Great reaction. This song is so epic! Please do Kid A next, hear how Radiohead can throw you a curve ball, but in a great way. They could have done an OK Computer II, but they challenged themselves and their fans, but it was well worth it.
Their all around best album, as it's not as oppressively heavy as this one. I love this album, but it's a little too crushing. I hope he does The Bends before moving forward with the fan favourites Kid A and In Rainbows.
You mentioned Kid A and In Rainbows, which I have to say are my other 2 faves along with OKC. I love Kid A because after the left turn of OKC, everyone expected a return to straighter guitar-driven music like The Bends (also excellent), but instead they made ANOTHER left turn with Kid A. The lyrics even more fractured and oblique, the music even more experimental. And I love In Rainbows because it's the only album in which they sound like they're letting their hair down and having fun.
All of their albums are great after the first one I have been subscribed to your channel for quite some time now and I am very happy you are getting into Radiohead there is a very good reason they are one of the most critically acclaimed bands since the Beatles and I believe when its all said and done they will go down as one of the best bands ever their last album from 2016 was still great and I do not feel they are done yet.
This has been a great look at OK Computer. I would recommend venturing into another album often listed as “best of the 90s” with “The Soft Bulletin” by Flaming Lips. It’s truly special.
I have a suggestion for you Radiohead did two basement sessions which are both amazing and give you a chance to see them pull off some of these songs live and they are really amazing live plus the sound quality is fantastic which only makes it even better. One of the things I love about them is that they do not use recorded material for live performances they pull everything off live and most of the time it sounds better than the studio versions do.
Actually, he has a good point. Their basement sessions are epic and if you keep the video small and do one song at a time you shouldn't get claimed. Btw, did I miss the pauses in this video?
You really need to do some Talk Talk circa 86 to 91, for a band that went from synth pop into a place of hushed beauty, not equalled since! It's no secret that people talk of their last two albums as occupying the same rarefied air as 'OK Computer'! In fact, their sheer scope and ambition exceeds the aforementioned by quite a distance! You love great music, so Talk Talk are a puzzle you really need to unravel. I sincerely hope you don't let this suggestion go unnoticed! Thanks.
I feel like he is believing things can be positive like you can survive the worst. The music is more upbeat as his mood is. I'm sad as the next track is the last!
I think you'd like In Rainbows. It's like a fusion of the guitar based, traditional songwriting albums and the electronic based albums Kid A and Amnesiac. Just discovered your channel through this playlist. Love hearing someone respond to an album I've been into for almost 20 years for the 1st time. Great channel!
Your reaction is so damn similar to mine, like really in such an uncanny way, I wanted to give my thanks before the final song because that's a bit melancholy and RH provides enough of that for us as is sorry if I spill out an annoyingly long reaction is is just so uncanny and cool because I see all the other music you also have explored and its not dissimilar either, of where my head would have been at when I encountered OKC, and you do a rally cool and well put together style of analysis reactions it is quite entertaining, so props by the way - it is fun, honest, and visceral, along with being intelligent - other than I had it about a year after it released and knew them a bit by "Creep," loved that song but then they were an afterthought, thought "Fake Plastic Trees" was so intoxicatingly different and awesome when it had a short MTV run off "The Bends" and then, yeah saw the cartoon video, couple times, Paranoid Android as the unbelievable song filled my brain, and I determined i needed to get the album after reading a super over the top ( ha just as my own take was , is and will always be on it ever since) but like wildly praise-filled, "a watershed mark for music" type obnoxious critic style language review but from a big time source- I was heavily into all types of music - anything from classic rock and older prog rock - Genesis, Yes - classic rock like Pink Floyd, or the Beatles, Zeppelin or Simon and Garfunkel or Neil Young, etc- but also in the midst of being lucky enough to grow up with the fun foundation of wacky music of the 80s as a little kid (Billy Joel, Phil Collins, the impact of "Thriller" , Peter Gabriel, Huey Lewis, Tear for Fear and the likes) I was fortunate to hit the best age and be old enough at the onset of the 90's. So I was inundated by masterworks by A Tribe Called Quest, SRV, Nirvana Unplugged, Nine inch Nails, Underworld, The Prodigy, The Roots - the glorious larval emergences of the 90's hip hop, grunge, Electronica, alt-rock genres, that I got to go through as a HS student and 6 year college student, also being a very amateur musician and lover of life and late night smoke-filled after parties in my apartment. BUT - when I listened to OK Computer - I felt the same way - not only did it hit me,not only was it not blatantly but in an obscure but evident way a "concept" meant to be listened to in entirety, but I just could not get over how brilliantly amazing the entire track listing was - I truly didn't realize it was possible, and it resonated to my taste so regadless I knew and know it is always going to be subjective but I was simply blown away. Then I saw them live on mushrooms at the Tibetan Freedom fest in 1997 in D.C. and remember Michael Stipe from REM singing "Lucky" and from that moment till today I will always consider it to be the best album of my life. The layers and appreciation grow over the years, listening to Thom and Johnny play a bunch of acoustic sets (the one from Live at Capital Records only audio but is the best, Lucky is on that set) or Thom play it solo at The Bridge School on Video on YT - and hear the layers that made me love "Electioneering" 10X more like 15 years later (somehow I never paid proper attention to how cool the two electric guitars ascending and descending sounded) make it the reason people are so unreasonably devoted to it, while logic says its absurd one album is "the best" but its ok to be in awe they pulled this off, production, spacey soundscapes like on Homesick Alien, themes that are more real today then they were then - and just such songwriting - Thom assuredly to me deserves to be in the pantheon of idolized immortal figures with Bob Marley, and John Lennon, and Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain - whomever - especially once you hear the endless and constantly seriously evolving songs of the other 8 albums. Kid A is a sudden intense move from OKC, and takes many listens to get, then they bring it back with the lush near perfection (again) on "In Rainbows." Hey - we all go nuts over our favorites, but these guys really are out of this world. Johnny writes Academy Award nominated fil scores (nice side talent to have for your lead guitarist) and to really get to know, love and respect them (as they create what sounds like 15 tracks of studio editing with just the same 5 guys playing 5 parts - In Rainbows - Live from the Basement is where they show off just what a band for this age they were and still are. Anyway, its just fun to see your reaction - whether you choose to engage further with them or not - remind me so much to mine. Kid A threw me so much I didn't listen to them for like 7 years till 2008 catching From the Basement randomly live on PBS - PBS? So random - was meant to be. You made my last couple weeks, an otherwise tough personal couple weeks, a lot better with these vids man, whatever that's worth who knows but it is so, so for that, I thank you.
In Rainbows is a great lp as well. I figured you were going to like Radiohead which is why I was a little dismayed when you chose Creep first. Weird Fishes is probably my favorite song after Paranoid Android. They have performance sessions called From The Basement, on RUclips that you should check out too. Since you have so man recommendations, you really just have an embarrassment of riches.
The Bends and Kid A alternate as my favorite depending on my mood. Amnesiac is great and I Could Be Wrong was great in showing how they could play certain songs live that didn't seem playable. Great stuff. Side note: Kid A and Amnesiac were recorded together.
I think Idioteque (apologies if I've spelt that wrong!) from Kid A was a track that got me into electronic music like Boards Of Canada and Aphex Twin. Not to lessen Radiohead's amazing guitar/bass/drum work of course but I love the kind of experimentation they did with that song.
Oh you're gonna b aradiohead fanatic 4 sure.. cuz u're saying out loud the exact same things i used 2 feel and think when i first started out listening 2 radiohead..🥰
In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool are better than OK Computer IMO. I've been in to this band since their first album Pablo Honey and listening to that and then their 9th album one after the other is incredible to hear the progression. Top 3 for me is : 1. A Moon Shaped Pool (9th album) 2. In Rainbows (7th album) 3. OK Computer (3rd album). Loved watching you react to and disect this classic, i'd like to see your take on the other 2 albums i've mentioned.
I never understood why a band that were such masters at their instruments would put them down in favour of keyboards and electronics. Their guitar work is some of my favourite in all of rock. If anyone can recommend any of their later work involving guitar etc, please do. I've never listened past this album much because of the electronica elements.
@@Womberto I just turned off In Rainbows the other day, abut 5 or 6 songs in, I just couldn't take it seriously. I'll check out the live set, is there a song I should jump to, because I can't start with 15 Step. I want to like them, I have loved The Bends and OKC since their releases. I'm going against the grain with the fans here, I know.
@@justinatest9456 Weird that you like OKC and not IR, you are of course entitled to your opinion and music is very personal, i get that, but IR is the follow up to OKC, there is loads of web pages that even tell you how to mix the 2 albums together, i've tried a few and it flows really, really well. p.s the guitar playing on 15 step is sublime, then bodysnatchers has some viscous sounding guitar, Nude is one of the most beautiful songs ever (again with guitar), Jigsaw is a guitar driven song and Reckoner is just guitar and drums basically, i don't get what your looking for, power chords ? more distortion ? Maybe Muse or Coldplay is more up your street, they have been ripping off OKC and The Bends for years and years and made a career out of it.
Lucky is IMO a perfect song. Thanks for the great reaction!
We are standing on the edge
Check out the documentary “Meeting People is Easy”. it’s about Radiohead’s world tour following OKC and it is amazing
Great reaction. This song is so epic! Please do Kid A next, hear how Radiohead can throw you a curve ball, but in a great way. They could have done an OK Computer II, but they challenged themselves and their fans, but it was well worth it.
This one ...(amongst others) always kicks me straight in the feels....😭
Please do The Bends. Full of great songs.
Their all around best album, as it's not as oppressively heavy as this one. I love this album, but it's a little too crushing.
I hope he does The Bends before moving forward with the fan favourites Kid A and In Rainbows.
Radiohead's guitar centric tracks are amazing. I love the guitar work on this album. Late "Blur" is a similar sound.
I am by no means a huge fan of Radiohead or anything, but OK Computer and Kid A both are 10/10 masterpieces. This song is basically perfect.
You mentioned Kid A and In Rainbows, which I have to say are my other 2 faves along with OKC. I love Kid A because after the left turn of OKC, everyone expected a return to straighter guitar-driven music like The Bends (also excellent), but instead they made ANOTHER left turn with Kid A. The lyrics even more fractured and oblique, the music even more experimental. And I love In Rainbows because it's the only album in which they sound like they're letting their hair down and having fun.
Btw, Lucky live is an amazing experience to be a part of!!it’s like landing on another planet safely…..
"The Head of State has called for me by name
But I don't have time for him...
It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change."
All of their albums are great after the first one I have been subscribed to your channel for quite some time now and I am very happy you are getting into Radiohead there is a very good reason they are one of the most critically acclaimed bands since the Beatles and I believe when its all said and done they will go down as one of the best bands ever their last album from 2016 was still great and I do not feel they are done yet.
The Bends is also a very great album. Maybe a fave. So much to share. So great to experience all this with you. My very best Dan.
The Bends is just as good as OK Computer worth a listen
I don't know why watching your video feels nostalgic.
This has been a great look at OK Computer. I would recommend venturing into another album often listed as “best of the 90s” with “The Soft Bulletin” by Flaming Lips. It’s truly special.
I have a suggestion for you Radiohead did two basement sessions which are both amazing and give you a chance to see them pull off some of these songs live and they are really amazing live plus the sound quality is fantastic which only makes it even better. One of the things I love about them is that they do not use recorded material for live performances they pull everything off live and most of the time it sounds better than the studio versions do.
Actually, he has a good point. Their basement sessions are epic and if you keep the video small and do one song at a time you shouldn't get claimed. Btw, did I miss the pauses in this video?
I must admit that I prefer both basement sessions to their respective studio album counterparts, especially the latter one for TKOL.
Kid A next please, Radiohead will get you lots of views, and you genuinely like them, WIN WIN (skip Pablo Honey, you're welcome) :)
Hahaha I kind of like Pablo Honey. It’s not great but there is something sweet about its naivety and simplicity.
My favorite song on the album. Truly moving.
You really need to do some Talk Talk circa 86 to 91, for a band that went from synth pop into a place of hushed beauty, not equalled since! It's no secret that people talk of their last two albums as occupying the same rarefied air as 'OK Computer'! In fact, their sheer scope and ambition exceeds the aforementioned by quite a distance! You love great music, so Talk Talk are a puzzle you really need to unravel. I sincerely hope you don't let this suggestion go unnoticed! Thanks.
Yes, definitely do Kid A!
Good stuff, Daniel. Interesting how a single song can give rise to an entire project.
My favoruite on the album i can sing my heart out of the chorus of this Also Do THE BENDS dont forget it Kid a and In rainbows these 3 are brilliant
BASEMENT SHOWS ARE A MUST!! To see the magic happening is. Magical 🧐
I feel like he is believing things can be positive like you can survive the worst. The music is more upbeat as his mood is. I'm sad as the next track is the last!
I think you'd like In Rainbows. It's like a fusion of the guitar based, traditional songwriting albums and the electronic based albums Kid A and Amnesiac. Just discovered your channel through this playlist. Love hearing someone respond to an album I've been into for almost 20 years for the 1st time. Great channel!
My favorite track from the album. A great Trip-Hop anthem
Yes Kid A please definitely! It will continue to intrigue you on a musical level and intellectual level
Your reaction is so damn similar to mine, like really in such an uncanny way, I wanted to give my thanks before the final song because that's a bit melancholy and RH provides enough of that for us as is sorry if I spill out an annoyingly long reaction is is just so uncanny and cool because I see all the other music you also have explored and its not dissimilar either, of where my head would have been at when I encountered OKC, and you do a rally cool and well put together style of analysis reactions it is quite entertaining, so props by the way - it is fun, honest, and visceral, along with being intelligent - other than I had it about a year after it released and knew them a bit by "Creep," loved that song but then they were an afterthought, thought "Fake Plastic Trees" was so intoxicatingly different and awesome when it had a short MTV run off "The Bends" and then, yeah saw the cartoon video, couple times, Paranoid Android as the unbelievable song filled my brain, and I determined i needed to get the album after reading a super over the top ( ha just as my own take was , is and will always be on it ever since) but like wildly praise-filled, "a watershed mark for music" type obnoxious critic style language review but from a big time source- I was heavily into all types of music - anything from classic rock and older prog rock - Genesis, Yes - classic rock like Pink Floyd, or the Beatles, Zeppelin or Simon and Garfunkel or Neil Young, etc- but also in the midst of being lucky enough to grow up with the fun foundation of wacky music of the 80s as a little kid (Billy Joel, Phil Collins, the impact of "Thriller" , Peter Gabriel, Huey Lewis, Tear for Fear and the likes) I was fortunate to hit the best age and be old enough at the onset of the 90's. So I was inundated by masterworks by A Tribe Called Quest, SRV, Nirvana Unplugged, Nine inch Nails, Underworld, The Prodigy, The Roots - the glorious larval emergences of the 90's hip hop, grunge, Electronica, alt-rock genres, that I got to go through as a HS student and 6 year college student, also being a very amateur musician and lover of life and late night smoke-filled after parties in my apartment. BUT - when I listened to OK Computer - I felt the same way - not only did it hit me,not only was it not blatantly but in an obscure but evident way a "concept" meant to be listened to in entirety, but I just could not get over how brilliantly amazing the entire track listing was - I truly didn't realize it was possible, and it resonated to my taste so regadless I knew and know it is always going to be subjective but I was simply blown away. Then I saw them live on mushrooms at the Tibetan Freedom fest in 1997 in D.C. and remember Michael Stipe from REM singing "Lucky" and from that moment till today I will always consider it to be the best album of my life. The layers and appreciation grow over the years, listening to Thom and Johnny play a bunch of acoustic sets (the one from Live at Capital Records only audio but is the best, Lucky is on that set) or Thom play it solo at The Bridge School on Video on YT - and hear the layers that made me love "Electioneering" 10X more like 15 years later (somehow I never paid proper attention to how cool the two electric guitars ascending and descending sounded) make it the reason people are so unreasonably devoted to it, while logic says its absurd one album is "the best" but its ok to be in awe they pulled this off, production, spacey soundscapes like on Homesick Alien, themes that are more real today then they were then - and just such songwriting - Thom assuredly to me deserves to be in the pantheon of idolized immortal figures with Bob Marley, and John Lennon, and Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain - whomever - especially once you hear the endless and constantly seriously evolving songs of the other 8 albums. Kid A is a sudden intense move from OKC, and takes many listens to get, then they bring it back with the lush near perfection (again) on "In Rainbows." Hey - we all go nuts over our favorites, but these guys really are out of this world. Johnny writes Academy Award nominated fil scores (nice side talent to have for your lead guitarist) and to really get to know, love and respect them (as they create what sounds like 15 tracks of studio editing with just the same 5 guys playing 5 parts - In Rainbows - Live from the Basement is where they show off just what a band for this age they were and still are. Anyway, its just fun to see your reaction - whether you choose to engage further with them or not - remind me so much to mine. Kid A threw me so much I didn't listen to them for like 7 years till 2008 catching From the Basement randomly live on PBS - PBS? So random - was meant to be. You made my last couple weeks, an otherwise tough personal couple weeks, a lot better with these vids man, whatever that's worth who knows but it is so, so for that, I thank you.
Bruh you have to do KID A and In Rainbows. (Because you are a nice person and you deserve nice things in your life. :) Thanks for all the fun videos.)
I think this song is my favorite from ok computer.
Yo dude, I really hope you will make an reaction of the next album Kid A soon :). Gonna blow your mind!
In a similar vein, listen to Radiohead's "Killer Cars".
In Rainbows is a great lp as well. I figured you were going to like Radiohead which is why I was a little dismayed when you chose Creep first. Weird Fishes is probably my favorite song after Paranoid Android. They have performance sessions called From The Basement, on RUclips that you should check out too. Since you have so man recommendations, you really just have an embarrassment of riches.
The Bends and Kid A alternate as my favorite depending on my mood. Amnesiac is great and I Could Be Wrong was great in showing how they could play certain songs live that didn't seem playable. Great stuff.
Side note: Kid A and Amnesiac were recorded together.
You need to listen to all of their albums. They will change your life.
I think Idioteque (apologies if I've spelt that wrong!) from Kid A was a track that got me into electronic music like Boards Of Canada and Aphex Twin. Not to lessen Radiohead's amazing guitar/bass/drum work of course but I love the kind of experimentation they did with that song.
This final track is reminding me of Anekdoten, a band well worth your consideration.
Warren Haynes does a killer acoustic version of this song. Well worth a listen.
Definitely do Kid A after this! In Rainbows is a must listen, but Kid A is too and comes right after OK Copmuter
Oh you're gonna b aradiohead fanatic 4 sure.. cuz u're saying out loud the exact same things i used 2 feel and think when i first started out listening 2 radiohead..🥰
YAY if you do Kid A
You should start with the first album like you did with jethro tull so you can see how the poetry and music evolves over time
Hello D
If you can watch Lucky live Pinkpop 96!!!
Please dO IN RAINBOWS
Think you will like the album ‘The Alternative’ by IAMX.
RH does PF. :)
In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool are better than OK Computer IMO.
I've been in to this band since their first album Pablo Honey and listening to that and then their 9th album one after the other is incredible to hear the progression.
Top 3 for me is :
1. A Moon Shaped Pool (9th album)
2. In Rainbows (7th album)
3. OK Computer (3rd album).
Loved watching you react to and disect this classic, i'd like to see your take on the other 2 albums i've mentioned.
Great album. Watch them play a festival from youtube. Mesmerizing. Next album "The Bends", I feel is better overall than this masterpiece ;-)
I think we’ll all be “lucky” when you’re done listening to this album.
I never understood why a band that were such masters at their instruments would put them down in favour of keyboards and electronics. Their guitar work is some of my favourite in all of rock. If anyone can recommend any of their later work involving guitar etc, please do. I've never listened past this album much because of the electronica elements.
In Rainbows is for you then.
In Rainbows mate, the From The Basement live session which you can find here on RUclips is IMO better than the studio version of the album.
@@Womberto I just turned off In Rainbows the other day, abut 5 or 6 songs in, I just couldn't take it seriously. I'll check out the live set, is there a song I should jump to, because I can't start with 15 Step.
I want to like them, I have loved The Bends and OKC since their releases. I'm going against the grain with the fans here, I know.
There's just one suggestion I'd like to make: broaden your frame of reference
@@justinatest9456 Weird that you like OKC and not IR, you are of course entitled to your opinion and music is very personal, i get that, but IR is the follow up to OKC, there is loads of web pages that even tell you how to mix the 2 albums together, i've tried a few and it flows really, really well.
p.s the guitar playing on 15 step is sublime, then bodysnatchers has some viscous sounding guitar, Nude is one of the most beautiful songs ever (again with guitar), Jigsaw is a guitar driven song and Reckoner is just guitar and drums basically, i don't get what your looking for, power chords ? more distortion ?
Maybe Muse or Coldplay is more up your street, they have been ripping off OKC and The Bends for years and years and made a career out of it.