And the Eno-esque ambience of “Fitter Happier” - based around a computerized voice intoning platitudes like “Comfortable/Not drinking too much/Regular exercise at the gym … /Calm, fitter, healthier and more productive” - gives the song a claustrophobic, Doll’s House feel. “Let Down” is driven by Byrds-like chiming guitars. Yorke’s throwaway words to “Karma Police” (“This is what you get when you mess with us”) are rescued by the layered, “Strawberry Fields Forever” vibe of the music. IN VENDITA Artist: RadioheadTitle: OK ComputerLabel. On several other tracks, Radiohead also draw from the past for inspiration. Vinyl RADIOHEAD - OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997-2017 (Vinyl) 141.99 MSRP 174. RADIOHEAD OK COMPUTER 1st UK Press 1997 2 LP Vinyl NODATA 02 Parlophone Original - EUR 179,15. There are moments on “Paranoid Android” when Yorke sounds as though he’s conjuring the spirit of Queen’s Freddie Mercury.
In the suite “Paranoid Android,” acoustic and electric instruments float understatedly through the mix as Yorke sings, through clenched teeth, lines like “Ambition makes you look very ugly.” Complex tempo changes, touches of dissonance, ancient choral music and a King Crimson-like melodic structure propel the song to its conclusion, where Yorke sings in a pleading voice, “God loves his children.” Radiohead - Ok Computer Oknotok 1997 2017 (Box Set) (LP TAPE BOOK BOX) available from just 130,95 incl. From guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s menacing riff that introduces the opener, “Airbag,” to Yorke’s fragile pleas to “slow down” on the final track, “The Tourist,” each song takes time to reveal itself as a narrative link to the album’s ultimately spiritual message.
At a time when they could have played it safe, selling their psychedelic souls for more radio-friendly rock & roll, Radio-head have released a concept album whose theme - based on rock’s age-old fear of the imminence of a world run by computers - unfolds gradually during the course of the album’s 12 songs.
On OK Computer, Radiohead take the ideas they had begun toying with on The Bends into the stratosphere.
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