Editing OK Computer (section)

===Accolades===
''OK Computer'' was nominated for [[Grammy Award]]s as [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Music Album]] at the [[40th Annual Grammy Awards]] in 1998,<ref>{{cite news
 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/45225.stm
 | title = Brits vie for Grammys
 | work = [[BBC News]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160329151642/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/45225.stm
 | archive-date = 29 March 2016}}</ref> winning the latter.<ref>{{cite news
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/26/arts/the-1998-grammy-award-winners.html
 | title = The 1998 Grammy Award Winners
 | date = 26 February 1998
| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304232050/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/26/arts/the-1998-grammy-award-winners.html
 | archive-date = 4 March 2016}}</ref> It was also nominated for Best British Album at the [[1998 Brit Awards]].<ref>{{citation
 | first = David
 | last = Sinclair
 | title = Brits Around the World '98: Four to Watch For
 | page = 48
 | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]
 | date = 7 February 1998}}</ref> The album was shortlisted for the 1997 [[Mercury Prize]], a prestigious award recognising the best British or Irish album of the year. The day before the winner was announced, oddsmakers gave ''OK Computer'' the best chance to win among ten nominees, but it lost to ''[[New Forms]]'' by [[Roni Size]]/[[Reprazent]].<ref>{{cite news
 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/it-is-size-that-counts-as-roni-wins-mercury-prize-1247754.html
 | title = It is Size that counts as Roni wins Mercury prize
 | last = Williams
 | first = Alexandra
 | date = 29 August 1998
| newspaper = [[The Independent]]
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160906163601/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/it-is-size-that-counts-as-roni-wins-mercury-prize-1247754.html
 | archive-date = 6 September 2016}}</ref> 

''OK Computer'' was named the best album of the year by ''Mojo'', ''[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]]'', ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''[[Hot Press]]'', ''[[Muziekkrant OOR]]'', ''[[HUMO]]'', ''[[Eye Weekly]]'' and ''[[Inpress]]'', and tied for first place with [[Daft Punk]]'s ''[[Homework (Daft Punk album)|Homework]]'' in ''[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]''. It was named the second-best in ''NME'', ''Melody Maker'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''[[Village Voice]]'', ''Spin'' and ''Uncut''. ''Q'' and ''[[Les Inrockuptibles]]'' listed the album in their year-end polls.{{sfn|Footman|2007|pp=183–184}}

The praise overwhelmed the band. Jonny Greenwood felt it had been exaggerated because ''The Bends'' had been "under-reviewed possibly and under-received".<ref name="LAUNCH"/> Radiohead rejected links to progressive rock and art rock, despite comparisons to Pink Floyd's 1973 album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.<ref>
{{citation
 | last = Varga
 | first = George
 | title = Radiohead's Jazz Frequencies
 | magazine = [[JazzTimes]]
 | date = November 2001
}}</ref> Yorke responded: "We write pop songs&nbsp;... There was no intention of it being 'art'. It's a reflection of all the disparate things we were listening to when we recorded it."{{sfn|Clarke|2010|p=124}} He was nevertheless pleased that listeners identified their influences: "What really blew my head off was the fact that people got all the things, all the textures and the sounds and the atmospheres we were trying to create."<ref>{{citation
 | last = Gill
 | first = Andy
 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ok-computer-why-the-record-industry-is-terrified-of-radioheads-new-album-394276.html
 | title = Ok computer: Why the record industry is terrified of Radiohead's new album
 | newspaper = [[The Independent]]
 | date = 5 October 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103152654/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ok-computer-why-the-record-industry-is-terrified-of-radioheads-new-album-394276.html
 | archive-date = 3 November 2012
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}}</ref>