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- Awesome mix of a variety of sounds and styles - Interesting concept and themes - Perfect blend of experimental and easy to listen to - Favorite songs: Karma Police, Electioneering, Subterranean Homesick Alien
- He doesn’t enunciate very well, gives them their uniqueness - Paranoid Android is so complex and compelling, what a fantastic song - Artsy Dystopian Post-Punk Grunge Prog Rock - One of the best storytelling albums I’ve heard, like a beautifully eerie poem - Let Down is my favorite I think
Radiohead's third album is the last one of their alt-rock phase. And it's a phenomenal. Experimentation reigns supreme here, be it in the form of song structure (Paranoid Android) or of a collection of buzz words of the 90s spoken by an Apple Computer (Fitter Happier). Elsewhere, we have depressing, yet hauntingly beautiful melodies (Exit Music (For a Film), No Surprises, or even the final part of Paranoid Android) or simply great songs and hooks (Karma Police). There is not a single bad song to be found anywhere here. This is a truly iconic masterpiece of an album. 5/5
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Widely hailed as Radiohead's masterpiece, this one proved that The Bends wasn't just a fluke. As relevant as ever, and still sounds fresh over 25 years later. This is one of those classic albums that should age very well, and remain a mainstay for music fans for decades to come.
Karma Police, Lucky, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Paranoid Android... NO SURPRISES?! Some of my favourite Radiohead material
It's not even my favourite Radiohead album but it still achieves the 5. I don't really have much to add to the discourse on it; yeah it's prophetic, yeah it bridges their two styles really well, yeah it's hugely influential. It's just very good. It feels like an album for public transport on a cold day, surrounded by people, but still alone. 14/02/23
Is it the intimate, non-pompous spin of the "we live in society" trope? Or the surprisingly fresh guitar-based sound? Or maybe just the general, oddly comforting yet dark atmosphere of it. What else can be said about one of my favorite albums ever? Instant 5. And for the last time, no I'm not depressed.
This is the album that was there when I wondered “what else is out there?” Grunge was getting past its heyday. The new stuff (nü metal) coming out was horrific. I loved how OK Computer went in so many different directions than what I was used to. This will always be high on the list for me.
I mean what can be said about this masterpiece that hasn’t already been said. It’s possibly my favorite album of all time. It’s top 3, and my top 3 are interchangeable at any given time. The layers, complexity, and contrast that Radiohead puts into their production is my biggest turn on for them. One of my favorite songs of all time is Paranoid Android for that reason. This album is the ultimate masterpiece and a true timeless standard that every album tries to attain. There was a long period in my life where it was a rarity if I didn’t listen to it at least once a day. Beautiful… this is my longest review for good reason, it’s beyond perfect! 5. TBz 1. Paranoid Android 2. Karma Police 3. Climbing Up the Walls 4. Lucky 5. Exit Music (For A Film) 6. No Surprises
This album is in very heavy rotation in all of the albums I listen to at home. One of the few that I can listen to every track on the album and be perfectly happy.
Incredible album, which def deserves a spot here.
Radiohead?? Don’t think I’ve ever heard of them before. Definitely got some Billie Eilish vibes going on. Really dig it. Sounds like it’d be perfect for a bright sunny day in Monterey
Almost as good as Billie eyelash
5.0 + I think I can sing every lyric and guitar riff from memory. Fuck the haters, this album is a GOAT.
My first five. I sang along with some songs I haven’t heard in 20 years. This might be too subjective a reason, but I’m going to choose to lean into it. People go on about Kid A, but OK Computer is my Kid A.
Masterpiece
Always has been, always will be, one of my favourite albums.
The peak of 90's Radiohead, and, for those who might not appreciate the more experimental route Radiohead would take into the 00's and beyond (except for 'Kid A', you HAVE to appreciate 'Kid A'), arguably the band's best album. Seriously - this is just track after track of brilliant music. The incredibly rich arrangements of "Airbag", the hard-hitting transitions of "Paranoid Android", the melodic perfection of "Let Down", the stark beauty of "No Surprises" or "Climbing Up the Walls". The album is also commendable for its often poignant and haunting lyrics, touching on the ordinary and mundane in a way that helps to make them relatable and all the more impactful, much like Pink Floyd did in their hay-day. Easily one of the best albums of the 1990's - the sort of album you wish you could give 6 stars to.
No final dos anos 90 eu não tive condições ou sagacidade para reconhecer a força do talento e relevância desta obra. Agora o percebo como o marco da história do rock com a construção experimental e bela como a incorporação de elementos eletrônicos relacionados com os temas de alienação e tecnologia.
expectacular
Espectacular. Jamas lo habia escuchado al 100%
Один из лучших альбомов. Точка.
Как-то слишком быстро мы оказались на альбоме, который вошёл в наши личные топы с Владом и Тёмой... но это приятный сюрприз после "ни то, ни сё" альбомов на этой неделе. Нет, ну а что: это Radiohead в том обличии, в котором они и по сей день остаются в ушах у большинства music enjoyer'ов. И отрицать причастность этого альбома к списку "великих" - бессмысленно. К тому же именно этот альбом для многих современных музыкантов послужил "отправной точкой", иногда даже "направляющим вектором". Земфиры и Сплина не появилось бы, сто процентов. В каком-то интервью Том Йорк сказал: "Альбом на самом деле не о компьютерах, а о шуме, который я слышал в течение полутора лет разъездов по миру". Причём, я бы трактовал этот "шум" и напрямую (использование семплов, волн Мартено, синтезаторов), и косвенно (информационный шум, то, что будоражило человечество в эти годы). Так, кстати, становится чууууть-чуть понятнее слушать этот альбом. Хотя он и без этого шикарен, и вообще почти все песни уже давно добавлены в мои разные плейлисты. Тяжело даже выбрать какой-то лучший трек. В Paranoid Android мы получаем офигенную симфонию, составляющую конкуренцию Богемской рапсодии. В Exit Music - очень редкую в творчестве группы балладу о любви, которая навеяна Шекспировскими Ромео и Джульеттой (неспроста: это песня из титров фильма "Ромео + Джульетта" База Лурмана с ДиКаприо в роли Ромео), от прослушивания припева и бриджа которой внутри всё сжимается от от сострадания лирическому герою. И следующая сразу за ней Let Down, которая вроде и кажется лучём надежды, но всё же больше близка к светлой грусти. Karma Police - чёрный юмор и аллюзии на The Beatles. Манифест хорошего/плохого человека с тонкими отсылками к Оруэллу - Fitter Happier. Шикарная нисходящая вокальная линия в припеве Electioneering, чисто ради неё можно переслушивать эту композицию по несколько раз. А от Climbing Up The Walls на стены хочется залезть повыше, попутно сгрызая их (одна из невероятнейших кульминаций композиций, которые я вообще когда либо слышал; там где скрипки), чтобы потом, сидя на люстре, слушать No Surprises и думать, как бы на ней не вздёрнуться... Да, это не все треки, но я уже устал печатать. И всё же нужно ещё добавить, что в переиздании OKNOTOK к 20-летию альбома были добавлены ещё три трека, из которых хочется отметить Man of War, мелодия бриджа очень быстро заседает в голове... а минималистичная инструментально, но оркестровая по звучанию аранжировка только увеличивает эмоциональность и "пафосность" этой композиции. Однозначно 5/5, хоть, как мы это уже обсуждали с пацанами, это и не моя самая любимая пластинка Radiohead. Но альбом я периодически слушаю целиком, иногда ностальгия по школьным годам; это ведь была наверное первая иностранная группа, которую я вообще послушал в возрасте сознательного прослушивания музыки. Потом ещё и на гитаре разучивал их...) P.S. Переслушивая сейчас пластинку, понял, что у Йорка есть видимо какая-то повёрнутость на автомобильной тематике, а именно - на безопасности во время езды. Четыре (или даже больше) раза упоминается что-то связанное. P.P.S. Я прогуглил, он попал в юношестве в довольно серьёзную аварию и Airbag (хы) спасла ему жизнь.
Увидел обложку: изи 5, зашел в чат: абсолютно точно изи 5. Послушал – ну необсуждаемая 5
OK Computer was one of my first great album purchases and I listened to it over and over again in middle and high school. Formative experience for me. As soon as the opening riff on "Airbag" started I was suddenly taken back. This album has it all. There are awesome, face-melting rock riffs ("Paranoid Android", "Electioneering", "Climbing up the Walls"), beautiful multi-part harmonies (basically every track), tender melancholic songs ("Subterranean Homesick Alien", "Let Down"), pop hooks ("Karma Police", "No Surprises"), and weird experimental stuff ("Fitter Happier"). And every song gives me the feels in some way. I said in my review of In Rainbows that I thought it was my favorite Radiohead album but I may have been wrong. This is a really, really fantastic album. 5 stars.
I have always rated Radiohead quite highly, but it was never a band I would call my favourite, it was usually an afterthought on any list I made with band I like. Probably one of the reason for that was a fact, that I have never listened to a full album in one sitting. It was always just few songs from this era, few of the other, then top hits and that's all. Today I have listened to the whole OK Computer in one go, and I have to admit, that's the way to do it. Songs are creating a specific atmosphere and context for other songs, and with that in mind, it is much more pleasurable experience. Every track has something special in it, the style is very unique, especially for 90s, but it holds on, even as the 30th anniversary of the release is coming along. Also, I noticed how similar Thom Yorke's vocal is on this album to whatever Matt Bellamy represents across his career with Muse. I had to check the timelines, but maybe it's possible, that he was inspired by this album? Whatever the answer is, I'm happy to be able to listen to both those bands. And for now, I'm even more happy to give this album a pretty strong five stars.
It’s a classic
Well... Comeon..... 5
Énorme classique Let Down et No surprises sont incroyables
master piece
amazing record. cyber y2k. fav tracks: all
effervescence vampire, mecha girl alternate reality realness, i cannot express how much this album is me i can’t listen to it i experience it fav songs: the entire album. as a collective is an emotional experience while all at the same time everything has its own intense feeling
I really love this one! Such a great album.
One of the greatest Albums ever made. Period!
Holds up. Amazing production!
Up there for GOAT
Music is really good. Being pretentious is not an artistic goal or principle by itself.
would give this album a 6 if i could
Music to have a panic attack by.
I only got to listening it once. From the first listen that scattered throughout the day. 9.5/10, I'm one of those guys that cant fully give a 10/10. As I mentioned only played through once, justifies 9.5/10. Will probably change in the future First listen: Every song is beautiful adventure. I got this sense of artificial emotion but yet it was so real. I wish I could articulate it better. I will be dissecting the album later
Listened Before? Y Ohhh yes. This album and I go way back. I found Kid A earlier on this list, so I assumed this (superior) record would be coming at some point. This album is a complete album. It is one of the few things I can listen to and feel stoned even when I'm cold sober.... and when actually stoned, its something to get absolutely lost in. Amazing. Added to Library? Y Songs added to playlist: Karma Police
Greatest alt rock album ever
p798. 1997. 5 stars. Cracking tunes, great vocals, sharp lyrics, even sharper production. Not a weak track on this.
Easily one of the most important albums in my musical education. I was a big Radiohead fan from their start (Pablo Honey). I adored The Bends. But it was OK Computer that elevated them to Gods. What a masterpiece!
This is always going to be a 5.
No comment needed
This is an incredible album from one the greatest group of musicians to ever record music. I used to refer to Radiohead as "our generation's Stones or Beatles" but now I'm looking for the next generation's Radiohead. This is so good, it makes me want to give up on recently released music completely. Listen to Exit Music or No Surprises and you'll agree.
Instant classic. Loved it.
Il fut un temps où tout le monde chantait comme Thom Yorke. J'ai beaucoup écouté cet album, il y a des monstres de chansons. L'originalité de l'environnement sonore, les mélodies, la mélancolie contagieuse, ça nous atteint.
Quite an important album to me. I was 17 when "OK Computer" came out. It was quite unlike anything I'd heard before, and it stood in stark contrast to the tedious Britpop that dominated the airwaves at the time. It was weird and geeky, the sound of uncertainty in a world where technology was taking over, and believing in conspiracy theories was fun and silly and not causing the collapse of civilization. Fast-forward 25 years and I still know it inside-out; it's been engraved on my synapses forever. But it's also kinda patchy. For the initial sting of "Airbag" there's the literal let down of "Let Down," "Paranoid Android's" layered despair gives way to "Karma Police," which I never really liked. It's a good album, but, looking back, I feel like "The Bends" is more consistent and coherent.
Fajne
amazing album
Radiohead in optima forma. Great album!
gaydiohead haha rainy vibes
Obviously
All time classic. Not my favorite album of theirs, but has lots of memorable tracks
I listened to this album CONSTANTLY in the late 90s, to the point where my CD version got beat up and scratched and started to skip, but I just kept on listening. Now when I listen to it on Spotify my brain expects it to skip at a couple points and I am viscerally surprised that it doesn't. Which is to say, this is an all time favorite, changed my outlook on music, was the soundtrack to a pivotal time in my young adult life, defined an era, etc. etc. Listening to it 20+ years later, it holds up pretty dang well. In retrospect this was a transitional album as Radiohead started to move away from guitar and into electronic music, and away from sad sack introspection to bigger philosophical themes around technology, late capitalism, postmodernism, etc. It was because of that latter transition that this album captured the zeitgeist and mood of the moment so perfectly. How did they nail that existential millennial anxiety so perfectly? Or did they actually create it? Either way - goosebumps! An important album and one of my all time favorites. 5/5
Great from start to finish.
Its great on the first listen, and then it just keeps getting better every time you play it. 5/5
Never heard of it. OK, seriously. This was one of those albums of the 90s that blew my mind. I do not consider Radiohead "prog rock" like I do not consider Pink Floyd "prog rock". Sure, they will use odd time signatures and whatever else they want to "progress", but they are a band unto its own. Every song on this seems like it's on a completely different album, and yet it all fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. "Exit Music (For A Film)".... god, what an amazing piece. And the thing is that this is not even my favorite album of theirs, but it is definitely the one that made me a fan. I played it for my son once he started listening heavily into Pink Floyd, because I felt that it was the next step. He said it was "good" but I don't think he quite gets it. Yet. Highly recommended.
Another beauty from the 90's. Admittedly I'm a slightly bigger fan of Radiohead's more straight ahead rock album The Bends, but OK Computer is really one of those great albums that must be listened to as a whole. If you just got dropped into it randomly, you may not get it. But starting from Airbag and finishing at The Tourist, it's a seamless and connected journey. For a guy like me there's plenty of great guitar and percussion work to fall back on in songs like Paranoid Android, Electioneering, and Lucky. But even when they experiment (a lot), it's with such cool sounds in songs like Subterranean Homesick Alien, Let Down, Climbing Up the Walls, and No Surprises. And then Thom Yorke is such a brilliant lyricist, even when he's trying to be abstract, with such emotion-grabbing vocals. Karma Police is a great example; beautiful and one of my all-time favorite rock songs. And if you love Radiohead's work in the 90's (perhaps their best period) check out the re-release OK Computer OKNOTOK, with a whole second album of b-sides and unreleased tracks. I Promise off that album maybe surpasses Karma Police in my mind; rawer like Fake Plastic Trees off the Bends, but just beautiful and dripping with desperation and emotion. At any rate, it just goes to show that Radiohead was at their masterful peak around the recording of OK Computer.
On the one hand, this is the album where Radiohead started to get "weird." Their first two albums were excellent and relatively accessible. Albums after this become much more dense, electronic, and difficult to listen to. On the other hand, it's still a fantastic album and deserves all the accolades. I've listened to this album many times but never once read the lyrics until now. They really add to the overall experience and I think that's the word to describe this album - an experience. The lush instrumentation, creative riffs and hooks, often dark, Yorke's plaintive voice, and the poetic (if dense) lyrics. Clear 5, but best when listened to with intention rather than as background.
Radiohead’s 2nd best album (The King of Limbs is their best)
Really calm in a strange way, it has elements of all of the music genres I'm into but each song has a unique style which made it sound like each song was a whole different project but still tying the whole album together
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Just a few days removed from Kid A I draw OK Computer. What luck! I could write a paragraph about this one too. It's just a masterpiece. I just wish the themes weren't still so damn relevant. Ugh. I can't praise it enough, that said I could see why people might not love it. It's definitely not a feel good album. I love that Kid A and OK Conputer will be aide by side in my highest rated list. It's the little things in life sometimes.
Perfect
Greatest album of all time.
5 stars even with fitter happier on it. Top notch.
My GOAT
Brilliant album. Lucky is probably amongst my favourite songs of the 90’s.
Classic album
No surprises ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
As I said previously, I think Radiohead has one of the greatest and most unique sounds out there. And while some might find that sound to be overly sad or dark, I think it's absolutely achieving its objective. I wouldn't call this a "perfect" album (if such a thing exists), but it certainly rounds to a 5 for me. There are a number of massive hits here, and except for maybe "Fitter Happier" (a style I'm not particularly keen on), the rest of the tracks are solid. Throughout the album, the creativity and musical maturity are strongly evident.
Absolute classic. Love your work Thom and the boys
Well that was a great weekend, back to back 90s classics for totally different reasons. Still my favorite? Radiohead album (The Bends closely ties).
Five stars aren’t enough
I was starting to think I didn’t like radio head with the past two albums. However this album really reoriented my thinking. It’s great and quirky in all the right way
this is just amazing. this album was my introduction to radiohead, and i still absolutely love it
Still a classic 25 years on.
Incredible listen. Hits harder when you’re working while it’s playing.
I've listed to thus countless times. Karma Police, Paranoid Android. Exit music for a film is one of my favorite tracks off the album. Classic all around
Era defining. A ridiculous amount has been written about OK Computer and I doubt I have a fresh perspective. It's many people's favourite Radiohead album, 90s album, indie album, or album ever and deservedly so. It still sounds relevant and fresh - by filtering influences like DJ Shadow, The Beatles, Pink Floyd etc through their own songwriting process, they created something timeless. My highlights are Airbag, Let Down, and Climbing Up The Walls but every song is needed and so well sequenced. You're unlikely to put Fitter Happier in to a playlist but it must be listened to as part of the album - no skipping allowed!
The opus of the first stage of their career.
GOAT
One word 👍🏾!
Half the songs are a little meh but still pretty good, Airbag and Subterranean Homesick Alien absolutely blow me away, No Surprises Paranoid Android and Exit Music also amazing, those songs make the whole album top tier in my opinion. Would buy on CD 👍
OMFG!!
Quite possibly my favorite album of all time.
90s masterpiece
good album
Extrem nicer sound. Erinnert mich sehr stark an Muse!
Really freaking good
Love this album.
Picked up significantly more on the atmosphere of the album this time, surprisingly intimate even though it sounds super big/full
Classic alert! This was one of my favourite albums growing up, and the first Radiohead album that I listened to. There are so many great tracks here
one step ahead of you, already listened to it. pretty amazing
Close to perfect
Has some of my favourite Radiohead songs and is just great as an album. It stays interesting throughout the entire album with a huge variety in sounds.
Heres one that Ive listened to countless times finally This is THE definitive album of the late 90s alt-rock era. This album is a masterpiece start to finish, it never dips in quality and every song is good. The influence this album has on almost every single alternative rock album after it is insane. EASIEST 10/10 we've had so far. One of my favorites of all time
One of the best albums by one of my all-time favorite bands. I can still remember hearing Paranoid Android for the first time, stunned by how different and compelling and beautiful it was. There is so much beauty in the music of OK Computer. I love the way Radiohead displays their mastery in the use of peaks and valleys. Producing swelling crescendos in Exit Music (For a Film), No Suprises, and Let Down, that burst into being and fade into the ending. The theme of feeling like a stranger is given sci-fi context in many places throughout the album, but I can’t help feeling comforted by the warm layers of grooving textures in every song. Love this one so much!
My generation’s Revolver
This was so so so good. I don’t know how I’ve only listened to a few songs on this in passing. I added at least half of these songs to my playlist. I may or may not have listened to this album throughout the whole day and had a minor obsession with it. It gets so energetic and fun while he has such a good voice
RADIOBEAAAAD
One of my favourite albums ever!
Absolutely classic. 5 stars without a doubt!
bem bom os fadinho, curti
wonderfully put together album. could listen over and over again for hours. this album is truly one of the best, it deserves the place it has on this list. timeless alt rock.
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Beautifully intuitive album
Bought this album at the time of release and it’s stood the rest of time. I loved their previous album, which was immense. This is different but equally good/better! True masterpiece. Loved listening to it from beginning to end, brought back lots of memories, like a warm blanket.
i already listened to this album LOLOLOL this album is actually pretty good, obvious highlights include paranoid android, exit music (for a film), karma police, climbing up the walls, and no surprises. as the first radiohead album i have ever listened to, i gotta say that, though the fanbase may be a little weird at times, i totally see where the love for this album is coming from.
Very cool Thom
One of the best albums ever! Truly ahead of its time
It’s fucking OK Computer
I mean I can literally play the entire album in my head beginning to end I’ve listened to it so much. One of the greats.
I can't say I'm the biggest fan of Radiohead-at-their-best, but this is certainly the band in that register. It helps that I was perfectly primed for this listen. I'm in an electroacoustic-reading mood, and OK Computer has plenty of that in its DNA. That presence is more clear than that ascribed to jazz or prog. Yet Radiohead doesn't dive all the way into the experimental mode which fails for me. The record is packed, but packed with beautiful songs.
Pivotal album. Really the turning point for Radiohead moving away from guitar-driven music and creating something truly unique. Really the only track that I feel reaches somewhat backwards is "Karma Police". Fun to return to this album in its entirety. I still feel like the album is rather front-loaded, but works well as a whole. "Paranoid Android", "Let Down", and "No Surprises" are still my favs.
I listen to this album more often than others. Its a 5 all the way. Let Down is consistently on on my top track list.
Incredible
Paranoid Android 10/10 Exit Music (for a film) 10/10 Overall 10/10
Glovely 4.5
One word; great
Unquestionably iconic, important, influential album. Hadn't really listened to it in a while, and it just washed over me in all its anxious beauty.
What is there to say about this album. It's an absolute masterpiece from beginning to end. It's also the beginning of one of the greatest three album runs in the history of recorded music. What's more, the more I listen to this album, the more I like it. It just works on every level. Even songs that I would find annoying on a lesser album, like Fitter Happier manage to fit into this album. It's dark and beautiful, wounded yet resilient. 5/5
The album is relaxing and amazing I want to get into more Radiohead
One of the best albums ever made.
This is undoubtedly one of the best albums of all time. I was going to list my favorite songs, but then I realized I was just typing all the tracks on here in order. Even "Fitter Happier", which is a text to speech program coldly reading words from a list manages to make me emotional. Seriously can't name a single thing I dislike about this album. Not only is this a 5/5, it's also a 10/10. Love these little British music goblins. Looking forward to giving The Bends the same score as well. Maybe Kid A as well.
‘OK Computer’ is that nice mid-point between Radiohead’s earlier, straight forward guitar rock and the more experimental, electronic path they would take with ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’. It’s also better than I remember, and has uncannily ended up being as relevant today (probably more so) than when it was released. It captures that quiet sense of desperation, alienation, isolation, loneliness, and paranoia we all feel in modern society. Feelings that were always there lurking in the background, but which have really come to the fore over the last few years, what with a global pandemic and lockdowns, the rise and rise of surveillance by overreaching governments, our reliance on tech in general, our obsession with social media, the outbreak of war in Ukraine, our shitty corporate jobs getting even shittier, the mindless commodification of every aspect of our lives: and this is just the tip of the iceberg. ‘OK Computer’ taps into all of this and more. Its an album that’s direct enough to speak to us in the here and now, but ambiguous enough that it will always sound current in future times.
This is one of the best top-to-bottom albums I ever heard. Usually, when I'm disappointed in an album it's because I'm hoping I'll feel about it the way I feel about this one on the first listen. This is the peak of Radiohead's work. Everything after this feels like interesting ideas but not a cohesive whole. I also had way more time on my hands when this came out than I do now so who knows.
okkkkkkk iconicccccc 🤖🤖
This is probably my favorite album of all time so a very easy review for this one. Everything about this is so well done. 10/10
Automatic 5 for me, this is my most listened to Radiohead album and it's just perfect.
kml
Karma Police has been stuck in my head for 15 years.
Je ne vois pas ce que pourrais dire sur cet album que les autres n'ont pas dit, alors j'y vais d'une anecdote personnelle. Comme bien des gens de mon âge, j'ai énormément écouté cet album que je considère comme un chef-d'oeuvre. À l'époque où je l'ai découvert, j'étais dans une forme de rejet de la musique en anglais, j'en avais tellement entendu qu'il me semblait qu'il devait y avoir autre chose. J'écoutais de la chanson française, de la musique du monde, du jazz... et cet album, en boucle.
Epic, important and progressive rock music. They rejected Britpop and created a masterpiece of textured, sometimes hook-laden rock that definitely was not easy or formulaic. Great.
Super good, love the sound and style of this album. One of my favorites.
ok
Awesome album. Definitely not a mood lifter, but it pinpoints so many topics that are still relevant today, or even more relevant today that they were 25 years ago. Radiohead always delivers. 10/10
9/10 really good
Great album. 9/10
This is likely my all time favorite album from one of my all time favorite groups. What seemed like an apocalyptic glimpse into what might be instead is a disturbingly accurate description of this century. OK COMPUTER is the soundtrack to the disillusionment I have experienced as I witness technology’s total inability to deliver us from our own evils. And yet even as we ignore its dire warning this album is one of a very few that lit my way through some of the darker passages my life has taken. I cannot overstate its importance to me over the last 20 years. The best album to come out of the 90’s still sounds like it is one step ahead of us.
Easy
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this album and Radiohead in general.
Good album, only one strange track
Yeah duh.
Very good! Liked it a lot, but I knew that already. Favorite songs: Airbag, electioneering
Loputtoman hypen takia oon aina ollut vähän skeptinen tätä kohtaan. "Paras levy ikinä" jne. ja ehkä tän mainetaakan takia en oo vaan suostunut olemaan tälle ennen avoin. Mutta nyt kun on tarpeeksi kypsä vain nauttimaan niin.... onhän tää törkeän hyvä. Super siistejä yksityiskohtia soundeissa käytännössä koko levyn läpi ja biisit rakentuu tyylikkäämmin kuin ehkä rockissa koskaan. Lyriikat myös natsaa tunnelmaan usein just eikä melkein. Täydellistä melankoliaa. Kai siinä ajatuksessa on perää, että tän levyn jälkeen rockilla ei oo ollut enää merkittävää kehityssuuntaa. Lähinnä pirstaloitunut genrerunkkailuksi yms. Ehkä ainakin viimeinen ilmiselvä mainstream rockin mestariteos.
Muzikale duizendpoot Thom Yorke bewijst zijn kunnen zeker op dit album. Een van mijn favoriete albums ooit
19th March 2022 Started on the Friday but finished on Monday. Had mum and dad come to stay for the weekend, took sprout to get spayed, national gallery etc. One of the greats. Could have picked one of No Surprises, Karma Police, Exit Music for the playlist but went for Paranoid Android for the baseline. Unbelievable album, rewards consistent listening.
[Cracks knuckles in anticipation of a treatise on Radiohead...] This record rescued my musical tastes. I really believe that. I was riding the Smashing Pumpkins wave that crested in 1995-1997, which had rescued me from my early guitar bands boredom (no offense Nirvana and Bush). While most popular rock music just kept huffing its own fumes until Creed's Human Clay was shat upon the world's ears, Radiohead were getting weirder and better. It was phenomenally important for me to hear a NEW band with this sense of melody, technicality, and sense of adventure. It's the first band that was releasing music where I felt "in on it." Like, I was anticipating in real time what might happen next. Also, it can't be overstated how macho rock became in the late 90s. It felt dirty to me even if I wouldn't have articulated that. Thom Yorke and this band were so unconcerned about looking like ballsy rockers. I loved that. "Subterranean Homesick Alien" is one of the best pop/rock songs I've ever heard. Lyrically, musically. As with all my favorite bands, I can't pick a favorite record. But this one, "In Rainbows" and "Amnesiac" are all vying for the spot at the top of the list, for me. Until I got into Steely Dan, this record was my go-to "test the sound of the stereo/PA." Also, it was the first new music I had listened to since the late 80s that my dad and I really agreed on. He heard "Paranoid Android" and was really into that. It made me feel good to have that approval when we had been arguing about music more often than not for the few years before that. I'm sure he was relieved to hear this coming from my speakers rather than Tool.
The second of three Radiohead albums in a row that shattered expectations based on the previous one. Who else has done that?
Proof that classic albums were not only made in the sixties and seventies. Still mind-blowing more than twenty years after its release.
Quite simply a masterpiece. Each song is a cinematic journey that delivers in every way possible. I used to think that The Bends is a better album, but that simply isn't true. It might be a more exciting listen, but can't equal the drama and quality of songwriting on OK Computer. 5 🌟
10/10 Best Song - Let Down
No bad songs, great mix, mastery, flow - a very familiar album that I love
Fantastic
A mythical rock classic now, a bold experiment in sound and songwriting then. Really good songs is what makes it really work.
For me, it's one of the greatest albums ever recorded. This record has held a special place in my collection and my heart since I was given a copy on cassette in '97 (by my mate Ben, again!). The fact that people moan about Radiohead being whingers etc, etc, yawn, yawn, just makes me love them more. If my wife whinged like this I'd happily listen to her doing it all day long. Exit Music for Film will probably be played as my coffin trundles through those little red velvet curtains.
For years I didn't get this album, or Radiohead. Then one day I decided to listen to it properly on the train on the way to work. I realised I was utterly and completely wrong; OK Computer is one of the great albums. It's nice to be wrong.
Initially left no review for this LP, because what else is there to say that hasn't been said? After listening back for the recent run of live shows, all I have to add is how shockingly prescient this album was for its time. The ever-present sense of paranoia, technological skepticism, and (at times) hopelessness that defines the world of OK Computer is a dead-ringer for the 21st century outlook as our lives are fed into the woodchipper of capitalism and half-baked AI consumes entire livelihoods and the planet itself. Kudos to Thom and Co. for not only envisioning the future but turning it into one of the most haunting, beautiful albums of our time.
Takes me back to uni... I think I'd probably still give this album 5 stars even without the nostalgia bump, though. Some absolute tunes on here. Fave track - "Paranoid Android" - love that weirdness!
I mean literally one of the most important albums of my life. There's no functional way to be objective about this. Good album. Would obsess over again. A+
It's not often I give 5 stars to an album that I wasn't already intimately familiar with, but I have to make an exception in this case. I think the only reason I didn't listen to this more when it came out is that my friend Mark, whose taste in music I really respected, told me he didn't like Radiohead. Why did I listen to Mark? I knew in my gut that I liked Radiohead but I was easily influenced back then. Anyway, Radiohead might be a little pretentious (which I think is why Mark didn't like them) but even given that I think this is a brilliant album. The sound is amazing, and the songs are beautiful. Sonic bliss. So, 5 stars it is. Screw you, Mark.
Inovador e original.
There is nothing new to say about this album. Every track, save for Electioneering is perfect - and on any contemporary band's album, Electioneering would be the best track. It's worth getting the 20th anniversary reissue just for I Promise, which would possibly have made this album even better. I've listened to the entire hacked minidiscs of their demos for this. I'm not usually so obsessive, but this is 'the one'. If I had to rank the albums I've given five stars to, this would be in the top 5, duking it out with the Beatles, Wu Tang Clan, The Fall and David Bowie for number one. Listening back to it, Exit Music is standing out as a really beautiful thing. My favourite track changes every single time. Even Electioneering has made it twice (when I first bought the album when I was 13, and when I learned to play it when I was 35). I see in the reviews that some people have called it too depressing and rated it low. It's actually quite uplifting musically, and there's nowt wrong with a bit of misery from time to time, you wellness obsessed morons.
The bestest album of 90’s. A masterpiece created by radiohead.
Great Album, Great band. On my top 20 albums of all time for sure Favorite song: Karma Police or No Surprises
Um álbum por dia 2. OK Computer - Radiohead - 21/06/1997 Claustrophobic, paranoid, oblique and dystopian, a big fuck you to Britpop. In 1997 this sounded like the future to my 31 year old mind. I always was a pretentious little git.
Possibly my favorite album. Tied with in rainbows. Favorite band.
So vibrant, and beatiful balance between electronica elements and the classic guitar, bass, drums drive
This is probably my favourite album of all time, not much more I can say here. Just a beautiful, haunting, immaculate work of art
C.L.A.S.S.I.C.
Does it get any better than this ... ? What can I say about this album that hasn't already been said...? Well, I met my future wife picking up Ok Computer at Plan 9 records in RVA, that's what. Though I feel like I am not alone in this experience, it is a special album for me. Since meeting her I've been fitter, happier, more productive, not drinking too much. Like a cat tied to a stick, a pig in a cage on antibiotics. Coincidence? I think not. No alarms, and no surprises.
This will always be among my most favorite albums ever. There is so much classical foundation to this entire album. I love all the remakes that have been done of it (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keDSxbwoiqs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsDlH1lO2p4). I feel immersed every time I listen to it. There are some I like more than others, but overall it's a seminal album in my view. Let Down is probably my favorite...I love the build-up. Also, it is etched in my memory from their show at the old 9:30 Club where they played for this album's tour (1997?) and the lights and dry ice and the gigantic computers on set with the various equalizers going nuts at the climax of the song. I confess, my love for Radiohead took a decline after this album, for which I know I'm an outlier. Maybe I should renew my commitment to one of my favorite bands ever by revisiting them with a more mature (ha! OLDER, DEAFER) ear.
Six stars. A band evolving. Experimenting. Probing. Pushing the envelope. But still accessible. Emotional. Raw. Powerful. Nonsense, and also thought-provoking depth. At least when you can understand Thom Yorke. A voice that shouldn't work, but just does. And Jonny Greenwood's guitar work is amazing and stands out for not just it's skill but also how well it fits in with the experimentation around it.
OK Computer is only slightly, ever so slightly, below The Bends for me as it skews more experimental and electronic than it's predecessor. But it still contains a lot of the guitar that I love about the Bends with a more dystopian feel. I was reading old reviews of OK Computer and someone called it “body music that circumvents the head to reach the spirit.” That's a pretty apt description of what both The Bends and OK Computer mean to me. Radiohead is one of a handful of bands for which the lyrics are only very distantly important. For me, OK Computer is almost entirely about the feeling evoked rather than the poetry expressed.
a good album
Excellent.
greatest sadboy album ever
We Live in a Society
Radiohead is really great at (for example) saying, "We want to do a song that evokes Bitches Brew, but we want to make it our own," and then they execute it perfectly and it's super impressive, with thoughtful lyrics and everything. Occasionally, though, they forget to make the music enjoyable to listen to. That only happens a few times on this album, which is what makes it their best one. Also, they perfectly captured the 21st century zeitgeist in 1997. How? Best track: Paranoid Android
In my review of "In Rainbows", I wrote that IR was my introduction to Radiohead. This album actually shook something loose in my brain, and reminded me I was familiar with (of all things) "Karma Police" prior to that record. I haven't listened to this album front-to-back in a minute, but it's still just as good. It's a grand shift from what Radiohead was (a decent alternative rock band) into what they would become. This album shows the beginning flirtations of their electronic side (which they'd get more into on their next record), while still being accessible enough for their older audience. It's impressive, in its scale. One of those records I feel like I could discuss with the right people for quite a while. Favorite tracks: "Karma Police", "Paranoid Android", "No Surprises", "Climbing Up the Walls"
This is without a doubt an amazing album. Not my personal favorite but a good album nonetheless.
A modern classic. marking the transition of this band to a more experimental sound but retaining ‘songs’ that others complain they lost on the journey. A huge album and best listened from start to finish rather than picking individual tracks but… Top tracks : Airbag, Exit music (for a film), Let down, Electioneering, No surprises, The tourist
God I still love this album
This is THE Radiohead album for me. I remember buying it and bringing home to listen on CD. It was a very important album to my musical knowledge. Paranoid Android is one of my favorite songs ever, and I remember the music video vividly. However, Let Down is by far the best track on the album. I am not a major Radiohead fan, but this album is a wild exception. Just beautiful, inspiring, and fully realized. There's a little bloat/dead weight around the middle, but minor qualms with an otherwise, excellent record.
There are times when I feel really sad and down, not for any particular reason, but simply because of how difficult the human experience is. This album fully encapsulates those feelings.
An exceptional album, pretty flawless. Artful arrangements + one of the most compelling vocalists ever to be recorded = Magic. Whatever else was happening musically in 1997 was pretty much reduced to rubble by this one. Fave Songs: Let Down, Exit Music (For a Film), No Surprises, Climbing Up the Walls, Karma Police, Electioneering
I for one welcome our computer overlords. Best Tracks: Airbag; Paranoid Android; Karma Police
Obvious 5 stars
Some of the Head's best work
Quizá se oiga muy trillado pero en realidad creo que, cuando se ve como la experiencia completa de un album OK Computer es basicamente la vez que Radiohead realmente creó algo perfecto. No solamente hacia la banda, lo que representó sacar un disco de este tono cuando antes de él realmente su música era más catalogada al lado de cosas como Blur y Oasis, dando un giro tan dramático y creando algo que realmente iba más allá, también es un logro impresionante para todo el rock de los noventas. Cuando la mayoría del rock popular tenía que ser de sonido hacia el grunge, punk, sonidos crudos... sale un disco prístino, limpio, vívido, casi como una visión futurista del rock. Sin este disco muy probablemente no hay no hay cosas como Muse, los Killers o Coldplay (sí, incluso Coldplay, es un precio razonable a cambio de un disco tan bueno). Ese sonido prístino casi inmaculado y medio esteril es en mi opinión lo que lo hace perdurar y poder escucharlo hoy en día sonando relevante y nada viejo, no tiene nada que lo ancle a cierta moda x... sin saberlo de antemano es dificil decir de qué año es, simplemente no pasa de moda (en un sentido que me hace pensar incluso en cosas como The Wall... al tener una base tan sólida no necesita tantos adornos). La producción es brillante, rica en sonido, detallada, balanceada. El rango impresionante de emociones, sonidos, conceptos líricos cambiantes y siniestros, se toma su tiempo y cuando realmente golpea pega como camión (como el final de Exit Music por dar un ejemplo). Dramático, grande y con un concepto impecablemente realizado.
Tremendous album with the perfect accents and a clear vision.
This is the 14th album generated for me, and it's the first album where I've previously listened to the whole thing. I wouldn't consider myself to be a particular Radiohead fan, but I'm rating this 5 stars for quality and impact on modern music. It sounds surprisingly current (I felt super old when I realized that this album was released nearly 25 years ago!) and really captures the mood of our current dystopia.
Classic. Radiohead's best. 10/10 1. No Surprises 2. Climbing Up the Walls 3. Paranoid Android
I love this album, I've got it on a well used CD. An atmospheric masterpiece. stand out tracks - Paranoid Android Electioneering Climbing up the walls No Surprises
What else can be said about this album. Monumental
👍 chill. Karma Police will get stuck in ur head. Electioneering is interesting and The Tourist is just epic guitar.
I mean. This thing’s a classic. All killer no filler. Soundtrack to high school.
Wonderfully atmospheric, stirring
Basically perfect. Listen on good headphones!
Finally something decent ;)
perhaps a couple of songs are not so strong as the rest, but still a clear 5* album
Not my favourite Radiohead album, but this record sounds pretty much flawless and has some brilliant songs, so I'm left with no choice but to give this full marks.
just wonderful. Happy times sitting up with friends chatting late into the night with this on replay. Great album
I always think of OK Computer as the Pulp Fiction of rock albums. It changed my idea of what a rock band could do. To be so creative, so immersive, so beautiful but still kick ass - definitely in my top 10 all time.
Absolute classic.
So, so, so good.
Two Radiohead albums in one week! The album that got me hooked.
thinking of buying that one
instant classic, glad to get the excuse to listen to it again
De los mejores discos que se han hecho en la historia del mundo mundial
Heavy nostalgia from the last era in which I did any serious music video watching. In any event, this one is to me peak Radiohead, and quite at the top of whatever their strange genre is.
corr blimey yes please very good yes
Absolutely seminal 90s album. Important piece of art
kitchen music
If it weren't for Fitter Happier, this would probably be as close to a perfect album as there is. Climbing Up the Walls is so powerful, with amazing track after track.
I was pretty sure we would see Ok Computer on this list and I am so glad it came up this early. This record came out when I was 14, I loved it then and it remains as great as I remember. The album is one of the first I remember sitting down and poring over the liner notes trying to decipher every one of the lyrics. It was profound to me and extremely rewarding. This album spoke to a young me. -Self loathing and contempt for everyone else! -Aliens, robots and Blade Runner. -The power of nihilism. - Distrust and contempt for government. -An understanding that our collective goal is just to find a quiet hole to die in. Did I find an album that suited me perfectly or was I reborn as a manifestation of this record? Hard to say. What I can say for certain is it holds up and rocks as hard as anything this mopey possibly can.
I've always liked this album. It takes me back to high school; back when you'd still listen to an entire CD because you paid good money for it. Even now, I could have it on in the background and listen to it all without selecting just one track and moving on to something else. I remember that at the time it came out, it sounded different than a lot of other stuff on the radio, but now I notice that a lot of bands have since tried to emulate it. Twenty-plus years later, I think the album still stands up
Perfect one, amazing harmony, unforgettable music (just because it’s forgettable )) every melody is not like usual pop melodies, it’s always changing, it’s never the same, and it’s my favourite kind of music. But at the same time it’s not my “sense-of-the-world” album. But I believe him and I understand him and I love it
They look like a mock troupe, but this is one of the best going
I don’t especially think of myself as a Radiohead fan, and I wouldn’t think to list them as one of my favourite bands, but several of their albums unquestionably deserve a 5 star rating, including this one. Exit Music stops me in my tracks every time.
Wat . een . plaat . zeg !
Geen uitleg nodig.
Alles minder dan 5 sterren zou te weinig zijn.
Geen toelichting nodig.
Fantastic - from prog to solid rock to a killer ballad, this album runs the gamut. I like this more and more over time.
Many great songs, just one or two not so great
Great album, really trippy. I particularly like Subterranean Homesick Alien, Karma Police, No Surprises, Lucky, although the quality is maintained throughout. Would I love this as much as I do, had I not heard it before? Not sure, but I do love it, so this is officially the first 5* album on this list for me (after 38 albums listened).
Just beautiful half or more of the album saved. 4.75/5
Too many good songs. Not perfect but its better than a 4.
probably one of the greatest albums of all time
No need to listen, though I will. A treasure.
great album that I own
Classic
Fave from the 90's
Amazing nuff said
Top notch
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Airbag, No surprises, and The Tourist were my favourites.
Incredible album through and through
Evolution between pablo honey rock band and kid a electronic-edged pomo.
A great album. Enjoyable to listen to when feeling a bit low. Emo vibes 🥸
Still perfect
Impeccable. Nothing else to say. It is perfect in every way. Absolutely sublime record from start to finish. A fucking masterpiece.
In my top 10 the songs are all awesome, and the album composition is equivalent to a symphony.
Greatest album ever recorded.
I wish i could give this a 4.5 bc that would be the perfect score. I liked that the songs didn't sound all the same and they had distinctive different moods. I think Exit Music is a masterpiece
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¡Bah!
A happy revisit to the legendary OK Computer, to think that this album is from 1997 is insane to me.
Альбом на все времена для моего поколения. Если в ходе беседы выясняешь, что собеседник любит Radiohead и OK Computer (хотя мой личный выбор все же Amnesiac), то значит этот разговор имеет шанс быть приятный и даже превратиться в крепкую дружбу. Заслуги rh в музыкальной индустрии лично для меня крайне значительны, поэтому такой важный альбом в их творческом пути для меня всегда стоит особняком. Пришел момент первой пятерки, пускай и любимчикам.
I actually rated Rainbows by Radiohead a 2 previously - but thought OK Computer was fantastic. I really enjoyed it and thought to myself I should listen to more Radiohead - until I remembered I might have already listened to one of their albums from this list and saw that I didn't like that one at all. Still, this was good enough to make it work giving some others of their older albums a try, even if I don't seem to be a fan of their 'newer' albums. My favorite tracks were Karma Police, Subterranean Homesick Alien and The Tourist. The only one I disliked was Paranoid Android.
One of my top ten albums of all time
Flawless
Best so far...although it’s not the Bends, it was the “best album ever” in its time. Good old Oxford (Abingdon) band.
classic
We're supposed to all agree that this is perfect, aren't we? It was the first of the 'groundbreaking' Radiohead albums after their early indie efforts. Exit Music is my favourite Radiohead song. Still think The Bends is better though.
The best album about car crashes I've ever heard
Still as perfect as I remember 👍
Absolute classic.
One of my all-time favorites!
Stone cold classic
amazing album every single song an absolute slap and all fits together perfectly
Hadn't listened to this in a looooong time. Don't really understand why. I loved it at the time and it's still great now.
Still a masterpiece
Good sound. A bit violent at times. A bit of tonal whiney sound at points or specific songs. He's very able to open it up and is very good when he does.
One of my favourite albums of all time. Radiohead is clearly on another level.
Ok Computer good, not as good as the bends.
i mean come on. sooooo good
J’adore cet album, je lecoute en boucle. C’est vraiment une experience musical. 5*
How could you give anything but a 5 for this classic. What a band and what an album!
of course the best album
One of the best albums of all TIME!
Another masterpiece. Right at the cusp before Radiohead got too electronic and weird
Big fan. Solid album. I bet we see RH again a few more times.
Greatest of all time, if music was a contest. Prescient and sharp almost 30 years later.
Life changing album for me in high school. Absolutely incredible.
Incredible album. Was a big part of my teenage.
Great - would listen again
Forgot how great this album is!
Chill vibes and strange tunes. A couple classics' a couple hidden gems.
An absolute masterpiece of an album.
Aptly considered one of the best albums ever made.
Still great. Probably their best album.
9/10 exit music for a film electioneering
Great Album that some call The Greatest Album. fav track: let down
9.2
I didn't listen to it, but it's probably my favourite album of all time.
Legendary album. A top 100 easy in the 20th century.
Not as good as ‘The Bends’, but pretty fucking amazing.
One of the best albums of all time.
The best Radiohead album
The best
Dies ist eine sehr gute Platte einer sehr guten Band, die von mir auch bereits vorher schon vielmals gehört wurde.
Awesome
Oh dang. Truly one of my fav records of all time.