All is Forgiven Channel 4
Against my better judgement, I just sat and watched (most of) Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Albums.
Going by the fact that they’ve done ‘The 100 Greatest <every subject on Earth>’ by now, and that, by and large, it was never going to be anything like the list I would have made, I was expecting to be throwing things at the TV all the way through.
And mostly, that’s what I did. There was the expected endless Britpop twaddle at the top end of the chart, and ‘Jagged Little Pill‘ ended up higher than ‘Led Zeppelin IV‘, but that’s par for the course. Everyone knows these lists follow along the exact same lines and then ‘Revolver‘ or ‘Pet Sounds‘ wins, right?
So you can imagine that I’m still smiling about the fact that they gave first place to ‘OK Computer‘. All is forgiven! As much as the concept of the ‘Best! Album! Evar!’ is sort of ridiculous, it was nice to be able to sit back at the end and think “Well, you know, fair enough.”