Just to continue my recent obsessive rediscovery of Radiohead and OK Computer specifically, it's absolutely amazing to compare it to contemporary British music. Compared to Oasis and Blur, it's like Revolver Beatles transported themselves to early rock days. People just weren't doing shit like this. It doesn't sound too experimental because the hooks are too strong but the sheer sound of this is utterly unreal. It's a shame that mainstream rock music tanked around the time The Strokes ruined it for everyone else, because to think of what could have been the Springsteen wall of sound with modern technology like holy fuck.
Then again, another way to look at it is that this album was so good that it got everyone else shook for the ensuing 22 years.