OK Calculator

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OK Calculator

Studio album by TV on the Radio
Released	2002
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	Experimental Rock, Electronica
Length	74:58
Label	Independent
Producer(s)	David Andrew Sitek
	OK Calculator (2002)	Young Liars EP (2003)

OK Calculator is the debut album from TV on the Radio which they self-released in 2002. The album's title likely alludes to Radiohead's album OK Computer.

[edit] Track listing

"Freeway" – 2:19
"Say You Do" – 5:19
"Pulse of Pete" – 3:36
"Me - I" – 3:20
"Buffalo Girls" – 2:58
"Ending of a Show" – 1:09
"Hurt You" – 6:28
"Netti Fritti" – 5:14
"Yr God" – 2:35
"On a Train" – 16:07
"Sheba Baby" – 3:56
"Y King" – 2:43
"Aim to Please" – 3:07
"Bicycles Are Red Hot" – 3:57
"Los Mataban" – 3:00
"Robots" – 3:10
"Doing My Duty" – 5:52
"Untitled" – 0:06
- The last untitled track as well as "Robots" utilizes a voice synthesizer much like the song Fitter Happier by Radiohead

[edit] Origins

"We made this disc OK Calculator and left it in cafes and just different places. Just 24 tracks of four-track stuff. And that’s on-line now. We sold a few of them on our first tour, a couple, but then the CD burner broke, etc. That’s on-line and someone wrote about it as ‘the extremely rare but superb OK Calculator’ and I’m sitting there going, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Rare, yeah, rare because we’re making them ourselves, and superb, that’s not up to us, but it’s not superb. (laughs) I’d be the first person to tell you. There’s more hiss on some of those songs than there are songs. And it’s fun, and I love it, but I wouldn’t call it superb." Tunde Adebimpe in a 2004 Downhill Battle interview.