OK Computer - Radiohead

Advantages: Music which'll stay fresh for a lifetime.
Disadvantages: Takes a while to grow on you.

Radiohead - OK Computer (1997) 10/10 When i think of all the albums that i've listened to which have had a genuine effect on me, the one album which always sits at the top of the list is this. Most people who know me, will know that i'm a huge Radiohead fan. I've always been fascinated by the link between musical content and the message which it sends out to society. There are some bands who make no excuses for what they're worth. They churn out ...
...on from it's original release, OK Computer remains a remarkable feat of musical engineering. It's the album which refined the way that i listen to music, and it sits at the top of my list when it comes to all-time favorite records. If you haven't heard this album, i wouldn't say that you're missing out, since there's no other record that you can compare it to. It's an album which you have to be patient with. I often preach about intelligent music ... Read review

Advantages: Superb follow up to the Bends
Disadvantages: Track 7

...from the Oxford band was Ok Computer a superb album, which again would move the goal posts for modern music. The British band are becoming one of the biggest acts in the world and this album released in 1997 went a bit further to proofing that point. Tracks ******* 1) Airbag 2) Paranoid Android 3) Subterranean Homesick Alien 4) Exit Music (For a Film) 5) Let Down 6) Karma Police 7) Fitter Happier 8) Electioneering 9) Climbing Up The Walls ...
...1: Airbag ************** The albums opening track starts with a guitar and some bells gently tapping in the back ground before the drums come in leading into the vocals. A pretty mellow sounding song that wouldn't be out of place on the bends eases you into the third album. A solid drumbeat throughout the song and the first use of the samples, which have become do prominent in this album. The end of the track uses even more samples before eventually ... Read review

Advantages: 60 minutes of bliss
Disadvantages: Let Down is a let down

...across the world, changed forever. Ok Computer, a record encompassing every emotion imaginable, wrapped in a 5 inch plastic disc, changed my way of thinking forever. Why? I simply can't answer that yet. This album constitutes a different approach to recording for Radiohead. Nigel Godrich, a good friends of Radiohead, had previously produced the b-side Permanent Daylight and was brought along to produce Ok Computer. The band asked Godrich to build ...
...arena rock anthem opens up Ok Computer perfectly just as Planet Telex did for The Bends. The band would more often than not open up their shows with this song, after walking in during Fitter Happier. Airbag is another song about cars, a fear that Thom Yorke has. According to Yorke, the song is about the thrill people get after almost getting in a car crash. Track 02 - Paranoid Android Track two is the strangest, longest, and most complicated song ... Read review

Advantages: Possibly their finest moment to date
Disadvantages: Some call it depressing

...dated quicker than an Citroen, OK Computer still stands the test of time. Why? While it has been voted album of the year / decade / century etc, I have to admit that I prefer a couple of other albums. I’m still not sure if it is better than The Bends. But what I am sure of is that it comprises of wonderful musicians playing the songs of a superb singer-songwriter. There are many things that mark out OK Computer from Kid A. Most notably is ...
...Yorke are full of wonderful nuances, corporate sloganeering with a lump of irony. "In a fast German car / I’m amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life" is the cry in the guitar-heavy opener Airbag. Prog rock takes over on track two, otherwise known as the ambitious single Paranoid Android. But again the lyrics are sublime too. The striking sarcastic growl "God loves his children, yeah!" finishes this classic track. Then the album ... Read review

Advantages: Something totally unique, a fine collection of music
Disadvantages: Can get a bit on the dark and depressing side for some

...time and couldn't believe that OK Computer was in the top 5 - up there with the likes of Revolver and Dark Side of The Moon - so having already heard the fabulous Paranoid Android single taken from it, I was sold and went to my favourite Sundown Records and bought it the very next day. The spooky thing was that the chap behind the counter was actually putting a copy in a bag just as I was walking up to the counter to ask for it .. which still confuses ...
...the simple answer. I bought OK Computer a few years ago and didn't like it too much until I started getting into music proper, it was a bit weird for me I thought back then, but now, oh yes, weird is good :), anything but Westlife please … Let's have a butchers shall we? 1 : Airbag I told you that this was going to be hard going didn't eye? not overly well known for their uplifting titles (Iron lung and bones being amongst some of the earlier tracks), ... Read review