CLICKHOLIE Chapter 3: A Groundbreaking New Album An Oral History Of Radiohead's 'OK Computer The band was ready to get to work on the new album. But this time around, they would mputer" was released on May 1997 to widespread accla ves. While multiple awards, including the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. Critics created a relationship with commercial success has always been comp Thom Yorke: From the beginning, my goal was to make an album that would get us all sent to Jonny Greenwood: It's that weird thing, right? You've made this record that all these people In the summer of 1996, Radiohead began work on a new album that would cement its reputation as one of the greatest and most innovative bands of all time. Though its first two albums had earned it a large fan base, for many people Radiohead was still just the band that did Creep." That would all change with "OK Computer njoy, but at the same time you wish everyone hated it so much that they dedicated a whole TV Ed O'Brien: Thom's problem with Pablo Honey and The Bends was that neither of those steppin different types ime he was very insistent that we should all spend 20 to 30 years in jail to be consid not that we didn't like the record. We loved it. We just felt weird that all of a sudden it was the number one sex album in the world. That's not how we intended for the album Now, almost 20 years later, the story of the album is finally being told in the words of the people who made it. This is the oral history of Radiohead's "OK Computer Phili computers, but they kept kicking us out, so we eventually moved into our own studio Chapter 1: The Burden Of Success from the president of Capitol Records every day thanking me for creating the f--- anthem "Fitter Jonny Greenwood: We love recording there because we're allowed to chew gum inside the booth. Radiohead is a big gum band. We love gum. Thom Yorke: Terrific, I assumed. Now y be arrested and sent to jail for ignitin r music. What an idiot I was. Thom Yorke: Gum is the impossible meal. It's illegal to swallow, so you have to always be chewing album loved it. I got thank-you letters from them saying that OK Computer made them lece s possible a Ed O'Brien: Regardless of our feelings about the album's success, we had a Ed O'Brien: I definitely think Thom swallows too much gum. You're not supposed to swallow t know why he does that Colin Greenwood: There's one s of an encore of "No Surprises" and Thom went into the Jonny Greenwood: The idea was to produce [the album] ourselves so we could get it for free when it finally came out. Usually you have t nce. Thom drifts into the middle of way we would a copy for r so people, and he ju arts burrowing into the ground. Like, really ffecting tunneling. And as the song goes on he's getting deeper, and people are following him down Eventually, the whole audience had followed h down into that bottomless hole, and r the first five days in the studio, we couldn't find the light switch. None of us were all alone onstage. Three days later, Thom emerged alone from the tunnel cradling a dove nobody else with him. Actually, no one from that audience was ever seen again. That could see anything. Not our instruments. Not each other. The music sounded awful. We needed Thom Yorke Colin Greenwood: That's when we brought in Nigel would walk out onstage and say, "Creep bad song," and that would be the whole show. I igel Godrich: OK Computer was an important album because it opened the door to more playing guitars. Now, there are albums about that in hundreds of sold-out shows all around the world, because wanted people to understand that “Creep Nigel Godrich (producer): I had previously worked with Radiohead on The Bends, as well as n Thom's solo albums Songs About Gum and More Songs About The Indestructible Meat Known As Gum, so I was very excited when they asked me to help them produce the new bad and not a computers riding bicycles, boxing each other, and drinking coffee. This was inconceivable onn after The Bends, we were still livingi dogs vomit. And that's and say, "Hi, Thom, we are all aware that 'Creep' is a good song," and he would have to tell Phili all the time Thom Yorke: uitar? And what di s Computer caug e pope a million dollars to replace Idn't do it becauseh Phili Colin Greenwood: Nigel is the kind of guy who, if you set your wallet on the table and leave th no a bad song," but the pope would s not going to steal it. He's would send us to jail for creating what turned out to be the number one f--- album of the veryone loved that song these things were indescribably disappointing. But the silver Ii doctors informed me shortly thereafter that I had managed to swallow my weight in gum. So, I a head when Bill Clinton said Colin Greenwood (ba address that "Creep" was a better song than the national anthem and both Republicans and writing process was pretty organic We Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," and then whatever happened when we veered off from that would become a new song it always started with "Rik s song would come to define us. And then Thom got an idea Ed O'Brien (guitar): When Thom came to me and said he had an idea for a new album, I knewColin Greenwood: "Exit Music (For A Film)" started as a "Rikki" jam; "Airbag" started as a "Rik was going to be big, because I was at a funeral and he i s going to be b phrase "Hitler hairdo" repeated 400 times Thom Yorke: I was going door-to-door telling people that "Creep" is a bad song when I found myself in a computer store. So I'm sort of sizing up the place, and all of a sudden I get this thought: What if a computer could go drive a car? Then I laughed, 'cause I got the picture of a computer drinking a pint and hanging out with his computer mates. Then all of a sudden l stopped laughing, because I got the idea of what if a computer could play guitar. I was transfixed by this idea. And that's when I knew: We needed to do an album about that. it to one mention. That song became "Karma Police Ed O'Brien: One song that never made it on the album was called "The ldiot," and it's about an t who has never been on the internet before. He goes to the post office to mail a letter and idiot, don't you know there's emails no?" And he doesn't know because he hasn't been on the internet before. At the end of the song, he gets a free trial of AOL. I always liked that tune because it has a happy ending 0 A lot of people don't know this, but Radiohead always records their albums while wearing wetsuits. One of my jobs was zipping them up into their suits at the beginning of e day. Sometimes the zipper would get stuck, and Thom or someone would have to record Thom Yorke: I came on the spot. It's the moment when you give a guitar and say, "Okay, computer...let's see what you got! Show us your stuff a few times, but whenever it Philip Selway: Thom explained to us that the ensuing songs would be, of course, the hypothetical songs that the computer plays on the guitar Jonny Greenwood: We had about a day or two of recording left when Thom walked away from mputer playing guitar was Jonny Greenwood: The only person captivating was my b e studio to start building that goddamn computer Colin Greenwood: Suddenly, Tho All he wants t Colin Greenwood: I was wary of the whole computer idea because lI didn't believe it was Thom Yorke exploring the question of what if a computer could play guitar, I became Thom Yorke: Colin says, "No no no, this won't nted to explore the question of what if a computer could play guitar. I knew this was the way igel Godrich: Thom sort of fell outo toward the end, but luckily we were a Colin Greenw computer with mechanical hands holding a guitar and I could sort of see it. How a computer could play guitar, I mean. Once I saw that picture, I was on board. Philip Selway: We started recording the next day ood: I was skeptical up until the moment when Thom d Thom Yorke: Thom's Computer comes with free screensavers and a program that lets you strangers that say "Creep d song. Sent F

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CLICKHOLIE Chapter 3: A Groundbreaking New Album An Oral History Of Radiohead's 'OK Computer The band was ready to get to work on the new album. But this time around, they would mputer" was released on May 1997 to widespread accla ves. While multiple awards, including the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. Critics created a relationship with commercial success has always been comp Thom Yorke: From the beginning, my goal was to make an album that would get us all sent to Jonny Greenwood: It's that weird thing, right? You've made this record that all these people In the summer of 1996, Radiohead began work on a new album that would cement its reputation as one of the greatest and most innovative bands of all time. Though its first two albums had earned it a large fan base, for many people Radiohead was still just the band that did Creep." That would all change with "OK Computer njoy, but at the same time you wish everyone hated it so much that they dedicated a whole TV Ed O'Brien: Thom's problem with Pablo Honey and The Bends was that neither of those steppin different types ime he was very insistent that we should all spend 20 to 30 years in jail to be consid not that we didn't like the record. We loved it. We just felt weird that all of a sudden it was the number one sex album in the world. That's not how we intended for the album Now, almost 20 years later, the story of the album is finally being told in the words of the people who made it. This is the oral history of Radiohead's "OK Computer Phili computers, but they kept kicking us out, so we eventually moved into our own studio Chapter 1: The Burden Of Success from the president of Capitol Records every day thanking me for creating the f--- anthem "Fitter Jonny Greenwood: We love recording there because we're allowed to chew gum inside the booth. Radiohead is a big gum band. We love gum. Thom Yorke: Terrific, I assumed. Now y be arrested and sent to jail for ignitin r music. What an idiot I was. Thom Yorke: Gum is the impossible meal. It's illegal to swallow, so you have to always be chewing album loved it. I got thank-you letters from them saying that OK Computer made them lece s possible a Ed O'Brien: Regardless of our feelings about the album's success, we had a Ed O'Brien: I definitely think Thom swallows too much gum. You're not supposed to swallow t know why he does that Colin Greenwood: There's one s of an encore of "No Surprises" and Thom went into the Jonny Greenwood: The idea was to produce [the album] ourselves so we could get it for free when it finally came out. Usually you have t nce. Thom drifts into the middle of way we would a copy for r so people, and he ju arts burrowing into the ground. Like, really ffecting tunneling. And as the song goes on he's getting deeper, and people are following him down Eventually, the whole audience had followed h down into that bottomless hole, and r the first five days in the studio, we couldn't find the light switch. None of us were all alone onstage. Three days later, Thom emerged alone from the tunnel cradling a dove nobody else with him. Actually, no one from that audience was ever seen again. That could see anything. Not our instruments. Not each other. The music sounded awful. We needed Thom Yorke Colin Greenwood: That's when we brought in Nigel would walk out onstage and say, "Creep bad song," and that would be the whole show. I igel Godrich: OK Computer was an important album because it opened the door to more playing guitars. Now, there are albums about that in hundreds of sold-out shows all around the world, because wanted people to understand that “Creep Nigel Godrich (producer): I had previously worked with Radiohead on The Bends, as well as n Thom's solo albums Songs About Gum and More Songs About The Indestructible Meat Known As Gum, so I was very excited when they asked me to help them produce the new bad and not a computers riding bicycles, boxing each other, and drinking coffee. This was inconceivable onn after The Bends, we were still livingi dogs vomit. And that's and say, "Hi, Thom, we are all aware that 'Creep' is a good song," and he would have to tell Phili all the time Thom Yorke: uitar? And what di s Computer caug e pope a million dollars to replace Idn't do it becauseh Phili Colin Greenwood: Nigel is the kind of guy who, if you set your wallet on the table and leave th no a bad song," but the pope would s not going to steal it. He's would send us to jail for creating what turned out to be the number one f--- album of the veryone loved that song these things were indescribably disappointing. But the silver Ii doctors informed me shortly thereafter that I had managed to swallow my weight in gum. So, I a head when Bill Clinton said Colin Greenwood (ba address that "Creep" was a better song than the national anthem and both Republicans and writing process was pretty organic We Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," and then whatever happened when we veered off from that would become a new song it always started with "Rik s song would come to define us. And then Thom got an idea Ed O'Brien (guitar): When Thom came to me and said he had an idea for a new album, I knewColin Greenwood: "Exit Music (For A Film)" started as a "Rikki" jam; "Airbag" started as a "Rik was going to be big, because I was at a funeral and he i s going to be b phrase "Hitler hairdo" repeated 400 times Thom Yorke: I was going door-to-door telling people that "Creep" is a bad song when I found myself in a computer store. So I'm sort of sizing up the place, and all of a sudden I get this thought: What if a computer could go drive a car? Then I laughed, 'cause I got the picture of a computer drinking a pint and hanging out with his computer mates. Then all of a sudden l stopped laughing, because I got the idea of what if a computer could play guitar. I was transfixed by this idea. And that's when I knew: We needed to do an album about that. it to one mention. That song became "Karma Police Ed O'Brien: One song that never made it on the album was called "The ldiot," and it's about an t who has never been on the internet before. He goes to the post office to mail a letter and idiot, don't you know there's emails no?" And he doesn't know because he hasn't been on the internet before. At the end of the song, he gets a free trial of AOL. I always liked that tune because it has a happy ending 0 A lot of people don't know this, but Radiohead always records their albums while wearing wetsuits. One of my jobs was zipping them up into their suits at the beginning of e day. Sometimes the zipper would get stuck, and Thom or someone would have to record Thom Yorke: I came on the spot. It's the moment when you give a guitar and say, "Okay, computer...let's see what you got! Show us your stuff a few times, but whenever it Philip Selway: Thom explained to us that the ensuing songs would be, of course, the hypothetical songs that the computer plays on the guitar Jonny Greenwood: We had about a day or two of recording left when Thom walked away from mputer playing guitar was Jonny Greenwood: The only person captivating was my b e studio to start building that goddamn computer Colin Greenwood: Suddenly, Tho All he wants t Colin Greenwood: I was wary of the whole computer idea because lI didn't believe it was Thom Yorke exploring the question of what if a computer could play guitar, I became Thom Yorke: Colin says, "No no no, this won't nted to explore the question of what if a computer could play guitar. I knew this was the way igel Godrich: Thom sort of fell outo toward the end, but luckily we were a Colin Greenw computer with mechanical hands holding a guitar and I could sort of see it. How a computer could play guitar, I mean. Once I saw that picture, I was on board. Philip Selway: We started recording the next day ood: I was skeptical up until the moment when Thom d Thom Yorke: Thom's Computer comes with free screensavers and a program that lets you strangers that say "Creep d song. Sent F

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