O.K Computer |  | Artist: Radiohead
Label: Parlophone
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Rating:  260 reviews
Sales Rank: 513
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 724385522925
EAN: 0724385522925
ASIN: B000002UJQ
Release Date: May 1, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Airbag | | • | Paranoid Android | | • | Subterranean Homesick Alien | | • | Exit Music (For A Film) | | • | Let Down | | • | Karma Police | | • | Fitter Happier | | • | Electioneering | | • | Climbing Up The Walls | | • | No Surprises | | • | Lucky | | • | Tourist |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Whilst one suspects some kind of pre-millennial hysteria prompted Q magazine's readers to vote OK Computer The Greatest Album Ever Made scarcely five months after its release, it certainly doesn't look stupid up there in the pantheon. Following the hot red rock attack of 1995's The Bends, OK Computer heads out into the cold deep space of prog-rock and comes back with stuff that makes mere pop earthlings like Stereophonics tremble. Whilst the eight-minute-long "Paranoid Android" comes across like "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a gun held to its head, and "Electioneering" is a little too like a kiddy-version of Blood And Chocolate-era Elvis Costello to be truly revelatory, the rest of OK Computer spans the sublime to the ridiculously sublime. Thom Yorke had been obsessed with Ennio Morricone during the recording of the album (in a haunted mansion, fact-fans), and it shows on the expansive space-dream of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and the endlessly comforting closer "The Tourist". And if neither "No Surprises" (played on a toy guitar with Yorke and Ed O'Brien harmonising like a two-man Crowded House) nor "Lucky" (recorded in one day for the Bosnian aid album War Child--it reduced Yorke to tears the first time he heard it played back) make the hairs on your skin spit with electricity, then maybe you're with the Q reader who voted for Anita by Anita Dobson. --Caitlin Moran
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 I appreciate this album, but I just didnt really like it June 21, 2010
S. Mccarthy (Surrey)
With Radioheads 'The Bends' being a great album and 'High and Dry' being one of my favourite songs I was left really dissapointed by this album when I listened to it.
It just seemed to lack the same 'heart' of 'The Bends' and left me rather cold.
Now ive had numerous fans of this album tell me that this was the point of the album and its success in doing this is what makes it such a great album, so I gave it a few more listens and I do really get that it manages to leave you 'cold' or depressed but I just found it a tad annoying after a while because I felt Thom Yorkes vocals got a tad irritating and would recommend 'The Bends' if you are looking for a differant Radiohead experience, 'Rush of Blood to the Head' by Coldplay or Bon Iver's 'For Emma Forever Ago' if youre looking for beautifully written songs.
 Most favorite album ever! May 25, 2010
M. Burton (Lichfield)
This album is simply amazing! Please buy it and listen to it! Some will say it is depressing and boring but do not listen to them; when you listen to the music and the lyrics it is actually very uplifting. Fantastic piece of work, Karma Police, No Surprises and Exit Music (for a film) have to be my favorite. Definitely a five out of five!
Groundbreaking May 7, 2010
Mr. T. Dale (UK)
How do you go about giving a detailed insight into such a critically acclaimed album from one of the most acclaimed bands ever? The answer is, you can't in so few words. OK Computer is well known as Radiohead's magnum opus, and I can see why that decision is made by many. It brings the band into a whole new world of music, abandoning for the most part their earlier classic rock persona for a less accessible, progressive tone. It has been decided many times to be the greatest album of all time by various critics and music magazines.
In terms of the content, every song is a gem, the singles "No Surprises" and "Karma Police", even the peculiar interlude "Fitter Happier" offers a useful insight into the contemporary mind. "Paranoid Android" is the effects-laden six minute epic of the album. It moves through multiple parts until finally the band reeks all havoc and Greenwood lays down the final guitar solo. Yorke contemplates the meaning of life in "Subterranean Homesick Alien", while his fragile voice speaks to your soul and builds into a terrific climax in "Exit Music For A Film". "Let Down" is another critique of modern society, while "Electioneering" is a momentary return to a more classic Radiohead. "Climbing Up The Walls" is perhaps the creepiest moment on the album, while "Lucky" and "The Tourist" conclude the album on nothing less than a sublime note.
The disturbing themes of the album; consumerism, globalisation, postmodernism, social alienation, depression, paranoia...have stood the test of time and are as relevant as they were back in 1997. By keeping it's relevance, OK Computer has become one of the most important albums of our time.
Some Ratings:
Airbag 8/10
Paranoid Android 9/10
Subterranean Homesick Alien 9/10
Exit Music For A Film 9/10
Let Down 9/10
Karma Police 8/10
Fitter Happier
Electioneering 9/10
Climbing Up The Walls 8/10
No Surprises 9/10
Lucky 9/10
The Tourist 9/10
Overall: 8.8 / 10
257 REVIEWS. OH WHY NOT HERES ANOTHER ONE March 25, 2010
Stephen (Nottingham UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite album of all time, and I also think its the best album of all time bar none. If it weren't for the track 7 fitter happier this would be one of those rare albums that has no weak track on it. I think its pointless going on as its probably already been said.
the great transformation begins... March 11, 2010
J. Hood (Reading, Berkshire)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
With Radiohead's two previous efforts (Pablo Honey and The Bends), they carved themselves a comfortable place in modern 'alt' rock. They were moderately popular, got themselves very posotive reviews, and wrote some classic alt anthems which still stand up today. They were basically britain's answer to america's grunge, with obvious influence from bands like Pixies and REM. Then along came OK Computer, and radiohead were never quite the same again. With the new album came a new concept, new sounds, a new range of instrumentation and experementation. The band unleashed a sprawling, a less accesible, but tantalising thrilling new album, which nobody was expecting. The album focuses on modern technology, and it's affect upon modern life. It condemns the ways in which the late 20th century played itself out, the over-relying on technology, the de-huminisation and computerisation of the new, cold world. It's a pre-millennial, paranoid and threatning world, where it's either succumb to the power of technology or die.
The album digs at this, and at the lives of the soul-sucked people who inhabit this modern wasteland, the broken and the lost, the paranoid and the insane, the deluded and the doomed. It condemns the lives of the people in the big, safe houses, who succumb to routine and the technology which turns them, effectively, computers themselves. But this album's ideology and meanings isn't the only thing that makes it so important: so does the music itself.
The album ranges from the more radio friendly tunes ('no surprises') which juxtapose barbed, desperate lyrics with beautiful gentle melodies, to the more left field, bizzare tracks ('fitter, happier'), which Radiohead delved deeper into in later records. These more left field tracks use clicks, whirrs, buzzes electronic backgrounds, to create this sometimes unsettling atmosphere. for example, 'fitter happier' is a 2-minute piece, with an automated voice (Thom Yorke used mac-speak for this) reading out the life of one of the many people that the album digs at, as the orchestra behind it swells as the song builds. It's simple, yes, but also one of the most shattering and beautiful things i've heard in recent years. Then the album offers up the modern greats, mainly 'Paranoid Android', what I consider to be one of the best songs of the decade. It's a 6 minutes fluxating, swirling mini-epic, much like Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in it's change of pace and distinct sections. It starts slow, twisted, odd, and yes, paranoid. But chimes in soon with one of the most deliciously snarling guitar riffs, giving the song instant power and newfound bitterness anger. The song is almost like a microcosm for the entire album itself, it represents everything the album is trying to say. y'know that feeling you get when you hear a song you know is special for the first time, like the opening to Bob Dylan's classic 'like a rolling stone', or The doors' 'The end'. that's the feeling you get after hearing android, like you need to sit down take a breather. And this is only three songs in. Soon we have the achingly beautiful 'exit music', which is basic but simply wonderful. There is no filler material, no wasted second, no moment that you won't want to replay again and again. It's a unique and thrilling ride, that both ugly and beautiful, simaltaneously. This may not be everyone's album, I mean, some may find it too left-field, they may demand the big guitar anthems. Or some people simply don't get it. It's hard to choose my favourite disc from Radiohead's 7 near perfect albums, but for scope, ambition and overall magnificence, it's hard to deny OK computer is their best, and not only their best, but one of the best albums of the 20th century. which i'm sure you're sick of hearing by now.
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