Sometimes it takes a number of years before you can truly look back and proclaim the best album of that decade. Often times, it's the album that shaped the music during the years that followed that seemingly carried the most importance, though you may not have realized the full extent of it at the time.
If we go back to the last decade, it looks like Radiohead's OK Computer, the band's third album, had as much of an impact as just about anything during the era.
A classic album in every sense, this was a remarkable feat as far as music, lyrics, and technology were all concerned. A concept album with a theme about a dark and gloomy future taken over by computers, Radiohead were far ahead of their time when they dreamed this up.
Amazingly, the album sounds just as relevant today, and their message was spot on. This world is simply being taken over by computers and technology, and Radiohead had the foresight to see that coming.
Songs like Karma Police and Paranoid Android send powerful messages and they're highly relevant today, over a decade later.
The music is absolutely beautiful and while the band's sound has evolved over the years, if another band were to come out with an original album today that sounded like this (assuming the first one never came out), it would sound completely relevant and modern at that.
In a world where the music we listen to is constantly evolving and developing, an album like OK Computer is a rarity.
If you haven't listened to it in a while, throw the CD back into your player and give it a listen. Not only will it bring back some memories, but you'll realize how truly great this album was, and always will be.
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