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Radiohead's first three studio albums being re-released in 2cd / 3cd/dvd packages - definitely on my wish list but which one to buy first? any recommendations?

OK Computer by an absolute mile! Great album that showcases everything great about the band until that point... it basically paved the way for the amazing band they became today...

^Yes. And if this is your first go-round with Radiohead just avoid Pablo Honey Completely.

Get The Bends I read that OK Computer's DVD is lacking when compared to the other 2, it only has 3 videos and a live performance on a TV show while the other 2 have video's some live performance's from TV and a full concert. So if want more bang for your buck get The Bends since its a better album than Pablo Honey.

Just buy them all.

They're $60 each though, I could get a new game for that price.

Are they fucking really???

That's bull. I'm not gonna pay 60 for Pablo Honey, that's for damn sure. EMI is seriously squeezing every ounce of cash they can out of Radiohead. I'm kind of starting to understand why Yorke and Co. hate them so much.

Opps my bad its like $30, but I saw it at best buy for like $60

Best Buy sucks. My wife once tried to buy a laptop there and they so tried to screw her over on price and the service was just plain awful... we requested our files be uploaded and they said initially a couple of hours... then every couple of hours we kept getting told it would take longer... then they said come back tomorrow... so she marched to the counter, made a huge scene to embarass the dumbass sales attendant,demanding our money back and disposing of the service contract... she got her money back and went to American where the service and price were great.

Anyways, my point... those a$$holes probably would charge 60 bucks for a CD...

This is why you have computer nerd friends build computers for you, like I do. Much cheaper. Also transferring files is simply a matter of dragging something onto an external hard drive.

Also weird: I found a bootleg Radiohead concert on DVD at Best Buy. No clue what it was doing there, but it was 10 bucks so I picked it up. Picture isn't great, but the sound quality was pretty f'n good.

See thats how I knew they sucked...it was a simple operation to transfer our fciles but they needed a whole day? Come on!

Good find on the Radiohead bootleg though!

got to get an apple from the apple store

Definitely not bad idea on the whole apple vs. pc thing... I think she wound being happy with the Viao she bought though, sseems to do everything she wants it to!

I've been digging the Kid A, the first time I listened to it I didn't realize it was making sense. But I am a new man now.

Welcome to enlightenment :beer:

True that my brethren.

Radiohead enlightenment is indeed a great thing... welcome to the fold... When that particular album opened up for me it also kinda pushed me towards alot of other music too, namely alot of electronic music...

Well I've got Kid A and the Bends down now. I like em both, I'm gonna have to get a hold of In Rainbows. I think OK Computer might be somewhere too.

So yeah, quest time.

Get em both, and if you like Kid A, then Amnesiac is up your ally.

I will check into all of these wonderful things I... need to check into. My language is limited right now.

Amnesiac if you want something that sounds alot like Kid A, OK Computer if you want a guitar dominated album that sounds simliar to the Bends, In Rainbows if you want a album that is for the most part relaxed. If you need help finding any of these albums just ask me mofo.

... And Pablo Honey if you want the desire to never listen to Radiohead again.

*fixed

I think it falls closer to guitar-pop then post grunge. Take away Creep and people look at the album and Radiohead in general in a completely different perspective.

I know In Rainbows is on my mom's computer so I can get that from her. Those albums sound good, the Bends did some good jammin and Kid A did some good experimentin so these all sound great. What's wrong with Pablo Honey anyway? And how about Hail to the Thief? What's it like?

To be honest, there's not much music I've come across that I don't like, so I don't know if I'd start hating Radiohead over that album, or I would forgive them at least with stuff like the Bends and Kid A and all. In general I'm a lenient guy on music, I can listen to most anything and at least find it catchy or creative or something. So I think I could do their whole discography without any loss of respect for them. Just throwin that out there.

With Pablo Honey, there's absolutely nothing wrong. It's not in the least so horrible as RH fanboys make it out to be, it would be decent party music at least, I personally find it great. Hail to the Thief Doesn't have as straight a concept as most RH albums, it's all over the place.

I wouldn't say it's all over the place, but its sound lies somewhere in the middle of Kid A/Amnesiac and OKC.

I'd also venture to say it may be Radiohead's "darkest" album of sorts. Not that it's really all that dark, but it has this gloomy, omnious feel to a lot of the tracks.

Hail to the Thief is pretty much the alternative rock of the Bends blended with the experimental and gloom side of Kid A and its sister album just with a bit more gloom.

I think I am missing something in Kid A...so f*cking boring...

Man...it blew me away, it's my unquestionable favorite. How to Disappear, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Kid A, Optimistic, Treefingers, In Limbo, Idioteque....I love it all.

These both sound like good albums then. As I said, though, I often don't harshly judge music. Unless it's Country or Rap.

Double X: Well sir, I must say I disagree. Blue's list of songs is pretty radical, but I'd also throw in National Anthem, it's pretty heavy. The opener, Everything In Its Right Place is a good track also. I don't know how'd you see it as boring, though, unless you just can't stand downbeat music.

Yes, pretty much every one of the non-conceptual tracks are unbelievable apart from maybe Optimistic which stands out a bit. The rest are, well, conceptual, and do their job very nicely.

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You gotta love these guys.

Well, I must say that I became a fan of Radiohead quite late. So although I knew of the band's seminal 90's albums, and was aware of their major singles (how could you live through the nineties and not), I only really bagan appreciating them when I heard "In Rainbows". I have subsequently enjoyed their most celebrated albums more than I did originally. For this reason, my favourite work of theirs has to be "In Rainbows". Also, I feel that this album is less heavy handed (although it is in certain respects still heavy-handed in terms of its message/s) than "Kid A," for example.

I only enjoy Radiohead in small doses. The ouevre gets rather whiney and becomes rather too self-serious/self-important when it is listened to incessantly, IMO. More self-lacerating humour, or intellectual humour, or "something" more/less would be in order on their future albums, IMO. They should crack a smile, even if it is a self-reflexive giggle rather than a parodic guffaw.

nice!

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Bumped because I'm listening to OK Computer soon.

I cant even listen to that album any more apart from Airbag and Climbing Up the Walls

Ignore him Surell, Exit Music is one of the finest songs in their discography. I don't actually listen OK Computer in full as much as you'd all think, but every time I do I come away amazed.