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Being recorded in 1997 & released the following year, was a blowout celebration of festive ((rides & everything)) passionate Christian(!) bunny-punk, with a more melodic sense of melody than most, with dowsed, strongly resonant, meaningfuller-than-most’s lyrical vapors: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea; this would boom later, when alt rock gave way to indie; baby girl Lauryn would also record then release a lastingly catchy hip-hop mover-shaker around this time — The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; It was also organically Christian, too;

Already released & getting plenty of spin on my record player was Odelay from Beck & The Dust Brothers;

But I think being there at the time, really breathing Life in thru the nostril to the ’90s artistic aesthetic — giving it a living form, ‘coloring in’ its personality with a definite sound & ambiance — was Radiohead’s OK Computer.

This 1997 ‘decade’ piece was a coming of age album for many of us – my girlfriend introduced it to me at 16 – & it is where the mouth of a river was for cultural currents for many of us.

Had Radiohead not released this I would not be bringing them up in the same stream of consciousness as Life is Beautiful & In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

It was bringing spiritual poetry to computers, radios, & very “modern,” at-times-mechanistic elements of our lives; with a ‘backend’ of artistic / personal choices casting our anti corporate excess sentimentality many of us were feeling, into something concrete, (remember W.A.S.T.E.?), something we could cheer on; to a tune of a genuinely artistically modern musical atmosphere — just how much did Johnny Greenwood, not nearly appreciated enough for his musical genius, write?)

It & all of these became a real part of the soundtrack to my life.

Here’s some selections:

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