Hot Issue Hits and Misses: ?OK Computer? and ?Cockamamie?

 

October 12, 2007, 06:32 AM

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Rolling Stone's 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend (more on that here). For the next week, we'll be taking a look at Hot Issue hits and misses from the past twenty-one years (because nobody's cultural thermometer is accurate all the time).
Hit: We know we've been a little Radiohead crazy for the last week, but for good reason: In 1997, a mere two months after its release, we named the band's OK Computer the Hot Album, a distinction that probably just about nails its eventual cultural impact. Think about what music would be like now without OK. There'd be no Coldplay, no Muse. No Coldplay jokes. The list goes on and on.
Miss: In 1995, we named Jennifer Trynin's Cockamamie Hot Debut Album. If there were an award for Cold Sophomore Album, she'd probably win that too. Trynin never quite lived up to the “next Liz Phair” hype, but it wasn't all her fault: In her well-received memoir Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be, Trynin places the blame on the music industry for her “two albums and out” career.
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