Radiohead would step further into Electronic music with the follow-up, Kid A (2000). More Electronic and a bit more experimental, it was a year when there was a lot of pioneering albums released. Maybe critics reacted to what Radiohead had done on 1995’s The Bends and felt OK Computer was a move in a strange direction. I wonder what the Japanese market made of OK Computer back in 1997! Considered a modern masterpiece and one of the most important albums ever, not all the reaction to OK Computer was positive in 1997. Radiohead’s seismic third studio album, OK Computer, celebrates twenty-five years next month. Yet all of this would simply be showmanship if the songs weren't strong in themselves, and OK Computer is filled with moody masterpieces, from the shimmering 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' and the sighing 'Karma Police' to the gothic crawl of 'Exit Music (For a Film).' OK Computer is the album that established Radiohead as one of the most inventive and rewarding guitar rock bands of the '90s.IN THIS PHOTO: Radiohead in New York in 1997 It's a thoroughly astonishing demonstration of musical virtuosity and becomes even more impressive with repeated listens, which reveal subtleties like electronica rhythms, eerie keyboards, odd time signatures, and complex syncopations. Even at its most adventurous - such as the complex, multi-segmented 'Paranoid Android' - the band is tight, melodic, and muscular, and Thom Yorke's voice effortlessly shifts from a sweet falsetto to vicious snarls. Radiohead have stripped away many of the obvious elements of guitar rock, creating music that is subtle and textured yet still has the feeling of rock & roll. The anthemic guitar heroics present on Pablo Honey and even The Bends are nowhere to be heard here. Using the textured soundscapes of The Bends as a launching pad, Radiohead delivered another startlingly accomplished set of modern guitar rock with OK Computer.

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