OK Computer tops Longplay 101

Posted on April 14th, 2006.

Radiohead’s OK Computer tops KinkFM’s Longplay 101 again. The Dutch radio station’s all time album list is broadcast today (also available via iTunes). The list will be rebroadcast on KinkFM this Monday.
All Radiohead entries on the list: 0 OK Computer, 9 The Bends, 32 Kid A, 87, Hail To The Thief.

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Three million mark for OK Computer in Europe

Posted on April 9th, 2006.

We are all waiting for album number seven, but in the meantime Radiohead’s third album OK Computer has now sold more than three million copies in Europe, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The album won a Grammy for best alternative album after its 1997 release, and often tops best ever [...]

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Radiohead reveal ‘terrifying’ new album

Posted on April 3rd, 2006.

Thom Yorke has compared writing for Radiohead’s new album to that on ‘OK Computer’ - but has declared the lyrics will be even more terrifying!
The group are recording with new producer Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (who has worked with Keane, Madonna and Oasis in the past) and in a world exclusive interview, Yorke said that [...]

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Rent Radiohead’s OK Computer studio

Posted on March 27th, 2006.

In the February/March 2006 issue of MoneySense magazine (Page 65-66), an article entitled “Manors, Please” detailed how you can now rent out Jane Seymour’s 700-year-old manor house, the same place Radiohead recorded OK Computer. Just e-mail the British actress Jane Seymour at www.stcath.com. Rather than let the 700-year-old, 11-bedroom manor house near Bath, England, sit [...]

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Another Radiohead tribute album in the works

Posted on February 14th, 2006.

German music site Visions claim the Roots’ drummer and producer ?uestlove is working the together with James Poyser as the Randy Watson Experience on a cover of Radiohead’s ‘Exit Music (for a film)’
The track will be part of a forthcoming Radiohead tribute on the BBE Records label. The earlier reported version of Mark Ronson and [...]

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OK Computer to get complete reggae treatment

Posted on January 3rd, 2006.

The Easy Star All-Stars, the musical collective behind 2003’s underground hit, ‘Dub Side of the Moon’, are going to do a complete reggae version of Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’. The disc, entitled Radiodread will be released worldwide in September 2006 on Easy Star Records.
“It was always the number one question we’d get asked in interviews, on [...]

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‘OK Computer & The Bends greatest albums ever’

Posted on December 30th, 2005.

Radiohead have topped a poll by the readers of Q Magazine to find the greatest album ever - narrowly beating themselves to the No1 spot.
The band’s 1997 record OK Computer won the vote, with 1995’s The Bends grabbing second position. Their more experimental follow-up Kid A also made the Top 10, The Sun reports.
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Sheryl Crow on Radiohead

Posted on October 9th, 2005.

In the October 6, 2005 Rolling Stone (issue 984) none other than Sheryl Crow describes the last great concert she attended:
“Emotionally, the last concert that really moved me was Radiohead at Irving Plaza (in New York). It was right before OK Computer came out, but it had been leaked on the internet, and everybody was [...]

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BBC 6Music poll: Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ overrated

Posted on October 3rd, 2005.

Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ came in 6th at BBC 6 Music’s ‘Most Overrated Album of all Time’ list. Nirvana’s 1991 record Nevermind has been voted the most overrated album of all time by BBC 6 Music listeners. Coldplay’s X&Y came second in the survey, followed by The Libertines’ self-titled second album at three. 6 Music’s Ric [...]

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Radiohead & iTunes: Still not getting along

Posted on June 30th, 2005.

Apparently Radiohead and iTunes are not a good match. Months ago Radiohead albums ‘Kid A’ and ‘The Bends’ were shortly available at Apple’s popular online music store. With the earlier reported release of the new Six Feet Under soundtrack it seemed that Radiohead would make another appearance on iTMS. The soundtrack includes ‘OK Computer’s ‘Lucky’ [...]

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