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oh god yeah. Bought it on release, next day went into work and advised my friends to either listen to it stoned, or in the dark, but not both at the same time straight off, like I did, lol.
I was just thinking of where I was, actually, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually the time I first heard Paranoid Android. And then the first time I heard every other song on this album. You nailed it!
I couldn't disagree more. This album took me to another fucking universe when I first heard it. I had absolutely no clue where I was and I'm still trying to figure it out.
I was already sort-of a fan, but one of my friends (the drummer in our band and massive prog rocker) and my housemate (huge early hip-hopper with great eclectic musical taste) were both big fans, and my housemate got Paranoid Android the day it was released, and we and some other friends gathered to listen to it together on my rather good stereo at the time. It blew my mind, it was brilliant. It got played on repeat maybe 15 times? Then we played The Bends, and some Rush, and then back to Paranoid Android. My housemate was especially keen on No Surprises when OK Computer came out. He was an alcoholic and suffered from severe depression, and that song really spoke to him. He ended his pain a few years later, and I can never listen to this album without thinking of him, and how he made us all laugh. No alarms and no surprises any more Martin. You're missed.
It would be awesome to see a video on Talk Talk's final two albums Spirit of Eden & Laughing Stock, the backstory and repercussions of those albums is fascinating, in fact, the band's whole history is fascinating in its own right. Radiohead were partially inspired by them, too!
I saw that you and David put out a video about the same song at exactly the same moment. I wondered what the chances of that are only to see you in each other's comments making it immediately obvious that it was a coordinated effort. I look forward to delving into both videos from two of the top music channels on RUclips.
Special thanks to David Bennett for the great piece! Please check out his video here as well (It's AWESOME!):- ruclips.net/video/c7nyth28JmI/видео.html
This is fantastic. Like many we've known this album since its release, and it's great to listen to this and be shown so much more about it after all this town
For anyone interested. There's a great BBC6 music interview with Godrich where he goes through OK Computer track by track. I think only available on Reddit now
great band, great video, great break down.. they sure have a great sound 👍🏻 ive never incorporated modulation like that in any of my songs . 2:15 or so 😳 very sophisticated
It's dreary, eerie, furious, snotty, pissed, deranged, sparkling, confrontational, lost, found and rageful. How could this NOT be the single? It's punk prog revolution!!!
Wonderful! 🧡 This is a masterpiece indeed. The best. On par with Bowie’s ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’. I still remember when I first heard it. I didn’t think I would ever love an album as much as I did when I was a teenager. As a teenager I would lie in bed and allow myself to close my eyes and listen to all the albums I saved all my money for. But I wasn’t a teenager anymore. Times had changed, my life had changed. Nobody was expecting me to lie in bed and enjoy music, I needed to work! But when I ‘discovered’ OK Computer it felt like the music took over my brain. Resistance was futile. And after a decade of wanting this to happen once again, it finally did. I gave up and allowed myself to just lie in bed, close my eyes and listen. There isn’t a single note on that album, not a single sound that I don’t love, no matter how often I listen to it. This album will never bore me. Just like Low and Heroes will never bore me. 🧡🧡🧡
Absolutely fascinating! I loved watching this. The guitar parts demonstration is awesome and for me, highlights how crazy the song actually is musically. I wonder what the band would make of this deep dive!
Brilliant team work for a magic band, thank you so much! Now it is time to work on the big cake Sonic Youth, Teenage Riot for example... Love your work anyways, Belgian cheers from Vienna!
The "Rain down" section might be like a Baroque lament. To me, it sounds like a lamento aria in a Baroque opera piece. This section's counterpoint-like style and descending notes are intimately sounded in such a form. That was pretty impressive when I was a classical music student at that time.
It is amazing how the guitar parts, played in isolation, barely make logical sense. Yet all together flow in and out and around each other and everything else in a way that they’re barely separable. Radiohead is a band with an excessive amount of talent already, but the fact that they’ve got three extremely versatile guitarists on tap makes for some incredible soundscapes. ‘Let Down’ being one case in point.
I always love your in-depth research and information on the bands (and albums) you review. 10 star ratings all of them! Thank you. More people should see these videos you create and become more informed about the world of music and these great bands that changed the way we live and listen to music.
As a musician and gear geek, I love your videos because of their technical and music-theory-complexity. And the fascinating thing is that Radiohead recorded everything intuitively and not in a planned way. Similar to the Beatles, where music theorists enjoy the complexity and the guys from Liverpool just did it. So don't over-analyze your own ideas, just do it!? Thank you very much indeed for the video!
So glad you covered this. OK Computer is in my top 3 albums of all time, an absolute masterpiece from start to end. This song was such an amazing change from what one expected.
Daaammm Jamie... Bloody spot on, as a guitarist and RH fan, this break down is amazing Came back to add to my comment above... this video as a whole was amazing
Wow!! What a vid!! That was like a masterclass in songwriting & production. Was really cool to see Jamie going through the guitar parts, lots of chords I never knew about. Big thank you to all involved 🙏
Thank you for this fantastic video. Radiohead is one of my favourite bands, and I love all eras of their music (Kid A and beyond being my favourite incarnation). This was a great watch and very informative as always. 😊
Great video! Realyl enjoyed this - the analysis, the equipment, the fascinating guitar breakdown, and as ever, your infectious enthusiasm and observations. Thanks!
The Bends is really my favorite album by Radiohead, but Ok Computer is awesome and I love it. This super deep dive into Paranoid Android is very revealing. These guys were so adventurous musically, but usually music this adventurous doesn't become so insanely popular. I have to hand it to these guys, the songwriting is top notch.
Great video, thanks Warren and all the contributors! OK Computer blew my brain, what can I say. I couldn't stop playing it and Paranoid Android . . . every time I hear it, it sounds like the first time even though I know every note and sound, the places it goes to still take me by surprise. As good as it gets, the only other album I can think of that had this kind of overall mastery, of songwriting, arrangement, production, concept, is Dark Side of the Moon . . . but it's more adventurous, more challenging. Above all, it's filled with hauntingly beautiful, timeless melodies, on a level with the Beatles' best writing
Wow, when I heard this album for the first time... I was a 25 year old art/literature student and we were having classes about Fin de siècle/ Belle epoque art of the 1890’s. Than one evening my roommate got this new album by Radiohead. I loved The Bends, so I was curious. We listened to it over and over again that night and we had the same realization together that we were in the f****ng Fin de siècle ourselves...! As young people tend to do, we interpreted this album as a mantra of one single message: bits & chaos. And we felt it, because it was wrapped in the eeriest and most beautiful music we had ever heard! This album and the debut album by Suede (melody wise). I guess we overreacted just a bit... 😄 It was totally new. Radiohead and its members brought us lots more great music after that. 🙏
brilliant video. i kind of missed the bends too and thought of radiohead as the 'creep' band. ok computer blew my mind and then i went back to discover the bends which also blew my mind. two of my fave albums from a great decade of music.
Love Amnesiac! Pulk Pull Revolver Door is a cool art piece with a repetitive groove, it's definitely an 'experiment' (one of many!) for the band! However, "Paranoid Android" has multiple key, tempo and genre changes, not to mention lyrics within it making very experimental!
@@Producelikeapro True! Both very experimental in their own way, Pulk/Pull moreso in terms of timbre and Paranoid Android moreso in terms of song structure :)
The gear blud. You can hear all the gear from the mics to the outboard to the guitar rig being used. These guys are high risk takers. I'm happy to hear that this album was a joy to work on. You can sonically hear hear it dripping from the speakers. I need a Depeche Mode "Songs Of Faith And Devotion" breakdown thank U very much. I do miss the Classic album series but your breakdowns are right up there. Cheers for this.
Oh man, can’t wait to dive into this. One of my all time favorites. Listening to this album in high school helped to shape my sound more than any other modern band (regardless of the genre I’m playing). I even hear unintentional Radiohead influences in my Cumbia, Afrobeat, and folk productions haha. As for episodic song structure, if/when you can pull it off it has the power to take the listener on such a rewarding journey (that’s a big IF/WHEN though)
I didn't realize this song was so popular in the UK. Maybe I just didn't realize its popularity at the time, but in the US it felt like this song went way under the radar while "Karma Police" and "No Surprises" were big hits. Regardless, this is my favorite Radiohead song and one of my top 5 favorite songs period. It's interesting they compared it to "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" because those are two of my other favorite songs. I guess I just love long, through-composed songs.
I was in the US at the time! Could t avoid seeing the video on MTV! It was everywhere! Whether it was considered a hit or not i don’t believe is important. It set up the album perfectly
Seeing them live almost two weeks after OK Computer was released at the Opera House in Toronto, I remember Thom Yorke effectively thanking us for our patience for sitting through so many new songs.
Warren. Are you familiar with The Pretty Thing’s Parachute? I haven’t finished listening to this video, but RH borrowed a riff from that (In The Square) outstanding masterpiece. Love your videos!!!
I remember a radio DJ in new Zealand somehow playing the entire album from start to finish on release with little breaks between each track. I was sitting there with my blank tape cued up capturing each track with the channel Z blurb playing over the intro of each song till the vocals kicked in. It was treated as an event and it truly was.
I still remember listening to this song when it came out and thinking to myself. What is this? This is absolutely incredible! I still think that when I hear the song now. This video was fantastic! Well done guys
I grew up, listening to prog rock and fusion jazz, and in fact some of the records I listened to in my teens were the primary sources that Radiohead mentions as influences. So I have to admit that when Radiohead came around, I wasn’t initially super interested, I’d kind of moved on from this stuff. But my girlfriend at the time, even though she mostly liked dance music and a bit of goth, she was obsessed with these guys. It kind of made no sense to me how into this band she was, but I just chuckled and went with it. Anyway, our roommate at the time comes home one afternoon and says hey I’m meeting with someone I met a couple of years ago do you want to come? Turns out she’d met Radiohead while working as a waitress in Montreal their first time playing in Canada, and they’d stayed in touch. My GF kept her cool, but of course there was no question, and a couple of hours later there we were all having lunch with Colin before their showcase in Toronto. Long story short, there we were on the guest list for the band’s showcase of this new record called OK Computer. They played a 900 seat club, and unlike any other show, they came out and played the whole album pretty much back to back, with one or two of their previous songs as encore. The Buzz in the room was amazing. Everyone knew they were listening to something spectacular, everyone knew this was the beginning of a movement. From that day forward, I changed my tune on the band, and the further they push boundaries the more I appreciate and respect them for never doing anything that is expected. The modern music world needs more of this, and to that I tip my hat to them.
I came a bit late to Radiohead. I had a young guy working for me who turned me on to them. OK Computer is just an amazing album - certainly one of the best of its era, if not the best.... I still listen to it quite a bit. It is an acoustic feast....
They did indeed tour The Bends.... and in the US they were opening for the Curt Smith-less Tears For Fears, on the Elemental US tour.... and promptly blew TFF off the stage every night. It made a huge difference. TFF were the 2nd band to make this mistake of taking an emerging band with them who were very much in the ascendancy and ended up performing regularly better than the headline act; Suede did the same thing, taking the Cranberries with them in America and the same thing happened. The Cranberries outperformed them every night.
Look, I'm a huge music nerd. I have studied this album back to back for literally decades now, and, to be honest, most stuff people talk about it is superficial and boring on RUclips (at least to me). So I went into this video expecting to know everything you had to say and to close the window half way through your exposition, as it would clearly have other people in mind in the making of it. However, that was not what happened here. Granted, most of what you said was old news to me. But, the rest of the stuff were so cool to learn I am now extremely happy to have watched it when I saw the suggestion on my feeds. The level of detail and the execution of your video is commendable. Im sure it doesn't put a stone on what needs to be said about the making of the album, but it sure widens the possibilities of what needs to the accounted for as we talk about it. So, thanks a bunch. I'm definitely sticking around for your further uploads. Cheers.
bought the tape the day it came out....didn't get it on first listen...took about 4 more listens to realize it was the greatest album i'd ever heard...from memory it took about 12 months to really sink into the music landscape and be recognised as the masterpiece it is....sgt Pepper up there....dark side amd the wall from floyd....i guess i love a concept
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Such an amazing song!
This is right at the top
My Iron Lung
Masterpiece of a song!
Lucky and this song of course
It was a real pleasure to be involved in this video! Thank you for letting me gush about one of my favourite songs on your channel!!
Great work in the video!
Superb David
David! YOU are the man! Thanks for brining your immense talents to the video!
@@spitfiremusic3997 thanks! David Rules!
@@promixacademy6904 agreed 100%!
OK Computer is the kind of album you remember exactly where you were (physically/psychologically/in life) during the first listen
Very well said!
oh god yeah. Bought it on release, next day went into work and advised my friends to either listen to it stoned, or in the dark, but not both at the same time straight off, like I did, lol.
Great album. No idea where I was. Western Washington state, but I mean specifically.
I was just thinking of where I was, actually, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually the time I first heard Paranoid Android. And then the first time I heard every other song on this album. You nailed it!
I couldn't disagree more. This album took me to another fucking universe when I first heard it. I had absolutely no clue where I was and I'm still trying to figure it out.
25+ years later I'm still trying to un-fuck my head after experiencing Paranoid Android for the first time. Hats-off to the great Radiohead
I was already sort-of a fan, but one of my friends (the drummer in our band and massive prog rocker) and my housemate (huge early hip-hopper with great eclectic musical taste) were both big fans, and my housemate got Paranoid Android the day it was released, and we and some other friends gathered to listen to it together on my rather good stereo at the time. It blew my mind, it was brilliant. It got played on repeat maybe 15 times? Then we played The Bends, and some Rush, and then back to Paranoid Android.
My housemate was especially keen on No Surprises when OK Computer came out. He was an alcoholic and suffered from severe depression, and that song really spoke to him. He ended his pain a few years later, and I can never listen to this album without thinking of him, and how he made us all laugh. No alarms and no surprises any more Martin. You're missed.
Haha thanks Gabriel!
Played this CASSETTE on repeat upon its release.
When the tour rolled through San Francisco, I was there!
Second time concert out of four tours.
It would be awesome to see a video on Talk Talk's final two albums Spirit of Eden & Laughing Stock, the backstory and repercussions of those albums is fascinating, in fact, the band's whole history is fascinating in its own right. Radiohead were partially inspired by them, too!
Spirit of eden is a blessing.as.m7ch as ok computer .as is laughing stock...why is the post poppy talk talk stuff not talked about more?
@@davidcleasby1831 Yeah, people don't realise how monumental those two albums were
🎯 Yes, please!
@@smaz9 I really love both albums but somehow I missed them both at the time.
Great video! David's addition was excellent
Absolutely superb video
Excellent video, still watching!
Thanks ever so much!
Both yours and David's videos rock! Moving from one to another! LOL
5 mins in and already wonderful video Gents!
Really enjoying the video!
I saw that you and David put out a video about the same song at exactly the same moment. I wondered what the chances of that are only to see you in each other's comments making it immediately obvious that it was a coordinated effort. I look forward to delving into both videos from two of the top music channels on RUclips.
Yes! Me too!
What a band, what an album, what a song!! and What a Music Video haha
I've been waiting for this breakdown and it does not disappoint.
Really loving this
A very good audition this one
Thanks ever so much!
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Can we as a society stop using the word iconic, it's overused and meaningless.
Thanks you for putting this together, I really like this series.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is fantastic. Like many we've known this album since its release, and it's great to listen to this and be shown so much more about it after all this town
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it
For anyone interested. There's a great BBC6 music interview with Godrich where he goes through OK Computer track by track. I think only available on Reddit now
great band, great video, great break down.. they sure have a great sound 👍🏻 ive never incorporated modulation like that in any of my songs . 2:15 or so 😳 very sophisticated
Radiohead is awesome!
Agreed 100% Anthony!
*are
It's dreary, eerie, furious, snotty, pissed, deranged, sparkling, confrontational, lost, found and rageful. How could this NOT be the single? It's punk prog revolution!!!
Haha very nice!
A+ - Thanks so much for putting this video together!
OK Computer is the last time I remember people being excited about the future.
Good stuff Warren!
Great research on the recording process! Killer video. Thanks for the hard work and effort by all put forth to produce it.
Thanks ever so much!
Wonderful! 🧡
This is a masterpiece indeed. The best. On par with Bowie’s ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’. I still remember when I first heard it. I didn’t think I would ever love an album as much as I did when I was a teenager. As a teenager I would lie in bed and allow myself to close my eyes and listen to all the albums I saved all my money for. But I wasn’t a teenager anymore. Times had changed, my life had changed. Nobody was expecting me to lie in bed and enjoy music, I needed to work! But when I ‘discovered’ OK Computer it felt like the music took over my brain. Resistance was futile. And after a decade of wanting this to happen once again, it finally did. I gave up and allowed myself to just lie in bed, close my eyes and listen.
There isn’t a single note on that album, not a single sound that I don’t love, no matter how often I listen to it. This album will never bore me. Just like Low and Heroes will never bore me. 🧡🧡🧡
Sheer musical genius for the ages
A song that changed my life
Absolutely fascinating! I loved watching this. The guitar parts demonstration is awesome and for me, highlights how crazy the song actually is musically. I wonder what the band would make of this deep dive!
Thanks ever so much! Yes, Jamie rules!
Brilliant team work for a magic band, thank you so much! Now it is time to work on the big cake Sonic Youth, Teenage Riot for example...
Love your work anyways, Belgian cheers from Vienna!
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it!
The "Rain down" section might be like a Baroque lament. To me, it sounds like a lamento aria in a Baroque opera piece. This section's counterpoint-like style and descending notes are intimately sounded in such a form. That was pretty impressive when I was a classical music student at that time.
I love that Nigel Godrich uses analog recording technology. Inspired production and OK Computer is Gen X's Dark Side Of The Moon. Superb song.
Thanks ever so much for sharing! Great comment!
That whole album is great; every song, every note.
Marvellous! Agreed 100%!
Two of my favorites together in celebration of 7 minutes of the most brilliant music ever performed 🙌
Thanks ever so much!
One of my fave albums. Takes me back to being an awkard 14 year old teenager in suburban England 😅
Haha I hear you! Still feel like that kid myself
It was good to watch this video. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks ever so much!
I must say, Paranoid Android is the altrnative rock version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody
Agreed, marvellous!
I love the album so much. Definitely brings bac z lot of memories from just after high school
Thanks for sharing!
It is amazing how the guitar parts, played in isolation, barely make logical sense. Yet all together flow in and out and around each other and everything else in a way that they’re barely separable. Radiohead is a band with an excessive amount of talent already, but the fact that they’ve got three extremely versatile guitarists on tap makes for some incredible soundscapes. ‘Let Down’ being one case in point.
Easily Top 5 EVER.
I always love your in-depth research and information on the bands (and albums) you review. 10 star ratings all of them! Thank you.
More people should see these videos you create and become more informed about the world of music and these great bands that
changed the way we live and listen to music.
This is a brilliant crossover video!
Thanks ever so much!
As a musician and gear geek, I love your videos because of their technical and music-theory-complexity. And the fascinating thing is that Radiohead recorded everything intuitively and not in a planned way. Similar to the Beatles, where music theorists enjoy the complexity and the guys from Liverpool just did it. So don't over-analyze your own ideas, just do it!? Thank you very much indeed for the video!
So glad you covered this. OK Computer is in my top 3 albums of all time, an absolute masterpiece from start to end. This song was such an amazing change from what one expected.
Amazing video ❤
Thanks ever so much!
Daaammm Jamie... Bloody spot on, as a guitarist and RH fan, this break down is amazing
Came back to add to my comment above... this video as a whole was amazing
Thanks ever so much! Yes, Jamie rules
Wow!! What a vid!! That was like a masterclass in songwriting & production. Was really cool to see Jamie going through the guitar parts, lots of chords I never knew about. Big thank you to all involved 🙏
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed Jamie's breakdown
Thank you for this fantastic video. Radiohead is one of my favourite bands, and I love all eras of their music (Kid A and beyond being my favourite incarnation). This was a great watch and very informative as always. 😊
Great video! Realyl enjoyed this - the analysis, the equipment, the fascinating guitar breakdown, and as ever, your infectious enthusiasm and observations. Thanks!
The Bends is really my favorite album by Radiohead, but Ok Computer is awesome and I love it. This super deep dive into Paranoid Android is very revealing. These guys were so adventurous musically, but usually music this adventurous doesn't become so insanely popular. I have to hand it to these guys, the songwriting is top notch.
The guitar breakdown part was AMAZING!!!
Thanks ever so much!
Yes, Jamie is incredible!
Great video, thanks Warren and all the contributors! OK Computer blew my brain, what can I say. I couldn't stop playing it and Paranoid Android . . . every time I hear it, it sounds like the first time even though I know every note and sound, the places it goes to still take me by surprise. As good as it gets, the only other album I can think of that had this kind of overall mastery, of songwriting, arrangement, production, concept, is Dark Side of the Moon . . . but it's more adventurous, more challenging. Above all, it's filled with hauntingly beautiful, timeless melodies, on a level with the Beatles' best writing
7:05 a little mistake here, that's a young Colin, not Ed o brien
Wow, when I heard this album for the first time...
I was a 25 year old art/literature student and we were having classes about Fin de siècle/ Belle epoque art of the 1890’s.
Than one evening my roommate got this new album by Radiohead. I loved The Bends, so I was curious.
We listened to it over and over again that night and we had the same realization together that we were in the f****ng Fin de siècle ourselves...!
As young people tend to do, we interpreted this album as a mantra of one single message: bits & chaos. And we felt it, because it was wrapped in the eeriest and most beautiful music we had ever heard!
This album and the debut album by Suede (melody wise).
I guess we overreacted just a bit... 😄
It was totally new. Radiohead and its members brought us lots more great music after that. 🙏
Thanks ever so much for sharing that! I remember this days when music just elevated us to a higher plain!
Again a great one, thx guys!!
Thanks ever so much!
brilliant video. i kind of missed the bends too and thought of radiohead as the 'creep' band. ok computer blew my mind and then i went back to discover the bends which also blew my mind. two of my fave albums from a great decade of music.
I hope Johnny contacts the guitar guy and tells him how he did it :)
"Paranoid Android embodies the experimental spirit of Radiohead more than any other song" *laughs in Pulk/Pull Revolving Door*
Love Amnesiac! Pulk Pull Revolver Door is a cool art piece with a repetitive groove, it's definitely an 'experiment' (one of many!) for the band! However, "Paranoid Android" has multiple key, tempo and genre changes, not to mention lyrics within it making very experimental!
@@Producelikeapro True! Both very experimental in their own way, Pulk/Pull moreso in terms of timbre and Paranoid Android moreso in terms of song structure :)
@@kidkorova7453 Pulk/Pull has about one 20th of the experimental nature of Paranoid Android
The gear blud. You can hear all the gear from the mics to the outboard to the guitar rig being used. These guys are high risk takers. I'm happy to hear that this album was a joy to work on. You can sonically hear hear it dripping from the speakers.
I need a Depeche Mode "Songs Of Faith And Devotion" breakdown thank U very much.
I do miss the Classic album series but your breakdowns are right up there. Cheers for this.
Oh man, can’t wait to dive into this. One of my all time favorites. Listening to this album in high school helped to shape my sound more than any other modern band (regardless of the genre I’m playing). I even hear unintentional Radiohead influences in my Cumbia, Afrobeat, and folk productions haha.
As for episodic song structure, if/when you can pull it off it has the power to take the listener on such a rewarding journey (that’s a big IF/WHEN though)
It's a sign of how great this song is, that when Jamie plays any riff at full speed, there's no other song they could have been from.
That's certainly a sign that the song is unique. Stay blessed.
This was great, you need to make a part 2 and keep this conversation happening. Thanks guys!🎼🎵🎵✌️👍💯😎☕️
Amazingly thorough. 10 likes from me.
Thanks ever so much!
I didn't realize this song was so popular in the UK. Maybe I just didn't realize its popularity at the time, but in the US it felt like this song went way under the radar while "Karma Police" and "No Surprises" were big hits.
Regardless, this is my favorite Radiohead song and one of my top 5 favorite songs period. It's interesting they compared it to "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" because those are two of my other favorite songs. I guess I just love long, through-composed songs.
I'm in the US, and I bought OK Computer after hearing Karma Police. I hadn't even heard Paranoid Android before I bought the album.
I was in the US at the time! Could t avoid seeing the video on MTV! It was everywhere! Whether it was considered a hit or not i don’t believe is important. It set up the album perfectly
pretty good team there
Thanks ever so much!
As soon as I saw a two channel machine to fly tape loops in and out I realised that John Leckie was still influencing things :)
Seeing them live almost two weeks after OK Computer was released at the Opera House in Toronto, I remember Thom Yorke effectively thanking us for our patience for sitting through so many new songs.
What an amazing experience
I’ve always loved how it doesn’t seem to resolve. It feels like it crashes to earth one beat early leaving you a little bit breathless and unfulfilled
"Ed O'brien on guitar"
*shows picture of Colin 😄
🤴
Thanks 😊
Thanks ever so much!
Nice to have another in this series, and what a song you picked 👍
Warren. Are you familiar with The Pretty Thing’s Parachute? I haven’t finished listening to this video, but RH borrowed a riff from that (In The Square) outstanding masterpiece.
Love your videos!!!
An album I never tire of. ❤️😊
Agreed 100%!
excellent!
Thanks ever so much
OK Computer is a masterpiece.
Indeed
Pink Floyd of the 90's. Not one bad song on the album!!
I say that exact thing all the time!
Thank you.
Thanks ever so much!
Speaking of incredible albums, what about Scritti Politti-"Cupid & Psyche 85"? The production is clearly ahead of it's time.
This is such an awesome informative video. Thank you and your team so much!
Is there any chance you can do this for any „IN RANBOWS“ song?
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I remember a radio DJ in new Zealand somehow playing the entire album from start to finish on release with little breaks between each track.
I was sitting there with my blank tape cued up capturing each track with the channel Z blurb playing over the intro of each song till the vocals kicked in.
It was treated as an event and it truly was.
love.
Thanks ever so much
I still remember listening to this song when it came out and thinking to myself. What is this? This is absolutely incredible! I still think that when I hear the song now. This video was fantastic! Well done guys
Amnesiac is my fav!
Great album!
Can’t disagree with any of that!
Marvellous!
Excellent video. I don’t suppose record companies would advance £200k ($250k) in today’s money for a band to buy their own equipment!!
Not very likely in Rock at all!
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Thanks ever so much!
All this time I thought OK Computer was THE da88 record!
amazing!! Can't wait for a Kid a breakdown
I grew up, listening to prog rock and fusion jazz, and in fact some of the records I listened to in my teens were the primary sources that Radiohead mentions as influences. So I have to admit that when Radiohead came around, I wasn’t initially super interested, I’d kind of moved on from this stuff. But my girlfriend at the time, even though she mostly liked dance music and a bit of goth, she was obsessed with these guys. It kind of made no sense to me how into this band she was, but I just chuckled and went with it. Anyway, our roommate at the time comes home one afternoon and says hey I’m meeting with someone I met a couple of years ago do you want to come? Turns out she’d met Radiohead while working as a waitress in Montreal their first time playing in Canada, and they’d stayed in touch. My GF kept her cool, but of course there was no question, and a couple of hours later there we were all having lunch with Colin before their showcase in Toronto. Long story short, there we were on the guest list for the band’s showcase of this new record called OK Computer. They played a 900 seat club, and unlike any other show, they came out and played the whole album pretty much back to back, with one or two of their previous songs as encore. The Buzz in the room was amazing. Everyone knew they were listening to something spectacular, everyone knew this was the beginning of a movement. From that day forward, I changed my tune on the band, and the further they push boundaries the more I appreciate and respect them for never doing anything that is expected. The modern music world needs more of this, and to that I tip my hat to them.
We ❤️1990s
Marvellous!
Do an episode on my bloody valentine!
Marvellous idea!
I came a bit late to Radiohead. I had a young guy working for me who turned me on to them. OK Computer is just an amazing album - certainly one of the best of its era, if not the best.... I still listen to it quite a bit. It is an acoustic feast....
They did indeed tour The Bends.... and in the US they were opening for the Curt Smith-less Tears For Fears, on the Elemental US tour.... and promptly blew TFF off the stage every night. It made a huge difference. TFF were the 2nd band to make this mistake of taking an emerging band with them who were very much in the ascendancy and ended up performing regularly better than the headline act; Suede did the same thing, taking the Cranberries with them in America and the same thing happened. The Cranberries outperformed them every night.
Look, I'm a huge music nerd. I have studied this album back to back for literally decades now, and, to be honest, most stuff people talk about it is superficial and boring on RUclips (at least to me). So I went into this video expecting to know everything you had to say and to close the window half way through your exposition, as it would clearly have other people in mind in the making of it. However, that was not what happened here. Granted, most of what you said was old news to me. But, the rest of the stuff were so cool to learn I am now extremely happy to have watched it when I saw the suggestion on my feeds. The level of detail and the execution of your video is commendable. Im sure it doesn't put a stone on what needs to be said about the making of the album, but it sure widens the possibilities of what needs to the accounted for as we talk about it. So, thanks a bunch. I'm definitely sticking around for your further uploads. Cheers.
bought the tape the day it came out....didn't get it on first listen...took about 4 more listens to realize it was the greatest album i'd ever heard...from memory it took about 12 months to really sink into the music landscape and be recognised as the masterpiece it is....sgt Pepper up there....dark side amd the wall from floyd....i guess i love a concept
That acoustic part is pretty tricky, but played well in the demonstration. I really love the chkrds in rhe Dminor section...❤