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Wow who would’ve thought this album would be on here. In all seriousness though despite the album’s grandmaster npc status it deserves the praise it gets, it really is a one of a kind, super influential album with a perfect track list and run time, completely changed the British scene of music st the time and was super ahead of its time in its cultural and political theme present in its lyrics and overall message. I personally prefer Hail to the Thief (despite the fact I gave that 4 stars, wish you could change reviews on this) but this is definitely a close second and probably objectively the better one (HTTF is a bit messy in its track list and more stripped down). Also, I find it crazy how this followed the more guitar rock orientated the bends, that’s one of the great things in Radiohead’s discography, nit one of their albums are the same. Favourites: all. Overall, 10/10. (Nooo npc take).
"Kid A" or "OK Computer" ... hard to pick for me. Flawless albums that captured where we were headed as a society, pre-social media or everyone needing everything from Amazon.
I hear the influence on all the indie music I enjoy
It's an eerie and deep album. It's excellent, but it's also kind of exhausting. Musically, it's top tier. The compositions are ambitious and experimental and the production is perfect. It's a more modern take on progressive rock, they're still alternative rock but they mix and experiment with many different techniques to get a very specific and forward sound. They're very versatile too, mixing heavier tracks like "Lucky" with the almost-lullaby "No Surprises". Thematically, it's a deep, haunting album that reflects on society, loneliness and technology. For me this is what made it a bit exhausting, as even though Yorke's lyrics are kind of abstract, they're still pretty heavy to process. The compositions match the themes perfectly, making very cohesive and complete songs. For specific songs, "Karma Police" and "No Surprises" are tremendously popular as stand-alone tracks, but within the album they work even better. "Paranoid Android" is a modern prog rock epic, and it's outstanding. My other favourites were "Climbing Up The Walls", in which I loved the production and the chorus, and "The Tourist" which is the perfect closer, letting loose the tension and ending on a lighter note. I found that there were no worse songs in the project though, they all serve their purpose perfectly in the album.
Amazing achievement
great!
500. This is THE album
First time I listened to this I didn't understand all the acclaim, finally clicked for me
10/10 A manifesto
It’s a stone cold classic. They invented the 2000s 3 years early. They write indelible melodies with unmistakable edge/darkness on top. Radiohead are singular. This 10 year run from 97-2007 is up there with the best who ever did it.
Fun and varied
Klasika!
What can I say? It's a perfect fucking album, no skips except Fitter Happier when I'm not in the mood for robot voice. But on the whole, magical.
5/5 automatique <3
Perfect.
Comon bro it's Ok Computer. Free Palestine.
A masterpiece
One of the best albums ever.
liked songs: all Fantastic album. If you don't like this, you don't like Radiohead. Or being sad. 4.5
Fav: Let Down Least Fav: Fitter Happier Yeah this is straight up one of the greatest albums ever made. Every song has so much care put into it, and the themes of anxiety for the future as well as this sense of hopelessness are conveyed very well, and I am so glad I’ve heard most of these songs live as they’re very special to me. You’ll struggle to find many albums better than this
10/10 Monster album - it kind of felt Radiohead completed alternative rock and said everything they wanted to say. They never produced an album as good again, and nor did anyone else - at least, not in this "genre". Superb. Meant a lot to me as it was The Album of my A-Levels. Listening to it now, I can picture my teenage bedroom, my desk, my cd player.
Such a great album
Beautiful stuff
A masterpiece. A true body of work greater than the sum of it's components.
Classic album
Great album. It has the scope of a big concept album. And while I don’t think there’s any one single narrative through line, there feels like there’s a story happening. The music is just so cinematic, and the lyrics suggest a sci-fi dystopian world. The songs are perfectly sequenced too. To borrow the title of a Radiohead song not on this album, everything is in its right place. There’s a nice range of styles too. A lot fall under the umbrella of Radiohead’s signature proggy sound, but there are a few Britpop/guitar rock leaning songs, and “Paranoid Android” is pretty punk. I’ve always been a fan of the twinkling and melancholy “No Surprises” too.
Another Radiohead banger. It's got their usual layered songs with a lot of depth that take you for a ride (like "Paranoid Android", "Exit Music (For a Film)") , and it's got the big hooky pop alt art rock tracks ("Karma Police", and "No Surprises"). "Lucky" is a hidden gem. It's like a Pink Floyd track without the derivation. Beautiful use of that spacey trippy sound to create a track with great dynamic moments. "The Tourist" is a fantastic closer. It's absolutely huge, and I really do feel like a tourist with this album so the title is apt. I think this is my favorite Radiohead album. When I think of my favorite tracks of theirs, its' "No Surprises", "Karma Police", "Creep", "Jigsaw Falling Into Place", and "Everything In Its Right Place". And this album has two of them- while none of the others co-exist on any single album. It's got a classic great Radiohead album cover. Just like the music, it's artistic, memorable, and interesting.
Best album ever, great musical composition, evocative lyrics 5/5
Perfect album
Masterpiece! The best album by Radiohead and one in the top 10 in 1990s.
10
Album #37 and the easiest 5 stars so far! A lot of albums get hyped up to be something they’re not, however ‘OK Computer’ deserves the hype and then some. I can only imagine what it was like to hear this back in ‘97 and ‘Let Down’ is such an ethereal masterpiece of a song. So yeah, 5/5!
Amazing album
I'd not listened to this album in its entirety before. It was an album which, when it came out, some people were saying that I would love it. It started off, however, with a 'this is going to be a long ordeal' on my mind but it somehow transformed into a very cool listen. I enjoyed it.
Two 5/5 albums in a row! :') I have actually been listening to a lot of Radiohead lately since the YouTube algorithm is recommending me every single demo version of "No Surprises" for a reason. "OK Computer" is an achingly, hauntingly beautiful record. Radiohead's greatest work by a long stretch. "Exit Music (For a Film)" has the best buildup / momentum in musical history, "Karma Police" is cathartic and "No Surprises" might be the best song of 1997, capable of conveying feelings that I cannot write with words. Radiohead is truly a one-man experience.
This album has a special place in my heart. I remember borrowing the CD multiple times from the library and rocking out top to bottom. The singles got regular airplay on the local alternative radio station despite being weird and long. Holds up so well to this day as one of the best albums of the 90s. Every day it gets harder to listen to the band because of their terrible politics (how far they’ve come from their roots) but this album will always exist as a perfect time capsule.
★★★★★★
What an amazing album
Corta venas, seguro, pero ¿No es el retrato de los momentos que vive nuestra sociedad, y nuestra juventud?. A no quejarse y disfrutarlo con la lágrima en la mejilla. Musicalmente, muy buena.
Nothing better from that time period. Nothing.
Really great album.
i think this is my favourite album of radiohead's. it is really fantastic and so clever, and has aged so well.
Indie rock. creative, unique, beautiful and sad. Heartachingly beautiful passages.
Perfection
Never understood people who suffer in silence when you can play Radiohead
Iconic.
Ok Radiohead
Definitely one of the best albums of all time, almost every song is a masterpiece, every song is good
I will never forget being 13 years old and seeing the video for Paranoid Android on MTV. Blew my mind. This record has held up astonishingly well these last nearly 30 years. An easy 5/5.
even though this isn’t my favorite radiohead album, it’s still amazing
It’s Radiohead so yeah it’s getting another 5 from me. I’m loving the run of The Smile albums from Jonny and Thom but I would love to hear another Radiohead album.
One of my favorites from them. Instantly takes me back. I'll just go ahead and give this a 5.
A god-damned masterpiece. Perfect. Life-changing. Somehow approaching 30 years old 🥺 but it still hits.
This one takes me back. What a great album. I feel like once Radiohead started writing this kind of music (the post Pablo Honey era) this album is one of the most cohesive and digestible ones. It combines a dreamscape with the need to still not meander off too much and yet still give you some cool down to earth song structure. I wore this one out when it was released. I also saw them play some of these songs at Stone Mountain during this era and it felt other worldly.
Have heard this album before but it didn't hit the same this time. still pretty great! notable songs: Let Down, No Surprises, The Tourist, Man of war, Lift.
I had heard this album and loved it before, and this was no different. Wonderful varied album with great sounds, awesome melodies, stellar performances, and impeccable recording quality. I listened to it twice back to back -- five stars.
I get why people might not like Radiohead. I like them, but I get it. When I am king/You will be first against the wall, I've always loved that line. I hate to say this, and it's probably because I've listened to more Steely Dan in this project than anyone should ever have to, but there's definitely something reminiscent of some Steely Dan. Now I feel terrible. Coldplay heard this album and toned down the weirdness...the result was A Rush of Blood to the Head. This album is the working soundtrack for all Zach Braff's films. Karma Police, great song. No Surprises is an all-time great song. What a beautiful song and a great video too.
Forgot how insanely, unbelievably good this was.
There are some serious life lessons in this album. "A patient, safer driver." After many years, this is now me!!! Even though I prefer The Bends, this is still such a great album on so many levels. In a word, evergreen. Liked Songs Added: Airbag Paranoid Android Karma Police No Surprises Lucky
BEEN a classic
Its hard to overstate the impact this album had on my life.
no surprises, a masterpiece
One of my favourite albums. Thom Yorke is amazing, the band sounds so unique and powerful. The songs are really authentic and original.
This shit goes SO incredibly hard. Unsure if there is a bad song on this album. Let Down is a fucking transcendental experience every time - possibly one of the best songs EVER. The four song run of 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' into 'Exit Music from a Film' into 'Let Down' in 'Karma Police' is magical
I listened to this album for the first time a long time ago. It’s a good album!
Have heard this before but it never clicked. Totally clicked this time. Love how an album about isolation starts with sleigh bells. Electioneering feels out of place but thematically, I like how the most straightforward song is alienated on this album about being weird and alienated. Probably closer to a 9/10 for me but 5 stars because who am I to deny thommy
One of the rare cases where one of my favorite albums ever is also one of the most acclaimed
I was playing with the idea of being a hater since this album is, in fact, pretentious, but being pretentious doesn't preclude being good. It's up its own ass and lacks the urgency that I love about The Bends, but that also doesn't make it a worse album. It's a complete whole, with good individual songs that fit well together, and is an apex sad thoughtful teen album. It's also a little bit of a time capsule - it's been riffed on by later artists so many times that it's got a seinfeld effect going on, but stuck squarely in the 90s. As is often the case, could probably use a little editing! But that's look back 30 years, it probably worked better then. Still, between this The Bends, and Kid A, Radiohead's basically earned every self-indulgent tack they've taken since.
To a lot of people, one of the greatest albums of a generation still holds up today. I won't claim to be a huge Radiohead fan but they are a great band, and this album is top notch. Not a single song on here I wanted to skip. Karma Police and No Surprises still get radio play time today because they hold up so well. Excellent album that absolutely belongs on a list of albums you should listen to before you die.
Masterpiece
A classic
I’m a white recent post grad, so…
Selon la page wiki : "They distanced themselves from the guitar-centred, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, The Bends. OK Computer's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work." "The lyrics depict a dystopian world fraught with rampant consumerism, capitalism, social alienation, and political malaise, with themes such as transport, technology, insanity, death, modern British life, globalisation and anti-capitalism. In this capacity, OK Computer is said to have prescient insight into the mood of 21st-century life. The band used unconventional production techniques, including natural reverberation, and no audio separation. Strings were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. Most of the album was recorded live." Un album que jai écouté à plusieurs reprises, parfois très jeune (ado), parfois pas dans l'ordre, à divers degrés d'attention, parfait par fragments dans des films. Le casse-tête remis ensemble reste un chef-d'oeuvre de la même ligue que plus grands albums concepts (dark side of the moon, sgt pepper). À réécouter dans 2, 5, 10 ans.
Easily a 5, best album of the 90s
yeah classic.
masterp
Makellos, Perfekt, Genial
I love radiohead, and either this or kid A is the best radiohead album. Easy 5!
The best album of all time hands down.
i wanna cry
Excellent. So many great tracks. Played it back to back multiple times
9.3/10
Don't overthink it. Legendary album from a legendary band.
One of my favorite albums 9/10 beautiful my favs are parinoid android, electioneering, let down, airbag and ofc no surprises +exit music
One of the GOATs
It's a 5, but you already knew that.
It's not my favourite genre, but it's objectively a great album. It surprised me, so much so that I will gladly listen to it again.
If it was possible to wear out a CD in the 90’s, I probably would have with this one.
מה אני יכול לומר שלא נאמר על השיר הזה אחד מהאלבומים היותר טובים בכל הזמנים שיר מועדף - Paranoid Android
i mean, its fuckin ok computer. if this isnt a five for you then youre dead to me.
Great album. Mid 2000's on Radiohead I don't care too much for. Some say that In Rainbows is on a par with this. Nah, not even close IMO. This is a great mix of the unconventional but still holds on to 90's rock ideas. They hadn't gone too whiny and too far up their own arse yet. Just pretentious enough.
Perfect. 5/5
Still love this album
OK Computer set the tone for indie and alternative rock for the next century. It is an innovative record that has stood the test of time. The lyrics captures modern America's addiction to technology, consumerism, media consumption, and political scandal. This album represents a full break with the grunge sounds of Pablo Honey and The Bends, and is what I consider to be the electro art pop that is bold, true Radiohead. I’ve given fives to other albums, but this might be the one deserves it the most! 5⭐️
I have heard around half of these songs before, and listening to it altogether was really nice. I really like Radioheads sound and all of the songs on the album could be in my listening rotation. I loved this album.
Excellent album. My favorite album of Radiohead.
This project has made me realize that while I always thought OK Computer was my favorite Radiohead album, my favorite is actually The Bends. Don’t get me wrong, OK Computer is still amazing and “Karma Police” and “Paranoid Android” are some of my favorite songs, but I connected with The Bends so much more. But yeah, OK Computer is great and was always going to get 5 stars from me. I’m hit or miss with almost everything after this album, but they’re doing some of their best work here.
Perfection
A masterpiece. One of a succession of masterpieces that managed to top the achievement of the last. I used to think I didn't like this album that much, as it marked Radiohead's turn away from the experimental, chaotic rock sound that I loved so much on the Bends, into desolate electronica that is just the sound of depression and madness. But really that turn didn't happen until Kid A. And Kid A is still objectively a great album. Whiny vocals, overly-complicated compositions, pretentious lyrics, there's a lot of stuff that shouldn't work. But it all comes together perfectly. My favourite individual songs are still largely on The Bends, but OK Computer is such an impressive listen in its entirety.
I went back and forth on this one. It's probably, like, a 4.75, which I'll round off to 5 stars. Excuse my musings below - I want to capture some thoughts. It's angry, earnest, and unsubtle, with lyrics I'd put into my AIM profile and use as a guide in my teenage life. That is to say: I really like music like this! Case in point: when I got to Fitter Happier, I searched up the lyrics and found a post on the Radiohead subreddit from a 19-year-old who was deeply unsettled by the song and seeking comfort about the adulthood that awaited them. There are only a few comments, but they're semi-helpful - "Yeah, the song is kind of accurate, but you'll manage" kind of thing. Honestly a rare glimpse into completely unpretentious Radiohead fandom. The post was from 9 years ago, and it looks like OP hasn't posted on Reddit since. Wonder how they're faring. If you just presented this album to me without context, I'd be extremely into it. But when you tell me it's Radiohead, I think, "Hm, but this isn't the best they can do, is it?" That's silly. I really vibed with this. 5 stars.
I wanted to give OK Computer a 4 because it is overrated and because the bends is simply better, but then I listened to it, and was reminded that 6 or 7 of the songs are great. Yes it’s overrated and the bends of better, but it’s still a 5:)
masterpiece
absolutely fucking great album
It's Radiohead, it's OK Computer - it's one of the best album hat tricks in modern music - snarky, depressing and now surprisingly guitar-focused for Radiohead - before they took their wonderful sharp left turn with Kid A. Undeniably an end-of-the-20th-Century classic. A retro-modernist-dystopian set of songs whose satire feels sadly naive and innocent coming from a pre-9/11 world.
SLAY
Actually OK Computer. Definitely the best Radiohead album.
This was always going to be a 5 before i even started listening to it. Radiohead are one of those bands I know well enough and have listened to their albums many times, but don't own any of the physical media. I would like to own this at one point along with their best album, the bends. No Surprises and Let Down are the standout songs
Pensaba que era demasiado cool como para que me gustara Radiohead, pero este challenge me está haciendo darme cuenta de que no soy más que otro tío más del montón. Este álbum es increíble. Combina el jazz avant-garde de Bitches Brew, los sonidos más experimentales de los Beatles, el krautrock, la electrónica de DJ Shadow, musique concrète, y veinte mil estilos más. Hay una enorme cantidad de instrumentos y efectos de estudio diferentes que crean composiciones de muchísimas capas, en las que abundan los cambios de ritmo e incluso los polirritmos. Y, a pesar de su complejidad, consigue ser un álbum accesible y casi comercial. Las letras son abstractas pero casi proféticas, hablando de la involución global en temas como tecnología o transporte. Un álbum seminal que marca la transición del Britpop hacia el rock más alternativo y multifacético de los 2000, como el post-rock, art rock o el indie electrónico. Y, más generalmente, determina el punto de inflexión entre la música popular de los siglos XX y XXI.
An anthem througout, phenomenal
Outstanding record, the songs have so much depth, lots of atmospheric layering, album flows from song to song as one unified piece.
Unsettling yet dreamy. Passionately angsty yet carelessly resolved. Some of the best individual song development, progression, and complex layering I have ever heard while still providing a masterfully crafted and cohesive album as a whole. Lyrically, amongst its abstractness, I felt at times as though Radiohead was eerily describing the exact alienating world we are unfortunately living in now almost three decades later. I won’t add anymore because I don’t think there’s anything more I can say to properly reflect the goodness of this album, just listen to it and enjoy it.
I'm not the biggest Radiohead fan, but their first three albums are pretty good before they started to get too esoteric for me. I really enjoy Paranoid Android and Karma Police off this one, but the rest is also pretty good.
I already knew I loved this one :)
Perfect from start to finish. A masterpiece that is socially relivant, smart and timeless. A master class of the form.
Their 3rd album. Airbag and Paranoid Android are two opening tracks that let you know this isn't 'Brit Pop'. The album stands up today with it's themes of media obsession, paranoia and dystopian technology. Karma Police is such an amazing track. No Surprises is also just wonderful. Fitter Happier is a glorious interlude. So alternative for 1997. Beautiful.
One of the greatest albums of all time. My number one radiohead album changes between this album, in rainbows and kid a.
Top stuff
Fantastic album
I love this album so much, to me it's the perfect blend of guitar and electronica. Every track fits perfectly where it needs to be, and there's not a single dud across the entire runtime. I used to drive back home after working away all week, and I would time this album to start around an hour from getting home every Friday. Never tired of listening to it, never fast-forwarded a single track. If I made good time, then I'd sit outside my house and listen to the end of the album before going in. I've struggled to connect with later Radiohead albums, but this one never fails to reward repeat listens. I love the sparse, airy feeling on many of the tracks, even though the subject matter is largely depressing. Actually, who am I kidding, the depressing subject matter seals the deal for me! Five stars for an almost perfect album.
Essential music for when you’ve got a really tall ice cream cone and one of the scoops falls off and starts melting on the ground
Amazing album from start to finish. The soundscape and production combined with Thom Yorker’s lyrics and voice create a bleak but hauntingly beautiful outlook on the world.
Amazing album of course, would listen to it again and again
Hell yeah
One of the best records ever made. Stands the test of time as well.
breath of relief
Having this album come up was like seeing an oasis while crawling through the desert. After 21 weird picks, I so earned this.
This is an incredible album. I wish I wouldn't have looked at the lyrics because they are a proper downer, one like I haven't experienced in a while. If only for the music this is a 5 stars though.
Makes me sad that I haven't managed to see them in concert...
Genuinely flawless record. Not a single bad song. In my top 10 of all time.
I've put this off for soooo long because this album is such an important piece of music culturally and sort of personally -- it's my dad's favorite album of all time or whatever! I've always been sorta partial to The Bends or In Rainbows, but OK Computer has some really excellent songs as well! Paranoid Android and Exit Music (For a Film) come to mind as some of my own favorites, and Karma Police is good too! But I never listened to this album very intently. Airbag: Sort of feels like if you blended every Radiohead song together and made a nice smoothie out of it. It's very loose and just plain good. I like his vocals on this just as much as the instrumentals, but it's not super remarkable. It's definitely a good opener, though, like it's introducing you to a new world. I like the sound effects (like you're going through a carwash or back in time or something) that make it sound like a nice lasagna. Lots of layers. Paranoid Android: Despite being long, this song is always something I'm willing to put on. It's so interesting and so cool with so many different parts. Like, the sort of rigid "ambition makes you look pretty ugly" part is so different from the slow, sulky, prayer of "rain down, rain down"... it's a very complex song that I'll always go back to. The music video is awesome. Subterranean Homesick Alien: Almost sounds like a Beatles song for a few seconds at the start? This weird psychadelic edge to the... guitar?? What instrument is that? I don't know. But it's nice and slow and interesting. It's sort of delirious and dream-like, or like you're on some farm on another planet? Does this make sense? no. Exit Music (For a Film): Very sad and very effective as a mournful love song. This numb, heartbroken vocal and the war-like(?) background effects succeed in making me really, really sad. I know this was made for the Rome + Juliet movie and it makes lots of sense! It's so tragic and sad and even more moving than the original story to me. That buzzing instrumental picking up with the vocals at the end is very impactful. It's actually crazy. "We are one, in everlasting peace/ We hope that you choke, that you choke" it's crazy oh my god Let Down: This is much brighter, almost like it could be a song from the Disney Channel or some airy breathy girly pop star with a different vocal. I don't know, it's almost a little Vanessa Carlton or Vanessa Hudgens or... something like that. At the same time, it's a little 70's easy-going rock. I like it. It's like a sunrise after genuinely the most hearbreaking night of all time (the last song). Karma Police: And we're back! Sad. One of their more famous songs, for good reason! It's soooo good. The chorus behind "this is what you'll get when you mess with us" is cool. Then the "I lost myself" and the sighing and the moaning sound (idk what to call it) + the static is a really good way to end to song as well. I feel stupid even calling this "good". It transcends good. Fitter Happier: I like this kind of stuff. It's like The Word Hurricane by Air or anything by Headache or We Want Your Soul by Adam Freeland, but eerier. It's spoken word by a computer... Ok, Computer. The sound effects are terrifying. Haunting. It's freaky but it's artful, which I'll always appreciate. Electioneering: It's the wild, wild, west. I hardly hear this sort of down-and-dirty, classic rock-n-roll sound from Radiohead so it's super awesome to hear, especially from the weirdest "song" on the album. But it still has that Radiohead sound to it in a certain way, with Thom's high vocals in the chorus. It's really good. The guitar is really good. Everything is very cool. A-how-how-how-how. Climbing up the Walls: Idrgaf that much like ok it's fine its kewl it's whateva it's emotional and slow and sad but there's nothing thats like WOW but it's lowkey pretty good just not that exciting? For this album, it's not one of the best but like 6.8/10 No Surprises: It's good and iconic, obviously, but I'd hardly ever put this song on. It's sort of like a lullaby. For some reason I'm just not super into it. It's like 7.4 but you have to be an 8 for me to really put you on, you know? But I'll super-listen if it's just on. It's good. Cute. Twinkly. And as I listen to it now, I'm starting to like it more. Hm. Lucky: Been really into the song Lucky by Britney Spears recently, which is lowkey better than this (sorry not sorry). I just don't particularly care about this song that much. It's like middle of the road but it's good. I could cry to this. The Tourist: Beautiful vocals. Not particularly compelling to me. But it's good. It's good to end the album on if you get really absorbed into it. I like that "ding" at the end. I like this album a lot. Almost every song is pretty excellent and innovative and uniquely effective in what it sets out to do. I think of it better now that I've listened to it a bunch. I like The Bends and In Rainbows still, but hm... could rank higher... it's rly good! I get you, Dad.
Deserves all the praise it gets, a telltale sign of a great album is if a bunch of bands try to rip it off. Just like nirvana made a bunch of terrible copycats, I can hear all of the insufferable soft indie British bands that tried to follow in their footsteps. Fantastic.
A timeless classic.
the GOAT
BEST OF YHE BEST
10/5 I get it now
Absolutely love this album!
Classic
It's good innit. I have strong memories of the CD cover
Even miserable old blokes can come up with a classic sometimes
Amazing
Morning drive early doors for me allowed me the privilege to listen to this album in full. The shifts in tempo in Paranoid Android still blows my mind. Karma Police and No Surprises the other singles stand out but there are no duffers amongst this album. The track Lucky may have escaped my attention over the years but today it really did move me, that’s the sign of quality. I also love this album because you get glimpses of the future ….what Radiohead, & all the band members in all their guises over the coming years had, & continue to give. It’s a big fat 5.
Emotive Brilliance I can write a million words It won't do any justice To the greatness this album brings Absolutely essential
This album has been written about to hell and back, so I'm not sure I can anything new to the conversation. Quite possibly the most influential album in all of British music since The Beatles. There really is a before and after this release, and you can immediately notice the impact, in the way the 60s inspired britpop bands started adopting moodier and more intimate approaches to songwriting or fell off the radar altogether, giving way to a new wave of British band like Coldplay, Travis, and the like. To me, though, this album evokes a very particular feeling that I can't really explain. I get visions of a very sparse suburban neighborhood just as the sun sets and sky loses its brighter hue. Other, non-musical things also evoke this feeling, but I can never understand what they have in common. I think in the case of this album it has something to do with the arrangements and chords progressions, which are incredible all the way through. Key tracks: Airbag Paranoid Android Exit Music (For a Film) Let Down Karma Police No Surprises Lucky
The bass and drums . . .
Really good
A perfect album. Beautifully tragic and deeply emotional. An ingenious blend of rock and electronic elements and a display of Radiohead’s progression in their musical evolution. The purposeful excess of the electronic noise and the heaviness of the guitars never fails for the emotion and the feelings of the music to come through. Fantastic album.
Hard to find fault with this one.
So good!
10 outta 10, would recommend. Siskel and Ebert would probably give this one three thumbs up.
Kanske är väldigt tråkigt att ge detta albumet fem stjärnor men. Så får det vara.
Alright yeah I understand the hype behind this one. Night and day with the other radio head album on here.
Arguably one of the greatest albums ever made. There are albums that are fantastic and they are an imprint of the times they were made in and they were relevant at the time - and there are albums that are even more relevant decades later than when they were made. OK Computer is one of these albums.
This beautiful day was ruined by the knowledge that there is a user in this platform that gave The Beatles' Revolver a 1 and System of a Down a 4. As for the actual album, it's wonderfully moppy genius.
British
Finally. No reviews, it's Pure bliss for me
This is such a great album, and it deserves the acclaim. Listening now with fresh, critical ears the main thing that's struck me is just how exceptional the production on this album is. All the tracks have something interesting going on, be it interesting drum arrangements, layered atmospheric instruments, or unique sounds cutting in. The soundscapes in this are so fucking good, be it the lush kind of orchestration of Subterranean Homesick Alien, or the more manic moments in 'Climbing Up the Walls' - both songs I'd never really considered as highlights before, but they're both so rich and atmospheric in different ways. You want to play it loud with headphones and just lose yourself in it. I would point to particular song highlights, but this is a great example of something working so well as an album. It's all good and all one experience.
This is a massive album in every sense and one of the most important albums of my lifetime (I’m 61). It’s prescient in that although it belongs to the era before everything started falling apart, it prefigures post-millennial alienation and pessimism. It’s not prog; it’s not tortuously self-important or self-indulgent enough for that. The tempo changes and odd time signatures are used judiciously, off-kilter music for an off-kilter world. You need this album, especially if you don’t think you do.
Listening to this was a little bit just discovering the album around No Surprises which has been in my head since listening. I fear I loved it, definitely felt like a cohesive piece.
It's just the best thing ever.
All-Time great album. Electioneering is my favorite song on the Album
I’d hate this album on a sunny day. Good thing it’s cloudy
Great album from front to back. Not my first listen, but I'm pretty sure it's gotten better since the first time I listened to it.
The only Radiohead album I like. And I love it.
I’m just uptight Uptight Uptight
for some reason it was Fitter Happier that made me decide to give this album a 5. that feels like a very cringe decision but sometimes you just need the angst. im usually pretty neutral on Radiohead but this album slaps. it's got all their best hits, it keeps you on your toes and it just does not stop giving. 5/5 bring down the government
Hard to say anything about this album that hasn’t been said before. It’s perfect. Whatever secret formula Radiohead tapped into they’ve sure got it. This is a top 100 album ever. I listened to this like 4 times and then spent the rest of the day listening to the entire Radiohead discography. This is definitely their shining achievement but I'm still excited for the onslaught of 4s and 5s they'll bring when we roll the others. The tourist has a part that has the same riff to we begged 2 explode, love u Jeff.
Ok. This album is great. And Radiohead is definitely a great band. But I don't understand how this album ends up on the top charts of best albums of all time (top 10 specifically). It's a great album, and I do love a lot of songs on it, but it is definitely hyped tf up. I also realized that Yorke sounds very similar to the Muse frontman. Idk why that stood out to me now rather than the 123409812509 other times I've listened to Radiohead. This album is spooky, beautiful, serious, and has a bunch of hits. I also enjoy the melodies and chord progressions that define the band. This band also falls into my musical preferences, so I'm slightly biased. This is a terrible review, but I'm struggling between a 4 and a 5. That decision will be decided on tomorrow. Yeah after another full relisten, I'm giving this a soft 5
It’s a 5 duh
Awesome
No words needed
Can’t say anything lower because I am a fan
One of the best albums they have done. The Bends, arguably, might have (some) better songs, but that album feels simply like a collection of songs. This one coheres as an actual long-form album, and the songs are terrific. Airbag and Karma Police have some great delay FX on them, and Paranoid Android is a blast from start to finish. More delights await you.
A classic for a reason. Surely one of the greatest albums of the 90s, and of all time. Nothing close to a bad track. Untouchable
I love this album very much!!
This album is fire
This album was one of my starting points that really developed my tastes in music. It’s still a favorite of mine (though Kid A is my #1 Radiohead pick) and yeah obvs 5 big fat hunky stars.
Did any band release their best album in 1997, at the tail of Britpop and Alternative Rock and before anything solidified to replace them? Tindersticks perhaps, depending on personal taste. Six Pence None The Richer, I guess. No, not the Verve. OP8's one fun effort, Slush, hardly counts. But from May 1997 until October 2000, it looked as though Radiohead would. Nothing else was as lauded, nothing else was expected to have the longevity. Other Britpop and Britrock bands faltered commercially when they attempted bloated, overlong records: The Great Escape, Be Here Now, This Is Hardcore. OK Computer is not bloated, it's rich, it's dense, expansive and, somehow, it succeeded commercially. A critical masterpiece and commercial masterstroke. Certainly they couldn't do that again. Surely this will stand as their greatest achievement. There are at least two other challengers for the position of best Radiohead album and, as we've already come across the lesser Amnesiac, I'm confident we'll come to the other two in time. Radiohead is a band I love, but that I'm not in love with, so I think I'm being objective when I say OK Computer isn't their greatest record. I don't think. It's Kid A. Or it's In Rainbows. And yet... OK Computer has twelve tracks and doesn't that feel more like an album? The other two have ten tracks each, which, undoubtedly, makes for a more concise, coherent, enjoyable listen. But, having started buying records in the 90s, on overstretched CDs, isn't twelve tracks, fifty-three minutes, an album? Their contemporaries sounded intumescent at the same length. They sound in control, sculpted, more powerful than Thom Yorke's bellyaching lets on. Actually, Kid A is only six and a half minutes shorter. That's one Paranoid Android. Would OK Computer be better without Paranoid Android? No. It hardly matters. I'm giving it 4.5 to allow some headroom for the other two to get 5, if I feel like it on the day. I'm confident that you'll give it 5 anyway, so it will be on aggregate and that feels most appropriate to me. It's a 5 star record, it is. I have to take care writing about this album not to get carried away with personal confessions. Here is one of two albums - along with Nevermind by Nirvana - I was introduced to at age 14 which I believe were formative not just to my musical habits as a listener or a guitar player but to my whole personality. I have listened to OK Computer hundreds of times and I know every bar in it like the voice of a parent. This makes it very easy to ignore when it’s on; not the case for me with music in general which I have always found utterly distracting from conversation or any kind of mental task. Here is my brain’s wallpaper. But when I do sit down to give it my attention, which I do perhaps once a year, I still find it very powerful indeed. There are moments in this record, the last minute and a half of Let Down for example, which I find almost unbearably moving. There is inescapable nostalgia mixed in there; the opening of Karma Police almost always puts me on a bus on Castle Street, the song playing in my headphones off a cassette tape while I pull a brand new cd copy of the album from a HMV bag and have a good old read/sniff of the liner notes. But I also believe that this music would stand as genuinely powerful art if I could strip it of all its advantage over me in the way of nostalgic associations. Or at least I must believe that - even in the horrible face of contemplating that there are people who believe the same about, for example, Dookie. Anyway I am happy with my position. I know there are lots of people who say that they wish they had been in the flush of youth in the mid 1960s so they could have experienced the Beatles or Hendrix first-hand. Well I love the Beatles and I love Jimi Hendrix but I am so grateful that I was 14 in 1997. I am grateful too to the people who introduced me to this music then - including my dear friend writing above. It would have been a terrible source of regret to me if I had, later in life, realised that a cultural moment like that had passed me by. Or, even more frightening, I might not care at all because I would be someone else entirely. 5/5
I was deep into Radiohead for many years. But it’s been a long while since listening to. Man, this album is still amazing and I feel it to my core.
Rating: 5/5 | Favorite Track: Exit Music (For a Film) --- One of my favorite albums of all time. Cold, atmospheric, and explores themes of alienation and loneliness that still resonate today. What can praise can I give for this album that hasn't been said before?
It’s Dark Side of the Moon for disaffected millennials and I adore it so much. I could wax poetic but I’m just gonna rate a 5 and keep it moving.
No one else writes songs like this. Paranoid Android is the greatest rock opera of all time, Karma police hurts in a way little else does, right in the hypocracy. No surprises is so sad and beautiful and Fitter Happier is perhaps the creepiest calm song. This is the greatest album ever for a reason. It's not my favorite Radiohead album, but it is the bests one.
Enfusing
Starts off good, and keeps getting better (except for Fitter Happier, which seems out of place). Let Down, Karma Police, and No Surprises are all major hits, and Exit Music precedes a couple of them to really kick things off. Makes me wonder how much Radiohead’s sound influenced Manchester Orchestra, since they have the same slow singing style, just with less of a rock vibe.
This album will hit at the right time. Not every song is a banger, but a lot are Okay take your 5
Superb
This is one that I've listened to before, of course. There's not much else that can be said about it that hasn't already. Band-defining, genre-defining. Re-invented Radiohead for their foreseeable future and basically created modern progressive rock. It feels sacrilegious to give anything other than a 5/5
Truly lives up to the hype. Had not listened to this in full for a long time, and never fully appreciated just how great it is. I remember listening to numerous songs from this album via the soundtrack of season 1 of Westworld (didn't bother with future seasons, S1 gave me everything I wanted), it became a part of my soul then somehow. Song-by-song I used to not like Airbag as an opener, how off was I? When it started playing yesterday on my earphones, I realised that I'd have to move to my home speakers to give the album justice. What an opener! Parnoid Android is one I had saved for a long time, before I even listened to full Radiohead albums. The weirdly distorted guitars make for quite the listen. Subterranean Homesick Alien kind of reminds me of Coldplay at their best, or perhaps better put: Coldplay if they had gone down a different route. Guess that opinion is rather personal though. Exit Music is one of the most beautful songs I've come across. Let Down is the most emotional one on here for me, the overall vibe is just so sad and dystopian. Karma Police is one I had played off-album quite a bit before, but holds up very well still, even after countless listens. Fittier Happier is the only song I didn't save from the album, and could be seen as a lull, but I think it adds to the aesthetic and atmosphere of the album in a way that fully warrants its inclusion. Electioneering is one I hadn't saved before but grew on me with this listen. Sounds like Radiohead doing 2000s indie/Britpop, but I guess this came before that time so may have influenced what came after. Good bop. Climbing Up The Walls - damn, I overlooked this song in the past. The drums in the introduction hit damn hard. That little "ding-ding" that interactions with it is wonderful too. Perhaps one of my favourites from the album after these listens. No Surprises is of course another one I had listened to many a time before, to the point that I think I am over-exposed to it at this point. Can remember I was blown away the first time I listened to it though. Lucky just sounds so damn good. One of my favourites from the album as well. "Pull me out of the air crash Pull me out of the lake 'Cause I'm your superhero We are standing on the edge" The Tourist is a beautiful way to finish. Honestly listened to it about 4 times in full yesterday, and will probably go and buy the CD this week. A true masterpiece. 5*
Awesome.
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מושלם Exit music ו no surprises לוקחים אותי למימד אחר וגם lucky פסיכי וחדש לי
Radiohead’s commercial domination still confuses me a bit, but they’re growing on me. This is a great album. It pulls you in and washes you out before you really know what’s happening. Phenomenal production to capture that dreaminess. Let Down was my fave.
emo ass music
Incredible album.
Mmmm Thom and Jonny feed me up some of that delicious dystopian alt rock
FUCK YEEEEEAHHHHH Realising more and more that I don't love artists, I love albums - got so into this album as a teen that when on holiday in Rome with family, I went out and found a record shop and spent all my hard earned paper-delivery money on it. It was the English print!! Why did I get it in Italy?? Who knows!? Fucking loved this so much!! I couldnt' stop myself Then took me almost 15 years and this project to ever bother listening to a second Radiohead album. Weird.
Loooove it
100% holds up. Sweet, scary, expansive, intimate, everything
I consider this to be the best Radiohead album and one of the best of all time. But it’s not my favorite.
One of my favourite albums
On some days, this is my favourite album of all time. and at those times I just can't fathom any other music coming close to this level of brilliance. (Except maybe other Radiohead records.) I could go on and on about how ridiculously excellent this record is in just about every regard. Even the haunting computer-spoken interlude Fitter Happier, which most people probably consider a filler/throwaway, fits perfectly when you consider OK Computer as a concept album. Unlike most of my other reviews, I'll try to keep this short. Every song on here is excellent, both individually and in context. One could justifiably rank Paranoid Android and Exit Music as two of the best songs of all time. The depth and complexity of the mix, particularly in songs like Airbag, Subterranean Homesick Alien, and Climbing Up The Walls, is near-orgasmic. There's so much to take in at once that it's kind of overwhelming, and yet all the elements fit together perfectly. Even in 2025, this sounds like the future. The lyrics (once you look them up) are pure poetry that's just as relevant today as ever. Electioneering, The Tourist... goshdarn No Surprises. Every song is a hit in every way imaginable. Karma Police. Lucky. Let Down. Holy smokes, man. And just like that, I've covered the whole album. What a freakin' masterpiece, yo. 5/5 Key tracks: all
Incredible besides that one song. What is going on there
A true masterpiece. An amazing album from front to back and such a gem. I wish Radiohead would have kept making music like this but they continued to evolve and I don’t really care for much of their stuff besides this album. Some of their fans will argue Kid A is their best work but for me it doesn’t even come close. These songs are timeless and have more melody, structure, heart, feeling, passion, than anything else they’ve done as a band. The songs are experimental, but not so far off the rails, and are written in a way where they come back to a more traditionalist song format. For that reason the album and songs appeal to a wider audience. I consider this album in my top 10 albums of all time and I’m not a Radiohead fan in general. I typically don’t care for most of their work.
This is a tricky album for me because allot of the tracks resonate with how I feel about living in our current society. no surprises is defiantly a favourite track of mine But as music, Radiohead always feel likes it is a band that elitist's listen to and never challenge them self to ask if a track is good because of the music or because it is Radiohead. That being said it deserves a spot here no questions asked. i get why people wouldn't like it. Thom Yorke's voice is very special and could be annoying and whiney but i feel like the music complement his voice so good that it don't bother me personally. In the beginning i was gonna put 4 to make a point that it isn't perfect but i personally really like this album. So say a unbised 4 and a biased 5
Fuck yes dude! This is one of my favorite albums growing up this is such a good album! Paranoid Android! Karma police! Classic! I forgot how much it hits and how different it is from their first album!
I wasn't necessarily in the mood for OK Computer today, but it's a certified 5 star album. I listen to sad sack bands like Radiohead or the Smiths less than I did when I was a depressed teenager, though this album still knocks the wind out of me.
One of my fav from Radiohead, really like it
Yes
Great album. Twists and turns in music throughout. Thom Yorke's vocals interweave with tuneful melodies and electronic backdrops.
I’ve listened to this album 1000 times, and will gladly listen to it 1000 times more.
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Et absolutt mesterverk fra begynnelse til slutt. Har 20 års erfaring med dette albumet og det er fortsatt interessant og uten et eneste spor av middelmådighet. Legger fortsatt merke til nye detaljer!
Super
Lucky followed by The Tourist blew my fucking mind! Had an LSD flashback at work thanks to those two songs. Crazy good album.
classic album with crazy lyrics ans instrumentation for a 3rd studio. radiohead really just went through the roof going from Pablo honey to the bends and then to ok computer.
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Already heard this before. It’s a 9-9.5-10.
This is what you'll get.
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this album just makes me think about when my ex-boss was incredibly disgusted when i told her i was born the year this came out after she said she had graduated hs
It's 1997. Tony Blair, head of the Labour party, was just elected PM. Britain and the rest of the western world are welcoming a new age of globalism, advancement, and technology. Fears of these are present, but they are exclusively the thoughts of a minority. Hope is in the air. Within the same time, Radiohead is coming off the heels of The Bends. A commercial and critical success that cemented Radiohead as a band with more to offer than one hit song. True artists who can move the masses, both figuratively and literally to the music store. The label was perfectly happy to be in a position to push another grunge/alt rock followup and rake in the cash. An act to place alongside other great bands like U2 Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Hope was in the air. In the face of all this optimism and excitement, Radiohead secluded themselves in St Catherine's Court and recorded a defiant piece of work, leaving behind a singular masterpiece. A cold, anxious, and dejected synthesis of alt rock and their electronic era to come. Musically it is dense, layered, and practically epileptic at moments. Lyrically, through somewhat elliptical storytelling, Radiohead predicted the quiet horrors neoliberalism and globalism would wreak on society. A culture of apathetic worker drones propped up by opiate technology and anti-depressants. Even to this day we are seeing Thom Yorke's words come to life. A torchbearer of postmodern thought in popular music, capturing a moment that only exists in retrospect. When only the jester could see Hannibal at the gate. Truly one of the most moving things I've ever listened to. It perfectly captures the feeling of the 00's politics and the dawn of the Internet Age. It provides an artificial ice that encapsulates my feelings about the 21st century. An illusory projection of feeling. The ghost of human society trudging about. I can't say much more that hasn't already been said. A basic answer, but it's my favorite cut from Radiohead. A desert island album even. Favorite Song: Let Down Rating: 10/10
10/10 Masterwork. These cats are cooking
Favourite songs: - Paranoid Android - Exit Music (For a Film) - Karma Police - Electioneering - Climbing up the Walls - No Surprises - Lucky - The Tourist
Flawless
Yeah, baby, now we're on a deserving Top 1001 album! This was so cutting edge at the time, the musicianship was top notch, the songs were well constructed, it had hits, people were/are still talking about it. Radiohead PEAKED with this one, no doubt about that. They were still playing guitars and using real drums at this point. Killer intro with "Airbag" right into the huge hit "Paranoid Android" (246M listens!). There's a sense of urgency & angst in those songs that's hard to explain. It gets the blood flowing. "Let Down "& "Lucky" are classic Radiohead and could have been on either of the previous albums. "Karma Police" (633M listens) is an anthem that my kids know. The production on "Climbing Up The Walls" is amazing, they captured lightning in a bottle. "No Surprises" is a pleasant song with a great chorus. There are no throwaway tracks on this album (outside of "Fitter Happier", which isn't really a song, but it fits the theme), they have good connective tissue and flow in real organic way, they aren't just songs on an album, they have a place, that's a foreign concept today. This one deserves a spot on this list for longevity, hits, impact on music/production & the entire packaging (even the B-sides are good). 5 stars
I’m a big fan of Radiohead, and this isn’t even my favorite album from them, but there’s no denying it’s a great one. The atmospheric production and songwriting are top-tier, and “Electioneering” stands out as my personal favorite track. A defining album of its era.
The original anxiety playlist predicting our 21st-century crisis.
it's a rock album that feels like it will be conceptually and musically relevant for a long time, it saw the writing on the wall on the very early stages of the internet of how it could change the way we connect or discourage us not to. it's a very obvious classic but it genuinelly deserves all it's flowers
One of my formative albums.
fitter happier walked so that nano could call himself a dirty little bitch
Yeah I'd heard this one before, and several times at least at that. It's easy to hate on people who yap too much about Radiohead, but it's not easy to hate this album for me. Enjoyable and inspirational from start to finish all the way through.
I remember hearing how i made my millions for the first time when i bought the vinyl of the single for no surprises and it changed my view on how things can be made. It is still my favorite radiohead song. I hope to make something as impactful in such a domestic environment one day
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A masterpiece.
Thanks computer.
The one where the band exits 90s alternative and starts getting weird. Admittedly I'm a basic bitch and like The Bends more. But this album continues to grow on me with each successive listen. It's really densely layered, I know I'm missing some things. As much as I like sing a longs, there is something really satisfying about a record that rewards multiple close listens. *That Exit Music for a Film was written for Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet might be one of the most 90s things of all time.
I mean, c’mon… This is such a step ahead of all the other albums we’ve had so far. I feel bad for ‘em. I suppose I have a bias after having heard this many times over the last 28 years but there’s a reason it has stood the test of time when something like…. The Verve have faded to relative obscurity. Radiohead was taking rock to straaaange new places. This is their peak as a rock band before they started getting overly artsy fartsy and electronic. I considered giving this album the elusive 5.5 stars but after listening to it today I realized that “Climbing Up the Walls” doesn’t really do much for me.
I love this album, have owned on vinyl for years. Especially love the percussion on most songs - subtle but impressive.
classic
Already love this fucking album, favourite of all time. No suprises here 10/10
10/10 Favorite Tracks: All of them
Still amazing after all these years.
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I wasn't really familiar with this album except for "Karma Police," which is among I like but don't really love. However, the oppressive feel of the entire album works really well, songs are distinct but contribute to the whole, I'm sleep deprived right now, favorite track: "Lucky," 4.5 stars rounded up.
if I could give this 100 stars I would. not to be dramatic but one of my favorite albums of all time and a foundational part of who I am today
Amazing
Best
Don't even have to listen . But I did twice. Sorry to Radiohead haters. I love the production, sounds, themes, guitars, feels of OK Computer so much.
One of the most compelling albums ever written. An excellent blend of complexity, melancholy, introspection, and of course rock all rolled together perfectly in each song. An absolute joy to listen to, and has a unique quality that makes it enjoyable no matter your mood. Nothing but good things to say
If I had known about this album as a teenager I would have put up record numbers on it
Kip this is better than in rainbows it’s okay to admit it, they’re both phenomenal but this one just has slightly higher highs.
10/10 no notes. If you havent seen the music video for Karma Police, it's a masterpiece.
Great album. Karma police is one of my all time favorites
"OK Computer" is simply a classic album, one of the greatest of all time, and you could make a strong argument that it's the best album of the 90s. It's sometimes derided as overrated, possibly due to Thom Yorke's voice, which some people describe as "whiny". But I'd really encourage any doubters to take deep dive into this album to understand what makes it so special. Their previous album "The Bends" landed somewhere between grunge and Brit Pop, and was extremely popular, despite the introspective and often depressing lyrics. There was massive pressure on the band to recreate more of the same. It probably would have worked but it might have severely stunted their art. They wisely tried to do the exact opposite, starting with Thom Yorke attempting to make a happier album (you can hear hints of this in some b-sides and unreleased tracks, like "I Promise"). That direction was perhaps corrupted by requests from others to write songs about the Bosnian war and the final tragic scene of Romeo and Juliet ("Lucky" and "Exit Music", respectively). The majority of the album certainly doesn't sound as happy as Yorke intended. Contrary to what the critics say, this isn't an album about whining. It's not about themselves. It's social commentary and pre-millenium tension. It's a deep paranoia that we trust our lives to computers to automate live, consumerism to make us comfortable (if disconnected), politicians to fix problems, airbags to save our lives, etc. A huge part of why "OK Computer" became so successful is that these feelings really resonated with people of the late 90s and continue to now. Musically, Radiohead evolved rapidly here from their previous work. Whereas "The Bends" was essentially poppy indie rock and a product of that time, "OK Computer" was a like a real love of music. The diverse influences on this album will look very familiar to anyone in the middle of the 1001 Albums Challenge. Among many others: DJ Shadow, Queen, Can, Portishead, Marvin Gaye, and many others. Their styles are woken together into something completely different from all of them, a masterpiece inspired by many masterpieces before them. It's full of experimental techniques, electronics, feedback loops, live recordings, and musique concrete. While Radiohead deny that it was a concept album, the music definitely evokes a feeling of night time urban landscapes, populated by overworked people, insomniacs, technology beyond our control, and aliens attempting to make sense of what they see. The band opted to record in the countryside and it seems to have given them an objective view of the cities they were trying to escape, filled with desperate attempts to solve loneliness through consumerism. They shine a light on it, as if to say "No, it's not just you. You're not alone. We all think this is rubbish." Maybe that sounds depressing to some but it can also be extremely comforting. Nearly 30 years after its release, "OK Computer" remains a powerful document of its era.
One of the earliest albums that I've listened to throughout on repeat, back when I was a teenager that was just getting into music. Also got me back then into actively listening full albums instead of casual listening to random mp3s on winamp:) Gave it a spin just now and it still stands out so much. Love it
Awesome. Astounding. And still not their best album all in. Love this music.
A classic. Heavenly choruses, and huge impact on the music industry as a whole.
5 star record for sure. Duh.
I prefer (in order) Amnesiac, Kid A, and probably In Rainbows, but this is still gonna be a solid five.
Flawless album that even when I think I may overrate it, I keep finding new things to enjoy. I will say I recognize more influences on it this listen, taking from David Bowie's berlin period and other electronic albums Regardless a no doubt- 5/5
ol' reliable frfr ong, paranoid android still a banger
Airbag - 5/5 Paranoid Android - 5/5 Subterranean Homesick Alien - 5/5 Exit Music (For A Film) - 5/5 Let Down - 4/5 Karma Police - 5/5 Fitter Happier - N/A Electioneering - 5/5 Climbing Up the Walls - 4/5 No Surprises - 5/5 Lucky - 4/5 The Tourist - 4/5 Average score: 4.6/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ again, it's Radiohead. no words necessary
I keep thinking about what I can say about this that hasn't been said a million times. This is an undisputed classic.
Day 20: OK Computer - Radiohead. I'm only on day 20 in this project, yet I already got *the* OK Computer album assigned to me. OK Computer is an almost universally-beloved. Heck, nine users who completed their generator projects declared this album as their favourite album among the 1,089 albums. At first, the hype surrounding the album intrigued me, but now, that I've listened to it, I can confirm that the album does live up to its expectations. The musicianship is stunning. Every single song on the album is a masterpiece on its own. I don't really have anything to say about this album that hasn't been said over and over again, so I'm just going to say that this album truly is one of the greatest albums that I've ever heard. This album is one of those albums where 95% of people either love it, or are contrarians. Personal Enjoyment: 5/5. How Much It Belongs Here: 5/5.
The dystopian monolith of 90s rock. An intricately arranged masterpiece that disparagingly looks into the future with pre-millennium angst. Cold, dark, angry, depressed, and so in your face that you are forced to interact with it. Best Tracks: - Paranoid Android - Let Down - No Surprises - The Tourist Worst Tracks: - Fitter Happier Rating: 10/10
For me this is a masterpiece that I thoroughly enjoy - and I always have. Well maybe not Fitter Happier, but the Beatles also had some weird shit on some of their best albums
The album that changed the alternative music worldwide. Masterpiece
I don't quite understand OK Computer yet, and I might forget about its existence again sadly. But I think it's a nice piece of art, pulling you in with interesting hooks mixed with futuristic sounding noisier bits. It sounds like a well-executed experiment, it's very cohesive and doesn't feel like it has weak points overall. Plus it kinda was right on the future, right? Just a bit. 5/5, but not my personal favourite. But I respect the craftsmanship definitely.
Already listened many times. No doubt a classic, considered one of radiohead’s best albums. Fav Songs- Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises
Perfect. No notes.
guitar solos sick lyrics sad
Yep. I’m one of those. Absolutely a 5/5. A truly pivotal album for me growing up and Radiohead’s best as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure the response will be polarized, but there is so much going on here I can’t help but fawn. A truly excellent piece of work.
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My all time favorite album and one of the greatest ever made
Amazing. I can't think of a better description! 5/5
This is probably one of the easier slam-dunk 5's on the list. The Easy Star All Stars version of Let Down clears
air bag is the only song i dislike. ALMOST a perfect album. still 4.8 for me, rounded up ofc.
First album I had generated I listened to previously, it's a masterpiece, not much more to say beyond that.
I used to listen to side A on a loop along with No Surprises so I did waiver between 4 and 5. I think that's probably a comment on me rather than the album. I prefer the instant gratification and familiarity of side A - just perfection. The second half of the album is a more challenging listen for me, but worth it.
The Dark Side of the Moon for the 90s and a great antidote to Britpop. No filler on this album. Each song an exquisite piece of art. Not only 5 stars but a contender to be number 1 album of all time. But unlikely whilst the boomer lurks amongst us. See now, the dark spectre of experimental music haunts the world. Boomer! You have nothing to lose but the shackles of the 12 bar blues chord progession and the world to win!
Break my heart and then sew it back up 😫😍 I love this album it was a pleasure to listen to it front to back once again! Thank you Thom Yorke and co - Morrissey take a leaf!
Haunting, beautiful, and thought provoking. So much to chew on. True excellence.
the generator is on a roll - got thriller, rubber soul, rage against the machine and this, all in one week :D Favorite track: karma police other picks: paranoid android, subterranean homesick alien, no surprises, the tourist
It was really fun to go back and listen to this album in it's entirety. I haven't listened to the complete album, probably, since the 90's. It was like walking down memory lane. And I was reminded of just how forward radiohead moved us in the 90s.
What a great album. My favorite might be Exit Music, but it's hard to choose. Climbing Up The Walls is a strong contender too. I spotify-liked almost every song on the album.
I'm not Radio head expert, but this is probably my favorite album of theirs. The perfect crossroads of their earlier indie rock stuff and later more ambient/experimental stuff. Nearly ever song a hit.
Will just quote my husband, who said it took him about 4 songs to realize I was listening to the album of the day, vs just listening to as much Radiohead as I usually do.
Ayy jetzt haglets da defür bangers. Ussert Karma Police isch mer no keis lied vo dem Album bekannt gsi, defür jetzt umso meh. Als chline Melancholie-Emo-Boy het mer Radiohead scho immer zuegseit. Und jetzt am 2. Januar, quasi chli amene emotionale Neustart vo things, pässlet mer das Album grad speziell guet. Da verdrucki grad nomal gern 5 emotionali, aber schöni tränli
This is probably my fourth or fifth favorite Radiohead album, and it's still a 5/5. Hell, I'd give it a 6/5 if I could. 1) Amnesiac 2) Kid A 3) In Rainbows 4) A Moon Shape Pool 5) OK computer 6) King of Limbs 7) Hail to the Thief 8) The Bends 9) Pablo Honey
I know it's extremely cliche to call this one of the greatest albums of all time, but if I'm being honest, it really is that amazing in my opinion. Every song on here is just incredible, but my favorite one has to be "Let Down," which is just a powerful song. This is without question one of the albums that everyone should hear at least once in their lifetime. 10/10
OK COMPUTERRRRRRRR
OK Computer. Somehow the generator starts with this album in particular. Nothing much to say.
A mandatory album from the 90s. Amazing.
I am in a computer
It is not uncommon to see this album listed as one of the best albums of all time - and for good reason.
Probably the greatest album of all time
5.0 3x + live on youtube. catch up 12/31. my favorite album for many years. never seems to get old.
This was a cool album, I don’t think I was in the right headspace to enjoy this to its full extent, and yet I still enjoyed, and won’t hesitate to take on a deeper listen. Exemplary production, quite sophisticated melodically.. I understand others’ issues with the vocals, but it seemed to underscore the themes and lend itself to the ambiance. 4.5/5
This has not aged at all Every track is pretty much a 5⭐️ song Even Fitter Happier, a song you’re never going to rush out to listen to by itself, is elevated in the context of the whole album If I had to pick one song it would probably be Let Down… No wait, No Surprises… No, Climbing Up The Walls… Lucky… Karma Police…. Not a bad song Flawless
Absolutely ethereal.