Radiohead, Paranoid Android - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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My second Radiohead (the first was Creep), and the most engaging ‘90s piece of music I’ve heard to date! I especially enjoyed how this song brought such a wide variety of stylistic influences together while still preserving a solid sense of unity throughout.
Here’s the link to the original song by Radiohead:
• Radiohead - Paranoid A...
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"I'm trying to figure out how this is making me feel" - welcome to Radiohead. Their songs put you off balance, and make you sit up and take notice.
/pay attention
"Unsettlingly portentous"
Is how I'd describe it
Because you have not been
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
I have been listening to this song for nearly 30yrs and never picked up the Internet dial-up until now....🤯🤯🤯🤯
It blew my mind and made me appreciate Jonny's solo a whole lot more.
Its feedback
Thom's lyrics from high and dry kicked my ass 30 years to late. I get it.
Whats the meaning of high and dry?
@@davidagelvis5297it's basically means you're screwed ...... think of a beached ship.
It's also the name of one of their albums.
You nailed this. The dial up sounds, the talking android, all of it.
I must have heard this song hundreds of times since its release and it still hits every time.
Please, do Radiohead as much as posible. They are very versitale and almost every song is experience for itself.
Pyramid Song Please!!!
@@Tshock13 I came here to request Pyramid Song as well. That's one of the most musically interesting of their songs.
Pyramid Song
Gons dimaryp
Karma Police
As great as every song on OK Computer is, listening to the album as a whole just adds so much to each song. It's a benchmark album.
Agree -- the abrupt ending really sets up the blooming spring feeling of the next song (the names I forget).
Yep. 100%
@@brovold72Subterranean Homesick Alien. I think it's my favorite off this album I consider as the best rock album ever (and I have some background).
I wish bands still made albums that tell a story like this…like Mezzanine
@@richiethebartender I'm a big Bristol Massive fan.
Your analysis is so fascinating because you come from a different background from the fans but you discover the stuff with the same awe we did. Amazing.
The rain down part is a spiritual experience itself. I would give anything, everything, to listen to this song for the very first time again.
Have you heard it live? One of the most amazing, memorable experiences of my life. Was standing at the very top row of a stadium looking down at everyone
Your face was a picture when the rain down part started. You were visibly floating on the sound. The Pyramid Song by them is amazingly clever.
I think Amy will love Pyramid Song
I second that Pyramid Song suggestion.
One of my Radiohead favorites.
Yes. The reverse Stank Face made itself present. (11:33) Also known as WTF face, where instead of intensely scrunching the nose to bring down the eyes and brows and raise a lip corner ….the eyes open wide and the face elongates reflecting the thought “WTF did I just experience “.
На ютубе есть ровно одна достойная реакция на Pyramid Song. Это так странно, я не могу понять почему. Пришло время для второй.
The observation about the modem dial up sound of the guitar solo is brilliant. Makes total sense that this was intentional.
That just blew my f'n doors off. I’ve listened to this song it feels like 1000 times over the last 25 years. And to suddenly hear that -I was like holy shit you know what how did I never think of that? That’s so fucking true I totally just mirrors like really quickly Johnny’s guitar mirrors like the old modem sound. Wow that’s so cool.
That was a “yes, of course!” moment for me as well.
True. And I never thought of it even though I listened to the album in a loop (together with Portishead) as a teen in times when I had such a modem as the only way to connect with the Internet ;)
I'd never thought that but when she suggested it, I was like yes, eureka that is.
No it doesn’t - sorry.
Dial up modems were almost completely unknown and not a part of life in the UK in 1996 (the year the album was recorded)
The album is a masterpiece. You must listen from the beginning to the end. You would then understand the voice you heard. You wouldn't critique a musical by listening to music only the 6th song. There is a theme, and a feeling that goes with the entire thing.
A masterpiece.
She doesn’t understand that “when I am king, you will be first against the wall“ is an attack on communism. Collectivists are either dumb or ignorant.
Couldn’t agree more this and all of their other Albums need to be listened to from and to finish to truly be appreciated
Yes, Kid A even mores o
You don't need to hear the rest of OK Computer at all to appreciate Paranoid Android. I've heard the album several times and can't hear any shared themes between songs.
Plus, the band have confirmed that it's NOT a concept album. At least not musically.
@@MyNameIsNeutron "I've heard the album *several* times and can't hear any shared themes"
well, case closed then, professor, thanks so much
Around 12 minutes in, when you said "this is cool.. Wow". That is why we love Radiohead.
I already gave it a like after 3 seconds. "How to dissapear" "Pyramid Song" "Weird Fishes" would be great to see your reaction.
Weird Fishes has so much in it for her to comment on. It's one of my favorite songs. I would love to see that as well.
perfect recommendations!
@@Llewella-ir5tp Hail Boognish!
Normally when a musician is asked what their favourite sonf of theirs is they evade the question. I've never heard such little hesitation when Thom Yorke answered that question. He said "How to disappear" instantly - like he was desperate to shout it out. I love a lot of Radiohead's stuff and think Amy should do a series on this band because their most beautiful work lies away from the most popular stuff, but I had never considered How to Disappear Completely as one of their better songs at all. After hearing that interview I listened again to it a few times. It is a stunning song. Just stunning. It made me reevaluate my own opinions on music. How could I overlook such a song?
Videotape too. More complex than it appears
They put such strange discordant melodies together that as a musician myself have consistently left me asking how they dream them up and how they affect me so deeply which is not true of 98% of music i listen to.. Their catalogue is so incredibly diverse , and so rich in musicality, I would listen to a wide number of their songs before trying to pin them down. For me they are the Beatles of my generation , tho the music is very different. It’s very hard to recommend tracks to listen because the range is so wide and yet there is a thread that runs through them all. I love that you are dipping in, I hope you do more. They are also incredible live ..
agree, but I find many contact points with the four boys from Liverpool...
Could not agree more.
the bends to me is even better .. its so emotional if you were of a certain age at that time . ok is a masterpiece.
Radiohead is fantastic live.
@@drfunkology8164 think that’s the mad thing , nearly every album is exceptional in some way for me ..
The song hits even harder within the album.
All the songs weave together a dreadful paranoia with ethereal respites.
oooooooo nice insight about the dial-up connection noise. never thought about that and it sounds totally valid.
The original "paranoid android" of pop culture is Marvin, a fictional character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams -very well written comedy science fiction. Marvin was, in fact, severely pessimistic (or even nihilistic) and possibly depressed, rather than paranoid, but the reference Radiohead made was widely understood in the UK, and understood by many people worldwide, since the series is loved internationally. Please, Amy, go further down the Radiohead rabbit hole!
Yes, especially seeing that HHGTTG started as a radio serial on the BBC and two movies were based on it.
I think Arthur Dent refers to him as the paranoid android at some point
@@djehuti3 I believe it's Zaphod Beeblebrox who refers to him as "the Paranoid Android". In any case, this has stuck for our beloved, extremely depressed and hugely smart, mechanical friend!
Pyramid Song
Life, don't talk to me about life 🤖
Please please more radiohead, maybe even a series. They would deserve it!
Often with musical analysis of rock music I think "yeah, they probably didn't know they were doing that" but with Radiohead I'm absolutely confident that they know exactly what they're doing.
I have loved this song for 26 years, and your reaction gave me fresh ears. It is a playful graffiti mural sprayed over an otherwise grey landscape. There is both electricity and water in the final guitar solo. I'm joining the "more Radiohead" chorus, their fan base is huge and most of us have no idea how they make us feel what they make us feel, so this helps. Thank you!
Radiohead are one of the bravest bands in the history of rock music. Adventurous and experimental with their song structures, harmony and textures. Often at the risk of alienating their own fans, but in the end always a true artistic expression that makes for really interesting music with constant progression. I absolutely love this band! One of my favourites
My god did Kid A piss me off and then I bought the cd for Amnesaic as soon as it came out and I was done with Radiohead for 5-6 years then I caught the basement session for In Rainbows and I was hooked (again) and binged their entire catalog in order, needless to say I love everthing they do.
@@jameshannagan4256Kid A made me scratch my head for the longest time too. I remember going: "I don't understand what this is supposed to be... Is this not a rock band?" After some personal musical maturation (both as a listener and a player) and some revisited listens over the years, it's now in my top 3 of their albums. In Rainbows is probably my favourite though. Radiohead are brilliant.
In Rainbows is probably my favorite as well but other than the first one (it's not that bad for it's time) I love every record and I love a shit ton of their b-sides. They are the only band I know of that has so many great non-album tracks.@@GlennErikMathisen
Love the way you put this, “at the risk of their own fans”.
Brave???
Amazing to see you covering Radiohead.
Exit Music (For A Film), from the same album, is awesome too.
I second this!
would be a great track for Amy to react to
Yes hahah
Any track on the album, with the exception of Electioneering, would be a good track for her to dissect.
It took me 20 years to like Exit Music ... but now I always go back to repeat listening to Exit Music at least once every week.
I’m now crying my eyes out this is too much. It’s like my favorite band ever and then like you analyzing it holy Christ -it’s happy tears - it happy tears. Ty so much ❤
Your reactions and descriptions made me unexpectedly emotional! I really enjoyed this. Absolutely do more Radiohead ❤
Radiohead is one the very best Rock&Pop music band of History. Very creative and original.
Most definitely NOT pop.
I'd say the greatest in my lifetime. Best live band I have seen
@@christophermartin5354 Greatest band of the last 30 years? As a ballpark estimate I agree.
Pop?
@@fernandosbst1300 I mean Pop not as TSwift or Beyonce, but Pop as popular and not classical music. I think everything outside classical music is Pop. Blues, jazz, etc, rock, etc, etc.
she is starting down a pleasant rabbit hole with this band......
So glad you're diving into Radiohead with this album. One of the greatest albums ever made as well as one the greatest concept albums ever made. They were way ahead of their time with this album: innovative, progressive and legendary. Be sure to explore the entire album.
I needed this video in my life. I never thought someone who was classically trained would ever analyze this masterpiece. I was classically trained and I described this song similarly to how you did the first time I ever listened to it. That is incredible 😮 blows my mind.
You should listen to all of OK Computer. It’s a fantastic album. One of the best. Ever.
I second this, third this, fourth this, fifth this, sixth this, seventh this, eigth this, ninth, tenth, eleventh this, twelfth this, thirteenth this, fourteenth this, fifteenth this, sixteenth this, seventeenth this, eighteenth this, nineteenth this, twentieth this, twentyfirst this, twentysecond this, I can't go any further because I'm no older than 22 years old
It's not one of my favorite albums. Not that I don't like it, but it's unmistakably one of the best albums of the decade if not all-time.
She should definitely watch the live version they played on Later with Jools Holland. It's on CZcams. I'm not saying to make a video about it, just that she should check it out (and so should everybody else, for that matter).
That was where I first heard the song and it BLEW me away!🤯😍
One of the greatest live performances of all time in my opinion 👍
Could not agree more, I've watched that "Later" performance dozens of times - it's extraordinary
Great call out. I have that Jools episode saved!
Love your way of expressing and describing what you hear with your background in tow.
God bless you and everything you do. This is one of my favourite songs of all time and I'm LOVING the way you're analyzing a song I've loved from the first second I heard it.
For me paranoid Android has always been a musical kaleidoscope. I just enjoy the ride.
A great live performance is live on a TV show called later with jools Holland.1997... always came back early on a night out to watch this great show
It blew me away ... So young and so talented !
+1 for this. It's a masterclass in live performance.
Me too, and Dave Grohl who was due to go on the show immediately next.
Remember it like it was yesterday… mesmerising. I was 24 at the time and it was such a game changing album, an unsettling masterpiece and a giant leap from The Bends. This track is often described as our generation’s Bohemian Rhapsody, though much darker.
@@mikedonoghues4018
Yes I forgot that I think he had short hair... It was probably monkey wrench ?
@@rogerwredford
Yes definitely agree..I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks... As you know at the time a show wasn't on tap like today thankfully we now have this archive that will always be available to us.
I like how you enjoy all the music you listen to because you can see in them what you enjoy so much about classical music. Plus you're also explaining to us what we enjoy so much about this music, the patterns and features which are so pleasing to us even though we don't really have the vocabulary to explain why we like them. You verbalise what we feel subconsciously. Please do look again at Radiohead - they will always keep you on your toes as they are constantly shifting their style and looking to innovate.
Really fascinating to hear your first opinions on this from a more classical perspective. It's my favourite song of all time.
I think the name 'Ok, Computer' makes a lot more sense nowadays than ever before. And in the future it will be even more relevant.
Nowadays it's (almost) the opposite: The computer(AI) says: OK human.
There's no comma. It's _OK Computer._
@@gablen23 It was always OK human, but we are getting closer and closer to saying OK computer. That's why the name is increasingly relevant as time goes by.
"Ok, Google"
"Hey, Siri"
"Alexa"
@@bltelysian _NUKE from orbit!_
You should check out their entire catalogue. Very eclectic, skillful, and innovative band.
❤😊 I don't even know this song but was willing to listen and now I'm a fan! Thank you for your analysis Amy
Oh man, this brings back memories of the late 90s watching MTV in the wee hours. Your analysis is absolutely spot on, you somehow hit the nail on the head and put into words exactly what the song feels like! Definitely subscribed 👍
This is one of the biggest songs/albums of my life.
And mine, buddy. And mine.
I remember sitting in a room with friends and hearing this for the first time with a group of musicians. No one said a damned word. We knew something important had happened. Just like the intro of teen spirit brought me into grunge, this song brought me out
What a great reaction Amy! I'm allready looking forward to your next Radiohead reaction :) Cheers!
Wow, love your analysis. You finally elaborated what I have felt from Radiohead for years, and now understand: the descending melancholia. Subscribed!
This did make me happy as you predicted . Thanks , You are really good at this. I think of the end as a computer being switched off at the plug.
omg Radiohead is one of the most complete bands out there, you should react to their song Nude, it's a whole sensation when you are hearing it.
I'd love to see her do the entire OK Computer album - the way as she's done for The Wall. I'm not actually the hugest Radiohead fan normally, but that one album was absolutely defining a new era, both in music and in society. The album of the changing millennium.
When you wrote "The Wall," at first i saw "Wall of Eyes," Thom & Jonny & drummer Tom Skinner's new album. If you haven't listened to Wall of Eyes, you are in for a treat!
I loved every second of this! Thank you, Amy.😊
First timer on your channel. Your sense of wonder and curiosity over a song I love was amazing, and your reactions super cute.
Highly, highly recommend Weird Fishes/Arpeggi from Radiohead. It's a masterclass in composition. If you can watch the live version (from the Basement sessions), it's even better seeing them actually play it so perfectly.
How to Disappear Completely is also a huge achievement.
Both good choices. I love Weird Fishes (and pretty much the entire "In Rainbows Album". I agree about the live 'Basement" version- it's a cut above.
Weird Fishes is so good.
Arpeggi and How to Disappear Completely would be my suggestions for her as well.
YAY! Thank you, Vlad and Amy! The slight muscle movements, facial oscillation, and evolving eyebrow expressions are a visual representation of the chills I feel every time I listen to this song. "That's cool." "Ooh, wow." Exactly! I also love how immediately she identified the dial-up internet guitar solo. Amy's analysis and descriptions are a wonderful contribution to music history.
Radiohead is one of those bands that's placable in a decade because they were a musical turning point that basically defined the decade in question. The decade in fact sounds like Radiohead.
First time watcher and this is such a great analysis! Wonderful. Thanks for putting this together 🙏
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE BEGINNING
Me too!!
I've been casually watching your videos and I'm happy to see that you are covering Radiohead!!! Please do Pyramid Song, as a musician myself the song continues to blow my mind every time I hear it!!! 🎵
I love seeing these reaction and analyzing videos on the music of Radiohead. Perhaps I'm biased as Radiohead is my favorite band but they are one of the most important and innovative bands of all time, including Thom Yorke’s solo endeavors and The Smile which released their second album. I love that my two sons 30+ years younger than me are into them too. Great video and reaction.
What a great reaction, very interesting to hear your interpretations. Hope you will do more Radiohead!
Thanks so much for this. :)
I really liked your Creep reaction and thought it would be cool if you dived deeper into Radiohead. I'm glad you agreed, and this is a great pick. I've also never heard Paranoid Android compared to the feeling of certain pieces of baroque music, and never considered that. But you explaining how you hear it is so interesting. The descending patterns and how "reedy" Thom Yorke's voice is, for example.
I love your expressions and reactions to everything!
Especially the guitar. You have a very classic grungy guitar line just ripping and you’re like “oh it’s like ‘dee dee dee dee’ 🙃”
This was fun! subbing.
Instant sub. Radiohead are my favorite band on earth, and I love the way you talk about this piece of music and hearing you verbalize why this song makes me feel the way that it does.
Thank you very much, as always is a delight to enjoy your work, by the way so instructive for me as it can be.
A couple of things musically. The song starts without a beginning, and keeps being middle phrases. It is to be listened to in the album after a trauma, so the previous track flows into this. Many of the vocal phrases are spread out a lot. They are only half the conversation. The other half happens in the gaps, but we never hear them. If they really happened at all. The tonality shifts between a pop-adjacent arrangement to dropping the 8th beat, to a formal church choral that runs around the 5ths, for the talking to himself vs shouting at the world vs personal despair. It is all volatile moods. Throughout there is a base line that they shift around the tonics, often picked by the having guitar. And then it goes into the next track which has a very blissed out soundscape. The paranoid psychosis has broken and now is the euphoric come down.
This album changed my life. Always been obsessed with music and the day this came out on a half-day from work I spotted it on a listening post at HMV. As per routine I always listened to new stuff. I couldn't stop repeating the album and ended up leaving with the staff as they were locking up.
Nothing more to say; 'I loved your analysis'. I knew I loved this song, band, but you've put this into perspective. Well articulated.
Just wanted to say that was a really interesting review of this song. I love watching these type of videos but you really brought something dynamic to your review also. Was a pleasure to watch. I learnt from it and will be watching more. Thank you.
YESSSS I live for reactions by classical musicians of Radiohead
Brilliant!! Thanks for doing Radiohead
YES! I'm so happy you're doing Radiohead!
I hope you eventually get to the more orchestrated songs like "Pyramid Song", "How to Disappear Completely", "Burn the Witch" and just about anything from "A Moon Shaped Pool".
Your favorite from the 90s!, and they have many even better songs.
This was inspiring! Best reaction video to this song yet. Thank you
This is the first time I've watched a reaction video where I could tell the person listens to music the same way I do.
I like that I can tell when you're trying to guess where the vocal melody is going, and the feeling of pleasant surprise when it takes you somewhere unexpected.
This was great! Pleeeeeeeeease more Radiohead
RADIOHEAD WEEKEND!
“Ow wow” at the acoustic change in the middle. Oh wow indeed. The chords are beautiful and so much more complicated than usual rock music. The emotion, the harmonies and lyrics on top of it create one of the best musical moments in rock ever.
Love your reaction, I subscribed to your channel for more radiohead reaction❤
I could not click onto this video any faster
Lmfao
I exclaimed a very vocal "YES" when Amy said it's her favorite 90s song so far. I may be restating other comments, but I think the entirety of OK Computer would be a fantastic deep dive series. (Just as soon as you conclude Pink Floyd The Wall!) :)
I actually put the wall at 4 as far as Floyd albums I would much rather her do Dark Side Of the Moon, Animals or Wish You Were Here which in my opinion are better records.
@@jameshannagan4256 Amy has stretched out her posting of song analyses from The Wall for months if not over a year now. it's become a bit much.
I saw every one and quite enjoyed it.@@ZosoLU
100% agree with you@@jameshannagan4256... The Wall and The Final Cut are odes to Roger's inner demons.... with too few rays of light from the other band members... Thank God for Dave's contribution of the music for Comfortably Numb!
I love watching your reaction and the subtle eyebrow movements of interest hehe. Lovely voice you have too. Very cool analysis. :) This is one of my favorite song listening experiences.
Wow you're the best music "first reaction" analyst I've seen on CZcams, you really paint a great picture of the song, and I love how you express your emotions towards the song!
Oh my God I’ve been so depressed.. (for like the last 25 years tbh) but I just saw this -fucking finally, let’s go!!! I love you so much, Radiohead and Pink Floyd are my favorite bands ever-I’ve seen Radiohead live 14 times - I can’t wait to watch this. Thank you in advance Amy, you rock!! ❤❤❤
IMO there's a progression of incredible music throughout the decades...
Floyd 》Queensryche 》Radiohead 》Tool
Andy before all that wonderful trail... YES @@DJChrisSee
Radiohead to the top of the class!! Love it and could tell you had fun with it. I've rarely heard "It didn't sound as depressed" when referring to Radiohead!
I think to appreciate the harder 90s rock, you need to do it chronologically starting at the 70s-80s-90s. Its like going straight to the anchovy pizza. If its the first pizza you ever eat, it probably wont go down well, and you wonder why so many people like it!
I love this song and I loved watching your reaction. I find the science and technical aspects of music theory extremely fascinating as I get older and so I really enjoy the opinions of people who’ve studied music. It makes me enjoy songs in a whole new way. Great job 👍🏽🎶🥰
Such an interesting analysis. This song engages and re engages and moves the mood around - so beautiful. And the sense of dial up brings yet another dimension to my listening experience. All the shifts to structured chaos is somehow a violent discordance
Radiohead are incredible composers and innovators ... you are just scratching the surface : )
Radiohead has so many great albums and songs. If I had to pick one song that I'm sure you'd like it would be 'Nude' from In Rainbows. Beautiful textures, unique sound, highly emotional and creative.
I want her to do Weird Fishes/Arpeggi and Reckoner first but Nude is right up there and I would be thrilled if she did it. There's a guitar reacher named Mike Palmisano who does a really great reaction to nude if you haven't seen it check it out he gets it.
the best video of this channel. I'm so hyped for the others reactions of radiohead!!!!!
That was so cute to watch and there were a bunch of cool
Insights that I’d never considered.
This was thoroughly enjoyable. I adore watching pros do what they love.
Thank you for supporting my journey!
This is one instance where I think understanding a song at the technical level, musically, stands as a barrier to understanding it at a psychological level, which is, I think, the point... It's all over the place... The unrelenting horror and despair of madness, punctured only briefly in the fleeting moments of sublimity and grace that mere mental exhaustion can afford to be permitted...
... In short, I think you have to have been there to get it.
God bless the crazies among us, for they shall inherit the Radiohead 🤪
I straddle both worlds (pop and Classical). I love your analytical mindset. What intrigues me most about this is its constantly shifting harmonic progression and key changes. You're absolutely right that the descending lines are key to the harmonic direction!
Ive been waiting for this one since your channel started
Very nice analysis, I liked your observations. Yes, the song is imaginative, and the guitar does sound like a dial-up, haha.
The music video for this song will be forever engrained into my psyche.
I still don't really get it but it's great possibly the best video ever made for a song.
@@jameshannagan4256Eh. Just, Man of War, Karma Police, Burn the Witch have better music videos.
Maybe Burn the Witch that is another cool video I also love No Surprises that may be the best one. Forget it all their videos are great even their music seems to be that my favorite is the one i'm listening to at the time no other band has that quality.@@thewebadventurer2958
It's fun to watch you discover and describe all these songs! Thanks!
Just discovered your channel today and can't stop listening. And I'm looking forward to you doing more Radiohead, a unique band.
Karma Police is my favourite Radiohead song, so if you've not heard it before, that would be a fantastic analysis.
My favorite song OF ALL TIME! One of the best songs ever created.
same I think this is best song I have ever heard
I'm subscribed now, keep doing radiohead and i'll start sending money
I loved hearing your perspective on this song so much ❤
wonderful to watch this reaction to a song i know so well, and yet to learn so much more about it and enjoy it all over again... thank you.
Listen to the whole album! Do a show with the whole album, it's far more profound than you realize
I agree it’s a start to finish album that’s a journey, depending on my mood it’s a different journey
It is AMAZING that you reference Bach and the classical setup of the song. I believe it’s because of the structure and syncopation of the notes. Every note is purposeful and each movement symbolising the descent into misery. Radiohead have some of the most original music made in the last 50 years. They are completely original.
I’ve just found your channel and this video was a delight. It took me back to my teenage years when this album came out and trying to unpack everything in this song (but no musical knowledge 😂)
“Mournful” perfectly encapsulates Paranoid Android for me. Makes my spine tingle every time I hear it. Lovely to hear your take on it. Really enjoyed it.