OK Computer [2CD & DVD]

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Artist: Radiohead
Label: EMI Catalogue

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3917

Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5.1 x 0.6

EAN: 5099969362620
ASIN: B001PSQG1I

Release Date: March 23, 2009
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Tracks:

Disc 1

•	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
•	The Tourist

Disc 2

•	Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
•	Pearly
•	A Reminder
•	Melatonin
•	Meeting In The Aisle
•	Lull
•	Climbing Up The Walls (Zero 7 Mix)
•	Climbing Up The Walls (Fila Brazillia Mix)
•	Palo Alto
•	How I Made My Millions
•	Airbag (Live In Berlin)
•	Lucky (Live In Florence)
•	No Surprises (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 28/5/97)
•	Climbing Up The Walls (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 28/5/97)
•	Exit Music (For A Film) (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 28/5/97)

Disc 3

•	[BONUS DVD] : Paranoid Android
•	[BONUS DVD] : Karma Police
•	[BONUS DVD] : No Surprises
•	[BONUS DVD] : Paranoid Android (BBC TV's Later With Jools Holland 31/5/97)
•	[BONUS DVD] : No Surprises (BBC TV's Later With Jools Holland 31/5/97)
•	[BONUS DVD] : Airbag (BBC TV's Later With Jools Holland 31/5/97)

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Editorial Reviews:

From Amazon.com
Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British "new wave of new wave" band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning "We hope that you choke." Sluggish, understated, and hard to get a grip on, OK Computer takes a few listens to appreciate, but its entirety means more than any one song. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews:

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It's Good October 8, 2009
Brendan Riley (Chester, UK)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

It's pretty good, but I wouldn't rate it any higher than any of the Porcupine Tree CDs that I've got.

5 out of 5 stars

Radiohead - OK Computer 2 CD June 14, 2009
C. Glover (Stourbridge, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Very possibly one of the best albums of all time - a true soundscape and exploration of music. The inventive nature and experimental feel of the album is heightened by the fact that we can revisit it in addition to the extra material on the second CD and DVD. This edition is highly recommended.

4 out of 5 stars

Not EVERYTHING, but a comprehensive package April 22, 2009
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful

Final release is "OK Computer". It's over-rated and under-rated, all things at once, the sound of Radiohead confidently striding forward into a territory of complete freedom. It is as good as everyone else has said : maybe better, in fact. They may never make an album as complete or as artistically successful in sound, vision, or songwriting again. But right now, at this point, Radiohead were heading out into space. Taking it's cue from the dystopian work of J.G.Ballard - all car crashes, airbags, fetishished techonology, alien abductions, and political neurosis, "Ok Computer" painted a damning picture of the immense emotional costs of the final moments of Conservative Britain in the ashes of Britpop. Whilst Oasis and their ilk were scribbling around producing shallow drivel, Radiohead had an eye not for the then-Be-Here-Now, but for the future we would be spending the rest of our lives in. The record is a plea to a world gone mad to slow down, stop killing us, start thinking. And aside from the verbose and runaway "Electioneering", a sly comment on the madness of touring for approval, be it political or musical, there's little trace of the embryonic band that birthed "Pablo Honey" just four years earlier.

Second CD contains - you guessed it - every B-side in order of release. There's sadly no sign of the colloboration Thom Yorke made with Drugstore - the marvellous "El President" : and the songs are all presented, again, with no thought for how they may sound listened to in order, and there are some songs missing - the BBC Session of "Talk Show Host" is bafflingly absent, as is an alternate take of "Pearly *" which was released on a foreign single - but otherwise all is present and correct.

The DVD meanwhile is not much of a draw compared to the other reissues : aside from the three promo videos, there's some songs on BBC's Later, and nothing else. The DVD is over in 29 minutes and only 6 songs long. Considering the previous releases, could EMI have not licensed the rather brilliant Glastonbury 1997 TV Broadcast?

That said though, again, like the other 3 disc sets, these are exhaustive, huge, and keenly priced sets that make any search for the vast majority of Radiohead's obscurities and long-lost gems redundant as they are almost all here, and in great value packages presented with no short amount of care. They are imperfect, to say the least, but overall, each is a fine compilation that covers almost all reaches of Radiohead's work in their early years, presented with some care and detail. If you liked the albums then, get these, go further.

2 out of 5 stars

False Advertising March 26, 2009
Peter Dickie (scotland)
8 out of 21 found this review helpful

i bought this solely for the inclusion of "meeting people is easy" on the dvd.

listed by amazon as dvd track 7 and reviewed (?) by the first reviewer as a particular incentive to buy...

"meeting people is easy" isn't on this

not listed on the box
not on the dvd menu when i put it into the dvd player

false advertising

very poor, amazon

5 out of 5 stars

OK+ Computer March 23, 2009
B. Murray (UK)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful

As re-issues go this and the first two Radiohead albums offer excellent value. Out of the 3, OK Computer has the least extra tracks and only has 3 videos and 3 Jools performances on the DVD (Meeting People Is Easy is not actually on the DVD), but for £13 it still offers great value.

The original album sounds like it has been remastered to me, but it doesn't state this on the sleeve. There are 8 original B-sides tracks and the remainder are live, remixes and session tracks. It's only the remixes that I'm not too keen on. The dvd (though short) is excellent, good videos and a brilliant Jools Holland set. Paranoid Android (previously avalable on a Later dvd) is probably my favourite Jools Holland perfomance by anyone and Airbag comes over better live.

Great album, 15 track bonus cd + dvd for £13 is excellent value.

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