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Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category.
OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British "new wave of new wave" band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning "We hope that you choke." Sluggish, understated, and hard to get a grip on,
OK Computer takes a few listens to appreciate, but its entirety means more than any one song.
--Douglas Wolk
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A friend told me that if Radiohead The Bends was their revolvers, then click "OK Computer is the time their Sgt Pepper's. I tend to disagree with your analogy, what I like" The Bends ", the amazing range of emotional" OK Computer "completely surprised me when I first heard in 1997. It 'was when I was a couple of friends to record companies, and a dear lady at the Capitol (hello Leslie M, wherever you are today) I have a three song sampler that becausethey new how much I like Radiohead.
The sampler includes "Karma Police", "Paranoid Android" and "No Surprises". Before joining the CD, I was telling people this, that this is the most incredible thing I'd heard all year. Until the full CD in my player for a couple of weeks ago I was thinking it was the best album of the year. Thom Yorke had the modern themes of alienation, he studied so ably on "gangs" and are matched with the music that has slowed down and weakenedhaunting textures and electronics. Guitarist Johnny Greenwood are almost nonexistent, unless sudden relegated to "campaign." In most cases, is the voice of York, who is the main instrument, weaving in and out of the songs is a breath ( "Exit Music For A Film") or his scream rock ( "Lucky").
Even more important, "OK Computer" is an album that (like "Sgt Pepper") collects the songs that invoke the theme together. While "Karma Police" and "No Surprises" aresomething like braces radio airplay, this is listening to a CD, which works as a whole. I know there is a general consensus that this is a concept album - you can see how many plane crashes, wrecked cars and machinery to be mentioned - is still due, that I have, which usually dour lyrically Yorke. Was in my ears, the concept comes with the post-Pink Floyd meets the speed of sound quilting for the modern age. OK Computer, Radiohead have managed to more than anyone before or since.
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