OK Computer by Radiohead

Radiohead
OK Computer
1997
Alternative
Capitol

1. Airbag
2. Paranoid Android
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
4. Exit Music (For A Film)
5. Let Down
6. Karma Police
7. Fitter Happier
8. Electioneering
9. Climbing Up The Walls
10. No Surprises
11. Lucky
12. The Tourist
(Also included is a 953x953 album cover .jpeg)

Fitter, happier, more productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much,
Regular exercise at the gym
3 days a week
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well
No more microwave dinners and saturated fats
A patient, better driver
A safer car
Baby smiling in back seat
Sleeping well
No bad dreams
No paranoia
Careful to all animals
Never washing spiders down the plughole

"Fitter Happier"

I was with some friends the other day and the OK Computer CD case was sitting nearby. One of them asked, "which Radiohead album is that?" and the other responded, "that's the Radiohead album." I'll be the first to admit that OK Computer is not my favorite Radiohead album, (just wait for my epic Kid A/Amnesiac double blog post) but it's definitely what they'll be remembered for most. And on top of that the music is incredible. So you should really already have this in your collection. But if not, I am here to share the wealth.

Radiohead has gone through a lot of stages in their music through the years. They started as pretty raw, raunchy, almost garage rock with Pablo Honey and The Bends. They took a very dangerous but much needed step in a more psychedelic and hard rock direction with OK Computer, and then took a complete U-turn with their next companion piece, Kid A and Amnesiac. Those two albums used barely any guitar (something Trent Reznor picked up for Year Zero) and implemented a lot of electronics and ambiance to create a totally unique sound that had never been heard before. OK Computer is what got them huge, and is still seen as their best work almost unanimously by fans (myself not included however).

It's a big, awesome sounding record. Right when you first press play, the fuzzy bassline to "Airbag" demands your attention and then slowly swirls around into the mix of other floaty guitars. Orchestrated perfectly to fill every single empty space in the mix (and your ears). It progresses very naturally like this, and the whole album has a very classic sound that is very often imitated (Muse? Looking at you.) but never duplicated. Download this record if you've never heard anything by Radiohead. You need it.

Click here to download part 1 (66.96 MB)
Click here to download part 2 (47.43 MB)

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