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OK Computer 's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. The band distanced themselves from the guitar-centred, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, The Bends. Other than the song ' Lucky', recorded in 1995, Radiohead recorded OK Computer in Oxfordshire and Bath in 1996 and early 1997, mostly in the historic mansion St Catherine's Court. Radiohead self-produced the album with Nigel Godrich, an arrangement they have used for their subsequent albums. It all becomes a bit double-edged, really.OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on on EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records.

“Maybe we were slightly wary of it after the response that ‘Creep’ had. “There was an element of sitting there with your fingers in your ears, trying to block some of it out,” said drummer Phil Selway. But the acclaim quickly became too much for the members’ fragile psyches to endure, particularly when it came to Yorke. This is dark stuff, though the album somehow connected with millions of rock fans who were hungry for something new in a scene dominated by the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Hanson, and Third Eye Blind.

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The songs range in tone, from the neo–prog rock of “Paranoid Android” (a cross between “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Happiness Is a Warm Gun,” in the words of Yorke) to the haunting menace of “Climbing Up the Walls,” and “Fitter Happier,” which consists of “Fred” - a synthesized voice from an old Mac computer - robotically reading pat life instructions like “More productive/Comfortable/Not drinking too much/Regular exercise at the gym, three days a week” before declaring that man is nothing more than “a pig in a cage on antibiotics.” “I had a sense of looking out a window at things moving so fast I could barely see.” “Everything was about speed when I wrote those songs,” Thom Yorke said. They set up shop in the enormous ballroom in the center of the house and cut songs like “Karma Police,” “Paranoid Android,” and “Airbag.” Many of them pulsated with anxiety about the dehumanizing impact of technology at the dawn of the internet era, and the band’s own exhaustion after five straight years of relentless touring. Catherine’s Court, a nine-bedroom Elizabethan manor house owned by actress Jane Seymour in remote Bath, England. The bulk of the recording took place at St. Lots of people, lots of ideas, and we all could pull in the same direction.” It was very high-level thinking, conceptual, moving forwards in terms of sonics, and beautiful songs. “There were no constraints,” said OK Computer producer Nigel Godrich. Instead, they gorged on masterpieces like Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, and the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, and began writing songs just as grandiose and moving, though not rooted in any era of rock’s past. Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely Dan But as soon as you go down that route, you might as well be a Dixieland jazz band, really.” “To us, Brit pop was just a 1960s revival,” guitarist Jonny Greenwood said in 1997. This was the peak of the Brit-pop movement in their native England, but they felt no kinship with the likes of Oasis and Blur. Their designs weren’t quite so grand when they started work on the album in the summer of 1996, but they knew they wanted to create music unlike anything that had been heard before.

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Radiohead’s OK Computer came in at number 42.īefore OK Computer, Radiohead were seen by many as the band behind “Creep,” the 1993 grunge-wannabe hit that Alicia Silverstone casually dismissed in the movie Clueless as “the maudlin music of the university station.” After OK Computer, they were hailed as musical saviors who could usher rock & roll into the 21st century.

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As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making of key albums from the list.

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