Why, yes; I am apparently amped up on electionjuice today.
I have a love-hate relationship with OK Computer, the Radiohead album that hosts this song. On the one hand, it has some great music on there – “Paranoid Android” is probably my favorite Radiohead track of all time, and “Fitter Happier” is kind of wonderful – but on the other, it’s where the band’s prog tendencies started to take wing, leading to some of their most unlistenable, pretentious output. “Electioneering,” though, is a very traditional song in terms of construction, and even “rocks out,” as the kids would say despite Thom Yorke having an attack of politically-themed Tourettes while recording the vocals. Not for the first time, I find myself wondering what Radiohead would have become with a more traditional front man…