But following the record’s success, Radiohead finally had the sales and the minerals to self-produce, which gave them an extra boost to do something radically different with the recordings that would become OK Computer. Yet OK Computer wasn’t always meant to be about a devastating world, nor was it meant to reverberate with songs that described it as being “poisoned, full with debris and waste,” as the band has said in the past of “No Surprises.” When Radiohead first set out to write the album, they were coming off a massive Bends-era tour and burned out.
“Which is ironic, really, since it’s so much worse now.” It became a potent statement about the Age of Overstimulation before it had really set in this was recorded at a time when the internet was still colloquially referred to as “the net.” “I was getting into the sense of information overload,” front man Thom Yorke recently told Rolling Stone. The album, which holds the distinction of being within the Library of Congress’s esteemed National Recording Registry, oozes with jagged, anxious tunes about the looming threat of technology-induced disconnection. It’s hard to believe, but Radiohead as we know them almost were that band - at least, it’s possible that they might have been right before they recorded their landmark 1997 album, OK Computer. In a parallel universe, a band called Radiohead is making music for shiny, happy people. Photo: Gene Shaw/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
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