Radiohead | OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (LP Box Set)

Rescued from defunct formats, prized from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OKNOTOK will be issued on XL Recordings, coinciding (roughly) with the original 1997 release date(s) of Radiohead’s landmark third album OK COMPUTER. OKNOTOK features the original OK COMPUTER twelve track album, eight B-sides, and the Radiohead completist’s dream: “I Promise,” “Lift,” and “Man Of War.” The original studio recordings of these three previ-ously unreleased and long sought after OK COMPUTER era tracks finally receive their first official issue on OKNOTOK. All material on OKNOTOK is newly remastered from the original ana-logue tapes.

The OKNOTOK BOXED EDITION will ship July, featuring a black box emblazoned with a dark image of a burned copy of OK COMPUTER containing three heavyweight 180 gram black 12” vinyl records and a hardcover book containing more than thirty artworks (many of which have never been seen before) and full lyrics to all the tracks (except the ones that haven’t really got any lyrics). Under this weighty tome are yet more surprises: a notebook containing 104 pages from Thom Yorke’s library of scrawled notes of the time, a sketchbook containing 48 pages of Donwood and Tchock’s “preparatory work” and a C90 cassette mix tape compiled by the band, taken from OK COMPUTER session archives and demo tapes.

OK COMPUTER was originally released on various dates ranging fromMay to July 1997. Produced by the band and Nigel Godrich, the album iswidely cited as one of the greatest works of Radiohead’s--or any artist’s--catalogue and was the first Radiohead record to reach #1 in the UK andto be be nominated for the Album of the Year GRAMMY. Featuring sin-gles “Paranoid Android,” “Karma Police,” “Lucky” and “No Surprises,” OK COMPUTER has sold in excess of five million copies worldwide. In2015, The National Recording Registry selected OK COMPUTER to bepreserved in the Library of Congress as a recording that has proven “cul-turally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Radiohead: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway. Additional Personnel: Adam Cummings (guitar). Engineers include: Nigel Godrich. OK COMPUTER was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year and won the 1998 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. OK COMPUTER, Radiohead's third album, is the bombastic follow-up to 1995's sleeper hit THE BENDS, which left critics and listeners as impressed with the band's ability as they were curious about their potential. In spite of its technological-sounding title and apocalyptic sci-fi themes, OK COMPUTER is firmly grounded in the rock verities. Waves of guitars rage beneath the haunting melodies and near-hysterical fits of singer Thom Yorke. This complex, intense swarm of guitars is held aloft by a solid, inventive rhythm section and an impressive array of piano and keyboard textures. "Paranoid Android" is a six-minute-plus epic with alternating time signatures, wild dynamic shifts, drama and adrenaline to spare. "Let Down," with its double-tracked vocals and rhythmic throb, may give a brief glimpse back at Radiohead's past, but at no point is OK COMPUTER anything but a hurtle forward.

Tracklist

LP
    
A1        Airbag
A2        Paranoid Android
A3        Subterranean Homesick Alien

Skip    

B1        Exit Music (For A Film)
B2        Let Down
B3        Karma Police

Sky    

C1        Fitter Happier
C2        Electioneering
C3        Climbing Up The Walls
C4        No Surprises

Blue    

D1        Lucky
D2        The Tourist

Who's    

E1        I Promise
E2        Man Of War
E3        Lift
E4        Lull
E5        Meeting In The Aisle

It    

F1        Melatonin
F2        A Reminder
F3        Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
F4        Pearly*
F5        Palo Alto
F6        How I Made My Millions

CASSETTE-A1        Zx Spectrum Symphony
CASSETTE-A2        A.M.S. Hello
CASSETTE-A3        True Love Tape Loop
CASSETTE-A4        Let Down (Thom 4track)
CASSETTE-A5        I May Be Paranoid But Not An Android..
CASSETTE-A6        Attention (Thom 4track)
CASSETTE-A7        Noise Sketch By Nigel
CASSETTE-A8        Climbing Up The Walls (Abbey Road Strings)
CASSETTE-A9        Someone Help This Guy..
CASSETTE-A10        Motion Picture Soundtrack (Solo Piano)
CASSETTE-A11        Was That Recording?
CASSETTE-A12        The Jumbled Words Of Climbing Up The Walls Read By Little Dan Clements
CASSETTE-A13        Lull (Ed Guitar Infinite Reverb)
CASSETTE-A14        Airbag Drums Through Moog
CASSETTE-A15        Karma Police In Space Echo
CASSETTE-A16        Karma Police Voice Through Telephone
CASSETTE-A17        (Talking)
CASSETTE-A18        Piano Sketch By Jonny
CASSETTE-A19        Big Bird Story By Stanley Donwood
CASSETTE-A20        No Surprises (First Idea From A Soundcheck Somewhere)
CASSETTE-A21        Radio Chaser Noise
CASSETTE-A22        Fridge Buzz
CASSETTE-A23        True Love Space Loop
CASSETTE-A24        (Talking)
CASSETTE-A25        Are You Someone?
CASSETTE-B1        Nigel A.M.S. Delay
CASSETTE-B2        Jonny's Radio From Climbing Up The Walls
CASSETTE-B3        Climbing Up The Walls (Thom 4track)
CASSETTE-B4        A Piano Lies Down In The Middle Of The Road
CASSETTE-B5        Transposing Noise Sketch By Nigel
CASSETTE-B6        Early Paranoid Android Version Jonny & Thom
CASSETTE-B7        Alternative Paranoid Android Ending Live In Pittsburg
CASSETTE-B8        Airbag Early Acoustic Version
CASSETTE-B9        (Talking)
CASSETTE-B10        Paranoid Android Loud Room And St Catherine's
CASSETTE-B11        Nigel A.M.S. Paranoid Guitar Sample
CASSETTE-B12        Nude Early Band Version
CASSETTE-B13        The National Anthem (Thom 4track)
CASSETTE-B14        Ambient Loops
CASSETTE-B15        Man Of War Live In Montpellier
CASSETTE-B16        Nigel A.M.S. Delay Again
CASSETTE-B17        Thom's Acoustic As Microphone In Climbing Up The Walls
CASSETTE-B18        Ok Computer Program

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: ‎‎XL Recordings
Rel. Date: 07/28/2017
UPC: 634904086800

• Format Detail: LP + Cassette
• Genre: Alternative
• Format: Vinyl
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Released: 07/28/2017