I know everyone has their own opinion, but I genuinely can't imagine not being moved by Pyramid Song. Beautiful song with some of Thom's finest lyrical work.
Ngl I feel bad for you about not liking pyramid song. It’s one of my favorite radiohead songs, it has such an amazing atmosphere and feel to it imo. I hope it grows on you just so you can experience it fully lol. Great video!
You start to realize just how clever the song is when you try to feel the time signature. Like people love to talk about the "out of sync" signature of Videotape but realistically as a listener you're meant to hear it in 4/4 without noticing. Not so here.
Pyramid Song isn’t popular for it’s rhythmic progression, it’s the hauntingly powerful and melancholy message it conveys that sticks with you. It was never my favourite to begin with but it’s certainly not overrated. In the context of the Amnesiac track-list, it is a bit out of place, but if you take it for what it is without the album, it really is one of Radiohead’s finest moments. The strings, the drums, the chords, the vocals, it’s all so meticulously crafted. Jonny adds the crazy soundscapes in behind, which makes it all the more dramatic and euphoric. The lyrics are beautiful too; sincerely poetic and interpretable. I have a feeling you’ll come back to it one day with a new appreciation for it
I personally love Amnesiac. I feel like the incompleteness adds to the claustrophobic nerve-wracking feeling of the album. It doesn't come off as a B-side to me but rather that Kid-A and Amnesiac both come from two different places in someone's mind at the same time. Kid A was filled with worry and criticality and a beautiful confusion, whereas Amnesiac is just hopelessness and an underlying empty depression. This is in my top 3 but I still respect your opinion
I like to think like this: Kid A is cold snowy mountain peaks (like the cover) Amnesiac is dry empty desert They compliment each other really well if you think about 'em like this
I highly recommend listening to their live album that came after Amnesiac, there's renditions of particular songs that really change how they sound that I think it's worth at least doing a quick listen to. Plus a reminder of where True Love Waits was back then is worth it for AMSP tbh
I love Pulk/Pull 🥺 I know it's monotonous but I actually love it. The killer beat alone convinces me but also the song feels like a trance, it has cool ambient, creepy vocals and mysterious lyrics - love it. Also it's great for gym
i despise the original pulk/pull, BUT there’s a version of it on Kid Amnesiac that has the lyrics of True Love Waits, and that version is so much better
Hunting Bears is a really interesting song, actually. It's written in Free Time, which means that it doesn't stick to a steady pulse or time signature. Almost no modern mainstream music is written this way, and it gives Hunting Bears a very specific, ethereal, floating feeling that is unique in this day and age. Losing it's rhythmic structure makes it feel like more of a chordal experience than an actual song, which some people will strongly dislike, but I think it's absolutely haunting; it was based off of a creepy, strange comic about a group of heavily genetically modified bears, and I can honestly see that influence when I listen for it.
I like it a lot, feel like it's one that really grows on you. I've done one in free time myself, a piano/vocal piece that covers a lot of octaves and makes use of harplike cascades. It's a lovely time signiature (or lack of one if being pedantic). Definitely evokes a cinematic feel. It's like you're got no gravity or perspective but music's still happening. First time I'm hearing what it's called when you do that, so that's neat! :D
Life in a Glasshouse is one of my favorite Radiohead tracks. It’s just so much different than the other stuff. Also, you need to check out the I Might Be Wrong-Live album that came out the same year as this. I Might Be Wrong (the song) is awesome live and I really enjoy the live version of Like Spinning Plates.
@@Bellas61 ngl I didn't notice that was even in there! at the time I saw that ep. I hadn't gotten into Radiohead yet... and after a quick search I'm also seeing You and Whose Army was in there and I'm now understanding what you meant in the original comment haha. Damn one more reason to love Peaky Blinders.
Pulk/Pull is just a scrapped version of True Love Waits from the Kid A era. You can actually merge it with the album version of TLW and it fits perfectly on top of it. They used to perform a similar version live with Jonny manipulating Thom's vocals.
The reason you found Knives Out to be so similar to Paranoid Android is because the chord progressions are almost identical, literally starting on the exact same chord.
No it literally is the songs that were not used after original plans to make Kid A a double album were scrapped because they thought it might be too dense. They decided to release this after all as its own album.
Yeah, it's not a b-sides album. They wanted to release it as one double album but decided it'd be easier to digest as two. They've gone on record saying Pyramid Song is one of their best songs and I don't see them making it a b-side.
i cannot wait for the hail to the thief reaction. incredible album and also pretty underappreciated. its up there with okc, kid a and in rainbows for me.
Yes it took me years to figure it out but I feel it is without a doubt their most underrated album most of the songs I was not crazy about when I first heard it I really like now.
been waiting for this one, Amnesiac is my fav Radiohead album :)) i honestly really like the genre whiplash between nearly every song, just bc of the whole concept of this album and Kid A together it really fits
I'm in the minority in actually thinking this record is better than Kid A. Life In A Glass House is my favorite song the band has ever done. Not only is it unlike anything they've done up to that point but it's such an outlier on their entire discography. It's such an incredible way to enclose the album as the most hectic lounge possible, somewhere you'd see Tom Waits pissing in the corner and not double-take at it.
Dollars and Cents is one of my favorite Radiohead songs ever and it's so underrated. Its like they attempt to do post-punk without even trying; channeling the style without ripping off a band from that genre. The lyrics are master-class too, with it focuses on capitalism and paranoia that went back to OK Computer. And the string arrangements are *chef kiss* fantastic.
Absolutely love that comparison to the phases of Everywhere at the End of Time, that was exactly what I thought relistening to Radiohead's discography last year.
Holy shit, morning bell is waking up 5 times at night is the perfect analogy. Fuckin wake up and you're just creeped out, annoyed, and every shadow looks menacing.
Amnesiac is the best Radiohead album in my opinion. I love the experimental and jazzy sounds found throughout the album. It feels like a war, with the intro sounding like a battlefield and the second song sounding like the mental state of a soldier. Then "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" comes on and it feels like a nuclear bomb went off. From there, the music tells the story of the survivors and how they feel and cope with their situation. The song "Hunting Bears" sounds extremely barren and listening to it takes me to an empty nuclear landscape, looking somewhat like the album cover mixed with Kid A's cover only without the mountains. Spinning plates is a metaphor for coming full circle, as the survivors are now in somewhat of a stone age, without any modern equipment. "Life In A Glass House" can be seen as either a mass suicide or humanity prevailing and restarting. Respect your opinion regardless, get well soon! Also "dollard" lol.
I think I love pyramid song because I have memories attached to it. I used to see the music video on Rage when I was growing up and it would depress the shit out of me, make me question my whole life… I don’t know what it is. I avoided the track throughout all my teenage years for this reason. As an adult I’ve accepted my life means nothing in the grand scheme of things and I can enjoy the track without having a panic attack lmao. While I do agree it’s not close to being one of their best tracks, I love it for those other reasons. Damn, Radiohead.
Like Spinning Plates is in my top 3 Radiohead songs. Just feels horrifying but so sad. Also Life in a Glasshouse is the most underrated Radiohead song. That outro is so chaotically anthemic. I don’t know how it works so well.
Other than The Bends this is my favorite Radiohead album. I love that they’re complete opposites. The Bends is their warmest most organic sounding record and Amnesiac their coldest and artificial. My favorite songs from them are Fake Plastic Trees and Like Spinning Plates respectively so that contrast is interesting to me.
As a long time fan of Radiohead, knowing practically all of their material (including unreleased stuff, b-sides, and shit like that) Pyramid Song is definitely at among my fav RH songs.
pulk/pull is so good tho... I didn't like it at first, and the lyrics are wack but I love how delirious it is, and watching out for the "there are trapdoors..........which you can't come back from" is so mesmerising. it and pyramid song have grown on me so much
I am SO glad to finally see you react not only to my favorite Radiohead album but also one you had yet to hear! This was everything I could have asked for but I do believe as time goes on, Pyramid Song might still grow on you. Are you gonna do one of these for the bonus tracks and B-sides on OKNOTOK? Would be cool to see, especially wanna know how you feel abt Man O War
I used to hate this album and skip it every time I'd go on a Radiohead binge but now I get it if that makes sense. I like the comparison of Kid A being like an observer of a riot or apocalypse and Amnesiac being in the apocalypse, very chaotic, very dark and with great creativity behind it. Favourite song overall: Morning Bell/ Amnesiac Favourite instrumental: Pulk/Pull Favourite visual/meaning: Knives out Edit: 4 months later it's my favourite album lmao, albums don't have to be a consistent flow like in Kid A. Sometimes chaos is what you need in an album like this
Pyramid song has some of the best environmental stuff radiohead has ever done, the chord progression is fantastic and the drumming is excellent. It’s such an emotional piece and I genuinely can’t fathom how you don’t like it?
I can understand finding the scattered nature of the track list to be not great. Honestly though I think that this is actually Kid A's better personally I find the experimentation and production on amnesiac to be a lot more interesting and fun to listen to. Granted amnesiac doesn't have a track as great as idioteque.
IThanks for reviewing this album . One of my favorite of the older RadioHead albums. Cut the lights off when you hear this album ! love the almost minimal zoned out production . I don't think there has to be a lotta work behind something to be good . I think the album progresses . The first track is not just an intro it sets the toned -down vibe the entire album carries . The microtoned singing is enhanced by the same pitches instrumentally -there is great stuff . I love it . I'm a musician that always helps when you make stuff .There is an amazing cover of KidA by that top 40 cute guitarist -it's actually more beguiling than the original - how often can you say that .
to me, pyramid song = taking in the majesty of a pyramid from the outside, pulk/pull = navigating the convoluted halls and rooms inside said pyramid. those are the vibes i get and why i perceive them as a pair
Everyone is complaining that he said Pyramid Song is overrated, but I'm just glad he liked the album as a whole. It's probably their most devisive album. I'm surprised to see him like Hunting Bears especially, which I also love. It almost feels like one of those "rest areas" in a video game. I read one review that compared the feeling of Kid A to a cold alien landscape, and Amnesiac to a dusty attic. Anyway, looking forward to the rest of the Radiohead reactions!
my favourite reason is to why morning bell is on both kid a and amnesiac is that the band stated it sounded like a recurring dream and was the only track they had two amazing versions of
The way that I see Kid A and Amnisiac is like this: They are the two sides of all the mental stress that Thom Yorke was going through in the Ok Computer touring era. While Kid A feels depressing, confortable, lonely and distant, Amnisiac sounds close, alarming, claustrophobic, like a representation of anxiety. Both albums are coming from the same place, but they are very different in my opinion
I just came up with a random and possibly unlikely theory: morning Bell is like waking up in the morning dreading the day and dreading living in general, and the amnesiac version is almost like that dread getting larger and taking over.
I agree that Dollars and Cents is a smidge too long but that build up and fake-out in the middle is undeniably sick and nobody ever talks about it! Underrated moment imo
I know everyone has their own opinion, but I genuinely can't imagine not being moved by Pyramid Song. Beautiful song with some of Thom's finest lyrical work.
Yes Pyramid song is absolutley beautiful and just so good I cant believe that he didnt care for it.
Ok so, thom described kid a as watching the apocalypse from a distance and amnesiac as being in the apocalypse
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I like to think OK Computer is the coming of the apocalypse while Kid A is the apocalypse
@@metelineblue294 brother
I think that's mostly right, but I think it was more like standing in a fire vs seeing it from a distance or something
I might be wrong is an insanely good song
Ye you're wrong
He's right though
@@ahhhhyes orrr... you might be wrong
In my top 5 personally
Yep the breakdown is epic, sadness personified
Ngl I feel bad for you about not liking pyramid song. It’s one of my favorite radiohead songs, it has such an amazing atmosphere and feel to it imo. I hope it grows on you just so you can experience it fully lol. Great video!
fucking LOVE it
Pretty sure he gave it a smiley ball and really likes it, he just thinks it’s a little overrated
You start to realize just how clever the song is when you try to feel the time signature. Like people love to talk about the "out of sync" signature of Videotape but realistically as a listener you're meant to hear it in 4/4 without noticing. Not so here.
@@fenixzaw people talk more about pyramid song's time signature than videotape's tho, like, there's a hundred videos on yt about PS
Pyramid Song is absolutely a grower
Pyramid Song isn’t popular for it’s rhythmic progression, it’s the hauntingly powerful and melancholy message it conveys that sticks with you. It was never my favourite to begin with but it’s certainly not overrated. In the context of the Amnesiac track-list, it is a bit out of place, but if you take it for what it is without the album, it really is one of Radiohead’s finest moments. The strings, the drums, the chords, the vocals, it’s all so meticulously crafted. Jonny adds the crazy soundscapes in behind, which makes it all the more dramatic and euphoric. The lyrics are beautiful too; sincerely poetic and interpretable. I have a feeling you’ll come back to it one day with a new appreciation for it
how is pyramid song not popular? it's a whole meme in itself
ok man
@@croay I said it was popular, just not for the rhythmic progression
@@madremorelos1573 thats precisely why its so popular, there are a dozen of youtube videos talking about this aspect of the song.
that and videotape
Dude Pyramid Song is one of their best ever
For real. He's crazy.
it’s so amazing
RIGHT
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i agree, i put it it up there with how to dissapear completely
I personally love Amnesiac. I feel like the incompleteness adds to the claustrophobic nerve-wracking feeling of the album. It doesn't come off as a B-side to me but rather that Kid-A and Amnesiac both come from two different places in someone's mind at the same time. Kid A was filled with worry and criticality and a beautiful confusion, whereas Amnesiac is just hopelessness and an underlying empty depression. This is in my top 3 but I still respect your opinion
What's ur profile pic? Seems familiar
@@PandazHub Looks like Green Day’s Warning logo
@@rinmarc9600 yea
I like to think like this:
Kid A is cold snowy mountain peaks (like the cover)
Amnesiac is dry empty desert
They compliment each other really well if you think about 'em like this
@@pinkraven4402 i think Amnesiac is more like the old withering attic of a cabin lost within the mountains of Kid A
Can't wait to hear your reaction to sit down stand up. The ending slaps hard.
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
POWER RANGERS
The raindrops
@@clausphoenix too true 😞
Dude gonna end up transcending to a different plain of existence when “the raindrops” come in
Aaaah my favourite song! "Sit Down. Stand up. (Snakes & Ladders.) {The Rain Drops} [POWER RANGERS]" :D
I highly recommend listening to their live album that came after Amnesiac, there's renditions of particular songs that really change how they sound that I think it's worth at least doing a quick listen to. Plus a reminder of where True Love Waits was back then is worth it for AMSP tbh
Absolutely. Like Spining Plates live Is a totally different experience
Yes indeed! The live versions of Kid A and Amnesiac are so incredible!
Ok felonious thanks for your input now please get back into your cell
@@nicolasriveros943 I love the live version of like spinning plates
I love Pulk/Pull 🥺 I know it's monotonous but I actually love it. The killer beat alone convinces me but also the song feels like a trance, it has cool ambient, creepy vocals and mysterious lyrics - love it. Also it's great for gym
i despise the original pulk/pull, BUT there’s a version of it on Kid Amnesiac that has the lyrics of True Love Waits, and that version is so much better
Hunting Bears is a really interesting song, actually. It's written in Free Time, which means that it doesn't stick to a steady pulse or time signature. Almost no modern mainstream music is written this way, and it gives Hunting Bears a very specific, ethereal, floating feeling that is unique in this day and age.
Losing it's rhythmic structure makes it feel like more of a chordal experience than an actual song, which some people will strongly dislike, but I think it's absolutely haunting; it was based off of a creepy, strange comic about a group of heavily genetically modified bears, and I can honestly see that influence when I listen for it.
Sounds like some Red Dead music ngl
mod bear!?!?!?!!1!!!!1!!???
I like it a lot, feel like it's one that really grows on you. I've done one in free time myself, a piano/vocal piece that covers a lot of octaves and makes use of harplike cascades. It's a lovely time signiature (or lack of one if being pedantic). Definitely evokes a cinematic feel. It's like you're got no gravity or perspective but music's still happening. First time I'm hearing what it's called when you do that, so that's neat! :D
@@xamp_exclammark Nah it sounds exactly like the Last of Us soundtrack
This is the most popular unpopular Radiohead album
Pablo Honey and King Of Limbs???
@@Judahgoldman I meant like within the Radiohead fanbase
Pablo honey
the most underrated
@@_baalshamin yes
Life in a Glasshouse is one of my favorite Radiohead tracks. It’s just so much different than the other stuff. Also, you need to check out the I Might Be Wrong-Live album that came out the same year as this. I Might Be Wrong (the song) is awesome live and I really enjoy the live version of Like Spinning Plates.
I personally was very offended when Knives out wasn't a soundtrack in Knives out
Haha same :'(
It would’ve worked perfectly too!
Pull/Pulk Revolving doors is best with headphones. The beat messages your ears
Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors gang here
Edit: oh
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underrated song tho
@@nikkoduran it replaced b sides like fog and cuttooth on the album. That's my main problem with it.
lol
You and whose army has one of the most spacey piano parts for me it's hard to describe when that breakdown hits like some otherworldly momentum
I think this album is pretty unique in radiohead's discography, it might not be the best, but it has some of their most interesting songs. I like it.
As someone who watched Peaky Blinders, this album hits different. The show actually what made me get into Radiohead
same... that scene with pyramid song hit different
@@killapositionz2 Let's not forget the season 3 finale with life in a glasshouse
@@Bellas61 ngl I didn't notice that was even in there! at the time I saw that ep. I hadn't gotten into Radiohead yet... and after a quick search I'm also seeing You and Whose Army was in there and I'm now understanding what you meant in the original comment haha. Damn one more reason to love Peaky Blinders.
@@killapositionz2 yesss. After I finished season 3 I went though a phase where I only listened to Radiohead for like 5 months 😂
@@Bellas61 haha yepp same thing for me, except I also got into the Strokes around that time so I had a 2 band rotation going.
Pulk/Pull is just a scrapped version of True Love Waits from the Kid A era. You can actually merge it with the album version of TLW and it fits perfectly on top of it. They used to perform a similar version live with Jonny manipulating Thom's vocals.
No way…
The reason you found Knives Out to be so similar to Paranoid Android is because the chord progressions are almost identical, literally starting on the exact same chord.
The vocals on 'I might be wrong' are absolute perfection, Brad. Give it a few more listens, bro. Also, yes 'Pyramid song' is a grower for sure ✌
I'd say that Amnesiac is best enjoyed 4am in the morning, sleep-deprived and after an ugly cry
Everyone calls it a Kid A b-side album but I genuinely can’t imagine any of these songs being on kid A, it’s without a doubt it’s own thing
Yeah as a massive radiohead fan, i never knew it was supposed to be a B-side album; it's definitely not in the traditional sense
No it literally is the songs that were not used after original plans to make Kid A a double album were scrapped because they thought it might be too dense. They decided to release this after all as its own album.
@@PeteOliva thanks Pete you saved the day
Yeah, it's not a b-sides album. They wanted to release it as one double album but decided it'd be easier to digest as two. They've gone on record saying Pyramid Song is one of their best songs and I don't see them making it a b-side.
Yup. Kid A feels like a frostbite and Amnesiac sounds like a heatstroke
amnesiac feels like a rare tracks compilation.
Personally that’s what I like about it
i cannot wait for the hail to the thief reaction. incredible album and also pretty underappreciated. its up there with okc, kid a and in rainbows for me.
a fellow httt enjoyer! i definitely agree with it being just as good as what people consider their best, so hats off to you
@@doodiii for sure!! glad someone agrees :)
Up there with In Rainbows, *AMSP,* and OKC
@@j.prt.979 ill take that. personally amsp isnt up there for me but ill still take that.
Yes it took me years to figure it out but I feel it is without a doubt their most underrated album most of the songs I was not crazy about when I first heard it I really like now.
Fun Fact : The red square on the cover is actually a red book.
WTF howwww didn’t I see that. Thank you
Damn didnt noticed that
Damn I thought it was like a desk and the dude on it was like carved onto it, thanks laddie
I thought it was a red file
yeah I only saw that yesterday when I tried to see what it was
Finally someone else loves you and whose army! It’s one of my favorites off the album
What? Everyone loves You and Whose Army. It's one of their best songs
@@ommane9365 most people whom I’ve met were Radiohead fans didn’t which shocked me
been waiting for this one, Amnesiac is my fav Radiohead album :)) i honestly really like the genre whiplash between nearly every song, just bc of the whole concept of this album and Kid A together it really fits
I'm in the minority in actually thinking this record is better than Kid A. Life In A Glass House is my favorite song the band has ever done. Not only is it unlike anything they've done up to that point but it's such an outlier on their entire discography. It's such an incredible way to enclose the album as the most hectic lounge possible, somewhere you'd see Tom Waits pissing in the corner and not double-take at it.
I don't think its better, but it takes so many more risks and after the fiftieth listen of both, Amnesiac keeps being interesting and unique to me.
They are very close for me too. Can't choose
I adore life in a glass house, but Kid A has much better consistency, as well as overall catalogue.
I agree, I'd say it's their best album
Yea Life in a Glasshouse is too good for this album to be labeled "B Sides"
Dollars and Cents is one of my favorite Radiohead songs ever and it's so underrated. Its like they attempt to do post-punk without even trying; channeling the style without ripping off a band from that genre. The lyrics are master-class too, with it focuses on capitalism and paranoia that went back to OK Computer. And the string arrangements are *chef kiss* fantastic.
*Brad comments on Pyramid Song*
Ok, great. Now I'm pissed and having a bad day.
Having a *Brad* day
Joker
Fun Fact: Like spinning plates is hail to the thief's i will but reversed
Absolutely love that comparison to the phases of Everywhere at the End of Time, that was exactly what I thought relistening to Radiohead's discography last year.
One full video not split into 2 parts?!
You are spoiling us Brad :D, thank you!
DUUUUUDE finally you llistened to my favourite radiohead song! YAYYYYYYYYY!
“Noooo, Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors is my favourite Radiohead track, how could you Bradley??!!” said no-one ever.
its a good song
I feel the same
colin greenwood has called it his favorite
pulk is my favorite on amnesiac :((
@@alwaysnauseous We Pulk fans will have our day in the sun, one day.
Unpopular opinion: Codex is the song people hype up Pyramid Song to be. Looking forward to seeing what you think when TKOL comes around
Yes, Codex is leagues ahead of pyramid song. Probably my favorite piano ballad ever. The chords and the melody are so original and captivating.
I love both songs, but pyramid song is my absolute favorite Radiohead song.
TKOL IS A BANGER
Holy shit, morning bell is waking up 5 times at night is the perfect analogy. Fuckin wake up and you're just creeped out, annoyed, and every shadow looks menacing.
Amnesiac is the best Radiohead album in my opinion. I love the experimental and jazzy sounds found throughout the album. It feels like a war, with the intro sounding like a battlefield and the second song sounding like the mental state of a soldier. Then "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" comes on and it feels like a nuclear bomb went off. From there, the music tells the story of the survivors and how they feel and cope with their situation. The song "Hunting Bears" sounds extremely barren and listening to it takes me to an empty nuclear landscape, looking somewhat like the album cover mixed with Kid A's cover only without the mountains. Spinning plates is a metaphor for coming full circle, as the survivors are now in somewhat of a stone age, without any modern equipment. "Life In A Glass House" can be seen as either a mass suicide or humanity prevailing and restarting. Respect your opinion regardless, get well soon! Also "dollard" lol.
this is probably my favorite radiohead album
I love this album still can’t believe people think it’s their worst album.. for shame
People think the worst album is king of limbs
@@dissonantpulse that’s just messed up
@@dissonantpulse correct, but live versions of the King of Limbs' songs are insane
@@dissonantpulse I'm pretty sure that that title goes to Pablo Honey
@@serbianstallion8321 yea, pablo honey it's their worsttt
I was very curious about your reaction to this one. This is one of the split opinion Radiohead albums
This is up there with Beck - Mellow Gold for one of the strangest albums out there
I think I love pyramid song because I have memories attached to it. I used to see the music video on Rage when I was growing up and it would depress the shit out of me, make me question my whole life… I don’t know what it is. I avoided the track throughout all my teenage years for this reason. As an adult I’ve accepted my life means nothing in the grand scheme of things and I can enjoy the track without having a panic attack lmao.
While I do agree it’s not close to being one of their best tracks, I love it for those other reasons. Damn, Radiohead.
Dollars and cents goes hard
“I’m going to give that a smiley ball as they say”
The live versions of I Might Be Wrong and Like Spinning Plates are incredible. Check em out
How could you say Hunting Bears is better than Pyramid Song wtf
Yeah that is an unhinged take😭🙏🏾
what’re you going on about pyramid song is awful😭 not even a grower dude i’ve listened to it plenty of times and i still hate it.
This album has no right being considered one of their worst. Genuinely beautiful record.
pablo honey it's their worst for sure
@@nikkoduran I one hundred percent agree.
life in a glasshouse plays during the final scene of a peaky blinders season and its SO fucking cool
The full version of Life in a Glass House makes it sooooooo much more complete sounding
All of these tracks performed live... so good as they've evolved over the years.
I love your videos so much man!! always happy to see you uploaded
Closing the album with a New Orleans funeral march works perfectly.
People calling this Kid A B-sides is doing it a disservice
Great reaction and review. You have gotten so much better lately. Loving these Radiohead reactions
Like Spinning Plates is in my top 3 Radiohead songs. Just feels horrifying but so sad. Also Life in a Glasshouse is the most underrated Radiohead song. That outro is so chaotically anthemic. I don’t know how it works so well.
Other than The Bends this is my favorite Radiohead album. I love that they’re complete opposites. The Bends is their warmest most organic sounding record and Amnesiac their coldest and artificial. My favorite songs from them are Fake Plastic Trees and Like Spinning Plates respectively so that contrast is interesting to me.
As a long time fan of Radiohead, knowing practically all of their material (including unreleased stuff, b-sides, and shit like that) Pyramid Song is definitely at among my fav RH songs.
pulk/pull is so good tho... I didn't like it at first, and the lyrics are wack but I love how delirious it is, and watching out for the "there are trapdoors..........which you can't come back from" is so mesmerising. it and pyramid song have grown on me so much
the main differene between kid a and amnesiac is amnesiac is a list of songs that don't flow between each other
I Migh Be Wrong in live versions is AWESOME.
My favourite Radiohead album - I'm glad you enjoyed the spooky castle rendition of Morning Bell
Yay, Brad reacting to Strange noises again
Glad you liked You And Whose Army. My personal favorite Radiohead song
Hail the the Thief reaction is going to be interesting
Kid A sounds like a frostbite and Amnesiac feels like a heatstroke
That's a good way of putting it
True
Pyramid song is one of there best songs I think :)
I am SO glad to finally see you react not only to my favorite Radiohead album but also one you had yet to hear! This was everything I could have asked for but I do believe as time goes on, Pyramid Song might still grow on you.
Are you gonna do one of these for the bonus tracks and B-sides on OKNOTOK? Would be cool to see, especially wanna know how you feel abt Man O War
OH YEAH THE EPIC TRANSITION FROM KID A TO IN RAINBOWS IS COMING! HERE COMES HAIL TO THE THIEF!
pull/pulk revolving doors slaps tho fr, best implementation of Aphex Twin influence in a Radiohead song to date
Completely agreed, wish he liked it
I agree that it is great. I'd say a strong Autechre influence as well
Having different opinions doesn't make u interesting 😪
it has an insane beat but the song does nothing with said beat
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i hope at the end of this series you rank them from worst to best!
pyramid song is probably my favourite RH song
I used to hate this album and skip it every time I'd go on a Radiohead binge but now I get it if that makes sense. I like the comparison of Kid A being like an observer of a riot or apocalypse and Amnesiac being in the apocalypse, very chaotic, very dark and with great creativity behind it.
Favourite song overall: Morning Bell/ Amnesiac
Favourite instrumental: Pulk/Pull
Favourite visual/meaning: Knives out
Edit: 4 months later it's my favourite album lmao, albums don't have to be a consistent flow like in Kid A. Sometimes chaos is what you need in an album like this
I always thought this one felt the most 'alien' of their sounds
Kid a is the events leading up to the apocalypse, amnesiac is the aftermath.
😮 love you brad, hope we see more of you.. 🐾
Pyramid song has some of the best environmental stuff radiohead has ever done, the chord progression is fantastic and the drumming is excellent. It’s such an emotional piece and I genuinely can’t fathom how you don’t like it?
I can understand finding the scattered nature of the track list to be not great. Honestly though I think that this is actually Kid A's better personally I find the experimentation and production on amnesiac to be a lot more interesting and fun to listen to. Granted amnesiac doesn't have a track as great as idioteque.
The Live version of Like Spinning Plates is so beautiful
and true love waits
You should listen the version of I might be wrong in 'Le Reservoir' (2003) sounds very very cool acoustic
IThanks for reviewing this album . One of my favorite of the older RadioHead albums. Cut the lights off when you hear this album ! love the almost minimal zoned out production . I don't think there has to be a lotta work behind something to be good . I think the album progresses . The first track is not just an intro it sets the toned -down vibe the entire album carries . The microtoned singing is enhanced by the same pitches instrumentally -there is great stuff . I love it . I'm a musician that always helps when you make stuff .There is an amazing cover of KidA by that top 40 cute guitarist -it's actually more beguiling than the original - how often can you say that .
to me, pyramid song = taking in the majesty of a pyramid from the outside, pulk/pull = navigating the convoluted halls and rooms inside said pyramid. those are the vibes i get and why i perceive them as a pair
"Like Spinning plates" is their "I will" song from hail to the Thief but reversed.
oh shit he haven't heard it...
life in a glasshouse is definitely my favorite off this album
Yesss!! Can’t wait to see what you think of Hail to the Thief
You and whose army and knives out are soooo goodddd😮💨
Bro pulk/pull is soooooo good
Everyone is complaining that he said Pyramid Song is overrated, but I'm just glad he liked the album as a whole. It's probably their most devisive album. I'm surprised to see him like Hunting Bears especially, which I also love. It almost feels like one of those "rest areas" in a video game. I read one review that compared the feeling of Kid A to a cold alien landscape, and Amnesiac to a dusty attic. Anyway, looking forward to the rest of the Radiohead reactions!
Like Spinning Plates is I Will reversed,
Thanks for the info album KID A MNESIA. Never heard of it until you spoke about it.
my favourite reason is to why morning bell is on both kid a and amnesiac is that the band stated it sounded like a recurring dream and was the only track they had two amazing versions of
The way that I see Kid A and Amnisiac is like this: They are the two sides of all the mental stress that Thom Yorke was going through in the Ok Computer touring era. While Kid A feels depressing, confortable, lonely and distant, Amnisiac sounds close, alarming, claustrophobic, like a representation of anxiety. Both albums are coming from the same place, but they are very different in my opinion
I just came up with a random and possibly unlikely theory: morning Bell is like waking up in the morning dreading the day and dreading living in general, and the amnesiac version is almost like that dread getting larger and taking over.
pyramid song is one of their best songs FR. i’m literally terrified of pull/pulk revolving doors
Pulk/pull is what cognitive overload sounds like
The piano version of spinning plates it's awesome
Revolving Doors is like Fittier Happier to me, hate it so fucking much
I actually love Fitter Happier. Lyrics are so cold and clinical. Literally a representation of what OK Computer is.
I agree that Dollars and Cents is a smidge too long but that build up and fake-out in the middle is undeniably sick and nobody ever talks about it! Underrated moment imo