In three days, Radiohead’s album OK Computer turns 28 years old!
Aside from being regarded as one of the best albums of all time (heck, I’d even say it is the best), it was also one of, if not the first, albums to use a vocal synthesizer! This was long before UTAU and Vocaloid, but somehow Thom Yorke managed to create a whole song with Macintalk Fred, the built-in text to speech engine of the original Mac PCs. So, screw Logic System, Radiohead was the first vocasynth producer! The song in question here is Fitter Happier- you can listen to it on YouTube.
But, that aside, this album is downright perfection. Every track is perfect- the way all the madness culminates into Thom’s bloodcurdling scream at the end of Climbing Up The Walls and then crescendoes into calmness once more… I have no words for it! Everyone should give it a listen at least once. Although OK Computer isn’t my favourite Radiohead album (that honour goes to either My Iron Lung or Hail To The Thief), it’s objectively their best.
I’m done yammering now- happy early birthday, OK Computer!
Aside from being regarded as one of the best albums of all time (heck, I’d even say it is the best), it was also one of, if not the first, albums to use a vocal synthesizer! This was long before UTAU and Vocaloid, but somehow Thom Yorke managed to create a whole song with Macintalk Fred, the built-in text to speech engine of the original Mac PCs. So, screw Logic System, Radiohead was the first vocasynth producer! The song in question here is Fitter Happier- you can listen to it on YouTube.
But, that aside, this album is downright perfection. Every track is perfect- the way all the madness culminates into Thom’s bloodcurdling scream at the end of Climbing Up The Walls and then crescendoes into calmness once more… I have no words for it! Everyone should give it a listen at least once. Although OK Computer isn’t my favourite Radiohead album (that honour goes to either My Iron Lung or Hail To The Thief), it’s objectively their best.
I’m done yammering now- happy early birthday, OK Computer!
