OK Computer is Radiohead's third album. First came Pablo Honey which is apparently bad. It contained the second single Creep. This song although entering the charts at around number seventy, lauched the bands career. At this time it broke the charts in Israel as here was the only country where it received radio play. The song was later released and the publicity created the stage for the next album The Bends. This album was voted the fifth best album ever and contains many great songs like Just, My Iron Lung and High And Dry. However even though this album is amazing and a must for everyone, Ok Computer completely out-classes it. It was voted second best album of all time beated only by Queen (I think!).
OK Computer contains eleven fantastic song plus Fitter Happier which is a narration of the ideal life by a computerised voice. The track is saying that there can be no perfect existence as everything has its flaws. It show the pressures
that society puts on people to conform and the computer voice is relavent as it shows us how we can become people loosing our individuality. The song ends with the word antibiotics which I think is relavent because us how artificial our lifes our, it is such an unnatural image.
The first song airbag is great and a very good start to the album. It is very similar in style to The Bends and so it leads on from it very well. The track merges the two albums as it is wrote very much like Street Spirit (Fade Out), the last song on The Bends. I love the guitar solos on this track.
The next song is Paranoid Android which is one of my personal favourite songs. It has been compared to Bohemian Rapsody by Queen because of the variety within the song. The song keeps changing from one tune to the next and it flows excellently. The song captures many moods from angry to mellow to withdrawn. The lyrics are good and seem to suggest Thom Yorke's frustration at society and the life he feels he has to lead. The song lasts six minutes and twenty three seconds which is long for a normal song but when you hear it you will see it is actually very consise, it definately does not drag on. I love the guitar riff that keeps appearing through the song and you will be humming it for weeks!
The album goes quite mellow through the next song Subterranean Homesick Alien and into Exit Music (For a Film). It is very carming yet often quiet depressing (In a good way!). The album is very good at creating a mood like this. However, then the song changes as if you are rebelling and turns quite sinister at the line "You can Laugh" and then at the repetition of "We hope that you choke" makes it seem a little evil.
The next song however Let Down is a little more up lifting. The best song on the album is next, Karma Police. It is undoubtably Radiohead's best song and most known one. When you think of Radiohead you think "Karma Police". The song is totally without fault and whenever it is played live it always creates quite a stir. The bass line carries the song along. I am no proper music critic but even I can clearly see that this song is a one of, totally original and never to be topped. It would be worth buying the album just for this song.
Electioneering is another brilliant song. It is really uplifting. You wouldn't think that the tune would work as it combines very high and very low notes and is at risk of sounding badly fitting. But still it sound great. Again the solo guitar is very good and the song contains a lot of variety.
The next song, Climbing Up The Walls is a little more sinister like: I'm watching you. The song sounds almost satanic in its smoothness and unfluctuatic tune. It stays the same throughout which seems a little spooky.
No Suprises is the one song that I guarentee everyone has heard. The tune is very vell known - do do, do do, dudududu. It seems quite an innocent sounding song with its nursery rhyme - like tune but lyrically at least is very pesimistic, "A job that slowly kills you; bruises that wont heal".
All in all the album is very consistant, any song could have been released. Stronger songs like Karma Police seem to shadow song like Electioneering which are amazing songs in their own right and not just album fillers.
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