@@nombreapellido310 jigsaw falling into place is definitely not one of their happiest songs. The song consistently makes a point of highlighting Yorke (or whoever the perspective of the song is coming from)'s consistent relationship failures as well as a potential relationship that never happened.
if you just pick out the “happy” words you totally miss tone and context, like thinking “Optimistic” is ACTUALLY happy.... and Fitter Happier, which is clearly sarcastic and unsettling
TheLastOne ToAsk The melon has spit the seeds of a meme from his melon tissue, and from these seeds, maybe, just maybe, a beautiful new meme shall grow and flourish.
@@Gekkodevon I think you mean "True Love Will Find You In the End"? pretty depressing song it's about how Thom's wife found the love of God before her demise
I mean how to disappear completely absolutely takes the cake for me. It might not be sad per se, but it’s so damn empty. Honotable mention is Daydreaming.
Im not here This isnt happening I'M NOT HEEEEEREEEE I'M NOT HERE In a little while, I'll be gone Tbh even though the lyrics are simple, I feel like out of all radio head songs, how to disappear describes all consuming feelings of psych ache and utter alienation the best. It's a song you feel when it's 3 in the morning and you're scream crying begging to just disintegrate and all you can say is one mantra because you're emotionally and mentally completely fried.
How to disappear completely, that song is truly beautifully hopeless. It so perfectly captures the feeling of being deep within the grips of depression and believing there is no way out. Communicating an emotion with such complex manifestations, in my opinion, has only been done on this track.
I listened to 5 Radiohead albums back-to-back a few months ago when walking around the National Gallery here in London - OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows, Amnesiac and A Moon Shaped Pool (it was as super long museum visit!). I have to say, nothing hit me as hard as 'True Love Waits' at the end of A Moon Shaped Pool. It was like a bitter goodbye - to their discography thus far, to Thom's partner of 20+ years...I admit I teared up in the museum and had to sit down and compose myself. So my vote goes to 'True Love Waits', definitely.
I know what you mean. I had a friend suggest that I try learning True Love Waits on the guitar to sing along with and I was merely aghast. I doubt I could get through that.
A Moon Shaped Pool is so desolate and hauntingly beautiful, even for Radiohead standards. Idk the critical reception but it's one of my favorites. Decks Dark my favorite on the album.
It was Roger Water that was in a fishbowl. But you are probably referring to Weird Fishes where he "hits the bottom" ... unless you were talking about where the video that was shot in a some kind of fishbowl.
No Suprises is their one song that manages to stick with me. First time I ever heard it, I was at a low point in life when I lost someone close, and it took over a year for me to realize that the lyrics made me remember how I say the person I lost and how I saw they felt before dying. Not only that, it's not a song about being sad, it's a song about feeling empty and devoid of life, and that gets to me
Angsty post ahead: When my mom died 4 months ago in an ICU, everything around me seemed to fade. I stopped processing what my eyes saw or what my ears heard. The only thing I was aware of was numbness and "How to Disappear Completely" playing in my head. I think that at that moment I was completely paralyzed with no idea how to express the immense sadness I felt so my brain played the saddest song I knew.
Black Star for me. I was listening to it all the time when my first serious relationship ended. "I get on the train and I just stand in the back, now that I don't think of you/ I keep falling over I keep passing out, when I see a face like you"
Coincident Synchrony that's true but he basically said that the song itself is an embodiment of despair and sadness and that they themselves didn't even write it they are just the carriers of it so it's pretty safe to say it is
I know for a fact that this isn’t their saddest song lyrics-wise and probably not even music-wise but videotape makes me feel emotions that I can’t even explain. I legit busted out crying the first time I heard the song it’s just so raw, relatable and depressing imo
Hard to choose just one: Videotape, Daydreaming, All I Need, How To Disappeare Completely, Street Spirit (Fade Out), True Love Waits, Knives Out, Fake Plastic Trees...
I think True Love Waits is their saddest song, but it doesn’t “depress” me, it just makes me long for someone/something/sometime I will never see, have or be again. Depressing for me are songs like Climbing Up The Walls, Street Spirit, or Creep. Those songs communicate to me feelings of depression, fear, doom, and self loathing. Which I can relate to completely.
The original happy hopeful version of "True Love Waits" was written when Thom was first beginning his relationship with Rachel, and the devastating version from A Moon Shaped Pool was recorded when their relationship was ending and Rachel was dying of cancer... I'd say that it's probably the saddest song I've ever heard.
Saddest Per Album IMO: 1. Pablo Honey - Thinking About You 2. The Bends - Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was 3. OK Computer - Let Down 4. Kid A - How to Disappear Completely 5. Amnesiac - Pyramid Song 6. Hail to the Thief - Sail to the Moon 7. In Rainbows - Nude 8. The King of Limbs - Give Up the Ghost 9. A Moon Shaped Pool - True Love Waits
@@vermillionumbrella2939 I find Exit Music more intense than depressing. Climbing Up The Walls takes the cake for most depressing song on OKC, imo That song is just straight-up "you've spent the entire day in bed and now it's around 6 in the evening and the dusk is coming in through the curtains"-depressing
This data analysis doesn't take into account the context of a song like "True Love Waits". The way that song existed for years but was transformed after Rachel Owen's death makes it easily their saddest song, at least for me personally. I will never forget the feeling of looking at the track listing for A Moon Shaped Pool while coming down from a trip in the middle of the woods. Listening to Neil Young's "Out On the Weekend" all night over and over, only to find that as the first light of dawn was breaking, Radiohead's new album was out. I wanted to save the listening for later that morning, but checked the tracklist. Seeing "True Love Waits" at the end made me stone still. Having listened to the live version for years to sort out my life's melodrama, I couldn't fathom a happy reason to rearrange that tune. Lo and behold, it is the most heart wrenching and difficult song they ever released. No competition.
@@ethandeister6567 exactly, a computer can’t quantify the human experience, most people have gone through heartbreak at some point and fuck if that doesn’t encompass my internal bargaining trying to make it work
Alex Block I think title has very little to do with it. Street Spirit is definitely comparable if not more depressing than htdc as well as a wealth of other songs
None of their songs are depressing to me, just morbidly bittersweet. I've gotta give it to "Videotape", a song about someone who is dying recording their last moments in order to be remembered.
Videotape takes the win for me too. I don’t cry easily when it comes to music but that song made me burst into tears. Not the happiest listen as a suicide attempt survivor.
honestly, it is fucking devastating like "Red wine and sleeping pills Help me get back to your arms Cheap sex and sad films Help me get where I belong" FUCK
What makes these songs sad is not the level of sadness, it's how we connect and relate to these songs. Man of War caused me to have an panic attack the first time I listened to it, and meanwhile True Love Waits broke me the first time I heard it.
Agreed. Hands down one of the hugest downers in their discography. Though a lot of their closing tracks can have the same said about them (True Love Waits, Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Tourist, etc.)
the feelings spectre provokes in me is unmatched to any sad song ive heard. it goes through sadness to depression to hopelessness to rage to tiredness within minutes
I’m surprised more people aren’t against Optimistic being the least sad song on Kid A. Ik it’s not their saddest but that song always hit home for me for some reason.
Daydreaming. That's it. The subject matter. The chords, the video, the personal connection.... Nothing as depressing and beautiful as it in their discography.
This automatic rating system is seriously flawed. I don't get how "High and Dry" is rated more depressing than "Street Spirit / Fade Out". It seems the algorithm just doesn't pick up on more abstract themes.
seriously, I don't necessarily get super sad when I hear street spirit but I would consider high and dry maybe middle, like just below "Just" imo bulletproof is the saddest on the album maybe behind FPT
A little surprised that "Spectre" didn't show up on the list, considering that it was deemed "too melancholy" to be used in the James Bond film of the same name.
You can't answer this kind of question, radiohead's albums have influences that widely vary from a person to the other, its really how it reaches out to you and how it makes you feel. And this is why thom yorke is brilliant.
Pablo honey: Creep The Bends: Street Spirit OK Computer: Fitter Happier Kid A: How to disappear completly Amnesiac: Knives Out Hail To The Thief: We suck young blood. In Rainbows: Videotape The King of limbs: Codex A moon shaped pool: true love waits
Here's my top 5 1. How to Disappear Completely 2. True Love Waits (Oslo and AMSP version) 3. Videotape 4. Bullet proof...I wish I was 5. How I made my millions
I don't get why so many are saying How to Disappear Completely. It's based on someone teaching him to remove himself from his environment in order to deal with stress and anxiety. It's not necessarily a sad song.
Tom Carno You can easily see this as being kind of depressing in that he felt the need to isolate himself to function. I'd argue the Wall is depressing for the same reason.
1. True Love Waits 2. Pyramid Song 3. Videotape 4. Bishop's Robes 5. Fog (Again) 6. Give Up The Ghost 7. Street Spirit...Fade Out 8. How To Disappear Completely 9. You and Who's Army? 10. (tie) I Will 10. (tie) Daydreaming
The Oslo version of True Love Waits is almost uplifting - you can hear a degree of hope in Thom's voice as he fully sings every note to their full length with power in the Oslo version. AMSP's version is beyond depressed and into the realm of deflated, defeated, and devoid of even the faintest concept of the word "hope." He barely has the strength to finish holding "don't leave" and let's it and the final note of instrumentation hang feeling unresolved. I just don't know how you can rank the Oslo version as high on the depression list.
I never cared so much about thoms lyrics, but to me let down is an uplifting song. In like how if you realize how trapped your life is and you decide to break loose from it kind of thing.
How to disappear completely. It hits rock bottom right in the feels and then proceeds to cave in on itself. It’s beyond help. It’s scary and it’s also beautiful.
Exactly. And Thom agrees with us "'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers. It's biological catylysts. "It's core is a complete mystery to me. I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. "I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack. "Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the f--king devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh."
That quote isn't real, look it up. Originated on a forum a while ago. Can't ever imagine radiohead being that pretentious. The original source for the quote also provides no source.
I've always felt that Sail to the Moon was a very calm and optimistic song. It's a song that Thom Yorke wrote about his son. It's about the future of boundless possibilities that a newborn has when they first wake up to the world.
I'd say it's just a bit of an algorithm fart. It probably looks at the lyrics at face value so it just thinks of all the "happy" words in fitter happier as really happy.
Sam Glover there is no optimism unless you're referring to manic and blind optimism bred from psychic deterioration and hopelessness. The song is an ode to "I've tried everything and nothing is working"
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Ah yes, my favorite Radiohead song: "Weird Flashes Arpegiay"
This still bothers me, considering In Rainbows is one of his favorite RH albums lol
Yes wtf
This video made check the song title to know if I‘ve been an Idiot for the last few years
Weird Flashes and Nude? Album sounds a little gay at that point
9:20
Radiohead’s ‘happiest’ song is 15 Step which centers around the lyrics “You used to be alright, what happened?”
The happyest no, that is just an algoritm, I think that the happyest song are jigsaw falling into place and lotus flower
it's actually about an execution and the title references 15 steps to the noose, then you drop
@@nombreapellido310 jigsaw falling into place is definitely not one of their happiest songs. The song consistently makes a point of highlighting Yorke (or whoever the perspective of the song is coming from)'s consistent relationship failures as well as a potential relationship that never happened.
i'd say electioneering is one of their most happy songs tbh
I'm surprised nobody has said Bloom or Reckoner. Those two are by far some of Radiohead's happiest or most uplifting songs.
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Me: OK computer
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How to Disappear completely.
Motion Picture Soundtrack.
These two for sure
Yesssssss
Agree
I guess everybody forgot about fade out, when it comes to the lyrics i would say its "numb" level of depression.
I utterly agree with both of my utters
"WEIRD FLASHES AND ARPEGGIAYI"
W E I R D F L A S H E S
A R P E G G I A T O R
I can't believe him! How did he fuck that up!!
Smashtime F U C K
He said it twice
OOOOO OOOO OOOOOOO OH *bass comes in*
Ironically, Fitter Happier is probably the saddest song on OK Computer
Completely agree, this study doesn't make sense for that song
if you just pick out the “happy” words you totally miss tone and context, like thinking “Optimistic” is ACTUALLY happy.... and Fitter Happier, which is clearly sarcastic and unsettling
Fond but not in love.
@@sonicthehedgegod I mean "Optimistic" is a pretty obvious clearly a critic of meritocracy. To think is a positive you have to not listening to it.
Maybe the algorithm thinks it’s a happy song based on the lyrics lol
Wait I don’t see Wonderwall on here
That’s Oasis. Radiohead covered it.
Dante Emmett I think it was a joke
ray Lambert I wasn’t even sure if it was a joke.
Dante Emmett r/wooosh
@@ApplzAndHoney shut the fuck up
Weird flashes is my favorite Radiohead song
Logan DePrez "Arpeggieye"
what a melon HE SAID IT TWICE
TheLastOne ToAsk The melon has spit the seeds of a meme from his melon tissue, and from these seeds, maybe, just maybe, a beautiful new meme shall grow and flourish.
Logan DePrez weird fleshes appergay
I prefer "creeper" from their best album "Man B"
Triggered by weird *flashes*
same
I myself am triggered by weird flashers. Why won't they leave me alone already?!
Twice....TWICE!
ChilledSpirit god damnit it's one of my favorite Radiohead songs. I'm so mad. Lol
Hahaha
"Fitter Happier"
Computer: *I see no problem with this song*
that computer in not OK
@@splatterman5651 Ha
since computers can't understand context or irony, I really see a computer thinks both optimistic and fitter happier are happy songs
Fitter happier
More productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
How to feel sad:
1. Lose someone you love a lot
2. True Love Waits
Pure hell
>Calling Weird Fishes Weird Flashes
Weird Flashes of a shiny melon head
BeepityBoopity Weirdthony Flashtano
Figuring out the happiest Radiohead song would have been more of a challenge tbh
hey
don’t do that
A punchup at a wedding
15 step
Seperator
It has to be that song "Im A creep"
Murie cringe
@@SithAssassinOfSkyrim think you might've missed the mark there a bit mate
Murie how do you mean
@@SithAssassinOfSkyrim the original comment was a joke
lmao
"Creepy" off Okay Computer is their saddest (and also Best) song
Yeah and they also have that song from Adult B, Police Karma!!
@@blizzmuzic and there is that song where its like dun dun dun
What about a pool shaped moon's" song called "love waits true?"
@@Gekkodevon I think you mean "True Love Will Find You In the End"? pretty depressing song it's about how Thom's wife found the love of God before her demise
Oh yeah, my bad. I forgot the name.
I mean how to disappear completely absolutely takes the cake for me. It might not be sad per se, but it’s so damn empty. Honotable mention is Daydreaming.
PolarPoop I agree I was shocked it wasnt even the saddest on kid a. I think its that one for sure.
Now that you've brought it up....yeah, how is that song not the most depressing on the album, and one of the most depressing of all Radiohead songs?
Agreed.
Im not here
This isnt happening
I'M NOT HEEEEEREEEE
I'M NOT HERE
In a little while, I'll be gone
Tbh even though the lyrics are simple, I feel like out of all radio head songs, how to disappear describes all consuming feelings of psych ache and utter alienation the best.
It's a song you feel when it's 3 in the morning and you're scream crying begging to just disintegrate and all you can say is one mantra because you're emotionally and mentally completely fried.
Yeah, Daydreaming is very sad.
I cry every time I hear "Ward Flushes and RPG, Eh?".
lmao
Radiohead makes me happy to be sad
okay computer
same man
"I miss the comfort of being sad" - Kurt Cobain
"What did you do today?"
"I spent 13 minutes watching a musical melon decide exactly which Radiohead song is the saddest."
"Oh..."
Yeah and 13 mins took your entire day
Wow
@@leontheos1385 It does when you watch it over more times than you can count
@@doughboywhine you really came back 1 year later
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Did you just say Weird Flashes?
James Oxales TWICE?
James Oxales he did twice also if anyone is reading this i want a boyfriend can someone send a boyfriend
TheLastOne ToAsk w e i r d f l a s h e s
TheLastOne ToAsk sure
It’s a song about menopause.
Probably fireball by pitbull
Gangam style
TIMBER
The depressing thing about this song is that people like to listen to it
this is funnier to me than it should be
Those diggidy dogs a biggity boy.
How to disappear completely, that song is truly beautifully hopeless. It so perfectly captures the feeling of being deep within the grips of depression and believing there is no way out. Communicating an emotion with such complex manifestations, in my opinion, has only been done on this track.
I listened to 5 Radiohead albums back-to-back a few months ago when walking around the National Gallery here in London - OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows, Amnesiac and A Moon Shaped Pool (it was as super long museum visit!). I have to say, nothing hit me as hard as 'True Love Waits' at the end of A Moon Shaped Pool. It was like a bitter goodbye - to their discography thus far, to Thom's partner of 20+ years...I admit I teared up in the museum and had to sit down and compose myself. So my vote goes to 'True Love Waits', definitely.
I know what you mean. I had a friend suggest that I try learning True Love Waits on the guitar to sing along with and I was merely aghast. I doubt I could get through that.
true love waits always gives me goosebumps and makes me gravely upset. the way thom channels his grief is AMAZING
so yes i agree, true love waits is the most sad
A Moon Shaped Pool is so desolate and hauntingly beautiful, even for Radiohead standards. Idk the critical reception but it's one of my favorites. Decks Dark my favorite on the album.
WEIRD FLASHES/ARPEGGIAYE AHAHHAHAHA
Groundhog
The thunderclouds...
Did they change the name from weird fishes on the US release?
yep sure didnt
Splash
I think you should check up with your doctor mate. It’s unhealthy this lifestyle.
@@seventeenseconds1698 pretty sure you should be seeing a doctor about your hearing mate if you actually like The Glow Pt. 2
The one where Thom is drowning in a fish bowl
which one
Joshua Taylor the song is called No Surprises
Creep?
It was Roger Water that was in a fishbowl. But you are probably referring to Weird Fishes where he "hits the bottom" ... unless you were talking about where the video that was shot in a some kind of fishbowl.
I think OP might've been referring to the No Surprises music video.
No Suprises is their one song that manages to stick with me. First time I ever heard it, I was at a low point in life when I lost someone close, and it took over a year for me to realize that the lyrics made me remember how I say the person I lost and how I saw they felt before dying. Not only that, it's not a song about being sad, it's a song about feeling empty and devoid of life, and that gets to me
Me: Mom, can we get some Weird Fishes/Arpeggi?
Mom: We have Weird Fishes/Arpeggi at home.
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi at home: Weird Flashes/Arpeggi-aye
I get eaten by the worms
And weird flaaaaaaaaaashes
Weird flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashes
Hahahaha
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*fishes
indie_annika You didn’t watch the video did you?
9:21 “weird flashes / arpeggiay”
????????????
weird fishes. it’s weird fishes you melon
Gideon Movshovitz arpeggio is pronounced correctly
Angsty post ahead:
When my mom died 4 months ago in an ICU, everything around me seemed to fade. I stopped processing what my eyes saw or what my ears heard. The only thing I was aware of was numbness and "How to Disappear Completely" playing in my head. I think that at that moment I was completely paralyzed with no idea how to express the immense sadness I felt so my brain played the saddest song I knew.
My condolences
So sorry for your loss buddy
I hope you are doing well
I'm so sorry for your loss man, I really hope you're faring better
So sorry for your loss, Hope your doing okay dude
Don't leave me hiigh 😭😭😭😢👌👌 too sad bro
A pig, in a cage of antibiotics 😎😎😎👌👌 now i'm full of happines
Weird Flashes? You done fucked that one up Melon
alaja200798 I was about to say. How in the world do you listen to Radiohead and F that up.
Black Star for me. I was listening to it all the time when my first serious relationship ended. "I get on the train and I just stand in the back, now that I don't think of you/ I keep falling over I keep passing out, when I see a face like you"
What the fuck, what are you doing here
Based af Danny
danny mullen listens to radiohead??? what a g
also great fucking choice dat song is simple and great
cannot say i am surprised seeing you here. hello sexy danny boy.
Fake plastic trees, True love waits and Nude can kill me in a bad day
no surprises is actually haunting in a way. the ending chorus sounds like something you would hear in a movie while a house is burning down
How to Disappear Completely. Next question
yeah you're wrong
that song is very uplifting
100% How to Disappear Completely. That shit still makes me cry at times.
This dude knows what's up.
It's more gloomy than sad.
The band themselves said that the most depressing song they have ever made is "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" off The Bends.
and theyre goddamn right
SuperSonicSP and I agree. Nothing more depressing
they said it when their only albums were The Bends and Pablo Honey. Not sure if they think the same nowadays
Coincident Synchrony that's true but he basically said that the song itself is an embodiment of despair and sadness and that they themselves didn't even write it they are just the carriers of it so it's pretty safe to say it is
...which illustrates the huge limitations of "data driven depression."
Me: *Sees that High and Dry and Creep are sadder than Street Spirit and How to Disappear Completely*
Also Me: *Confused screaming*
I know for a fact that this isn’t their saddest song lyrics-wise and probably not even music-wise but videotape makes me feel emotions that I can’t even explain. I legit busted out crying the first time I heard the song it’s just so raw, relatable and depressing imo
“Weird Flashes” is my favorite Radiohead song.
Weird flashes arpeggi eye
zerosidedconversation I almost died when he said that. Still hanging on. Phew.
dud misspelled the song twice
This video lost all credibility when he said that.
Blue eyes White dragon
I was scared that I was saying it wrong all these years lol. It's actually not too uncommon for me.
Hard to choose just one: Videotape, Daydreaming, All I Need, How To Disappeare Completely, Street Spirit (Fade Out), True Love Waits, Knives Out, Fake Plastic Trees...
I will
Everyone knows How to Disappear completely is their saddest
"Weird Flashes/Arpeggieye" Really, melon?
"weird flashes" smh
I always thought all I need was pretty sad :/
Yep their saddest song imo and definitely my favourite of theirs, or at least the one that means most to me.
I think True Love Waits is their saddest song, but it doesn’t “depress” me, it just makes me long for someone/something/sometime I will never see, have or be again. Depressing for me are songs like Climbing Up The Walls, Street Spirit, or Creep. Those songs communicate to me feelings of depression, fear, doom, and self loathing. Which I can relate to completely.
The original happy hopeful version of "True Love Waits" was written when Thom was first beginning his relationship with Rachel, and the devastating version from A Moon Shaped Pool was recorded when their relationship was ending and Rachel was dying of cancer... I'd say that it's probably the saddest song I've ever heard.
Yes to this. The answer IS True Love Waits
Or how to disappear completely. How was that not even on this list at all. Those two songs are by far radioheads most depressing
Thanks for mispronouncing my favourite Radiohead song melon I really needed this today
Max Beckett weird flashes/arpeggi-eye
i hope he mispronounces radioheads entire catalog
I think No surprises should have been the moodiest for OK Computer.
easily the saddest off of ok computer, that song sounds like death itself
@@akshaysodhi_1044 unpopular opinion but climbing up the walls is so depressing. Maybe it’s more “spooky” but for me it’s up there
@@sebc.416 Gonna reply with my second id lol. I totally agree with you CUTW is a fucking haunting song
Saddest Per Album IMO:
1. Pablo Honey - Thinking About You
2. The Bends - Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
3. OK Computer - Let Down
4. Kid A - How to Disappear Completely
5. Amnesiac - Pyramid Song
6. Hail to the Thief - Sail to the Moon
7. In Rainbows - Nude
8. The King of Limbs - Give Up the Ghost
9. A Moon Shaped Pool - True Love Waits
thats make sense
OKC is definitely exit music. Let down is more bittersweet sounding imo,or not fully depressing atleadt
@@vermillionumbrella2939 I find Exit Music more intense than depressing. Climbing Up The Walls takes the cake for most depressing song on OKC, imo
That song is just straight-up "you've spent the entire day in bed and now it's around 6 in the evening and the dusk is coming in through the curtains"-depressing
Kinda facts bro, don't 100% agree with nude on IR, I think Videotape might win that one, otherwise looks solid to me
Max Giorgio ooh that is a close call
This data analysis doesn't take into account the context of a song like "True Love Waits". The way that song existed for years but was transformed after Rachel Owen's death makes it easily their saddest song, at least for me personally. I will never forget the feeling of looking at the track listing for A Moon Shaped Pool while coming down from a trip in the middle of the woods. Listening to Neil Young's "Out On the Weekend" all night over and over, only to find that as the first light of dawn was breaking, Radiohead's new album was out. I wanted to save the listening for later that morning, but checked the tracklist. Seeing "True Love Waits" at the end made me stone still. Having listened to the live version for years to sort out my life's melodrama, I couldn't fathom a happy reason to rearrange that tune. Lo and behold, it is the most heart wrenching and difficult song they ever released. No competition.
The context makes it sadder, but at the end of the day this one isn't part of the song.
The album was released before her death.
💯
@@maxxvii2037 but it’s relatable to many without her death, I can honestly say it’s the song that elicits the most depression in me
@@ethandeister6567 exactly, a computer can’t quantify the human experience, most people have gone through heartbreak at some point and fuck if that doesn’t encompass my internal bargaining trying to make it work
How to Disappear Completely, there's really no contest
squeezeslemons there definitely is quite a contest
Quasar There really isn't a contest....the title of How to Disappear is depressing by itself!
Alex Block I think title has very little to do with it. Street Spirit is definitely comparable if not more depressing than htdc as well as a wealth of other songs
Quasar How to Disappear doesn't suggest the most positive song
Alex Block sure, I won't argue, but I don't think titles or "suggestions" are a determinant of how sad a song is
None of their songs are depressing to me, just morbidly bittersweet. I've gotta give it to "Videotape", a song about someone who is dying recording their last moments in order to be remembered.
Videotape takes the win for me too. I don’t cry easily when it comes to music but that song made me burst into tears. Not the happiest listen as a suicide attempt survivor.
Street Spirit is literally the saddest thing they did in the 90s and it takes only 5th place in The Bends smh
Motion Picture Soundtrack wins it for me
Max Taylor yes!
agreed, criminally underrated
YESSSS :(
honestly, it is fucking devastating like
"Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong"
FUCK
I will see you in the next life
What is the most ALT-RIGHT Fantano video ?
Wil Steebs The Money Store review.
What makes these songs sad is not the level of sadness, it's how we connect and relate to these songs. Man of War caused me to have an panic attack the first time I listened to it, and meanwhile True Love Waits broke me the first time I heard it.
"Optimistic" is actually depressing as hell and subverts the whole concept of staying optimistic in a capitalistic society.
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High And Dry sadder than Street Spirit? WTF!?
I thought I was the only one thinking that, and then it comes Planet Telex LOL, oh your comment is from 2 years ago haha.
@@ignacioalfonsobascunan4033 Fake Plastic Trees...
street spirit, fake plastic trees, bulletproof all easily sadder than high and dry lol
@@2xben and nice dream lol
chasing cars is their saddest song
Is this legit or a joke? Because Chasing Cars is Snow Patrol. Wasn't sure whether to be fake triggered or laugh.
Hatter Mad I’m 100% serious what the fuck are you talking about
Hahahah thanks for this
their smashing hit "creeper" I think is their saddest out of their whole discog. Such a compelling song...
Weird Flashes 😭
how to disappear completely .... its so haunting, cold and captures this lonely depression ;__;
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
There is none more beautiful, nor sadder.
Word Unheard
I was expecting Fake Plastic Trees.
Nope.
That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo.
That's soo sad
Yep, Street Spirit is one of the most depressing tracks ever made
Agreed. Hands down one of the hugest downers in their discography. Though a lot of their closing tracks can have the same said about them (True Love Waits, Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Tourist, etc.)
Easily “How to dissapear completely” its so heart wrenching, scary but beautiful at the same time.
the feelings spectre provokes in me is unmatched to any sad song ive heard. it goes through sadness to depression to hopelessness to rage to tiredness within minutes
Videotape..
Stephen James for sure
Especially the Bonnaroo version
Actually their most positive song
@@gabrielgian8988 yup, its actually beautiful
For sure.
i think fake plastic trees and street spirit (fade out) have gotta be the saddest songs on the bends idk what they were thinking with high and dry
Eoin O'Kelly dude died on a motorcycle.
Elle Martineau ...what? like what do you mean
Sadder than bulletproof... wish I was?
they weren't thinking, it was an algorithm. were you not paying attention?
It is sad but also talks about how fake tiddies don't last forever so that's cool lol
I’m surprised more people aren’t against Optimistic being the least sad song on Kid A. Ik it’s not their saddest but that song always hit home for me for some reason.
Daydreaming. That's it. The subject matter. The chords, the video, the personal connection.... Nothing as depressing and beautiful as it in their discography.
This automatic rating system is seriously flawed. I don't get how "High and Dry" is rated more depressing than "Street Spirit / Fade Out". It seems the algorithm just doesn't pick up on more abstract themes.
I don't get Street Spirit. I don't feel anything when I listen to it, it's just grating to me.
seriously, I don't necessarily get super sad when I hear street spirit but I would consider high and dry maybe middle, like just below "Just" imo bulletproof is the saddest on the album maybe behind FPT
@AJ I do like it. How come?
@AJ This is the reason Let Down is so underrated. Can we get 2 likes
@AJ calm down
High and Dry and Planet Telex, more depressing than Street Spirit?
THE FUCK
Harry Dykhoff How is Planet Telex more depressing than Fake Plastic Trees or Nice Dream?!?
I really dislike Street Spirit, one of their most boring songs. I feel nothing for it.
Strange Brew yeah I'm not into tjat much either but I'd still say it's way more sad than Planet Telex which is a very upbeat song
One always felt High and Dry was pretty bittersweet. Kinda sad but kinda happy too. Fake Plastic Trees is way more depressing.
A little surprised that "Spectre" didn't show up on the list, considering that it was deemed "too melancholy" to be used in the James Bond film of the same name.
Commenting before watching, but it has to be "Daydreaming".
nope :/
Its Weird FISHES, man.
Sail to the moon is such beautiful moving song...
I love that song ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
You can't answer this kind of question, radiohead's albums have influences that widely vary from a person to the other, its really how it reaches out to you and how it makes you feel.
And this is why thom yorke is brilliant.
Is this copypasta?
Pablo honey: Creep
The Bends: Street Spirit
OK Computer: Fitter Happier
Kid A: How to disappear completly
Amnesiac: Knives Out
Hail To The Thief: We suck young blood.
In Rainbows: Videotape
The King of limbs: Codex
A moon shaped pool: true love waits
i think we suck young blood is less "sad" and more just creepy and unnerving
What is Melon's saddest decision ever? Deactivating thatistheplan 😧
WoW I lOvE ThE sOnG WeIRd FlAShEs
Exit music (for a film) is literally depression in sonic form
Glass Eyes is one of the best portrayals of anxiety i’ve ever heard. Very relatable, maybe too relatable. :(
Here's my top 5
1. How to Disappear Completely
2. True Love Waits (Oslo and AMSP version)
3. Videotape
4. Bullet proof...I wish I was
5. How I made my millions
I don't get why so many are saying How to Disappear Completely. It's based on someone teaching him to remove himself from his environment in order to deal with stress and anxiety. It's not necessarily a sad song.
Most Melancholy Songs by Radiohead imo..
1. True Love Waits
2. Videotape
3. How to Disappear Completely?
4. Codex
5. Pyramid Song
Tom Carno You can easily see this as being kind of depressing in that he felt the need to isolate himself to function. I'd argue the Wall is depressing for the same reason.
1. True Love Waits
2. Pyramid Song
3. Videotape
4. Bishop's Robes
5. Fog (Again)
6. Give Up The Ghost
7. Street Spirit...Fade Out
8. How To Disappear Completely
9. You and Who's Army?
10. (tie) I Will
10. (tie) Daydreaming
The Oslo version of True Love Waits is almost uplifting - you can hear a degree of hope in Thom's voice as he fully sings every note to their full length with power in the Oslo version.
AMSP's version is beyond depressed and into the realm of deflated, defeated, and devoid of even the faintest concept of the word "hope." He barely has the strength to finish holding "don't leave" and let's it and the final note of instrumentation hang feeling unresolved.
I just don't know how you can rank the Oslo version as high on the depression list.
Let Down, from a lyrical standpoint.
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Let down is far from underrated, a fan-favorite for sure.
I think he was referring to Street spirit
I never cared so much about thoms lyrics, but to me let down is an uplifting song. In like how if you realize how trapped your life is and you decide to break loose from it kind of thing.
Wait what Let Down is one of their most uplifting lyrics ever
I love how two of the three saddest tracks on Kid A are the ambient instrumental pieces.
To me, codex has the saddest tone, but at the same time it gives me huge amount of comfort and peace..
I'd say Exit Music For A Film is the most moody song of theirs.
Also weird FLASHES? Lol.
Yeah it's defo their darkest for sure
Whatever happened to answering the question?
Yeah!!!! It totally beats Let down!!!!!
howtodissappear
Vanillatje Thom’s Favourite Radiohead track..
Right
How to disappear completely. It hits rock bottom right in the feels and then proceeds to cave in on itself. It’s beyond help. It’s scary and it’s also beautiful.
my favorite part is that the radio stations used to call creep "too depressing" HAHAHA
motion picture soundtrack ;_;
pretentious picks: gagging order and fog (again)
Motion Picture Soundtrack is just melodramatic
I only find it beautiful not sad sound-wise tbh
Worrywort
Fog with guitars on the amnesiac b sides is sadder than fog again with the piano
true
Street Spirit. I didn't see anyone mention it, I'm confused. Am I doomed?
RIGHT
Agreed. It’s utterly heartbreaking.
Doomed to be a street spirit.
Exactly. And Thom agrees with us
"'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers. It's biological catylysts.
"It's core is a complete mystery to me. I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.
"I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack.
"Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the f--king devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh."
That quote isn't real, look it up. Originated on a forum a while ago. Can't ever imagine radiohead being that pretentious. The original source for the quote also provides no source.
Weird Fishes doesn't seem super depressing but i can't listen to it without crying. Everytime I hear it I get these vivid memories in my head.
I've always felt that Sail to the Moon was a very calm and optimistic song. It's a song that Thom Yorke wrote about his son. It's about the future of boundless possibilities that a newborn has when they first wake up to the world.
*3.* Street Spirit
*2,* The Tourist, (very depressing song to me for some reason)
*1.* How to dissapear completely - how was this not number one???
Glokib The Tourist is majorly underrated
The Tourist is one of my favorite overall songs.
you fool Creep is 1
I'm surprised that Fitter Happier isn't much lower
I'd say it's just a bit of an algorithm fart. It probably looks at the lyrics at face value so it just thinks of all the "happy" words in fitter happier as really happy.
Well if its based off of lyrics, the lyrics are pretty optimistic on Fitter Happier really
i dont think the algorithm can detect irony
Sam Glover there is no optimism unless you're referring to manic and blind optimism bred from psychic deterioration and hopelessness. The song is an ode to "I've tried everything and nothing is working"
Fitter Happier is on my top 5.
I feel like Radiohead is polar and is both happy AND sad. They paint the darkest moments with the most beautiful light!
I love weird flashes. My fav radiohead song. Thom york’s vocals are crazy on it.