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Old Composer REACTS to Radiohead Lift | Reaction and Reflection | Composers Point of View
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Never heard a band be so unafraid to wipe the slate clean, start fresh, and do something completely different.... every single album.
Truly!
R.E.M.
@@martinzeibigreally?
Every album sounds _exactly_ the fucking same, lol.
@@NefariousPorpoise Have you ever heard Radiohead? Maybe somethings off with your ears?
Radiohead really puts you in a trance. Makes you feel like you are floating. You gotta check out Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, my favorite song if theirs.
They also have a lot of interesting electronic, orchestral and jazz like tracks.
Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song” is both haunting and mesmerizing. It always leads to a spirited debate about time signatures ;)
Up Vote!! for next reaction
I'm camp 4/4, you can count it out, but my god it's phrased so weirdly, and the slow swung rhythm just adds to the confusion.
Probably my favorite Radiohead song. One of my favorite songs period. Tool and Radiohead are my favorite bands so I was super psyched to see he finally got around to some Radiohead.
It’s just 4/4 time! It’s eighth notes are grouped 3-3-4-3-3, which adds to 16 eighth notes. So what sounds like 5 measures is just four 4/4 measures with syncopation
That’s why it’s called pyramid song. It has 4 sides with 3 edges and 1 side with 4 edges. That song has a pattern of 4 groups of 3 eighth notes and 1 of 4
Maybe a reaction to Radioheads Basement Sessions would be a recommendation too.
That Bloom blows the studio version out of the water. I had it downloaded and listened to it so much, when I finally ended up buying The King Of Limbs on vinyl I was so confused. Like where's the Bloom I know...
'In Rainbows' from the basement is pure gold.
Yes, yes and more yesses stacked together and piled high!
I've been a massive Radiohead fan for 25 years now. This was an old B side that they remixed a few years back.
It would be great for you to look at Letdown and Weird Fishes. These two track are some of my favourites.
👍❤️
Oh my! FRISSON!❤ Radiohead is beautiful! Please do more! Something like THE TOURIST or Street Spirit! Or Weird Fishes! I could go on and on and on.....
Such a great band, so many fantastic songs, you ought to suss out Fake Plastic trees, Just, Weird Fishes, High and dry. I could go on. Thom Yorke is so flipping underrated and humble. This song was originally written in 1996 and only played live at the time. It was left off their album as deemed too commercial. It was only released some 20 years later on a re-release of the album. That's the mark of a great band.
We just call elevators "lifts" in the UK :)
That's what they do :-)
The same in Russia - Lift (= american Elevator)
I’m into most of everything you post! Expansive to say the least. Absolutely Love Radiohead and Thom Yorke(the vocalist) has great side and solo projects as well! Personally you may want to check out his side project Atoms For Peace and his Solo project Thom Yorke. Amazing stuff more in the electronic sort of vein. Just something to maybe vibe with in your own time.
As for other Radiohead tracks oh man! So many greats. A ton of people will be saying Paranoid Android and Creep because those two are easily their most popular and thus pretty accessible. For you being a composer though I’d love your take on the tracks Burn the Witch, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, 2+2=5, Daydreaming(super emotional, geez 😭) Idioteque, Planet Telex and There there.
Also the full albums Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows, and ok Computer are all mosaic masterpieces that ebb and flow track to track! And ANY of their live performances are just phenomenal especially the basement sessions and lalapolooza in Chicago a couple years ago.
One of my all time fav bands right up there with, you guessed it Tool, Tesseract, Nine Inch Nails, Twelve Foot Ninja, Jinjer, etc. Metalheads really do love Radiohead. ❤️😁
Welcome to discovering one of the most respected and because of that, often times, most misunderstood bands out there. ☀️👊
Oh and here’s links to their live stuff!
Chicago Lolapolooza 2016
ruclips.net/video/3Rz69YmzqQM/видео.html
In the Basement In Rainbows
ruclips.net/video/DWuAn6C8Mfc/видео.html
In the Basement King of Limbs
ruclips.net/video/hI5YMDioDBY/видео.html
Radiohead forever ♾
Another beautiful use of suspended chords is Weird Fishes/Arppegi, and it's mix starts very dry and intimate and just keeps building and building. I believe it'll be just right up your alley, cheers!
As a composer and a long time radiohead fan this is just the best man, keep it up and please stay safe, and i´m still here haha
Hi! I’m one of the guys that keeps pushing A Night on the Town by The Dear Hunter
BUT I DID’NT REALIZE THAT RADIOHEAD WAS ON THE TABLE!!!
Please check out more by them because they’re so diverse. May I recommend Burn the Witch?
Interesting choice of song from Radiohead. One of the more conventional songs from 1996. Hopefully put you on a journey of their music. paranoid Android is the obvious but The National Anthem would be nice
I'm still heeeeere
This isn't happeniiing
Both as an acknowledgement of having watched the video to the end as well as a suggestion for one of the most gorgeous songs by radiohead: How to Disappear Completely. The strings, the vocals, the context in which it exists in the album Kid A (Being the only song featuring an acoustic guitar), everything just works together to create such an intimate and vulnerable piece by one of my favourite bands. Absolutely LOOOVE that you're covering some of their material now (TOOL is one of my other favourite bands, so) whatever you do, I'll be here to watch it. Keep up the amazing content and spread the joy of listening to music, cheers!
I came here because of this song and because I'm a Radiohead fan. I don't know why I like the music that I like, I just do. I loved your break-down and I've come away with a new appreciation of Radiohead. Thanks!
I'm still here, and I love the fact that you started with one of the least-apprecieated Radiohead songs. If you continue checking them out I will continue appreciating and watching it 🤙
Still here! Huge Radiohead fan. Would love to hear you also do Let Down or Paranoid Android. 💛
"that mellotron" being the (famous) ondes martenot (french connection) (instrument introduced to popular music by jonny greenwood)
I'm still here, keep making awesome videos for our sonic enjoyment.
Hello!! I've been enjoying your videos, thanks for making them. Definitely still here :)
I really like this song, but it's interesting in that they never released it until 20 years after it was written. They feared it was "too anthemic" and would become too popular, which I find a hilarious decision, haha.
But more down to earth, it is perhaps too similar sonically to their at-the-time previous album The Bends (1995), which had a warm feeling, and wouldn't have fit the more sterile sound of 1997's OK Computer.
It was after this they really went a bit out there with their music, and as other folks have put forward, they have lots of songs which provide something new, something interesting.
Definitely one of the stranger sounding bands to carry a major following and play stadiums etc.
Im still here man! I dont enjoy metal too much but I like your commentary!
Extremely cool that you haven’t monetized this channel. Thanks. Coffee coming.
Their guitarist Johnny Greenwood, also scores classical music and scores for Hollywood.
This was fun to watch. You’re very good at this. When you mentioned the recording being intimate, I do believe this is just a demo. They never put it on an album. This might explain the subtlety and intimacy you’re hearing. A finished version, knowing Radiohead, may have been quite different.
These Radiohead listens are great!
i don’t care what songs, just listen/react to more radiohead
That sound that you like is Jonny Greenwood playing the ondes Martenot.
This video always makes me laugh because I walked into him in Summertown, Oxford whilst he was wearing that coat and carrying some plastic bags. "Thom." *nod* *nods back* "Alright?" and I let him into Boots. A ravishing tale, I know.
Still here
I'd love to see you decompose their song Paranoid Android
Great reaction vid !
Knives out is pretty beautiful.
This is actually an older song of theirs. I don't know why but they decided to produced some videos for songs that never were on albums way after the recording them.
Really nice video. First of yours I watch. Subscribed :)
def still here!
In terms of Radiohead, I think you'd have a ball deconstructing Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.
More Radiohead tracks, please! Anything off of OK Computer or Kid A. Love the channel.
Still here. Mostly a Tool fan, but Radiohead has always interested me.
As someone into production, I think you'd dig Muse.
Could maybe do a live Radiohead vid from the basement. I think something like 'where i end and you begin' could be different.
ruclips.net/video/Gp5b-q1GE-c/видео.html
or possibly Reckoner for the best lemon playing you've ever seen.
Awesome! I just requested this one as well. Yes, he needs to see that lemon shaking. 😉✌
Such a good music video
Still here
Alright man, I think you're ready for Frost*
You gotta listen to The Raging Against the Dying of the Light Blues in 7/8.
I'm serious!!! I'll buy you a coffee just to hear what you think of the chorus.
Vocalist: Thom Yorke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Yorke
I always wonder how someone picks a song to do a video on, recommendation or randomness? Particularly when a band has a 25+ year career.
I note people include their fav Radiohead tracks, I like anything from In Rainbows, Let Down, Climbing Up The Walls, Street Spirit, Polyethylene....
Aloha - recommendations like what you did :)
Please react to Let Down by Radiohead. I love the song. My all time favourite. You gonna love it
I'm still here!
More radiohead please :)
If you're going down the Radiohead rabbit-hole - then I must insist you listen to Pyramid Song; in my opinion one of the best songs ever written - complex and simple, dark and beautiful all in one
I’m still here 😊
I'm still here
Im still here fella 😁
between the buried and me selkies: the endless obsession
SON LUX
Pleeeease “How to disappear completely” - Radiohead.
YES ^
@@jcorridos YEES
I second this
yes please
Yeah.
I'm still here
Metal heads love Radiohead too don’t worry ;-)
Most metalheads appreciate talent. Regardless of genre, i find.
Yes we do!🖤🤘🖤🤘
@@thomasmeyer8798 you need new metalheads my friend 🤘🤘🤘
@@matandcat2506 I think you're pretty right...
@@thomasmeyer8798 in all fairness im a metalhead through and through, my gf loves radiohead and dragged me along to see them in 2016 and i never looked back
Huge metalhead here, but Radiohead is on of my favorite bands. In fact, I've recommended them for this channel. A few other tracks I'd recommend are House of Cards, Let Down, 2+2=5, or Sail to the Moon.
Let down is a masterpiece of composition.
These are some of my favourites... Also How to Disappear Completely
There there!!!
2+2=5 defo love the hail to the thief album stand up sit down also is a beast of a song an go to sleep
Agreed! I love Hail to the Thief but Let Down is just so spectacular.
You're like a more accessible Rick Beato, it's so cool that you're sharing your perspective in a way that's informative without just being another reaction channel.
I appreciate that Aaron!
But nothing against Rick. His reactions and his immense knowledge of music theory (not to forget about his playing skills) are always an ear-opener to me.
@@thomasmeyer8798 Absolutely! I love Rick's videos too, I'm still very novice with music theory and I appreciate Geebz showing some of the more technical sides of music more at my speed. Both are killer!
Funny that you put it that way. I read it and it 'clicked' in my head. I love to listen to music and discect the whole thing, but I'm not that great with music theory. This channel just has that little bit of extra accessiblity. Can't get enough of these. Geebz and Lost In Vegas are the go to and best reaction channels for me, without a doubt.
Although I love Ricks channel too, especially the 'What makes this song great?' series.
Very well said!
Radiohead is just good music.
good music is just radiohead
Music is good. Just: Radiohead. ☺️
God*
As far as Radiohead goes.....I'll always love The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A the most....and I hope you do more from that era.
But......as far as newer stuff goes, I really hope you check out Burn The Witch.
Excellent song. Driving and ominous throughout.....with some really cool atonal chromatic microtonal bending shit lol.
It's a fun listen. :)
@@PabloGutierrez-uo6dy God music 100%
I started watching your Tool vids yesterday and I was thinking I wish you did Radiohead reviews, just to wake and see this! You're the man!
Try Pyramid Song next, the composer in you will love it I think!
Radiohead fans are obsesssed I’m sure they’ll love this video. I’ve been to a concert of theirs before and the energy (band and audience) is insane, even for the age these guys are at.
I wish they were immortal
Saw them live in a small club prior to releasing the OK computer. We could see them experimenting and improvising. Tom had a handbook with lyrics. It was probably the best concert I have ever seen. Just seeing songs being made in front of us. Check out "In the basement" See how things are done organically..
You HAVE to hear Paranoid Android... one of the greatest songs of all time
Ohhh... yes, I love that its this weird ballad with sort of... movements for lack of a better word.
Yes, and also very interesting from a composition + production point of view.
The remastered version is better in every way... except it's missing the 4 beeps at the beginning!!!! Drive me nuts!
Lucky, paranoid android and karma police from OK computer are perfection.
@@Comrade_mommy i feel like ok computer is really one long track.
Please do more Radiohead! They have so many great songs that are all so unique and different from one another, but in a way that’s genuine and doesn’t ever seem like they’re trying to be anything, if that makes sense. I’ve been listening to them for 12 years and somehow their music is more enjoyable the more I listen to it.
This song sounds like North Carolina in 99'. I'm an ex audio engineer professionally. I like how you talk about sonic. Good shit.
You're basically the Justin y. of the music on RUclips
@@bruh-xy1bt except bandstand makes high quality vids. shits my fav channel
NC was such a chill, yet uncompromisingly wild place in 99. App state, booze, skiing,... radiohead.
Shit was straight-forward.
Oh hello, wasn't expecting you here
Not entirely sure what you mean -- but yet I think I know what you mean... Raleigh, NC here - was in the 90s music scene as an industrial band. While in college (and after) I was friends with "Post-Pro" studio founder, who helped our band a lot and taught us a good bit about producing and post-producing. While I was a die-hard industrial fan, Radiohead was the band that shook me to my core and made me realize how next-level they were compared to anything else.
You can probably do more Radiohead songs like "Pyramid song" or "Videotape" both of them have this weird time signature and i'd love your analysis on them. Great video nonetheless
+1 Pyramid Song
Videotape is my favorite Radiohead track. Deceptively simple.
absolutely this
+1 Pyramid Song
Both are 4/4. Pyramid Song has a 4/4 swing rhythm with a lot of the piano chords landing on the off-beats. Videotape is syncopated 4/4 that you can only really start to hear after the high-hats come in. I love how they play with rhythm in those songs.
The classic and most popular song of theirs, Paranoid Android, off the magnum opus album OK Computer from the 90s perhaps is a fitting song to dive into next. Love to see you diving into Radiohead!
More Radiohead please. Paranoid android. Weird Fishes. You don’t know what you’re missing Man.
Yes! Paranoid Android is the quintessential iconic track!!
Yep agreed. You're missing out if you dont absorb some Radiohead. In my experience, the only people that don't like the band are the ones that don't like how and how much their music effects them
I’m still here 🤙
I’m gonna recommend 15 Step by Radiohead
How about almost everything from Radiohead.
15 Steps is a great song. I’d also love to see him react to The Pyramid Song, 2+2=5, Feral, and Subterranean Homesick Alien. 🤙
I think in rainbows was the best album
@@peach53 legit opinion
@@bigfortune1 all excellent suggestions! can i throw Videotape or The Numbers to that list too please.
This song isn't there best. You should check out Pyramid Song or Daydreaming, those are beautifully composed songs!
pyramid song would be great to see from a composer's perspective
👆agreed
Yeah, my first thought was "Why Lift, out of all of their songs?" Not that it's bad.
Absolutaly agreed
@@JustinRittenhouse Lift is amazing but there are better songs ofc it's Radiohead it's very unfair to say best song or worst song of Radiohead.. 90% of them are masterpieces.
Radiohead is a band you can keep coming back to and find new things to react to in every song.
Since you are a string arranger, I strongly recommend “How to disappear completely”.
I think read Thom considers it amongst one of their best pieces. So yeh, get on it old decomposer!
YESSS, one of their best songs, though they have like 20 best songs ever
I didn’t expect you to react to Radiohead, given that they’re one of my fave bands alongside Tool, and deftones. One of the most unique bands with one of the best discographies. Everyone from all genres has an appreciation for the band, especially metal heads. Deftones especially. Every member in the band is essential. The coolest thing about both the song and video is that they only played it live in 95 but never released it until 2017 to coincide with their 20th anniversary of Ok Computer album. And the video itself is a reflection of each music video from each of their era’s all seen as different floors. Great stuff. Can’t wait to see you react from their live from the basement tracks along with their records. I was happy to see them live at msg in 2018, and man would you enjoy their concerts and musicianship!
Truth
Tool, Deftones, Radiohead, Ghost ... Tori Amos ;)
Tool and Radiohead are both my favorite bands too. 🤔🤔 Maybe there's a pattern.
@Mario Castillo No, but SnG are also one of the all time favourites! Gonna check it out!
@Mario Castillo where else can one go? Other than the other bands that are either an extension, or inspired by yet remain unique in their voice! But these church halls are the best 😂
Lift is a B side that didn't make the cut off their universally acclaimed masterpiece OK Computer. Highly highly recommend you check out that whole album. Start with Paranoid Android... that song will blow your mind :)
PS I eat up every minute of these videos... they often feel too short even haha.
He should start with airbag because it conects perfectly with paranoid android.
@Rob Masters Agreed. But Lift is actually one of their most recent videos (released on the 20th anniversary of OK Computer). It probably had a lot of views, so I can absolutely see how he got to this song first being unfamiliar with the band's catalog.
You should start OK Computer always with Airbag and ended with The Tourist, as a whole one song
@@joshs8685 Actually they dish Lift because in the own Ed OBrien words would destroy the band, it's to catchy
One of the best bands of all time. Their creativity is off the charts.
if you know of radiohead from your daughters, that probably means you did a good job as a parent, because they have good taste lol
or her daughter is depressed 💀
@@chasedaace1205 both
Would love to see a deep dive into their discography from you!
Yes, it's gonna happen! :)
@@KeyOfGeebz cannot wait for this! Coffee bought!!
@@KeyOfGeebz I think Radiohead deserves a whole Album reaction, I'd suggest In Rainbows (as you've already done a few OK Computer songs).
well, we need to fix that real quick sir, not knowing Thom Yorke is one of the seven deadly sins.
So true!!
You've gotta check out Radiohead's 'Reckoner' because it's such an amazing track. Especially with the strings. In Rainbows is just an incredible album. All time favorite.
I'd also just like to point out this masterpiece of a song is a BONUS TRACK, radiohead really do have high standards
Metal heads who have a healthy taste in music like and appreciate Radiohead very much.
Yes, more Radiohead hopefully in the future. Very interesting stuff, production wise.
Radiohead is the reason i picked up a guitar and learned how to play. They literally changed my life 🥰
It would be funny if it was because of Anyone Can Play Guitar from Pablo Honey! (He was being sarcastic. It's his take on a documentary of The Doors he watched)
@@lk-music actually it was “street spirit” lol “anyone can play guitar” is actually really hard
Geebz you have to hear Burn The Witch if you want a boss live string arrangement. Actually can’t believe you haven’t heard much Radiohead, they deserve your attention! I’m appreciating the reviews by the way man.
Yaayyyyyy!!!!! More radiohead :) radiohead is the most dynamic band ever - ive been listening to them for 20 years. Thank you for your insight!! P.s. you thought the tool army was crazy wait for the Radioheads lol 😌
Id recommend “man of war” and then “paranoid android” by Radiohead
I was pretty disappointed with the final recording of Man of War, don't think it captured the same sound/feel we heard from the small snippets of the original recordings and old live versions.
@@Aardvarked88 interesting... i loved the old live versions too but i still loved what they did with it. Im not gonna lie when i played the new one for friends of mine i was like “ you don’t understand... this song is 20 years old, this is so epic” lol
Id also recommend “just” or ANYTHING from hail to the thief, my fave album... “in limbo” or “like spinning plates” are my personal favorite tracks.
Love man of war!
With your background as a composer, I think you would really enjoy Radiohead’s “Exit Music (For A Film)”. It plays out like a classical epic with a subtle build and a huge climax.
Check it out here: m.ruclips.net/video/Bf01riuiJWA/видео.html
It’d be great to see your reaction and analysis of this one!
As many others have noted, I think you'll love "How to Disappear Completely". The song features some spectacular string arrangement, and was clearly inspired by Penderecki and/or Ligeti.
Other recommended tracks by Radiohead (from a compositional and engineering standpoint) are:
- Pyramid Song (I've heard that this was inspired by Charles Mingus)
- Let Down (the double-tracked vocals are terrific, especially when they split in the last verse)
- Burn the Witch (great string arrangement)
- Climbing Up the Walls (another Penderecki or Ligeti influence - downright creepy)
- All I Need (particularly the coda, with piano, bells, and Thom's voice over the top of it all)
So many unique and great songs by this band.
You had me at Radiohead, Deftones and Tool... my three all time favorite bands. You are the coolest, by the way. I'm assuming you composed all of the chakra clearing and meditation music?... because, amazing!! 🙏 I'm excited to have found you!! 💕
Aloha Brooke. Stoked you like the content I'm unraveling but more stoked you like the meditation compositions. It's a "compositional hobby" since I do my own meditating - figure If I can, why not write my own sonic channeling :)
@@KeyOfGeebz that is so awesome. I plan on listening to one this evening during meditation time. What a treat to find someone like-minded that also happens to be breaking down some of my favorite songs! You truly are giving such a cool perspective, not seen in typical reaction videos. Thanks for the response! 🙏
I'm still here!
Been really enjoying your videos so far!
If you're up for doing more Radiohead How To Disappear Completely would be amazing to see your reaction to.
I'm still here! Please do more Radiohead I really appreciate your input and perspective
A reaction to the criminally unappreciated Jeff Buckley would be fantastic. He's been praised by the members of Led Zeppelin and influenced vocalist like Thom Yorke and Matt Bellamy. He was so much more than 'Hallelujah' (which IS great). He belongs up there with the rest of them. "Grace" (nod to the Mystery White Boy version), Lover, You Should've Come Over, or Dream Brother (Live at L' Olympia) are great, to point you in the right direction. It might not garner you 100, 000 views, but it will give more exposure to one of the greatest vocalists of the last 50 years, who passed far too soon.
MORE RADIOHEAD, PLEASE!
Let's see just how many times they can surprise you ;)
AlooooooHAAAA. Breaking down TOOL and now Radiohead? Pleease more Radiohead. Love both groups and ypu, holmes!
YES! React more to Radiohead please!
For radiohead my favorites are reckoner, how to disappear completely, paranoid android and idioteque, would love to see a react on any of these.
Radiohead playing their album "In Rainbows" Live from the Basement sessions will knock your socks off. All the songs from there are amazing but my top suggestions are, "Nude", "Where I End and You Begin", "Reckoner", "All I Need" "Weird Fishes" etc. No real order, but they are all lovely, and you'll be able to see them play the many instruments.
Radiohead is considered "experimental". Every album is completely different than the one before it. Always something on the offbeat too!
How to disappear completely
Paranoid Android
Jigsaw falling into place
Lotus Flower
15 step
Weird fishes/Arpeggi
Bloom
Radiohead is just amazing. Consider Radiohead "Daydreaming" - would love to hear your take on it! :)
Thank you soo much. Radiohead is the best band to see live. I would even say they are better live than on thier albums
I will watch any video with Radiohead.
I LOVE all the metal reactions you have been doing. Tool and Radiohead are my favorite bands. Opeth is pretty far up there as well. I'm a little mystified by this choice though. There are dozens of better Radiohead songs.
Loving the TOOL - would love more Radiohead. Climbing Up The Walls. (Also check out Thom York solo stuff)
For solo Thom York, start with Black Swan.