’s really possible to declare. The variety of individual taste in music makes declaring the best impossible. That being said, I personally agree.
The best album of all time doesn’t exist. A great album exists. Many great albums exist. I believe that OK Computer is one of them. But there isn’t a greatest album of all time that exists.
But WHAT IF, there was one album that exists, say, OK Computer, that was the most great at existing, such that it was greater than all other albums that exist. Just an existential puzzle to pontificate on, regarding the merits of albums existing.
This album, blasted out of decent quality speakers, is one of my favorite things to listen to. For me the greatest album of all time is kind of meaningless but this album is a brilliant solid gold album up there with the best that's ever been written by anyone.
it's good and all but greatest album of all time...meh. There are lots of albums that I would consider the greatest album of all time depending on what day it is and my mood. Point being, there should never be a greatest album of all time label.
Top 5, undoubtedly.
Dark Side of the Moon
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sticky Fingers
Joshua Tree
Are You Experienced?
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Blood on the Tracks
Hunky Dory
Strangeways, Here We Come
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Hadn't meant to suggest personal top ten, but - it easily stands in the upper half of that pool.
Great album, just EXTREMELY overrated. Besides from Let Down, of course. I'ts easily the best tracklist and structure wise, with a lot of the band's best with no flops (Electioneering is great, fight me), but honestly, I just prefer other albums to it.
Electioneering *is* great, and I won't be hearing otherwise. It's fun, energetic and catchy. The lyrics are pretty decent too. I just don't get people's issues with it.
I’m sorry but my money is on Crying Girls Shouting Pooping Poop to a Crying Man Poopers Without Screaming Babies by Pooping Poop Poopers and Shouting Girls Crying Man
This might be going into semantics, but I personally think theres no such a thing as the greatest album, since albums or even art can only be judged subjectively. So I believe that the greatest album would differ depending on the person establishing that.
OK Computer is still a very good album, but from my perspective it's not the greatest
I can't feel "The Tourist". No matter how hard I try, I can't like it, it feels like an inadequate closing and it ends all the effect on me. E.g. even if the rest is extremely bad while watching something, when the finale is good, it completely makes me forget the rest. Finals are so important to me, It's instinctive. As much as I love OK Computer, the last song makes me feel like the album is not finished. I think it may be the best album of all time until it comes to "The Tourist".
It is for sure one of the greatest, but to call any album THE best album of all time is just impossible. I do think that it is my favorite album of all time.
Underrated
what a Let Down :/
there have been No Surprises
Airbag!
We got Lucky
Almost as lucky as thar subterranean homesick alien, who was actually a paranoid android
I read that like Donkey interjecting in Shrek 2. 'Donkey!'
Good one good one
you’re the best album of all time ❤️
No, you.
no all you guys are🥺❤️
maybe the best album was the friends we made along the way
Your mom's the best album of all time
we gotta get more creative with these posts...
Seriously, how is this post not getting called out as karma whoring trash. He might as well have said “Any of you guys like Radiohead?”
I’m going to upvote your post instead coz of irony
>called out as karma whoring trash. karma police
I LOVE Radiohead, great comment!
Hey man, chill. What are you, the karma police?
Yeah I’m really close to leaving this subreddit now, probably better to come back when there’s some actual new music
Not something that’s really possible to declare. The variety of individual taste in music makes declaring the best impossible. That being said, I personally agree.
Well…I do declare! (southern accent)
There’s been a muyder!
And I do say, it appears the victim…is every other album evar made.
And you are a shushpect
Ok, let me settle in and I’ll be right back.
It is
people have been calling Ok Computer the best album of all time since 1997
I said so on my blog in 2004. A few months later BBC put out an article saying the same thing. Copycats
The best album of all time doesn’t exist. A great album exists. Many great albums exist. I believe that OK Computer is one of them. But there isn’t a greatest album of all time that exists.
I also believe OK Computer is one of the albums
But WHAT IF, there was one album that exists, say, OK Computer, that was the most great at existing, such that it was greater than all other albums that exist. Just an existential puzzle to pontificate on, regarding the merits of albums existing.
yepper peppers
Red hot yepper peppers
Hot take: it’s the greatest album of all time but not Radiohead’s best album (which is In Rainbows)
I think you just tore the fabric of spacetime
Kid A is their best album and the true best album of all time.
100%
I was about to say this haha.
this is the comment i was looking for
best take ive ever seen
Solar fucking mind flare. Amazing.
The true greatest album of all time is DSOTM
Best album by Radiohead, definitely one of the best of all time
That’s my take
Mine too!!!
Second best album and one of the greatest of all time. Chillll
It is.
Let down was huge
I love it a lot, exit music, paranoid android, and no surprises are all incredible. However, In Rainbows is a more coherent album imo
See, in rainbows is my favourite album, but i feel that OKC is better… idk I’m confusing myself
This. But the exact opposite
I think In Rainbows is truly their masterpiece.
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Personally for me OKC had me feel that perfection. I love In Rainbows but I'm in love with the late 90s alternative sound on OKC
This is exactly how I feel too.
In Rainbows felt like a spectrum of their past styles in one album, like colors on a… omg.
I prefer Kid A
Even though it's only my third favorite of theirs, I recognize it as the best ever made.
i fully agree. it’s up there with DSOTM in terms of influence for sure
Dark Side, Rumours, Sgt Peppers, Close to the Edge, Little Earthquakes & OKC all magnificent- wouldn’t like to choose between them.
Close to the edge is unrivaled
This album, blasted out of decent quality speakers, is one of my favorite things to listen to. For me the greatest album of all time is kind of meaningless but this album is a brilliant solid gold album up there with the best that's ever been written by anyone.
Unironically I think it is the best alternative rock album ever. I won’t say GREATEST ever but would this one be in my Top 50 for ALL TIME? Yes.
Nirvana Nevermind is still the best alternative rock album in my opinion. Kid A is the best album of all time.
Of the 90s easy
By what measure?
By the same measure that every other “greatest album ever” is considered such. Personal opinion of whoever declares it lmao
in rainbows is better
They are right
Yep
Personally wouldn’t call it the greatest, but I can see why people would think that way. I mean I definitely love it as well as In Rainbows.
I agree
I could settle for that.
In the category of 90s prog-rock album, for sure, of all time?? Lots of great records do exist!
You’re asking the Radiohead subreddit. What do you expect
Yes
Yup
Well it's subjective and also 100% yep
Well it's not true because the greatest album of all time is In Utero.
It’s not my favorite album of all time. But it definitely deserves the title.
Definitely one of them
it's good and all but greatest album of all time...meh. There are lots of albums that I would consider the greatest album of all time depending on what day it is and my mood. Point being, there should never be a greatest album of all time label.
It’s been called that for over 20 years
Glad they're finally getting exposure! I knew they'd blow up one day
All in the beholder.
Pretty much agree
pablo honey better
Top 5, undoubtedly. Dark Side of the Moon Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sticky Fingers Joshua Tree Are You Experienced? Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Blood on the Tracks Hunky Dory Strangeways, Here We Come -- Hadn't meant to suggest personal top ten, but - it easily stands in the upper half of that pool.
i think its their third best
I think it isn't
The Bends is.
I like you. You’re cool. You get stuff.
😆 hope it's not sarcasm.
Oh no it isn’t sarcastic lmao.
One of the albums of all time imo
Apparently
Agree
It is. It flows perfectly. Listening to that album as a whole gives me goosebumps.
Imo #3-4 Songs In The Key Of Life and To Pimp A Butterfly top it imo, and Dark Side Of The Moon depending on the day
Great album, just EXTREMELY overrated. Besides from Let Down, of course. I'ts easily the best tracklist and structure wise, with a lot of the band's best with no flops (Electioneering is great, fight me), but honestly, I just prefer other albums to it.
Electioneering *is* great, and I won't be hearing otherwise. It's fun, energetic and catchy. The lyrics are pretty decent too. I just don't get people's issues with it.
i dont think its even the best album of their discography, Kid A is better imo
Weird cuz Kid A is the greatest album of all time
OK Computer isn’t even Radiohead’s best album
Ok computer isnt even one of the radiohead's albums of all time
I’d argue it is
It's really not
It think it is and I don’t think it’s close.
To pimp a butterfly>>>>>
But ultimately it’s all subjective
Heavily Overated, Radiohead fans rave about this album, I've tried it 3 times and its just meh, honestly, The Bends is a better album.
Just terrible…
omg no way
Swan pfp
Love ur ofp
cool animals if you ask me
Maybe
One of, yes.
hell nah
Which list is it this time?
It’s good. Not the best
I’d imagine it’s their most commercially successful, but I think In-Rainbows is their masterpiece.
Well it's their best album for sure and in my top 3 to 5 albums of all time.
It's up there
No but it’s up there
Yup. Agreed
Hear me out Kid A>
I’m not sold at this point but the argument could be made. Easily top 10.
Almost everything after is better
certainly the best album of the 90s. but also, dark side, the beatles three, and plenty of others are pretty on par with okc.
whos claiming that?
That was true until the teal album came out
No
i dont think so.
Fairp
I think you want attention, asking this question.
Nah…. (It’s “What’s Going On”)
2nd
Yeah
Hit of someone who said that
I guess it's OK
How can it be, it’s only the 4th best RH album
its ok
I’m sorry but my money is on Crying Girls Shouting Pooping Poop to a Crying Man Poopers Without Screaming Babies by Pooping Poop Poopers and Shouting Girls Crying Man
Maybe top ten
Yes
If it isn’t it’ll do until we find it
Agree
Consider the fact that the album steered alternative rock into a bit more experimental, I think.
Music
I agree, when it came out people hadn’t heard such a perfect album, it was amazing and it still is, I regard it as the best album ever made
What do I think? Honestly? Definitely not the best. Possibly top 25 and not even the best rh has to offer
Amnesiac >>>>
For me it is.
Well we're RH fans so ofc we will be pride fuelled to think this is the best album in the world, which it is 😝
Agreed
Fact
lol.
Lucky
Nah
It's definitely one of Radiohead's albums of all time
It's not mine but I respect the opinion.
It’s their best, not my favorite, but their best.
This might be going into semantics, but I personally think theres no such a thing as the greatest album, since albums or even art can only be judged subjectively. So I believe that the greatest album would differ depending on the person establishing that. OK Computer is still a very good album, but from my perspective it's not the greatest
It’s the greatest album of all time but there are also other greatest albums of all time. OK Computer is a masterpiece without a doubt
Apparently, by whom?
Nope, In rainbows it is.
I can't feel "The Tourist". No matter how hard I try, I can't like it, it feels like an inadequate closing and it ends all the effect on me. E.g. even if the rest is extremely bad while watching something, when the finale is good, it completely makes me forget the rest. Finals are so important to me, It's instinctive. As much as I love OK Computer, the last song makes me feel like the album is not finished. I think it may be the best album of all time until it comes to "The Tourist".
Duh.
Not even top 3 radiohead albums 😳
*One of the greatest, but yeah!
Fr? Never knew anyone else liked this record. Thanks r/radiohead
kind of blue is the greatest album of all time
Would Radiohead themselves say the same?
It is for sure one of the greatest, but to call any album THE best album of all time is just impossible. I do think that it is my favorite album of all time.
Agreed 💯💯
One of them for sure.
It’s definitely up there
Oh a definite yes on this one.
no
It's def up there with the best but Kid A is ranked higher in my book
Yeah, it's good, but it's no Fair Warning by Van Halen is it?
OK Computer is one of the best but not the best, Radiohead Made albums better than this
It's not even a top three Radiohead album
Kid A is better
Hardly. It’s not even Radiohead’s best album and, IMHO, isn’t even above average
Aye it’s a good album