专辑英文名: OK Computer
专辑中文名: 收音头乐队
歌手: Radiohead
资源格式: MP3
发行时间: 1997年
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
简介:
专辑简介：
英文名称：OK Computer
发行时间：1997
专辑歌手：Radiohead
风格流派：英式摇滚、另类流行/摇滚乐
地区：英国
语言：英语
Radiohead是90年代初为数不多地受华丽壮美的竞技/舞台摇滚影响的另类乐队，乐队最初的唱片带有比较明显的U2风格。但是乐队后来开始转向创作较为史诗/叙事诗这样的作品，用My Bloody Valentine、Pink Floyd、R.E.M. 和the Pixies音乐作为主要织体，层次丰富。主唱Thom Yorke灰暗的词作在复杂的作品中传递着不安、疏远的情绪。1993年，乐队首张专辑《Pablo Honey》上市。原本乐队并未对此抱什么希望，但是“Creep”很快成为了一首热门单曲。当时乐队并不为评论界看好，认为他们只不过又是一支昙花一现的排行榜过客。但是乐队第二张专辑《The Bends》让所有的大跌眼镜，它在英国获得了巨大的成功，随着巡演的延续，它彻底征服了先前对乐队持成见的评论界，乐队一举成名。
乐队由Thom Yorke(主唱、吉他)、Ed O’Brien (吉他、主唱), Jonny Greenwood (吉他), Colin Greenwood (贝司)和Phil Selway (鼓手)组成，那一年是1988年，他们还是几个牛津大学的学生。1992年乐队在创作小唱片《Drill》后和EMI/Capitol唱片公司后，乐队录制了单曲“Creep”，这首融合了R.E.M.和Nirvana的作品主要的亮点为和声部分前突然暴发噪音部分，它成为了当年另类摇滚的一首著名代表作品。此后的两首单曲“Anyone Can Play Guitar”和“Pop is Dead”为乐队赢得了一些好评，但英国唱片公司并未给予乐队足够的重视。乐队的第一张专辑《Pablo Honey》在1993年上市，乐队进行欧洲巡回演出。墙内开化墙外香，“Creep”在美国突然大红大紫，充斥着各大现代摇滚电台和MTV音乐台。在“Creep”地驱使下，乐队远赴美国演出，为Belly和Tears for Fears做暖场演出。《Pablo Honey》最终成为金唱片，“Creep”也在英国再版销售。1993年底，该单曲进入前10名。
“Creep”的意外成功招致了现代评论家的非议，乐队一度被认定为歪打正着的幸运儿。乐队在这种情况下再次走入录音棚，开始创作第二张专辑《The Bends》。1995年专辑上市得到了压倒性的好评，显然人们乐于听到乐队更加深层、成熟的声音。但是专辑销量一开始却不是很好，先前对乐队较为买账的美国也并未太主意这张专辑，乐队无奈之下猹始在英国进行大规模巡演。直到年底，乐队才在巡演和单曲“Just”的促销下有所斩获。专辑不仅成为了当年英国最佳专辑之一而且在1996年处再次进入英国排行榜前10名，在美国也最终达到了金唱片销量。1997年乐队完成了他们的第三张专辑，也就是惊世之作的《OK Computer》！！
Radiohead had already had a huge hit in 1993 with its grunge-y ode to self-loathing, "Creep," and it had already put out a first-rate album with 1995's The Bends, but when OK Computer dropped in 1997, so did about a million or so jaws.
A majestic document of fear and isolation that far exceeded anything the band had attempted previously, OK Computer's vast, sweeping soundscapes were so overwhelming it was impossible to feel anything but dwarfed in their presence. And that's exactly how the band wanted us to feel -- small, lonely, and absolutely awed by a pre-millennial world that had grown too big and was moving too fast.
The three-part epic "Paranoid Android" sets the album's tone. With guitars that shimmer, rattle, and explode, it's as grand and bombastic as any mid-'70s prog-rock symphony, yet its feel is not celebration and exultation, but rather panic and dread. The paranoia drips across the album, seeping into the sublime "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and particularly into the frighteningly intimate, "Exit Music (for a Film)." Opening with only an acoustic guitar behind him, lead singer Thom Yorke's voice hugs the studio mic so closely it sounds like he's whispering in your ear: "Pack and get dressed / Before your father hears us / Before all hell breaks loose."
Of course, it's too late -- hell has already broken loose, but it's not the sort of fire and brimstone vision we're normally offered -- it's a stifling, insidious boredom. "Bring down the government ... they don't speak for us," Yorke offers later on "No Surprises," but without any of the revolutionary fervor that the line implies. Instead the words sort of slide out of the side of his mouth, more of a shrug of the shoulders than a call to arms. In a world where technology has made everything easier, happier, and more efficient, Yorke feels numb.
Much has been written about the album's "storyline," a supposed battle of man vs. machine, but trying to extricate a coherent plot out of OK Computer is probably futile. Still, it's impossible not to hear the terror and confusion in Yorke's moans, groans, and wails as he's bum-rushed by the encroaching tide of technology. And, with Radiohead's electronically enhanced wall of sound bearing down on us, it's impossible not to feel the same thing.
本人发布的MP3均由CD直接转制而成，因硬盘容量有限，故除特别注明外，频率均为128K！！
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