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They’ve also admitted that Paranoid Android in particular was:īasically an excuse to weld loads of half-finished songs together, Abbey Road-style. It was a sensation. As I’ve said recently, without similar experimentation shown by The Beatles, you would not have seen this from Radiohead. An unsettling track with sudden changes in tempo and the closing lyrics: “The dust and the screaming/The vomit/The vomit”, it recalled T.S. Yet Radiohead stuck with their decision to release it. At the height of Britpop with it’s radio-friendly 2-3 minute Indie pop songs, this was akin to commercial suicide. OK Computer’s lead single Paranoid Android was over 6 minutes long. It was a complete about-turn from the indie/alternative rock sound of The Bends, with it’s collection of brilliant but disparate songs. Radiohead had done the (almost) unthinkable and gone Prog. OK Computer had an almost earth-shattering impact on the masses. None of that prepared anyone for what came next: Radiohead’s OK Computer in 1997. – NME, “The Lung and Whining Road”: Stuart Baillie, October 1, 1994. It was a horrible prospect, so when they arrived for the first show in Hamburg, the band tabled an emergency meeting, to work out whether they should bother at all. Just after the American tour, Radiohead were booked onto a European circuit with James. “I thought I could go it alone,- says Thom.- “The absolute opposite is true, I think now…” He (Thom) didn’t actually leave the band, though. In fact, I have an NME interview from October 1994 that tells this amazing story: My Iron Lung EP was released just after Radiohead had nearly split up, following the huge, sudden impact of hit single Creep.
It’s steady, throbbing bassline, punctuated with a minimalistic riff and accompanied by Yorke’s lackadaisical, lullabye style vocals, belies its descent into a screeching, chaotic crescendo of shredded guitars. Heavily into Grunge at the time, I absolutely loved My Iron Lung. I had been waiting for The Bends since the My Iron Lung EP release in 1994. Some of us – yes, me – were one of that almost zero fan base. Yet with each single release, its impact slowly grew to show the world that they still deserved to be here. Their second album, The Bends, was quietly released to an almost zero fan base in 1995. Yes, people were expecting a lot from Radiohead. It was June 1997, the UK was still in the throes of Britpop with Oasis and Blur leading the charge. This week 20 years ago, Radiohead released their eagerly awaited third album, OK Computer. Retrospective: Radiohead's OK Computer in 1997
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