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Counterbalance No. 13: Radiohead's 'OK Computer' (Sound Affects)

Radiohead - no surprises live acoustic
In which Klinger and Mendelsohn talk in maths and buzz like a fridge as they discuss Radiohead's 1997 opus. The last canonical rock album? Counterbalance isn't ruling it out. Mendelsohn: Before we talk about where we first heard this record or how it made us feel or why our world is a better place because of it or any of that-I'd just like to throw this out there: Radiohead's OK Computer is to the 1990s (and probably the next two decades) what the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was to the 1960s (and '70s and '80s). Klinger: Hmm . . [...]