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Ok Computer |  | Artist: Radiohead
Label: EMI Music Canada
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 11.99
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Rating:  1489 reviews
Sales Rank: 790
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 55229
UPC: 724385522925
EAN: 0724385522925
ASIN: B000002UJQ
Release Date: June 17, 1997
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Airbag | | • | Paranoid Android | | • | Subterranean Homesick Alien | | • | Exit Music (For a Film) | | • | Let Down | | • | Karma Police | | • | Fitter Happier | | • | Electioneering | | • | Climbing Up The Walls | | • | No Surprises | | • | Lucky | | • | Tourist, The |
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From Amazon.co.uk
Whilst one suspects some kind of pre-millennial hysteria prompted Q magazine's readers to vote OK Computer The Greatest Album Ever Made scarcely five months after its release, it certainly doesn't look stupid up there in the pantheon. Following the hot red rock attack of 1995's The Bends, OK Computer heads out into the cold deep space of prog-rock and comes back with stuff that makes mere pop earthlings like Stereophonics tremble. Whilst the eight-minute-long "Paranoid Android" comes across like "Bohemian Rhapsody" with a gun held to its head, and "Electioneering" is a little too like a kiddy-version of Blood And Chocolate-era Elvis Costello to be truly revelatory, the rest of OK Computer spans the sublime to the ridiculously sublime. Thom Yorke had been obsessed with Ennio Morricone during the recording of the album (in a haunted mansion, fact-fans), and it shows on the expansive space-dream of "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and the endlessly comforting closer "The Tourist". And if neither "No Surprises" (played on a toy guitar with Yorke and Ed O'Brien harmonising like a two-man Crowded House) nor "Lucky" (recorded in one day for the Bosnian aid album War Child--it reduced Yorke to tears the first time he heard it played back) make the hairs on your skin spit with electricity, then maybe you're with the Q reader who voted for Anita by Anita Dobson. --Caitlin Moran
Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Une simple écoute de Ok Computer suffit à justifier les éloges qui ont déferlé sur Radiohead à la sortie de ce deuxième album. Le groupe signe une œuvre ambitieuse, magistrale et qui n'a pas fini d'influencer les nouveaux venus. Les Anglais tourmentés parviennent à concilier rock progressif, voire symphonique, et absence totale de boursouflure. "Paranoid Android" illustre bien ce tour de force. La chanson se déroule en mouvements, passe de la colère à la sobriété acoustique, soutenue par des chœurs fantomatiques, dominée par le timbre délicat mais puissant de Yorke, tapissée de riffs de guitares et de bruitages synthétiques. Même manipulation de climats pour "Exit Music (For A Film)" qui commence avec le seul chant écorché de Thom Yorke sur fond de guitare, puis culmine en une explosion maniaque avant de retomber dans la noirceur dépouillée du début. On sort de cet album le souffle coupé par tant d'intensité, à la fois soulagé que ce soit terminé et impatient d'y revenir. --Isabelle Chelley
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 awesome July 26, 2008
T. Bigney (Nova Scotia, canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The end of the 90s will be seen as the end of the album. The rise of MP3 technology and file downloading returned pop music consumption to collective pre-Beatles mindset, where songs are judged as singles. Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac were shallowly criticized as B-side collections because they were downloaded and assembled as such on home computers. "Treefingers" and "Hunting Bears" were torn apart, not a piece of a 60 minute or so record, but as worthwhile 34-minute download times (this, remember, was right before DSL/Cable). The resurgence, and arguable final entrenchment, of manufactured Pop Stars by their handlers over supposedly more artistic fare-- and more importantly the acceptance of such common pleasures by critics-- razed the significance of the complete album. Which is why OK Computer, and it's Best Albums Ever companion Loveless, eternally top these polls: somehow we doubt we'll ever see their like again.
Modern thinking has led to debates and revisionism over the effect of tracks like "Electioneering" and "Fitter Happier" on OK Computer's importance, as if removing "Turd on the Run" and "Pet Sounds" would somehow make Exile on Main Street and Pet Sounds five-and-a-half-star albums. What's interesting in the case of "Electioneering" is that, at the time, it stood as the one track most similar to the beautiful guitar rackets of "Just", "Creep", and "My Iron Lung". The band even performed the song on The Tonight Show upon the album's release. Beyond its political intent, the song could have fit easily on Radiohead's two previous albums.
Regardless, any arguing or defending of the record seems pointless and redundant. Which is why it's here at the peak. It should be reiterated, however, just how much better OK Computer is than Loveless, and why people somehow forget this. Loveless, a masterpiece of form and noise, impresses the brain like stylized photography. Surely, it is breathtaking. It provides the senses with a romantic, heightened ideal of music, experienced through an unbreakable medium. The sound overwhelms to such an extent that multiple listens are unnecessary and taxing. OK Computer, in contrast, sounds crystalline and liveable-- a true, enterable aural landscape packaged with press-delivered mythology describing its creation (Thom Yorke singing on his back staring at Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman's castle ceiling).
Those overly familiar with this album's details doubt its brilliance only in the way a Loveless-like beauty sitting across the restaurant from your mate questions your life commitment. You haven't seen the armpit stubble, shower drain residue, high-school poetry, morning dental state, and Disney-induced tears of Loveless. Psychologically, one needs those fantastic diversions, but there has to be something real to return to again and again. OK Computer simply is the anxious, self-important, uncertain, technologically overwhelmed 1990s
Radiohead rocks July 22, 2008
Martine (Montreal)
I am not a true radiohead fan... But this album just blows my mind! It is their best album ever!!!
incredible album June 15, 2008
S. Mayer
This is definately one of my favorite albums ever. Like most radiohead one, it takes a few listens before the songs really grow on you, but when you get to really appreciate them, you realize what a masterpiece this album is.
One word - BRILLIANT! December 27, 2006
sun (Canada)
I know everyone has said this a million times already, but this album really was ahead of its time. I only just bought it, 10 years too late it seems becuase I can't beleive what I've been missing this entire time.
I'm partially writing this review so that the person with the review below me, Vader, won't be the first review you see. It seems he had gone to every single radiohead album and given it a bad review, and with nothing much to back up his opinon. Sure, this album isn't for everyone and if he doesn't like it, fine but a smart, intuitive, musically inclined person can see that these guys have a knack for writing atmospheric and captiving songs. Another review said that all drugs should be pulled from the market and people should just listen to this album. He's right. This album takes you to another world and you'll find yourself wanting more. I can't wait to hear what else Radiohead has to offer.
 Radiohead is one of those bands to avoid. Ok computer? No way!! July 22, 2006
Vader
1 out of 33 found this review helpful
I bought Ok Computer years ago and it's one of those albums that I haven't listened to in ages. I just couldn't get into this album. I bought the album because I liked the video for Paranoid Android. Radiohead isn't my kind of music. I don't why people like this album- but I can tell this much- it is one of the worst albums ever recorded. It doesn't measure up to All the Right Reasons from Nickelback, Metallica's Black Album, Bon JOvi's Slippery when Wet.
This is one album to avoid.
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