O.K Computer

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Whilst one suspects some kind of pre-millennial hysteria prompted iQ/i magazine's readers to vote iOK Computer/i The Greatest Album Ever Made scarcely five months after its release, it certainly doesn't look stupid up there in the pantheon. Following the hot red rock attack of 1995's iThe Bends/i, iOK Computer/i heads out into the cold deep space of prog-rock and comes back with stuff that makes mere pop earthlings like Stereophonics tremble. Whilst the eight-minute-long "Paranoid Android" comes across like "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a gun held to its head, and "Electioneering" is a little too like a kiddy-version of iBlood And Chocolate/i-era Elvis Costello to be truly revelatory, the rest of iOK Computer/i spans the sublime to the ridiculously sublime. Thom Yorke had been obsessed with Ennio Morricone during the recording of the album (in a haunted mansion, fact-fans), and it shows on the expansive space-dream of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and the endlessly comforting closer "The Tourist". And if neither "No Surprises" (played on a toy guitar with Yorke and Ed O'Brien harmonising like a two-man Crowded House) nor "Lucky" (recorded in one day for the Bosnian aid album iWar Child/i--it reduced Yorke to tears the first time he heard it played back) make the hairs on your skin spit with electricity, then maybe you're with the iQ/i reader who voted for iAnita/i by Anita Dobson. i--Caitlin Moran/i

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-05-26 rating:
The most over-rated album ever
I bought this album when it had been reduced to £4.99, and guess what? its a waste of £4.99. It is the most boring album I have ever heard in my life, and I have several hundred albums going back to the 60's. The singer is useless, the lyrics are pathetic and there are no "hooks" whatsoever. This music should be called suicide music and that is what you want to do after listening to this total rubbish

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review by: prisca31 date: 2009-05-05 rating:
The second one of the best
So good. The sleeve is so nice. U can rediscover the magic of this album.

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review by: date: 2009-03-04 rating:
My Tuppence
Whenever I'm asked what my favourite album ever made is, after much sighing and chin stroking, I almost inevitably end up at Radiohead's magnificent third album. Perhaps it's because it's the only one of the candidates to have been released during my lifetime, I don't know. But there you are - it's the greatest album ever made! br / br /Love's Forever Changes is certainly a candidate for the above question, and while it may seem bizarre at first, I think a number of parallel can be drawn between the two. br / br /FC came at the end of the summer of love, and was the first album to hint at the darkness that lay ahead and the unwelcome realities the movement was blind to. OKC arrived at the height of Britpop, and while the Gallagher boys were in No. 10 with the Blairs, Radiohead were also hinting at something darker, the alienation, cultural sterility and disenfranchising of the soul being felt in a digital age. br / br /OKC can at times be cold and sterile, but it is permeated with a resonating beauty throughout. It is perfectly of a time, and yet timeless. br / br /The songs, as you'd expect are superb, but as with all great albums the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. br / br /The only point where OKC loses something is when Radiohead move from the personal to the political on Electioneering. Maybe it's there to remind people what middle-of-the-road sounds like? It's more than remedied by Climbing Up The Walls which follows. A dark, brooding claustrophobic monster of a sound, it's the entrance music I would have I was a boxer! br / br /From the riff of Airbag and the multi-faceted genius of Paranoid Android, through the atmosphere of Exit Music, incredible musicality of Let down and the singalong anthem of Karma Police to the melancholy but uplifting No Surprises, the soaring, magnificent Lucky to the epic closer The Tourist, Radiohead do not put a foot wrong. br / br /Radiohead had just spent all the money from the bends on the kit needed to self-produce an album in Jane Seymour's mantion. They had creative carte blanch and this was their chance to go stratospheric. Boy did they take it. br / br /Parlophone said it was commercial suicide. That seemed wrong at the time and seems even more so 12 years on. The success of this album gives me faith in the Great British public!

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review by: date: 2009-02-08 rating:
The greatest album ever made?
Although it may seem like an insincere superlative when considering such legendary albums as Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, or Love's Forever Changes, Radiohead's opus OK Computer is, in my opinion, the greatest record of all time. Never has any other album left me with such an incredible feeling of hope, desperation, beauty and, above all, the sense that I had just heard something remarkable. br /Whilst it would be easy to dismiss OK Computer as over-hyped, pretentious, or similar to Pink Floyd, there is an incredible amount of substance to the album (and for the record, I loathe all post-Syd Floyd!) From the hard-hitting opener Airbag and the astounding Paranoid Android, to the epic Lucky and the uplifting closer The Tourist, it truly is an album of unadulterated genius, and the album that established Radiohead as the definitive band of a generation.


review by: date: 2009-01-14 rating:
Overated Hyped
I cannot understand the hype over this CD. There is nothing new or unique at all contained on the album with respect to either the writing, playing or production.

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