The Daily Spin, April 18
Radiohead | OK Computer
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite song from each album right here.
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This is my second review for Radiohead - you can find the first here:
Album: Ok Computer (1997)
Artist: Radiohead
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There’s not much to be said about this album that hasn’t been said before by people far more talented than myself, but even then - it is not difficult to see why this album has been enshrined as one of the finest offerings in modern music, certainly.
In my review for In Rainbows, I said that Radiohead was timeless - and I think I was largely thinking of this album in saying so. This album was put out the year I was born, and yet there are elements of it, from the arpeggiated synth chords that act like a music box in ‘Lucky’ to the sweeping gravity of ‘Exit Music’ to the synthetic vocaloid effect of ‘Fitter Happier’ that would not be out of place on an album put on in the past year.
It is a remarkable thing to make a great album. It is another achievement entirely to do so over a sustained run, as Radiohead have. This album is utterly divine, an experience unto itself. It is titanic in its completeness, a reference for thousands of artists and people who have come to love music because of it.
Rating: 9.8/10
Best Tracks: Exit Music (For A Film); Climbing Up The Walls
Worst Tracks: No Surprises