Dave Grohl talking about Radiohead and Ok Computer

[@Killadey]

I didn't need any more reasons to love Dave Grohl, but, there we go.

[@mauriciosanchez813]

exactly

exactly

[@stormcentric]

Right, this Grohl is a real closer

[@DoctorSess]

I actually don’t really care for Dave if I’m honest… just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason (I have always respected his talent). Hearing him praise this record made me like him a lot more though!

[@megamrsoftee]

lol if hes not behind the drums, id rather not hear/see them. Foo fighters is a letdown time and time again. da bess, da bess, da bess, da bess (yawn). lol i had to voice this for the folks that puke to anything not nirvana or songs for the deaf. Peace.

[@danman6669]

I had no clue that Dave had that much respect for Radiohead. That is awesome. This is why I love Dave. He knows good music.

[@thedivineedgar3029]

any discerning musician would know how special they are. i just read an interview recently with geddy lee, talking about radiohead and this record in particular. he was also blown away.

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

Dave has a very broad taste in music. It's something most drummers share

[@napoleondevilla7050]

It shouldn't be surprising. They're basically contemporaries.

[@dertigerbauch]

Dave respects a whole bunch of other musicians, even if he's not into their sound. Dave is just a great person.

[@matthewwinstone8094]

The Foo fighters appeared on the 97 Jools Holland show with Radiohead, their live performance of Paranoid Android is on KZbin.

[@someguy5035]

Ok Computer is unequivocally one of the best albums of all time. Even other great musicians will tell you this.

[@TheKennyboy92]

Absolute masterpiece

[@dsm363]

I love The Bends even more but an amazing band.

[@ddoober]

a moon shaped pool is my favorite radiohead album honestly

[@RaffaPed]

OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows are all completely different and are all superb albums.

[@dsk333]

and then came Kid A , another masterpiece

[@balbertiful]

The fact that OK Computer could be released today, 25 years later, and still be the most innovative, groundbreaking, meaningful and of-the-moment album of its time is probably not something you could say about any other album. It almost feels like Radiohead were beamed back from some distant future to record this album. Breathtaking.

[@danielmauric8491]

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone would care about it today, same for Nevermind, sadly.

[@headphoneman10]

@@danielmauric8491 OK computer couldn't go unnoticed. Its so transcendent that whatever time period u put it in would barely effect it. Nevermind, on the other hand wouldn't bc its not musically complex or dense enough to be anything more than a good pop rock record of its time

[@nuffaction5464]

What a crock.

[@joelthegoat4284]

@@headphoneman10 smells like teen spirit never gets old tho

[@headphoneman10]

@@joelthegoat4284 it certainly has gotten old for me

[@Yuriding]

Radiohead is on the same level of Pink Floyd, Prince, Bowie, Beatles, etc. Is one of the best musicians of all time in modern music.

[@alicenestpasmonprenom5784]

Is at a higher level than them

[@qriminal1648]

Haha not even close to any of those legendary artists. Radiohead is way overrated.

[@Yuriding]

@@jovanreid6782 ok, prince is too much, like, he is almost a Beethoven on modern music, ok

[@Yuriding]

@Mario Castillo i think that when pink Floyd made dark side nobody gave them the same credits that they have today. Is aways like that. Dark side of the moon is the best thing I ever listened, and to me, Ok Computer is a little bit overrated. Is not even my favorite Radiohead album. Like, i don't think that they are underrated at all. The majority part of people's who knows Radiohead knows how important and good they are. I think that some people's don't give them the same credit just because they are """""new""""". Like, they still doing new stuff, so it's harder to recognize their potential. But musicly, they are really amazing.

[@qriminal1648]

@Mario Castillo nickelback fans say the same thing about nickelback…lol

[@Jaspertine]

I was a teenager when OK Computer came out, prime opportunity for an album to have maximum impact. It really was nothing short of a life-changing experience for me.

[@trikkke11]

I hope you've grown up since then.

[@Jaspertine]

@@trikkke11 whether I wanted to or not.

[@jmarty1000]

I was lucky enough to hear them live, in a free show in San Francisco, a few weeks before OK Computer was released. I also love "The Bends". Their music has a timeless emotional quality that I return to again and again.

[@MrBmick79]

i was 19 when i saw them on that tour

[@bflaherty4]

@Jaspertine same.

[@Yong_Goh]

the outro of Let Down was one of the greatest things i ever heard. It was like being suffocated in wall of white light cranked all the way to brightest... Epic

[@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch]

Cringe

[@ShellSmashed]

My fav moment of their discography. Not the outro, the third verse though. Also, my username is inspired by let down lol

[@Yong_Goh]

@@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch must’ve been the headphones then 😂

[@Yong_Goh]

@@ShellSmashed my fave track of the album 🤟

[@vaprex]

@@Yong_Goh One of the most underrated Radiohead songs ever... It's probably my favorite Radiohead song. I saw them play it live in Atlanta during the Hail to the Thief tour.

[@robbiepeterh]

At the time, when Radiohead bought out OK Computer in 97, Nevermind felt like it was from a completely different era. And yet, they were only six years apart. Music in the 90s seemed to shift and constantly throw up new artists and whole scenes so quickly and with great regularity. The change happened so fast. Nowadays, music seems stuck, it’s like nothing feels new and fresh anymore and that we haven’t heard anything vibrant and new since the turn of the millennium. Just the same stuff, year after year, jamming the airways. In the 90s, we just took it all for granted, Radiohead, Blur, Nirvana, Bjork, whoever, just an endless cycle of new talent taking our breath away.

[@izwansafuani4197]

Same goes in the 60s...a lot of band still doin catchy poppy song in the early 60s to the mid 60s but started from 66....most of the band sound so different

[@dickmonkey-king1271]

It's 5 years since Moon Shaped, and it was 5 years between Pablo and Ok... time is weird.

[@danman6669]

That's exactly why I consider the '90s one of the best decades in music history. I'm glad my teenage years were then when I could enjoy that decade the most.

[@funguy8801]

​@@dickmonkey-king1271 Yeah but, in-between Pablo Honey and OK Computer, there was The Bends ... Which still happens to be my personal favourite Radiohead album after all these years since it's release. Between AMSP and now ... (largely) radio silence.

[@MsMastress]

The airwaves don't have the most interesting music whatsoever. It's all underground these days and the internet can take you there friend :)

[@cozm8]

When Nirvana was no more, I thought my world would never be the same again... Thank you Radiohead for making sure it never was.

[@kidrenegade8525]

Lol they are not even alike

[@markrenton8173]

?

[@nonotreally1850]

@@kidrenegade8525 and?

[@heathcampbell4058]

Glad. xx

[@ih2738]

@@kidrenegade8525 that's the point of the comment I think

[@adrianrahman8818]

As great as OK Computer is (without any shadow of a doubt), what amazes me is that they have gone on to release many albums as good, and arguably 'better' in some ways, than OK. I remember thinking how they could possibly release something after such an amazing album. At first, Kid A didn't do it for me....but ...as I listened more and more to it... just hypnotically captivating. I think it's their ability to break new ground, set a standard for others to follow and then do it over (and over) again. We're truly blessed.

[@StratsRUs]

Kid A has a very recognisable Warp Records inspiration.That's why I couldn't treat it as groundbreaking.

[@SirPhilMcCrackinVonBeggington]

The "problem" with OK Computer is that every other RH record lives in it's shadow. I would say that In Rainbows comes extremely close to being what OK Computer was. Kid A was my favorite, HTTT grew on me and I have massive respect for it, but In Rainbows will never receive the recognition it deserves because it came after OKC.

[@nicolas.grisanti]

@@StratsRUs they showed that sound to the masses, and mainstream, that was the groundbreaking.

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

@@StratsRUs Yeah - it's a good album, but I believe that people who aren't familiar with Warp Records think it's more innovative than it is.

[@barkley8285]

I love when people say such ludicrous shit. No, Radiohead never nor will ever release anything close to ok computer. Kid a is an average album that compared to any electronic album like Depeche Mode, sounds like trash. In rainbows and bends are the only great albums outside of OKC.

[@loficathedral4584]

One of the reasons Dave is beloved so much is simply for being humble enough to say other artists are valued for what they contributed to this world.

[@TangoDelph]

He often speaks of his love for abba, you just can’t fail to love this guy :)

[@KhalDrogo76]

I was about 18 when OK Computer dropped and was in a band playing what we thought was some out there wild stuff and we couldn't believe how amazing the ENTIRE record was....pure genius songwriting and production

[@SodiumWage]

He's right about them being an incredible band live. I remember the first time I saw them at Red Rocks for the Kid A tour and their performance of Paranoid Android was transcendent. When it got to the part where they sing "God loves his children" there was a slight misty rain falling and everyone had their hands over their heads like some sort of old timey revival meeting but instead it was the sort of ironic cynicism of the lyrics we were celebrating. Fucking incredible moment.

[@SW-fn7cl]

Ah man that must have been incredible 😆👍

[@deeveeuhs]

Wow!

[@brandonkons5644]

drugs :)

[@Boleskinebeatz]

Gig moments like that are priceless aren’t they? I once worked on a Peter Gabriel gig in the 80s and there was a moment when he sang the refrain from Lay your hands on me (are you willing?… Lay your hands on me)”and everyone sang back at the top of their lungs with their arms outstretched… that was a transcendental moment and no mistake.

[@terg8472]

i cant believe no one else notices how high his voice is live

[@serzjuh79]

I remember going to the werchter festival in 97 the weekend right before I needed to audition to get appointed to Maastricht Conservatory for jazz piano. As much as I like other music, no other band got into my soul as much as Radiohead did onto that point. Ok Computer was an absolute pinnacle and I knew every chordchange by heart. As Radiohead played I could see and feel lots of people around me where also sucking in those moments and their music like a sponge. It was the perfect album at the right time whilst there wasn't anything really this much substantial out there, musically comparable. Of course I liked Daft Punk, Jamiroquai Smashing Pumpkins and even the Chemical Brothers that weekend, but man.. When Radiohead played for instance 'Let down', and 'paranoid android'.. this spiritual and emotional high was perfect preparation for audition...

[@krisjill5918]

Just when I thought I couldn’t love this man anymore, he goes ahead and gives a beautiful and deserved compliment to Radiohead. Man after my heart! What a legend he is.

[@Trendyflute]

"(that song) live, it's not exactly like the record; it's better because it's HAPPENING." This to me sums up Radiohead live. Been fortunate to see them in concert twice and they were excellent both times, and they also have so much wonderful live content on their official YT channel. Totally a rabbit hole worth going down.

[@johnnypiss]

They truly are the greatest live band, because they do bring their songs to life and breathe a different sort of “spirit” each time the perform their songs. They don’t sound like the album versions, but in a good way. The albums are excellent time capsules of the art they created in a studio, but what they do with them live, and how they reinterpret them live is magic. Most artists try to emulate the songs from the album identical live. It’s not necessarily every artist, but a lot of them do. But instead, Radiohead re-interpreted them time and again and each time it’s great.

[@flavioy2f]

In rainbows from the basement is an absolute live masterpiece

[@tylerdavis716]

Omg finally I've been looking for daves thoughts on radiohead for years

[@JohnSmith-nf8bi]

Why

[@JohnSmith-nf8bi]

How diligently

[@tylerdavis716]

@@JohnSmith-nf8bi just interesting innit

[@fenrisbutcher7343]

like daves thoughts on music matter. dude was a drummer in most influencial rock band ever and then settled for most generic pop rock nickleback sound alike, its clear his taste in music suck

[@joncoish]

I remember being obsessed with the bends, and then they released ok computer. I mean talk about anticipation and high expectations from me, but the album totally exceeded them. Masterpiece of an album!

[@ClaudioDesideriMusic]

Ok Computer was the first album I've bought and the first CD that I owned, I was 13, it changed my life and contributed to my music career so much. Still now in 2021 I think it's way better than most modern productions. It's so cool to hear Dave Grohl appreciating it!

[@slumdogjay]

Absolute classic album. Still my favourite of theirs.

[@BrandonMobley614]

Awesome to hear this coming from Dave. Very well said. I discovered OK Computer at about sixteen, when I first started paying on bands. I've probably listened to that CD 500 times top to bottom.

[@OfficialMyxomatosis]

Thank you for this clip. The OK Tour was my first with Radiohead, and I have seen every Tour that came to the arena close to my area all the way up to A Moon Shaped Pool. I have obsessively kept every ticket (thanks, guys at Redwoods!) and bought one of each obscure shirt I could find. Now, I am obsessively buying their puzzles! Radiohead and Stanley Donwood know me inside and out!

[@avzeolla3960]

Paranoid Android is one of the most influential songs ever.

[@postive-vibes]

I liked Radiohead when the album came out, and there was a local radio station that played like three tracks on its releasee day, and I remembered being absolutely gobsmacked. Ran out and got the album right after that (CDs still at that time!) and couldn't believe how unique and daring it was for a band that had a kind of established sound and fan base already. The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin had a similar effect on me at that time.

[@kristopherloviska9042]

Probably the top 2 albums of the 90s.

[@adammcgill9844]

It’s still an amazing record with some moments that really create big emotional peaks and valleys. It’s a masterpiece.

[@eduardomassuttier1470]

Oh, this man is so humble, himself coming from a band that changed music as well.

[@MidnightLightMusic]

And to think "Dave's old band" were what Radiohead was lazily compared to, once upon a time

[@headphoneman10]

They were nothing compared to Radiohead though

[@MidnightLightMusic]

@@headphoneman10 i just think its safe to say, they were apples and oranges. both amazing in their own right.

[@kadenc66]

2 bands*

[@vb2388]

@@headphoneman10 can’t really say that…Nirvana had their own sense of style of music which Radiohead were also following during the 90s.. Pound for Pound…when Radiohead were creating Nirvana’s style of music they weren’t as revolutionary as Nirvana were..

[@curmudgeon8]

Radiohead is amazing, Seen them Twice live, Favorite band by far.

[@alanarkham143]

he just said it, Paranoid Android live is the best thing ever!

[@tmp1k]

because it's happening! well said.

[@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020]

I remember being 22 when this album came out. One of my fondest memories was going to the beach with the family that summer of 1997 and playing Paranoid Android to my sister saying this is a cool new song by a British band called Radiohead. That album , at least for me, was definitely a moment in time.

[@none-kq7ho]

Followed Radiohead for over 25 years, I still love them to this day. You can see why they've lasted 35 years. I'd love to see them again, last time was 1997, they always sell out and I miss out, again.

[@ryanewalters]

Absolutely saw them live at the Orpheum In Minneapolis playing all of OK computer goosebumps the entire time

[@purplemascara99]

Very cool! Gives me chills to hear him say that. That's the same feeling I got when I saw Nirvana before Nevermind came out. Dinosaur jr was the headliner. But seeing Dave Grohl on drums blew me away! Ok Computer saved my life. I'm forever a Radiohead fan

[@dolorosaenigmakil]

Facts. OK Computer is a masterpiece. And I do not like to throw that word around for anything and everything. Often, the singles of a band is not my favourite ("Paranoid" by Sabbath, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, etc. are some of the worst songs by these bands imo) but "Paranoid Android" is one of my favourite songs of all time. Every song on this album, a gem!

[@jeanpierre.durrant]

My favourite album of all time! I was singing a few of the tracks today!

[@bradenrodriguez5183]

I remember hating OK Computer initially. My brother had it and I was into punk and thought this has no energy, it's boring and depressing. Then some time goes by, I listen in headphones and then everything changed. I became obsessed with Radiohead after that. We go through seasons ya know? One thing leads to another. Like a great novel or movie, it evolves into something wonderful, magical....especially given the time it was made. Iconic record. Radiohead didn't care about the rules after they got popular, they went the other way, which is what made them cool.

[@smalltown4855]

I was lucky enough to see the OK Computer tour and The Bends tour too. Awesome on both occasions, an unexpected treat was Radioheads cover version of The Spy Who Loved Me as part of their encore on the OK Computer gig. I will never forget that.

[@nomchowski8297]

I saw them as headliner on Rock Werchter Belgium in 2004. This was before noise restrictions were implemented in Europe. The performance was so overwhelming that several hundred people including me just stood there after the show was over, in suspended animation, like fish caught in a block of ice. Security and many other people were checking if we were oké. We were simply blown away. I'm an agnost ( I don't know if there's a god,) but that was a religious experience, or like watching a UFO land. That morning I woke up at a campfire on one of the campsites with people from all over the world and someone had thrown a blanket over me. I walked to my own tent with it and stil have it with my camping gear as a token.

[@bricciobelloodales1720]

El disco "OK computer" está considerado dentro de los 20 mejores del mundo. El tema "Paranoid Android", esta al nivel de "Rapsodia Bohemia" de Queen. Radiohead es una banda que claramente dentro de la década de los 90, fue la de mas alto nivel musical. Sin desmerecer lo hecho por Oasis, The Cure, Blur, etc.

[@rogeliofernandezjimenez3053]

Excelentes bandas que mencionas ( Oasis, The Cure, Blur te falto Stone Roses y Supergrass) lo de Oasis fue mas el impacto , fue la banda que se robo el show, pero lo de Radiohead es fenomenal.

[@RafaelPernia]

Todo bien hasta que pusiste a Oasis.

[@Deadsea_1993]

"Radiohead are the Pink Floyd of our generation". -Scott Weiland. Numerous great artists praise Radiohead and for good reason. They are one of a kind where it does feel like a journey when listening to their music.

[@thetumans1394]

Honestly, and I say this as a fan of the Floyd, Radiohead were better.

[@terg8472]

@@thetumans1394 both of them are phenomenal i cant quite figure out which one i like better, radiohead is a bit cleverer lyrical wise though

[@jabbadabba1978]

I first heard Radiohead when I was 8 years old. Them , beck , wilco. My favorite bands by age 11. I am so blessed to have found the best music ever made.

[@conallhomer6962]

Dave Grohl is a legend. I absolutely love and admire the guy, and here’s another reason to love him. Also Radiohead are one of the greatest bands ever. They’re in the top 5 best bands for me. Listened to em my whole life.

[@thesprawl2361]

I remember 1997 as the single most important year for music in my life. I'd just really seriously started getting into music and I'd discovered the kind of artists I enjoyed when I listened to a friend's copy of Screamadelica. That was my first real awakening, sitting on the schoolbus at winter as the snow fell lightly and Inner Flight played on my headphones. That song set my path - I was hooked on psychedelia and big, ambitious guitar music. Then, later that year I bought an album that the UK music press had been raving about constantly since its release. I thought the name of the band, Spiritualized, was stupid, it sounded like some awful house music compilation, but I took the CD home, opened the crazy cardboard pill packet, pushed the CD out of the foil-capped pill container, put the CD in my CD player, left it on in the background and returned to playing Mario 64 on my N64(can it get any more nineties? :) ). And that was the moment that I discovered my favourite band and album of all-time. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. A few months later, head still swimming with having discovered an album so personal, that I could claim entirely as my own, and still raving about Ladies And Gentlemen to all my friends, I bit the bullet and bought OK Computer. This album did not feel like something personal, like something I could claim as my own. Every fucker on earth had heard it by that point. But I took it home. And to this day I have never heard any album that really does what it does. Ladies And Gentlemen is my favourite album. But in terms of sheer strength of songs OK Computer is like nothing ever released by any other artist. It has eight or nine songs on it that could rightly nudge their way into the top ten greatest songs ever list. It hits you with one all-time great song...and then just keeps hitting you, right until the final note of Tourist plays. It has a run of songs so diamond-strong, so pure in their brilliance, that Radiohead had to completely change musical direction after its release. The prospect of trying to top, or even match, the strength of OK Computer would have crippled them. It's still the best album I've ever heard. It's not mine, I don't own it like I do with my favourite albums, but it's just inarguable. It stands like a piece of the landscape, and you can try and grind it down as much as you want but what it's made of is too tough, too huge and great.

[@levillageglobal]

1997, also the year of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s F#A# infinity, what I like to call dystopian music, and also one of the greatest band alive.

[@Kausan1]

Ladies And Gentlemen .. has the greatest CD concept ever. Love it

[@thesprawl2361]

@@Kausan1 It's great. Farrow Design I think. When I was at art school a lot of designers told me how frequently that Ladies and Gentlemen album design came up in art design textbooks. It's very clever. I remember seeing the really limited edition release packaging of Ladies and Gentlemen in a record store once: it was four foot long by a foot wide, and there were twelve separate 'pills' for each track on the album, so twelve CDs in total. It actually looked like a proper pill packet, scaled up enormously. It lost a lot of the design elegance of the smaller, single pill packaging, but it was still pretty cool. You'd have to keep it in your cupboard though. It wouldn't have fit on any shelf.

[@interstellarbeatteller9306]

1997 was some year for albums dropped: Ok Computer(Radiohead) The Colour & The Shape(Foo Fighters) Portishead(Portishead) Homogenic(Bjork) Urban Hymns(The Verve) Wu-Tang forever(Wu Tang Clan) The Fat Of The Land(The Prodigy) Life After Death(Notorious B.I.G) Death To The Pixies(Pixies) *I was 17 yrs old in 1997 when I bought all these albums and this music taught me how to live. Life changing choons!

[@RoyMcAvoy]

The first two are my all-time favourite albums. I remembered bought their cassette when it was released. I was 17 at that time as well.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

yeah and then music went gangsta. Completely swamped everything. 2000s sucked.

[@Gino565]

@@meisterlymanu5214 music went ‘gangsta’? What exactly do you mean by that?

[@meisterlymanu5214]

@@Gino565 rappers, R and B swamped the charts. Complete dilution in talent and song writing. Dr Dre aside.

[@Gino565]

@@meisterlymanu5214 since when is R&B gangsta? And there’s literally always been great lyricism in hiphop, and creativity. So I’m not exactly sure what you mean. Especially with that ‘gangsta’ comment which is making me wonder if the issue goes beyond music with you.

[@GIBKEL]

Cool to hear how Dave heard this from his perspective. I knew Creep but that was about it. A guy I really didn’t know that well popped it in the CD player and a lifetime love began. Just put that record on and it continues to speak to me, to give me chills, to turn me. And they do it with every album; and if they leave me with The Smile, I’ll still be in for the ride to oblivion.

[@JA-io8nx]

I can remember when OK Computer came out, it was right around the time that Jeff Buckley passed away. When Jeff Buckley died I thought to myself, well, there's the end of any major musical inspiration that's unique, poetic and different, and then I listened to OK Computer and realized that amazing music didn't die with Jeff's passing.

[@skoto8219]

in case you haven't seen it check out the video of thom yorke randomly singing one minute of "sing a song for you" acapella at some festival (it's by jeff's dad, not jeff, i know lol)

[@nomchowski8297]

They were definitely on the same level and have the same raw emotion and falsetto voices.

[@Rebecca-fg7pp]

So nice to see Jeff Buckley being mentioned. He is so terribly under rated. The man was an amazing talent.

[@MrRamyon74]

The Ok Computer concert in Wellington, the best concert of my life!!

[@zingleraster9124]

Dave describing the baton being passed from Nevermind to OK Computer. Sadly these baton changes are getting less frequent these days…..

[@soloistdeve]

The baton is buried so deep in the bumhole of the record labels, it is impossible to take it out without dismantling the industry.

[@johncollins5552]

@@soloistdeve It's not just the 5 mega labels ruining music ,granted universal and Sony are rubbish but people accepting mediocre sound quality i.e. MP3 and paying crazy money for vinyl reissues of old multi platinum dinosaur acts on a retro nostalgia trip imo.

[@danman6669]

@@johncollins5552 Without those "dinosaur acts" we wouldn't have the bands that followed, such as Nirvana or Radiohead, so pay more respect to them. Plus, those "dinosaur acts" are still better than much of the terrible music we have these days.

[@8wheeledassassins.]

The last time I saw the Twin Towers in there majesty was as the Backdrop to Radiohead’s show at Liberty Park. A few weeks later they were gone. Those two cultural icons are forever connected for me. What an absolutely amazing show as well. There is bootleg out there if you look hard enough.

[@snoozieboi]

My first Radiohead concert is easy to remember Sept 10th 2001, Oslo. He also played True Love Waits that night, a song that wasn't recorded on an album until A Moonshaped Pool almost 20 years later.

[@chazzmccloud36]

Thank you, Dave, for continuing to be a musical diplomat, connecting people to genres of music they might not have been interested in otherwise. Good music is good music, whether it's country, hip hop, metal, alt. Dave is a connoisseur of good music. You can find inspiration in any genre, if you open your mind a bit.

[@jacknorman8236]

Jesus Christ this made me so happy. My favourite musician (period) talking about my favourite band in that way. LOVE

[@veerchasm1]

OK Computer and Kid A were an amazing one, two punch 🥊 🥊

[@mywhychromosome]

Can't leave out "Bends", a record with essentially no dips (even "OKC" and "Kid A" have brief 'mood pieces', like "Fitter Happier", that you're less likely to listen to on repeats, even tho both records are brilliant). So, by the time of "Kid A", they'd been on an unstoppable, musically varied roll for at least 5 years. Crazy

[@chetchetty]

There has to be thousands of bands who emulated their sound. They're indie gods. It indeed was a kind of revolution.

[@thomaschad18]

Foo Fighters were on the same Jools Holland show as Radiohead when promoting Colour and the Shape. The performance of Paranoid Android that night was something else.

[@scotoftheanarchic.7903]

What a performance that was, outstanding...

[@Maximillion666]

I still remember the day I bought the CD when it came out . It was a dark cloudy day and I sat and listened to the whole CD ,something I never usually did. It's one of my favorite albums even though I haven't listened it in years.

[@aaroningl]

You're doing yourself a disservice.

[@MonticArckeys]

Dave knows music. I love how much music he loves outside of what type of music his band produces.

[@ILoveAnchovies334]

Radio Head is hands down the most memorable live performance i’ve seen. 80,000 person festival at Bonaroo and there were moments you could hear a whisper in the crowd when there was a lull in the song because everyone was so transfixed on what was happing in front of them.

[@Tannerislegend]

same experience at the Austin City Limits festival, when Thom started Fake Plastic Trees as the final song of the encore there wasn’t a peep from the crowd, just him and the spotlight and the guitar, on his birthday to boot. I’ll never forget it.

[@ILoveAnchovies334]

@@Tannerislegend Nice! Such an amazingband

[@SoberHusky]

2006?

[@johncollins5552]

I wasn't a big Radiohead fan at the time it came out but when they played in my town all my band mates went and I hung outside where I could hear and see everything from a distance, it was a open field sports ground gig. Paranoid Android hit me and I remember thinking This is the only rock song that puts it up to Bohemian Rhapsody for complexity that works and I stand by that. In my opinion only Muse have come anywhere close.

[@Metal-Possum]

As much as I liked Muse, I don't think they've had the same consistency in the quality of their work. Absolution and Origin of Symmetry were absolute bangers, Blackholes and Revelations isn't as good as everyone makes it out to be, and anything after that has been a bit pants. I don't want to say it, but they've gone down the Coldplay rabbit hole.

[@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch]

Muse sucks

[@andisp17]

I agree, Space dementia and Citizen erased may have some Paranoid Android musical risks. But Muse had nothing to lose at that time.

[@johncollins5552]

@@Metal-Possum Agreed, a friend has a theory that marrying a supermodel means you lose the hunger to make killer music haha, well good luck to Mr. Muse! Nice problem to have.

[@halfalligator6518]

Muse is a bit guitar hero wanky for me. And they use a lot of pretty tired classical music tropes. Great performers though i'll give them that. Idk... over time Radiohead has only gotten better for me and now I can't even listen to Muse. Each to their own of course - but I wouldn't compare the two.

[@michaelryanwildkardclark777]

Good to see a living legend praising living legends, awesome Dave

[@miguelangelvacaheredia8230]

Most of the time Im comparing Pink Floyd and Radiohead...... they are such a Brave, magnificent, Creative and revolutionary bands...... they tried such a diferent rithms, tones, instruments.....real genius, they live and breath WONDERFUL MUSIC.... can stop admiring this two bands....

[@JFK-ir7yz]

I was a senior in high school when Ok Computer was released. My friends and I couldn’t stop listening to it. Over and over again. Driving to the marina stoned. Driving anywhere. I got to see them at Liberty State Park in NJ two weeks before 9/11/01. The skyline of Manhattan majestic in the background . 2 encores. 3 hour set. It was one of the best nights of my life. Thank You Radiohead. Thank you.

[@liadcohen8327]

I was there. I've seen them over 30 times and that was the best show I've ever seen.

[@_jm0n3y8oo_]

I was a massive Smashing Pumpkins fan. But I remember the day OK computer came out and I am mediately thought well this changes things. Then kid a came out and blew my mind

[@selinasofianos7826]

There will never be another moment in time as magical as the night I saw them from the first row, dead center.. less than 20 ft away from Thom Yorke. Aug 23rd, 1997..Harbour Lights, Boston. I have never seen a show since that could top that! I was just screaming in joy while Thom shook his head grinning, almost in disbelief that an 18 yr old kid would be acting as if he were seeing The Beatles instead! I screamed "Banana Co." incessantly..only to be lifted spiritually when they performed it in an encore. I'd seen them in half empty venues before..but this was different. There was an energy. That was the very beginning of their jet propulsion to become the icons they are today. My God, that was something to see.

[@berlyngrey9242]

OK Computer and Kid A are unequivocally and inarguably Radiohead's best albums. No contest!

[@victortheoneandonly]

Agree, but in rainbows is my fav

[@berlyngrey9242]

@@victortheoneandonly that's a great one too. I also like HTTT and AMSP, ok I love them all but my least favorite is probably PH

[@victortheoneandonly]

@@berlyngrey9242 my fav band ever, wish i could see them live

[@berlyngrey9242]

@@victortheoneandonly bro me too but I read yesterday that in typical RH fashion they are quitting as a band. Haven't publicly come out with that yet which is why I said typical RH fashion, I hope that's just a floating rumor and not true. I'm quite angry with myself for never seeing them live as I grew up with this band

[@victortheoneandonly]

@@berlyngrey9242 that´s sad.. i really like the new smile album with thom yorke, but i wish i could se them together again

[@jamesyanks7460]

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard the very first notes of OK Computer. I was in my car in the parking lot at work about to leave for the day. Everything was white from a recent snowfall. The fallen snow combined with the sleigh bells from Airbag and that guitar line and cello generated an indescribable feeling.

[@cyrussmith7056]

It somehow evokes that indescribable feeling every time I hear it to this day. It’s ………..

[@chelseapoet3664]

Dear fellow Radiohead fans, they are my favourite band of all time. Also, I commend to you for me the best band of the last 10 years: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Equally technically brilliant and insanely diverse. You might like to start with their album Polygondwanaland. They made 19 more in 10 years! 🙏

[@Supernova_Creations]

The fact that a musician Who was part of a revolutionary band says Ok computer was a revolutionary álbum says it all, Grohl just made me remember how I felt the first time I listened to ok computer... The rest is history

[@timwhaleyjr3987]

Radiohead is the best band to ever exist on this planet.. they created something beautiful and I wish we had more bands like them

[@plumlogan]

I saw them around Amnesiac and Kid A and hearing them actually pull the songs off live was indescribable.

[@bubblybull2463]

That’s how you know Dave Grohl knows what he‘s talking about ❤

[@jasoncora1]

I remember exactly where I was when I heard Radiohead for the first time. It was actually the music video for High and Dry on MTV with the diner scene if I remember correctly. Been hooked since.

[@therapyoutsidethebox5466]

I believe Dave is sincere here in his praise...yet...I also recall where a few years back where he was dissing on modern bands not being able to play without machines, laptops and such, and I could swear he said something about that he would take Queen at Live Aid over Radiohead (making gestures of someone, presumably Johnny, looking down at his gear and tweaking nobs on stage) any day.

[@marcelocamara1639]

Exactly, Dave Grohl is right on the money as he describes the importance of that album. I had the chance to see Radiohead live a couple of times in completely distinct situations and yes, it’s true about the “Paranoid Android Live Experience” being something out there! Just amazing, as well as the whole set actually.

[@garyr6097]

Radiohead’s performance on Jools Holland playing paranoid android back in 97(as mentioned here by Dave) along with no surprises and Airbag was definitely my favourite ever performance watching Jools over the years... There’s obviously been other highlights for me...including foo fighters performing Everlong “At the drive in”were good...performing one armed scissor Many others but Radiohead nailed it with their 97 performance...especially paranoid android because it felt so spiritual and epic

[@Jimthehumanoid]

You just reminded me about 'One Armed Scissor'. Blew my mind when I first saw it. The album version, while still great, didn't hit anywhere near as hard.

[@jessie778899]

Much as I absolutely agree with you, I MUST however state, that Foo's version of One by One on Jools, is the purest essence of what rock music is... It CANNOT be bettered in my humble opinion..

[@Martymac1973]

After release of "in rainbows" they played on jools.. Bodysnstchers, .. weird fishes.. Special performances.. 🙏🙏🙏👌❤️

[@garyr6097]

@@Martymac1973 absolutely... I did see this performance...and all of Radioheads past appearances on jools.. I think earlier I didn’t want to go on about Radiohead too much hehe

[@garyr6097]

@@Jimthehumanoid agreed...for me it was like epically raw!

[@stephenwaters5134]

Thank you Dave for SEEING this. You can hear it within the first few bars of the album. I was like "oh... this is important"

[@user-pr5tx9ep4m]

Nothing like the opening seconds of Airbag. It's like a pronouncement of what you're about to experience.

[@maiqtheliar_]

True. I always had that feeling that OK Computer was something never heard before in music, like a revolution

[@erik7747]

OK Computer 1 Kid A 2nd! Both albums so layered and complex they give me goose bumps every time I listen 2 them!

[@MrThobias711]

Where is the rest of the interview??

[@rp6398]

Later with Jools holland, latest series on the bbc. IPlayer if you’re UK, not sure about elsewhere

[@jonnyrocket3659]

this album is forever my fave album to listen to on a long flight.. I save listening to this for those occasions, it helps me feel calm and less likely to be annoyed by those passengers around me who don't respect others on long flights

[@kaladinstormblessed8470]

I love Dave

[@FutureAbe]

I’m so happy he mentioned them as a LIVE act specifically. They really are INCREDIBLE musicians

[@luciferjones8103]

The Robot Trilogy: In Three Parts 1. OK Computer is our acceptance of artificial life and its robotic influence. 2. Kid A is the robot's awareness of its own existence within our natural world. 3. Amnesiac is the robot dying before us, its last moments fading from code to cosmos. If you disagree then you are probably the dead robot.

[@edwinhuerta9434]

Couldn't have said it better.

[@TheFutureThoughtExchange]

Paranoid android live is insane. I agree. I actually didn’t even think it could be played live until I saw it myself in Manchester many years ago. So talented

[@mohammad4110]

Lovely Dave

[@benjamink7105]

Guitar World magazine used to do a feature, I think called "Mix Tape" where they would as the person they were interviewing to put together a mix tape for them. Around 1997 or1998, not long after OK Computer released, Dave Grohl made his mix tape for Guitar World and it included the song Airbag from Ok Computer. He's been a fan for a while. : )

[@OurFantasyLife]

OK Computer is one of those "touchstone" albums that every musician has feelings about. It's easily one of the best, most complete, most *listenable* albums of all time.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Summer of 97 for me was listening to this album as well as Pablo Honey and The Bends whilst surfing and camping the Pembrokeshire coast in my mates crappy orange Beatle that constantly broke down. A great time to be alive

[@-xirx-]

He ain't wrong. I remember that album changed everything in 1997.

[@kanglongshankz3313]

What did it change? I'm genuinely interested.

[@aaroningl]

I felt like I grew up when OK Compuer grabbed my attention.

[@howardthrust]

Even the vaunted former Music Director of the LA Philharmonic--Esa-Pekka Salonen--stated that he felt that OK Computer was a modern masterwork...in a KCRW interview back in the early "aughts"...and later confirmed in an informal conversation I had with him. Talk about "crossover appeal"!!

[@joeking433]

OK Computer was one of the most genius albums ever made.

[@jeremyskadsen6395]

Dave AND Thom are geniuses. Thom is just one of the best Lyricist and vocalist of all time. King of falcestto and just being able to capture the audience. I have cried and seen people cry to his music...and it's not a bad cry...just a true... genuine..heart felt emotion to his creations. Dave your awesome too...I'm so sorry for all the loss you have encountered in your life. You are sooo STRONG and so BRIGHT. Please keep moving forward with strength like you have always done.. Don't quit now. We need you. ✌️😉✌️ 🤗

[@simonoliver8576]

Well ok computer is just mind blowing good it really is a masterpiece 😀😀

[@manifestyourlife7]

Ok Computer sounded like no other CD's I had ever bought.

[@fede018]

I didn't picture Dave Grohl as a Radiohead fan, considering the bands he likes and the music he makes, d'you know what I mean?

[@shinybeast8946]

You mean non elitest Music?

[@johncollins5552]

The Fee Gees surprised me too....that sucked.

[@nombreapellido310]

But radiohead is really good

[@shinybeast8946]

@@nombreapellido310 So are a lot of bands.

[@danman6669]

@@johncollins5552 Do you mean the Bee Gees? I can't find any band called the Fee Gees. Anyway, if you did mean the Bee Gees, I don't why that would suck considering the Bee Gees actually were extremely talented. Yes, they are best known for their disco era music, but they are far beyond that. There is nothing wrong with liking or being influenced by them.

[@lucaemma4485]

I was a teenager and at the time you could just feel that was a special record. Groundbreaking

[@T0mat0S0up]

Hard to describe to someone who wasn't there how this album felt in the midst of the 90s musical landscape.

[@kanglongshankz3313]

Wasn't it just a proggier take on 90s alt rock?

[@qriminal1648]

I was there. It wasn’t that special…lol

[@T0mat0S0up]

@@qriminal1648 Well being an East 17 would numb you to it.

[@M2Mil7er]

specifically, he has to be talking about the live performance of Paranoid Android on Jools Holland's (the guy interviewing him here) show before the album's release. I remember taping that off the TV and it did the rounds on campus. Totally seminal moment.

[@brianrocks2087]

Since 1997 there hasn't been an album in the history of pop music superior to ok computer

[@Chaziltasm]

Kid A

[@brianrocks2087]

@@Chaziltasm So far ok computer is superior to kid a

[@Chaziltasm]

@@brianrocks2087 I don't agree.

[@brianrocks2087]

@@Chaziltasm I like kid a better but I am objective in terms of the impact, the influence is more on ok computer

[@dibdab101]

In Rainbows

[@eroknrwton]

Me and my friends were among the few who got into the Troubadour in Los Angeles to see Radiohead perform OK Computer at a secret pre-release show in 1997. Dave Grohl was in the balcony and Axl Rose was standing in front of us, as we were just a few feet from the stage. It was rumored that Madonna was there too, among others. Radiohead was perfect. It was, hands down one of, if not THE greatest live show experiences I’ve ever had.

[@hughgrection5674]

Correct Mr Grohl, when OK computer was recorded and released, new standards in musicality, songwriting and production technique were set, the rest, my friends, is history 😉 long live Radiohead

[@user-pr5tx9ep4m]

Well put.

[@qriminal1648]

Bull. Shit. Radiohead isn’t special.

[@kentstructures4388]

I've said it many times, they are your favorite band's favorite band..

[@yoshikagekira6683]

After the decline of Britpop and Oasis. Radiohead saved the music scene

[@cray9925]

Radiohead where around before Oasis...like way before them....Creep and Pablo Honey came out in 93...Nirvana was still around. Learn your music history. Everyone knowns Oasis sucks. They had like one good album and basically where wanna be Beatles and Nirvana

[@yoshikagekira6683]

@@cray9925 what I’m talking about was impact in the long run. I can confidently say Ok Computer is a superior album than Be He Now. Only Oasis fans loves that album while Ok Computer is always in the conversation of being the greatest album of all time.

[@hindenpeter2.04]

@@cray9925 How did they release BHN in the same year as OKC and the fat of the land.. sad but mad craic unlike the radiohead chaps

[@theScienceLabLive]

Totally agree. For years, OK Computer was in my heavy rotation. Paranoid Android def listened to thousands of times. Core memory in my musical vocabulary.