fwiw, my records suggest that skaters was completely finished before ok computer was released. even i pulled that influence out, but it seems to be wrong. and, fwiw, i was a little slow to pick up on radiohead; i didn't like the britpop thing, in general, and kind of had them miscategorized. i thought fake plastic trees was terrible, but i loved street spirit when i heard it - and that's what actually got me interested. that was at the very end of the cycle for the bends, and nearly when ok computer had been released.
paranoid android was released early, and it was everywhere when it was, but i really hadn't heard anything like this when i recorded skaters, despite it seeming like i had.