subject: Reviewing Radiohead's Ok Computer [print this page] Sometimes it takes a number of years before you can truly look back and proclaim the best album of that decade. Often times, it's the album that shaped the music during the years that followed that seemingly carried the most importance, though you may not have realized the full extent of it at the time.
Hindsight definitely makes these things easier to realize, and in my book, OK Computer by Radiohead did just this when it was released during the later part of the 1990s.
Many critics call this one of the greatest albums of all time. Radiohead's sound was revolutionary at the time, and everything about the album was original and inventive. It was originally crafted, the music had its own unique sound, and the music videos were superb.
As we look back over a decade now, we realize how important Radiohead's OK Computer was an album. Both musically and conceptually, this album was way ahead of its time in every sense.
Songs like Karma Police and Paranoid Android send powerful messages and they're highly relevant today, over a decade later.
The music is absolutely beautiful and while the band's sound has evolved over the years, if another band were to come out with an original album today that sounded like this (assuming the first one never came out), it would sound completely relevant and modern at that.
In a world where the music we listen to is constantly evolving and developing, an album like OK Computer is a rarity.
If you haven't listened to it in a while, throw the CD back into your player and give it a listen. Not only will it bring back some memories, but you'll realize how truly great this album was, and always will be.
