Which 1997 album, voted the best ever by readers of Q magazine, contains tracks let Down', 'No Surprises' and 'Paranoid Android'?
"No Surprises ""No Surprises"" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the fourth single from their third studio album, ""OK Computer"" (1997), on 12 January 1998. The song was accompanied by a music video featuring lead singer Thom Yorke singing inside a helmet as it fills with water. The single peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Radiohead wrote ""No Surprises"" while touring with R.E.M. in 1995. It was the first song recorded on the first day of sessions for ""OK Computer"". ""That childlike guitar sound set the mood for the whole album"","
"released in March 1995. It peaked at number four in the UK and was certified three-times platinum by the BPI. ""OK Computer"", Radiohead's third studio album, was released in June 1997. It became their most successful album, peaking at number one in the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as reaching the top ten in several other countries. It received a triple-platinum certification from the BPI and produced the UK top ten hits ""Paranoid Android"", ""Karma Police"" and ""No Surprises"". ""Kid A"" followed in October 2000, topping the charts in the UK and becoming the band's first number-one album on"
"the choice. The song premiered on the Radio 1 programme ""The Evening Session"" in April 1997 and was released as a single in May 1997. On the strength of frequent radio play on Radio 1 and rotation of the song's music video on MTV, ""Paranoid Android"" reached number three in the UK, giving Radiohead their highest chart position. ""OK Computer"" was released in Japan on 21 May, in the UK on 16 June, in Canada on 17 June and in the US on 1 July. It was released on CD, double-LP vinyl record, cassette and MiniDisc. It debuted at number"
"listen. According to Tim Footman, ""Not since 1967, with the release of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", had so many major critics agreed immediately, not only on an album's merits, but on its long-term significance, and its ability to encapsulate a particular point in history."" In the English press, the album garnered favourable reviews in ""NME"", ""Melody Maker"", ""The Guardian"", and ""Q"". Nick Kent wrote in ""Mojo"" that ""Others may end up selling more, but in 20 years time I'm betting ""OK Computer"" will be seen as the key record of 1997, the one to take rock forward instead"
"Android (TVXQ song) ""Android"" (stylized as ""ANDROID"") is the 35th Japanese single by South Korean pop duo Tohoshinki. It was released on July 11, 2012 as the third single from their sixth Japanese studio album, ""Time"" (2013). The digital single reached a total of 3.1 million in sales, the highest of any foreign artist in the country. ""Android"" was released in three editions – a CD+DVD version, a CD-only version, and a Bigeast Board edition. Produced and co-written by Emil Carlin, ""Android"" is a dubstep song with a futuristic theme. It peaked at number one on Japan's Oricon weekly charts,"
"""No Surprises"", ""Subterranean Homesick Alien"" and ""The Tourist"". At their label's request, they took a break from recording to embark on a 13-date American tour in 1996, opening for Alanis Morissette, and performed early versions of several new songs. One song, ""Paranoid Android"", evolved from a fourteen-minute version with long organ solos into something closer to the six-minute version on the album. During the tour, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann commissioned Radiohead to write a song for his upcoming film ""Romeo + Juliet"" and gave them the final 30 minutes of the film. Yorke said: ""When we saw the scene in which"
"OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is a reissue of the 1997 album ""OK Computer"" by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released in June 2017, the album's 20th anniversary, following the acquisition of Radiohead's back catalogue by XL Recordings from EMI in 2016. The album is remastered and includes B-sides released on ""OK Computer"" singles, plus three previously unreleased songs: ""I Promise"", ""Man of War"", and ""Lift"". The special edition includes an art book, notes, and a cassette tape of demos and session recordings. Unlike previous Radiohead reissues, released by EMI without their"
"identical to ""OK Computer""'s, and no songs were changed by the Easy Star All-Stars, except for ""Fitter Happier"" (which has slightly altered lyrics to fit the style, with permission from Radiohead), and ""Paranoid Android"". The new lyrics are essentially the same, but phrased differently, including some Jamaican patois. For example, ""God loves his children"" becomes ""Jah loves his children"". The track listing is the same as Radiohead's ""OK Computer"", with one or two bonus tracks, depending on the release: Radiodread Radiodread is a 2006 tribute album by the Easy Star All-Stars that covers Radiohead's 1997 album ""OK Computer"" in reggae,"
"scratch on ""OK Computer"", particularly on the six-and-a-half-minute 'Paranoid Android'."" Writing in 2017, ""The New Yorker""s Kelefa Sanneh said ""OK Computer"" ""was profoundly prog: grand and dystopian, with a lead single that was more than six minutes long."" The album's lyrics, written by Yorke, are more abstract compared to his personal, emotional lyrics for ""The Bends"". Critic Alex Ross said the lyrics ""seemed a mixture of overheard conversations, techno-speak, and fragments of a harsh diary"" with ""images of riot police at political rallies, anguished lives in tidy suburbs, yuppies freaking out, sympathetic aliens gliding overhead."" Recurring themes include transport, technology,"
"of the year at the end of 1997, beating other critically acclaimed albums such as Radiohead's ""OK Computer"" and The Verve's ""Urban Hymns"". ""Select"" and ""Vox"" named ""Ladies and Gentlemen"" the second best album of the year, while ""Melody Maker"" and ""The Face"" named it the fifth best. The album ranked at number 13 on ""Uncut""s year-end list, and ""Q"" named it as one of the year's 50 best albums. ""Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space"" also ranked at number 17 on ""The Village Voice""s year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. ""Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in"
"album's title track and three other songs. Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake helped pen and produce the album's track ""I'll Be Good for You"". Lastly, another song that made the record was ""Digital Get Down"", a song about videophone sex that TV Guide described as R-rated. Justin Timberlake said that the album is a diverse body of work that explores dimensions of R&B within pop music. He added that the album ""goes totally mainstream and it goes into some dance- and club-style songs"". There are few mid-tempo songs and ballads on ""No Strings Attached"", a result of the band's desire to have"
"matter of years"". According to Acclaimed Music, ""Fear of a Black Planet"" is the 126th most ranked album on critics' lists of the all-time greatest records. In 1997, ""The Guardian"" ranked it number 50 on their 100 Best Albums Ever list, which was voted on by a panel of various artists, critics, and DJs. The following year, it was selected as one of ""The Source""s 100 Best Rap Albums. The record was ranked number 21 in ""Spin""s ""100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005"" publication. ""Pitchfork"" named it the 17th-best album of the 1990s. ""Rolling Stone"" included ""Fear of a Black Planet"" on"
"album did produce four singles with two top 40 singles, however, ""Never Leave Me Alone"", which was released on October 22, 1996 through Death Row Records and peaked at number 33 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""Nobody Does It Better"", which became his biggest hit as a solo artist, peaking at number 18 on the Hot 100, ""These Days"", released through Death Row Records and ""I Don't Wanna Hurt No More"", released in 1998 through Breakaway. The song ""These Days"" was previously featured on the first disc of soundtrack of the movie Gang Related, released in 1997 through Death Row"
"album's songs include Mick Jagger and Keith Richard's ""No Expectations"", from The Rolling Stones' 1968 album Beggars Banquet, Jeffrey Lee Pierce's ""Mother of Earth"", originally recorded by The Gun Club for their 1982 album Miami, as well as a number of pre-WWII North American folk, Delta blues, and ragtime classics by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Harold Dixon, Alvin Pleasant Delaney ""A.P."" Carter, and William ""Hambone Willie"" Newbern. ""All Out & Down"" is Brokaw's first album since 2015's ""The Periscope Twins"" and Farina's first since Exit Verse's 2016 album ""Grant No Glory"". All Out & Down All Out & Down"
"Never Let Me Down Never Let Me Down is the 17th studio album by David Bowie, released on 20 April 1987 on the label EMI America. Bowie conceived the album as the foundation for a theatrical world tour, writing and recording most of the songs in Switzerland. He considered the record a return to rock and roll music. Three singles were released from the album, ""Day-In Day-Out"", ""Time Will Crawl"" and ""Never Let Me Down"", which all reached the UK Top 40. One of Bowie's better-selling albums, ""Never Let Me Down"" was certified Gold by the RIAA in early July"
"of [Yorke's] career. He begins sounding utterly wounded until – as if revelling in the places his voice is capable of taking the song – it ends up becoming something quite defiant."" OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is a reissue of the 1997 album ""OK Computer"" by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released in June 2017, the album's 20th anniversary, following the acquisition of Radiohead's back catalogue by XL Recordings from EMI in 2016. The album is remastered and includes B-sides released on ""OK Computer"" singles, plus three previously unreleased songs: ""I"
"Quo (Quo album) Quo is the self-titled and only album released by hip hop group Quo, released on October 25, 1994, through Michael Jackson and Epic Records' MJJ Music. The album itself did not make it to any of the ""Billboard"" charts, but two singles did—""Blowin' Up (Don't Stop the Music)"" made it to #25 on the Hot Rap Singles and #90 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while ""Quo Funk"" made it #2 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles. ""Lost in the Night"" was used as background music in the 1995 science fiction film ""Strange Days"", while ""Who Gets"
"Down,"" ""Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"", ""Crush on You,"" ""Elevators"" and ""Hypnotize"". Two of the songs, ""Hypnotize"" and ""Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"" reached number-one on the ""Billboard"" R&B/Hip-Hop and pop charts. The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits is the first annual music compilation album to be contributed by ""The Source"" magazine. Released December 16, 1997 and distributed through Polygram Records, Hip Hop Hits Volume 1 features eighteen hip hop and rap hits. It went to number 25 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart (making it the highest charting ""Hip Hop Hits"" album"
"being 'good' [compared to ""The Bends""] and started being 'important'."" In a ""Spin"" article on the ""myth"" that ""Radiohead Can Do No Wrong"", Chris Norris argues that the acclaim for ""OK Computer"" inflated expectations for subsequent Radiohead releases. In Christgau's opinion, ""the reason the readers of the British magazine ""Q"" absurdly voted ""OK Computer"" the greatest album of the 20th century is that it integrated what was briefly called electronica into rock."" Having deemed it ""self-regarding"" and overrated, he later warmed to the record a little bit, specifically three or four songs, while finding the music in general to be"
"album during its week of release in the spring of 2013. It went platinum in Japan a few weeks after coming out on the market and together with two other tracks for the same band, ""Disvelocity"" and ""Tree of Life"" – the sales are currently up to a total of approximately 1,500,000 units sold. The two other songs written by Anders, have both sold gold and platinum in Japan as well. In October 2017 TVXQ released their greatest hits album ”Fine collection - Begin again” featuring both ”Android” and ”Tree of life”. After two days it became the best selling"
"wrote of the influence of J. G. Ballard, especially his 1973 novel ""Crash"" on the song's lyrical content. Music journalist Tim Footman notes the song's technical innovations and lyrical concerns demonstrate the ""key paradox"" of the album: ""the musicians and producer are delighting in the sonic possibilities of modern technology; the singer, meanwhile, is railing against its social, moral, and psychological impact. ... It's a contradiction mirrored in the culture clash of the music, with the 'real' guitars negotiating an uneasy stand-off with the hacked-up, processed drums."" ""Paranoid Android"", split into four sections, is among the band's longest recorded studio"
"1997 to record a second time at Hollywood's Grandmaster Recordings studio, with Grohl sitting in on drums instead. Goldsmith was offended and disgruntled that most of his material was re-recorded, and left the band shortly thereafter. The singles ""Monkey Wrench"", ""Everlong"" and ""My Hero"" peaked within the top ten of US rock radio charts, and the album charted at number three in the United Kingdom. Critics found the album a significant American rock release of the era, and it is now viewed as a seminal modern rock album. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Rock"
"breakthrough, buzz bin unit shifter [radio stations] have been expecting,"" Capitol supported the band's choice for the song as a lead single. Radiohead premiered ""Paranoid Android"" on the BBC Radio 1 programme ""The Evening Session"" in April 1997, nearly a month before its release as a single. ""Melody Maker"" revealed that a Radio 1 producer had to ""have a bit of a lie down"" after first hearing the song. It was released as a single on 26 May 1997, chosen by the band to prepare listeners for the musical direction of its parent album. Despite an initial lack of radio"
"of the press and music industry, each with a copy of the album permanently glued inside. Capitol president Gary Gersh said, ""Our job is just to take them as a left-of-centre band and bring the centre to them. That's our focus, and we won't let up until they're the biggest band in the world."" Radiohead chose ""Paranoid Android"" as the lead single, despite its unusually long running time and lack of a catchy chorus. Colin Greenwood said the song was ""hardly the radio-friendly, breakthrough, buzz bin unit shifter [radio stations] can have been expecting,"" but that Capitol was supportive of"
"year. The day before the winner was announced, oddsmakers had given ""OK Computer"" the best chance to win among ten nominees, but it lost to ""New Forms"" by Roni Size/Reprazent. The album appeared in many 1997 critics' lists and listener polls for best album of the year. It topped the year-end polls of ""Mojo"", ""Vox"", ""Entertainment Weekly"", ""Hot Press"", ""Muziekkrant OOR"", ""HUMO"", ""Eye Weekly"" and ""Inpress"", and tied for first place with Daft Punk's ""Homework"" in ""The Face"". The album came second in ""NME"", ""Melody Maker"", ""Rolling Stone"", ""Village Voice"", ""Spin"" and ""Uncut"". ""Q"" and ""Les Inrockuptibles"" both listed the"
"and XL announced a 20th-anniversary ""OK Computer"" reissue, ""OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017"". The reissue includes a remastered version of the album, plus eight B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks: ""I Promise,"" ""Man of War"", and ""Lift"". The special edition includes books of artwork and notes and an audio cassette of demos and session recordings, including previously unreleased songs. ""OKNOTOK"" debuted at number two on the UK Album Chart, boosted by Radiohead's third headline performance at Glastonbury Festival. It was the bestselling album in independent UK record shops for a year. OK Computer OK Computer is the third studio album"
"1997, Radiohead and the Verve released their respective albums ""OK Computer"" and ""Urban Hymns"", both widely acclaimed. Post-Britpop bands such as Travis, Stereophonics and Coldplay, influenced by Britpop acts, particularly Oasis, with more introspective lyrics, were some of the most successful rock acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s. After Britpop the media focused on bands that may have been established acts, but had been over-looked due to focus on the Britpop movement. Bands such as Radiohead and The Verve, and new acts such as Travis, Stereophonics, Feeder and particularly Coldplay, achieved wider international success than most of the"
"at No. 27 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart. The follow-up, ""Question!"", reached the top 40 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Later that year, the group released the second part, ""Hypnotize"". Like its predecessor, the album peaked at number one in the US, Canadian, Finnish, and New Zealand charts. System of a Down is the first band since The Beatles to release two chart-topping albums in the US in the same year. ""Hypnotize"" was certified platinum in US, and gold in Australia, Germany, and Switzerland. It produced two singles, the title track"
"6 and 12 are demo recordings. Tracks 10, 11, 17 and 18 are live recordings. Best! (Jellyfish album) Best! is a greatest hits compilation by the 1990s pop band Jellyfish. The album was released in 2006 and featured twenty tracks. Eight of the tracks were non-album while the other twelve consisted of songs pulled from the band's two (and only) albums, ""Bellybutton"" and ""Spilt Milk"". The song ""Ignorance is Bliss"" was taken from a Nintendo games compilation entitled """" and is inspired by the video game Super Mario World. The song ""No Matter What"" is a live cover of a"
"R U Still Down? (Remember Me) R U Still Down? (Remember Me) is the sixth studio album by American rapper, 2Pac, released in November 25, 1997, and the first to be finished without his creative input. Tupac left a large body of work behind, this was the first release from his mother's imprint, Amaru Entertainment, set up to control 2Pac's posthumous releases. The album contains previously unreleased material from the time period of his albums ""Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z."", """" and ""Me Against the World"". The first release on Amaru, ""R U Still Down? (Remember Me)"" was overseen by 2Pac's"
"Airbag / How Am I Driving? Airbag/How Am I Driving? is the fifth extended play (EP) by English rock group Radiohead, released in April 1998 specifically for the North American market. It collects most of the B-sides from Radiohead's ""OK Computer"" CD singles. The contents of ""Airbag/How Am I Driving?"" differ slightly from the ""No Surprises/Running from Demons"" EP released a few months earlier in Japan. The song ""Airbag"", which opens ""OK Computer"", was never officially released as a single. The version on this EP has its original ending, rather than transitioning to the song ""Paranoid Android"" as it does"
"Awards. Their wildly energetic live shows and diverse catalogue of power-pop gems kept the momentum going strong for the next three years. They played hundreds of dates, opened for acts as diverse as Graham Parker, Cheap Trick, Gang of Four, Morphine, Guided By Voices, Nada Surf and They Might Be Giants and released three more records on Q,: 1997's full-length ""No One Here Gets In For Free""—Rare and Unreleased 1989 - 1997;the 1998 hit single ""Favorite,"" produced by Denneen; and 1999's full-length ""Silver Gorilla"", also with Denneen, which amassed critical raves across the country, from ""Raygun"" to ""Entertainment Weekly"". The"
"that doesn't let up until the last song ends."" ""—"" denotes releases that did not chart. Information taken from AllMusic. Nervous Breakdown (Fu-Schnickens album) Nervous Breakdown is the second and last studio album from American hip hop group Fu-Schnickens, released October 25, 1994 on Jive Records. The album peaked at number eighty-one on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart. ""Nervous Breakdown"" peaked at eighty-one on the U.S. ""Billboard"" 200 and reached the nineteenth spot on the R&B Albums chart. In a contemporary review for ""The Village Voice"", Robert Christgau wrote: Bret Love at AllMusic wrote in retrospect that ""Nervous Breakdown"" showcased ""an"