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The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame with "Creep"; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [57] John Leckie , who produced The Bends , recalled that EMI hoped for a single "even better" than "Creep" but that Radiohead "didn't even know what was good about it in the first place". [ 58 ]
The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Work began at RAK Studios, London, in February 1994. Tensions were high, with pressure from Parlophone to match sales of Radiohead's debut single, "Creep", and progress was slow.
OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997. With their producer, Nigel Godrich , Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997.
Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), achieved acclaim, [27] [28] showcasing Greenwood's lead guitar work on songs such as "Paranoid Android". [29] For "Climbing up the Walls", Greenwood wrote a part for 16 stringed instruments playing quarter tones apart, inspired by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki .
Abingdon School, where Radiohead formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, in May 2016, [9] backed by the singles "Burn the Witch" [10] and "Daydreaming". [9] In June 2017, Radiohead released a 20th-anniversary OK Computer reissue, OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including unreleased tracks, [11] two of which were released as download singles: "I Promise" and ...
The song begins with a discordant string harmony, [77] then a strummed D ninth chord acoustic guitar played by Yorke, [78] backed by B ♭ string tunes, creating a dissonant noise that moves between the D major and F ♯ minor chords. [77] O'Brien used guitar reverbs and delay effects, creating a melody that sinks between the A and E chords. [78]
OK Computer: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 1997 [37] "Everything in Its Right Place" Kid A: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 2000 [50] "Exit Music (For a Film)" OK Computer: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 1997 [37] "Faithless, the Wonder Boy" B-side to "Anyone Can Play Guitar" Jim Warren Chris Hufford 1993 [46] "Fake Plastic Trees" The Bends: John Leckie: 1995 [42 ...