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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
OK+ Computer, 23 Mar 2009
As re-issues go this and the first two Radiohead albums offer excellent value. Out of the 3, OK Computer has the least extra tracks and only has 3 videos and 3 Jools performances on the DVD (Meeting People Is Easy is not actually on the DVD), but for £13 it still offers great value.
The original album sounds like it has been remastered to me, but it doesn't state this on the sleeve. There are 8 original B-sides tracks and the remainder are live, remixes and session tracks. It's only the remixes that I'm not too keen on. The dvd (though short) is excellent, good videos and a brilliant Jools Holland set. Paranoid Android (previously avalable on a Later dvd) is probably my favourite Jools Holland perfomance by anyone and Airbag comes over better live.
Great album, 15 track bonus cd + dvd for £13 is excellent value.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not EVERYTHING, but a comprehensive package, 22 April 2009
Final release is "OK Computer". It's over-rated and under-rated, all things at once, the sound of Radiohead confidently striding forward into a territory of complete freedom. It is as good as everyone else has said : maybe better, in fact. They may never make an album as complete or as artistically successful in sound, vision, or songwriting again. But right now, at this point, Radiohead were heading out into space. Taking it's cue from the dystopian work of J.G.Ballard - all car crashes, airbags, fetishished techonology, alien abductions, and political neurosis, "Ok Computer" painted a damning picture of the immense emotional costs of the final moments of Conservative Britain in the ashes of Britpop. Whilst Oasis and their ilk were scribbling around producing shallow drivel, Radiohead had an eye not for the then-Be-Here-Now, but for the future we would be spending the rest of our lives in. The record is a plea to a world gone mad to slow down, stop killing us, start thinking. And aside from the verbose and runaway "Electioneering", a sly comment on the madness of touring for approval, be it political or musical, there's little trace of the embryonic band that birthed "Pablo Honey" just four years earlier.
Second CD contains - you guessed it - every B-side in order of release. There's sadly no sign of the colloboration Thom Yorke made with Drugstore - the marvellous "El President" : and the songs are all presented, again, with no thought for how they may sound listened to in order, and there are some songs missing - the BBC Session of "Talk Show Host" is bafflingly absent, as is an alternate take of "Pearly *" which was released on a foreign single - but otherwise all is present and correct.
The DVD meanwhile is not much of a draw compared to the other reissues : aside from the three promo videos, there's some songs on BBC's Later, and nothing else. The DVD is over in 29 minutes and only 6 songs long. Considering the previous releases, could EMI have not licensed the rather brilliant Glastonbury 1997 TV Broadcast?
That said though, again, like the other 3 disc sets, these are exhaustive, huge, and keenly priced sets that make any search for the vast majority of Radiohead's obscurities and long-lost gems redundant as they are almost all here, and in great value packages presented with no short amount of care. They are imperfect, to say the least, but overall, each is a fine compilation that covers almost all reaches of Radiohead's work in their early years, presented with some care and detail. If you liked the albums then, get these, go further.
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7 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
False Advertising, 26 Mar 2009
i bought this solely for the inclusion of "meeting people is easy" on the dvd.
listed by amazon as dvd track 7 and reviewed (?) by the first reviewer as a particular incentive to buy...
"meeting people is easy" isn't on this
not listed on the box
not on the dvd menu when i put it into the dvd player
false advertising
very poor, amazon
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