Lead singer Thom Yorke is instantly recognizable, and the emotion he conjures is shockingly immediate. “Paranoid Alien” opens with pleading desperation, developing into outright anger and disdain. Even without listening to the lyrics, each song envelops you in its world and emotions. Sonically, the album takes you through 52 fascinating minutes, at turns energetic, pensive, infuriated, disillusioned, and melancholy. Rather than a collection of singles, OK Computer is a complete concept. The record is dynamic, enthralling, and wholly nontraditional. OK Computer, to begin with, is exceptionally good. This past week, I have listened to OK Computer upwards of five times, to investigate the hype, see how the album has aged, and look at it in the context of its second decade.
Since then, Radiohead has existed in my subconscious as one of the bands, like Nirvana, the Beatles, and Otis Redding, which you were expected to know and like, but which never ended up in my car’s tape player. The album was released just four months after I was born, and my parents, being Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash fans, did not keep me in touch with the latest trends in music. Twenty years ago this week, Radiohead released its genre defying-and defining- OK Computer to widespread critical acclaim.
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