Vinyl Record

Radiohead - OK Computer

Radiohead - OK Computer on 2LP vinyl. A 1997 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 1997

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1997 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

OK Computer is Radiohead's 1997 third album, the record that turned the promise of The Bends into a much larger and more unsettling language. It is often described as a response to late-1990s alienation, but the album's power is more exact than that phrase suggests. Airbag begins with survival as glitchy rebirth; Paranoid Android breaks a rock single into operatic fragments and consumer-culture disgust; Subterranean Homesick Alien and Exit Music (For A Film) make escape feel impossible; Let Down turns commuter despair into one of the band's most moving slow builds; Karma Police and No Surprises smuggle dread into melodies that became communal; Climbing Up The Walls makes domestic space feel unsafe; The Tourist closes by asking for slowness in a world that will not stop accelerating. The 1997 context matters because Britpop was still trading in swagger and national theatre while Radiohead were building a record about transport systems, screens, corporations, emotional fatigue and spiritual static. OK Computer made anxiety grand without making it glamorous.

OK Computer matters because it expanded the idea of a 1990s guitar album without abandoning songs that audiences could carry with them. It gave alternative rock a new architecture: cinematic, paranoid, melodic, technologically uneasy and ambitious enough to become a generational reference point.

For collectors, OK Computer is one of the central modern rock LPs and a foundation Radiohead title. Its place in the catalogue is fixed: the final great guitar-age statement before Kid A changed the band's method, and a 1997 album whose themes still feel sharply contemporary.

Expansive alternative rock with intricate guitars, electronic shadows, cinematic dynamics, anxious lyrics, choir-like vocals, distorted textures and a constant feeling of motion systems turning against the body.

Recommended for: Collectors building a landmark 1990s alternative rock shelf; Listeners who want Radiohead's classic songwriting at maximum scale; Fans of albums where technology, dread and melody are inseparable.

When was OK Computer released? OK Computer was released in 1997 as Radiohead's third studio album. Why is OK Computer considered a landmark album? It combined ambitious rock songwriting with themes of technology, alienation, corporate life and modern anxiety in a way that reshaped Radiohead's reputation. Which songs define OK Computer? Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Let Down, Airbag and Exit Music (For A Film) are among the album's defining tracks.