Once every few years a special album is released.An album so good it is universally praised and set as the benchmark for others to reach.Ok Computer is such an album. The frenzy created around the band was nothing short of astonishing,,everybody wanted a piece of Radiohead,the band that once wrote the ultimate anthem for losers were the new idols of the music industry.
The band were far from being prepared for this.They were just five normal guys from Oxford,none of them leading the extravegent life of a rock star.In fact, after they had stopped touring ,Thom even had a type of breakdown,and the future of the band seemed unsure. To the actual album then.It begins with Airbag,a song about rebirth and reincarnation,which is true enough of the band as it is very different from the stuff they've done before.As good as it is,Airbag is merely to warm us up for Paranoid Android.
It's a sprawling six minute epic,a showcase for Thom's amazing vocals and Jonny's guitar playing.It's alike to Bohemian Rhapsody in that it's split into different sections,moving from searing guitar playing to melodic vocals ang back.Truely amazing,if I was pushed a little I might even call it the song of the nineties.
And next,to make sure we don't explode,is the much more downbeat and simpler Subterranean Homesick Alien.Thom sings about the wonderful things in life that people don't want to see, a strangely soothing song considering what he's singing about.
Exit Music is a song that was originally written for Romeo and Juliet sountrack,but luckily for us it managed to find its way onto the album.It's a very depressing but ultimately beautiful and amazing song.The next song, Let Down, is perhaps the worst song on the album,which is a testament to the album as it's not a bad song at all,flowing and unobtrusive enough to not get in the way.
Karma Police is one of Radiohead's best songs,with Thom at his best vocally and everthing else engineered together brillantly.A song that every one sings along with when it's played.It's followed,strangely,with a Stephen Hawkinsesque voice telling us how, over some eerie background music,society deems we should live our lives.Which is basically the same theme as No Surprises,another gentle and heartfelt song,which was a surprises hit back in early ninety eight.
No Surprises is precceded by Electioneering and Climbing Up the Walls,no more lively songs,particularly Electioneering which features some pretty impresive guitar playing.Climbing up the walls is an eerie song,where the vocals are distorted and some great drum and bass are added to give it an edge.
The two last songs Lucky and The Tourist are downbeat and mellow enough to be almost relaxing.Again both songs are and put together amazingly well.
Ok Computer elavates Radiohead above the rest the way Revolver did for the Beatles.While Pablo Honey and The Bends were great albums,this is astonishing,each song is practically drenched in feeling and emotion.It puts forward Thom and Jonny as Britains two finest musicians and songwriters
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