OK Computer’s immense bandwidth is built on supernatural landscapes, beautifully judged surprises, incongruous juxtapositions, omens and portents. Every aspect of the record is brilliantly done.” It’s the sound of a band completely on top of their game. “Musically, lyrically, the production, the performances, even the concept is far-reaching. “For my generation, it’s the complete album in all respects,” acknowledges Keane’s singer Tom Chaplin, an 18-year-old Sussex school-leaver at the time. The last truly experimental rock release to be embraced by a worldwide audience of millions, OK Computer threw down the gauntlet to the next wave. Jonny Greenwood’s futuristic guitar sounds astonished everyone from Slash to The Divine Comedy. Radiohead’s combination of artistry and industry made virtually every second of the album’s 53 minutes count. OK Computer checks your step and you want to listen to it again because there’s lots there.” It comes on and you think: ‘Those bastards, they’ve upped the ante.’ The quality of the lyrics is stunning. “It’s one of those albums that, as a fellow musician, you’re jealous of,” says Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers. Many hailed it as a 21st-century rock’n’roll blueprint. However one interpreted the message, the music was compulsively listenable.
Compositional structures on OK Computer were intricate, multi-tiered, outlandish. The steps made since Radiohead’s previous album, The Bends, had been giant.
was a weltschmerz masterpiece a sci-fi song cycle for the fractured generation a magisterial pre-millennial warning siren.
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