OK Computer
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OK Computer
OK Computer is the third studio album by English rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997 on EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records. The members of Radiohead self-produced the album with Nigel Godrich, an arrangement they have used for their subsequent albums. Other than the song "Lucky", which was recorded in 1995, Radiohead recorded the album in Oxfordshire and Bath between 1996 and early 1997, mostly in the historic mansion St Catherine's Court. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
In 1996, it was a path towards adult-contemporary pop radio; today, it’s an exquisitely faded Polaroid.
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New York Times
When “OK Computer” appeared, it had been 30 years since “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” — time enough for dreams of psychedelic utopia to give way to Radiohead’s postindustrial, post-punk anxiety. But the longing for a sense of humanity, and for the solace of melody, never disappeared.
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Rolling Stone
Where Radiohead might go from here is anyone’s guess, but OK Computer is evidence that they are one rock band still willing to look the devil square in the eyes.
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Rolling Stone
Soon Radiohead would take that ball and run with it, hard.
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Louder Sound
The album that truly splits rock fans gets our lowest rating yet.
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Drowned in Sound
Still, to this thirtysomething perhaps the most remarkable thing about Radiohead’s OK Computer is what a unifying record it was and remains.
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SPIN
Radiohead’s OKNOTOK Gives OK Computer a Moving, Unvarnished Prequel
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The Guardian
OK Computer offered an eerily clairvoyant vision of digital angst and alienation. Twenty years on, this reissue reveals just how unusual it was.
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Consequence of Sound
A completed picture of the album that not only predicted the future, but learned to accept it.
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SPIN
(1997) OK Computer bridges the touchy-feely/block-rockin’ divide of ’90s pop with more urgency than a house party of confessional troubadours or breakbeat scientists.
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4 out of 5 Reviews
This record obviously has its fair share of classics (I haven't even mentioned "Karma Police"), but to rank it higher would be to discount the incredible things the band would go on to do.
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The Line of Best Fit
Radiohead’s OKNOTOK is an unsettling reminder of OK Computer’s prescience.
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All Music
OK Computer is the album that established Radiohead as one of the most inventive and rewarding guitar rock bands of the '90s.
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Sputnik Music
The cover art lays the tone for the album, as it isn't an easy listen, and one you can't have in the background, but instead a masterpiece that is Spartan in some ways, but a genuine treat to listen to. Buy it. Now.
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Medium
The musical counterpart of the TV series Black Mirror, Radiohead’s third studio album is a monumental record that marks the end of an era, makes chilling prophecies of what to come, and inspires hundreds other records of various genres.
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BBC
This is one of those rare albums that can be listened to as a single piece of music.
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XS Noize
The album was a significant step up the podium to their now legendary status.
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Vulture Hound
Everything in it’s right place, complete with lost songs that have finally found their way home. It’s more than OK.
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The Quietus
If you've got the right kind of imagination, you'll laugh a little – to yourself of course – as well as cry, inwardly, with a wonder that such provocative approximation as this goes on, first of all, and then that it actually gets to Number One in the pop chart.
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Treble Zine
These are still excellent songs, an endlessly replayable counterpoint to the too-serious version of Radiohead that are more about art than writing some fun songs.
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Duluth News Tribune
It's a good example of how super-deluxe sets can really fill in the blanks of how the sausage got made.
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Rockhaq
The true genius of this album lies in how timeless it is.
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Hear & Now
I regret leaving OK Computer sitting shiny in its jewel case on that old Formica desk for the majority of 2002. It would have made a fine soundtrack to my teenage angst and my Bush-era rage, and who knows, it might have informed the direction I would have taken. Better late than never, I suppose.
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The Odyssey Online
Whether or not this is true, it's impossible to deny that Radiohead found themselves on their legendary 3rd record, and that "OK Computer" is anything short of a modern masterpiece.
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Soundblab
OK Computer remains a vital and revolutionary album, even two decades later. Very few albums in rock have come close to its brilliance in the interim and a few of those that have were made by Radiohead.
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Immortal Reviews
OK Computer defined an era before it even started.
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The Top Tens
I now see why some people claim this to be one of the best rock albums in history, even up to par with the works of the Beatles and Pink Floyd. If you're looking for an album that has a sad, uneasy, but beautiful sound to it, then this album is perfect for you.
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Vice
Yuppies, technology, essays – give me a break.
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GQ Magazine
They have never sounded more profound.
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Uproxx
‘OK Computer’ Is The Best Album Of The Last 20 Years.
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MTV
I fell completely under the spell of Radiohead's new album, OK Computer.
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Audioxide
OK Computer is as relevant now as ever, both culturally and sonically. The term ‘timeless’ is indeed hastily hurled at works too often, but in the case of OK Computer, there’s no term more appropriate.
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Audioxide
OK Computer is a pantheon of ’90s music, and a stonking last hurrah of Radiohead’s wry British rock roots before they went all-in weird and wonderful for Kid A. Absolutely essential listening.
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Audioxide
For me, it never gets old.
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Albumism
This reaches inside us, twists a handful of our guts and leaves us battered, bruised and bewildered. It transcends genres and hits the parts of us we’d rather not talk about, lest we find ourselves alone in the darkness, as we predicted all along.
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Wired
Every song here occupies its own strange, gorgeous headspace, from the glittering dourness of “No Surprises” to the adroit paranoia of “Karma Police.”
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Amazing Rock Radio
With OK Computer, the band wanted to achieve incredibly deep and terrifying sound and an atmosphere that’s a bit appalling when you first hear it.
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KUTE Radio
OK Computer stands as tall as it did twenty years ago, and OKNOTOK is the perfect way to revisit the iconic classic.
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Classic Rock Review
The album has an overall theme of social disconnection and depression, which is perfectly reflected by the music. This album serves as a bit of a bridge between Radiohead’s earlier and later work.
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Music Radar
The real showmanship is how each player in the band was individually building these walls of sound using the tools at their disposal.
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