In subsequent years, OK Computer has seen its popularity, relevance and influence grow to almost legendary proportions, and to this day, it’s hard to find a person who hasn’t felt the potency, acumen or downright panicky angst that songs like “Paranoid Android,” “Lucky,” “Karma Police,” or “No Surprises” incite. However, despite such criticism and lowered expectations, OK Computer went on to debut at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number twenty one on the Billboard 200, the English alt rockers top American entry up to that point. When released, OK Computer received widespread critical acclaim, despite its record label “EMI” and its sundry distributors finding the album to feel “uncommercial,” which was, in part, the very definition of what Radiohead was aiming for with their third album. Considering the melancholic complexion of OK Computer twenty years after its release, one has to wonder if Thom Yorke and company didn’t have access to a crystal ball, as its an album that depicts an emotionless world overwhelmed by widespread consumerism, and overshadowed by political turmoil and social narcissism, creating a vibe that sadly, feels uncannily familiar to our current times. That album, OK Computer, has been widely praised as a timeless work of art, a musical compilation comprising twelve influential and genre-shifting tracks that, looking back, seem almost prophetic in nature. Twenty years ago, legendary rockers Radiohead released an album that to this day still sounds as innovative and pertinent as when it was first released in the United States on June 1st, 1997. Twenty years after its release, Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer, with its experimental sound and prophetic visions, continues to strike a resonance with our modern times.
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