Radiohead album tops Spin list

Radiohead’s OK Computer has been named the best album of the last 20 years by a US music magazine.

The band beat competition from Nirvana and Public Enemy to take the top spot in Spin magazine’s 20th anniversary issue.

An editorial said: “OK Computer not only forecast a decade of music but uncannily predicted our global culture of communal distress.”

Writer Chuck Klosterman said the award-winning 1997 album “manages to sound how the future will feel.

“It’s a mechanical album that always feels alive, even when its words are spoken by a robot.”

Other acts which make the top 10 are The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead and PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me.

Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back comes in second and Nirvana’s Nevermind third.

Editor-in-chief Sia Michel said the judging criteria was “the basic brilliance of the record, its innovation and its overall relevance”.

Radiohead were formed in Oxford in 1988 by singer and guitarist Thom Yorke. Their first hit, Creep, was released in 1992. OK Computer was their third album, released to critical acclaim after Pablo Honey and The Bends.