Radiohead - OK Computer

Label:

Parlophone, Parlophone

Catalog#:

7243 8 55229 2 5, CDNODATA 02

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

UK & Europe

Released:

16 Jun 1997

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Alternative Rock

Tracklist

1	Airbag	4:44	X
2	Paranoid Android	6:23	X
3	Subterranean Homesick Alien	4:27	X
4	Exit Music (For A Film)	4:24	X
5	Let Down	4:59	X
6	Karma Police	4:21	X
7	Fitter Happier	1:57	X
8	Electioneering	3:50	X
9	Climbing Up The Walls	4:45	X
10	No Surprises	3:48	X
11	Lucky	4:19	X
12	The Tourist	5:24	X

Credits

Arranged By [Strings] - Radiohead
Artwork By [Additional Complicated Artwork Skills Supplied By] - Matt Bale , Mr. Barry
Conductor [Strings] - Nick Ingman
Edited By [Audio Levels Balance] - Nigel Godrich
Engineer [Studio Assistant] - Chris Scard , Gerard Navarro , Jon Bailey
Lyrics By [We Wrote Them] - Radiohead
Management [Patiently Managed By, At Coutyard] - Brian Message , Bryce Edge , Chris Hufford
Mastered By - Chris 'King Fader' Blair*
Music By - Colin Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Jonny Greenwood , Phil Selway , Thom Yorke
Other [Additional Guitar Stuff] - Adam Cummings
Other [Artistic Freedom In The Market Place Maintained By] - Keith Wozencroft , Perry Watts-Russell , Tony Wadsworth
Other [Cash Dealings, Other Assistance] - Big Al
Other [Guitar Maintenance, Deck Chairs] - Duncan Swift
Other [Instrument Modifications, Stage Managing, Equipment Shifting Into Difficult Places] - Plank
Other [International Ambassador] - Carol Baxter
Other [Lighting, Stage Design, Smoke And Production] - Andi Watson
Other [Media Handling] - Caffy St Luce
Other [Office Run By] - Julie Calland
Other [Performance Sound Enhancement For The Audience Balanced By] - Jim Warren
Other [Performing Monkey Bookings Taken By] - Charlie Myatt
Other [Sound Reference, Physics Teaching] - Tree
Other [Tour Manager] - Tim Greaves
Other [Video Realisation] - Dilly Gent
Photography, Other [Website Maintenance] - Stanley Donwood
Producer [Committed To Tape] - Nigel Godrich , Radiohead

Notes

Mastered at Abbey Road. Audio fixing and dubbing done at Mayfair, Abbey Road, Air Lyndhurst, Courtyard and The Church.

Track 7 features sample from the film 'Three Days Of The Condor' (liner notes misidentify the source as 'Flight of the Condor').

℗ 1997 The Copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. © 1997 EMI Records Ltd.

Made In Holland. Printed in Holland.

Comes in a standard jewel case with twenty-four page booklet.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 7 24385 52292 5

Other: I: 070 | F: PM 520 | UK: CDNODATA 02

Other: LC 0299 | bel/BIEM

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Rated 5/5

Review by AEK Apr 11, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

As a purist of electronic music and more specifically techno, it's not often I emerge from my bubble to discover other music. It's even rarer for me to remember an era of my life in connection with a rock album. Rediscovering this CD several years since last listening to it, it's hard not to get all dewy-eyed remembering 1997. Achieving the seemingly impossible, this emphatic follow-up to 'The Bends' not only lived up to its predecessor but completely blew it away. In many ways 'OK Computer' is a very mature album; still bearing Thom Yorkes' deathbed vocals, yet musically more mellow than 'The Bends'. Where I found 'The Bends' to simply be a collection of twelve fantastic tracks, 'OK Computer' worked better as an album. Everyone has different views on what defines an album as a masterpiece; in my opinion it needs to transcend mainstream popularity and appeal to everyone. With it's organic feel and a deeply personal touch 'OK Computer' carries this off with ease. Given time alone with your thoughts and a pair of headphones, it's impossible not to lose yourself in these tracks.

Together with 1998s mini-album 'How Am I Driving?', this era paved the way for Radioheads journey into the more experimental material of 'Kid A'. Utterly essential, irrespective of musical taste...everybody should own this album.