Chilling choir voices are preprogrammed like synths on the acoustic ballad “Exit Music (For a Film)” (the titular film being William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juilet), but the electronics are constructed around the songs, not the other way around. has done post-1997) and synthesizers rocking. In other words, it’s the difference between synthesizers buzzing (see basically everything R.E.M. But OK Computer was more in line with Achtung Baby, incorporating all sorts of textures and electronic elements without losing its “rock” sound. Infusing rock with electronic music was a trail blazed by other bands-most notably U2, whose Pop was released earlier that year but was tepidly received. The album took guitar rock (and make no mistake-despite its amalgam of analog and digital technologies, that’s what the album is) to places it had never gone before. Each generation of rock fans invariably believe that everything that can be done in the genre has already been achieved, but Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer helped prove otherwise.
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