Ok Computer reaches the 3rd place for the “Top British Album Poll”

Q Magazine and and HMV carried out a poll for the Top British Album. The Radiohead Magnum Opus Ok Computer, came 3rd in the poll! Two Oasis albums reached the top. Definitely Maybe (1994) and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (1996) came first and second! It is really surprisingly that some legendary albums like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, or Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band were under albums created from Stone Roses or Keane.

The amazing London Calling was 7th and the best Verve moment (Urban Hymns) closed the Top 10, one place over 1995′s The Bends (11th). Finally the brand new In Rainbows came 40th! The only female artist album that came in the Top50 was Back to Black from the next woman big thing, Amy Winehouse.

11000 people were surveyed for this poll!

Top British Album Poll 2008

1. Definitely Maybe – Oasis
2. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? – Oasis
3. OK Computer – Radiohead
4. Revolver – The Beatles
5. Stone Roses – Stone Roses
6. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Beatles
7. London Calling – The Clash
8. Under the Iron Sea – Keane
9. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
10. Urban Hymns – The Verve.

Ok Computer Reviews

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“.