OK Computer

Radiohead·53 min · 12 tracks

The band recorded most of it in an empty mansion near Bath, with the gear set up in the library and the ballroom. The songs are about airports, insurance, car crashes, and the panic underneath ordinary modern life. It plays like guitar rock but it is built in layers, and new details keep turning up on the tenth listen. The band expected it to be too strange to sell. It sold millions.

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