1 album and its first Album of the Year Grammy nomination. “Under this weighty tome are yet more surprises: a notebook containing 104 pages from Thom Yorke’s library of scrawled notes of the time, a sketchbook containing 48 pages of Donwood and Tchock’s ‘preparatory work’ and a C90 cassette mix tape compiled by the band, taken from ‘OK Computer’ session archives and demo tapes.”Ĭontaining the singles “Paranoid Android,” “No Surprises” and “Karma Police,” the album, Radiohead’s third, earned the group its first U.K. I thought that was very clever.In typically wry language, the press release continues: “The OKNOTOK BOXED EDITION will ship July, featuring a black box emblazoned with a dark image of a burned copy of ‘OK Computer’ containing three heavyweight 180 gram black 12″ vinyl records and a hardcover book containing more than thirty artworks (many of which have never been seen before) and full lyrics to all the tracks (except the ones that haven’t really got any lyrics). So the moment we think it should go up, he just goes around on the acoustic. Then it was like, ‘We’re going to change sonically what happens in the middle, so it’s a jump.’ At the end, Thom came up with the whole thing about the delaying the band coming in. It just spun and spun and it got very Deep Purple and went off.
Nigel Godrich on “Paranoid Android”: “When we started at Canned Applause they would play the song linearly. I was also sort of experimenting with the way that Michael wrote lyrics where you’ve got this thing of semi-nonsense, but when you add them together, it has a cumulative expression of something.” If you get into a crash or a potentially disastrous situation and walk away, you feel a thousand times more alive regardless of what that is. Thom Yorke on “Airbag”: “I was really frightened of cars back then, but ‘Airbag’ was almost the opposite of that. Below is an excerpt about two tracks off the classic LP: In an interview with Rolling Stone, the UK outfit offered up a detailed oral history on the making of OK Computer, including info on the mysterious cover artwork (whose true location was recently revealed!).
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