“Spin magazine named Radiohead's "OK Computer" the top album of the past 20 years, praising a futuristic sound that manages to feel alive "even when its words are spoken by a robot."
The British band's album edged out Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and Nirvana's "Nevermind" on a list in Spin's 20th anniversary issue, currently on newsstands.
"Between Thom Yorke's orange-alert worldview and the band's meld of epic guitar rock and electronic glitch, (`OK Computer') not only forecast a decade of music but uncannily predicted our global culture of communal distress," reads the editorial note on what separated the 1997 disc from the other 99 ranked albums.
Sandwiched between Radiohead's straight-ahead rock disc "The Bends" and the more experimental, electronic "Kid A," "OK Computer" was the album that propelled Radiohead to worldwide, stadium-sized popularity. Though it never went higher than No. 21 on the Billboard charts, it won critical raves and a Grammy for best alternative music performance.
Spin's Chuck Klosterman says the album "manages to sound how the future will feel. ... It's a mechanical album that always feels alive, even when its words are spoken by a robot."
Years earlier, Spin ranked Nirvana's "Nevermind" the greatest album of the nineties. In the time since, however, editor-in-chief Sia Michel and others simply found they were reaching for "OK Computer" more than the slightly less relevant "Nevermind."
"Whereas when Nirvana came out, everybody was talking about negation and slackers and everything like that -- seven years later, it was the dot-com boom and 22-year-olds were making $80,000 on Web sites," Michel recently told The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Radiohead have broken the silence over their new album.
Singer Thom Yorke has told to the press that the sessions for their new album remind him of working on ‘Kid A’.
The band recently regrouped to start rehearsing and recording new songs for the follow-up to 2003’s ‘Hail To The Thief’.
The album, not due until next year, will be the band’s seventh. Yorke told that the early sessions had seen the band changing the way they work, reminding him of the change between 1997 LP ‘OK Computer’ and 2000‘Kid A’.
He said: “It’s going well. It’s a bit like ‘Kid A’ – we’re going through a period of change. But that’s good. We’ll get there”
Songs touted for the record include ‘House Of Cards’, ‘Glass Flowers’, ‘Reckoner’ and ‘Arpeggi’.
As reported earlier, Radiohead have declined the invitation to play at the second edition of Live Aid (Live 8 - July 2nd). BBC's Jo Whiley spoke to U2's Bone before their gig in Belgium - Bono said he hoped Thom Yorke would change his mind. The band, which has been vocal on many of the global development issues that the shows are aiming to raise awareness about, were given the chance by organiser Bob Geldof, according to BBC News.
But guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s recent parenthood is among the reasons why the band were unable to take part.”
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