Obra prima e clássico instantâneo logo após o lançamento em 1997, OK Computer revelou os Radiohead como uma das mais criativas e importantes bandas do mundo, um estatuto que nunca mais os deixou. Combinando elementos de rock progressivo épico, assinaturas temporais alternativas e pop/rock tradicional, OK Computer foi uma clivagem artística dos Radiohead e um sinal claro das suas ambições.

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One of the best alternative rock albums of the 1990s. OK Computer is a modern guitar rock masterpiece. The music is subtle and textured, yet it still has the feeling of rock and roll. This is the record that established Radiohead as one of the most inventive and rewarding guitar rock bands of the ‘90s.

"Radiohead recorded their third album in the mansion of actress Jane Seymour while she was filming Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. OK is where the band began pulling at its sound like taffy, seeing what happened, not worrying if it was still "rock." What results is a slow, haunting album with unforgettable tracks such as "Karma Police." Said guitarist Jonny Greenwood, "I got very excited at the prospect of doing string parts that didn't sound like 'Eleanor Rigby,' which is what all string parts have sounded like for the past thirty years. . . . We used violins to make frightening white-noise stuff, like the last chord of 'Climbing Up the Walls.'" - Rolling Stone

For OK Computer, Radiohead stripped away many of the obvious elements of guitar rock. Instead, they created music that is complex and textured. Exemplary of their stylistic growth is the multi-segmented "Paranoid Android". Tight, melodic, and muscular, this song pushed Radiohead to their very extremes with its electronic elements, odd time signatures, and intricate syncopations. It's a brilliant contrast to the wonderfully plaintive "Karma Police", which rests in the crucial halfway point of the album and serves to remind the listener that Radiohead can still write a brilliant piano ballad.

Sonic evolution notwithstanding, the lyrical themes are also a marked deviation from past work. Singer Thom Yorke makes extensive use of a bleak outlook on consumerism, social disconnection, political stagnation, and modern malaise. Each song is a dreary Polaroid picture of a post-modern world, seen through different colored lenses. Certain themes and motifs reappear throughout the album, but each song exists within its own universe, tells its own tale, and carries substantial weight.

OK Computer is frequently compared to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and with good reason. Its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly invite the comparison. It's an epic, career-making, timeless classic; certainly, their pièce de résistance. It's bleak, it's dystopian, and it's unmistakably Radiohead.

"'Paranoid Android' is about the dullest f*cking people on Earth,' said singer Yorke, referring to lyrics such as 'Squealing Gucci little piggy,' about a creepy coked-out woman he once spied at an L.A. bar. The sound was just as unnerving: a shape-shifting three-part prog-rock suite. Spooky fact: It was recorded in actress Jane Seymour’s 15th-century mansion, a house that Yorke was convinced was haunted." - Rolling Stone

Lista de Faixas:

01. Airbag
02. Paranoid Android
03. Subterranean Homesick Alien
04. Exit Music (For a Film)
05. Let Down
06. Karma Police
07. Electioneering
08. Climbing Up the Walls
09. No Surprises
10. Lucky
11. The Tourist

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