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OK COMPUTER was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year and won the 1998 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
OK COMPUTER, Radiohead's third album, is the bombastic follow-up to 1995's sleeper hit THE BENDS, which left critics and listeners as impressed with the band's ability as they were curious about their potential. In spite of its technological-sounding title and apocalyptic sci-fi themes, OK COMPUTER is firmly grounded in the rock verities. Waves of guitars rage beneath the haunting melodies and near-hysterical fits of singer Thom Yorke. This complex, intense swarm of guitars is held aloft by a solid, inventive rhythm section and an impressive array of piano and keyboard textures.
"Paranoid Android" is a six-minute-plus epic with alternating time signatures, wild dynamic shifts, drama and adrenaline to spare. "Let Down," with its double-tracked vocals and rhythmic throb, may give a brief glimpse back at Radiohead's past, but at no point is OK COMPUTER anything but a hurtle forward.
Engineers include: Nigel Godrich.
Photographer: Stanley Donwood.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Colin Greenwood ; Ed O'Brien ; Jonny Greenwood ; Nigel Godrich; Phil Selway; Thom Yorke.
Radiohead: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway.
Additional Personnel: Adam Cummings (guitar).
Rolling Stone (p.64) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[P]anicked, paranoid and product-coded; tranquilized, arena-size and indelible."
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.65) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (7/10-24/97, pp.117-118) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...OK COMPUTER - a stunning art-rock tour de force - will have you reeling back to their debut, PABLO HONEY, for insight into the group's dramatic evolution..."
Spin (9/99, p.122) - Ranked #9 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Spin (1/98, p.86) - Ranked #2 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year."
Spin (8/97, pp.112-113) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Unlike their majestic models U2, Radiohead take on techno without switching instruments or employing trendy producers....As with post-rockers Tortoise, Laika, and Seefeel, Radiohead have a fuzzbox or two and obviously know how to use 'em..."
Entertainment Weekly (Spring 2000, p.166) - Ranked #4 in EW's "Top 10 albums of the '90s"
Entertainment Weekly (7/11/97, pp.65-66) - "...Shrouded in wafting guitars, swoony rhythms, and moody-blue strings, it shrugs off mosh-pit conventions for a poignant delicacy and breadth, with Yorke's cracked-throat voice the album's melancholy center....For all of Radiohead's growing pains...their aim--to take British pop to a heavenly new level--is true..." - Rating: B+
Q (6/00, p.91) - Ranked #2 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
Q (12/99, p.92) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Q (10/01, p.112) - Ranked #1 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"
Q (1/98, p.114) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997."
Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #2 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year."
Melody Maker (6/14/97, p.49) - "...unlike anything I've ever heard....I definitley know it isn't good for me, and I'm certain it says more about my life than I'd like....in terms of composition and performance, it's very impressive. Radiohead have excelled themselves. They've seen the future."
Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Mojo (Publisher) (p.67) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "OK COMPUTER sought to disturb as much as delight. It's still succeeding."
NME (Magazine) (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #2 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll.
Pitchfork (Website) - "[R]eal songs and tunes, but ones that didn't shrink from the increasingly unlimited possibilities of modern music-making. In that sense, Radiohead were not only record-collectors but futurists..."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.89) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's a brilliant album....[V]isual, visceral and complete..."
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Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)    List All 61 Reviews The Best Ever
This is the best album by anyone, anywhere, anytime. No competition.
Submitted by a reviewer (Willard, MO)
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Brilliant
The best Radiohead`s album, sublime, powerful, barely depressive, in a phrase:" the best thing that you ever had"
Submitted by a reviewer (Huasco, Chile) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. one of the essential ones
If "ok computer" doesn't deserve 5 stars than nothing does. If you don't cry listening to it, you are made of stone. If you haven't heard it yet, you are an idiot(eque).
Submitted by Przemek (Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. One of the best albums... ever
There's a before and an after in 90s music due to this album. Just one of those albums that you will play over and over again throughout the years, just amazed at how good it is. Yorke's voice is really at its best in OK Computer, and the band seems much more mature as compared to The Bends. Both Kid A and Amnesiac were good, but they weren't even close to this. Buy it, it's just a classic.
Submitted by a reviewer (Lima, Peru)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Mindblowing and ABSOLUTELY creative zenith in music
A friend of mine kept telling me that this CD gives one the same feeling that is acquired from listening to Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'. This kind of pissed me off, because that is sacred Floyd, and it represented Floyd's high point in music (soon after Roger Waters went mad and the band wanted to break up, they knew that they had created a perfect musical masterpiece). Whilst going through the London International Airport, I spotted the CD for a good price in the Virgin CD Store and thought, 'English band, I'm in England, why not?' and I picked up the CD. OH MY GOD!!! This music has something that you cannot put your finger on. It sounds absolutely undated, meaning that so many elements from classic music to futuristic sounds are carefully crafted here. This music is the perfect canvas for which a lush and larger than life picture is created upon. I do not own other Radiohead, but I will not buy any, this is too perfect. When you listen to 'Exit Music (For a Film)', there is something that tears into you soul and enters your mind through every one of your pores. After I bought this, I played that song for my wife and she was so connected with the song that every time I came home from work, this song was playing on repeat already for hours. It's that good. The rest of the CD is equally as good, but they could have put just that song on the CD and I would have given the same review. This is highly focused songwriting and these guys were completely in tune with getting the perfect sound for every song to evoke that exact emotion that they were seeking. Buy this first and foremost! 'Dark Side of the Moon' indeed!!!!!
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