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Machine · 10-13-2014, 08:14 PM

I think Radiohead really made the pop album of the 90's with OK Computer, and I completely disagree that an important album has to be challenging. With that your discrediting a huge number of classic albums. OK Computer is pop in an interesting way combining these elements of experimental and electronic music and making a something that should by all means sound bad, but with their since of melody and subtle rhythmic interplay with deviations from a stone cut formula. Its an album that I can repeatedly go back to and find something new to hear sonically or just how the band is playing in general. While I do believe avant-garde and experimental music has its place in the books of classic music, why should extremely well crafted pop be left out of the mix.

10-13-2014, 08:14 PM	#50 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	I think Radiohead really made the pop album of the 90's with OK Computer, and I completely disagree that an important album has to be challenging. With that your discrediting a huge number of classic albums. OK Computer is pop in an interesting way combining these elements of experimental and electronic music and making a something that should by all means sound bad, but with their since of melody and subtle rhythmic interplay with deviations from a stone cut formula. Its an album that I can repeatedly go back to and find something new to hear sonically or just how the band is playing in general. While I do believe avant-garde and experimental music has its place in the books of classic music, why should extremely well crafted pop be left out of the mix.