Guitarsįavoured by Jonny Greenwood as his main guitar for close to 25 years, this Fender Telecaster Plus is frequently heard across OK Computer, and includes several modifications to help Greenwood achieve his signature unconventional sounds. To celebrate the album, we take a look at the huge lot of gear used to create the OK Computer. Read up on all the latest features and columns here.Īs well as being a cultural milestone, OK Computer plays host to some of the finest instrumental work performed by Radiohead across their entire career. More than 20 years after its release, OK Computer stands as a landmark moment in the history of contemporary music, combining technological innovation with intense feelings of isolation and despair to perfectly bookend one of the most tumultuous decades of the century.įusing electronic elements with the band’s pre-existing alt-rock sound, OK Computer showed a glimpse of just how much of an impact Radiohead would have on the music industry, with producer Nigel Godrich capturing the band’s collective prowess and individual talents in a way unmatched by other producers. Exit Music could easily be tears or rain, but I'm sure you'll be getting your own ideas.Words by Mixdown Staff We take a look at the gear behind the '90s favourite The other songs are just too obscure to work out, for now. I hope you're beginning to come round to my point of view because I've run out of suggestions! Seriously, this couldn't be accidental, and its just like something Radiohead would do (see other Easter Eggs). You could call Fitter Happier's layout normal too, but that's another song about a dreary, monotone life. Its the only song with a regular/normal layout, so it actually offers evidence/hints that the above ideas are intentional. Here there is no human singing voice and no mystery. This is the coldest, most robotic, least human song on the album, and it is rewarded with a perfectly straight, unimaginative layout. Its just on the bounds of possibility, and the designers have been very clever if they've managed to work two pictures into one song.įitter Happier - The other 'pictures' have been representations of their song's subject matter. If you can see the other ones try this for a while. From a good distance away what do you see? I believe there's a man with his back to you, wading, soaked and dripping, out of a lake. Turn page 90 degrees clockwise, so the song title is on your right. Lucky(again) - The second picture here is the hardest to see. Evidence: The sun rises because its an optimistic song ("gonnabe a glorious day") and "lake" is in the chorus.
Lower down there are a few strings of words, like waves/ripples on a lake. Note the straight line of words(horizon)with the lump of words(sun) above. To me it looks exactly like a sun rising up with a lake in the foreground. Firstly, hold page about a metre away and squint at lyrics. Lucky - This one is equally hard to see, but there are definitely one if not TWO pictures here. Its too much of a coincidence to claim that there is accidently a picture of someone climbing up a wall for the song "Climbing Up The Walls". Yes it sounds crazy but look at it and you will see.
The words space out as you reach the ends, signifying fingers. The straightish line up the middle contains his head and neck. At the bottom, where the words are close together is his waist. The picture is a man with his back to you, clinging onto or scrabbling up a wall. Hold page about a metre away and squint at lyrics. Could it be a coincidence that the words are arranged this way? Remember, an "android" is a robot with human features (this probably relates to the OK Computer title itself as well).Ĭlimbing Up The Walls - Turn the page 90 degrees anticlockwise, so the song title is on your left. It looks like a face, with stretched eyes, fat nose etc.
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Paranoid Android - Turn the page upside down and look again at the overall 'shape'. Why? The first line mentions "war" and the word "juggernaut" has warlike connotations as well as meaning a lorry. This happens too many times for it to be coincidental, and the pictures also have a significance for the song which they represent.Īirbag - Looking straight at the overall 'shape' it resembles a gun turret or a tank. Several look like a random mess, but look closer and you can see that the words are actually arranged to look like pictures. You may have noticed that the song lyrics for OK Computer are in extremely strange shapes.
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