OK Computer

OK Computer
Studio album by Radiohead
Released 16 June 1997
Recorded July 1996
(Canned Applause,
Didcot, Oxfordshire)
September 1996 – March 1997
(St. Catherine's Court,
Bath, England)
Genre Alternative rock
Length 53:27
Label Parlophone, Capitol
Producer Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
Professional reviews
Radiohead chronology
The Bends
(1995)		 OK Computer
(1997)		 Kid A
(2000)
Singles from OK Computer
  1. "Paranoid Android"
    Released: May 1997
  2. "Karma Police"
    Released: August 1997
  3. "No Surprises"
    Released: January 1998

OK Computer is the third album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997. Radiohead recorded the album in rural Oxfordshire and Bath, England during 1996 and early 1997, together with their producer Nigel Godrich. Although most of the music is dominated by guitar, OK Computer's expansive sound and wide range of influences set it apart from many of the Britpop and alternative rock bands popular at the time, and it laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work.[1] The album is not considered by the band to be a concept album; however, its lyrics and visual artwork emphasise common themes such as consumerism, social disconnection, political stagnation and modern malaise.[2]

OK Computer reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and marked Radiohead's highest entry into the American market at the time, debuting there at number 21. The album expanded the band's worldwide popularity, and as of 2007, it has been certified triple platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US.[3][4] OK Computer received considerable acclaim at the time of its release, and it has since been listed by music critics and listener polls as one of the best albums ever recorded.

Contents

Background

After the success of Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995), the band decided to produce their third album themselves, although a number of producers, including Scott Litt, were offered a position to work on the album.[5] They were encouraged by recording sessions with engineer Nigel Godrich, who had assisted John Leckie in producing The Bends and had produced several Radiohead B-sides.[6] Bassist Colin Greenwood said that, "the only concept that we had for this album was that we wanted to record it away from the city and that we wanted to record it ourselves."[7] The band prepared for the recording sessions by buying their own recording equipment. The group asked Godrich for advice on what to acquire; Godrich eventually outgrew this role and became co-producer on the album.[8]

After the stressful tour in support of The Bends, the band took a break in January 1996 and expressed a desire to change their musical and lyrical style from that of their previous album.[9] Drummer Phil Selway said that "The Bends was an introspective album… There was an awful lot of soul searching. To do that again on another album would be excruciatingly boring."[10] Singer Thom Yorke said that "The big thing for me is that we could really fall back on just doing another miserable, morbid and negative record lyrically, but I don't really want to, at all."[11]

Recording

In early 1996, Radiohead started rehearsing and recording OK Computer in the Canned Applause studio, a converted shed near Didcot, Oxfordshire. It was the band's first attempt to work outside a conventional studio environment. Colin Greenwood said, "We had this mobile-studio type of thing going where we could take it all into studios to capture those environments. We recorded about 35% of the album in our rehearsal space. You had to piss around the corner because there were no toilets or no running water. It was in the middle of the countryside. You had to drive to town to find something to eat."[7]

In order to avoid the tension that accompanied the recording sessions for The Bends, EMI did not impose a production deadline on the band.[12] The band still ran into problems however, which according to Phil Selway, were mainly due to their choice to produce the album themselves. All five members had differing opinions and equal production roles, with Yorke having "the loudest voice", according to guitarist Ed O'Brien. The band eventually decided that Canned Applause was an unsatisfactory recording location, which Yorke attributed to its proximity to the band members' homes, and which Jonny Greenwood attributed to its lack of dining and bathroom facilities.[13] In spite of these difficulties, by this time the band had nearly completed recording four songs: "Electioneering", "No Surprises", "Subterranean Homesick Alien", and "The Tourist".[14] At their label's request, the band took a break from recording to embark on a 13-date American tour, opening for Alanis Morissette, where they performed early versions of several of their new songs. During summer 1996, one of the new songs, "Paranoid Android", evolved from a 14 minute song featuring long organ solos, to a version closer to that on OK Computer.[15]

Radiohead resumed their recording sessions in September 1996 at St Catherine's Court, a historic mansion near Bath owned by Jane Seymour.[16] They made much use of the different rooms and atmospheres throughout the house; the vocals on "Exit Music (For a Film)" featured an echo effect achieved by recording on a stone staircase, and "Let Down" was recorded at 3 AM in a ballroom.[17] The isolation from the outside world allowed the band to work at a different pace, with more flexible and spontaneous working hours. O'Brien said that "the biggest pressure was actually completing [the recording]. We weren't given any deadlines and we had complete freedom to do what we wanted. We were delaying it because we were a bit frightened of actually finishing stuff".[18] Yorke was ultimately satisfied with the quality of the recordings made at the house, and later stated "In a big country house, you don't have that dreadful '80s 'separation'. [...] There wasn't a desire for everything to be completely steady and each instrument recorded separately." O'Brien was similarly pleased with the recordings, estimating that "80%" of the album was recorded live and noted "I hate doing overdubs, because it just doesn't feel natural. [...] Something special happens when you're playing live; a lot of it is just looking at one another and knowing there are four other people making it happen."[19]

Radiohead returned to Canned Applause in October for rehearsals,[20] and completed most of the album during further sessions at St. Catherine's Court. By Christmas, they had narrowed down the tracklisting to 14 songs.[21] The album's string parts were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London in January 1997. The album was mastered at the same location, with mixing taking place over the next two months at various studios around the city.[22]

Musical style and themes

Yorke stopped listening to pop music for a time while making OK Computer, and instead described the "incredibly dense and terrifying sound" of Bitches Brew by jazz composer Miles Davis as his starting point.[23] The band also drew influence from the film soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone and modern classical composer Krzysztof Penderecki,[24][2] whose music Yorke described as "atmospheric, atonal, weird stuff".[23] Yorke described the sound the band hoped to achieve from the album as "an atmosphere that's perhaps a bit shocking when you first hear it, but only as shocking as the atmosphere on [the Beach Boys'] Pet Sounds".[23] The band made use of diverse instrumentation, including electric piano, Mellotron, cello and other strings, glockenspiel, and electronic effects and rhythms.

"Airbag", the album's opening track, was inspired by DJ Shadow and features an electronic drum beat programmed from a seconds-long recording of Selway drumming. The band sampled the drum track with a Akai S3000XL and edited it using a Macintosh computer, and admitted to making approximations in emulating Shadow's style due to their own inexperience making electronic music.[24][25] "Paranoid Android", the band's longest recorded studio track at 6:23, has an unconventional multi-section song structure inspired by The Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", as well as the Pixies.[26][27] The use of electric keyboards in "Subterranean Homesick Alien" is an example of the band's attempts to emulate the atmosphere of Bitches Brew.[28] "Exit Music (For a Film)" was particularly influenced by Morricone, although Yorke has also compared it to the songs on Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison.[29] "Let Down" prominently features arpeggiated guitars and electric piano and includes a guitar solo by Jonny Greenwood in a different time signature than the one the song is written;[30] O’Brien described the song as "a nod to Phil Spector".[24] "Karma Police", a song split into two sections, is primarily based around acoustic guitar and piano, with a chord progression indebted to The Beatles' "Sexy Sadie".[31][32]

"Fitter Happier", which begins the second half of the album, consists of sampled musical and background sound and lyrics recited by a synthesized voice from the Macintosh SimpleText application.[33] "Electioneering", featuring cowbell and a distorted guitar solo, has been compared to the band's more rock-oriented style on Pablo Honey.[34][35] The next track, "Climbing Up the Walls", is marked by ambient insect-like noises and "metallic" drums, with only Yorke's voice and strings carrying a melody. The song's string section, composed by Jonny Greenwood and written for 16 instruments, was inspired by the Penderecki composition Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima; Greenwood said of the song that "I got very excited at the prospect of doing string parts that didn't sound like 'Eleanor Rigby', which is what is what all string parts have sounded like for the past 30 years."[36] "No Surprises", one of the album's most stark and least aggressive tracks, layered with electric guitar inspired by the Beach Boys song "Wouldn't It Be Nice",[37] acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, and vocal harmonies.[38] "Lucky" was originally a contribution to the 1995 War Child charity album The Help Album, and though the band considered remixing it for OK Computer, it was ultimately left unedited. The track is comparable to the mid-1970s music of Pink Floyd, a major influence on Jonny Greenwood.[39] The album's closing song, "The Tourist", was written by Jonny Greenwood, who said "'The Tourist' doesn't sound like Radiohead at all. It's a song where there doesn't have to happen anything every 3 seconds. It has become a song with space."[40] The slowly paced song is written in waltz time, but with an additional beat at the end of every other line in the verse.[41]

Lyrics

Yorke described a change in his lyrics since 1995's more personal The Bends: "On this album, the outside world became all there was… I'm just taking Polaroids of things around me moving too fast".[23] He has cited Noam Chomsky's writings as the main inspiration on "Electioneering",[42] William Shakespeare on the lyrics for "Exit Music (For a Film)",[27] and Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on "Paranoid Android".[27] Yorke described "Fitter Happier" as a "checklist" of slogans for the 1990s.[27]

Yorke said, "Loads of the music on OK Computer is extremely uplifting. It's only when you read the words that you'd think otherwise."[43] Radiohead have stated that although the songs have common themes of technology, globalization, and modern life in the UK, any clear story is unintentional and they do not deem OK Computer to be a concept album.[2] Yorke also said that OK Computer was not a strictly personal album and that each song on the album was a "polaroid" from the viewpoint of a different person, even inspiring him to vary his vocal style in each song.[44] However, the band stated that the album was meant to be heard as a whole. O'Brien said, "We spent two weeks track-listing the album. The context of each song is really important… It's not a concept album but there is a continuity there."[2]

Packaging

Yorke explained the title's meaning: "We did this promo trip recently to Japan, and on the last day, we were in a record shop and this one kid shouted at the top of his voice, 'OK COMPUTER!', really, really loud. Then he had 500 people chant it all at once...I got it on tape. It sounds amazing. It reminds me of when Coca-Cola did 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing', that amazing advert in '70...The idea of every race and every nation drinking this soft drink...it's actually a really resigned, terrified phrase..."[42] The phrase "OK Computer" was also the original title for the B-side "Palo Alto", a track which had been considered for inclusion on OK Computer. Other titles the band considered for the album were Ones and Zeroes, a reference to the binary numeral system, and Your Home May Be At Risk If You Do Not Keep Up Payments,[45] also a working title for the song "Nude", written around this time.

The album's cover design is a collage of images and text by Stanley Donwood, who is credited with design on several Radiohead covers, along with Yorke. Some of the art is computer-made collages, created by Yorke; other art is hand-drawn work by Donwood. Yorke explained the artwork's theme, saying, "Someone's being sold something they don't really want, and someone's being friendly because they're trying to sell something. That's what it means to me. It's quite sad, and quite funny as well. All the artwork and so on...we chose to pursue it after we [finished the album]...It was all the things that I hadn't said in the songs."[18]

Release

According to Selway, "When we first delivered the album to Capitol, their first reaction was, more or less, 'commercial suicide'. They weren't really into it. At that point, we got The Fear. How is this going to be received?"[10] O'Brien said that aside from the band's British label Parlophone (which he said was "unanimous in thinking it was a fantastic album"), other labels around the world downsized their initial sales estimates after listening to the record.[46] Capitol Records, the band's American label, lowered its sales estimates from two million to 500,000 copies.[47] O'Brien said the label "didn't hear anything on OK Computer that sounded even remotely like a potential single, let alone like 'Creep'".[23]

Parlophone undertook an unorthodox advertising campaign for the album, taking out full-page advertisements in high-profile British newspapers and tube stations. The advertisements featured the lyrics for "Fitter Happier" written in large black letters on a white background.[10] In America, Capitol sent 1000 cassette players to select members of the press and music industry with a cassette copy of the album permanently bonded inside.[48] Capitol president Gary Gersh, when asked about the campaign after the album's release, said "We won't let up until they are the biggest band in the world".[23] OK Computer saw release first in Japan on 21 May, then in the UK on 16 June, and finally in the US on 1 July.[49]

Radiohead chose "Paranoid Android" as the lead single from OK Computer. Despite a lack of radio play, the song charted at number three in the United Kingdom, giving Radiohead their highest singles chart position.[50] The album was released on 16 June 1997 in the United Kingdom; the American release followed on 1 July.[51] The album debuted at number one on the British album charts, where it stayed for two weeks. The album stayed in the top 10 for weeks, and became the country's eighth best-selling record of the year.[52] Two additional singles, "Karma Police" and "No Surprises", were released from the album. Both charted in the UK singles top 10, and "Karma Police" charted on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.[53][54] "Let Down", which was considered for release as the lead single,[55] charted in the US on Modern Rock Tracks at number 29.[54]

Reception

Upon its release, OK Computer received almost unanimously positive reviews. Consensus among critics was that the album was a landmark of its time and would have far-reaching impact and importance.[56] NME gave the album a ten out of ten score, and reviewer James Oldham wrote "Here are 12 tracks crammed with towering lyrical ambition and musical exploration; that refuse to retread the successful formulas of before and instead opt for innovation and surprise; and that vividly articulate both the dreams and anxieties of one man without ever considering sacrifice or surrender. In short, here is a landmark record of the 1990s, and one that deserves your attention more than any other released this year."[57] Taylor Parkes of Melody Maker connected the album's release to the era's feeling of paranoia and alienation about millenarianism, and said "It's as pained and as slow-moving as the emotions that inspired it. [...] In one way or another, Radiohead have excelled themselves."[58] Q awarded the album five out of five stars, with writer David Cavanagh stating that "the majority of OK Computer''s 12 songs [...] takes place in a queer old landscape: unfamiliar and ominous, but also beautiful and unspoiled. [...] It's a huge, mysterious album for the head and soul."[59] Nick Kent wrote in Mojo that "Others may end up selling more, but in 20 years time I'm betting OK Computer will be seen as the key record of 1997, the one to take rock forward instead of artfully revamping images and song-structures from an earlier era."[60] In a four out of five stars review, Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote that the album "is surprising and sometimes inspiring but its intensity makes for a demanding listen."[61]

The album was also favourably received by critics in North America. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars. Reviewer Mark Kemp wrote that the album is "a stunning art-rock tour de force [...] On OK Computer, Radiohead take the ideas they had begun toying with on The Bends into the stratosphere. [...] OK Computer is evidence that [Radiohead] are one rock band still willing to look the devil square in the eyes", but warned "OK Computer is not an easy listen."[62] An Entertainment Weekly review by David Browne gave the album a B+, and wrote that "When the arrangements and lyrics meander or sprout pretensions, the album grows ponderous and soggy. For all of Radiohead's growing pains, though, their aim — to take British pop to a heavenly new level — is true."[63] In an article for The New Yorker, writer Alex Ross praised OK Computer for its progressiveness, and contrasted Radiohead's risk-taking with the unfavourably portrayed, conservative "dadrock" of their contemporaries Oasis. Ross wrote that "Throughout the album, contrasts of mood and style are extreme […] This band has pulled off one of the great art-pop balancing acts in the history of rock."[64] Ryan Schreiber wrote, in a highly enthusiastic ten out of ten review in his online music magazine Pitchfork, that "Radiohead's third piece of incredible work, OK Computer, is not only their best yet, but one the year's greatest releases. The record is brimming with genuine emotion, beautiful and complex imagery and music, and lyrics that are at once passive and fire-breathing."[65]

Despite OK Computer's widespread praise, it also received some criticism. Robert Christgau of the Village Voice granted OK Computer a B− but ranked it as the "Dud of the Month" in his consumer guide; Christgau commented that the album lacked "soul", calling it "arid" and "ridiculous" and comparing it unfavourably to Pink Floyd.[66] Andy Gill wrote for The Independent in an otherwise positive review, "For all its ambition, OK Computer is not, finally, as impressive as The Bends, which covered much the same sort of emotional knots, but with better tunes. It is easy to be impressed by, but ultimately hard to love, an album that so luxuriates in its despondency".[67] While a review in Time was largely positive, particularly praising the songs "Airbag", "Paranoid Android", and "Let Down", reviewer Christopher John Farley criticized the second half of the album. Farley stated, "While the first half-dozen tracks reward repeated listenings with melodies that grow and bloom with familiarity, there is often no structure to be found in the remaining half-dozen numbers."[68]

At the end of 1997, OK Computer appeared in many critics' lists and listener polls for best album of the year. OK Computer topped the year-end polls of the magazines Mojo, Vox, Entertainment Weekly, Hot Press, Muziekkrant OOR, HUMO, Eye Weekly, and Inpress, and tied for first place with Daft Punk's Homework in The Face. The album placed second in NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Spin and Uncut. Q and Les Inrockuptibles both listed OK Computer in their unranked year-end polls.[69] OK Computer was a nominee for the 1997 Mercury Prize, a prestigious award recognizing the best British or Irish album of the year.[70] The album was nominated in the Album of the Year and Best Alternative Music Performance categories at the 1998 Grammy Awards, ultimately winning the latter award.[71]

OK Computer first appeared in a "best of all time" list three months after its release, placing 16 in a chart based on submissions by customers of Virgin Megastores. This chart heavily favoured recent releases, which suggested that OK Computer's popularity was a passing fad.[72] However, OK Computer has since appeared frequently in professional lists of greatest albums. In early 1998, OK Computer topped a Q reader's poll of the greatest albums of all time, and in 2001 Q placed it at number one in a list of the top 50 pop albums of the last 15 years.[73] A number of publications, including NME, Melody Maker, Spin, Alternative Press,[72] Pitchfork Media,[74] and Time[75] placed OK Computer prominently in lists of best albums of the 1990s or of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 162 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Additionally, retrospective reviews from The A.V. Club,[76] Slant Magazine,[77] and Allmusic[78] have received the album favorably; likewise, Rolling Stone gave the album five stars in the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide, with critic Rob Sheffield saying "Radiohead was claiming the high ground abandoned by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, U2, R.E.M., everybody; and fans around the world loved them for trying too hard at a time when nobody else was even bothering."[79]

Legacy

As OK Computer was released during the waning days of Britpop and during the 1997 general election in the United Kingdom, it was seen by critics to encompass popular opinion in the UK with its themes, explaining its enthusiastic reaction in that country.[80] Yorke said his lyrics had been affected by reading a book about the two decades of Conservative government which were just coming to an end in 1997, as well as about factory farming and globalisation.[81] However, in interviews Yorke expressed little hope things would change under the "New Labour" government of Tony Blair.[18] With the approach of the year 2000, many people felt the tone of the album was millennial.[81]

Some critics have credited OK Computer with "killing" 1990s Britpop,[82] as within a few years of its release, the dominant style of UK guitar pop had become slower and more melancholy. Many of the newer acts used similarly complex, atmospheric arrangements. The band Travis worked with Nigel Godrich to create the languid pop texture of The Man Who, which became the biggest selling album of 1999 in the UK. Others have credited Radiohead with beginning a mainstream revival of progressive rock and ambitious concept albums,[83] though the band denied their affiliation with the genre. In fact, members described the prevalence of bands that "sound like us" as one reason to break with the style of OK Computer for their next album, Kid A.[84]

Several rock bands which later became popular, ranging from Coldplay[85] and Bloc Party[86] to TV on the Radio,[87] have said they were formatively influenced by OK Computer. It has also been cited by some electronic, jazz and classical[88] musicians as an influence.

Track listing

All songs written by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway.

  1. "Airbag" – 4:44
  2. "Paranoid Android" – 6:23
  3. "Subterranean Homesick Alien" – 4:27
  4. "Exit Music (For a Film)" – 4:24
  5. "Let Down" – 4:59
  6. "Karma Police" – 4:22
  7. "Fitter Happier" – 1:57
  8. "Electioneering" – 3:51
  9. "Climbing Up the Walls" – 4:45
  10. "No Surprises" – 3:49
  11. "Lucky" – 4:20
  12. "The Tourist" – 5:25

Charts

Album

Chart (1997) Peak
position
UK Album Chart 1[53]
US Billboard 200 21[89]
Canada 3[90]
France 3[91]
New Zealand 1[92]
Australia 7[93]
Sweden 3[94]
German Long-play Chart 27[95]
Netherlands 2[96]
Austria 17[97]
Switzerland 40[98]
Spain 42[99]

Singles

Year Song Peak positions
UK
[53]		 US Modern Rock
[54]		 NZ
[100]		 AUS
[101]		 SWE
[102]		 NL
[103]
1997 "Paranoid Android" 3 — — 29 53 61
1997 "Karma Police" 8 14 32 — — 50
1998 "No Surprises" 4 — 23 47 — 58
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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Further reading

Preceded by
Middle of Nowhere by Hanson		 UK number one album
28 June 1997 – 11 July 1997		 Succeeded by
The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy
Radiohead
Colin Greenwood · Jonny Greenwood · Ed O'Brien · Phil Selway · Thom Yorke
Studio albums
Pablo Honey · The Bends · OK Computer · Kid A · Amnesiac · Hail to the Thief · In Rainbows
EPs
Manic Hedgehog  · Drill · Itch · My Iron Lung · No Surprises/Running from Demons · Airbag/How Am I Driving? · I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings · COM LAG (2plus2isfive)
Compilations
Radiohead Box Set · Radiohead: The Best Of
Singles
"Creep" · "Anyone Can Play Guitar" · "Pop Is Dead" · "Stop Whispering" · "My Iron Lung" · "High and Dry"/"Planet Telex" · "Fake Plastic Trees" · "Just" · "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" · "Lucky" · "Paranoid Android" · "Karma Police" · "No Surprises" · "Pyramid Song" · "Knives Out" · "There There" · "Go to Sleep" · "2 + 2 = 5" · "Jigsaw Falling into Place" · "Nude" · "House of Cards"/"Bodysnatchers" · "Reckoner"
DVDs
Live at the Astoria · 7 Television Commercials · Meeting People Is Easy · The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time · Radiohead: The Best Of · In Rainbows – From the Basement
Related
Discography · Live performances · Awards and nominations · Nigel Godrich · Stanley Donwood