{"id":8434,"date":"2017-06-25T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T20:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:59:11","slug":"not-so-paranoid-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/25\/not-so-paranoid-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Paranoid Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/the-whispered-warnings-of-radioheads-ok-computer-have-come-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>The Whispered Warnings of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cOK Computer\u201d Have Come True<\/h1>\n<p>By <a class=\"Link__link___3dWao \" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/amanda-petrusich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"105\">Amanda Petrusich<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHiGbolFFGw\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Though Thom Yorke insists that \u201cOK Computer\u201d was inspired by the dislocation of non-stop travel, it\u2019s now understood as a record about how overreliance on technology can lead to alienation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed a nugget of embarrassment buried in the recent avalanche of critical reappraisals and retroactive interrogations of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cOK Computer,\u201d a record that was released in 1997 and is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this summer. Critics (and some fans) approached its reappearance with trepidation\u2014as if we were all about to be strong-armed into reckoning with our pretentious and over-serious past selves. As if someone had just slid an unmarked manila envelope under the door, and it contained photographic evidence of that one time we Scotch Taped a poster of Nietzsche to our dorm-room ceiling, with instructions to await further notice. Even Thom Yorke, the band\u2019s singer, has been nearly sheepish when discussing its legacy. \u201cThe whole album is really fucking geeky,\u201d he recently told Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the anniversary, the band has just released \u201cOKNOTOK,\u201d which includes a remastered version of the original album, plus eight B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks: \u201cI Promise,\u201d \u201cMan of War,\u201d and \u201cLift.\u201d (In addition, a special vinyl edition, available in July, will offer a hardcover art book, a collection of Yorke\u2019s notes, a sketchbook of what the band is calling its \u201cpreparatory work,\u201d and a cassette tape containing demos and additional session recordings.) None of the extraneous material is exactly revelatory\u2014live versions of \u201cLift\u201d and \u201cI Promise\u201d have been drifting about the Internet for years\u2014though it does help complete a portrait of a band bucking against itself, and learning how to express its fear effectively.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/the-whispered-warnings-of-radioheads-ok-computer-have-come-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Yorker The Whispered Warnings of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cOK Computer\u201d Have Come True By Amanda Petrusich Though Thom Yorke insists that \u201cOK Computer\u201d was inspired by the dislocation of non-stop travel, it\u2019s now understood as a record about how overreliance on technology can lead to alienation. I\u2019ve noticed a nugget of embarrassment buried in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}