How prescient was Radiohead's OK Computer

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12:56p, 8/24/23
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Listening a lot to the 1997 Classic Radiohead album Ok Computer

Like them or not, the album literally calls the craziness we are seeing now from Wokism/weaponized DOJ in songs like Karma Police

to our F'd up govt in "electioneering"

I cannot believe how right they got it...
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12:58p, 8/24/23
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Lots of stuff was prophetic. 1984. Idiocracy, etc.
Trump will fix it.
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1:01p, 8/24/23
But I'm guessing Radiohead are huge liberals.
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In reply to fordmd • 1:16p, 8/24/23
fordmd said:
Listening a lot to the 1997 Classic Radiohead album Ok Computer

Like them or not, the album literally calls the craziness we are seeing now from Wokism/weaponized DOJ in songs like Karma Police

to our F'd up govt in "electioneering"

I cannot believe how right they got it...


Always loved that album but been a while since I listened. Examples of them calling out wokeism? Crazy that that album is 26 years old. One of the best ever imo.
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In reply to beanbean • 1:19p, 8/24/23
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They are. Hail to the Thief was an album aimed at George Bush. Strangely, I bet Joe Biden, an actual thief, doesn't end up with one. Yet another band in the Rage against the machine mold which prefers to rage for the machine now.
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BG Knocc Out
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In reply to beanbean • 1:19p, 8/24/23
beanbean said:
But I'm guessing Radiohead are huge liberals.


Most likely. I could kind of see them libertarian or anarchist leaning though.

Edit: Nvmd, they're climate change nuts who dabble in socialism.
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P.H. Dexippus
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1:19p, 8/24/23
AG

What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here...
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Funky Winkerbean
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1:19p, 8/24/23
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1977

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1:35p, 8/24/23
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Just started playing the guitar and Karma Police is one of my first songs to play.
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fordmd
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1:41p, 8/24/23
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The "woke mob" = the Karma Police

some of the lyrics:
...Karma police, arrest this girl
Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party

[Chorus]
This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get
When you mess with us
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10:30p, 8/25/23
Seems less like a case of the album predicting the stuff you think about all the time now, and more a case of you now looking at the album through that lens
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Loren Visser
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10:31p, 8/25/23
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