Take “Paranoid Android” - that goes from scrambly guitar psychedelic - to remorseful vocal solos to large-scale guitar solos in 6 minutes flat. There is no formula on OK Computer it is jarringly innovative and inventive. Radiohead took guitar-rock to the furthest edges of the genre and afterward, knowing there was nowhere else to go, blew it all up with Kid A in 2000. OK Computer is forward-thinking in every sense of the phrase, starting with the incredibly dense lyricism of Thom Yorke - where Yorke warns of a future society (an all too true a prediction) of technological dependency. Praised by every nook and cranny of the universe, there aren’t enough synonyms to fully explain the genius and brilliance that sits between 53 minutes of immaculate guitar-rock fused with electronic music. We threw our complex and proprietary formula into the blender, and this is what came out - our absolute, unequivocal determination of the best 25 albums in the last 25 years.Īt this point, OK Computer has become a legend that cannot be described.
Hip-hop had an explosive and formative decade, and a little thing called the internet began to change the way we consumed music forever.īut, how do we determine the best over such a widely changing, extremely random, genre-shifting, complicated, and technologically driven 25 years? Simple: we listen to the music. Meanwhile, Metal took a backseat, and edgy Hard Rock groups like Marilyn Manson to Rage Against the Machine to the Smashing Pumpkins rode shotgun. Grunge came and went, and in its absence, it paved the way for more countercultural bands to break through the mainstream. The changes and shifts heard in music over the last 25 years are astounding. As it turns out, 1996 was an outstanding year for music and a reasonable place to start. Well, why not? We worship lists with specific numbers.
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