Radiohead "OK Computer" [1997]

Endlessly belabored druggy downer vamps with so many bleeps and blurps you'd think they were contacting E.T., depressed British wussies Radiohead on "OK Computer" sound exactly like U2 finding out their cat just got run over. A hodgepodge of acoustic and electronic instruments basically thrown into a blender, the result is one unappetizing smoothie. Stringing parts of unfinished songs together the way the Beatles did when once they ran out of ideas was a good way to cover their directionlessness on "OK Computer," and apparently Radiohead either were too ignorant or too stoned to know that pretentious prog music went out of style 20 years earlier. For how anemic their efforts, it's easy to hear how hard this band is trying, struggling to get through the material without breaking down in a pathetic crying jag -- it's the only album on earth that makes Jeff Buckley sound downright chipper. And this many years later, it's amazing Radiohead still has so many fans; you'd think they'd all have slashed their wrists by now.