My own review

As some people know, I´m a big fan of the english alternative music band Radiohead. I´m looking forward to listening to their new record, which hopefully is going to be release this year. I strongly recommend you to listen to this band, even though I think know one very popular song(Creep). I also recommend to listen to this record: O.K. Computer.These days we were dealing with the topic of technology and its impact in the modern society; this brought to my mind this album, which deals with the human being and the frantic technological advances. The record opens with Airbag, a disonant rock song with an hiperkinetic electronic beat.Radiohead´s singer Thom Yorke sings about interstellar burst and the next world war,and all this prose is accompanied by a music that seems to be the soundtrack of the apocalypse.Four beeps take us to the next song, Paranoid Android. This piece is a sound collage, that reminds me of "Bohemian Raphsody" by Queen because of its change of moods and sound and because of its lenght(7 min.)This song serves as an introduction to the main theme of the album(technology and alienation)Although the album was released in 1997, the themes and motives in the lyrics of the song are a current topic.The refences to the yuppie culture, panic attacks and political corruption are a exact picture of our modern society.The next song is called Subterranean Homesick Alien, and the title is a clear allusion to Bob Dylan´s song Subterranean Homesick Blues. Each time I listen to this song I feel like I´m floating, maybe because of the sci-fiction guitar sound throughout the track. The lyrics are strange: it´s a metaphor of feeling lonely and disconnected in your own world.Exit Music(For A Film) gives us a break, at least with its sound.It´s a quiet ballad, rather minimalistic which goes in-crescendo and burst into an explotion of desperation and sadnees.The lyrics of the song were inspired by William Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet. The next song is my favourite: Let Down. It´s a beatiful track, full of sweet guitars and an outstanding end with the sound of a computer machine(one of the most beautiful sound effects I have ever heard).The lyrics are about being lost and depressed, alone in a world that is frightening and threatening.Karma Police begins with its classic piano intro, and it´s maybe one of the most criptic Radiohead lyrics of all. The track ends with a high chirr similar to a detuned radio(or something like that).Fitter Happier is the next song;it´s an ironic poem about human condition and it´s told by the voice of a machine(similar to Steven Hawking´s virtual voice)Electioneering begins with heavy rock guitar and a crazy rhythm.It is the most conventional song of the whole album.Climbing up the walls is the most frightning and weird song in the album;It sounds like an awful nightmare, and Thom´s voice is altered by an outstanding sound effect. The next song probably sums up the message the band wanted to send to the world;No Surprises is a lullaby, a very sweet and mellow tune which makes you feel sleepy,but the lyrics are not so beautiful. They speak about the demanding modern life in the first world country cities, the meaningless of life and the lack of human communication that technology can bring. The next track, Lucky, is a spine-chilling song with harsh guitars and an excelent solo at the end.The record finishes with The Tourist, a metaphor of the post-modern man and his attitude towards life. As you see, Radiohead critizes this technological advances and the way they can transform life and alienate human beings. However, they make this critic using technology and excelent production in the music. I think Radiohead have created one of the best albums in the rock history. I think you should listen to it.

Radiohead´s O.K. Computer lyrics: http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?album_detail=463