Love how he phrased this. Like listening to sad music is embracing the truth of reality and not living in denial. But that doesn't mean life is sad, it just means that there are terrible truths about life that we can acknowledge yet still live anyway. Thom and gang's music comforts us, there, there, despite everything, true love waits. And that's optimistic.
True. One of the important things I've learned from this band is that while on the surface it focuses on melancholy or something depressing, it actually helps us face things in life easier. The more that we are aware of how deep sadness or pessimism can get, the more we can face it and confront our feelings.
What you guys are talking about is the turning point in the life of most of the truest artists... I think it comes to you in time by a lot of pain/sadness endured here on Earth with the other humans and their obscure system everyday. I just say that because I'm going through it at this very moment and it really feels like some kind of deeper understanding of oneself by considering himself as much important and equal as his exterior world ...that are perceived by his senses and which are making one and only! At a certain turning point in his life... I never thought this would happen to me and I just turned 40!! And now I realize that this same message has always been expresssd in about 95% of the music bands I had been listening too since ever... The lyrics of the poetry are the same, but their meaning is way clearer. According me, this proves that notes can talk to you without words and that all arts should be cherished forever as they are probably humankind's salvation no matter whats coming in the future... Light/Dark/Mask/ Mirror
@@supaidoruno4040 Personally, I think the main problem for the human race now is that the way to reach a better state of existence would be in giving instead of taking... And capitalism makes you take by using money. If you really consider it, why would you need to buy anything with money ...if you never gave away anything at the beginning??? 😶
@@GreyMan45762I don’t believe OP was labeling all life as tragic but rather recognizing that life is filled with tragedy along with many other wonderful and terrible things!
Give yourself some damn credit. If it wasn’t Radiohead you would’ve found another way to cope. Melodramatic. You would’ve made it through regardless because you’re more than likely stronger than you realize.
I mean, they’re my favorite band, but this is surprising to you guys? Their top hits are Creep, Exit Music, No Surprises, & Karma Police. That’s at least how the general public knows them, by those songs.
Music from Radiohead and Tom Yorke, They have help me to get out of my 25 years depression and to repairs myself and get forward. Thank you for all Tom
I agree with Thom... Radiohead is one the most incredible bands in the world I ever knew! And God I wish that ...when I AM sad, Radiohead's music will always be there and available for me to listen to!! And so I really wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!!" for what Thom and his bandmates have been giving us through all the years!! ✌️❤
“The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don’t want to know anymore” ❤ Wow! Never thought of it that way. If we can no longer connect with the empathy within us, then we are indeed in trouble.
Apart from Thom’s insight, I dig the interviewers point as well: “Don’t think the fight doesn’t lead to optimism or a brighter future”. There’s value in trying than not trying at all.
Ive noticed that fully allowing myself to feel the sadness and less comfortable feelings gives me more of an appreciation for the happiness and most beautiful things in life. I love music that acknowledges the sadness, pain, anxiety, and frustration in everyday life because it reminds me that I'm not alone and its okay to feel these things... its okay to not be okay sometimes.
Thom Yorke is an absolute legendary artist of all different times..,. He would have been good 2000 years ago and his music will be good still 2000 years from now
Music is a way to transmit feelings and emotions in a poetic way that isn’t able to be done through any other medium, and Radiohead just feels real and visceral and raw and that’s why I love them and so many people do
Yeah I always defend them because their music actually uplifts me. The soundscapes, minor modes, expressive, emotional singing. It makes you FEEL something. It’s the same with sad movies. They’re so loved because they make us feel SOMETHING in this apathetic, numb world.
People ask me a lot why I like so many “sad” songs, and until I’d gotten asked a few times I hadn’t ever thought of the songs I like as “sad”, they’re just beautiful songs. They’re the most cathartic songs to sing. I don’t listen to “Yesterday” when I want to cry, I listen to that song when I’m at peace and I want to sing along to something, when I feel open to falling into those deep, simple emotions. There’s such raw passion in sad music, I hear someone singing honestly and passionately. “Sad” doesn’t cross my mind, it’s just real
Radiohead has never made me feel sad. It’s like they create a sad feeling that makes you feel at peace and calm. There are other bands that make sad music with the purpose of making you feel the sadness, and this optimism in RH is why they’re one of my favorites ever in any gente
They gave me immense succour. They still can. In the ninetees, they were as,or more important to me,than everyone and everything else. Literally. Profoundly important to me.
I use Radiohead when working out. I find it's good for reflection, and moving onward from my sadness or bad situations. It's the light at the break of dawn that's really in their music, but you have to endure the darkness to appreciate it. Everything is just a moment or momentary emotion, healthy people move on.
That’s what I always say about depression, sadness, trauma and many other things. They exists. The fact that people don’t want to talk about it doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And if you act like in the world exist only simple and happy things, you are cutting a lot of feelings and the chance to be “complete”. You have to understand and embrace even those parts cause they’re here.
For so many people, music and emotions are binary: happy or sad. When I listen to Radiohead, I feel so much more than just happy or sad. Radiohead represents the complexities of emotion; the melancholic, the whimsical - the feeling of being lost in the isolated depths of a deep crevice that connects to my deepest fears, whilst simultaneously filling me with feelings of cosiness, wonder and fantasy. Radiohead challenges and gratifies me simultaneously. When I hear someone describe them as "depressing", I think to myself 'how depressing it must be, to have never experienced life or art beyond what's comfortable and easy'.
Fake plastic trees is accutualy suprsingly optimistic Edit: I never said Fake plastic trees wasn't sad, I said it had optimisim. In it's lyrics it talks about "being the real thing" saying either there are a lot of fake people and she is a real pesron on she is just another fake person. It is very similar to creep(forgive me rh fans) but is shows different points. Creep is about a guy wanting a girl but he knows he isn't good enough for her. Fake plastic trees on the other hand, is about why she is worth it, why he is not just some simp. Also Fake plastic trees is sad and melancholy while street spirit is literaly about all this pressure building up on someone making them want to "fade out". I im trying to do is reprove the point that Thom made about how it can be sad but with a reason. Not a pointless whining. Edit: please don't argue with me, you can have your own interpretation to the songs as long as we agree that fake plastic trees is a great song
@@Mcperson823i wouldn’t consider street spirit to be a pessimistic song any more than fake plastic trees is. fake plastic trees is imo actually a bit more bleak than street spirit, and street spirit is a PRIME example of radiohead songs that seem pessimistic and quite needlessly dreary when in actuality they’re kinda like snapshots of overarching humanity. overflowing with misery and hopelessness, but also twice that amount in love. fake plastic trees feels more like a traditionally pessimistic “creep” type of song in that it’s a picture of a life that sees no good in itself. a song that almost pities, or regrets the love it’s been written in. really, it’s actually quite a similar song to street spirit, now that i’m thinking about it. the two songs almost feel like cousins.
Out of all Radiohead songs I DO feel that Fake Plastic Trees is one of their most depressing... but obviously the hope comes from the recognition that this isn't the real thing, that it's not real life and not real love. When you realize you're not going the right way, you can finally turn around.
Radiohead was always about being real with your emotions. About facing how you feel and not pretending. It was always that for me. It's okay to be sad and not pretend all the time.
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and The National were the first three bands to pop in my mind with his description of RH’s sound. the melancholy overtones give me sense of coming to grips with the thought that the inevitable IS coming for everyone eventually and there is no stopping it. which you could take as sad and depressing, which, it is a bitter pill to swallow, sure, but like the interviewer says that below the “sad” emotions it pulls out of us their is optimistic messages. it helps bear the day to day tasks we must do on this rock to just accept just how ‘real’ reality is.
that description of radiohead’s music resonates with me heavily and i haven’t been able to come up with the words to properly articulate to someone how much the entire aesthetic of their sound just speaks to my soul on a spiritual level.
I find radiohead helps me confront complex or obscure emotions within me, which is something i do to move past them or just know them better. I dont see it as sad, it's just challenging. If you're not willing to look at your feelings properly then i think that leads to a less rich life expirience.
Jigsaw, Optimistic, Weird Fishes, Everything in its right place, House of Cards are all happy songs to me. The other songs are sad but they exorcise my sadness, because i'm sad when i start to listen Radiohead, but in the end i'm happy. Maybe because I think there is someone sadder than me who wrote those songs, this comfort me
i only started listening to radio head this year. i mean yeah, i knew creep, but i had no idea. i got hail to the theif and ok computer at the starvation army when i was taking a break from having a cell phone, and all i could do was wonder why i spent so much of my life not listening to radio head, so fn amazing!
this ones optimistic. this one went to market.
This one just came out of the swamp
This one drops a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm
You can try the best you can...
@@critiqueeverything3297You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can
@@critiqueeverything3297 dam dam daram daram dam dam dam (guitar riff)
Love how he phrased this. Like listening to sad music is embracing the truth of reality and not living in denial. But that doesn't mean life is sad, it just means that there are terrible truths about life that we can acknowledge yet still live anyway. Thom and gang's music comforts us, there, there, despite everything, true love waits. And that's optimistic.
I see what you did there
True. One of the important things I've learned from this band is that while on the surface it focuses on melancholy or something depressing, it actually helps us face things in life easier. The more that we are aware of how deep sadness or pessimism can get, the more we can face it and confront our feelings.
Your comment is what makes me feel optimistic😊
What you guys are talking about is the turning point in the life of most of the truest artists... I think it comes to you in time by a lot of pain/sadness endured here on Earth with the other humans and their obscure system everyday. I just say that because I'm going through it at this very moment and it really feels like some kind of deeper understanding of oneself by considering himself as much important and equal as his exterior world ...that are perceived by his senses and which are making one and only! At a certain turning point in his life... I never thought this would happen to me and I just turned 40!! And now I realize that this same message has always been expresssd in about 95% of the music bands I had been listening too since ever... The lyrics of the poetry are the same, but their meaning is way clearer. According me, this proves that notes can talk to you without words and that all arts should be cherished forever as they are probably humankind's salvation no matter whats coming in the future...
Light/Dark/Mask/ Mirror
@@supaidoruno4040 Personally, I think the main problem for the human race now is that the way to reach a better state of existence would be in giving instead of taking... And capitalism makes you take by using money. If you really consider it, why would you need to buy anything with money ...if you never gave away anything at the beginning??? 😶
Radiohead are melancholic and procure a beautiful perspective to the tragedy of life. They transmute pain into beauty.
👍
Nicely said
Very eloquently stated.
Life is not a freakin tragedy guy. You can choose to stay that way though.
@@GreyMan45762I don’t believe OP was labeling all life as tragic but rather recognizing that life is filled with tragedy along with many other wonderful and terrible things!
I don't know if I would be here without Radiohead, they have got me through some seriously tough times over the years.
Me too.
Same here.
Give yourself some damn credit. If it wasn’t Radiohead you would’ve found another way to cope. Melodramatic. You would’ve made it through regardless because you’re more than likely stronger than you realize.
I've said that many times before. Their music got me through years and YEARS of tough stuff.
They may have helped but don't sell yourself short. You kept yourself here.
Wow,I've never thought of Radiohead as "sad"...just self-aware. I'm really amazed this is the general opinion...it proves what he said.
Same
I mean, they’re my favorite band, but this is surprising to you guys? Their top hits are Creep, Exit Music, No Surprises, & Karma Police. That’s at least how the general public knows them, by those songs.
Imo loads of their songs are sad
Not sad but melancholic
I love them, but I had to stop listening to them while I was suffering from depression.
"The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don't want to know anymore"
I'm gonna tattoo that
Please don’t
Please don’t. Just stop being a woke liberal
she is well documented conservative@@Edward-yq5oj
@@Edward-yq5ojPointlessly political
@@Ixe2077 Go take the knee for George Pink Floyd
“Never trust a happy song” - Grouplove
laughs in KGLW. there is way more to life than feeling sorry for yourself.
OMG! He is exactly right. This is why sad music is so beautiful. Where is the beauty without the tragedy? (William Shakespeare agrees).
i wish i could thumbs up your cute face
That Shakespeare quote is perfect for Radiohead.
So true…. I feel the same… scary when people aren’t capable of feeling their emotions
thats all this band does lmao
That is absolutely right. The saddest music, the most meaningful keeps us listening. Street Spirit being on my list of the greatest of all time.
Music from Radiohead and Tom Yorke, They have help me to get out of my 25 years depression and to repairs myself and get forward. Thank you for all Tom
radiohead only kept me depressed for 20 years, rip bro
I agree with Thom...
Radiohead is one the most incredible bands in the world I ever knew!
And God I wish that ...when I AM sad, Radiohead's music will always be there and available for me to listen to!!
And so I really wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!!" for what Thom and his bandmates have been giving us through all the years!! ✌️❤
“The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don’t want to know anymore” ❤
Wow! Never thought of it that way. If we can no longer connect with the empathy within us, then we are indeed in trouble.
Apart from Thom’s insight, I dig the interviewers point as well: “Don’t think the fight doesn’t lead to optimism or a brighter future”. There’s value in trying than not trying at all.
Ive noticed that fully allowing myself to feel the sadness and less comfortable feelings gives me more of an appreciation for the happiness and most beautiful things in life. I love music that acknowledges the sadness, pain, anxiety, and frustration in everyday life because it reminds me that I'm not alone and its okay to feel these things... its okay to not be okay sometimes.
I want to be where you're at.
Thom Yorke ... I admire you so deep ❤
Thom Yorke is an absolute legendary artist of all different times..,. He would have been good 2000 years ago and his music will be good still 2000 years from now
100%
He's a beautiful human. His heart. His voice.
Love you Thom. You and your crew have been joining people through difficult times, giving them a bright spot in a world full of darkness.❤
Sad or rather melancholic music always helps me crawl out of the pit of despair into having joy again.
Radiohead is badass.
why？
please tell me
@@小水-t1v'cause their music is badass. they themselves are badass. everything they draw inspiration from is badass.
I love Thom Yorke so much
That BEAUTIFUL voice ❤
Radiohead is one of my favorite bands!!!
Thom Yorke is so gorgeous especially in Fake Plastic Trees which is my favourite song and music videos!
I love Thom, one of my biggest heroes
I’m ALWAYS inspired by Radiohead
Me too❤
That's true. The only time I ever start looking at Radiohead as "sad" is when I'm emotionally exhausted and don't want to "know" anymore.
Exactly
gotta love this man, one of the few famous people who address directly negative emotions and emotional problems
He has to, he is a depressive.
Thom, so simplistic yet so profound ❤❤❤
Music is a way to transmit feelings and emotions in a poetic way that isn’t able to be done through any other medium, and Radiohead just feels real and visceral and raw and that’s why I love them and so many people do
Radiohead music saved my life
Poetic it works as a quote in whole. He is a great artist.
I listen to sad music to think and be on my personal zone
Team Radiohead are geniuses ❤
Yeah I always defend them because their music actually uplifts me. The soundscapes, minor modes, expressive, emotional singing. It makes you FEEL something. It’s the same with sad movies. They’re so loved because they make us feel SOMETHING in this apathetic, numb world.
And major modes too
Always found their music uplifting actually ❤
People ask me a lot why I like so many “sad” songs, and until I’d gotten asked a few times I hadn’t ever thought of the songs I like as “sad”, they’re just beautiful songs. They’re the most cathartic songs to sing. I don’t listen to “Yesterday” when I want to cry, I listen to that song when I’m at peace and I want to sing along to something, when I feel open to falling into those deep, simple emotions. There’s such raw passion in sad music, I hear someone singing honestly and passionately. “Sad” doesn’t cross my mind, it’s just real
Well put.
I always felt the optimist and the art which is why they are and will always be my favourites ❤
Radiohead has never made me feel sad. It’s like they create a sad feeling that makes you feel at peace and calm. There are other bands that make sad music with the purpose of making you feel the sadness, and this optimism in RH is why they’re one of my favorites ever in any gente
He literally said the exact opposite of what the interviewer was tying to point out 😂
Thom as usual on point abd sharp.
The optimism of a brighter future and finding a better path usually only comes with a clear understanding of how lost we are in the first place.
Thom deserves all the hugs :3
Radiohead is bliss
Tom Yorke makes art out of music if you know about arts you can appreciate the the master pieces he can make!
Radiohead for life❤
Great band
fr
i listen to sad music to be happy, thanks Radiohead
They gave me immense succour. They still can. In the ninetees, they were as,or more important to me,than everyone and everything else. Literally. Profoundly important to me.
Thom gives great eye contact as a live performer and is inspirational to his fans through his passion and joy alone
Whenever people ask me why i listen to certain sad music, i just say "its not sad, its thoughtful"
I use Radiohead when working out. I find it's good for reflection, and moving onward from my sadness or bad situations. It's the light at the break of dawn that's really in their music, but you have to endure the darkness to appreciate it. Everything is just a moment or momentary emotion, healthy people move on.
The best you can is good enough!!
Dude, you couldn’t meet a more optimistic man. He knows exactly what’s going on.
I could not love Radiohead more than I do. Have ruined me for most other music. Everything they do is a masterpiece.
The moment you stop listening to sad music is the moment you stop embracing your own humanity
The beauty with many of their songs is they take you to a low point before building and rising with this hopeful energy
Weird fishes is like one of their happiest songs and it's one of my favorites
I've never felt any songs sad, I always feel nostalgic and beautiful. It never makes me feel depressed, it makes me feel reassured and warm and happy.
climbing up the walls. amazing song honestly
Radiohead is my silver linings playbook
Damn that explained a lot myself. Cause i can't really handle sad music anymore.
I fkn luv Radiohead I am sad music forever
He s the best ❤
Radiohead is a really happy band.
That’s what I always say about depression, sadness, trauma and many other things. They exists. The fact that people don’t want to talk about it doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And if you act like in the world exist only simple and happy things, you are cutting a lot of feelings and the chance to be “complete”. You have to understand and embrace even those parts cause they’re here.
we've been blessed w A PIANO SESH
its perfect for eding my night ty for the peaceful vibes
For so many people, music and emotions are binary: happy or sad. When I listen to Radiohead, I feel so much more than just happy or sad. Radiohead represents the complexities of emotion; the melancholic, the whimsical - the feeling of being lost in the isolated depths of a deep crevice that connects to my deepest fears, whilst simultaneously filling me with feelings of cosiness, wonder and fantasy. Radiohead challenges and gratifies me simultaneously.
When I hear someone describe them as "depressing", I think to myself 'how depressing it must be, to have never experienced life or art beyond what's comfortable and easy'.
This man kissing butt.
Radiohead is the definition of melancholy.
And I love it.
Fake plastic trees is accutualy suprsingly optimistic
Edit: I never said Fake plastic trees wasn't sad, I said it had optimisim. In it's lyrics it talks about "being the real thing" saying either there are a lot of fake people and she is a real pesron on she is just another fake person. It is very similar to creep(forgive me rh fans) but is shows different points. Creep is about a guy wanting a girl but he knows he isn't good enough for her. Fake plastic trees on the other hand, is about why she is worth it, why he is not just some simp. Also Fake plastic trees is sad and melancholy while street spirit is literaly about all this pressure building up on someone making them want to "fade out". I im trying to do is reprove the point that Thom made about how it can be sad but with a reason. Not a pointless whining.
Edit: please don't argue with me, you can have your own interpretation to the songs as long as we agree that fake plastic trees is a great song
why? I just got into The Bends and that one seemed one of the most pessimistic of the album
@@unacuentadeyoutube13 street spirit? Besides fake plastic trees compared to other songs is a breath of fresh air
@@Mcperson823i wouldn’t consider street spirit to be a pessimistic song any more than fake plastic trees is. fake plastic trees is imo actually a bit more bleak than street spirit, and street spirit is a PRIME example of radiohead songs that seem pessimistic and quite needlessly dreary when in actuality they’re kinda like snapshots of overarching humanity. overflowing with misery and hopelessness, but also twice that amount in love. fake plastic trees feels more like a traditionally pessimistic “creep” type of song in that it’s a picture of a life that sees no good in itself. a song that almost pities, or regrets the love it’s been written in. really, it’s actually quite a similar song to street spirit, now that i’m thinking about it. the two songs almost feel like cousins.
@@user-yj7cu5sk2wI made an edit just for you
Out of all Radiohead songs I DO feel that Fake Plastic Trees is one of their most depressing... but obviously the hope comes from the recognition that this isn't the real thing, that it's not real life and not real love. When you realize you're not going the right way, you can finally turn around.
He is a great musician.The band is fabulous.
Radiohead ist very touching!
Of there are some more Bands who create this Kind of Music.
Interpol ist also touching this way
One of my all time favorite bands, hands down.
To be optimistic starts knowing where we are. Which kind of world we're living in. That's what these boys has showed us. Thanks god.❤❤❤
melancholy, the beauty of heartache, immeasurably deep, makes this love so clear ... i cried for her river, it lead to the sea
Pablo honey was one of the best albums of the 90s and 2000s.
Sud music makes me happy!
That's why I am listing Radiohead !
High and dry actually makes me happu 😅
Street spirit suits my soul so well💚
and the part at 3.34 in paranoid android is pure bliss to hear...ahhhh aahhh ahhhh ahhhh ahhh...love that part
Radiohead is the beauty of darkness and chaos
Radiohead was always about being real with your emotions. About facing how you feel and not pretending. It was always that for me. It's okay to be sad and not pretend all the time.
Radiohead was a huge influence in my music and younger days.
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and The National were the first three bands to pop in my mind with his description of RH’s sound. the melancholy overtones give me sense of coming to grips with the thought that the inevitable IS coming for everyone eventually and there is no stopping it. which you could take as sad and depressing, which, it is a bitter pill to swallow, sure, but like the interviewer says that below the “sad” emotions it pulls out of us their is optimistic messages. it helps bear the day to day tasks we must do on this rock to just accept just how ‘real’ reality is.
that description of radiohead’s music resonates with me heavily and i haven’t been able to come up with the words to properly articulate to someone how much the entire aesthetic of their sound just speaks to my soul on a spiritual level.
melancholy music makes me happy
I can't count how many times No Surprises from them saved my life when life was hanging and throwing me around like an ugly ragdoll.
Thom Yorke is the best
I find radiohead helps me confront complex or obscure emotions within me, which is something i do to move past them or just know them better. I dont see it as sad, it's just challenging. If you're not willing to look at your feelings properly then i think that leads to a less rich life expirience.
"How to disappear completely"
That's why i love Steven Wilson. ❤
WE WANT YOU IN CONCERT !! Dear Radiohead !!! I don’t want to die without listen to you !!
Ваша музыка меня слезами очищает от дерьма и я снова готова жить❤
A great in the game of music.
Beautifully put ,Thom! You too apple music guy!
Radiohead is about there being something more to life than just suffering and struggling
Society is sad. Music is therapy. Through hard times, my choice of music is mostly grindcore and jazz 🫠
in rainbows always sounded to me, like a person waking up in a different world and having to learn about it all alone
Jigsaw, Optimistic, Weird Fishes, Everything in its right place, House of Cards are all happy songs to me. The other songs are sad but they exorcise my sadness, because i'm sad when i start to listen Radiohead, but in the end i'm happy. Maybe because I think there is someone sadder than me who wrote those songs, this comfort me
i only started listening to radio head this year. i mean yeah, i knew creep, but i had no idea. i got hail to the theif and ok computer at the starvation army when i was taking a break from having a cell phone, and all i could do was wonder why i spent so much of my life not listening to radio head, so fn amazing!
Truly my generations great musical artist.