Radiohead - OK Computer

country: worldwide format: CD, 2LP & MD release: 16-06-1997 tracks 01 airbag 02 paranoid android 03 subterranean homesick alien 04 exit music (for a film) 05 let down 06 karma police 07 fitter happier 08 electioneering 09 climbing up the walls 10 no surprises 11 lucky 12 the tourist

Produced by Nigel Godrich with Radiohead. Audio levels balanced by Nigel Godrich. Audio recordings made using the Canned Applause? Mobile. Mastered by Chris 'King Fader' Blair at Abbey Road. Audio fixing and dubbing done at mayfair, Abbey Road, air lyndhurst, courtyard and the church. Strings arranged by radiohead, conducted by nick ingman. Pictures done by Stanely Donwood and the white chocolate farm.

Jonny Greenwood: "OK Computer was the title of a song that's not in the CD. It was a bad song but the title was good. They're just the first words you read when you've got the CD in your hands. There is no intention to define the meaning of twelve songs. A lot of people think it's about fear for computers, but on the contrary. It says OK Computer!
We're from the generation that grew up with computers. All the artwork is done on a computer. Some tracks on the record are completely made on the computer. Other songs are cut on tape, but that's a different story".

Thom Yorke: "More than half of OK Computer is about escapism. And i'm not ashamed. (...) You should listen to the album more than five times to hear what the album is all about. There are people who think that this album is our commercial suicide. Because it's not a pop-album. But I think it's full of poppy-melodies. There are no love-songs on the album, because I'm not in love. To be honest, I'm not good at writing lovesongs. If you want, "lucky" can be a lovesong."

country: worldwide
format: cassette
release: 16-06-1997
catalogue:



Country: Germany
Format: BOX SET: CD + CD SINGLE
Release: 1997
Catalogue:

karma police single:
01 karma police 
02 a reminder 
03 melatonin 





Numbered Promo
Country: Canada
Format: CD
Release: 16-06-1997
Catalogue: DPRO 1542







Promo
Country: UK
Format: Tape
Release: 16-06-1997
UK promo only cassette album inside customised Jiffy bag













Promo
Country: US
Format: CD Card
Release: 16-06-1997
Catalogue: CDP 7243 8 5529










promotional cassette player sealed with casette album includes song title stickers, with headphones
Country: US








Notes: Spin (1/98, p.86) - Ranked #2 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year." Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Q Magazine (1/98, p.114) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997." New Musical Express (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #2 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll. Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #2 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year." Rolling Stone (7/10-24/97, pp. 117-118) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...OK COMPUTER - a stunning art-rock tour de force - will have you reeling back to their debut, PABLO HONEY, for insight into the group's dramatic evolution..." Spin (8/97, pp.112-113) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Unlike their majestic models U2, Radiohead take on techno without switching instruments or employing trendy producers....As with post-rockers Tortoise, Laika, and Seefeel, Radiohead have a fuzzbox or two and obviously know how to use 'em..." Melody Maker (6/14/97, p.49) - "...unlike anything I've ever heard....I definitley know it isn't good for me, and I'm certain it says more about my life than I'd like....in terms of composition and performance, it's very impressive. Radiohead have excelled themselves. They've seen the future." Entertainment Weekly (7/11/97, pp.65-66) - "...Shrouded in wafting guitars, swoony rhythms, and moody-blue strings, it shrugs off mosh-pit conventions for a poignant delicacy and breadth, with Yorke's cracked-throat voice the album's melancholy center....For all of Radiohead's growing pains...their aim--to take British pop to a heavenly new level--is true..."

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