Editing OK Computer (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| title = Contemporaneous reviews
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 | rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
 | rev2score = B+<ref name="ew"/>
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 | rev4 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
 | rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="LATimes review"/>
 | rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
 | rev5score = 10/10<ref name="nme review"/>
 | rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
 | rev6score = 10/10<ref name="pitchfork"/>
 | rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
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 | rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="RS review"/>
 | rev9 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
 | rev9score = 5/5<ref name="Harris 92" />
 | rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
 | rev10score = 8/10<ref name="Spin review"/>
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''OK Computer'' received acclaim. Critics described it as a landmark release of far-reaching impact and importance,{{sfn|Footman|2007|pp=181–182}}{{sfn|Clarke|2010|p=121}} but noted that its experimentalism made it a challenging listen. According to [[Tim Footman]], "Not since 1967, with the release of ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', had so many major critics agreed immediately, not only on an album's merits, but on its long-term significance, and its ability to encapsulate a particular point in history."{{sfn|Footman|2007|p=182}} In the British press, the album garnered favourable reviews in ''[[NME]]'',<ref name="nme review">
{{citation
 | last = Oldham
 | first = James
 | url = https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000014reviews.html
 | title = The Rise and Rise of the ROM Empire
 | magazine = [[NME]]
 | date = 14 June 1997
| access-date = 6 April 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000817181703/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000014reviews.html
 | archive-date = 17 August 2000
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> ''Melody Maker'',<ref>
{{citation
 | last = Parkes
 | first = Taylor
 | author-link = Taylor Parkes
 | title = Review of ''OK Computer''
 | magazine = [[Melody Maker]]
 | date = 14 June 1997
}}</ref> ''The Guardian''<ref name="Guardian review">
{{citation
 | last = Sullivan
 | first = Caroline
 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian/144405943/
 | title = Aching Heads
 | newspaper = [[The Guardian]]
 | date = 13 June 1997
}}</ref> and ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''.<ref name="q review">
{{citation
 | last = Cavanagh
 | first = David
 | author-link = David Cavanagh
 | title = Moonstruck
 | magazine = [[Q (magazine)|Q]]
 | issue = 130
 | date = July 1997
 | url = http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=18513
 | access-date = 11 April 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000423190213/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=18513
 | archive-date = 23 April 2000}}</ref> [[Nick Kent]] wrote in ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' that "Others may end up selling more, but in 20 years' time I'm betting ''OK Computer'' will be seen as the key record of 1997, the one to take rock forward instead of artfully revamping images and song-structures from an earlier era."<ref name="KENT">
{{citation
 | last = Kent
 | first = Nick
 | author-link = Nick Kent
 | title = Press your space next to mine, love
 | magazine = [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]
 | date = July 1997}}</ref> [[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]] wrote in ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'': "Every word sounds achingly sincere, every note spewed from the heart, and yet it roots itself firmly in a world of steel, glass, [[random-access memory]] and prickly-skinned paranoia."<ref name="Harris 92">{{cite journal|first=John|last=Harris|title=Ground control to Major Thom|journal=[[Select (magazine)|Select]]|date=July 1997|page=92}}</ref>

The album was well received by critics in North America. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'',<ref name="RS review">{{citation | last = Kemp | first = Mark | author-link = Mark Kemp | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/ok-computer-19970710 | title = OK Computer | magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] | date = 10 July 1997| access-date = 29 September 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110117031912/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/ok-computer-19970710 | archive-date = 17 January 2011| url-status = live }}</ref> ''Spin'',<ref name="Spin review"/> the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',<ref name="LATimes review">{{citation|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-29-ca-7952-story.html|title=Radiohead, 'OK Computer,' Capitol|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=29 June 1997|access-date=6 April 2020|last=Scribner|first=Sara}}</ref> the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Masley|first=Ed|title=Turn up your Radiohead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oLNRAAAAIBAJ&pg=4155%2C5812800|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|access-date=11 January 2017|date=8 August 1997}}</ref> ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''<ref name="pitchfork">{{citation
 | last = Schreiber
 | first = Ryan
 | url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/r/radiohead/ok-computer.shtml
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010303103405/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/r/radiohead/ok-computer.shtml
 | archive-date = 3 March 2001 | title = Radiohead: OK Computer: Pitchfork Review
 | website = [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]
 | date = 1997
 | access-date = 16 May 2009 | url-status = dead
}}</ref> and the ''[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)|Daily Herald]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=File This One: 'Computer' Complex, but Worthwhile|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-69084355.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808012052/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-69084355.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 August 2018|newspaper=[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)|Daily Herald]]|access-date=7 June 2017|url-access= |date=15 August 1997}}</ref> published positive reviews. In ''The New Yorker'', [[Alex Ross (music critic)|Alex Ross]] praised its progressiveness, and contrasted Radiohead's risk-taking with the musically conservative "dadrock" of their contemporaries [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]. Ross wrote: "Throughout the album, contrasts of mood and style are extreme&nbsp;... This band has pulled off one of the great art-pop balancing acts in the history of rock."<ref>{{citation
 | last = Ross
 | first = Alex
 | author-link = Alex Ross (music critic)
 | title = Dadrock
 | magazine = [[The New Yorker]]
 | date = 29 September 1997
| url = https://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/09/29/1997_09_29_088_TNY_CARDS_000378726
 | access-date = 29 September 2008
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080718150746/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/09/29/1997_09_29_088_TNY_CARDS_000378726
 | archive-date = 18 July 2008
| url-status = live
 }}</ref> Ryan Schreiber of [[Pitchfork (website)|''Pitchfork'']] lauded the record's emotional appeal, writing that it "is brimming with genuine emotion, beautiful and complex imagery and music, and lyrics that are at once passive and fire-breathing".<ref name="pitchfork" />

Reviews for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'',<ref name="ew">{{citation
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 |first       = David
 |author-link = David Browne (journalist)
 |url         = https://ew.com/article/1997/07/11/ok-computer/
 |title       = OK Computer
 |magazine    = [[Entertainment Weekly]]
 |date        = 11 July 1997
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 |archive-date = 30 September 2012
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}}</ref> the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'',<ref name="Tribreview">{{citation
 | last = Kot
 | first = Greg
 | author-link = Greg Kot
 | title = Radiohead: OK Computer (Capitol)
 | newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune]]
 | date = 4 July 1997 | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/04/radioheadok-computer-capitol-star-star-star-12ambition/
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130118110121/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-07-04/entertainment/9707040186_1_ambition-ugly-star
 | archive-date = 18 January 2013 | url-status = live
}}</ref> and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''<ref name="Time review">{{citation
 |last        = Farley
 |first       = Christopher John
 |author-link = Christopher John Farley
 |title       = Lost in Space
 |magazine    = [[Time (magazine)|Time]]
 |date        = 25 August 1997
|url         = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986902,00.html
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111112233751/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986902,00.html
 |archive-date = 12 November 2011
|url-status     = dead
}}</ref> were mixed. [[Robert Christgau]] from ''[[The Village Voice]]'' said Radiohead immersed Yorke's vocals in "enough electronic marginal distinction to feed a coal town for a month" to compensate for the "soulless" songs, resulting in "arid" [[art rock]].<ref name="christgau">{{citation
 | url = http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv997-97.php
 | title = Consumer Guide
 | last = Christgau
 | first = Robert
 | author-link = Robert Christgau
 | magazine = [[The Village Voice]]
 | date = 23 September 1997 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110826195622/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv997-97.php
 | archive-date = 26 August 2011
| url-status = live
}}</ref> In an otherwise positive review, Andy Gill wrote for ''[[The Independent]]:'' "For all its ambition and determination to break new ground, ''OK Computer'' is not, finally, as impressive as ''The Bends'', which covered much the same sort of emotional knots, but with better tunes. It is easy to be impressed by, but ultimately hard to love, an album that luxuriates so readily in its own despondency."<ref>{{citation|last=Gill|first=Andy|title=Andy Gill on albums: Radiohead OK Computer Parlophone|date=13 June 1997|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andy-gill-on-albums-radiohead-ok-computer-parlophone-cdnodata-02-1255626.html|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=27 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094929/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andy-gill-on-albums-radiohead-ok-computer-parlophone-cdnodata-02-1255626.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Accolades===
''OK Computer'' was nominated for [[Grammy Award]]s as [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Music Album]] at the [[40th Annual Grammy Awards]] in 1998,<ref>{{cite news
 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/45225.stm
 | title = Brits vie for Grammys
 | work = [[BBC News]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160329151642/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/45225.stm
 | archive-date = 29 March 2016}}</ref> winning the latter.<ref>{{cite news
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/26/arts/the-1998-grammy-award-winners.html
 | title = The 1998 Grammy Award Winners
 | date = 26 February 1998
| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304232050/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/26/arts/the-1998-grammy-award-winners.html
 | archive-date = 4 March 2016}}</ref> It was also nominated for Best British Album at the [[1998 Brit Awards]].<ref>{{citation
 | first = David
 | last = Sinclair
 | title = Brits Around the World '98: Four to Watch For
 | page = 48
 | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]
 | date = 7 February 1998}}</ref> The album was shortlisted for the 1997 [[Mercury Prize]], a prestigious award recognising the best British or Irish album of the year. The day before the winner was announced, oddsmakers gave ''OK Computer'' the best chance to win among ten nominees, but it lost to ''[[New Forms]]'' by [[Roni Size]]/[[Reprazent]].<ref>{{cite news
 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/it-is-size-that-counts-as-roni-wins-mercury-prize-1247754.html
 | title = It is Size that counts as Roni wins Mercury prize
 | last = Williams
 | first = Alexandra
 | date = 29 August 1998
| newspaper = [[The Independent]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160906163601/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/it-is-size-that-counts-as-roni-wins-mercury-prize-1247754.html
 | archive-date = 6 September 2016}}</ref> 

''OK Computer'' was named the best album of the year by ''Mojo'', ''[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]]'', ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''[[Hot Press]]'', ''[[Muziekkrant OOR]]'', ''[[HUMO]]'', ''[[Eye Weekly]]'' and ''[[Inpress]]'', and tied for first place with [[Daft Punk]]'s ''[[Homework (Daft Punk album)|Homework]]'' in ''[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]''. It was named the second-best in ''NME'', ''Melody Maker'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''[[Village Voice]]'', ''Spin'' and ''Uncut''. ''Q'' and ''[[Les Inrockuptibles]]'' listed the album in their year-end polls.{{sfn|Footman|2007|pp=183–184}}

The praise overwhelmed the band. Jonny Greenwood felt it had been exaggerated because ''The Bends'' had been "under-reviewed possibly and under-received".<ref name="LAUNCH"/> Radiohead rejected links to progressive rock and art rock, despite comparisons to Pink Floyd's 1973 album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.<ref>
{{citation
 | last = Varga
 | first = George
 | title = Radiohead's Jazz Frequencies
 | magazine = [[JazzTimes]]
 | date = November 2001
}}</ref> Yorke responded: "We write pop songs&nbsp;... There was no intention of it being 'art'. It's a reflection of all the disparate things we were listening to when we recorded it."{{sfn|Clarke|2010|p=124}} He was nevertheless pleased that listeners identified their influences: "What really blew my head off was the fact that people got all the things, all the textures and the sounds and the atmospheres we were trying to create."<ref>{{citation
 | last = Gill
 | first = Andy
 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ok-computer-why-the-record-industry-is-terrified-of-radioheads-new-album-394276.html
 | title = Ok computer: Why the record industry is terrified of Radiohead's new album
 | newspaper = [[The Independent]]
 | date = 5 October 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103152654/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ok-computer-why-the-record-industry-is-terrified-of-radioheads-new-album-394276.html
 | archive-date = 3 November 2012
| url-status = live
}}</ref>