When Thom says ‘hey man slow down’ he also warns his past self in Airbag. I love this detail because it makes me think that the album is never ending cycle
the opening two notes sound exactly like the alarm that went off when someone entered the back of the store i worked at. after working there and being miserable that song hits so much harder now
This is an all new way to experience art all over again. It’s impossible to hear an album for the first time more than once, but I absolutely love watching first time reactions. They often deepen my understanding and view of a record.
This album is one of the keys that unlocks a lot of the influences your favorite current popular musicians have. The influence of Radiohead is gargantuan
My favorite part about OK Computer is that it’s basically a never-ending loop. We begin with Airbag, where he sings about being in a car accident in which an airbag saved his life… and we end with The Tourist, where Thom repeats the line “hey man, slow down” before the final, distinct bell note at the end, signifying the sudden “crash”. It’s quite genius, really.
@@cataldinho When I had first heard Everything in its Right Place, I was confused on how the guys who made Creep made the song. So I searched up what the best album was and listened to OK Computer and have been a fan of almost all their songs since. But I do hate when they do the schizo nightmare songs like Fitter Happier, Kid A, and Untitled.
Oh I’ve never heard of this “okay computer?” Or this Radiohead band for that matter. It’s cool that you are giving exposure to smaller artists! Hope this video brings some new people to this band. As they definitely got something here and they could be very successful.
@Finn Bilham as music though?? Idk, things dont become masterpieces just because they're weird and different. The reality is that it's completely personal and subjective. I don't really care that much for lyrics and story if I don't like the music being played. I can totally respect it though as well as respect others opinion on it, and I'm just curious on what other people like about it specifically. The story? Vocals? Guitar? Rhythm? Harmony? Edit: all of them? 😂
@@RAEVLOS The hype. Think about how little music is valued in western or eastern education system. It's obvious that vast majority of people don't know anything about music. Neither its history nor theory. Then they get exposed to music with preconceptions, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Radiohead is "good music," and whatever the previous generation didn't like is "bad music." Most people can't even describe what they like or dislike about an album, just look at the comment above you. "It's fucking perfection," that means absolutely nothing LMAO. Frivolous statements like that from sheep accumulate and create this hype and narrative. It's all just monkey business.
@JHM bro you are Reading my mind, exactly what I've been thinking after listening to all those three you mentioned 😂😂 Beatles Pink Floyd and Radiohead. Beatles I nearly didn't like any of, from pink floyd I actually LOVED Time and Money, but no others. And Radiohead I actually think is pretty good, but vastly overrated..
I'm 5 minutes into this video and this is certifiably the best reaction to OK Computer. The editing and the commentary are top notch. Immediately subscribing!
One of the most inspiring albums of all time in my opinoin. The fact that they shined a light on how distopian our society is at times and still somehow show beauty through the melancholy with there insane arangments is insane. What an album I hope you do more.
I second this and agree with your popular opinion. Radiohead really did pull the curtains and show how shitty our dystopian society can be whilst simultaneously and melancholilly (don't care if that's not a word, it is now) show beauty. It's wonderful. Sorry for the spamming. Fixing some mistakes. 🖤🖤
Your videos really help me to enjoy listening to albums for the first time. Idk why but the narration of the meaning behind the album and stuff helps me get into it more then when i listen to it alone, so i wanna thank you for these videos since they help me understand and enjoy albums i havent listened to yet. ❤
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I love that you're using your channel to explore so many genres of music! The closest a modern album has gotten to the feeling of first listening to Radiohead or any pre-2000s rock would be "Ants From Up There" by Black Country New Road. If you hadn't heard it already, I would highly recommend it!
This album was so ahead of its time and had so many great moments from all of airbag (imo), the synths at the end of paranoid android and climbing up the walls, the last pre-chorus and chorus of Let Down (their best song imo) and the nostalgic and dystopian feeling of No Surprises. So happy I get to relive my first reactions to this album through you and Its so cool that after discovering the best rapper of all time, you discover the best band of all time. Can't wait for In Rainbows!!
The best Radiohead album reaction I've seen. A brilliantly edited and well-written video. Now for the rest of the Radiohead discography... you're in for a wild ride.
The King of Limbs has a reputation of being "le funny dance music album" because of the Lotus Flower music video, but it's actually a study in minimalism, nature, and vital life forces like breath and rhythm. The album's title refers to a big, ancient tree in England called The King of Limbs. Like that tree, the album sounds like something coming out of some forest druid's ritual. "Separator" starts very lifeless, mechanical, and artificial, with a repeating machine producing an electronic Bb note on a perfect loop, only to open up to the human element of guitar improvisation, singing, and chanting. It's such a misunderstood album.
No Surprises was also used in season 6 episode 1 of House MD, it was an intro where House was going through withdrawal in a rehab facility and it was absolutely perfectly used... one of my favorite season openings ever
One of the best indie rock records ever penned. Such an amazing piece of music. One thing radiohead did exceptionally well that people don't discuss as much, is arrangement. They are so goddamn good at arrangement. Placing everything exactly where it needs to be in the mix, pacing, adding or subtracting instruments. They really get the maximum emotional mileage out of every little note. The build and break on Let Down for example is a fucking masterclass in arrangement.
Bought this the exact same day it dropped. Made a tape from the CD and had it on a loop in my car for the entire summer of '97. Crazy times (I was 19). Once Kid A dropped at the turn of the millennium I was a certified fanboy.
Bittersweet is the strongest emotion I get from this album. edit: 20:23 you mentioning you listening to "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age tells me you should REALLY check out their album Songs for the Deaf. I wouldn't say they're an underrated band (anyone that knows them knows they're pretty damn good), more like a band that doesn't get talked about enough for how consistently solid their discography has been across their career.
Songs For The Deaf is probably my most played concept album of all time. I'm actually shocked it has overtaken Pink Floyd's Animals and Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral. It's such a good album.
This album literally changed my life. Saying stuff like that is such a tired breed of cliché but no piece of art ever has changed my perspective on life and art quite as much as this one. I feel like I want to pick a new favorite album but always return to this one and enjoy it even more than I did before.
The album art to me completely matches the themes and idk feel ig of the songs. Melancholic, stitched together in a way that on first look is insane but the more you look the more coherent it all becomes. legendary album man
It's a blend of traffic/monotony/apathy and also created using a combination of physical media/household objects and digital media/computer software. Stanley Donwood (slowly downward) has done a lot of great art, for the band or otherwise
climbing up the walls feel super underated, its probably one of the better radio songs that resonated with me, I never fail to get into the perfect mood and revel in the chaos and dissonance whenever I listen to it.
It’s very beautiful to see someone of this generation enjoying my favorite band. Especially totally relate to your Aahs, and head bobs and oh my goodnesses when certain parts play. Those are some of my favorite moments of the songs as well. Welcome
more radiohead!!! kid-a is my personal favourite and all of the albums are a full experience that I love watching other people go through :) I also love ur style of little facts in the middle of your reactions :D honestly amazing channel
my favourite song on this album is definitely Climbing Up The Walls. It just feels so terrifying and hopeless, and thoms high note in the chorus is so addicting to listen to
Not only one of the greatest albums of all-time, but one of the best concept albums ever made. Loved it the first time through and was enthralled. Let Down is one of the greatest songs ever written, the lyrics sound like a death bed confession. So purely hopeful while at the same time, so pessimistic- a perfect melancholy. It was a little depressing at the same time, knowing they couldn't make something as great as OK Computer again. Radiohead was decades ahead of their time with this album. On a side note, this is my first time watching your reactions and you are so incredibly insightful, not only in the literal interpretation of them but also on a secondary and deeper level; stuff I never would have thought of. I would compare your highly logical, objective analysis to a Sheldon Cooper but who also has an empathy and emotional knowledge that's fully developed. Love how you layer your narration over the video- makes it quite profound and intelligent. You bring something new, insightful and heartfelt to some of my favorite songs and give a new point-of-view. Thank you for your time and effort and sharing your talents.
Probably the best album of the last… 40 years? Generation-defining. Paranoid Android is one of the greatest songs ever written and Let Down arguably the most beautiful piece of music ever released
most beautiful piece of music? you are joking, i hope, radiohead are great for rock band, but nothing they made deserves to be considered among pinnacle of music of all time
I listened to this album during one of the busiest weeks of my life, caught up between moving to college immediately after a week long experience at NASA Langley. When flying back, there was a 4 hour layover that was supposed to only be 30 minutes and everyone I had met had left before me. So, stuck in a vacant airport, staring out a window with raindrops tricking down I found this to be my favorite album of all time. Believe me when I tell you that the setting you are in can completely change how an album feels. The resolve that comes with "The Tourist" is unmatched, and it was a perfect embodiment of how life felt. So sitting back, closing your eyes, and enveloping in the song makes complete sense, it's transcendental.
Can’t wait for the other albums! In rainbows and Kid A are probably my favorites. How to disappear completely is I think the most beautiful and devastating song I’ve ever heard, it hits every time.
Just work your way through the rest of their albums in sequence and you’ll have the ride of your life. Best band of all time. So versatile and always reinventing themselves.
You need to check out Kid A by Radiohead, its always been a debate whether Kid A or Ok Computer was their masterpiece. I'm with Kid A all the way. Its a very haunting listen with what I believe to be one of the most gorgeous songs ever released (How to disappear completely).
Not really. You coulde also find debates involving Amnesiac or In Raiobws, even some people throw their latest albums in there. The most debated is between The Bends and OK Computer. Kid A is notable because of the let's-do-it-completely-different attitude, but overall and track-by-track is inferior to the two predecessors.
@Pedro Santos really?? The Bends has never been in question in debates I see/involve myself in. Its a amazing album. But I don't think I've ever seen that argument. I can understand a moon shaped pool/in Rainbows being debated over, but I don't think it's an as frequent argument. At least from what I've seen Edit: although, the Bends would also be a great reccomendstion.
Seconding the Kid A recommend. It is also my favorite. (although, when it comes to Radiohead albums "my favorite" is the one i am listening to right now.. excepting maybe the first two albums.) Also, for (How to disappear completely) it is interesting to keep in mind that this is Thom's favorite Radiohead song.
Excellent, it has to be one of the most interesting reaction videos I've watched. The idea of including afterthoughts for each song over the reaction video is brilliant, it adds more depth to the reaction. Well done !
my good friend passed away two days ago, this album has been one of the only things keeping me afloat, let down especially. hearing you mention how many people have affiliated it with difficult times in their lives and have used it to help them get out of it really hit me hard, since it's pretty much what i'm doing now lmao. the line about growing wings in let down has sort of a dual message now that she's passed; like she grew her wings and left this planet, but also that i will grow stronger from this experience and grow wings after this let down of a weekend. i might be crushed like a bug in the ground now, but it won't be a let down forever. or maybe i'm just being cheesy
One of my favorite albums of all time. As of late, my tastes have been developing toward warm, minimalist, and comforting music which is amazing, but I have been finding myself trying to hang on to the feeling of joy and seeing the beauty in it all while bottling up any oppressive thoughts, but this album just gives me a break and a reason to embrace any negative feelings I've been feeling and let any discontentment, fear, and disappointment flow out of me. Let Down bout made me cry
My favourite album of all time. Karma Police, Exit Music and Climbing up the walls are some of the best songs I’ve heard. Subterranean homesick alien is also a really underrated track.
Welcome to the Radiohead rabbit hole, we hope you will enjoy the stay. As many have already said, In Rainbows is a hugely recommended, but both Kid A and A Moon Shaped Pool are also absolute works of art imo. Be sure to check out the "From the Basement" live shows too, seeing how they build their songs up live is brilliant.
Super smart move to put the voiceovers with your notes/thoughts during the songs instead of stopping and talking, or talking over the song loudly to avoid copyright. The people who dislike the stopping will be happy but the most important thing is that you let yourself experience the song without feeling any need to comment during it. So awesome. Great musical and emotional insights throughout as well. I'm super into reaction channels, especially music ones, so I'm very pleased to have found your channel. Thanks for this video! All the best to you!
Once heard, never forgotten. 'Climbing Up the Walls', my favourite part... _"I am the keys to the lock in your house... that keeps your toys in the basement."_ Welcome to the family. You'll never want to leave.
This reaction made me feel like I was listening to them for the first time again. And listening to The Tourist with this feeling made me see the passion put into this album again, and I cried SO HARD to it, so thank you so much for this! Btw if you want to instantly fall in love with their music listen to In Rainbows, it's my favorite album ever an you're definitely gonna like it :)
Fitter happier gives me such a wierd feeling, it gives me nerves but also wierdly calming, i get shivers down my spine but i cant stop listening, its almost... hypnotic
Even though I already know a lot of what you're saying, I love the little bits of information on the songs and band, it makes me really happy to see someone as blown away by this album as I was the first time. Your content is really different from other reactors I've seen and I think it makes you stand out
yeah im sure im not finding anything new that radiohead fans havent dug up in the last 26 years, but this is new for me so i want to share what i loved in my research :)
4:23 The structure is in fact creative and unique, but it’s not a new concept. Queen did something similar. They switched between keys and time signatures in their Bohemian Rhapsody. I think it was the inspiration at this point.
I used to be behind Bandstand. When I sold the channel a few months back I hopped onto my personal here & had to resub to all the channels I watched. You somehow fell through the cracks. Not only did you show up in my recommended you made a video on my fav band!!!! LETS GO!! Resubbed and ready for this ♥️ Kid A 😵💫😵💫😵💫
Literal just listened to the album for the first time last week, so this was quite the suprise to pop up on my feed! Really enjoyed the record, my favorite frack has to be Climbing Up the Walls, it perfectly projects this cold, terrifying atmosphere of anxiety and paranoia. Love it.
I really enjoyed your reaction to Ok Computer. You picked up on a lot of the nuances for a first listen. Your intro also captured the album very well... For added context, 1997 was a time of change. The internet was in its formative years. Pagers and mobile phones, emails were just becoming commonplace. There was a very real chance society might collapse due to a 'Millennium Bug'. The anxiety of "Where is this all going" is (I think purposefully) encapsulated by the album... And now, with Covid, Brexit, corruption and AI, the album feels as significant as it did in 1997.
So much this, the sheer speed of change in the very fabric of (western) society, and the acceleration of that change as new technologies gained traction in the way people lived their lives was huge and unpredictable. Thom nailed so much of it with his lyrics, and the music and arrangements encapsulate and showcase it incredibly well. A "mood" before that word even gained it's current usage.
Wow .. jealous to relive hearing this album for the first the first time. Think I must of listened to it 1000 time in 98. One of the greatest of all time. Find it easy to get disappointed after you've listen to this.
You absolutely should listen to Kid A and In Rainbows at some point too. Both quite different from OKC (especially Kid A), but they're adored by Radiohead fans for a reason. Great video btw
Stumbled upon your channel randomly, I really like the effort you put into these reaction videos and your honest transparency when reacting, really super cool! And your intro for this video took me back to how I discovered Radiohead; as a kid in my grandma's basement with my godfather, he was on a MacOS like this and made me listen to track after track via expensive headphones he worked really hard to buy, I'll be honest at the time (and with how young i was) i didn't really get what I was listening to but yeah i don't know, your intro just took me right back to those autumn days in that time in early 2000 where the world was the same and yet so different. I'd love to see you react to Kid A, Amnesiac, In Rainbows or (one of my favorites) Hail to the Thief.
Exit music for a film has one of the most explosive climax not because it’s very loud but the way they build up to the climax with immaculate dynamics just gives me chills
I'm severely agoraphobic, so the only band I've ever seen in a proper concert setting was Radiohead. I couldn't have picked a better band. 💚 A lot of my favourite Radiohead songs are on other albums, but as a whole this one is just incredible.
WOW, it looks like you put soooo much love and care to the content you are sharing with us, i love when people talk so passionate. Thanks for sharing this with us :)
Wow. Watching you listening to these for the first time and your various reactions gave me serious high school flashbacks. Creep got our attention, but this was the album that made me love Radiohead forever. I agree 100% with all your takes and hope you've listened to some other albums. Also, I agree about Queens of the Stoneage, but if you've only listened to "No One Knows," check out the rest of the album, or at the very least, the song "Go with the Flow." Thanks for the trip from a new subscriber!
I always loved as a child, listening to what my dad listened too. And after years and years of my life and getting more and more into music, I stumbled across radiohead and listening to all the albums made me have such strong nostalgia over it because it's the same music my dad loved so long ago. And is now my top artist cause of how simply amazing the music is
One of my favorites albums. Like Bong Joon-Ho said, when asked about why Parasite had resonated so deeply, with so many across the world, "there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it's called capitalism." And I think that's the universal feeling.
this is probably genuinely one of my favorite reactions ive seen for this album, or ever, really. so well put together, i loved hearing both ur immediate thoughts while listening as well as after u gathered some context. plus the intro and the editing overall are incredible. immediately subscribed, hope to see u react to more radiohead sometime :D
The way you presented and formatted this reaction was very well organized and polished. Really nice job. Its funny that sequencing gets mentioned a number of times when discussing this album as one of the things that made me immediately fall in love with this album was just how perfectly it seemed sequenced to me. I think all the songs follow each other perfectly.
I like your mixture of instant reactions, researched information and quotes, and thoughtful commentary. I think this is the best reaction to this album that I've seen (and I think I've seen them all)!
This might be a little late, but hopefully you will still see this. I loved your analysis of No Surprises, but it was widely considered to be about suicide. Try listening again through that lens, and everything fits together. I came up with this myself, but in my headcanon at least, Lucky is about the high that often precedes suicide.
The moment when the "chaos" begins in Paranoid Android is one of my favorite moments in music, and your reaction to it was on point because it was truly surprising. Another favorite moment of mine in this song is when the acoustic guitar comes in after the first part of the chaos, because it's unexpected as well. This album is absolutely magnificent. It's one of my favorite albums oat, and no doubt about the fact that it's one of the greatest albums oat
Stumbled across this today… as someone who was a teenager when this album came out and it was life changing for us at the time. That being said… watching you react to it and your analysis was a breath of fresh air for an album I’ve been listening to since I was 18!
This intro is why you are gonna surpass me in subs. That was DEEEEEEEP
not a competition bradley, a rising tide raises all ships 🫶
@@pathreacts EVEN THIS RESPONSE WAS DEEP 💀
omg brad ily
OMG, she's so deep. You headbang she philosophizes
@@copbabycombo1311 they*
It's easy to tell how passionate you are about your craft... No surprises there. Music is so lucky to have you! 🎉
no surprises, please (thank you mika)
Mika the GOAT
MIKA????
@@burnttoaster431 yeah he referenced path in the recent sdp episode
Mika bro music is lucky to have Alex unknown tbh
You'd probably love In Rainbows if you enjoy this album. My personal favorite!
Mine as well friend
They go really well together actually
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When Thom says ‘hey man slow down’ he also warns his past self in Airbag. I love this detail because it makes me think that the album is never ending cycle
I love this line because you can interpret it as sooo many different things and have so many different endings. Truly powerful
Funny how The Tourist was written by Jonny, so i'ts Jonny warning Thom in the past lmao
As a factory worker the "A job that slowly kills you, Bruises that wont heal" line in No Surprises always hit kinda hard
the opening two notes sound exactly like the alarm that went off when someone entered the back of the store i worked at. after working there and being miserable that song hits so much harder now
@⋆𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖊⋆ how are you doing now my friend?
went from being factory worker to being a retail worker to working in office and these lines won't stop giving me war flashbacks
when that song comes on after a shitty day at work it's such an emotional gut punch. such a pretty but brutally sad song.
As a corporate slave, the feeling is mutual lol
I feel blessed that we live in the age where we can watch people react to masterpieces for the first time
im so happy to be a part of it
This is an all new way to experience art all over again. It’s impossible to hear an album for the first time more than once, but I absolutely love watching first time reactions. They often deepen my understanding and view of a record.
@@gnomefoam4299 I feel you
@@gnomefoam4299feeling's mutual.
Agreed.
This album is one of the keys that unlocks a lot of the influences your favorite current popular musicians have. The influence of Radiohead is gargantuan
yes, love checking out my favourite artists' favourite artists :)
@@pathreacts We're gonna get Madvillainy one day in that case :D
@@blockycoolgold yasss DOOM is as they say your favorite rappers favorite raper
@@zerois2801 i wouldn't want to have the title of "favorite raper" to be honest
@@nfdhje38743m 💀typo moment
My favorite part about OK Computer is that it’s basically a never-ending loop. We begin with Airbag, where he sings about being in a car accident in which an airbag saved his life… and we end with The Tourist, where Thom repeats the line “hey man, slow down” before the final, distinct bell note at the end, signifying the sudden “crash”. It’s quite genius, really.
Beautiful, hypnotic cycle.
As much as I prefer Kid A, this is still one of my favorite albums ever.
my thoughts exactly
kid A was the album that made me wanna listen to the rest of radiohead albums tho, so I understand
Kid A stands with great albums like Daydream Nation, Electric Mainline, and Souvlaki... yet Amnesiac is still better
@@cataldinho When I had first heard Everything in its Right Place, I was confused on how the guys who made Creep made the song. So I searched up what the best album was and listened to OK Computer and have been a fan of almost all their songs since. But I do hate when they do the schizo nightmare songs like Fitter Happier, Kid A, and Untitled.
@@CrumbCCM kid a title track isnt a schizo nightmare song lmao
The "effect on the vocals" in Climbing Up the Wall is Thom Yorke singing into to his acoustic guitar and the guitar mic capturing it.
Oh I’ve never heard of this “okay computer?” Or this Radiohead band for that matter. It’s cool that you are giving exposure to smaller artists! Hope this video brings some new people to this band. As they definitely got something here and they could be very successful.
Thought u were serious for a second lol
Ur joking💀
@@K_beans ye he is
@Rahul Nair it's a joke
i was abouta say 😭
If you liked this album you are gonna love In Rainbows
I liked ok computer pretty well, but found myself only adding "nude" to my list 💀what about in rainbows do you like?
@@RAEVLOS the bigger question is what about in rainbows dont you like? its fucking perfection.
@Finn Bilham as music though?? Idk, things dont become masterpieces just because they're weird and different. The reality is that it's completely personal and subjective. I don't really care that much for lyrics and story if I don't like the music being played. I can totally respect it though as well as respect others opinion on it, and I'm just curious on what other people like about it specifically. The story? Vocals? Guitar? Rhythm? Harmony?
Edit: all of them? 😂
@@RAEVLOS The hype. Think about how little music is valued in western or eastern education system. It's obvious that vast majority of people don't know anything about music. Neither its history nor theory. Then they get exposed to music with preconceptions, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Radiohead is "good music," and whatever the previous generation didn't like is "bad music." Most people can't even describe what they like or dislike about an album, just look at the comment above you. "It's fucking perfection," that means absolutely nothing LMAO. Frivolous statements like that from sheep accumulate and create this hype and narrative. It's all just monkey business.
@JHM bro you are Reading my mind, exactly what I've been thinking after listening to all those three you mentioned 😂😂 Beatles Pink Floyd and Radiohead. Beatles I nearly didn't like any of, from pink floyd I actually LOVED Time and Money, but no others. And Radiohead I actually think is pretty good, but vastly overrated..
One of the best albums, Radiohead’s masterpiece. They are more than just the creep song Lol
but i like creep :(
frances the mute more like frances the poop
@@moriahmars1462 I do too, nothing wrong with that
Speaking of the best albums, nice profile picture
@@at-the-joslen Thanks!
I'm 5 minutes into this video and this is certifiably the best reaction to OK Computer. The editing and the commentary are top notch. Immediately subscribing!
thank you ☺️
One of the most inspiring albums of all time in my opinoin. The fact that they shined a light on how distopian our society is at times and still somehow show beauty through the melancholy with there insane arangments is insane. What an album I hope you do more.
I second this and agree with your popular opinion. Radiohead really did pull the curtains and show how shitty our dystopian society can be whilst simultaneously and melancholilly (don't care if that's not a word, it is now) show beauty. It's wonderful. Sorry for the spamming. Fixing some mistakes. 🖤🖤
Your videos really help me to enjoy listening to albums for the first time. Idk why but the narration of the meaning behind the album and stuff helps me get into it more then when i listen to it alone, so i wanna thank you for these videos since they help me understand and enjoy albums i havent listened to yet. ❤
this makes me so happy to hear, thank you pelle
DUDE ARE U REALLY LISTEN TO RADIOHEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME BY A FKN REACTION VIDEO WTF ARE THOSE PEOPLE, I CANT HOW PEOPLE AFFORD TO BE SOOOOOOOOOO
@@janwyczarski7671 bro im young ive been listening to music only for like 2 years starting with rap/hiphop
@@UfoPiloot1 welp, play the whole album, it's awesome.
I feel the same way you do, mate. It's like I'm in deep in my melancholic state.
My favorite album of all time. I loved your facial expressions to each song. You have a new fan.
Make that two new fans.
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love u path watching this at 3am really made my night as im studying for exams
@@joelkivisto good luck with exams! get some rest.
@@pathreacts 💞
I love that you're using your channel to explore so many genres of music! The closest a modern album has gotten to the feeling of first listening to Radiohead or any pre-2000s rock would be "Ants From Up There" by Black Country New Road. If you hadn't heard it already, I would highly recommend it!
Most unexpected reaction that we needed
Such a unique way to do reactions, I love how you include your thoughts from later on during the middle of the reaction
This album was so ahead of its time and had so many great moments from all of airbag (imo), the synths at the end of paranoid android and climbing up the walls, the last pre-chorus and chorus of Let Down (their best song imo) and the nostalgic and dystopian feeling of No Surprises. So happy I get to relive my first reactions to this album through you and Its so cool that after discovering the best rapper of all time, you discover the best band of all time. Can't wait for In Rainbows!!
The best Radiohead album reaction I've seen. A brilliantly edited and well-written video. Now for the rest of the Radiohead discography... you're in for a wild ride.
The King of Limbs has a reputation of being "le funny dance music album" because of the Lotus Flower music video, but it's actually a study in minimalism, nature, and vital life forces like breath and rhythm. The album's title refers to a big, ancient tree in England called The King of Limbs. Like that tree, the album sounds like something coming out of some forest druid's ritual. "Separator" starts very lifeless, mechanical, and artificial, with a repeating machine producing an electronic Bb note on a perfect loop, only to open up to the human element of guitar improvisation, singing, and chanting. It's such a misunderstood album.
No Surprises was also used in season 6 episode 1 of House MD, it was an intro where House was going through withdrawal in a rehab facility and it was absolutely perfectly used... one of my favorite season openings ever
One of the best indie rock records ever penned. Such an amazing piece of music. One thing radiohead did exceptionally well that people don't discuss as much, is arrangement. They are so goddamn good at arrangement. Placing everything exactly where it needs to be in the mix, pacing, adding or subtracting instruments. They really get the maximum emotional mileage out of every little note. The build and break on Let Down for example is a fucking masterclass in arrangement.
Indie rock?
@@marcobazan4187 that's what the kids are calling "alt rock" now.
It was released under a music label…
Bought this the exact same day it dropped. Made a tape from the CD and had it on a loop in my car for the entire summer of '97. Crazy times (I was 19). Once Kid A dropped at the turn of the millennium I was a certified fanboy.
Bittersweet is the strongest emotion I get from this album.
edit: 20:23 you mentioning you listening to "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age tells me you should REALLY check out their album Songs for the Deaf. I wouldn't say they're an underrated band (anyone that knows them knows they're pretty damn good), more like a band that doesn't get talked about enough for how consistently solid their discography has been across their career.
Songs For The Deaf is probably my most played concept album of all time. I'm actually shocked it has overtaken Pink Floyd's Animals and Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral. It's such a good album.
This album literally changed my life. Saying stuff like that is such a tired breed of cliché but no piece of art ever has changed my perspective on life and art quite as much as this one.
I feel like I want to pick a new favorite album but always return to this one and enjoy it even more than I did before.
The album art to me completely matches the themes and idk feel ig of the songs. Melancholic, stitched together in a way that on first look is insane but the more you look the more coherent it all becomes. legendary album man
It's a blend of traffic/monotony/apathy and also created using a combination of physical media/household objects and digital media/computer software. Stanley Donwood (slowly downward) has done a lot of great art, for the band or otherwise
climbing up the walls feel super underated, its probably one of the better radio songs that resonated with me, I never fail to get into the perfect mood and revel in the chaos and dissonance whenever I listen to it.
It’s very beautiful to see someone of this generation enjoying my favorite band. Especially totally relate to your Aahs, and head bobs and oh my goodnesses when certain parts play. Those are some of my favorite moments of the songs as well. Welcome
more radiohead!!!
kid-a is my personal favourite and all of the albums are a full experience that I love watching other people go through :)
I also love ur style of little facts in the middle of your reactions :D honestly amazing channel
Over half of the songs on this album give me goosebumps, and I am so jealous that you got to listen to this album for the first time!
YESSSS IVE BEEN GOING THROUGH A ROCK PHASE AND I NEEDED THIS THANK YOU PATH THIS IS SO GOOD 🙏🏼
if this somehow causes a continual dive into their discog, then colour me vividly excited. one of my fav albums of all time. u rock path!!
Let's goooo my favorite band ever. OK Computer is an absolute masterpiece. An album that changed the game forever
I wouldn't say changed the game... it stands on the shoulders of alot that was done before it.
my favourite song on this album is definitely Climbing Up The Walls. It just feels so terrifying and hopeless, and thoms high note in the chorus is so addicting to listen to
Not only one of the greatest albums of all-time, but one of the best concept albums ever made. Loved it the first time through and was enthralled. Let Down is one of the greatest songs ever written, the lyrics sound like a death bed confession. So purely hopeful while at the same time, so pessimistic- a perfect melancholy. It was a little depressing at the same time, knowing they couldn't make something as great as OK Computer again. Radiohead was decades ahead of their time with this album. On a side note, this is my first time watching your reactions and you are so incredibly insightful, not only in the literal interpretation of them but also on a secondary and deeper level; stuff I never would have thought of. I would compare your highly logical, objective analysis to a Sheldon Cooper but who also has an empathy and emotional knowledge that's fully developed. Love how you layer your narration over the video- makes it quite profound and intelligent. You bring something new, insightful and heartfelt to some of my favorite songs and give a new point-of-view. Thank you for your time and effort and sharing your talents.
Probably the best album of the last… 40 years? Generation-defining. Paranoid Android is one of the greatest songs ever written and Let Down arguably the most beautiful piece of music ever released
ever released? nope, not at all
most beautiful piece of music? you are joking, i hope, radiohead are great for rock band, but nothing they made deserves to be considered among pinnacle of music of all time
@@ART_IS_EVERYTHING art is subjective.
I listened to this album during one of the busiest weeks of my life, caught up between moving to college immediately after a week long experience at NASA Langley. When flying back, there was a 4 hour layover that was supposed to only be 30 minutes and everyone I had met had left before me. So, stuck in a vacant airport, staring out a window with raindrops tricking down I found this to be my favorite album of all time. Believe me when I tell you that the setting you are in can completely change how an album feels. The resolve that comes with "The Tourist" is unmatched, and it was a perfect embodiment of how life felt. So sitting back, closing your eyes, and enveloping in the song makes complete sense, it's transcendental.
Can’t wait for the other albums! In rainbows and Kid A are probably my favorites. How to disappear completely is I think the most beautiful and devastating song I’ve ever heard, it hits every time.
Probably my favorite of their work, tied with A Moon Shaped Pool.
I've always loved Radiohead for their experimentations, especially in A Moon Shaped Pool and Kid A. true masterpieces and I always revisit them
it's weird that i prefer AMSP more than Kid A now... damn Radiohead keep topping their own albums
So glad you reacted to this, one of my favourite albums of all time
Just work your way through the rest of their albums in sequence and you’ll have the ride of your life. Best band of all time. So versatile and always reinventing themselves.
This album deserves all the praise it gets, easily my favorite 90s album and one of my all time favorites. Great reaction as always😊
You need to check out Kid A by Radiohead, its always been a debate whether Kid A or Ok Computer was their masterpiece. I'm with Kid A all the way.
Its a very haunting listen with what I believe to be one of the most gorgeous songs ever released (How to disappear completely).
Not really. You coulde also find debates involving Amnesiac or In Raiobws, even some people throw their latest albums in there.
The most debated is between The Bends and OK Computer.
Kid A is notable because of the let's-do-it-completely-different attitude, but overall and track-by-track is inferior to the two predecessors.
@Pedro Santos really?? The Bends has never been in question in debates I see/involve myself in. Its a amazing album. But I don't think I've ever seen that argument.
I can understand a moon shaped pool/in Rainbows being debated over, but I don't think it's an as frequent argument. At least from what I've seen
Edit: although, the Bends would also be a great reccomendstion.
Seconding the Kid A recommend. It is also my favorite. (although, when it comes to Radiohead albums "my favorite" is the one i am listening to right now.. excepting maybe the first two albums.)
Also, for (How to disappear completely) it is interesting to keep in mind that this is Thom's favorite Radiohead song.
Excellent, it has to be one of the most interesting reaction videos I've watched. The idea of including afterthoughts for each song over the reaction video is brilliant, it adds more depth to the reaction. Well done !
my good friend passed away two days ago, this album has been one of the only things keeping me afloat, let down especially. hearing you mention how many people have affiliated it with difficult times in their lives and have used it to help them get out of it really hit me hard, since it's pretty much what i'm doing now lmao. the line about growing wings in let down has sort of a dual message now that she's passed; like she grew her wings and left this planet, but also that i will grow stronger from this experience and grow wings after this let down of a weekend. i might be crushed like a bug in the ground now, but it won't be a let down forever. or maybe i'm just being cheesy
thank you for sharing, though i’m so sorry to hear. hope you’re doing well, sending you so much love ♡
nothing that brings you comfort is cheesy
I like and related to this wonderful comment.
One of my favorite albums of all time. As of late, my tastes have been developing toward warm, minimalist, and comforting music which is amazing, but I have been finding myself trying to hang on to the feeling of joy and seeing the beauty in it all while bottling up any oppressive thoughts, but this album just gives me a break and a reason to embrace any negative feelings I've been feeling and let any discontentment, fear, and disappointment flow out of me. Let Down bout made me cry
My favourite album of all time. Karma Police, Exit Music and Climbing up the walls are some of the best songs I’ve heard. Subterranean homesick alien is also a really underrated track.
Welcome to the Radiohead rabbit hole, we hope you will enjoy the stay. As many have already said, In Rainbows is a hugely recommended, but both Kid A and A Moon Shaped Pool are also absolute works of art imo. Be sure to check out the "From the Basement" live shows too, seeing how they build their songs up live is brilliant.
Fav album of all time right here. Such an immersive experience. Great video as always!
Weird Fishes is on In Rainbows, my personal favorite album from them. Its much more brighter in tone but still diverse in sound. ❤
Oh yeah In rainbows is definitely their warmest album. I consider IR and OKC 1a and 1b, both just really brilliant pieces of art
I love how genuine and expressive your reactions were. I also love hearing facts and meanings behind the songs that i didn't know before.
Me too. I learnt a couple things.
I love radio head , in rainbows and the bends are also exceptional
The Bends was a better album.
Super smart move to put the voiceovers with your notes/thoughts during the songs instead of stopping and talking, or talking over the song loudly to avoid copyright. The people who dislike the stopping will be happy but the most important thing is that you let yourself experience the song without feeling any need to comment during it. So awesome. Great musical and emotional insights throughout as well. I'm super into reaction channels, especially music ones, so I'm very pleased to have found your channel. Thanks for this video! All the best to you!
Truly timeless. Every song is important and has something to say and packed full of emotion.
Once heard, never forgotten.
'Climbing Up the Walls', my favourite part... _"I am the keys to the lock in your house... that keeps your toys in the basement."_
Welcome to the family. You'll never want to leave.
6:55 When 'Paranoid Android' finished and she said "Holy shit!", I felt that
Really appreciate your videos, not only do I feel like I learn something new about the music, but also about life in general
This reaction made me feel like I was listening to them for the first time again. And listening to The Tourist with this feeling made me see the passion put into this album again, and I cried SO HARD to it, so thank you so much for this!
Btw if you want to instantly fall in love with their music listen to In Rainbows, it's my favorite album ever an you're definitely gonna like it :)
Fitter happier gives me such a wierd feeling, it gives me nerves but also wierdly calming, i get shivers down my spine but i cant stop listening, its almost... hypnotic
Even though I already know a lot of what you're saying, I love the little bits of information on the songs and band, it makes me really happy to see someone as blown away by this album as I was the first time.
Your content is really different from other reactors I've seen and I think it makes you stand out
yeah im sure im not finding anything new that radiohead fans havent dug up in the last 26 years, but this is new for me so i want to share what i loved in my research :)
4:23 The structure is in fact creative and unique, but it’s not a new concept. Queen did something similar. They switched between keys and time signatures in their Bohemian Rhapsody. I think it was the inspiration at this point.
oh yes i meant by splicing their own tracks together like this, they made something new-not that patchwork tracks are a new concept!
Such a special album
I used to be behind Bandstand. When I sold the channel a few months back I hopped onto my personal here & had to resub to all the channels I watched. You somehow fell through the cracks. Not only did you show up in my recommended you made a video on my fav band!!!! LETS GO!! Resubbed and ready for this ♥️
Kid A 😵💫😵💫😵💫
hi josh :) welcome back
Literal just listened to the album for the first time last week, so this was quite the suprise to pop up on my feed! Really enjoyed the record, my favorite frack has to be Climbing Up the Walls, it perfectly projects this cold, terrifying atmosphere of anxiety and paranoia. Love it.
you should definitely listen to the rest of that Queens of The Stone Age record, it's incredible
I love electioneering, never understood the disappointment many have about it
This album always hits insanely hard. Thank god this video popped up in my recommended. Next react to kid A, my personal favorite album by them.
I really enjoyed your reaction to Ok Computer. You picked up on a lot of the nuances for a first listen. Your intro also captured the album very well... For added context, 1997 was a time of change. The internet was in its formative years. Pagers and mobile phones, emails were just becoming commonplace. There was a very real chance society might collapse due to a 'Millennium Bug'. The anxiety of "Where is this all going" is (I think purposefully) encapsulated by the album... And now, with Covid, Brexit, corruption and AI, the album feels as significant as it did in 1997.
So much this, the sheer speed of change in the very fabric of (western) society, and the acceleration of that change as new technologies gained traction in the way people lived their lives was huge and unpredictable. Thom nailed so much of it with his lyrics, and the music and arrangements encapsulate and showcase it incredibly well. A "mood" before that word even gained it's current usage.
Thanks for making a reaction video with actual substance and real insight. Definitely the best I've seen
Wow .. jealous to relive hearing this album for the first the first time. Think I must of listened to it 1000 time in 98. One of the greatest of all time. Find it easy to get disappointed after you've listen to this.
It’s amazing to see that you have the depth to feel and touch that many but few have. Cheers to love and understanding.👍🏻 RadioHead
You absolutely should listen to Kid A and In Rainbows at some point too. Both quite different from OKC (especially Kid A), but they're adored by Radiohead fans for a reason. Great video btw
No Surprises makes me cry everytime. Just from the first few notes. So gorgeous.
Stumbled upon your channel randomly, I really like the effort you put into these reaction videos and your honest transparency when reacting, really super cool! And your intro for this video took me back to how I discovered Radiohead; as a kid in my grandma's basement with my godfather, he was on a MacOS like this and made me listen to track after track via expensive headphones he worked really hard to buy, I'll be honest at the time (and with how young i was) i didn't really get what I was listening to but yeah i don't know, your intro just took me right back to those autumn days in that time in early 2000 where the world was the same and yet so different. I'd love to see you react to Kid A, Amnesiac, In Rainbows or (one of my favorites) Hail to the Thief.
Exit music for a film has one of the most explosive climax not because it’s very loud but the way they build up to the climax with immaculate dynamics just gives me chills
I'm severely agoraphobic, so the only band I've ever seen in a proper concert setting was Radiohead. I couldn't have picked a better band. 💚
A lot of my favourite Radiohead songs are on other albums, but as a whole this one is just incredible.
WOW, it looks like you put soooo much love and care to the content you are sharing with us, i love when people talk so passionate. Thanks for sharing this with us :)
Wow. Watching you listening to these for the first time and your various reactions gave me serious high school flashbacks. Creep got our attention, but this was the album that made me love Radiohead forever. I agree 100% with all your takes and hope you've listened to some other albums. Also, I agree about Queens of the Stoneage, but if you've only listened to "No One Knows," check out the rest of the album, or at the very least, the song "Go with the Flow."
Thanks for the trip from a new subscriber!
I always loved as a child, listening to what my dad listened too. And after years and years of my life and getting more and more into music, I stumbled across radiohead and listening to all the albums made me have such strong nostalgia over it because it's the same music my dad loved so long ago. And is now my top artist cause of how simply amazing the music is
One of my favorites albums. Like Bong Joon-Ho said, when asked about why Parasite had resonated so deeply, with so many across the world, "there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it's called capitalism." And I think that's the universal feeling.
Love your comments during the songs while they play in the background, different than a lot of other reactions, keep it up
If you're yearning for melancholy and sense of finality, listen to 'A Moon Shaped Pool', my favorite of theirs.
Going to be listening to Let Down all week now. A great gift. Thank you!
this is probably genuinely one of my favorite reactions ive seen for this album, or ever, really. so well put together, i loved hearing both ur immediate thoughts while listening as well as after u gathered some context. plus the intro and the editing overall are incredible. immediately subscribed, hope to see u react to more radiohead sometime :D
thank you alex :)
The way you presented and formatted this reaction was very well organized and polished. Really nice job. Its funny that sequencing gets mentioned a number of times when discussing this album as one of the things that made me immediately fall in love with this album was just how perfectly it seemed sequenced to me. I think all the songs follow each other perfectly.
I'm not wearing my dirty crown made of barbed wire when I watch her. I completely agree with you.
hearing that path is a sleep deprived fan just makes me love them even more 😍
I like your mixture of instant reactions, researched information and quotes, and thoughtful commentary. I think this is the best reaction to this album that I've seen (and I think I've seen them all)!
glad u like it :)
This might be a little late, but hopefully you will still see this.
I loved your analysis of No Surprises, but it was widely considered to be about suicide. Try listening again through that lens, and everything fits together.
I came up with this myself, but in my headcanon at least, Lucky is about the high that often precedes suicide.
The moment when the "chaos" begins in Paranoid Android is one of my favorite moments in music, and your reaction to it was on point because it was truly surprising. Another favorite moment of mine in this song is when the acoustic guitar comes in after the first part of the chaos, because it's unexpected as well. This album is absolutely magnificent. It's one of my favorite albums oat, and no doubt about the fact that it's one of the greatest albums oat
Subterranean Homesick Alien is also a Bob Dylan reference. His albums would be perfect for some more retro reactions
Stumbled across this today… as someone who was a teenager when this album came out and it was life changing for us at the time. That being said… watching you react to it and your analysis was a breath of fresh air for an album I’ve been listening to since I was 18!
Not something i expected but definitely something i needed
dude holy FUCK WHY IS YOUR EDITING ALWAYS SO FUCKING GOOD
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