Ok Computer

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Midway through the tour, Brian Eno commissioned them to contribute a song to The Help Album, a charity compilation organised by War Child; the album was to be recorded over the course of a single day, 4 September 1995, and rush-released that week. Music journalist Tim Footman noted that the song's technical innovations and lyrical concerns demonstrated the "key paradox" of the album: "The musicians and producer are delighting in the sonic possibilities of modern technology; the singer, meanwhile, is railing against its social, moral, and psychological impact . The stupid thing was that we were nearly finished when we'd move on, because so much work had gone into them.

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Regarding its oblique political references, Yorke said, "What can you say about the IMF, or politicians?This audio sample is from the middle of the second section to the beginning of the first guitar solo. Electioneering", featuring a cowbell and a distorted guitar solo, is the album's most rock-oriented track and one of the heaviest songs Radiohead has recorded. Rolling Stone described it as "an absolute triumph", and in 2004 Q named it the greatest concert of all time.

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Nonetheless, many musical critics, journalists, and scholars consider the album to be a concept album or song cycle, or have analysed it as a concept album, noting its strong thematic cohesion, aesthetic unity, and the structural logic of the song sequencing. The lyrics depict a man surviving an aeroplane crash [85] and are drawn from Yorke's anxiety about transportation. Radiohead planned to produce a video for every song on the album, but the project was abandoned due to financial and time constraints.The opening of Let Down reads suspiciously like a retelling of the Morissette support-slot imbroglio. The album was selected as an entry in "Sacred Cows", an NME column questioning the critical status of "revered albums", in which Henry Yates said "there's no defiance, gallows humour or chink of light beneath the curtain, just a sense of meek, resigned despondency" and criticised the record as "the moment when Radiohead stopped being 'good' [compared to The Bends] and started being 'important '".