OK Calculator alludes to the album of what English rock band from Abingdon formed in 1985
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OK Calculator OK Calculator is a demo collection from TV on the Radio which they self-released in 2002. The album's title alludes to Radiohead's album "OK Computer".
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Radiohead Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass), and Phil Selway (drums, percussion, backing vocals). They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994.
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Electric Guitars Electric Guitars were an English band formed early in 1980 by Neil Davenport (vocals, lyrics) and Richard Hall (bass, vocals) who were both studying English at Bristol University. The band soon increased to a five-man line-up, with Andy Saunders (guitar, vocals), Matt Salt (drums) and Dick Truscott (keyboards), they also later added two backing singers: Sara and Wendy Patridge. Their first single "Health" / "Continental Shelf" was released on local label Fried Egg Records in 1980.
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Jesus Jones Jesus Jones are a British alternative rock band from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, formed in late 1988, recorded and performed in the late 1980s into the 2000s. Their track "Right Here, Right Now" was an international hit which was subsequently globally licensed for promotional and advertising campaigns. They also achieved chart success with the songs "Real Real Real", "International Bright Young Thing" and "Info Freako".
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Eliminator (album) Eliminator is the eighth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top. It was released on March 23, 1983, by Warner Bros. Records. Recorded in Tennessee during 1982, the album was produced by the band's manager Bill Ham and peaked at the top of the charts in many countries. "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Got Me Under Pressure", "Sharp Dressed Man", "TV Dinners" and "Legs" were released as singles. A Diamond certified album, "Eliminator" is ZZ Top's most commercially successful release, with sales of over 10 million copies in the United States.
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Oi! The Album Oi! The Album is a 1980 Oi! compilation album, released in 1980 by EMI, then re-released by Captain Oi! and Cleopatra Records on CD in later years. It was conceived and compiled by then "Sounds" columnist Garry Bushell who had termed the phrase "Oi!" to denote what he called a new breed of working class punk rock with "terrace" or mob choruses. Of the bands termed Oi!, Bushell had managed the Cockney Rejects and went on to manage the Blood.
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The Pinkees The Pinkees were an English power pop band from Basildon, Essex, active in the 1980s. The band members were Paul Egholm (vocals, guitar), Andy Price (vocals, guitar), Max Reinsch (guitar, keyboards), Nevil Kiddier (bass) and Paul Reynolds (drums). Piano and additional vocals, when recording, were supplied by their producer Keith Bonsoir. They released four singles and an album on Creole Records from 1982–1983. Their second single, "Danger Games", reached number 8 on the official UK charts (although it was claimed to have achieved the feat through chart hyping and suspicious sales patterns, and did not appear on some other charts at all) and gained them appearances on BBC TV programmes such as "Top of the Pops" and "Pebble Mill at One". The eponymously titled album was released on vinyl and cassette but it has never been issued in CD format. It stands at number 123 on the list of albums in the "Ultimate Power Pop Guide".
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All Set All Set is the fifth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. After standardising their line-up of vocalists and guitarists Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle, bassist Tony Barber, and drummer Phil Barker for the band's previous album "Trade Test Transmissions" (1993), the band's first record since their reunion in 1989, the band toured relentlessly which inspired the band–especially Shelley–to create a new album. Hiring longtime punk rock producer Neil King to produce and engineer "All Set", the band recorded in Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, a studio where then-huge pop punk bands like Green Day, to whom Buzzcocks had been a big influence, had recently recorded music engineered by King.
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Pop Will Eat Itself Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or The Poppies) are an English alternative rock band formed in Stourbridge in 1986 with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a grebo act, their style changed to incorporate sample-driven indie and industrial rock. Their highest charting single was the 1993 top ten hit, "Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!". After initially disbanding in 1996, and having a brief reformation in 2005, they issued their first release in more than five years in 2010.
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Spector (band) Spector is a five-piece indie rock band from London, composed of Frederick Macpherson (vocalist previously of Les Incompétents and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man), Thomas Shickle (bass), Jed Cullen (synth, guitar), Danny Blandy (keyboard (formerly drums)) and Yoann Intonti (drums). The band's debut album "Enjoy It While It Lasts" reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and went to number one on the Official Record Store Chart on the week of its release.
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A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. is the second studio album by Australian rock band Spy vs Spy, produced by Leszek Karski (Boys Next Door, Midnight Oil, Nauts) and released through WEA on 8 December 1986.
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The Smiths The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s." Q" magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s", "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms". The "NME" named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, over the Beatles.
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How Soon Is Now? "How Soon Is Now?" is a song by the British alternative rock band The Smiths. Written by Smiths singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, it was originally a B-side of the 1984 single "William, It Was Really Nothing". "How Soon Is Now?" was subsequently featured on the compilation album "Hatful of Hollow" and on US, Canadian, Australian, and Warner UK editions of the group's second album "Meat Is Murder" (1985). Belatedly released as a single in the UK in 1985, it originally reached number 24 on the UK Singles Chart. When re-released in 1992, it reached number 16 on the same chart.
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Pound System Pound System is a Melbourne-based electronica outfit. Both members also work as producers, working with Rocket Science, Screamfeeder and Sarah McLeod and have remixed song by many artists such as 28 Days, Spiderbait, Regurgitator, Kylie Minogue and Josh Abrahams. Their 2001 album "You Know It Makes Sense" features appearances by Katie Noonan and Spiderbait's Whit.
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The Wallflowers (British band) The Wallflowers (also known as The Wallflowers UK to avoid confusion with the American band) are a British indie/new wave band from Slough, England, formed by Peter Brickley in 1985.
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Imitation Electric Piano Imitation Electric Piano is a British post-rock band, formed in 1999 by Stereolab bassist Simon Johns and Andrew Blake on guitar.
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The Radiators (Australian band) The Radiators are an Australian pub rock band formed in September 1978. Mainstay members are Brian Nichol on lead vocals and guitar, Stephen "Fess" Parker on lead guitar and Geoff Turner on bass guitar. In 1987 they were joined by Mark Lucas on drums. Their most popular albums are "Feel the Heat" (March 1980) and "Scream of the Real" (May 1983), which both peaked in the top 25 of the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Their best known songs are "Coming Home", "No Tragedy" and "Gimme Head". Rock music historian, Ian McFarlane described the group as "an archetypal, hard-working pub-rock band capable of delivering tightly crafted, well-executed, hard-hitting metal-pop anthems backed by a playful sense of humour. The band toured constantly, racking up over 2500 gigs by the early 1990s".
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Beachbuggy Beachbuggy were a rock group formed in early 1992 in Doncaster by Jack Straker (guitar/vocals), Jim VeVee (drums) and A.D (bass). The band's name reflected singer and main songwriter Jack's obsession with classic cars, drag racing and Americana. Musically, their earliest influences were UK indie bands such as The Fall, The Wedding Present and Cud and American rock groups such as Buffalo Tom and Sonic Youth.
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Pass the Paintbrush, Honey.... Pass The Paintbrush, Honey... is the debut album by London indie pop band Biff Bang Pow! released in 1985.
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Cultural Amnesia Cultural Amnesia (CA) are an English post-punk music group, first active between 1979 and 1983 as participants in the so-called cassette culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK. During this first period the band released three cassette albums: "Video Rideo" (1981), "The Uncle of the Boot" (1983) and "Sinclair's Luck" (1983) on English and German record labels, and contributed to a number of compilation albums. Early on in his career, CA worked with the late Geff Rushton (John Balance) of Coil, who wrote a handful of songs for them and who was an important supporter and enabler.
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BOB (band) BOB were an indie pop band from North London, England, formed in 1985.
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One Ok Rock One Ok Rock, stylized as ONE OK ROCK (pronounced in Japanese as "one o'clock"), is a Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. The band currently consists of Takahiro Moriuchi (vocals), Toru Yamashita (guitar/leader), Ryota Kohama (bass), and Tomoya Kanki (drums).