The EU versions add 'MPO' etched in the matrix, indicating it was pressed at MPO in Europe.

XL Recordings acquired Radiohead's back catalogue in 2016, and started reissuing it.Ģ016: XL Recordings reissue 2016, plus the one and this one. While not an album reissue, I note because this include OK Computer singles ' Paranoid Android,' ' No Surprises' and ' Karma Police' (plus their B-sides) in 12' 45rpm vinyl format. This version seems generally disfavored by the forum.Ģ009: Capital Records releases a number of 12' 45rpm vinyl versions of Radiohead EPs and singles, as discussed in this thread. Different mastering and matrix than the above versions. Part of Capital Records' 'From The Capitol Vaults' reissue series. I believe there are many bootleg copies of the above pressings floating out there, so buyer beware.Ģ008: Capitol vaults reissue 2008. Of the vinyl versions listed so far, I don't think the forum is clear on whether they sound different. (Perhaps someone with an '8552291' vinyl copy who actually bought it well before 2008 can help date that version.) I note that EMI's 'collector's edition' CD reissues of the band's back catalogue around this time did not have a new mastering they just recycled the earlier CD versions and tacked on a bonus disc.

Unclear to me if this is the first repress to add '8552291' etched into the matrix, or if that goes back earlier and this 2008 reissue just recycled an earlier repress. EMI kept ownership of the back catalogue and started reissuing it in 2008.Ģ008: EMI reissues OK Computer on vinyl in 2008. Radiohead departed EMI in 2007, after ownership of EMI changed and the band and label could not agree on a new contract. This website says the '8552291' repress goes back to 1997, and notes another repress with the same matrix in 2013. Discogs has entries for the '8552291' repress dated as of 19. This version has 'NODATA' and interesting phrases etched in the matrix.ġ997 and later: The album was re-pressed for many years, with later pressings adding '8552291' to the original etchings in the matrix. What versions of OK Computer are out there?ġ997: First vinyl pressing on Parlophone 1997.

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