RADIOHEAD - PARANOID ANDROID REACTION

[@ExileOnDaytonStreet]

No joke... there are dozens of Radiohead songs worth digging into. Enjoy this journey you've started (whether you realize it or not). My long-as-hell (yet incomplete) list of excellent Radiohead songs (personal favorites with an *): - Blow Out - My Iron Lung - Just - Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Planet Telex - * Airbag - Exit Music (For A Film) - Karma Police - * Let Down - * Climbing Up The Walls - No Surprises - * The Tourist - Everything In It's Right Place - * The National Anthem (fun to get a live version... one guy literally plays a radio for this one) - * How To Disappear Completely (this one is great... but work your way up to this one... it's emotional) - Morning Bell - Idioteque - Motion Picture Soundtrack - Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box - * Pyramid Song - You And Whose Army - I Might Be Wrong - * 2+2=5 - Where I End And You Begin - * There There - Myxomatosis - A Wolf At The Door - * 15 Step - * Bodysnatchers - * Nude - * Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (get a live version so you can catch the handsome dude's backing vocals) - All I Need - Reckoner - House Of Cards - * Videotape (Live From The Basement version) - Supercollider - Bloom (Thom Yorke from Electric Lady Studios version) - * Lotus Flower (Live From The Basement version... but the official video is meme-able) - Give Up The Ghost - * Separator - Staircase - * Spectre - Burn The Witch - * Daydreaming - * Present Tense - True Love Waits (studio album version)

[@marcointini8541]

Man, you're a super fan, just like me! 😄

[@Cuclean]

Weird Fishes

[@matty1126]

Honestly studio version is always best for first listens

[@matty1126]

No glass eyes :(

[@sigzil1985]

Often I'll build myself a radiohead playlist for when i have something to do and i try and put my favourite songs on it, but they always turn out completely different because all of their songs are my favourite ones.

[@sarahzentexas]

The vocals in “Let Down” will bless your ears like crazy! Same album. Just gorgeous, and on my list of all-time favorite songs.

[@999columbo]

Let Down is such a stunning track. And it was just deemed an album filler track!!

[@johnnyjohnny2650]

Same. Let down is so bittersweet.

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

Let Down is one of my all time favourite songs,

[@trentboyd5919]

Please don’t stop doing Radiohead!!!!

[@timeouthumanity2067]

The most influential rock band since The Beatles!

[@cameronfeese8517]

Ok Computer is one of the greatest albums ever written. It captured pre-millenial tension in an automated world. This album is almost 25 years old and it would be ahead of it's time if it was released today.

[@Ronsterino]

Radiohead’s music can be pretty polarizing for people who only listened to creep so I’m glad you liked it, I wanna suggest their song “Reckoner”

[@seank9823]

Oh my god shut the fuck up "polarizing" They're one of the most popular bands in the world. Stop thinking they're this crazy experimental band.

[@johng38]

Haha take it easy, spaz. A lot of people don’t like their sound. At all. So there are many people that are vocal about them being overrated. They are absolutely one of the most polarizing popular bands. It’s not even debatable. So “oh my god shut the fuck up.”

[@lebigfin5251]

@@seank9823 but they are kind of a mad crazy experimental band

[@seank9823]

@@johng38 Yah I take it back they are polarizing. Because people can't stand the circle jerk going on between radiohead fans, sniffing they're own farts constantly telling people to listen to their music. The same people who wouldn't listen to them if they were any bit more experimental. And who can't admit that they're fans of one of the worlds most popular bands, "yah I listen to radiohead they are pretty experimental you probably wouldn't get it, I do". Hope you know how pompous that sounds. I like radiohead btw I've listened to all of their albums so this isn't hate because I don't like the band, I fucking hate the fan base. Edit: So you

[@johng38]

@@seank9823 haha good lord, imagine getting this bent out of shape about a band weeks after the conversation happened. People are constantly shilling bands they like to other people. This is not exclusive to Radiohead, you goofball. Talk to an enthusiastic fan of any rapper or pop singer and they will be just as insufferable, if not more. Your anger and disdain is hilarious and misplaced. Luckily that super popular/“non-experimental” band is rarely played on the radio (I wonder why) so you shouldn’t be in much danger of getting triggered by one of their songs.

[@Carfaz11]

I love that you talk about feeling like you're in a crowded restaurant surrounded by people and chaos. That's exactly the reference point that Thom Yorke was going for when he wrote this. He was in a bar in Hollywood, looking around at the soulless, terrifying consumer culture he was suddenly immersed in. Someone spills a drink on a wealthy woman's bag, and she loses it, staring daggers at everyone. It's just awesome that music can communicate these images simply through melodies and rhythms. Keep up the great fiddlesticking work.

[@agooglyminotaur169]

I was going to write almost the same thing - she zeroed in on exactly the impulse behind the song just based on the music and vague lyrics. Amazing that so much can be communicated through music alone.

[@anthonyorr8868]

I love Radiohead as much as I love Pink Floyd and the Beatles, and for the same reasons. They are all so incredibly talented and sonically inventive bands. And Thom Yorke's lyrics are so relatable and gotten me through some tough times in my life. I love that you loved the song!

[@alexfletcher5192]

Difficult as it may be to believe now, this came close to topping the UK singles chart in 1997. I think I first heard it at work (I injured my back so it stuck in my mind!) and being genuinely taken aback. Radiohead were already a major band in Britain and had been for a few years, but this really took them up a notch. They began to draw comparisons with the likes of Pink Floyd and since 'OK Computer' came out, every subsequent release has been treated like it's the new work by Stravinsky.

[@kingexclusivo]

Time out how did you injure your back by listening to this? That just proves how amazing Radiohead is 😂

[@Jadamhodges]

You do such FANTASTIC reactions that other people online cannot begin to get right. So many people stop the song so much that they remove the continuity of the original music. I firmly believe that the majority just want to hear their own voice when their talk time is longer than the length of the song. Plus they are missing so much by not backing the track up after pausing or having a list of the lyrical content available. I appreciate this so very much Jayy! Thank you 🙏

[@Asher8328]

I'm glad you liked this song. I always get a little worried when someone says their only exposure to Radiohead is "Creep." That may their biggest hit commercially, but it doesn't really give you an accurate idea of what you're getting yourself into with them.

[@adamdonovan4071]

Street Spirit is a Radiohead song that I have always felt was the musical embodiment of hectic tension. Dark, tense, hectic and extraordinary.

[@angelatkins4330]

Been my favorite radiohead song forever. This song hits every emotion with each change. You feel it all, hence why you felt it was hectic and chaotic. Its a trip

[@numinous123]

The song is inspired by an incident where Thom Yorke (The lead singer) witness a rich woman wearing an expensive dress had some wine spilled on her, and "She acted like she was possessed by a screaming demon", verbally attacking the staff like she was insane. That's what inspired this song.

[@danebeisheim9793]

I have a feeling you're really gonna enjoy the official music video for their song Just.

[@Music-tg5is]

Yes, 'Just' was like the more straightforward precursor for 'Paranoid Android'. Both great tunes!

[@heysylvs]

You can never go wrong with Radiohead

[@johnnybags2324]

“High and Dry” by these guys is amazing

[@hdufort]

This song is like a whole movie by itself.

[@shanenolan8252]

Apparently it took them a long time to figure out how to play this live and make it sound like the original audio

[@muzikkification]

I'm not surprised lol

[@jorgeneriksson3144]

The best rock band ever. Fell in love with them when OK Computer was released. Still in love.

[@robertyates7242]

You're gonna get hooked on Radiohead girl. 😂

[@Blair19]

If you like the melodic tones.. check out "fake plastic trees" and "reckoner".. Radiohead is ahead of the times

[@memetherapy]

You should listen to OK Computer the whole album through... then take a break... listen to it again in private if you'd like... then try their next one Kid A. Radiohead is truly a revolutionary band.

[@memetherapy]

@@seank9823fucking lol

[@seank9823]

@@memetherapy apologies

[@memetherapy]

@@seank9823 you good man. you got a point lol

[@kingexclusivo]

Kid A is a terrible album. At least for my taste. Ok Computer and The Bends are better

[@paulhunn]

The 1997 Jools Holland live version is amazing; highly recommended!

[@sarahzentexas]

It really is a perfect performance.

[@the_oslovian]

No, that is such a bad live version! But there is one from a festival in Germany and Belgium, that is Insane.

[@LynneConnolly]

That is when they debuted it.

[@lebigfin5251]

@@the_oslovian what are you on about 😂

[@the_oslovian]

@@lebigfin5251 Hard to understand? 😉

[@rain7bow437]

That song takes you on a total journey Radiohead are an amazing band x

[@DanielGarcia-zb7vd]

One of the few bands to have their later stuff be better then their older music

[@Haza209]

Who else finds it funny how when she was talking about it after, She literally discribed the music video😂😂

[@alexfletcher5192]

The title owes more than a passing nod to 'Marvin the Paranoid Android' - a robot with depression in English humourist Douglas Adams' radio series (later novel, TV series, stage-play and film!) 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. But, in contrast to alt-rock bands today, who seem to routinely talk about how shit modern capitalist life is, Radiohead seemed to be swimming against the tide of tub-thumping, flag-waving British guitar rock of the day. Singer Thom Yorke was even singled out as part of the 'New Vulnerability'.

[@billymac23454]

Yes, every time I hear this I get a mental image of Marvin and his "Life? Don't talk to me about life!"

[@j_nightshade]

Oh my god! One of my best bands of all time!!

[@dlpowers3898]

This song just takes you on an amazing musical journey...its brilliant imho! Other must listen tunes by Radiohead: No Surprises, Just, Karma Police, Plastic Trees! Thx for sharing Jayy 🙂

[@gavinj721]

Also let down, nice dream, the bends, high and dry.

[@tdsims1963]

I love it when people reach the coda part of this song...always fun to watch them completely bliss out... I actually cried when I first heard this song. I didn't think there could be anything this beautifully written.

[@bemused9522]

Oh please listen to their "Lotus Flower" and "Where I end and you begin"....I know you will love them. Thom Yorke's voice is like an ethereal angel.

[@speleokeir]

There are so many great Radiohead songs, but I think 'Where I End and You Begin' just about edges it as my all time favourite.

[@ericschmidt5510]

Radiohead's MASTERPIECE! Nice choice. And I HIGHLY recommend MORE Radiohead!! Maybe No Surprises, Karma Police, There There - you really can't go wrong

[@feelingisforfeit397]

AHA! To see a Radiohead reaction of this calibre... I could laugh until my head comes off. Truly, today is very splendid.

[@hdufort]

The way this song changes tempo multiple times reminds me of Dogs by Pink Floyd. Which is also a pretty paranoid and claustrophobic song.

[@gregbryant3826]

You were spot on about the hectic part. The whole album deserves to be listened to start to finish. This came out in 1997. The internet in its current form didn't exist until 1995. The album is about trying to keep your humanity in the face of an onslaught of technology. I heard someone say it was about not letting the machines win. Spoiler alert the machines won.

[@LynneConnolly]

One of the greatest bands I've ever seen. And I've seen quite a few. Thom wrote this song after spending a sleepless night at a hotel in LA, because it was so noisy.

[@BunniMonster]

You might like to see it done live, the version on Jools Holland is the way to go. You might also enjoy the live version of their track Airbag on the same show.

[@tysonbiornstad2205]

You gotta listen to the whole OK Computer album start to finish alone with no distractions. Preferably in the dark with some candles lit.

[@gwalla]

I love this tune. Radiohead has so many: My Iron Lung, Street Spirit (Fade Out), No Surprises, Karma Police, How To Disappear Completely, Idioteque, Where I End And You Begin...and that's just scratching the surface

[@jonathanbignall1198]

It's such a pleasure watching your reactions to these songs, this one in particular. Seeing your surprise, the enthusiasm, the highs and lows, it almost feels like I'm rediscovering some of my favourites all over again. A lot of younger folk may never discover the joy of music like this, but you have so much love and appetite for hearing different styles of music from across generations. You're awesome, keep it up girl!

[@colin4796]

Fantastic thank you.Have a listen to Portishead "Glory Box"

[@jameshannagan7830]

@@Pwwh0711 Strangers live from Roseland or It Could Be Sweet they have so many great songs though.

[@martinbaker613]

ANY Portishead would be great... 😎

[@firstbornunicorn1545]

All reactions I see for Radiohead are of "Creep" and I'm not really big on that (not that it's a bad song) and I think it steers people away from trying another song from them which is unfortunate since they're one of the greatest bands of all time.

[@eddiecollison]

That song always moves me. I'm glad it moved you too.

[@Music-tg5is]

KZbin needs more Radiohead reactions! Far too many great songs to choose from, just throw a dice and you're bound to find a Radiohead banger.

[@LeveyHere]

Please listen to "My Iron Lung" next. It is my favorite Radiohead song by far.

[@davidtingley9978]

The Bends is overall a stellar album. Still my favorite.

[@Frederick0]

Mine too

[@billlord2596]

Make sure you go back and listen to their earlier stuff on Pablo Honey and The Bends. Black Star is an all-time fav of mine.

[@radicaladz]

This. THIS is why I love reaction videos - people hearing shit they never expected to like for the first time, embracing the new. :)

[@leadbones]

This why I love you. You get it. This song is tremendous beyond all measure. It's just unparalleled in what it does.

[@ambersometimes2841]

This song is such a strange and beautiful ride. It was wonderful watching you hear it for the first time.

[@markbishopmusic]

Thom Yorke has a great voice indeed. Nude and Sail To the Moon are favorites that show it off.

[@garyweston9078]

The Pyramid Song will blow your mind

[@avantprog6902]

This is progressive, definate atonal moments. Great dynamics. Great instrumentation, avant garde solos. I love it.

[@Laurel608]

Plastic Trees is an absolute favorite song of RadioHead!

[@the_oslovian]

Now, do Nude in the Live from the Basement version. That's angelic singing, also by Radiohead. I actually really would love to see you watch the whole In Rainbows, From the Basement live, greatest live recording ever if you ask me. Greetings from Radiohead fan since 1997 😊

[@jiwi736]

Yes

[@victorialovatt976]

Aw! Listening to Johnny Greentrees shredding it will always make me laugh out of pure joy, still love it 20 odd years later

[@stuartallan9914]

Greenwood ,bur I know what you mean ,the guys a musical genius 💥

[@victorialovatt976]

@@stuartallan9914 BBC Radio 1 DJ’s Mark and Lard used to refer to him as Johnny Greentrees so it just sort of stuck....if you feel like a giggle, find “No Big Sizes” by The Shirehorses - Mark and Lards parody band...(think they called themselves Radioshed for that track). Probably a good idea to not have children in the vicinity for that one though. 🤣🤣🤣

[@stuartallan9914]

@@victorialovatt976 ah bit slow on the reference but I do know the shirehorses and I listen to Marc Riley most nights on BBC 6music .👍

[@Borikensoulstudio]

How to disappear completely by Radiohead please.

[@spetts75]

I second this 👍

[@timeouthumanity2067]

incredible, haunting song

[@avantprog6902]

Ok, this is new to me too. I knew about, ' l'm a Creep'. I had heard they were good. This was Fenominal! You were focused on the vocals. I was focused on the whole composition. The chord changes, the modulations, the melody, and yes the delivery and angst of the vocals. I have to listen to it again right now!

[@jameshannagan7830]

Their entire discography is incredible they compose music as good or better than any band ever I envy you I would really suggest either of the basement sessions you get to see them pull this shit off live but the sound quality is top-notch as well try the In Rainbows one first.

[@micahkaululaau8897]

Best Radiohead reaction ever! Keep em coming!!!

[@amino1music]

Yup, Thom wrote the song after a disturbing experience at a bar. 😂 After the commercial success of Creep Radiohead started experimenting with making their material less accessible. They have some really phenomenal songs though! If you like this song you will probably like some of their other stuff.

[@davejohnson4681]

The Bends is an absolute soul searching album. Check out that one.

[@stupidusernameize]

"Oh my God, is it over?" Best line to end a Radio-Head reaction to!

[@treubuchet]

This is the second Radiohead track I have seen you react to and (as a huge fan of the band), I'm over the moon that you 'get it'. Please do check out more from them.

[@joes7930]

This whole album is a masterpiece

[@caseymccaskey6033]

Hot damn this is a great album

[@AlwaysFreeCheddarInMousetraps]

You’d like Airbag by Radiohead I think. Drums amazing

[@ross8884]

A bit like when Kennedy got shot (sorry for dark ref) I remember where and when I heard this for the first time (on the jukebox in a pub after my first job after Uni). I had not heard of Radiohead at the time but this song I just loved immediately and had never heard anything similar. Huge fan ever since, hope you become one too :)

[@ipuya]

Awesome reaction!!! This song is a spectacular landmark in music and I'm jealous of anyone who hears for the first time!

[@matthewellis2585]

That whole album is one of the best of the entire decade. Check out the song “No Surprises”.

[@leew6091]

With Radiohead, the only thing to suggest is to listen to everything. They are and have been for many years the best live band on the planet. You probably couldn't react to it on YT but in your own time watch their 2017 Glastonbury set.

[@haydnleyshon7384]

Love Radiohead so much one of greatest bands ever to grace us

[@SF_Bud]

It was inspired by a trip to a bar in LA when Radiohead first visited the US. "Gucci little piggy, yuppies networking, the panic, the vomit" Obviously not a great experience. Radiohead is one of the truly great bands ever. I highly recommend listening to them in order. You started off right with Creep, but you skipped ahead a little. Try some of the great songs from "The Bends" their second album: "Fake Plastic Trees", High and Dry", "Just", "My Iron Lung", and my favorite "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". Then it will be time for more from OK Computer, the album that Paranoid Android is from. They evolved so much album to album you really should do them in order, but you'll be rewarded for your efforts by getting a much better understanding of them and their genius. And just another little heads up, the album after OK Computer was so different they lost a fair number of their old fans and found a whole bunch of new ones. Their career is quite a ride! Thanks! Peace from SF

[@fausty150]

You can pick any track off this album and it will blow your mind.

[@SkaTim]

I like your reaction to this, so honest. They are a truly brilliant band. You should listen to more of they’re music. The album OK Computer, where this song is from, is amazing.

[@Paldasan]

It's a trip. I'm glad you have listened to it before watching the video for it. It is a great video that'll also take you on a trip, but just acoustically it is just beautiful.

[@melissaochoa8054]

YESSS! Just like you this was like being on a rollercoaster when I first heard this song. I was 14 years old and I thought WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? I’ve never heard anything like it. Like if this song was the only song played at their concert I would be satisfied!!! That song is like hearing 5 songs in one. You should watch the the live performance they played in Glastonbury 2003. It was funny watching your reaction because I knew what was coming up and I knew you would love it and be amazed, your reaction was awesome! I love this song.

[@paigel.969]

JAYY, hey!! Radiohead Lotus Flower video Reckoner live from the basement LOVE YOU AND YOUR SHOW! ABSOLUTELY A TERRIFIC JOB!

[@adamdonovan4071]

Knives Out is an AMAZING track from slightly later in their career that is fire.

[@lisajohnson521]

Yes my friend, you have been blessed!!! RH are amazing and I can't wait for more reactions. Ok Computer,, really changed music. It was so different for it's time. I remember when I first heard it and it was an experience. RH have always been super creative and unique that's why I love them so much. Super talented fellas.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

Your reaction was great to this unexpected song. :) 2:58 First change 3:38 Second change 4:04 Third change 4:27 Fourth change 6:50 Fifth change :) 7:37 "Is it over...?" :D

[@stuartallan9914]

Pitt you didn't watch the live version from the jools Holland TV show and saw them do it live they are absolutely incredible 💥

[@nonjones2513]

Radiohead is an experience. Karma Police, I'm a Creep.

[@greenphoenix687]

Loved the reaction Jay ;D It took me back to when I first heard this back in the 90's. Mind blown!

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

the song is about a robot named marvin from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy if you watched the film or read the books you find he had all the answers but humans ignored him

[@stephenbrewer8213]

Possibly, the best album of all time. And the best anthology of all time.

[@nammiegirl]

I think you'd love "Fake Plastic Trees"

[@kulttumult1352]

Greatest rock album ever made🔥

[@itsme3k]

Great song! Great album! Next song Karma Police.

[@ServusDei74]

Radiohead really is one of the most original bands, EVER! Radiohead is the only thing that sounds like Radiohead. Not the best ever, but they deserve respect, nonetheless! The Bends, and this album are both classics, in their own way! They lost me until In Rainbows dropped, but sadly completely lost my attention after that! Was cool to see someone discover this music for the first time. I’d recommend highly, the song Subterranean Homesick Alien off this album. My favorite all time Radiohead tune!!

[@jobrimar8291]

I’ll second S.H.A, it’s an incredibly beautiful song, the production (and for the rest of OK Computer) is wonderful, definitely one for the headphones.

[@joes7930]

Yes. Listen to the whole album uninterrupted. It’s a journey

[@VampeyMK]

If you wanna hear more... it is the second track on their album "OK Computer" which is many music critics favourite album of all time. But my fav is is "In Rainbows" so bleh. 😝

[@iskandarhusainkhan627]

Both incredible albums but Ok computer edges it for me bc of the technology and derealisation symbolism

[@rebeccarock2628]

Jayy, we don't know each other but you are such an important person to me because of your genuine reactions and I want to share this song's meaning to me with you- I was in college when 9/11 happened. Many of my friends were in school in New York and I could not get in touch with any of them that day. I went about my business, going to my classes, not fully understanding what was happening. I went to work that night after school and was watching the black and white TV in the restaurant break room, seeing replays of the planes hitting the towers over and over and over again. When I was driving home after work that night this CD was playing in my car. The gas stations had lines around the block. No one knew what was going to happen around the world and I didn't know if my friends were even safe in NYC. And Paranoid Android started playing in my car. "Rain down from a great hight. That's it sir, you're leaving, the crackle of pigskin, the dust and the screaming, the yuppies networking, the panic, the vomit, God loves his children". And I broke down and sobbed on my steering wheel. That was when it all hit me. Thank you for what you do. You are magic.

[@NxDoyle]

One of rock's best.

[@shanenolan8252]

Magic song , plenty more great Radiohead songs

[@CsawIvu]

Love you, and the passion you exude. I have of course loved this song for so long, and watching you revived the depth of my feelings for the song, and your reaction. KEEP IT UP Love!

[@t.o.7219]

I cant remember the first time I heard this song nor how I reacted. I was a yoooung kid for sure. But I think I was confused as u were @ 4:30. 😆 what a journey. Please continue doing more radiohead!

[@TheFoxUK]

Radiohead is a rabbit hole you will enjoy and need to go down.

[@gabrielpowerrr2]

es bueno que las nuevas generaciones escuchen esta musica....gracias...

[@GarrettGaudini]

You totally got it on the first try! ❤️Thanks for reacting to my favorite band. Great reaction!

[@Johro66]

I love how much you love this.. This song is just too good for words