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| Genre = | Length = 53:27 | Label = | Producer = | Last album = ''The Bends'' (1995) | This album = ''OK Computer'' (1997) | Next album = ''No Surprises/Running from Demons'' (1997) | Misc = }} ''OK Computer'' is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released in 1997 on Parlophone and Capitol Records. ''OK Computer'' was the first self-produced Radiohead album, with assistance from Nigel Godrich. Radiohead recorded the album in Oxfordshire and Bath between 1996 and early 1997, with most of the recording completed in the historic mansion St Catherine's Court. The band made a deliberate attempt to distance themselves from the guitar-oriented, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, ''The Bends''. ''OK Computer''s abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and wide range of influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. Upon the album's delivery to Capitol, label representatives lowered their sales estimates, deeming the record uncommercial. Nevertheless, ''OK Computer'' reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and became Radiohead's highest album entry on the American charts at the time, debuting at number 21 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Four songs from the album – "Paranoid Android", "Karma Police", "Lucky" and "No Surprises" – were released as promotional singles. ''OK Computer'' received unanimous critical acclaim and has since been cited by critics and musicians as one of the greatest rock albums of the 1990s. The album initiated a shift away from the popular Britpop genre of the time to the more melancholic and atmospheric style of alternative rock that would be prevalent in the next decade. Critics and fans have commented on the underlying themes found in the lyrics and album artwork, emphasising Radiohead's views on rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation, and political malaise; in this capacity, ''OK Computer'' is often interpreted as having prescient insight into the mood of 21st-century life, and many critics have described it as one of the greatest albums ever released. In 2015, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry. ==Background== In 1995, Radiohead toured in support of their second album ''The Bends''. Midway through the tour, Brian Eno commissioned the band to contribute a song to ''The Help Album'', a charity compilation organised by War Child. ''The Help Album'' was to be recorded over the course of a single day, 4 September 1995, and rush-released that week. That day Radiohead recorded "Lucky" in five hours with engineer Nigel Godrich, who had assisted producer John Leckie with ''The Bends'' and had produced several Radiohead B-sides.〔 Godrich said of the ''Help Album'' session: "Those things are the most inspiring, when you do stuff really fast and there's nothing to lose. We left feeling fairly euphoric. So after establishing a bit of a rapport work-wise, I was sort of hoping I would be involved with the next album." To promote ''The Help Album'', "Lucky" featured as the lead track on the ''Help EP'', which charted at number 51 after BBC Radio 1 chose not to play it. This disappointed Radiohead singer Thom Yorke,〔 but he later said "Lucky" shaped the nascent sound and mood of their upcoming record:〔 " 'Lucky' was indicative of what we wanted to do. It was like the first mark on the wall." Radiohead found the ''Bends'' tour stressful and took a break in January 1996. The band sought to distance their new material from the introspective style of ''The Bends''. Drummer Phil Selway said, "There was an awful lot of soul searching (''The Bends'' ). To do that again on another album would be excruciatingly boring."〔 Yorke said: "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. And I'm deliberately just writing down all the positive things that I hear or see. I'm not able to put them into music yet and I don't want to just force it." The critical and commercial success of ''The Bends'' gave the band the confidence to self-produce their third album.〔 Their label Parlophone gave them a £100,000 budget for recording equipment and an open-ended deadline.〔 Guitarist Jonny Greenwood said "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."〔 〕 Guitarist Ed O'Brien, said: "Everyone said, 'You'll sell six or seven million if you bring out ''The Bends Pt 2'',' and we're like, we'll kick against that and do the opposite."〔''Q'', January 2003〕 A number of producers, including major figures such as Scott Litt, were offered the producer role, but the band were encouraged by the sessions with Godrich. They consulted him for advice on what equipment to use, and prepared for the sessions by buying their own equipment, including a plate reverberator purchased from Jona Lewie. Although Godrich had sought to focus his work on electronic dance music, he outgrew his role as advisor and became the album's coproducer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OK Computer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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