I think it’s cyclical, “idiot, slow down” to me refers to him recklessly speeding in a car before he crashes, the “airbag saves his life” and the story starts again
Funny you say that, I came up with a similar theory that the album could have been meant to be Twilight Zone-esque, in that he was rushing to stop himself and save himself from the physical and mental destruction of the rest of the songs... More likely it's meant as a self-reminder, or he sees someone else on this self destructive path/behavior and is trying to warn them but I like my Twilight Zone episode theory anyway.
Does anyone else notice how the end of Fitter Happier ends with "A Pig in a cage on antibiotics" and then Electioneering starts with a tambourine that sounds like a chain link fence raddling.
That scream at the end of Climbing Up The Walls is like my favourite moment of the album. It shakes me every time, it’s just so intense. Incredible album
I really love the 2nd last scream though, it feels so muffled like you are fucking loaded with stress but still can't cry for help (damn that was deep)
The moment No Surprises hit me is when I was listenig to it with my mom who's not really good at English I told her that it's about someone deciding to leave the engine on and die because they can't take their problems anymore and she told me "Shit I liked cause it sounds a lullaby" and that made me realize how smart the song really is
It's about not living a boring life. It still is a sarcastic lullaby, but it's sarcastic because that quiet perfect life with no alarms and no surprises isn't fulfilling, and really the message of the song is DON'T be lulled to sleep and shut the world out. Accept that there's going to be some alarming and surprising shit, that perfect little suburban life is only so real. Get out there and live a little
@@jordanestes1997 I think in the context of the album it's the protagonist resigning himself to that dull boring life because he just can't take anymore.
@@ryansabin2618 that's an interesting interpretation I'll have to listen again and see how the song feels looking at it that way. Thanks. I still like my interpretation but I'll listen again and see what I think
@@jordanestes1997 I think your interpretation is implicit to the song, the other person's comment is just a more explicit interpretation. I think you're both right.
Shoutout to Nigel Godrich, the engineer, producer, and highkey Radiohead's de facto 6th member. Without him, OK Computer, and all of RH's albums past The Bends wouldn't be where they are right now.
Electioneering is so god damn good. It just fuckin rips. The bass going down and the melody going up during "I go forward/You go backwards" and then ending on the same note at "Somewhere we will meet" is fucking genius
My favorite moment on OK Computer is the last chorus of No Surprises. The backing vocals desperate pleading, "let me out of here," really underpins the song and the album as a whole, to me. 11/10 album.
thief lowkey the most underrated radiohead album. I absolutely love the mix between the less electronic parts of amnesiac and the more ambient sounds on kid a.
@@trevor245 they really had some HUGE potential in tracks like Sit Down, The Gloaming, I Will, Punchup and Backdrifts. They are all good songs but they lack the oomph factor, they could've been so much better
@@Akshay-jx6si I kinda disagree, if they had more oomph not only would the other songs not hit as hard (there there, sail to the moon and wolf at the door to name a few) but it would also ruin the atmosphere. Sure, songs like I suck young blood have a bit too much open space but that doesn't mean that ever second of that is wasted , it just means that it goes on for a bit too long. Treefingers also goes on for too long IMO doesn't mean I think it's a terrible song I still like it since it succeeds at what it sets out to do.
@@jandcstopmotion7774 I dunno I've heard a lot of people call Lucky a weak point. I think they're stupid to say that, but it does seem like a common enough take.
the song No Surprises hits me so much harder now. at my old retail job, the door that led to the back had a little alarm that went off every time it was opened. that alarm sounded _exactly_ like the first two notes of No Surprises. the pitch, the tempo, it was uncanny. and the fact that the song is about trying to be successful in life, getting a house with a white picket fence, but feeling so empty and like none of it even matters. coming back to it hits so much harder. I love this song.
I was 15 when this came out. I walked down the the record store to buy it the week it came out. When I got back to my grandma’s, I put it on my Sanyo BassXpander and it popped my little top, much like how the previous generation said Dark Side of the Moon blew their mind. This changed my whole concept of the kinds of emotions that music could convey. Sentimentally, this is the greatest album of all time to me. But In Rainbows is soooooooo close.
Not enough is said about Climbing up the walls, to me its almost the most important song on the album, everything that comes before it builds up to it, all the anxiety, all the fear it just explodes. No surprises is the respite, the clarity, the epiphany that beauty can be found in simplicity and everyone can find it on the other side of their fear and their anxiety. Lucky is the acknowledgment that though Thoms fears of the worst outcome possible in the first few tracks are valid, there is always hope that you can recover or maybe you may just be lucky enough to survive what happens to you. The Tourist is the acknowledgment by Thom that he has been observing himself this whole album on his journey to better understanding himself.
Electioneering is not only a great song but it’s NECESSARY in the tracklisting. Imagine if Climbing Up The Walls came right after Fitter Happier? Depression vibes would be overwhelming. As it is it’s perfectly balanced. And don’t try to change the tracklisting to make electioneering not being there work, the tracklisting is the most well chosen shit of any album I’ve ever heard.
AMAZING Thom yorke singing Brad 16:46 let yourself free, Lucky is my favourite off the album and The Tourist even better Singing 19:42 love your Thom Yorke mouth movement
No surprises being described as “asking for peace” and even just accepting death is so accurate. The song itself is just so heart wrenching in its sound. It’s begging. It’s sobbing and wailing. It’s a final cry and you can feel it.
I find No Surprises to be Thom Yorke's acceptance of the monotony of everyday life. After the exhausting emotions he dealt with on the first half of OK Computer, Thom Yorke wishes for a life where he doesn't have to go through that again.
I always took the bell at the end of The Tourist to be the tourist ringing a “ring for service” bell at wherever thom sees them. almost as if no matter what journey thom goes through or lessons he learns throughout the album, he can’t convince anyone else to listen to him. the tourist doesn’t slow down, but stays impatient. cramming that amount of failure and storytelling into one bell ring is incredible
@@jager9022 oo man I wanna see him listen to hail to the thief then, it's such an underrated album. He likes electioneering, so I feel like he'll enjoy a lot of that album, especially stuff like There There, where I end, myxomatosis etc
I love the surreal dream-like sound of No Surprises and how the vocals and lyrics betray it. The way I interpret it is the band is the medication and the vocal and lyrics is the truth being buried by the medication!
I love how this album has evolved for you - I remember when u were “unimpressed” reminds us all That great art is rarely immediately accessible nor should it be
climbing up the walls is one of my favourite tracks on the album, and actually overall. it is literally the embodyment of hopelessness and sadness, and express those feelings flawless.
The scratchiness of the vocals is so haunting. It's like the wolves clawing at the door. Personally one of my favorites on the album but it does take more dissection than some of the other songs 💯
Man, i love how your reactions and editing just picture exactly my own reactions while listening to this masterpiece. I'm brazilian and your videos helped me a lot to learn english. Keep going man, your videos are the shit.
Hey Brad you are correct about the tone of the album. It’s about paranoia. I am one of the biggest Radiohead fans and longest. Climbing Up the Walls is actually centered around Thom Yorkes time working at a mental institution where a patient claimed there was a monster climbing up the walls. Love your reactions and if you get time get the Kid A Mensia exhibition from epic games. It’s a trip. Keep making videos!
Usually the case with most Radiohead songs for me, adored them without knowing wtf he was saying then would search the lyrics and elevate the song even more
I always thought some fans are snobby towards Electioneering just because it doesn't "fit" musically with the rest of the songs on the album which are moody, paranoid and slower paced and generally feel more polished. It's like "route-one" music, like going back to basics (whatever basics means). The gist of the criticism I've seen over the years boils down to: "It doesn't flow with the album, maaan. The flow doesn't fit, maan". I think the album really benefits from a song that's rougher and more energetic to give the listener a bit of a break from the gloomy, paranoid atmosphere and liven things up, especially since it follows Fitter Happier in the track listing.
When I hear The Tourist I imagine the lyrics are directed at Thom in the past or someone like him who he sees heading down a dangerous path that might lead to Airbag: the beginning of it all. "Slow down" (you might end up in a car crash etc..). Almost like this album could loop over and over again.
Climbing up the walls reminds me of your reaction to currents, him feeling dissapointed or not as into some of the songs and then realizing the singer/band intended for that to happen
I don’t think many people would disagree with you anyway. A good majority of people who love music agree that this is one of the best albums ever made lol.
For me it’s prolly… hmm, I’d say 1. Far Beyond Driven - Pantera 2. Ghost Reveries - Opeth 3. 10,000 Days - TOOL 4. White Pony - Deftones 5. In Rainbows - Radiohead 6. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins 7. Alive - Pearl Jam 8. And here I think I would put OK Computer But this is just on the spot, it’d probably change if I thought about it a bit longer
Brad, this new Lingua Ignota project is as brutal and heavy and devastating as Daughters or Swans. The intensity is on another level. You really oughta give it a reaction
The first time I listened to the album, Climbing Up The Walls was my least favorite. Now, it may not be my absolute favorite, but as time has gone on, I've realized it's one of the most intimidating and terrifying songs on the album. It truly feels like going insane over an obsession, and the finale is incredible, but eerie as all hell. Improves so much on relisten, what an incredible song.
Damn, he got me in the first half of climbing up the walls ngl. I would probably put that song in my top 10 radiohead songs, like, you have Thom Yorke fucking screaming at the end what else do you want man.
Fitter Happier is great, i like the uncanny feeling of a text to speech bot talking about human improvement, it almost feels as if it was laughing at us.
This is one of several exquisite albums that came out in 1997 and cemented it as one of the great years of music. Others include Yo La Tengo's "I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One", Stereolab's "Dots and Loops", Björk's "Homogenic", Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space", Mogwai's "Young Team", Helium's "The Magic City", Amon Tobin's "Bricolage"...
I haven’t seen this classic t-shirt since your To Be Kind ranking, slow down Brad XD Seriously though, what a fun reaction, I’m so excited to eventually see your thoughts on Kid A!
I do like Fitter Happier, it fits well in the context of the album, and I do love the message about robotic human-like progress, since I do have experiences with disgusting antibiotics and having to depend on them to survive. I'm in a better place now, and OK Computer is one hell of a bop. Favorite songs are Subterranean Homesick Alien, Exit Music (For A Film), Climbing Up The Walls [because of that awesome second half], Paranoid Android, and No Surprises. 95/100. Probably will make it a 100 on AOTY someday. A close friend of mine, maybe even a guy I have conflicted, mixed feelings with, he loves No Surprises. I mean, that makes me like him just 1% more.
When you listen to kid a I think you should split it into two parts but listen to the album from start to finish, the whole thing is an experience which I feel could be hurt by not listening to it all in one sitting
theory time airbag is not only the sort of intro to the album but could also be considered an outro or you could just consider the album to be this kind of loop type thingy the album ends with a song about going through life too fast and needing to slow down and enjoy life and airbag is about an accident that made thom feel reborn and finding a new appreciation for life and the little things this could mean airbag is that sort of real happy ending to this album and that may be why you get that sort of happy feeling from it which is so different from the rest of the albums grim and sad topics not saying this is at all true just thought it was a cool and neat little theory
I think on top of everything you’ve heaped upon this album, all of with which I completely concur, there’s a certain yet indefinite shine on it that I really have a hard time finding words to describe. That quality alone carries a certain degree of excellence; when combined with everything you mentioned here - the story, the pristine sound and production, the settings and moods the instruments evoke, the consistent degree of high quality songwriting yet still easily accessible material, the fact it still feels new and unwrapped 24 years later - when you have all that present and yet there is still something about it you just can’t put your finger on, that is when it becomes an absolute beast of material that will be hard for anyone to match. Ever. In my opinion of course.
electioneering was the first song off the album i liked, even as someone who really didn’t get it or was paying attention to the album at all. it was the song that convinced me to give the album a thoughtful relisten after having the song on my playlist for like a week. now it’s one of my fav albums lol
Fitter, Happier always felt like a mournful succumbing to the norms and standards of society. Yes, it is technically improving your life, but do you feel like you're improved? Do you FEEL fitter, happier?
You get it…electioneering slaps you so hard. The guitar wrenching fills me with so much joy. It’s as heavy as a guitar gets. No surprises! Lucky is orgasm in slow motion. You fold in on yourself with this record.
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I think it’s cyclical, “idiot, slow down” to me refers to him recklessly speeding in a car before he crashes, the “airbag saves his life” and the story starts again
You could interpret it as if he puts himself down in situations where he feels powerful only to realize later on that the world doesn't go his way
Funny you say that, I came up with a similar theory that the album could have been meant to be Twilight Zone-esque, in that he was rushing to stop himself and save himself from the physical and mental destruction of the rest of the songs...
More likely it's meant as a self-reminder, or he sees someone else on this self destructive path/behavior and is trying to warn them but I like my Twilight Zone episode theory anyway.
god fucking damn it i just read this comment after making one about the same thing
Read this after my comment lol. 100% what he meant
@@lilacisfunny3227 just read your comment about reading this comment already
“Anyone who thinks Electioneering doesn’t belong on this album, doesn’t belong on this planet” - Brad 2021
They must be the visiting aliens from the third song.
Based
I had no idea people disliked this song
Welp, I guess I'm not welcome on this planet then.
Nah electioneering is a good rock song to change things up
Does anyone else notice how the end of Fitter Happier ends with "A Pig in a cage on antibiotics" and then Electioneering starts with a tambourine that sounds like a chain link fence raddling.
Electioneering is criminally underrated, I’m totally with you Brad.
Same, it’s my second favorite song on the album
Yep, it slaps.
We deserve to be on this planet :)
My favorite Radiohead song. It may be “simple” compared to their other songs but so so good.
Tbh it’s my least favorite on ok computer, it’s aged the worst by far I think. Not bad tho don’t get me wrong.
That scream at the end of Climbing Up The Walls is like my favourite moment of the album. It shakes me every time, it’s just so intense. Incredible album
I really love the 2nd last scream though, it feels so muffled like you are fucking loaded with stress but still can't cry for help
(damn that was deep)
Same! I really wish Thom would do the scream during the live versions
It's the guitar feedbacks for me - the way they come from a distance, and end up crashing like waves all around, and flowing back out to the deeps.
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First time I'd heard a scream used in music and still the best.
The moment No Surprises hit me is when I was listenig to it with my mom who's not really good at English I told her that it's about someone deciding to leave the engine on and die because they can't take their problems anymore and she told me "Shit I liked cause it sounds a lullaby" and that made me realize how smart the song really is
It's about not living a boring life. It still is a sarcastic lullaby, but it's sarcastic because that quiet perfect life with no alarms and no surprises isn't fulfilling, and really the message of the song is DON'T be lulled to sleep and shut the world out. Accept that there's going to be some alarming and surprising shit, that perfect little suburban life is only so real. Get out there and live a little
@@jordanestes1997 I think in the context of the album it's the protagonist resigning himself to that dull boring life because he just can't take anymore.
@@ryansabin2618 that's an interesting interpretation I'll have to listen again and see how the song feels looking at it that way. Thanks. I still like my interpretation but I'll listen again and see what I think
@@jordanestes1997 I think your interpretation is implicit to the song, the other person's comment is just a more explicit interpretation. I think you're both right.
Brad: ‘everything just goes into its right place..’
Kid A: *ayo thats my thing bro?!*
Brad: 'the entire song feels like a bull in a china shop'
HTTT: 'that's MY thing!'
Shoutout to Nigel Godrich, the engineer, producer, and highkey Radiohead's de facto 6th member. Without him, OK Computer, and all of RH's albums past The Bends wouldn't be where they are right now.
"this thing is a fucking buffet of the best sounding things you could ever ask for" Perfect way to describe ok computer to people
Electioneering is so god damn good. It just fuckin rips. The bass going down and the melody going up during "I go forward/You go backwards" and then ending on the same note at "Somewhere we will meet" is fucking genius
The Tourist completes the mobius strip that is the album.
Airbag: "I'm in a fast German car"
The Tourist: "Hey man, slow down"
My favorite moment on OK Computer is the last chorus of No Surprises. The backing vocals desperate pleading, "let me out of here," really underpins the song and the album as a whole, to me.
11/10 album.
I’m excited to see your Amnesiac & Thief videos 🤝
thief lowkey the most underrated radiohead album. I absolutely love the mix between the less electronic parts of amnesiac and the more ambient sounds on kid a.
@@trevor245 they really had some HUGE potential in tracks like Sit Down, The Gloaming, I Will, Punchup and Backdrifts. They are all good songs but they lack the oomph factor, they could've been so much better
@@Akshay-jx6si I kinda disagree, if they had more oomph not only would the other songs not hit as hard (there there, sail to the moon and wolf at the door to name a few) but it would also ruin the atmosphere. Sure, songs like I suck young blood have a bit too much open space but that doesn't mean that ever second of that is wasted , it just means that it goes on for a bit too long. Treefingers also goes on for too long IMO doesn't mean I think it's a terrible song I still like it since it succeeds at what it sets out to do.
I’m so excited to see his reaction to In Rainbows
bet u were let down aha
No Surprises following Climbing Up The Walls is such a relief moment.
Electioneering, Lucky and The Tourist: the holy trinity of the underrated OK Comp cuts.
I’d say Lucky is more popular than subterranean homesick alien and climbing up the walls
The tourist is so cinematic and a perfect ending I can't get enough of it
@@jandcstopmotion7774 I dunno I've heard a lot of people call Lucky a weak point. I think they're stupid to say that, but it does seem like a common enough take.
the last 3 tracks on this album is the best 3 track run in history and i will argue with anyone about it
@@bradleyl0488 the last 12 tracks on this album is the best 12 track run in history and i will argue anyone about it
the song No Surprises hits me so much harder now.
at my old retail job, the door that led to the back had a little alarm that went off every time it was opened. that alarm sounded _exactly_ like the first two notes of No Surprises. the pitch, the tempo, it was uncanny.
and the fact that the song is about trying to be successful in life, getting a house with a white picket fence, but feeling so empty and like none of it even matters.
coming back to it hits so much harder. I love this song.
I was 15 when this came out. I walked down the the record store to buy it the week it came out. When I got back to my grandma’s, I put it on my Sanyo BassXpander and it popped my little top, much like how the previous generation said Dark Side of the Moon blew their mind. This changed my whole concept of the kinds of emotions that music could convey. Sentimentally, this is the greatest album of all time to me. But In Rainbows is soooooooo close.
Don’t get sentimental…
I know a lot of people share your opinion of IR, I don’t see it. It’s nowhere near as ambitious or experimental as OK to me.
Banger comment holyyyy
I was -6
@@lucashenriquedecastro5943 I was -12
Fitter Happier - 0:38
Electioneering - 2:09
Climbing Up The Walls - 5:19
No Surprises - 10:35
Lucky - 14:53
The Cooler Lucky - 16:00
The Tourist - 19:12
"crawling up the walls", if you please
@@samueo7033 I need to stop fucking up the titles on the Radiohead videos
You forgot let down on 12:52
Crawling up the walls and Fittier Happier
fittier
I personally really enjoy Climbing Up the Walls. I love how dark & uncomfortable it feels. Also I’ve learned by ear how to play it on guitar.
Agreed definitely in the top 3 fav songs on this amazing album
Not enough is said about Climbing up the walls, to me its almost the most important song on the album, everything that comes before it builds up to it, all the anxiety, all the fear it just explodes. No surprises is the respite, the clarity, the epiphany that beauty can be found in simplicity and everyone can find it on the other side of their fear and their anxiety. Lucky is the acknowledgment that though Thoms fears of the worst outcome possible in the first few tracks are valid, there is always hope that you can recover or maybe you may just be lucky enough to survive what happens to you. The Tourist is the acknowledgment by Thom that he has been observing himself this whole album on his journey to better understanding himself.
Not to mention he continually made fun of himself for calling it… the actual name of the song? Then corrects it… to be wrongv
@@shayshayshayshayshayshayshay we heard you the first time bro
@@iCookCrystalMeth yes because i purposefully commented the exact same thing 3 times more than a year ago
Electioneering is fantastic "I go forward you go backwards and somewhere we will meet" while the two guitars are doing exactly that!
the tourist could loop back into airbag, i like to think of the triangle at the end as a car crashing, or an airbag going off, saving his life.
When Brad starts singing the chorus of No surprises, I couldn't put him down and sing the same with him.
Just did that too, such beauty
Electioneering is not only a great song but it’s NECESSARY in the tracklisting. Imagine if Climbing Up The Walls came right after Fitter Happier? Depression vibes would be overwhelming. As it is it’s perfectly balanced. And don’t try to change the tracklisting to make electioneering not being there work, the tracklisting is the most well chosen shit of any album I’ve ever heard.
The Tourist is probably my favourite song off of OKC, love the emotion there and just the tone of it is so loveable to me
AMAZING Thom yorke singing Brad 16:46 let yourself free, Lucky is my favourite off the album and The Tourist even better Singing 19:42 love your Thom Yorke mouth movement
Great reactiom Brad, can't wait for Kid A
how can you finish this 25min video in just 15 minutes
He's fast as fuck boi
i watched the stream so i already knew it was great
@@blondtrav5503 ayyyy lesgo
I've never heard CUTW described as a "haunted house" but that's such a great descriptor of its atmosphere
No surprises being described as “asking for peace” and even just accepting death is so accurate. The song itself is just so heart wrenching in its sound. It’s begging. It’s sobbing and wailing. It’s a final cry and you can feel it.
I find No Surprises to be Thom Yorke's acceptance of the monotony of everyday life. After the exhausting emotions he dealt with on the first half of OK Computer, Thom Yorke wishes for a life where he doesn't have to go through that again.
I always took the bell at the end of The Tourist to be the tourist ringing a “ring for service” bell at wherever thom sees them. almost as if no matter what journey thom goes through or lessons he learns throughout the album, he can’t convince anyone else to listen to him. the tourist doesn’t slow down, but stays impatient. cramming that amount of failure and storytelling into one bell ring is incredible
really curious to see his reaction to In Rainbows
The only albums he'd heard before this 'discography reaction series' was OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows and AMSP
@@jneigh727 i know he did
but he will make a video listening to it again
@@jager9022 oo man I wanna see him listen to hail to the thief then, it's such an underrated album. He likes electioneering, so I feel like he'll enjoy a lot of that album, especially stuff like There There, where I end, myxomatosis etc
@@mrflibble1259 there there is a top 10 radiohead song imo, and that says a lot
@@zynel413 wow that says a lot
I love the surreal dream-like sound of No Surprises and how the vocals and lyrics betray it. The way I interpret it is the band is the medication and the vocal and lyrics is the truth being buried by the medication!
"Take some notes!.. stupid ass.. not real music bands." smiley face for that quote Brad
I love how this album has evolved for you - I remember when u were “unimpressed” reminds us all That great art is rarely immediately accessible nor should it be
climbing up the walls is one of my favourite tracks on the album, and actually overall. it is literally the embodyment of hopelessness and sadness, and express those feelings flawless.
The scratchiness of the vocals is so haunting. It's like the wolves clawing at the door. Personally one of my favorites on the album but it does take more dissection than some of the other songs 💯
The Tourist is a perfect ending! Full circle experience! Start Airbag right after it and it feels like the aftermath of The Tourist! Just brilliant 💯
it feels like it's been years
Man, i love how your reactions and editing just picture exactly my own reactions while listening to this masterpiece. I'm brazilian and your videos helped me a lot to learn english. Keep going man, your videos are the shit.
eai cara não sabia que tinha outros brasileiros aqui kkk
@@chao3948 mais um!
Aí sim man
Aí sim!
I love to see a fellow electioneering enjoyer.
Also you should react to some modest mouse albums.
Hey Brad you are correct about the tone of the album. It’s about paranoia. I am one of the biggest Radiohead fans and longest. Climbing Up the Walls is actually centered around Thom Yorkes time working at a mental institution where a patient claimed there was a monster climbing up the walls. Love your reactions and if you get time get the Kid A Mensia exhibition from epic games. It’s a trip. Keep making videos!
In the crowd that didnt need lyrics to love climbing up the walls
Usually the case with most Radiohead songs for me, adored them without knowing wtf he was saying then would search the lyrics and elevate the song even more
@@jamesjarvis530 definitely. Tbh, I Havnt even read every lyric, most even, still love them.
Funny how when you understood what climbing up the walls was about it really hit. Its amazing.
I always thought some fans are snobby towards Electioneering just because it doesn't "fit" musically with the rest of the songs on the album which are moody, paranoid and slower paced and generally feel more polished. It's like "route-one" music, like going back to basics (whatever basics means). The gist of the criticism I've seen over the years boils down to: "It doesn't flow with the album, maaan. The flow doesn't fit, maan".
I think the album really benefits from a song that's rougher and more energetic to give the listener a bit of a break from the gloomy, paranoid atmosphere and liven things up, especially since it follows Fitter Happier in the track listing.
When I hear The Tourist I imagine the lyrics are directed at Thom in the past or someone like him who he sees heading down a dangerous path that might lead to Airbag: the beginning of it all. "Slow down" (you might end up in a car crash etc..). Almost like this album could loop over and over again.
climbing up the walls captures my absolute favourite atmosphere of the album
listen with lsd 3 tabs😱
Kanye still won’t drop Donda, but at least we got this.
Brad’s gonna drop a Donda reaction before Kanye releases it
i hate this comment
He should've never released Donda
Climbing up the walls reminds me of your reaction to currents, him feeling dissapointed or not as into some of the songs and then realizing the singer/band intended for that to happen
Electioneering, a certified hood classic
I don’t care what people say, this is the best album I’ve ever heard in my life and for me at least top 3 albums of all time
I don’t think many people would disagree with you anyway. A good majority of people who love music agree that this is one of the best albums ever made lol.
Surely the best album you've heard in your life could make it to the top 1 albums of all time lol
Ur statement doesn’t make any sense lmfao
This is a fairly popular opinion
For me it’s prolly… hmm, I’d say
1. Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
2. Ghost Reveries - Opeth
3. 10,000 Days - TOOL
4. White Pony - Deftones
5. In Rainbows - Radiohead
6. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Alive - Pearl Jam
8. And here I think I would put OK Computer
But this is just on the spot, it’d probably change if I thought about it a bit longer
Lucky has always been my favorite. It feels like the inverse of airbag and really starts to pull the album to a close
Love the sequencing of the tracks on Ok Computer
Brad, this new Lingua Ignota project is as brutal and heavy and devastating as Daughters or Swans. The intensity is on another level. You really oughta give it a reaction
The scream at the end of Climbing Up The Wall always gets me
I have known this album for a long time now, and still, when watching this video I got goosebumps all over again
The first time I listened to the album, Climbing Up The Walls was my least favorite. Now, it may not be my absolute favorite, but as time has gone on, I've realized it's one of the most intimidating and terrifying songs on the album. It truly feels like going insane over an obsession, and the finale is incredible, but eerie as all hell. Improves so much on relisten, what an incredible song.
We needed the crazy bright editing in the chorus of lucky tbh.
Brad once again quoting his favourite's band lyrics at 12:10, you love to see it.
The last scream on The tourist is gorgeus, the best moment
Damn, he got me in the first half of climbing up the walls ngl. I would probably put that song in my top 10 radiohead songs, like, you have Thom Yorke fucking screaming at the end what else do you want man.
Listening to this album with headphones is a whole other experience
I love your love for this album.
Yo can't wait for Pinkerton after this
my favorite radiohead album
@@Seab3551 i thought it was The Weezar's album
@lemonkirb no you numbnuts it a Twenty One Pilots album
@@braedenlemasters9058 No it's an album by imagine dragons
Electioneering is so freeaking nasty!!...love the channel, mate!
Oh it's real this time
I legitimately think Brad could be a killer vocalist if he wanted to.
"No Alarms" is subdued dispair, a magnificent Radiohead track.
Also nice to see someone really enjoying "The Tourist"! 😎
Pure joy watching you enjoy this album man, just lovely
Fitter Happier is great, i like the uncanny feeling of a text to speech bot talking about human improvement, it almost feels as if it was laughing at us.
Brad was vibing so hard during "cLiMbInG Up The Walls" that his hair became one with the background
This is one of several exquisite albums that came out in 1997 and cemented it as one of the great years of music.
Others include Yo La Tengo's "I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One", Stereolab's "Dots and Loops", Björk's "Homogenic", Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space", Mogwai's "Young Team", Helium's "The Magic City", Amon Tobin's "Bricolage"...
Can't forget Sugar Ray's critical masterpiece "Floored".
Bro, awesome content. I can't wait for Kid A and Amnesiac, etc. I fucking love seeing you react to my favorite band. This is great.
CUTW is a great slow burn, and that climax...
glad that you agree that Electioneering is a fucking banger
Crawling Up The Walls is My favorite
I haven’t seen this classic t-shirt since your To Be Kind ranking, slow down Brad XD
Seriously though, what a fun reaction, I’m so excited to eventually see your thoughts on Kid A!
Brad, would ever react to the great Pink Floyd albums? Dark side of the moon, wish you were here, animals, and the wall? Some of the best albums ever
And Meddle! Would’ve love to see his reaction to Echoes
I do like Fitter Happier, it fits well in the context of the album, and I do love the message about robotic human-like progress, since I do have experiences with disgusting antibiotics and having to depend on them to survive. I'm in a better place now, and OK Computer is one hell of a bop.
Favorite songs are Subterranean Homesick Alien, Exit Music (For A Film), Climbing Up The Walls [because of that awesome second half], Paranoid Android, and No Surprises. 95/100. Probably will make it a 100 on AOTY someday.
A close friend of mine, maybe even a guy I have conflicted, mixed feelings with, he loves No Surprises. I mean, that makes me like him just 1% more.
When you listen to kid a I think you should split it into two parts but listen to the album from start to finish, the whole thing is an experience which I feel could be hurt by not listening to it all in one sitting
Remember when Brad was taking the piss out of this album and then he posted on his second channel that he finally got the album
theory time
airbag is not only the sort of intro to the album but could also be considered an outro or you could just consider the album to be this kind of loop type thingy
the album ends with a song about going through life too fast and needing to slow down and enjoy life and airbag is about an accident that made thom feel reborn and finding a new appreciation for life and the little things this could mean airbag is that sort of real happy ending to this album and that may be why you get that sort of happy feeling from it which is so different from the rest of the albums grim and sad topics
not saying this is at all true just thought it was a cool and neat little theory
I wanna see in rainbows reaction so fucking hard, but sadly i will see it only in half a year
Brad singing no surprises might be the only time I've heard him singing without autotune
I think on top of everything you’ve heaped upon this album, all of with which I completely concur, there’s a certain yet indefinite shine on it that I really have a hard time finding words to describe. That quality alone carries a certain degree of excellence; when combined with everything you mentioned here - the story, the pristine sound and production, the settings and moods the instruments evoke, the consistent degree of high quality songwriting yet still easily accessible material, the fact it still feels new and unwrapped 24 years later - when you have all that present and yet there is still something about it you just can’t put your finger on, that is when it becomes an absolute beast of material that will be hard for anyone to match. Ever. In my opinion of course.
I can't wait till you cover TKOL
That will be class
electioneering was the first song off the album i liked, even as someone who really didn’t get it or was paying attention to the album at all. it was the song that convinced me to give the album a thoughtful relisten after having the song on my playlist for like a week. now it’s one of my fav albums lol
Brad. You really help me to enjoy music 1000000 times more than I would have otherwise.
You have no idea how helpful this video was for my first experience of the album it helped me see the full picture
I agree with your opinion on electioneering so much. It's my favorite from ok computer tbh
24:25 one can say it's a jigsaw falling into place...
No Surprises is one of the most beautiful songs ever written
Fitter, Happier always felt like a mournful succumbing to the norms and standards of society. Yes, it is technically improving your life, but do you feel like you're improved? Do you FEEL fitter, happier?
"pig in a cage on antibiotic" is definitely a commentary on meat consumption and food industry
i love your opinion on electioneering, that guitar is perfect, as always, i love the video
Thanks gosh. I've been waiting forever for this moment
You get it…electioneering slaps you so hard. The guitar wrenching fills me with so much joy. It’s as heavy as a guitar gets.
No surprises! Lucky is orgasm in slow motion. You fold in on yourself with this record.
Goddamn would I love to hear you doing this to King Gizzard's Discography
Watching you sing lucky tells me how
I look in my car every day driving to work doing my Best “glorious day”
"So.. you like the album then?"
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