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OK Computer | 
 enlarge | Artist: Radiohead
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  2037 reviews
Sales Rank: 645
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 55229
UPC: 724385522925
EAN: 0724385522925
ASIN: B000002UJQ
Publication Date: 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, The |
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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
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 Music Still Lives January 5, 2009
I had not listened to this record in awhile and forgot how much I love this CD, it truly stand up after all this time and the accolades it has received is well worth it.
Radiohead are special - thoughtful songwriters who play well and create an atmosphere with the best of the bands such as Pink Floyd. They accomplish it here from the first track on. The first six tracks rank up there with any six tracks back to back in concept, though I would probably put some Beatles and Pink Floyd sections ahead - that is not meant as a knock at all, it is a compliment. To even entertain such a statement shows how good this record is.
I now listen to this often again and hear new things I missed before that make it better.
One of, if not the, best albums of all time December 26, 2008
I looked at OK Computer for quite a long time before I finally bought it. Thank God that I did. This album is incredible. Every song would stand up well by itself and the album flows so well. When I heard it i was impressed but it didn't blow me away; as I kept listening to it I couldn't stop. Its is just a great group of songs right up there with Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, Zeppelin IV, Moondance, Are You Experienced?, Blow by Blow, and any other "classic" album you can think of. Definetly worth any price, a fine piece of music and a must have for anyone who truly loves music.
 I want to like it...but... December 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved, LOVED!, "Bends". I played it so much in the late 90's, my friends got sick of it and told me to stop playing it. I fell out of society for a while, and here I am catching up, 10-12 years later (long story). So, I figured I'd catch up with Radiohead. I'm listening to "OK,Computer" as I write this, and, honestly, wtf? It's gotten such great reviews. What am I missing? Sorry, but it seems like a mediocre album to me, one or two good songs (I really like "Karma Police"), but nothing like "Bends" (maybe nostalgia?, but this doesn't do anything for me).
It changed the way a lot of people my age approached popular music - I'd say that's a pretty solid legacy December 4, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
What can anyone say about OK Computer ten years after the fact that hasn't been said a thousand times already? Probably nothing, but heck - that's never stopped me before.
Discovering OK Computer back in 1998 was like waking up one morning to find a Triceratops lumbering around in your garden, munching lazily on your begonias and knocking shrubs over as if nothing was out of the ordinary: "Uh, mom?...Yeah, there's a dinosaur in the backyard...I know ma, I thought they were extinct too."
I'm betting a lot of folks who were paying attention back then remember where they were when they heard OK Computer for the first time. It's the musical "where were you when Kennedy was shot?" of my particular generation. I remember driving to meet my friends for dinner, having bought this disc at Best Buy, and being so floored I was late to the meal because I had to drive around and listen some more. Back then I was intensely skeptical of the value of "modern music." Furthermore, it typically took ANY album several listens to sink in for me.
But OKC still stands out as one of the most instantly accessible albums I've ever bought: perfectly tuned in to my psychological and musical channel-settings. All kinds of details which normally take months to emerge leapt out at me. The opening five seconds of "Airbag," with that monstrous riff that resembles a viola staplegunned to a surly guitar, sealed the deal on the spot. Then "Paranoid Android" - King Crimsonesque prog-rock by any other name, and all the better for it: beauty and horror seamlessly melded together. "Subterranean Homesick Alien." "Exit Music."
Blow by blow they came to me as I puttered aimlessly around that afternoon, each song building upon the momentum of the last. And then, most mindblowingly of all, "Let Down." I listened to that song for the first time, back on that slate-grey cloudy day, with a fully slackened jaw. The music sounded like it was being played backwards, sucked down by the riptide of its own current (technically speaking the effect comes from the clashing 5/8 meter of lead guitar played atop the relentless 4/4 march of the rhythm section). The lyrics evoked that same sense of desperate technological anomie that I had begun to feel but lacked the skill to put into words. And the melodies...oh how they soared and swooped, splitting into harmonies and dovetailing effortlessly until the whole thing ground to a computerized spark-spraying halt, leaving a lonely acoustic guitar to peter the churning riff out on a grateful, exhausted A major ending. Musical DRAMA, my friends. Holy guacamole.
Understand: I didn't think people MADE music like this anymore. Melodic, emotional, complex, psychologically profound, and most of all, unabashedly, luxuriantly beautiful...everything was in its right place. Thom Yorke's voice was something I thought dead in rock music: a voice unafraid to EMBRACE its own beauty, rather than reject it petulantly a la the grunge and metal fashions of the day. It turned out that that every musical value *I* held dear was shared by this somewhat esoteric British art-rock act I'd previously associated with an early-90's novelty hit.
I - we, all of us who chanced upon this record ten years ago - had discovered a magical secret in OK Computer, a well-known record that still felt like a private, intensely personal keepsake. And even if that blush of first love has long since faded away (honestly, Kid A is a better album), I will never forget how this record forever changed the way I heard music. In all seriousness: thanks, Radiohead.
 Perhaps Too Out There November 20, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Don't let the 3 star rating fool you. I love Radiohead. In fact, I think a few songs on here are among my favorite of their whole discography.
However, I can't quite say the same over the majority of the album.
To me as more of a listener, I don't try exploring all the little nooks and crannies of albums a lot of times and, perhaps and probably, as a result, I really couldn't and still can't see the massive appeal this album brings. Is it junk? Hardly.
But I don't believe it deserves the massive reputation it has. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, though. Radiohead is a strongly developed and acquired taste. Both "The Bends" and "In Rainbows" took a fair number of listens before they really hit me as to how good they really were. Unfortunately, this album was the biggest let down for me. I had real high hopes for it, and seeing as how I like the aforementioned two albums much more, it's a major disappointment.
That said, though, I still very much enjoy the songs on here "Paranoid Android" (very hard rock Radiohead), "Karma Police" (almost Beatles-esque), "Fitter Happier," and "Airbag".
Who knows, maybe I'll like it more with time.
Will you? That's up to you entirely.
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