21/12/2022
Nothing has more heart ♥♥♥♥♥
Every song on here has been my favourite song on here and now they’re all my favourite song on here.
The love put into this album comes thru your speakers and your headphones & into your soul. You can hear him smiling and crying in the words he’s telling u the truth and you can feel it when you listen. These beats sound like they came from all your best memories as a child, they give the right feeling to let yourself feel it, all feelings, all people, all weather, all the world.
Love this album, love MIKE, love u.
written 23 dec '24
02/10/2000
Perfect ★★★★★
I think it’s about the end. Art is expression and they were thinking a lot about the end so that is expressed in the art. There is much more detail to it than that but that's the core of it.
This album and all the art connected to it (including amnesiac) captures my spirit entirely and that’s why I feel so connected to it. I feel like it makes it ok to see the world like this and to be like this, then it shows the beauty in everything from that lens (even though it was 20+ years ago, which is quite amazing).
They were concerned with the coming climate crisis, the Kosovo war, the Rwandan genocide, the stress and pressure of ok computer’s reception, their personal lives (which I won’t mind for their privacy), global political tension (which led to 9/11, then the “war on terror”), and general political injustice, mostly pertaining to class.
I recommend that you look into all their art from this era (books, the kid a amnesia exhibition, videos, demos, archived website, etc. - many accessible through the Radiohead Public Library on the web), all their interviews from this era, the book NO LOGO by NAOMI KLEIN (particularly influential to the band at this time), the coming global collapse, and then out at the world from a big hill. But most importantly . . . listen to the album!
written 23 dec '24