OK Computer isn't vanguard, it's more like the sonic meanderings of Seventies dinosaurs Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Just as those prog-rock bands had classical aspirations, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood often pays tribute to Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Greenwood is undoubtedly talented, coming into his own on the soundtrack to the film There Will Be Blood, but OK Computer drizzles away rock-and-roll energy in favour of tortuous musicality. The song Paranoid Android, for instance, is claimed by the band to be a joke, but it isn't funny. It's a tired Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference nailed to the cod-operatics of Queen, topped off with a suffocating layer of portentous moping, much like the rest of the album.