#75

Amazing album, not just because of the great music but, as others have mentioned, it was an incredibly important gateway to me at a time when I needed that. Not only that but I think the opening of EIIRP is one of the most understatedly brilliant ways to start a record.

I won a competition to hear the record a few weeks before it came out - so my sister and I went to a listening party somewhere in Camden market. We listened to it start to finish in the dark, and it blew my 15 y/o brain apart. Then when it came out I went in an early break time to get it from a local music shop (Modern Music in Abingdon, RIP) and just listened absolutely non-stop for months. I loved it, loved the artwork, loved the marketing around it, loved the Steve Lamacq special they did, loved everything. Some of it seems quite cringey now really but that totally underestimates the importance of it to 15-year-old me.

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#76

Love that Jonny has become full Jimi Hendrix in this. What the album could have been…

#77

Came out too late for inclusion in the list that year and was too ‘old’ by the time of the folowing year maybe.

#78

Interesting that although the official Q review (by Stewart Maconie) was a little sniffy, the world exclusive first track-by-track preview in the previous issue (by Dave Cavanagh, RIP) was comparatively fulsome in its praise.

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#79

Unlikely, the winner was Stories from the City which also came out in October 2000!

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#80

Absolutely love reading stories like this about people’s relationships with bands/albums.

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#81

I remember reading that with a mixture.of excitement and trepidation. It makes me laugh now quite how ‘rockist’ I was. When I read they were using synths I remember feeling like it was some sort of betrayal, but I went with it because of how much OKC had meant to 14-15 year-old me.

What a twat I was.

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#82

Building up to release I got totally caught up in the mythology around the supposed fraught recording process. There was drips of information from magazines every now and then which made it sound like they were really pushing themselves and it made me excited to hear what was coming. It all felt a bit secretive, definitely heightened the intrigue.

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#83

I guess they had to pick one or the other and went for the most recent, the fact that Amnesiac had a couple of singles might have helped it

#84

Oooh, i went looking for that track by track in my old mags earlier, couldn’t find it. Is there even amy Ondes on Kid A (the song)?

#85

hm not sure tbh :thinking:

#86

Not live anyway, not sure about the recorded version

#87

I’m thinking no, but not listened in a while.

#88

Are you… me?

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#89

One of the worst losses from the flood I had at uni. A bunch of CDs were under the water line, including this one. Most were salvageable, but the booklet behind the tray puffed up and rendered the whole thing useless.

Also lost all my SNES games. Gutted.

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#90

Looking back and reading through this I’m glad I was that little bit younger. I was 15 when it came out, and had heard nothing from it or about it, just knew it was coming and couldn’t wait, as OK Computer was and still is my favourite album.

Hit me like a ton of bricks when I first listened, and I loved it right off the bat. If I’d been a year or so older I’d definitely have been reading everything, downloading dodgy copies of demos, etc. Glad I got the impact I did.

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#91

Swindon ,that fucking roundabout of death is a headache !

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#92

Love banging out Treefingers at a house party.

Seriously though, it’s a tad overrated but I find myself listening to it more than any other Radiohead album these days (apart from In Rainbows).

It still sounds wonderful.

I’ll never enjoy the national anthem though.

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#93

Bought this as a broke student back when CDs were extortionately priced in Ireland and by waiting a week for it to enter the top ten I could get it for 9.99 in Tescos. I’m not quite sure why I hadn’t got my hand on the album via Napster, I must have held Radiohead in such high regard that I wanted to hold out and listen to the physical release of the album in full.

By the time of my first listen I was aware and equally concerned about the shift in style but one of my strongest musical memories to this day is walking out of Tesco, putting the CD in my discman and being absolutely blown away by the end of EITRP… I can vividly remember exactly where I was when that track ended this first time I heard it.

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#94

Think it’s been diluted over time because they’ve had many similar (and lesser) moments but the first couple of bars of Everything In Its Right Place are a really magical way to start an album. Just those few melancholy warm synth notes played in an arpeggio like that, almost a slight analogue detune to it, like the little creepy ditty on the end of the protect & survive ads from the 70s/80s

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