Subject: Medusmaize Rena'ram Date: Fri, 19 Dec 97 22:30:11 +0200 From: Peteris Puritis RADIOHEAD NOMINATIONS/POLLS 1997 - more to be added Mercury Prize Nomination Q Awards Winner - Best album Nominated - Best Songwriter Best Live Act Best Producer Best Act In The World Today MTV Awards Nominated - Best Band Best Video Best Alternative Act Best Live Act Q 'Best of 97' best tracks from best albums The Tourist -no. 15 50 best albums of 97 ********************************************************* Paranoid Android No. 2 - SELECT 'Singles of the Year' No. 3 - SKY 'Singles of the Year' readers poll Karma Police No. 5 - SKY 'Videos of the Year' readers poll OK COMPUTER Daily Telegraph - Album Of The Year Mojo - Album Of The Year Q Magazine - Album Of The Year Select - Album Of The Year - Band Of The Year Sky Magazine - Album Of The Year - No. 2 Band Of The Year (readers poll) VOX - Album Of The Year The Face - No. 2 Album Of The Year Uncut - No. 2 Album Of The Year The Sun - No. 2 Album Of The Year Jockey Slut - No. 8 Album Of The Year (Jockey Slut is a techno magazine!!!) Guardian Newspaper - Pick of '97 Times Newspaper - One of Albums Of The Year Sunday Telegraph - "If The Bends was the best album of the 1990's, OK Computer is surely the finest of the 21st Century" QUOTES "Arguably the most electrifying, and certainly the most revered, band in the country. Hence, you won't be able to get a ticket" Independent on Sunday "Crumpled singer Thom Yorke makes the most unlikely of pop-star pin-ups, but his voice spills over with hurt, loss and tenderness. The real star though is the sickeningly-talented Jonny Greenwood, who managed to play guitar and keyboards on the same song, and even master xylophone on No Surprises. Led by Oasis, so many bands are busy raiding the music of the past, but Radiohead are making music for the next millenium" Derbyshire Times "Live, Radiohead have few peers..." Sunday Times "There can hardly be a more intense vocalist anywhere" Manchester Evening News "Rock's very own north face of the Eiger" Sunday Telegraph "...almost frighteningly intense and succeeded in in capturing the emotional intensity that everyone from U2 to Oasis has sought but ultimately fallen short of attaining" Birmingham Post "You realise Radiohead tower so far above the rest of Britrock simply by making more than one sound with their guitars over the course of a song" Melody Maker "Missing something being exactly what people have been doing before experiencing Radiohead live at their compelling, beautiful, adventurous and magnificent best" Western Mail "Forget Oasis, Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome Radiohead" Daily Express "Like aliens never do, Radiohead finish by thanking the support bands and grinning; anonymous people and happier for that. To live up the grandeur of their music would be impossible" NME "...Oxford's finest band who've produced the album of the year, and possibly the decade, in the brilliant OK Computer" Sunday Express "Although Oasis are often cited as the natural heirs to The Beats it is Radiohead who are continuing the Fab's legacy of pop experimentation" Birmingham Post "...this obvious intelligence doesn't stop them being a speaker-damaging, string breaking rock'n'roll band...when dance-derived music is perceived as the future, Radiohead are a one-word argument for guitar music having a place in it" Independent On Sunday "The most mesmerising live band in the world today" Uncut "Well, what else can you say when you've just seen the best band in the world" Daily Telegraph FRANCE Liberation: OK Computer the only album to be selected 3 times in 'Certains albums de 1997' Les Inrockuptibles: Album Of The Year for editors Rock & Folk: Group Of The Year Album Of The Year Concert Of The Year Thom Yorke - Singer Of The Year Jonny Greenwood - Guitarist Of The Year Colin Greenwood - Bassist Of The Year Phil Selway - no. 3 Drummer Of The Year Ed O'Brien - no. 9 Sex Symbol Of The Year Paranoid Android - no. 2 Single Of The Year Karma Police - no. 3 Single Of The Year OK Computer - Package Of The Year Rocksound: Meilleur album de l'annee pour la redaction USA Spin Band Of The Year, no. 2 Record Of The Year Rolling Stone No. 1 Band - critics poll Request No. 1 Band - critics poll People Year's Best Bands TV Guide Year's Top 5 videos (Paranoid Android) Entertainment Weekly Year's Best Bands/Albums The New Yorker Year's Best Bands/Albums New York Daily News Top 10 New York Newsday Top 10 SOUTH AFRICA Album of the year in their largest daily newspaper