Music CD - Radiohead: OK Computer

	Music CD: OK Computer Artist: Radiohead List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $7.26 Your Save: $ 10.72 ( 60% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks: 1. Airbag 2. Paranoid Android 3. Subterranean Homesick Alien 4. Exit Music (For A Film) 5. Let Down 6. Karma Police 7. Fitter Happier 8. Electioneering 9. Climbing Up The Walls 10. No Surprises 11. Lucky 12. Tourist, The
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724385522925 Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 1997 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: 1997-07-01 Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A more than worthwhile buy for almost anyone. Comment: What makes a great album? Many things, but you just know an album is great when it is consistent and puts out more than 2 or 3 amazing tracks. I count nine memorable songs in this album that are not filler songs; they are each unique, amazing and have their own following of fans who argue over who's favorite is the best song on the album. If any one of these songs were made by a new band it would instantly be that band's "Creep" one-hit-wonder. Another thing I have to say about the artwork: nothing short of spectacular. Several pages of post-modernist abstract and figurative excellence are packed into the booklet and enhance the experience of the album. Kudos to Stanley Donwood. Customer Rating: Summary: RADIOHEAD SPAWNED ALL THE GOOD IN THE FUTURE OF MUSIC Comment: Everytime I put this cd in I get a new feel, and it is always the ultimate feeling of excitement. I love this and just about everything that Radiohead has released. And all the negetive reviews that are mainly here just to cut down the FIVE STAR AVERAGE seems to make this cd even more enjoyable, for something to affect someone to the point where they feel the need to destroy it, can mean a list of things: religious (in hypocritical way), affected as well as defected, branded completely by the music of electronic modern POP- bottom line- Deaf and dumb. Customer Rating: Summary: Best album of all time Comment: Not much to add to other reviewers except this is the best album ive ever heard and will cherish it forever. Only band to have come along since worth listening to are HIM and Soundtrack of Our Lives. If you don't have it you must be mad. Go buy... Customer Rating: Summary: A Zeitgeist recorded and issued on disc Comment: Few albums captured the Zeitgeist of the late 1990s and contained such good songwriting and musicianship as Radiohead's 1997 effort OK COMPUTER. The twelve tracks here reflect a feeling that our modern world, far from being a utopia, was increasingly marked by feelings of isolation and general existential crises. Thom Yorke's mumbled singing seems based on a doubt as to whether communication was even possible anymore. "Let Down" and "The Tourist" are directed at a world of jet travel, where people can easily get from place to place but it seems everything is moving too fast for our own good. "Climbing Up the Walls" raises the question of why people living in a secure middle-class environment become serial killers. "Airbag" and "Lucky" use the theme of horrific crashes, a reminder that our modern technology can kill us just as much as it can help us. "Electioneering" suggests that the media can deceive as much as inform. All in all, it's a musical accompaniment to the anti-corporate works of John Cerzan and Naomi Klein that rose to popularity around this time. Thought-provoking lyrics are wedded to artful music. While I have been critical of the idea that Radiohead is producing true innovation in popular music--their music is to this day still based on old Western common-practice tonality--there are a number of touches of weird timbre thanks to avant-garde fan Johnny Greenwood. Colin Greenwood's basslines are much more adventurous than in so much popular music. And the production, while certainly succumbing to the "loudness wars" problem to a degree, nonetheless gives a decent balance of the various instruments. I first encountered this album in 2003, at which time the general mood that inspired the album still hung in the air. I'm not sure what a listener coming to OK COMPUTER today might think of the album, especially if he is too young to have been exposed to such ideas in the late '90s. Still, it's a important album worth encountering. Customer Rating: Summary: Oh my god Comment: This album is amazing. i would say this would be the hit album of 97'. all the songs are AMAZING!!! Every song is downright awesome. Any body who does not have this album, buy it and you will enjoy the amazing experience of radiohead.... you rock radiohead!!!!! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British "new wave of new wave" band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning "We hope that you choke." Sluggish, understated, and hard to get a grip on, OK Computer takes a few listens to appreciate, but its entirety means more than any one song. --Douglas Wolk