My favourite track from OK Computer by Radiohead.
Little did I know the prophecy that album had on modern society back in 1997. (I was too busy drinking the New-Labour Kool-Aid back then)
My favourite track from OK Computer by Radiohead.
Little did I know the prophecy that album had on modern society back in 1997. (I was too busy drinking the New-Labour Kool-Aid back then)
Ah, I meant most cheerful on OK Computer.
That raises an interesting question of what we each feel is the most cheerful in their back catalogue.
I can see what you mean with Separator. That's right up there.
For the music alone (ie ignoring the vocals and lyrics), I've found Lull to be one of the most uplifting. It's a good companion piece to No Surprises.
I like 'All You Need'. It's not exactly cheery but it's one of those that has a calmness to it and the glockenspiel and piano tilt it into uplifting territory.
Radio head were kids hanging around in my village not too long ago... Tiny gigs at the local liesure centre. Can't beleive they got so big. I saw them at Glastonbury in 97 too. From a local school band to full on rock stars at the real glastonbury before it got all middle class. Still theyre not quite King Crimson.
Let Down is indeed a sumptuous track.
This was the first album I got really into. 16 at the time, scared to pieces of the thought of growing up and needing to work at some point.
It had so many prescient lyrics:
doing all the 'right' things, "eating well" and "getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries", only to be left "a pig in a cage on antibiotics"
"I'll take a handshake of carbon monoxide"
"such a pretty house and such a pretty garden" - and yet what good are they if there's no joy in that life?
The "I" in Climbing Up the Walls seemed to me to represent depression:
I [depression] am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside [your own head/being]
You'll only see my reflection
In recent years, when I've reflected on the album many of the songs seem to tread the line between acceptance and resignation.
The most cheery track I think is Subterranean Homesick Alien.