You set up a bunch of microphones in a room and the ambience is going to be different from room to room.
I think that's one of the things that makes this record different is the fact that we managed to capture these old sorts of 15th through the 18th century rooms that we recorded a lot of the album in. We weren't in a conventional recording studio."Ĭolin Greenwood: "We recorded in like, atmospheric places - in rooms in this old country house. So part of the way we did it was very different from previous albums. We have a responsibility, we feel, as musicians to - that this is an ongoing and it's an educational thing for us. On how radically different OK Computer sounded compared to Radiohead's previous albums:Įd O'Brien: "What we're always trying to do is make a different-sounding record, and it sounds different from anything we've done before. The stakes and expectations rose to epic proportions for Radiohead, and with each record that followed, O'Brien, Greenwood and the rest of the band members were expected to reinvent their sound, to change rock itself and what it means to make music. Once fans and critics began to make sense of its meaning and importance - and its remarkable sound - nothing was the same. In the 20 years since, it's rightfully earned a place among the greatest and most ambitious rock albums of all time - a brilliantly produced portrait of intense paranoia and outrage over an imagined future undone by the technology designed to save it. Of course, everything was about to change for Radiohead, and OK Computer was the reason. As Linda casually noted in her intro, "Radiohead is a British rock group that's increasingly popular here."
It's the kind of innocent discussion you'd expect from a group that had, up to this point, put out a couple of respectably reviewed, straight-up rock records, but were yet to become the biggest band in the world. O'Brien and Greenwood cracked jokes, gently brushed off questions they didn't care to get into and attempted to explain why this album was so different from the band's previous two releases. In the summer of 1997, when All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer sat down with Colin Greenwood and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead to talk about the band's new album OK Computer, it sounds (in retrospect) like none of them – not our host nor the guys in the band – entirely knew what they were sitting on. Radiohead's original cover art for the 1997 release of OK Computer
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