OK Computer Wikipedia. OK Computer is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released in 1. 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 1. Radiohead recorded the album in Oxfordshire and Bath between 1. St Catherines Court. The band made a deliberate attempt to distance themselves from the guitar oriented, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, The Bends. OK Computers abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic range of influences laid the groundwork for Radioheads later, more experimental work. Despite lowered sales estimates by EMI, who deemed the record uncommercial and difficult to market, OK Computer reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and debuted at number 2. Billboard 2. 00, Radioheads highest album entry on the US charts at the time. Radiohead est un groupe de rock britannique compos de cinq musiciens originaires dAbingdon dans lOxfordshire Thom Yorke chant, guitare et piano, Jonny. The Record Cellar Canada specialises in digging up that elusive vinyl album to complete your collection. Five songs from the albumParanoid Android, Karma Police, Lucky, No Surprises, and Airbagwere released as promotional singles. The album expanded Radioheads international popularity and has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. In 2. 01. 5, it was included by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry. A remastered version with additional tracks, OK Computer OKNOTOK 1. June 2. 01. 7, commemorating the albums twentieth anniversary. Radiohead Rare SongsIn a rare interview, Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead revisits where their lives in 1997 when they released OK Computer. The experimental rock icons are scheduled to close a tour on July 19 in Tel Aviv but artists including Roger Waters have urged Radiohead to heed Palestinian activists. Rock Hall of Fame Radiohead, Rage, Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode Lead Nominees. LL Cool J, Kate Bush, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues, Judas Priest among 19 possible inductees. Czonkowie Radiohead poznali si w Abingdon School, do ktrej uczszczali. Gitarzysta i wokalista Thom Yorke oraz basista Colin Greenwood byli na tym samym roku. OK Computer received widespread critical acclaim and has been cited by listeners, critics and musicians as one of the greatest albums of all time. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Alternative Music Album at the 4. Annual Grammy Awards in 1. The album initiated a stylistic shift in British rock away from the then ubiquitous genre of Britpop toward melancholic, atmospheric alternative rock that became more prevalent in the next decade. The albums lyrics and music depict a world fraught with rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation and political malaise in this capacity, OK Computer is often interpreted as having prescient insight into the mood of 2. BackgroundeditIn 1. Radiohead toured in support of their second album The Bends. Midway through the tour, Brian Eno commissioned the band to contribute a song to The Help Album, a charity compilation organised by War Child. The Help Album was to be recorded over the course of a single day, 4 September 1. Download Persona 4 Golden Psp Free. Radiohead recorded Lucky in five hours with engineer. Radiohead Creep, Live Rock Am Ring. Rare, high quality vhs grab. Highschool project of Talk Show Host Music Video. Nigel Godrich, who had assisted producer John Leckie with The Bends and produced several Radiohead B sides. Godrich said of the Help Album session Those things are the most inspiring, when you do stuff really fast and theres nothing to lose. We left feeling fairly euphoric. So after establishing a bit of a rapport work wise, I was sort of hoping I would be involved with the next album. To promote The Help Album, Lucky featured as the lead track on the Help EP, which charted at number 5. BBC Radio 1 chose not to play it. This disappointed Radiohead singer Thom Yorke,6 but he later said Lucky shaped the nascent sound and mood of their upcoming record 4 Lucky was indicative of what we wanted to do. It was like the first mark on the wall. Radiohead found touring stressful and took a break in January 1. They sought to distance their new material from the introspective style of The Bends. Drummer Phil Selway said There was an awful lot of soul searching on The Bends. Radiohead Rare' title='Radiohead Rare' />To do that again on another album would be excruciatingly boring. Yorke, Radioheads primary lyricist, said at the time, we could really fall back on just doing another miserable, morbid and negative record lyrically, but I dont really want to, at all. And Im deliberately just writing down all the positive things that I hear or see. Im not able to put them into music yet and I dont want to just force it. The critical and commercial success of The Bends gave Radiohead the confidence to self produce their third album. Their label Parlophone gave them a 1. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said the only concept that we had for this album was that we wanted to record it away from the city and that we wanted to record it ourselves. According to guitarist Ed OBrien Everyone said, Youll sell six or seven million if you bring out The Bends Pt 2, and were like, Well kick against that and do the opposite. A number of producers, including major figures such as Scott Litt, were suggested, but the band were encouraged by their sessions with Godrich. They consulted him for advice on what equipment to use,1. Jona Lewie. 4 Although Godrich had sought to focus his work on electronic dance music,1. RecordingeditIn July 1. Radiohead started rehearsing and recording OK Computer in their Canned Applause studio, a converted shed near Didcot, Oxfordshire. Even without the deadline that contributed to the stress of The Bends,1. Selway blamed on their choice to self produce Were jumping from song to song, and when we started to run out of ideas, wed move on to a new song . The stupid thing was that we were nearly finished when wed move on, because so much work had gone into them. The members worked with nearly equal roles in the production and formation of the music, though Yorke was still firmly the loudest voice according to OBrien. Selway said we give each other an awful lot of space to develop our parts, but at the same time we are all very critical about what the other person is doing. Godrichs role as co producer was part collaborator, part managerial outsider. He said that Radiohead need to have another person outside their unit, especially when theyre all playing together, to say when the take goes well . I take up slack when people arent taking responsibilitythe term producing a record means taking responsibility for the record . Its my job to ensure that they get the ideas across. Godrich has produced every Radiohead album since, and has been characterised as Radioheads sixth member, an allusion to George Martins nickname as the fifth Beatle. Radiohead decided that Canned Applause was an unsatisfactory recording location, which Yorke attributed to its proximity to the band members homes, and Jonny Greenwood attributed to its lack of dining and bathroom facilities. The group had nearly completed four songs Electioneering, No Surprises, Subterranean Homesick Alien and The Tourist. At their labels request, they took a break from recording to embark on a 1. American tour in 1. Alanis Morissette, and performed early versions of several new songs. One song, Paranoid Android, evolved from a fourteen minute version with long organ solos into something closer to the six minute version on the album. During the tour, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann commissioned Radiohead to write a song for his upcoming film Romeo Juliet and gave them the final 3. Yorke said When we saw the scene in which Claire Danes holds the Colt. Soon afterwards, the band wrote and recorded Exit Music For a Film the track plays over the films end credits but was excluded from the soundtrack album at the bands request.