Editorial Reviews Music Review:
Music Review
Beautiful Sinking Ship [Import]
Bartok/Stravinsky/Shostakovich
Ancient Ceremonies: Songs & Dance Music
Blood Sweat & Tearz [Explicit Lyrics]
All the Best Pipes of Scotland
Britten: String Quartet No. 3/Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3
Autumn in New York [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Amazon.com
Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British "new wave of new wave" band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture and morose details; a sad and humanist record whose central moment is Thom Yorke crooning "We hope that you choke." Sluggish, understated, and hard to get a grip on, OK Computer takes a few listens to appreciate, but its entirety means more than any one song. --Douglas Wolk