“The Tourist” is the final track on OK Computer, punctuating the album with soaring guitar solos and ethereal vocals. The track is about enjoying life; when a tourist visits a place, he usually feels like he has to do a lot to take in the sights, making him move at a fast-pace, hence Thom telling him to “slow down.”

According to Q Magazine:

This was written by Jonny Greenwood in response to seeing a group of tourists dash through a town in France. It was intended to be a song about the “speed you live your life with.” Yorke later added lyrics that he’d written on holiday in Prague.

The song, and thus the album, ends with a triangle prominently chiming.

On the Song Exploder podcast, lead singer and co-writer Matt Berninger explains:

[‘Sea of Love’ is] a romantic song about a man who’s bitten into the apple a little bit. It’s a big murky mess of all the feelings that happen between human beings when romance and hopes, and all those kinds of things, they run away with our hearts a little bit. […] And then the song just started to become this loose idea of how people often will fall in love and jump into a situation. The ‘Joe’ is definitely the one who is jumping in with both feet. There’s a room full of people who are all sliding into the sea of love.

The song’s music video, directed by Sophia Peer, is an homage to the video for “Grubiy Zakat” from Russian indie rock band Zvuki Mu.

Weezer, known better to fans as The Blue Album, is Weezer’s first and most successful studio album. It was released on May 10, 1994. Three strong singles (“Undone – The Sweater Song,” “Say It Ain’t So,” and “Buddy Holly”) pushed both the album and the band to the front of the post-Kurt Cobain alternative scene, and then even further into mainstream success. The album was produced by The Cars lead singer Ric Ocasek, after Weezer was pressured by Geffen Records to avoid a self-produced album. On the choice, frontman Rivers Cuomo notes, “I’d always admired The Cars and Ric Ocasek’s songwriting and production skills.”

Half of the songs from The Blue Album were originally recorded for The Kitchen Tapes, a compilation of demos created in order to generate interest in the band. Originally, Blue was to feature Jason Cropper on guitar, as on The Kitchen Tapes. However, after a falling out with the rest of the band and an expected baby on the way, Cropper abandoned the project. Cuomo rerecorded the guitar parts for the entire album in just one day.

The album was met with fairly strong praise, receiving an “A” from Spin, five and four stars from AllMusic and Rolling Stone respectively, and a strong 10/10 from Pitchfork. The album is ranked 297 of Rolling Stones “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” and 35 on their “100 Best Debut Albums of All Time.” The Blue Album was certified gold in just seven months, and in nine months it had reached platinum status.