The musicianship is superb and the album takes you through the motions. This album proved that radiohead are the most important band of the last twenty years, it is sheer brilliance. Just keeps comin' at ya! What a great week! And strangely enough, Appetite for Destruction is also a fave - really well balanced and some brilliantly stuctured tunes. Only really opening myself up again now! If this was your first listen, check the band out live too and be taken to yet another level. Problem was, like obsessing over an old girlfriend, nothing much has measured up since. My new girlfriend at the time had a copy of OK Computer ahead of release (dinnae ask), I joked about getting some cash for it, then listened and just felt amazingly priveliged to be keeping the secret. I can't wait to see them on tour this summer.
I recently rediscovered this record, plus the other early radiohead stuff. A right of passage 11 years on, i'm still discovering it's many layers. Reminding me of the glossy,naive expectations i had of my 20's and the feeling 'it was all to come'. The soundtrack of my wonderful yet angst ridden mid teens.
See some of the comments we received below: We wanted to know how this album has touched your life. Thank you for letting the uninitiated in on the worst kept secret, the best album ever written. I can't imagine ever not having this in my cd collect ion, one of those albums i'll always replace if lost, stolen or damaged. As breathtaking today as it was the day I first heard it over a decade ago.
Didn't realise what an effect this album had had on me until now. Takes me straight back to my freshers year listening to it on a tinny tape recorder. I've never felt compelled to text in before, but i'd forgotten how totally amazing this album was.Used to dance my baby to sleep to this now he has it on his i-pod.I wonder how many other people are at home singing at the tops me their voices to this.Truly amazing!! Was brilliant in 97, even better now, what an album!.