"Man of Constant Sorrow" - Rod Stewartġ1. You can put the list in the comment thread, or write it up in your blog or Journal and then post a link in the comments.Ģ. That's right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. Set it to play your entire music collection.Ĥ. Clearly you have a computer, because otherwise you couldn't read this).Ģ. Open up the music player on your computer (if you have one - the music player, I mean. Second, I'm gonna get all LiveJournal on ya (not that there's anything wrong with that - some of my best friends have LiveJournals!) and do one of those random "follow the leader" things - which I'm also doing today on By The Way. But of course, the main event here is the trio of newly unearthed tracks, all road tested live in the mid-1990s but shelved during the OK Computer sessions.| Music Selection 11/17 » NovemMusical Selection and a Livejournalistic Momentįirst, the music selection for today: "In Time" by Kelly Hogan. But otherwise OK Computer is a pristine 53-minute song cycle, and arguably one of the last great examples of an album as a coherent end-to-end listening experience.īlazing guitars also feature prominently among the additional non-album tracks and B-sides, notably Pearly, which lays down the blueprint for Muse at their most gloriously bombastic, and Palo Alto, a sci-fi social commentary powered by scorching Pixies-style shotgun riffs.
A couple of more conventional guitar-bloated tracks, Electioneering and Climbing Up The Walls, have not aged too gracefully. With hindsight, knowing how deeply Radiohead would delve into artfully deconstructed jazztronica on later albums, it is striking now just how much of a guitar-centric rock unit they still were in 1997, from Jonny Greenwood’s wrenching avant-punk convulsions in Paranoid Android to the luminous filigree arpeggios that shimmer through No Surprises.
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