OK Computer got it right with its predictions

I didn’t realise until over the weekend that it’s 20 years since Radiohead released OK Computer.
OK Computer got it right with its predictions

Don’t worry, I won’t be troubling you with my thoughts on music apart from pointing out the obvious - that said album isn’t very influential simply because it was pretty inimitable when it was released, and that hasn’t changed since.

Lyrics like “Riot shields, voodoo economics/It’s life, it’s life/It’s just business, Cattle prods and the IMF” sound eerily prescient from our present vantage point. Anything else foreshadowed during that year?

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