Popular music-review Web site plants big wet one on popular indie-rock blog. It’s like watching the high school quarterback and head cheerleader get together, except about 5000% nerdier! [Pitchfork]
Tribute to ‘OK Computer’
July 10th, 2007 // 9 Comments
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I think I’d rather not hear this album. EVAR.
Their kids are going to be sooooooo pretentious.
I actually think it’s pretty good. The Cold War Kids track is, um, out there in front. Like the guy is putting his voice right out at you. Whether that’s good or not depends on your feelings about said band.
Um, about that “kissing…”
In reality, I bet it must have pained Pfork to have had to link to Stereogum like that, but I just don’t think they could avoid it. Pfork refers to the ‘Gum, sort of tongue-in-cheekily, as “our friends-slash-bitter, bitter rivals” — but doesn’t every joke have a bit of truth in it? I suspect that Pitchfork is actually fairly wary of Stereogum’s growth in the online music sphere.
The album is actually alright, for the most part. For all the gushing that CWK does in the liner notes, though, they sure did mail that track in…
If you like kissing though, you should read the Gum’s lead-in for a good ol’ Thom Yorke slobberfest.
I agree that OK Computer was one of the best albums of the last ten years…but is it deserving of that kind of blubbering adulation? I don’t know.
About half the covers are pretty bad (“Fitter Happier” is ridiculous and misses the point), but there’s a couple really moving ones in there (Shara Worden’s “Lucky” is good). What I think is more impressive about this is the scope of the project, the artists involved, and the fact that it’s all free and legal. Well done, I say. Lots of sites, including PFork, should be linking to the album.
I always like how, in situations like revisitng a landmark record like OK Computer, P4k always feels it necessary to begin by explaining its version of “how things were” at the time the album was released. It’s borderline hilarious.
And seriously, is there anything more that really needs to be written about OK Computer now? Can we just agree it’s all been said?
And we’re only 10 years out now. Imagine what it’ll be like in 40 years when graying commentators can come back and rehash these Summers of Blogs and REALLY come to a consensus on the Cold War Kids.
Gross. Was the “congratulations to Stereogum” really necessary? Maybe every good review should sign off with a little congrats.
Just think – “Way to go Deerhoof! All your hard work really paid off.” Or maybe “Keep it up Animal Collective. You guys are the best.”