Radiohead – OK Computer
country: worldwide format: CD, 2LP & MD release: 16-06-1997 tracks01 airbag 03 subterranean homesick alien a film) 05 let down 06 karma police 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…”
Nigel’s Kit List
MTA series 980 and
Soundcraft Spirit 24
mixers
Otari MTR 90II 2-inch
analogue multi-track
Tascam DA88 digital
multi-track
Digidesign Pro-tools
Project 8 track
Studer A80 2-track
Panasonic SV3800 DAT
Neve 33609 Limiter
UREI 1176 compressors
Palmer Stereo speaker
simulator
Drawmer DS201
Noise Gate
Pultec PEQ1A valve EQ
AMS DMS1580 stereo
sampling delay
AMS RMX16 reverb
Yamaha SPX1000
effects
Mutronics ‘Mutator’
envelope filter
EMT 140 Plate analogue
reverb
Macs running Cubase
Akai S3200 sampler
Emu and Roland sound
modules
Mellotron and Moog
analogue keys
Movement analogue
drums
Yamaha NS10m and
Acoustic Energy AE1
monitors
