Produced by the band and Nigel Godrich, the album features the singles “Paranoid Android,” “Karma Police,” “Lucky” and “No Surprises,” and is widely cited as one of the greatest works of Radiohead’s - or any artist’s - catalogue. OK COMPUTER was originally released on various dates ranging from May to July 1997. Under this weighty tome are yet more surprises: a notebook containing 104 pages from Thom Yorke’s library of scrawled notes of the time, a sketchbook containing 48 pages of Donwood and Tchock’s ‘preparatory work’ and a C90 cassette mix tape compiled by the band, taken from OK COMPUTER session archives and demo tapes.ĭigital formats, double CD, and triple 180g LP versions of the 23 track album will be released widely on June 23rd. The OKNOTOK BOXED EDITION will ship in July, featuring a black box emblazoned with a dark image of a burned copy of OK COMPUTER containing three heavyweight 180 gram black 12" vinyl records and a hardcover book containing more than thirty artworks (many of which have never been seen before) and full lyrics to all the tracks (except the ones that haven’t really got any lyrics). OKNOTOK features the original OK COMPUTER twelve track album, eight B-sides, and three new tracks: 'I Promise,' 'Lift,' and 'Man Of War.' The original studio recordings of these three previously unreleased and long sought after OK COMPUTER-era tracks finally receive their first official issue on OKNOTOK.Īll material on OKNOTOK is newly remastered from the original analogue tapes.
Soon Radiohead would take that ball and run with it, hard.A statement from the band said: "Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OKNOTOK will be issued on June 23rd through XL Recordings, coinciding (roughly) with the original 1997 release date(s) of Radiohead’s landmark third album OK COMPUTER." exercise and maybe most explicitly on “Meeting in the Aisle,” an all-electronic instrumental that was put together with help from Sia’s old cronies in Zero 7, the British downtempo outfit among the mid-Nineties wave of artists blurring the line between rock, club music and hip-hop sample stitching. You hear hints of it on “Palo Alto,” a sort of krautrock R.E.M. The rest of the bonus disc is packed with worthy B-sides and rarities from the same period, during which the band groped towards the electronic music epiphany of 2000’s Kid A. One imagines it instantly assumed the proportions of a song one might have to sing to hungry fans for the rest of ones life – a daunting prospect, especially if you’re Thom Yorke. It’s an amazing moment, and fans went bonkers when the band began playing it live. When Yorke crooned “We’ve been trying to reach you, Thom,” it was both a cheeky nod to Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” swapping the space capsule for an elevator, and the first (thus far only) time he’d used his name in a lyric. Another song the group couldn’t quite perfect in the studio, it was supposedly ditched for fear it’d become a straightjacketing hit like “Creep.” Fair enough. So is “Lift” – maybe more so, with its gently strummed guitar intro, soaring melodic ascents and tenderly avuncular outro (“Today is the first day of the rest of your days/So lighten up, squirt”). But with its sparkling tick-tock rhythm ( Dark Side of the Moon, especially “Time,” looms large), Jonny Greenwood’s swaggering rock-dude guitar squeals, and one of Yorke’s greatest bits of lyrical surrealism (“When you come home, I’ll bake you a cake, made of all their eyes”), it’s an after-the-fact classic. With a trace theme that seems to be about fame’s poison, it would’ve made for a weird narrative fit on OKC.
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“Man of War” made a fragmented appearance as a work-in-progress, with slightly different lyrics, in the band documentary Meeting People Is Easy, and has been a mule-kick live number since 1995, when it was known as “Big Boots,” Yorke slurring the “drunken confessions” section and erupting with howls to match the crushing guitars (see the Italian TV broadcast clip bouncing around YouTube).
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