Thom Yorke - Radiohead

Ok Computer, is, for a big part of the Radiohead fans, the best album they ever composed! Though we believe that the 2007’s In Rainbows is even better we can’t agree that Ok Computer isn’t something less than a Masterpiece! With millions of copies sold Ok Computer is considered to be one of the best albums of the 20^th Century. The album’s hottest moments are Paranoid Android (the best song they ever created?), Exit Music (for a Film) and Karma Police. A great pure alternative rock album, with up tempo tracks (like Electioneering, or Paranoid Android), sweet ballads and sad slow melodies (Exit Music, Karma Police, The Tourist). Yorke had his best performance till that moment. But it wasn’t just an alternative rock album.. it was something more.. it was the first sign that Radiohead will be experimental in their following creations.. remember the proggresive-ish 3 parts of Paranoid Android, for example!! Don’t forget that the readers of Q Magazine voted Ok Computer as the Greatest album of all times.

Answers.com writes: “Radiohead have stripped away many of the obvious elements of guitar rock, creating music that is subtle and textured yet still has the feeling of rock & roll. Even at its most adventurous — such as the complex, multi-segmented “Paranoid Android” — the band is tight, melodic, and muscular, and Thom Yorke’s voice effortlessly shifts from a sweet falsetto to vicious snarls”.

BBC’s John Lusk writes: “The dense instrumental textures never seem over-stuffed and are wide-ranging and often thrilling, driven by Phil Selway¹s meaty drumming, layered with growling guitars and the varied use of keyboards, synthesisers and electronic treatments. Tom Yorke’s dread-filled voice will get on some peoples’ nerves.“

Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber writes: “Thom Yorke’s fragile vocals backed by the intricate guitar duels of Jonny Greenwood and Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway’s intense, rhythmic pounding and the subtle but effective bass guitar of Colin Greenwood sends an energetic flare clean through your speakers, hurtling into the room around you and charging the air with static electricity.“

Finally Rolling Stone’s David Fricke writes: “OK Computer,” ostensibly a concept LP about a zombie world of hard law and infernal software, is a song cycle about serial fear and suffocating routine, laid out in mad leaps of melody, tempo and pathos that slowly accrue their queer beauty“.

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