Via its 12 tracks, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Colin Greenwood and Philip Selway anticipated a soulless, tech-saturated future. That foreboding anxiety is central to Radiohead ’s critically lauded OK Computer. With their gradual infiltration of our daily lives then a pretty unthinkable idea for most, the rapid development of computing – not least the potential of the internet – led a swelling company of forecasters feeling uneasy, particularly as an unknowable new century ominously loomed. “ But back in 1997, computers were still clunky desktop affairs. In November, Audio Media International looked at the recording of the iconic OK Computer: Before getting to a couple of reviews, there are articles that explore OK Computer in more depth. Although they will do a better job, I wanted to have a say and draw attention to the anniversary. I know others will write about OK Computer before its twenty-fifth anniversary. From Paranoid Android to Let Down through to Karma Police, it is a genius album. In terms of the songs on OK Computer, some of Radiohead’s best and most enduring work can be found. I am going to come to an article that discussed the recording of OK Computer and how the band came to work with Nigel Godrich. In 2009, a Collector's Edition was released.
OK Computer is a remarkable album that, since its release, has only grown in its reputation and popularity. Radiohead would step further into Electronic music with the follow-up, Kid A (2000). More Electronic and a bit more experimental, it was a year when there was a lot of pioneering albums released. Maybe critics reacted to what Radiohead had done on 1995’s The Bends and felt OK Computer was a move in a strange direction. I wonder what the Japanese market made of OK Computer back in 1997! Considered a modern masterpiece and one of the most important albums ever, not all the reaction to OK Computer was positive in 1997. Radiohead’s seismic third studio album, OK Computer, celebrates twenty-five years next month. IN THIS PHOTO: Radiohead in New York in 1997
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