D.I Go Pop Vs OK Computer

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Which captures pre-millenium tension and technological paranoia best?

For me no contest: Disco Inferno did some amazingly experimental and interesting stuff with samplers that i haven't really heard in the same way since. I remember an interesting AIM chat with Matthew and Ned and we spoke about when bands embarace new technology, this is something they really did around this time. I just don't hear the same level of creativity with Ok Computer, but then again the past couple of years i've really gone off radiohead. Everything of theirs just sounds contrived and rubbish to me now.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Don'tcha mean Kid A? Was OK Computer really seen as that experimental/technology-embracing at the time?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I've never really understood the appeal of D.I. Go Pop. It just sounds like really bad 80s industrial noise to me. Then again I've only heard it a handful of times. WHat am I missing here?

I know what you mean about going off Radiohead though. I still like them but the schtick wears a bit thin after a while. OKC was definitely a great record for the time however.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Was OK Computer really seen as that experimental/technology-embracing at the time?

Absolutely -- I remember a lot of "this is the first album of the 21st century" comments at the time.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 20 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Don'tcha mean Kid A? Was OK Computer really seen as that experimental/technology-embracing at the time?

-- Sociah T Azzahole (stevem7...), June 20th, 2005.

This was just provoked by reading about that Spin list and people going on about how it managed to make even a computerised voice seem warm and nice or something. At the time the whole millenium angst stuff was played up a lot, but i agree that Kid A is more experimental e.t.c.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 20 June 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I've never really understood the appeal of D.I. Go Pop. It just sounds like really bad 80s industrial noise to me.

You're fired. (But with love.)

D.I. Go Pop wins for me, of course. It still holds a strong appeal as it is where OK Computer and all that came before it is the sound of a past band I'm not interested in much anymore, the occasional live performance aside (whenever I see them nowadays, most of the OKC and earlier material leaves me frustrated; I don't *want* to hear that, the noble exceptions being "Fake Plastic Trees" and maybe one or two other songs).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

It might seem a low tech approach, but flying an airliner into a skyscraper remains a truly striking expression of technological paranoia. Pop music just doesn't compare, even when made by men who will one day produce the Delays.

― snotty moore, Monday, 20 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

The Five EPs = OK Computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>D.I. Go Pop

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Sir, you are drunk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

The Five EPs : OK Computer :: DI Go Pop : An album full of eight "Electioneering" and "Climbing Up the Walls"es.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Huh. Except that's a positive comparison (as those two songs are still faves in the end).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't say that at all. The only reason those songs are tolerable on OKC is because there are only one each.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

To each their own -- I'm very fond of "Climbing" but mostly due to a wonderful live version I have (also because it's pretty damned goth) while a good friend of mine's favorite song on the album is hands down "Electioneering."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

I really don't think the Radioheads have ever done anything quite as beautiful as Footprints in the Snow.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

is there a DI track with the sound of camera shutters running through it? i have a vague memory.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah. It's the third or fourth track on the album.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

thanks Dr. - anyone know what it's called?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

There's two actually - the album's "Starbound: All Burnt Out & Nowhere To Go" (which also has the looped children chanting a la Petey Pablo's "Get On Dis Motorcycle") and the much gentler "Second Language" from the EP of that name.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Both are among their best tracks I reckon.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

thanks!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

I've kind of burned out on OK Computer and have since found myself pleasantly surprised by The Bends upon revisiting it. At the moment I'm far more fond of D.I. Go Pop than either, though.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

The question is basically an underrated record vs. an overrated record. In that contest, I'll take the underrated one every time.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

i listen to D.I. go Pop a lot more than OK Computer but I don't know that that means it's a better album. OK Computer is massive. But like a lot of massive albums, I can't listen to it very often (like that "do you avoid your favorite albums" thread...this is one I do avoid. I'm not sure why)

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

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