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OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997.With their producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997.
The music press predicted that the song would be released as a single due to its potential to be a hit, [88] but Radiohead eventually did not release singles from the album. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] However, "How to Disappear Completely" was released in 2000 as a CD promotional single in Poland on Parlophone and in Belgium on EMI Belgium .
Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded in the same sessions, [12] [13] marked a drastic change in style, incorporating influences from electronic music, 20th-century classical music, krautrock and jazz. [14] Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief (2003), combines electronic and rock music with lyrics written in response to the War on ...
The lyrics seem to portray a suicide [13] or an unfulfilling life, and dissatisfaction with contemporary social and political order. [14] Some lines refer to rural [ 15 ] or suburban imagery. [ 16 ] The gentle mood contrasts with the harsh lyrics, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] and Yorke described the song as a "fucked-up nursery rhyme". [ 19 ]
The lyrics were inspired by the stress felt by the singer, Thom Yorke, while promoting Radiohead's album OK Computer (1997). Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" on piano. Radiohead worked on it in a conventional band arrangement before transferring it to synthesiser, and described it as a breakthrough in the album recording.
Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads is a tribute album to British band Radiohead released in 2006 on Rapster Records and Barely Breaking Even Records.The album features reworked songs from Mark Ronson, Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet, Sia, Matthew Herbert, Sa-Ra, The Cinematic Orchestra, RJD2 and many others.
Radiohead has rarely performed "Let Down" live. After a 2006 performance, it was performed until it was the tour supporting A Moon Shaped Pool (2016). [5] The multi-track recording used in the studio version makes the song difficult to recreate live, especially with respect to the layering of multiple simultaneous vocal parts sung by Yorke.
The Radiohead songwriter, Thom Yorke, performed an early version of "High and Dry" with another band, Headless Chickens, while attending the University of Exeter in the late 1980s. [4] He said the lyrics were about "some loony girl I was going out with", but became "mixed up with ideas about success and failure". [5]