For many listeners, Paranoid Android, the albums daring, freewheeling six-minute lead single (edited down from the original 14), was the moment Radiohead reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century.
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It’s the sound of rock being treated as a virus in urgent need of decoding.Īll music previews and full tracks provided by Spotify. Yorke in 1998, the year after the album was released Musically, meanwhile, there were also several marked departures on OK Computer. facebook twitter linkedin pinterest OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017 Radiohead - OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997-2017 Indie Exclusive Blue ,XL Recordings,Review: Radiohead OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017,Radiohead - Ok Computer Oknotok 1997 2017 (Box Set) (Vinyl LP TAPE ,The Sound of Vinyl,Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997-2017 (180g) Vinyl 3LP+Cassette Boxset.
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Here, an audio guide to the album’s 12 songs, plus what came before, and what came after. Ultimately, the record serves as Radiohead’s sturdiest argument for itself as one of rock’s most thoughtful and sonically compelling bands, a claim that critics and fans have made consistently since its release 20 years ago. If you wish, there are treatises to consult on this matter. It’s an album of the proper sort – striving towards a narrative of sound and vision. “OK Computer” has a reputation as a sprawling dystopian reckoning, a commentary on the time’s relentlessly digitizing means of production by thrashing those very means. Yorke’s wail and Jonny Greenwood’s guitar were nothing if not au courant, artfully distorting a deep catalog of references.
Sure, the album created a restless, chilly roar of alienation, but it also wrapped you in a group hug of conflicted yearning that gradually drifted into just plain yearning – lovely and melancholy. The Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke impishly said of “ OK Computer,” his band’s critically enshrined 1997 multiplatinum album, that he wanted “to make a record that you could sit down and eat to in a nice restaurant, a record that would be cool and be part of the furniture.” In a way, Radiohead succeeded, despite itself.
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