The stakes and expectations rose to epic proportions for Radiohead, and with each record that followed, O'Brien, Greenwood and the rest of the band members were expected to reinvent their sound, to change rock itself and what it means to make music.

Once fans and critics began to make sense of its meaning and importance - and its remarkable sound - nothing was the same. In the 20 years since, it's rightfully earned a place among the greatest and most ambitious rock albums of all time - a brilliantly produced portrait of intense paranoia and outrage over an imagined future undone by the technology designed to save it. Of course, everything was about to change for Radiohead, and OK Computer was the reason. As Linda casually noted in her intro, 'Radiohead is a British rock group that's increasingly popular here.' It's the kind of innocent discussion you'd expect from a group that had, up to this point, put out a couple of respectably reviewed, straight-up rock records, but were yet to become the biggest band in the world. O'Brien and Greenwood cracked jokes, gently brushed off questions they didn't care to get into and attempted to explain why this album was so different from the band's previous two releases. In the summer of 1997, when All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer sat down with Colin Greenwood and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead to talk about the band's new album OK Computer, it sounds (in retrospect) like none of them – not our host nor the guys in the band – entirely knew what they were sitting on. Radiohead's original cover art for the 1997 release of OK Computer

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