![]() ![]() I decided to compile my ten into this blogpost with a little explanation/review of each one. ![]() ![]() On the Facebook posts, you’re only supposed to post the cover with no explanations or reviews etc. Over on Facebook, a lot of people have been doing a thing where every day for 10 days you post the cover of an album which ‘greatly influenced’ your taste in music. I am a little disappointed by this but luckily I was able to find excellent pictures of the packaging on Discogs. Unfortunately, my copy has spent about twenty years in a smoking house & has become yellowed with age, losing its brilliant white colour. The point of this post is to show you the incredible artwork. In many ways the artwork of this EP could be considered a satirical masterpiece of Capitalist Realism, which resonates strongly today, in the chaotic atmosphere of late capitalism. These feel like an explicit reference to what we now call Big Data which Radiohead, in 1997-8, could already see creeping into our lives. Especially the disclaimers on the “survey” which explain what will happen to the data you give. ![]() There are all sorts of prescient seeming phrases in the artwork which make me think of 2020. The Airbag/How A I Driving EP, released by Radiohead towards the end of the promotional campaign for OK Computer, featured not only some amazing b-sides from the OK Computer era, but also some of the most unique & compelling artwork of any CD I’ve ever bought. ![]()
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