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    Radiohead's third album OK Computer released in 1997 marked a departure from their previous alternative rock sound. The album was recorded in a non-conventional studio setting away from the city by the band's five members. OK Computer featured more personal lyrics inspired by the fast pace of the outside world and used different instrumentation with all vocals recorded in one take. The lead single "Airbag" incorporated electronic elements and had a bassline that stopped and started randomly throughout the song.

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    Radiohead's third album OK Computer released in 1997 marked a departure from their previous alternative rock sound. The album was recorded in a non-conventional studio setting away from the city by the band's five members. OK Computer featured more personal lyrics inspired by the fast pace of the outside world and used different instrumentation with all vocals recorded in one take. The lead single "Airbag" incorporated electronic elements and had a bassline that stopped and started randomly throughout the song.

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    Radiohead's OK Computer: By: Christa Purdy

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    Radiohead's third album OK Computer released in 1997 marked a departure from their previous alternative rock sound. The album was recorded in a non-conventional studio setting away from the city by the band's five members. OK Computer featured more personal lyrics inspired by the fast pace of the outside world and used different instrumentation with all vocals recorded in one take. The lead single "Airbag" incorporated electronic elements and had a bassline that stopped and started randomly throughout the song.

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    Radioheads OK Computer

    By: Christa Purdy

    About Radiohead
    Alternative rock group Formed in 1985

    The Band
    Consisted of five members:
    Thom Yorke Jonny Greenwood Colin Greenwood Ed OBrien Phil Selway

    The Band
    All of the members but Jonny Greenwood graduated from an all boys school together. Originally they called themselves On a Friday.

    The Album
    OK Computer Third album the band released Released in 1997

    OK Computer
    Alternative rock sound It was unlike any of the other British alternative rock bands at the time. Paved the way for their other albums.

    OK Computer
    Reached number-one on the UK Albums Chart Debuted at number 21 on the Billboard 200. Triple platinum in the UK and Canada, double platinum in the US and platinum in Australia.

    OK Computer
    The only concept that we had for this album was that we wanted to record it away from the city and that we wanted to record it ourselves -Collin Greenwood

    The Band Takes a Break


    "The Bends was an introspective album... There was an
    awful lot of soul searching. To do that again on another album would be excruciatingly boring". Phil Selway "The big thing for me is that we could really fall back on just doing another miserable, morbid and negative record lyrically, but I don't really want to, at all.
    Thom Yorke

    OK Computer
    The band started recording the album in 1996 in Canned Applause Studios in Oxfordshire. It was the first time the band would record in a non-conventional studio setting.

    OK Computer
    They decided to make the lyrics more personal in this album. On this album the outside world became all there was... I'm just taking polaroids of things around me moving too fast Thom Yorke

    OK Computer
    The band used different instrumentation on this album. All of the vocals were done with one take.

    Airbag by Radiohead
    First track on OK Computer. Inspired by DJ Shadow Features an electronic drumbeat.

    Airbags
    The bassline stops and starts in random places throughout the song. "I thought I'd probably think of something to put in the gaps later, but I never got around to it".
    -Colin Greenwood

    Airbags

    Inspired by an article titled An Airbag Saved My Life and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Every time you go out on the road you could die

    Airbags

    Work Cited
    "Airbag by Radiohead Songfacts." Song Meanings at Songfacts. Web. 29 Mar. 2011. <http://www.songfacts.com Hale, Jonathan. Radiohead: from a Great Height. Toronto: ECW, 1999. Print. "OK Computer - Radiohead." AllMusic. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. <http://www.allmusic.com/album/ ok-

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