Radiohead - OK Computer

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

     

• Parlophone - NODATA 02 (UK) LP
• Parlophone - NODATA PROLP02 (UK) 12"
• Capitol Records - 7243 8 55229 1 8 (US) LP

Images from Vinyl Releases of OK Computer

Tracks

• )   eeny
• A1)   Airbag
• A2)   Paranoid Android
• A3)   Subterranean Homesick Alien
• )   meeny
• B1)   Exit Music (For A Film)
• B2)   Let Down
• B3)   Karma Police
• )   miney
• C1)   Fitter Happier
• C2)   Electioneering
• C3)   Climbing Up The Walls
• C4)   No Surprises
• )   mo
• D1)   Lucky
• D2)   The Tourist

Track listing above is from Parlophone - NODATA 02 (UK) LP

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