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Media: Audio CD
Format: Import
Product Group: Music

Disc: 1
1 Airbag - Section, The Section
2 Paranoid Android - Section, The Section
3 Subterranean Homesick Alien
4 Exit Music (For a Film)
5 Let Down
6 Karma Police
7 Fitter Happier
8 Electioneering
9 Climbing up the Walls
10 No Surprises
11 Lucky - Section, The Section
12 Tourist - Section, The Section

Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 4.0 out of 5

Heartless but adequate. (Rather like an OK Computer): Rating: 3 out of 5

From the opening track, you can tell something is missing from this album.
Those who buy it are most likely big radiohead fans looking to quench an insatiable thirst for more material or a different take on their music.
You wil not find it here.

The album is poorly arranged resulting in a lot of bare moments which with any kind of imagination could be remedied easily. I know a string quartet will always be limited to some degree but that is really no excuse here. Having said this, there are inevitably some moments when the album can be beautiful, usually attributable to Radiohead themselves for the composition.

I get the impression of four non-fans seeing a popular album and saying:
"We can get down with the kids" or something equally cheesy. Comparing this to the passion you can almost smell from a string quartet like Apocolytica (who cover Metallica albums amongst others), you can see its shortcomings.

If you're considering the album as a reference to the album in musical terms (non-vocal) for music college or otherwise there really are no alternatives but be warned, there are mistakes and/or inaccuracies/inexactitudes as well as the omission of some key musical phrases. There also some rather embarassing moments where some of the instruments sound out of tune.

If, like me, you are considering the album purely for the curiosity of hearing a great albums sripped to essentials then know in advance that whilst it may be a somewhat interesting listen, it is unlikely to get a second listen unless you want to amuse some friends at some sort of pretentious dinner party you may host at some time.

Just Beautiful: Rating: 5 out of 5

Absolutely Stunning. Whether you're already a fan of Radiohead or just someone who loves good classical music, this album is truly a delight to the ears.

Also, Rachel from Coventry, in the words of George Orwell "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." In other words, stop being such a complete BERK.

Strung, drawn and quartered: Rating: 5 out of 5

This is how the minutes tick. Before I'm fully awake, I'm already crawling to my laptop, to fall onto the spacebar so that the haunting strains of "Strung out on OK Computer" stream like ecstatic ribbons out of my speakers, and the double bass clumsily marches out of my subwoofer. I don't make it back to bed; I'm slumped paralytically on the table with the back of my hands pressed firmly against my eyes so I'll see the sparkled kaleidoscopes inside my eyelids convulse in time to the music.

If I could physically explode from rapture, I'd like to, if it meant that I die listening to these sounds.

Such distraction. In lectures, the drone of academia thickens and congeals into rolling blooms of Paranoid Android. Elongated motes of crying violin strains billow from the professor's mouth in long golden strings, filling the lecture hall with chords and beautiful chaos.

After the interminable classes, I kick a bottle cap all the way home, enveloped in Exit Music (for a film), and stand in the middle of the lawn watching the clouds streak overhead to the pained strains of Subterranean Homesick Alien.

This is how the minutes don't tick: I just lost 44 minutes staring at Windows Media Player screen ambience, while listening to Radiohead on string quartet, again.

OMFG IT'S SO INTENSE!!!1!!!1!1!!!!11! I want to tear the music out of the speakers in ragged silken sheets, and cover myself in them, forever.

Dissappointing: Rating: 2 out of 5

While undoubtably performed by great musicians the arrangements on this album lack any real heart and are, on a whole, rather weak. Little is done in reworking the tracks and as a result some tracks simply feel wrong. Purchase only out of curiosity and be prepared for dissappointment. Try 'True Love Waits' by Christopher O'Riley instead.

beautiful: Rating: 4 out of 5

On hearing the strains of subterranean homesick alien rendered so exquisitely on strings, tears literally came to my eyes.

This album seems to present a layer of the essence of each song on ok computer which gives a new dimension to the song.

Try and avoid comparing it with the real thing if you can.Try to see it as a work on its own-then you realise how beautiful the melodies underpinning the space rock that is OK computer are, without the glossy but beautiful effects and ripping guitar.

It is a nice album in the respect that it is a simple concept - four instruments which manage to produce an intricate sound.Simple, but on occasion you feel that perhaps more musicians would enhance things.

It is, however, the nature of strings when playing in chords such as these that the sound becomes somewhat more sparse and plaintive than the original album itself.

Very very worth buying if you are a radiohead obsessive, and definitely one to listen to alone with low lighting and the opportunity to give each track the attention it deserves. Much like the original.

STANDOUT TRACKS:
lucky
exit music
subterranean homesick alien
electioneering (rawk!)

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