![]() OK Computer (1997) [ larger cover art ] |
Transport, motorways and tram lines
Starting and then stopping, taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people, clinging on
To bottles and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing, wings twitch, legs are going
Don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel
One day, I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless, hysterical and
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Let down, let down, let down
You know, you know where you are with, you know where you are with
Floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
And one day, I am gonna grow wings a chemical reaction (you know where you are)
Hysterical and useless, hysterical and (you know where you are)
Let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
| gillespp (Portland, OR) | Posted: May 15, 2013 - 08:35 For me, there are some Radiohead songs that are just fantastic, but others—like this one—I just can't stand. I can take only so much. |
| cosmiclint (church in Bethany) | Posted: May 15, 2013 - 08:30 Thanks for playing one of our wedding songs on our anniversary, Bill. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 12:11 unclehud wrote: Man, these guys are NOT HAPPY. You noticed? RH's music is very good, but they seem to be chronically forlorn. |
| leafmold | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 12:09 I have no idea what the lyrics are to this song, but love it anyway. |
| scrubbrush (All lost in the supermarket) | Posted: Mar 13, 2013 - 15:23 I've thought of this album as the 90's equivelent of Dark Side of the Moon ever since i first got hooked on it in '97 or 98... Brilliant album, hard to take any one song out. Should be listned to as a complete composition. |
| DaidyBoy (Bristol, UK) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 08:17 I agree wholeheartedly. I was there, too, and we were culturally deprived by the whole "popular" music thing. Creative depth like this was never heard among regular folks like us. Obscure bands never made the Top 20 as we cheered the likes of Slade. Seeing Radiohead live in '97 changed my whole view of what music was about. A lot of it was good fun in the '70's, but I am only now starting to appreciate some really diverse stuff. Thanks RP, for enlightening me in my 50's. Charlie_rijsel wrote: I love Radiohead and this album is possibly their best - my view is that in future years this album will be viewed in the same light as 'Dark Side of the Moon' - I think they're way ahead of their time. Every generation has the music of its time -then theres the music that lasts - the music with value. I grew up in England in the 70s and amongst BayCity Rollers, Abba and Showaddywaddy I never did get to hear much Neil Young... But when we hear 70s music now thats what we get to hear (mercifully) |
| Chi_Editrix (Chi) | Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 08:10 This goes to 11. |
| KurtfromLaQuinta (Deep in the heart of South California) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 15:09 The best Radiohead song ever. Thom's new stuff all sounds the same to me. Anybody heard "Judge, Jury, Executioner" by Atoms for Peace"? ![]() Sounds just like the last 3 albums he's put out. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 15:09 johnjconn wrote: I laugh at publications like Spin, Rolling Stones, etc who rank the greatest rock bands all time. They typically say , Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Beach Boys, Clapton, Zepplin, Hendrix and so on. Where I agree those are great bands, Radiohead tops all of them. Excellent band I think you're trying to reach a new high in hyperventilating hyperbole. After one deducts points for the often semi-intelligible lyrics delivered by Yorke's thin, off-key voice, and the moony and sometimes torpid arrangements, I must admit that you are absolutely right, they're a great band. |
| Charlie_rijsel (Lille, France) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 15:07 I love Radiohead and this album is possibly their best - my view is that in future years this album will be viewed in the same light as 'Dark Side of the Moon' - I think they're way ahead of their time. Every generation has the music of its time -then theres the music that lasts - the music with value. I grew up in England in the 70s and amongst BayCity Rollers, Abba and Showaddywaddy I never did get to hear much Neil Young... But when we hear 70s music now thats what we get to hear (mercifully) |
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 15:04 Man, these guys are NOT HAPPY. |
| jimmpypowder | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 15:01 This whole album is a 10. One of the few albums I still listen too over and again. |
| zurcronium (Not in Texas) | Posted: Jan 15, 2013 - 23:21 Best song on their best CD. |
| wrangler (swamps of jersey) | Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 06:42 10. |
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Dec 15, 2012 - 14:19 Not very memorable for Radiohead. |
| MassivRuss (Massachusetts) | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 06:35 arserocket wrote: I just can't get enough of his voice - I could listen to him solo And fingernails on a blackboard get you really going, huh? |
| arserocket (S.O.B in an S.U.V) | Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 15:07 I just can't get enough of his voice - I could listen to him solo |
| MassivRuss (Massachusetts) | Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 05:27 More Aimless noodling in support of Thom Yorke's truly dreadful vocals. |
| stahlwerk | Posted: Nov 08, 2012 - 04:42 That last verse just kills me every time. Best song on an album of straight tens. |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 13:06 I laugh at publications like Spin, Rolling Stones, etc who rank the greatest rock bands all time. They typically say , Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Beach Boys, Clapton, Zepplin, Hendrix and so on. Where I agree those are great bands, Radiohead tops all of them. Excellent band |
| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 13:05 hatechris wrote: Is this stationed owned by Radiohead? If not, they should buy it so they can play even MORE Radiohead. That would be hard to do but maybe they could eliminate everyone else completely and just play Radiohead. I like Radiohead but I have a CD I can play. More Radiohead is what I say. |
| bigbobbadoobob | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 13:03 The more you listen to this one, the higher your rating will get. I've max'ed out |
| leafmold | Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 21:04 Sublime |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 19:27 Brilliant...Beach Boys meets Pink Floyd with Opera-man. |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 07:46 Reckoner978 wrote: Codex earlier this morning, now Let Down... fantastic selection for today Bill! Thanks on behalf of all Radiohead fans |
| Reckoner978 (Serbia) | Posted: Sep 06, 2012 - 06:18 Codex earlier this morning, now Let Down... fantastic selection for today Bill! Thanks on behalf of all Radiohead fans |
| Reckoner978 (Serbia) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 07:02 aspicer wrote: Suddenly feeling MUCH better by the moment! |
| oldviolin (Esse Quam Videri) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 07:00 I am not an animal... |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 06:59 Suddenly feeling MUCH better by the moment! |
| ladybinnath (Buffalo, NY) | Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 13:33 leafmold wrote: Pushed this up to a 10. I was about to do the same and found that I'd already rated it a 10. |
| leafmold | Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 13:26 Pushed this up to a 10. |
| Euskadita (MX) | Posted: Aug 11, 2012 - 20:03 paloeguevo wrote: Makes me proud that I will be able to tell me sons that I bought this Cd the week it was released. Oh yeah, I can say I never bought it, lol but it's become the unsurpassed milestone for most of the bands nowadays |
| paloeguevo (Venezuelan in Villahermosa, Mexico) | Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 09:31 Makes me proud that I will be able to tell me sons that I bought this Cd the week it was released. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 10:53 hatechris wrote: Is this stationed owned by Radiohead? If not, they should buy it so they can play even MORE Radiohead. That would be hard to do but maybe they could eliminate everyone else completely and just play Radiohead. I like Radiohead but I have a CD I can play. ok - so in the last hour only - Radioparadise - the most amazing rock and roll based radio station ever has played the following artists: Norah Jones, Dire Straits, Vieux Farka Toure, Buddy Holly, Cracker, Wilco, Elliot Smith, The Slow Show, Smashing Pumpkins, Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Theivery Corporation, U2, Silverspun Pickups, Tom Petty and yeah, Radiohead. So hugely popular and/or critically acclaimed acts from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90. 00's plus four more recently active bands I never would have heard of except for RP. Dude - if you don't love the variety of this radio station go find something else. |
| hatechris (Boston) | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 10:45 Is this stationed owned by Radiohead? If not, they should buy it so they can play even MORE Radiohead. That would be hard to do but maybe they could eliminate everyone else completely and just play Radiohead. I like Radiohead but I have a CD I can play. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 17:08 drfeeleygood wrote: Can't think of a better song to illustrate the alienation that living in the 21st century can impose. wow. so true. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 17:08 drfeeleygood wrote: Can't think of a better song to illustrate the alienation that living in the 21st century can impose. wow. so true. |
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: May 08, 2012 - 22:14 Gee, it kinda grows on you. |
| meinthecorner (Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries) | Posted: May 02, 2012 - 19:23 valeriogonzalez wrote: Best Radiohead song ever! This song just crept up on me - thought I was still listening to a really nice left turn at the end of Robbie Robertson's 'Straight Down The Line'. No. Just another incredible segue I feel I have to tell someone about. |
| valeriogonzalez (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: May 02, 2012 - 19:06 Best Radiohead song ever! |
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 21:02 OHHHHHH. makes for a great night. |
| avatar71 (Oakland, CA) | Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 20:58 I listened to this song four times today. I hadn;t heard it in years...and now it's on RP. Stay out of my head, Bill! |
| Reckoner978 (Serbia) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 04:06 LizK wrote: Ah, Radiohead. Ah, Radiohead. A band that I wasn't familiar with until I met up with RP. Now I'm in love. How I envy you for the new found love! I fell in love with them when I first heard The Bends , and my entire world changed with OK Computer.... it has only been getting better and better since! |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 04:05 rdo wrote: <>BIG SNIP > You preside here as our bully-in-chief. I have a sneaking suspicion that the ultimate effect of your little reign of terror is that, with your impressive command of phrase and erudition, you squelch commentary. We know of course that you do it literally, that can be demonstrated, yet the more damaging consequence is that you do it preemptively. You are guilty of abusing others if they don't subscribe to your rather perverse notions about propriety and politics. You are the consummate shusher. Thus, we are left with page upon page of what amount to not much more than dry exhibitions of virtuosity, riddled with arcane vocabulary, from the Nottingham factory. So, as you have a penchant for making up the rules for the rest of us, I have a new rule that I would like to hereby espouse, following your supreme example: Flames via PM, please. Personal abuse is off-topic, and boring to other board denizens. You plainly have 'personal issues' with me, so take them up with me, not with innocent bystanders. As for the accusations, they make me chuckle: "reign of terror " - ROTFL! I've written before and I'll do it again: if I get, say, 10 folk telling me to STFU, I will. It's no skin off my nose not to post here. I'll count you as number 1. |
| drfeeleygood | Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 10:45 Can't think of a better song to illustrate the alienation that living in the 21st century can impose. |
| rlr511 (Philadelphia) | Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 10:38 LizK wrote: Ah, Radiohead. Ah, Radiohead. A band - now don't throw stones or pillows - that I wasn't familiar with until I met up with RP. Now I'm in love. Welcome to the club! |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 12:21 rdo wrote: Although I think slinging the abuse-label "troll" around at other commenters is a classic Internet bully tactic, practiced by delusional, self-appointed arbiters of propriety like you, Fred, I must abandon my policy on this occasion. A troll, properly defined, would be a person who deliberately spoils the discussion for others by detracting from it with repetitive, negative comments that add no value. For example, someone who hates cooking yet who frequents a cooking web-site and writes only about how much they hate cooking and how stupid everyone else is for liking cooking. We don't really have any commenter like that here at RP. People frequently post about songs or bands they don't like, but since there is no implied obligation to like every song or band, it's OK. Only if someone didn't like music altogether, or more specifically, the music played here, on this station, and then posted comments to that effect on a regular basis, would they be worthy of such opprobrium. You preside here as our bully-in-chief. I have a sneaking suspicion that the ultimate effect of your little reign of terror is that, with your impressive command of phrase and erudition, you squelch commentary. We know of course that you do it literally, that can be demonstrated, yet the more damaging consequence is that you do it preemptively. You are guilty of abusing others if they don't subscribe to your rather perverse notions about propriety and politics. You are the consummate shusher. Thus, we are left with page upon page of what amount to not much more than dry exhibitions of virtuosity, riddled with arcane vocabulary, from the Nottingham factory. So, as you have a penchant for making up the rules for the rest of us, I have a new rule that I would like to hereby espouse, following your supreme example: Don't feed the Fred.
I'd like to borrow Fred's literal squelch button to use on a few other commenters. That sounds really nifty. Also, while he may sound like a broken record when it comes to TY/Radiohead, he's no worse than any other user who has a negative comment in every song by a particular artist. I think you're making too much of a nothing-thing. Unless that trout slapping photo deeply offended you in a very personal way, in which case I apologize for trivializing your trauma. :( |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 12:18 handyrae wrote: But what do you do in today's world when so many songs are downloaded without lyrics? And there are dozens of lyrics web sites, every recorded band has a web site or Facebook page with lyrics? Is that what you mean |
| Darlington (Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 09:51 Making the road trip to Atlanta for tomorrow night's show. Can't wait! |
| wrangler (swamps of jersey) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 09:37 turning it up to 11!!! |

