OK Computer is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead (pictured), released on 16 June 1997 in the UK by EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records. The band made a deliberate attempt to distance themselves from the guitar-oriented, lyrically introspective style of prior works like The Bends. OK Computer's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic range of influences laid the groundwork for the more experimental style Radiohead adopted beginning with their next album, Kid A. Although record label executives feared the progressive album would be difficult to market, it reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and became the band's highest album entry on the American charts at the time, debuting at number 21 on the Billboard 200. The album's lyrics, depicting a world fraught with rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation and political malaise, are often interpreted as having prescient insight into the mood of 21st-century life.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

632:

The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, took the throne at the age of eight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazdegerd_III

1795:

French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwallis%27s_Retreat

1911:

Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating- Recording Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing-Tabulating-Recording_Company

1961:

Pioneering Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union at Paris–Le Bourget Airport with the help of French police and a Parisian socialite friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev

2013:

A multi-day cloudburst caused severe flooding in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, resulting in over 5,700 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

rent-seeking: (economics) The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking subsidies. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rent-seeking

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.   --Joyce Carol Oates https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates