2/20/2023 0 Comments Ok computer radiohead timeless![]() With Thom Yorke and Godrich at the helm on production and Johnny Greenwood pushing the experimentation of instruments to new heights, Radiohead set out on a mission to bust out of the mid-late nineties Brit Pop. ![]() The album would be the first attempt by the band to self-produce a release, co-produced in its entirety with Nigel Godrich. Similar to Robert Johnson’s 'Crossroads', the band disappeared for a while and returned in 1997 with OK Computer. It has been hailed “the greatest release of the last 25 years” by Q Magazine and numerous other publications and critics. Often cited as the turning point for the band, it took on a roll as an iconic soundtrack for a generation of angsty teens and twenty-somethings and still remains an essential to this day. The Bends would form a solid grounding for Radiohead across the Atlantic and received unanimously good reviews. Radiohead would later refine this style of self-produced material and major label distribution on follow up album The Bends which celebrated its 20 year anniversary this year. The skepticism is indicative of the pre-millennial music industry and its struggle to predict what to expect. Radiohead would then shift into new experimental realms taking up producing their albums for themselves in a move their major label cohorts called “career suicide.” They firmly cemented themselves as the kings of the melancholic, grungy ballad early on with hits like 'Creep' and 'You' off debut album Pablo Honey in 1994. When it comes to prestigious music, Britain is not exactly short of cards to play and bands to reel off but very few can touch the level of adoration and stature that Radiohead have managed to forge, presiding, as they do, at the very apex of musical accomplishment and critical acclaim. ![]() 1997 sees the release of some of music’s most eponymous albums, Blur’s Blur Oasis’ Be Here Now and Radiohead’s OK Computer. However the really interesting stories are in music. The year is 1997: Tony Blair’s new labour have just taken the reins of power, scientists have cloned the first ever animal and Britain is left mourning the death of one of the world’s most popular public figures, Princess Diana.
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