Favorites - How to Disappear Completely, Treefingers, Kid A, Idioteque Least Favorites - If i had to pick maybe Motion Picture Soundtrack? could definitely grow on me
Motion Picture Soundtrack is so beautiful and depressing. Probably my favorite from the album and their best album closer imo. Also, definitely listen to OK computer next then In Rainbows both are as incredible as Kid A
@@2w8ofrdeys Kid A is one of the more nostalgic tracks on the album IMO. It brings the same kind of nostalgic feeling that the Minecraft music gives. I don’t think there is a bad track on Kid A, other than me not really digging the second half of The National Anthem.
When you cried on How to Disappear, I just hope you know you are not alone on that. I wept on that one uncontrollably the first time I heard it. I think its one of the most beautiful, heart wrenching pieces of music ever written, and really captures the feeling of not understanding how we fit into the world sometimes and just feeling like we are disappearing. Since you hadn't listened before, I can tell you they were in fact trying to make the listener feel anxiety and fear, the ways they felt about a world that seemed scarier everyday. More disconnected and consumed by soulless technology. So you interpreted it well. It's not an easy album at all, especially first listen. Really cool reaction. Also Kudos for enjoying Treefingers, very underrated but magical track!
The fact this album went straight to number one, with very little to no marketing, and no singles released from it, says a lot about how the music industry has shifted.
Side note: forgot to mention a couple of things - Treefingers all began with the guitarists, Johnny and Ed, recording separate guitar soundscapes at different times, without hearing what the other had recorded, and that's the end result. And the lyrics are wrong on Morning Bell, it's not "got the kids in here", it's "cut the kids in half" because - you are right - it's about divorce and shared custody of the children, although Thom's lyrics are obviously more explicit and soaked in metaphor, as per.
Music is not supposed to be all “nice” sounding all the time. It’s about tension and relief. There is no relief without tension. There is no light without dark. No beauty without ugly. You have to sit with the discomfort to appreciate the contrast and get the full experience. Life can’t be all vanilla all the time.
@@whoisdonnieboiit's normal with this kind of experimental and brilliant music. Happened to me too the first time I listened to this album. The more you listen, the more you'll grow to love it
Very interesting starting point for Radiohead lmao. You hopped straight into their most experimental and weird album (as far as I know, I haven’t heard them all yet)
i like to start with albums that intrigue me the most lol, probably not the best way to do it because ive heard that starting from oldest to newest is the best way to listen to Radiohead.
@@memetherapy Yeah, King of Limbs...although possibly not because it's more experimental per se? The last 3 or 4 songs on that album are up there with their best work IMHO. I'd also include The Dail Mail and Staircase as part of that whole package - they're both bangers and it's crazy that they were just these 'extra' tracks!
Oh yeah, Radiohead stuff is definitely a grower type band. I feel like they've hit the perfect middle road between experimental and cohesion, so that's why it might take a bit to like tracks 100%
Wow! Can't believe you picked up on all that on your first listen. You're very observant and if you'd like this, you're going to love the rest of Radiohead when I listened to this album in 2000 I thought uh-oh what did I get in myself into? Keep making these great videos and I'll keep watching them
Great reaction. Just fyi, the Untitled last song is not meant to be a standalone track. Its a hidden track after Motion Picture Soundtrack. For some reason it's put into its own track on Spotify. But it's definitely meant as a coda to Motion Picture Soundtrack
This album sits at 5 on my favorite Radiohead albums but that's a testament to how great their discography is its among bands like the Beatles and Pink Floyd. This album listened to in it's entirety is an amazing journey I just don't put it on for casual listening but their entire catalog is kind of like that. For those that want to know my favorites in order are In Rainbows,OK Computer,Hail To The Thief,The Bends,Kid A,A Moon Shaped Pool,Amnesiac,The King Of Limbs and Pablo Honey. There are a couple of exceptions and sometimes my favorites morph into something other than my list depending on my mental state.
Best reaction to Kid A, cuz u cried on “How to” , that means you really felt it. I’ve went through financial crisis, break up with it , cried hella lot. My fav song
‘How to disappear completely’ evokes emotion…..I listened to that song many times after my Grandma died years ago, she was like a Mom to me, it s a good song to feel to 🫶
I think for me the eerie, unsettling feeling and overall weirdness of the other tracks really highlighted the beauty of the prettier sounding tracks, it makes it a more compelling listen. It gives you a worthy payoff. That contrast is exactly what I come back for with this album. And after enough listens, you understand that conceptually, that really is the point, weirdness is a very broad feeling to convey but we feel it all the time, this album validates that feeling for me. Life isn't all pretty, but you really get to realize how prettier the beautiful parts are once you've experienced everything. And in time, I learned to embrace that weirdness and sort of find peace in it. This album is such a weird listen to me at first too but I don't know why I kept and kept coming back to it, and soon enough I find myself really finally enjoying it. This is an absolute grower of an album and probably the best highlight of my years of listening to music, an eye opener for sure. Love this album to death.
extremely well said, i feel the exact same way about this album being extremely weird but also intriguing, i also find myself coming back to it very often
Thom once stated that "How to disappear completely" was his favourite track he ever made, that and Videotape from In Rainbows. Back in the late 90's, Thom was really burnt out from touring and was on the verge of a breakdown, he just couldn't take it anymore. He called his good friend, Michael Stipe, from REM, and he told Thom to go to his hotel room, shut the blinds and sit down and repeat the phrase "I'm not here, this isn't happening." From that came the song. Radiohead did such a left turn with this, putting away their comfortable, known instruments and making a, mostly, electronic album with instruments they had to learn from scratch. They could've been the centre of the alternative rock world had they have made "Ok computer part II" but they didn't, they challenged themselves and made something that rang true to them. Huge respect. You make really great, interesting points.
I’m not surprised you got Minecraft vibes from Treefingers. One of the menu songs in Minecraft called “Floating Trees” is pretty much a rip off of Treefingers, but I love it!
You should check out their 3d space, free on ps5, windows or mac. It's this album and the next, came out 2022, and it's an exhibition with bits of each song and remixes. The name is the first album title, Kid A then Mnesia, followed by "Exhibition". But the algorithm doesn't like it spelled in its entirety, thinks it's code. It's eight gigabytes in size
@@whoisdonnieboi Yes my second name is Donovan! Nice one. Hey i got a cool album for you to check out its Jai Pauls "Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)". Its on Spotify. The song Jasmine from that is in GTA V on one of the radio stations. Lot of lore with that album.
There's an acoustic version of Motion Picture Soundtrack that's beautiful and I still think it's better than the album version but the album version fits the album perfectly.
Yes but Radiohead is very deliberate and interesting in how they mix tracks and instruments into each side, I see his point. Just think of that tambourine in Reckoner. Most bands would mix drums into both channels.
I love most if not all Radiohead. But you really should listen to Ok Computer.. I listen to everything from 60s country to death metal. Ok Computer might be the greatest album ever made.. For me atleast.
This album great as it is, isn't the one you should have started with it was an album that caused a lot of fans to stop listening to them (me). A lot of people will say that the real fans stayed and they liked the album right away, but many of them would be lying through their teeth. The reviews were mostly terrible at first then all of a sudden they were great when the album started selling (because of OK Computer mostly). Many of us were rock fans and this record pissed us off because it was a massive left turn. Years later when we were a little older we came back to it and loved it. It's still not my favorite record by them but I love every album but the first one and even the first one, which I bought when it came out, I liked but I didn't love it.
that sounds similar to Tame Impala, where after he dropped the third album a lot of the fans of his more psychedelic rock were weirded out by more poppy and more accessible sound from his album Currents
Favorites - How to Disappear Completely, Treefingers, Kid A, Idioteque
Least Favorites - If i had to pick maybe Motion Picture Soundtrack? could definitely grow on me
Motion Picture Soundtrack is so beautiful and depressing. Probably my favorite from the album and their best album closer imo. Also, definitely listen to OK computer next then In Rainbows both are as incredible as Kid A
damn mps is like top 10 radiohead😔
I respect you loving Treefingers. Radiohead fans nag on it way too much and it’s getting exhausting!
Kid a is one my favourite tracks too. Most of radiohead fans don't like it
@@2w8ofrdeys Kid A is one of the more nostalgic tracks on the album IMO. It brings the same kind of nostalgic feeling that the Minecraft music gives. I don’t think there is a bad track on Kid A, other than me not really digging the second half of The National Anthem.
When you cried on How to Disappear, I just hope you know you are not alone on that. I wept on that one uncontrollably the first time I heard it. I think its one of the most beautiful, heart wrenching pieces of music ever written, and really captures the feeling of not understanding how we fit into the world sometimes and just feeling like we are disappearing. Since you hadn't listened before, I can tell you they were in fact trying to make the listener feel anxiety and fear, the ways they felt about a world that seemed scarier everyday. More disconnected and consumed by soulless technology. So you interpreted it well. It's not an easy album at all, especially first listen. Really cool reaction.
Also Kudos for enjoying Treefingers, very underrated but magical track!
You’re gonna love “in rainbows” man ..
The fact this album went straight to number one, with very little to no marketing, and no singles released from it, says a lot about how the music industry has shifted.
Side note: forgot to mention a couple of things - Treefingers all began with the guitarists, Johnny and Ed, recording separate guitar soundscapes at different times, without hearing what the other had recorded, and that's the end result. And the lyrics are wrong on Morning Bell, it's not "got the kids in here", it's "cut the kids in half" because - you are right - it's about divorce and shared custody of the children, although Thom's lyrics are obviously more explicit and soaked in metaphor, as per.
Music is not supposed to be all “nice” sounding all the time. It’s about tension and relief. There is no relief without tension. There is no light without dark. No beauty without ugly. You have to sit with the discomfort to appreciate the contrast and get the full experience. Life can’t be all vanilla all the time.
this album definitely made me realize that, the songs are already growing on me a ton. It was just something i wasn't used to
true tea here, thanks.
@@whoisdonnieboiit's normal with this kind of experimental and brilliant music. Happened to me too the first time I listened to this album. The more you listen, the more you'll grow to love it
Very interesting starting point for Radiohead lmao. You hopped straight into their most experimental and weird album (as far as I know, I haven’t heard them all yet)
i like to start with albums that intrigue me the most lol, probably not the best way to do it because ive heard that starting from oldest to newest is the best way to listen to Radiohead.
I'd say Amnesiac and The King Of Limbs are up there with their most experimental.
@@memetherapy I liked amnesiac right away, the king of limbs it took me a while to enjoy, now I can't stop listening to it.
@@memetherapy Yeah, King of Limbs...although possibly not because it's more experimental per se? The last 3 or 4 songs on that album are up there with their best work IMHO. I'd also include The Dail Mail and Staircase as part of that whole package - they're both bangers and it's crazy that they were just these 'extra' tracks!
I like King of Limbs the most
Crying to that song is the appropriate reaction
Oh yeah, Radiohead stuff is definitely a grower type band. I feel like they've hit the perfect middle road between experimental and cohesion, so that's why it might take a bit to like tracks 100%
Wow! Can't believe you picked up on all that on your first listen. You're very observant and if you'd like this, you're going to love the rest of Radiohead when I listened to this album in 2000 I thought uh-oh what did I get in myself into? Keep making these great videos and I'll keep watching them
In Idioteque the lyric "Got the kids in here" is actually "Cut the kids in half," which is as you figured out, a reference to divorce.
‘Rats and children follow me out of town’ is a reference to the pied piper
Untitled on the CD had 3 minutes of silence before it...which sort of gives it more presence on the album
I've never considered it a 'track' on Kid A. More of a relief after MPS.
One of the menu songs in Minecraft called “Floating Trees” is inspired from Treefingers from this album.
i can definitely hear the resemblance that’s really cool
Great reaction. Just fyi, the Untitled last song is not meant to be a standalone track. Its a hidden track after Motion Picture Soundtrack.
For some reason it's put into its own track on Spotify. But it's definitely meant as a coda to Motion Picture Soundtrack
Correct! It should just sort of drift in as an afterthought to the previous song.
I like the way you described the title track "it just breathes a lot". It's one of my favourites.
new suscriber, love your reactions! radiohead is probably my favorite band, god I wish I could listen to these albums again.
This album sits at 5 on my favorite Radiohead albums but that's a testament to how great their discography is its among bands like the Beatles and Pink Floyd. This album listened to in it's entirety is an amazing journey I just don't put it on for casual listening but their entire catalog is kind of like that. For those that want to know my favorites in order are In Rainbows,OK Computer,Hail To The Thief,The Bends,Kid A,A Moon Shaped Pool,Amnesiac,The King Of Limbs and Pablo Honey. There are a couple of exceptions and sometimes my favorites morph into something other than my list depending on my mental state.
Best reaction to Kid A, cuz u cried on “How to” , that means you really felt it.
I’ve went through financial crisis, break up with it , cried hella lot.
My fav song
‘How to disappear completely’ evokes emotion…..I listened to that song many times after my Grandma died years ago, she was like a Mom to me, it s a good song to feel to 🫶
💜💜💜
I think for me the eerie, unsettling feeling and overall weirdness of the other tracks really highlighted the beauty of the prettier sounding tracks, it makes it a more compelling listen. It gives you a worthy payoff. That contrast is exactly what I come back for with this album. And after enough listens, you understand that conceptually, that really is the point, weirdness is a very broad feeling to convey but we feel it all the time, this album validates that feeling for me. Life isn't all pretty, but you really get to realize how prettier the beautiful parts are once you've experienced everything. And in time, I learned to embrace that weirdness and sort of find peace in it. This album is such a weird listen to me at first too but I don't know why I kept and kept coming back to it, and soon enough I find myself really finally enjoying it. This is an absolute grower of an album and probably the best highlight of my years of listening to music, an eye opener for sure. Love this album to death.
extremely well said, i feel the exact same way about this album being extremely weird but also intriguing, i also find myself coming back to it very often
Gotta listen to Amnesiac after this, since it's technically Kid A part 2
Yes you right, Morning Bell is about divorce, and the actual lyrics is not "Got the kids in here". The actual lyrics is "Cut the kids in half"
I was dozing off at the start of national anthem on the train when That jazz freak out in the last third jolted me awake.
How To Disappear Completely is Thom Torke (the frontman) favourite song
Thom Torke
Thom once stated that "How to disappear completely" was his favourite track he ever made, that and Videotape from In Rainbows.
Back in the late 90's, Thom was really burnt out from touring and was on the verge of a breakdown, he just couldn't take it anymore. He called his good friend, Michael Stipe, from REM, and he told Thom to go to his hotel room, shut the blinds and sit down and repeat the phrase "I'm not here, this isn't happening." From that came the song.
Radiohead did such a left turn with this, putting away their comfortable, known instruments and making a, mostly, electronic album with instruments they had to learn from scratch. They could've been the centre of the alternative rock world had they have made "Ok computer part II" but they didn't, they challenged themselves and made something that rang true to them. Huge respect.
You make really great, interesting points.
I’m not surprised you got Minecraft vibes from Treefingers. One of the menu songs in Minecraft called “Floating Trees” is pretty much a rip off of Treefingers, but I love it!
You should check out their 3d space, free on ps5, windows or mac. It's this album and the next, came out 2022, and it's an exhibition with bits of each song and remixes. The name is the first album title, Kid A then Mnesia, followed by "Exhibition". But the algorithm doesn't like it spelled in its entirety, thinks it's code.
It's eight gigabytes in size
Can you make the OKC vid a lot longer
Great album. Don't sleep on 'King Of Limbs' or 'Moon Shaped Pool' - both are excellent, but very different experiences.
Nah bruh. You chose the perfect time to feel this album
I’m not too crazy about the overwhelming jazzy chaos in The National Anthem either.
i fuck with this album heavy. shits hard bro
a fellow donovan? 🫡
@@whoisdonnieboi Yes my second name is Donovan! Nice one. Hey i got a cool album for you to check out its Jai Pauls "Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)". Its on Spotify. The song Jasmine from that is in GTA V on one of the radio stations. Lot of lore with that album.
Also, Kids see ghosts by Cudi and Ye is a classic to check out
There's an acoustic version of Motion Picture Soundtrack that's beautiful and I still think it's better than the album version but the album version fits the album perfectly.
I've a feeling some of those lyrics are guessed. I thought it was Cut the Kids in half, like, half for each parent
When you hear different things in different ears? That’s called stereo 😂
Yes but Radiohead is very deliberate and interesting in how they mix tracks and instruments into each side, I see his point. Just think of that tambourine in Reckoner. Most bands would mix drums into both channels.
@@jfmgunner I think you meant “Yes *and* Radiohead….”
Do in rainbows or a moon shaped pool next it's a trip into the human psyche
I love most if not all Radiohead. But you really should listen to Ok Computer.. I listen to everything from 60s country to death metal. Ok Computer might be the greatest album ever made.. For me atleast.
definitely covering ok computer next i’ve heard it’s a step above Kid A
"this album is very political."
You should listen to Hail To The Thief.
This album great as it is, isn't the one you should have started with it was an album that caused a lot of fans to stop listening to them (me). A lot of people will say that the real fans stayed and they liked the album right away, but many of them would be lying through their teeth. The reviews were mostly terrible at first then all of a sudden they were great when the album started selling (because of OK Computer mostly). Many of us were rock fans and this record pissed us off because it was a massive left turn. Years later when we were a little older we came back to it and loved it. It's still not my favorite record by them but I love every album but the first one and even the first one, which I bought when it came out, I liked but I didn't love it.
that sounds similar to Tame Impala, where after he dropped the third album a lot of the fans of his more psychedelic rock were weirded out by more poppy and more accessible sound from his album Currents
14 minutes? What? lol