I figured that it was east of the Mississippi because of the tight footprint of the interchange. “The BGS on the right has a two-word city but two actual words.
“The middle BGS (highway slang for “Big Green Sign”) has a two-word control city with just a single letter as the first word,” he wrote in a post on AARoads. MapMikey verified his discovery by closely examining some road signs and nearby buildings. It's the junction of Interstates 84 and 91 in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Magadan took the picture, and the puzzle, to AARoads, an online forum for “roadgeeks,” a nickname for people who love talking about things like interstates, freeways and on-ramps.Ī commenter who calls himself MapMikey recognized the exchange from his own travels and the research he’s done on East Coast highways (He’s one of the principles behind the Virginia Highways Project.) He said it only took about 10 minutes to crack the puzzle – even though he’d never seen the album cover before.
“I'd just always wondered, is it Los Angeles, is it Tokyo? Could it be somewhere in the U.K.? I figured there might be some kind of interesting story about that that gives you an insight into the thinking that went into designing it.” That got Radiohead fan Jordan Magadan, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, thinking. It included a photo of that interchange that was just a little bit clearer than the bleached-out, fuzzy image on the cover. To celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary, the band released some behind-the-scenes material from the making of the album. It made Radiohead one of the world’s biggest bands and popularized a hard-edged but melancholy sound that still shapes popular music, two decades later. OK Computer is one of the most celebrated albums of all time by rock critics and music fans alike. Now some internet sleuths think they’ve found it – in Hartford, Connecticut. The band has never said where the picture came from. Four singles were released from the album: Paranoid Android, Karma Police, Lucky, and No Surprises.The iconic cover art of Radiohead’s album OK Computer shows a heavily distorted picture of an anonymous highway interchange. A remastered and expanded version titled OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 was released on 22 June 2017, commemorating the album's twentieth anniversary. At the 40th Annual Grammy Awards in 1998, it was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, ultimately winning the award for Best Alternative Music Album. It expanded Radiohead's international popularity and received widespread critical acclaim, and has often been cited as one of the greatest albums of all time. Its abstract lyrics, densely layered sound, and eclectic range of influences laid the groundwork for the band's later, more experimental work.ĭespite lowered sales estimates by the band's record company EMI, who deemed it "uncommercial" and difficult to market, OK Computer debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 21 on the US Billboard 200. Stylistically, the album initiated a shift in British rock music away from the then-ubiquitous genre of Britpop toward melancholic, atmospheric rock that became more prevalent within the next decade. Critics have noted its lyrics depicting a world fraught with rampant consumerism, social alienation, emotional isolation, and political malaise in this capacity, OK Computer is often interpreted as having prescient insight into the mood of 21st century life. With OK Computer, the band made a deliberate attempt to distance themselves from the guitar-oriented, lyrically introspective style of their previous album The Bends (1995). Produced by Nigel Godrich, it was recorded between July 1996 and March 1997, mostly in the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court. It was first released on in Japan, on 16 June 1997 in the United Kingdom by Parlophone, and on 1 July 1997 in the United States by Capitol Records. Nigel Godrich OK Computer is Radiohead's third studio album.
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