![]() OK Computer (1997) [ larger cover art ] |
The breath of the morning, I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet for cracks in the pavement
Up above, aliens hover making home movies
For the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets
They're all uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it
I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right, all right
I'm all right, all right
I'm just uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
| BBoyes (Utah: Gateway to Nevada) | Posted: May 06, 2013 - 08:05 What a segue: from Procupine Tree - Stars Die to this. Great way to start a Monday, after watching Schindler's List on the weekend with our 15-year old daughter and trying to answer a lot of "why" questions. This song fits my surreal/spacey mood perfectly. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 12:00 For once, I unreservedly like a RH cut. The band is rocking and not trying to stay out of a black vortex. And I don't mind that Yorke just can't sing on key. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 12:00 For once, I unreservedly like a RH cut. The band is rocking and not trying to stay out of a black vortex. And I don't mind that Yorke just can't sing on key. |
| kapetto | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 11:58 Blows my mind, every time. Possibly my favorite song ever. |
| CanuckMakem (Medicine Hat) | Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 13:22 jimmpypowder wrote: possibly the most underrated song in Radiohead's entire catalog . this song is a 10 !! Couldn't agree more!! |
| jimmpypowder | Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 13:20 possibly the most underrated song in Radiohead's entire catalog . this song is a 10 !! |
| gatorade (Peninsuland) | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 00:40 And then we go here. |
| chris_the_man | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 00:38 Everybody in my head loves this song |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 10:43 maxmox wrote: Wow, your room must be the BIG one the top floor, right? Plenty of room for the punters........... I live in a church now... everybody in my church loves this song... |
| Chi_Editrix (Chi) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 10:40 aspicer wrote: Exactly - simply brilliant! Delicious. |
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 18:07 The guitar tone is fab: reed-thin with max treble, loads of reverb, some echo, and maybe a slow phase shift thing ...? |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Feb 01, 2013 - 09:03 Euskadita wrote: Very few songs better than this. Exactly - simply brilliant! |
| Euskadita (MX) | Posted: Jan 11, 2013 - 09:47 Very few songs better than this. |
| wrangler (swamps of jersey) | Posted: Jan 11, 2013 - 09:45 a perfect 10 |
| Deadwing (Cincinnati OH) | Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 16:12 Love this one. |
| hidey (NZ) | Posted: Nov 17, 2012 - 13:24 Hurrah for Radiohead! This tune blew me away in '97, and things got even more interesting after this album... Plenty of imagination and passion - colossal |
| Flowertravel | Posted: Nov 15, 2012 - 00:07 Nauseous on a tilt-a-wheel |
| djengs | Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 16:11 I appreciate your inspired apathy for one of my favorites from Radiohead. Hope you're able to continue living with the same fervor! |
| MassivRuss (Massachusetts) | Posted: Oct 30, 2012 - 08:07 This is such a good song, any of a dozen other bands could've come up with it. At least It's not actively awful like most of the other narcissistic navel-gazing that passes for "songs" in RH's catalog. It's actually got structure and movement. But it's just ordinary and lots of other artists are in the same clubhouse. |
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 04:51 romeotuma wrote: Everybody in my hotel room loves this song, and this whole album... Wow, your room must be the BIG one the top floor, right? Plenty of room for the punters........... |
| katiediddler | Posted: Oct 09, 2012 - 07:16 Thanks, Bill |
| metod (Canada) | Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 16:35 This song makes me daydream...and have hard time waking up :) |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 07:43 michaelgmitchell wrote: ![]() It's Freddie Mercury trying to charge up his epic mustache. |
| itaish (Berkeley, CA) | Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 17:26 Amazing song. Back then I did not pay much attention to Radiohead because of the too many times "I am a creep" was played on the radio (this was before the days of RP...) but they are truly great. |
| macbags (atlanta) | Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 15:01 GARBAGE IS ALL i HEAR? |
| progrockette (Sonoma County) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:55 gotta add another gush - THIS is what makes them so fk'n great....could die listening to this and be totally happy.... |
| progrockette (Sonoma County) | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:53 Marzz_13 wrote: Quite possibly the best song to have on when driving fast down the road on a starry summer night with the windows down. Love it! Abso-fkn-lutely - well said. |
| michaelgmitchell (Stirling, ON) | Posted: Jul 22, 2012 - 07:29 romeotuma wrote: I'll dance to this... ![]() |
| justsomeone (Between a rock and a hard place) | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 17:36 nigelr wrote: Any Buckley influence here? Spot on... |
| Marzz_13 (Arriving somewhere but not here) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 19:55 Quite possibly the best song to have on when driving fast down the road on a starry summer night with the windows down. Love it! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 19:46 aspicer wrote: Not to get all romeotuma on you all, but did I mention how brilliant and magical this is?! Just LOVE it! ;-) ..... Yeah, this is great stuff... hope life is grand for you right this minute... |
| Reckoner978 (Serbia) | Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 11:24 Definately one of my favourite songs EVER! :) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 12:34 fantastic song... love this whole album... |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: May 25, 2012 - 14:47 Next Wedneday in Newark!!! Can't wait!!!!!!! |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: May 25, 2012 - 14:47 Not to get all romeotuma on you all, but did I mention how brilliant and magical this is?! Just LOVE it! ;-) ..... |
| oldviolin (Esse Quam Videri) | Posted: May 12, 2012 - 07:31 bottom line |
| captaincosmic | Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 07:34 Awesome I remember waiting for the record shop to open so I could buy it on the release I was on holiday in Cornwall at the time |
| Euskadita | Posted: Feb 20, 2012 - 10:52 Good point, Jeff's in there inside this song nigelr wrote: Any Buckley influence here? |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 14, 2012 - 20:22 marvelous... love it... |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 14:55 ThePoose wrote: Bill, I love it when you give Radiohead. He does give it well. |
| bev (Reno, NV) | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 10:21 Upped from original "8" to "9"...my ears are happy to hear it each and every time... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 11:40 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song, and this whole album... |
| ThePoose (Ottawa, capital of Canada) | Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 11:37 Bill, I love it when you give Radiohead. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 07:43 Abseil! Abseil! WTF? Time to wash out my lugholes again, I think. |
| mauflex (florence, italy) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 07:43 Bye bye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABAi5jWvxbU |
| flutgos (Centerville, OH) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 07:43 2011th rating! :) |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 17:52 Put quite modestly - simply brilliant and magical!!! |
| gjones | Posted: Nov 17, 2011 - 06:03 Musically and artistically correct! `, ) |
| terrapin52 (Terrapin Station, SC) | Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 14:35 Can't go wrong with Radiohead. Awesome! |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 00:19 Any Buckley influence here? |

