“ ‘OK Computer’ made ambitious albums feel possible again.” KevinDettmar reflects on the 25th anniversary of Radiohead’s iconic album.
Yorke’s opening lines on the song “Lucky” proved prophetic: “I’m on a roll / I’m on a roll this time . . . ” “OK Computer” was greeted as an instant classic, and Radiohead was named band of the year by both. “OK Computer” can be loosely defined as a concept album: a song cycle unified by the late-capitalist affective landscape that it simultaneously mirrors and reproduces in a listener.
The distorted opening guitar chords of the first track, “Airbag,” are quickly punctuated by even more grotesquely overdriven percussion, knocking the VU needle into the red with an urgent burst of skittering noise. It’s a high-energy introduction to an album featuring a wide range of tempi and sounds. It also introduces a six-and-a-half-minute pop epic that contains a similarly wide range of timings and tones.
The next track, “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” weds the Bob Dylan vibe of its title to a Ziggy Stardust-like narrative. “Exit Music ”—a track that was written for Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet”—starts in a near-whisper and crescendos in screaming; it’s as chilling and as beautiful as anything the band has ever done, even if it ends with Yorke croaking, “We hope that you choke, that you choke.
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