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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: Capitol Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  2066 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,098
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Vinyl
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 12.1 x 0.5
UPC: 724385522918
EAN: 0724385522918
ASIN: B000007UTN
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British "new wave of new wave" band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning "We hope that you choke." Sluggish, understated, and hard to get a grip on, OK Computer takes a few listens to appreciate, but its entirety means more than any one song. --Douglas Wolk
Album Description
180 Gram/Audiophile pressing
Gatefold jacket/2 discs
Printed sleeves
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 2066
 Most Overrated Album of the Nineties September 1, 2010
Nick Carmine
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This disc enjoys a special place on my private list of "those things that must be smote," as not only is it an over-hyped harbinger of boredom, but it is also largely responsible for reintroducing the worst characteristics of early seventies music back to mainstream radio. And after we thought the Ramones had finally purged the world of whiny, overblown prog-rock too. So many people hail "OK Computer" as some kind of musical flash of genius that launched an entire sound. Well, they're half right. The album did launch an entire sound, but, unfortunately, that sound sucks. If I had known the future of rock music would be boring musical arrangements that are only really good for generating alpha waves - much like the entire droning, half-speed, yawn-inducing plodding of the nineties' grunge phenomenon - I would have tried to change the future somehow. As for Thom Yorke's vocals, they're pretty much akin to a drug snitch who is being interrogated via electrodes on his privates - he sounds like a strangled cat. Who besides out of touch rock magazines like Rolling Stone and a few hype-happy listeners with turtlenecks and thumb rings are seriously going to suggest this guy can sing at all? Curiously, the guy looks like a strangled cat as well, so maybe his singing voice is actually his inner spirit animal trying to escape its whiny human prison. I give the cd 2 stars just for the fact that the band at least shows some sort of musicianship, but only 2 as the sum total of their efforts is just awful.
 Unquestionably Brilliant Album August 31, 2010
K. K. Williams (Wichita Falls, TX United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
And I should know. I've been listening to music for decades and I'm ultra hip and kewl.
 OK---This is the dullest and most boring album___Ever August 26, 2010
PROG TROGG (kitchener, Ontario Canada)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album has to be the best album of the past 20 years for insomniacs
The Definitive Indie Rock Ode to Mechanical Chaos August 21, 2010
Linda L. Richards (Allentown, PA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is quite possibly my favorite album of the 90s. A beautiful piece of orchestral majesty, really. This album no doubt predicts the whole future of humankind, which is on the road to robotic dominance everyone. It's musically great, with Thom Yorke becoming the most distinctive vocalist of the new age. And the guitars weave in and out of the production with static-ridden pulses and sparks throughout. You've also got the other sounds, creating a wild planet for the all band members' musicianships to roam. And the songs all stand brilliantly on their own, Airbag, Paranoid Android, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Exit Music for a Film, Let Down, Karma Police, (not Fitter Happier which is terrible crap) Electioneering, Climbing up a Wall, No Surprises, Lucky, and The Tourist. The song listing seems like merely a list of wildy successful cult indie movies on a Sundance bill, but don't be deterred! Not as though anyone should be, considering Sundance is "brilliant", pun intended you teabagging ninny.
Beautiful miraculous album August 21, 2010
Poindexter (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I fell in love with this album when living in darkness. There was something about it that really hit home with me. Years later, Light shined it's miraculous self on darkness. I was able to listen to OK Computer clear and free thus space for me to truly listen. There's no doubt in mind that a higher power flowed through Radiohead to create this album. OK Computer was created from that timeless eternal space of Now. Thus if any person were to listen to this album for the first time, they would not be able to tell if this album was released in 2010 or in the mid 90's. The lyrics are like parables that point to Truth. When in that clear space of Now, you recognize it.
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