Classical Composer Reacts to The Daily Mail (Radiohead) | The Daily Doug (Episode 98)

[@Doug.Helvering]

Music Theory folks, please forgive me! I’m listening back to this and immediately am realizing that I misinterpreted the A section chord. It is D/Bb...but it is NOT two stacked perfect fifths...that chord would (in this case) have an F instead of an F#. Mea Culpa.

[@alarconclaudio]

Bbmaj7+5 great review

[@Medley3000]

I recommend the band Lovebites and their song "Empty Daydream". I think you will like it. It's a group of 5 women and they play powermetal, but not with dark and angry attitude, they are positive and refreshingly different. One of the two lead guitarists also plays piano and composes the songs. She had an education in classical music. All musicians are very talented and should be much better known than they actually are.

[@shanebilowitz7261]

Sounds like he sings an F natural in the melody over that chord and then resolves to an F# at the top of the phrase.

[@ributsuria]

I really like your recent treatise on Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". Sir, Would you like to give opinions or reactions on 'nu metal' / gothic metal group Rammstein especially their "Mein Herz Brennt" and hauntingly beautiful "Ohne Dich"?

[@Chris-dp4qx]

Hey Doug, may I recommend the power/symphonic metal band "Blind Guardian" with their song "Wheel of Time". They also got many other epic songs but this one i think is quite varied, plus is is twice as cool when you like the book series. Thanks and have a nice day!

[@kasztaniarz]

"I've got to start to listen to more Radiohead" - YES!

[@TSPH1992]

I am not even complaining

[@cluberti]

If interesting composition is the thing, do Videotape.

[@NumneunoGames]

@@cluberti Think that got a bit too hyped up with the whole syncopation video and what not, pyramid song is far more intesting IMOwith it's pyramid like structure good stuff

[@p_almeidajorge]

Their "Pyramid Song" should also be interesting to react to on the piano

[@p_almeidajorge]

albeit a bit repetitive, perhaps... Karma Police then

[@antoniomaraspin]

Pyramid Song ripetitive? It’s a palyndromical composition!

[@TerryGrancho]

errr NO!

[@GoSolar]

I second Pyramid Song. It’s perfect for this channel

[@THEH0WLER87]

also Sail to the Moon

[@jimwalsh7755]

"I've got to start listening to more Radiohead" Radiohead fans: "well, yes"

[@antonbelyaev8295]

That whole "From the Basement" live set is really amazing. They made two of them, one for "In Rainbows" and the 2nd for "King of Limbs", both with great sound quality and cool arrangements

[@JohnsysChannel]

The rhythm of the KOL basement set is sickenibng.

[@telsutton]

The 'In Rainbows' set has arguably the best collection of songs, but, hey, Clive Deemer... who's going to fucking argue with Selway and Deemer together (I presume they also teamed up for my beautiful Sel-Mer amp?)? Just a shame they never got around to doing one for AMSP.

[@innosanto]

My favorite maybe videos by the group.

[@eltorro7774]

These_2_videos_are_my_anti_depressants._Use_when_needed.

[@andrewdrury958]

The From the Basement videos made me appreciate those albums more

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

I always say this, but Radiohead is as close as my generation has come to having a band as important as The Beatles. The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A radically changed the landscape of popular music and basically heralded the "death" of rock (at least in the mainstream) and advent of electronic music. Even when they went back to traditional instruments like on this track it no longer sounded like rock, but some kind of progressive... whatever genre you'd call this. You should at least pick up OK Computer and Kid A and listen to them from beginning to end. I don't think there's been such a sea change in music since The Beatles released Rubber Soul and Revolver. As for tracks, Paranoid Android is a classic that echoes multi-sectional songs like A Day in the Life and Bohemian Rhapsody. For some of their most beautiful songs: Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, How to Disappear Completely, or Pyramid Song.

[@plummetplum]

100% one of the greatest bands of recent times.

[@Dayman1997]

I would add Subterranean Homesick Alien in there with one of their most beautiful songs

[@emmbee1906]

7:58 - the "WHOA!" moment. I love finding those bits in songs where the band/artist veers off into a direction that you didn't expect then to go. Radiohead is a band that provides a lot of WHOA! moments in their work. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.

[@deborahsiahaan9261]

Me too, such a nice treat!

[@cameronsmusicretreat]

Growing up in the UK, this just sounds like a British saturday morning for me. Hard to explain what I mean... The daily mail. Gives me the image of reading the newspaper on a dull, misty, grey saturday morning. Things are OK. (They aren't OK really, but nobody tells each other that.) 'How are you?' 'Yea, I'm fine, how are you?' 'Can't complain!' *That* is the feeling those opening chords give me

[@stephenatkins8973]

I get a v similar sentiment… well synopsised 👍

[@jameshannagan4256]

It can not be worse than the NY Post.

[@JG-nx3jg]

You don't want to be reading the daily mail in the first place mate

[@cameronsmusicretreat]

@@JG-nx3jg 'You don't want to be reading the daily mail in the first place mate' *music starts*

[@Tyron95]

You gotta have some majestic saturday evening when the brass comes in

[@roryclague5876]

Those guys are just geniuses. Glad to live at the same time as them. It's like living in Florence and seeing Boticelli and contemporaries.

[@jez12]

You HAVE to do a listen and analysis of Radiohead's track "How to Disappear Completely". It's from their fourth studio album Kid A from 2000. It's a very beautiful and at the same time haunting and conlicting piece of music with a lot of surprises as the song progresses. It also has a string section throughout that's actually very prominent in the mix.

[@vanilla_milkshake]

strongly agree.

[@JohnsysChannel]

@@vanilla_milkshake Strongly Strongly Agree

[@ThePurplerainman]

Yes please,I totally agree. Possibly the best song they have ever done,(and they have such an amazing catalogue of songs to choose from) hauntingly beautiful, with a sprinkle of spine tingling shivers. Awesome song.

[@bjamofficial]

came here to suggest this...

[@ek2719]

Worth watching for context - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZyZd3ZtlLVrbsk

[@666finnegan]

7:49 I had the exact same reaction. A true masterpiece. I'm so glad you did this song.

[@ernestoflores1219]

I recommend you listen to "Sail to the moon" by radiohead

[@christopherrowley7506]

probably one of radiohead's less talked about songs. one of my favorites though. really got into it as a teenager

[@austinmucciante3108]

Yesss

[@Wisdawms]

I agree

[@tinflesh]

Omfg this song is just fantastic please

[@gpeddino]

@@christopherrowley7506 Agreed. And also deceivingly complex even though it sounds simple.

[@bema_seat]

Radiohead is the perfect complement to all of the Metal bands you have showcased. They really are an incredible band.

[@TSPH1992]

They are respected in both the prog and metal community.

[@cloudzrest]

7:49 that dissonant sound in that C-Dd-Eb progression is a C Major with an Eb at the top, crazy unique chord it really caught my attention !

[@JF-kv1gm]

Clicked on this as soon as I saw it!! Oh yes, Pyramid Song, Desert Island Disk, Bloom, Glass Eyes are on the list for you, Doug. Thanks so much!

[@jbbya6040]

Radiohead are masters of crescendo.

[@nelsonluisfreire8969]

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!! You're such good ear, still got surprised by the paths Radiohead produced there. Such good video

[@MatheusTorrxs]

I mean, this song is just gorgeous. Great react

[@stevea.b.9282]

Fantastic to see your responses. So many suggestions: Weird Fishes_Arpeggi, In Limbo, There There, Bones, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Pyramid Song, My Iron Lung.

[@ThisSteveGuy]

I was waiting the whole time for 7:48 to happen and the reaction was just priceless!

[@mollyoxy]

Same. When I first heard this song, that part blew me away. I wasn’t expecting it.

[@johnbriggsmusic]

Another vote for How to Disappear Completely. Also pretty much every song on their last album, Moon Shaped Pool, has a pretty interesting string arrangement.

[@lucasglanville2880]

Pyramid Song, How to disappear completely, Weird Fishes next pleaseeeee

[@diarmuidobrien8033]

At the Colbert Report AND watching Radiohead, you were living my dream

[@citizencyclops406]

If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were alive today he wouldn’t be standing in front of some tight-a__ orchestra, he would be screaming down the mic in front of a band like Radiohead

[@_CoasterNinja]

Thanks for a great reaction! So many great Radiohead songs to react to, hard to go wrong with the choices given already here. But I must say there was a SPIN magazine article a while back, asking musicians which Radiohead song was their favourite and the most common choice was All I Need from In Rainbows. But as I said so many greats. I think as a compose you'd enjoy Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army, Life In a Glasshouse, How To Disappear Completely, Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2+2=5, There There, A Wolf At The Door, 15 Step, Nude, Weird Fishes, Reckoner, Videotape, Bloom, Staircase, Spectre, Burn The Witch and Daydreaming. lol Sorry for going on an on. All the best to you.

[@AlmissaGaming]

in 20 years radiohead is gonna be one of the bigest bands ever when people realise hopw truly great they where.i will say it,one of the greatest bands of all time

[@rcagoon1969]

The seamless way doug's keys fit the song is 'pretty cool'. Talented fella, and good vids. Keep it going.

[@asultuous]

“you and whose army” “reckoner “codex” “knives out” “paranoid android” “sail to the moon” “burn the witch” “karma police” and definitely “suspirium” by thom yorke from what seems to get you excited i think you ll appreciate the musical ideas in those songs

[@asultuous]

@@georgebrearley8944 what have you been listening to lately?

[@Torthrodhel]

Don't see enough love for Burn the Witch. Nice choice.

[@marcosaugustoelguetasalas138]

@@Torthrodhel I have very similar taste too, lately i have been listening Soft Hair - Jelous Lies, Siberian Breaks - MGMT, You decided - Shintaro Sakamoto

[@Torthrodhel]

@@marcosaugustoelguetasalas138 I haven't heard any of those before, so that's good recommending, thanks! :)

[@tremendoustie8801]

Moar Radiohead! :). Anything from the from the basement sets. Get to watch the band, and great sound quality. Love your musical analysis btw.

[@mikkobr]

seldomly seen such a fascinating analysis of anything! Chaw is open! Congrats!

[@troyjohnson9873]

Anything” Radiohead” pops up in my feed and I’m so glad your video greeted me this morning. :) Never too late to get (back) into Radiohead. I love watching the decomposition of their songs because it truthfully proves their genius. For composition: pyramid song, daydreaming, decks dark, bloom, motion picture soundtrack, and weird fishes (I could listen to that song 24 hours a day). Keep up the good work!

[@happycadaver]

Doug, been loving your channel for awhile now. Always love watching your reactions and how you de-compose the music and share your insights with everyone. I must say though: as a trained classical pianist, lover of punk rock and technical death-metal - I always come back to Radiohead. They are just absolute modern music masters without question. As for further listening from these guys some I would recommend: Paranoid Android for more rock focused, Present Tense for the gorgeous groove, and of course Pyramid Song for the beautifully ethereal. But really, you can't go wrong lol. So cool you were at the Colbert taping!!

[@wallapee]

hahaha was waiting for 7:47, did not disappoint.

[@caiocostalouback1866]

I don't know, man... That's probably our best band now, like the Beatles were back then... So, any song you do, even on their first album, apart from creep, will be interesting to all of us.

[@Mr13Ganache]

Finally some Radiohead , and In The Basement to make it even more eargasmic. Great.

[@theonetruetim]

My first exposure to that glorious embodiment was on the show Legion. I'm a...credibly committed Radiohead fan. BUT - that was totes unheard, at that point for me. The associative energy i now pair with the song - is sublime. Love it. Great taste, my friend.

[@MrYomtork]

Very cool reaction, comments and analyse !! You should try "Decks dark", "A wolf at the door" or even "the amazing sound of orgy" !

[@mikeprice25]

Your reaction and exploration is great, you looked so genuinely surprised. It's such a good tune and it's just sitting there in the wilderness in their catalogue, like if that was on OK Computer people would be covering it all the time. It's just got this meaty weightyness. It sounds like someone gearing up for a big fight with god incarnate.

[@TP_Gillz]

It's a shame there are so many people that have not experienced the depth of Radiohead's music yet. From big album chart-toppers to B-side basement deep cuts, so many incredible tracks and performances, they IMHO are hands down the greatest rock band since The Beatles and their music should be held to the same high regard.

[@kerimbenkacem]

People only know Creep, that's the real tragedy

[@jessie778899]

I think they surpassed the Beatles a long long time ago

[@chazybrewster]

Oh man! I was at that Colbert taping! It was so cool and intimate. Such a great little space in the TV studio and they played so well.

[@groovieXL]

Thanks Doug, I've never really appreciated The Daily Mail before. This video has given me a new perspective on it. My suggestion for another Radiohead reaction video is "Bloom" but the "From The Basement" version. It's quite a contrast to their studio album version. Lots of Steve Reich influences, would be keen to hear your take on it.

[@ketnerjo]

Doug, Really enjoyed your “Daily Mail” video. This is the first time I’ve ever commented on at YT video, to give you an idea. It’s hard to go wrong, but I think “How To Disappear Completely” will 1. knock your socks off and 2. provide a great content and analysis for your viewers. Cant wait. Cheers!

[@pepelepewpew8416]

I love your enthusiasm man. Makes me happier listening to this track! Didn't think that was possible!

[@juliocalleja9748]

I recommend you listen to "Pyramid Song", "The Numbers", "Spectre", "Reckoner", "Codex", "Sail to the Moon"

[@frankswarbrick7562]

Thanks for doing this one! I remember watching that Colbert Show episode and especially noting this song. For one, I'd never heard it before. For another, it's a non-album track. So in fact, even though I remembered the name and actually think about it occasionally, for some reason I never searched it out to listen to again. So this may be only the second time I've heard it. Great stuff! A bit too short, actually.

[@veevamm3642]

Radiohead IS BRILLIANCE👏❤️

[@mattyq9130]

Damn right!

[@victorcrago6454]

Wonderful to watch this! Radiohead is my favorite band and is so much fun to see someone break it down theory wise ... would love to see you break down videotape, pyramid song, and bloom

[@victorcrago6454]

The thing about videotape is that it is syncopated ... 🙂

[@vitalepitts]

that's so funny, I stumbled across this video and what got me into radiohead was the colbert report performance version of this song. Wish I'd have been able to be there.

[@westrokker]

Gotta go with the “Pyramid Song” as my favorite Radio head song.. love your analysis!

[@pierrezapata90]

This song in particular is a perfect example of how context of the chords is what gives them their flavor not the chord in absolute. Some of the most hauntingly eerie chords in this whole song contextually are just D major and C major. How amazing is that?!

[@GIBKEL]

No band has brought me deeper into my emotion: joy, sadness, anger, empathy, love, loss and pain....contemplation of many flavors of each emotion all induced by sound and how composition can invoke a certain feeling. There are worlds in every song. The great bands, artists and records are a product of time and interpretation but exist outside of it. Rarely do you remember where you were when you listened to “that” record, almost being taught how to listen by the act of it pulling you in. I wasn’t a fan, didn’t know them past enjoying ‘Creep’ when a friend popped in ‘Ok Computer’ into the CD player on the way to the Double Door in Chicago to see 11th Daydream. You remember, like a first kiss, a leap into that “new” experience when some piece of music teaches you how to listen just by the act of engaging with it. Each record becomes my favorite lp by tracks end. Very few bands mange to achieve this and so all the more mysterious when they do.

[@watkinscopicat]

great analysis! and glad you discerned the meaning too.

[@ginnashupper725]

Hmm..."hauntingly beautiful" describes most of Radiohead's discography to me😀

[@shaneminckley8637]

I personally really like a bunch of their songs off of Hail to the Thief, specifically There There. Really enjoyed your breakdown

[@jabehauber]

Thank you my bro. That C thing at the 13:00 part of your explanation totally fell into mental line for me. Sonically love it.

[@keithstack6321]

Awesome breakdown. True love waits from a moon shaped pool would be a great one. Really cool rhythm ideas.

[@stuartrobin6332]

I'm gonna have to go with Daydreaming for a Radiohead recommend, with the PT Anderson video.

[@gravitymediapro]

I loved this. Very cool how you both showed a lot of respect for their work and made it educational. I wish I could play the piano or had the gene of any musical talent. You’re very talented and this was a cool video. New subscriber!

[@augabachoo]

I'm here for all of it! Great ones to analyze though would be Paranoid Android, Pyramid Song, How to Disappear Completely, and The Numbers!

[@jonathangross255]

love that you play it back. .. super dope. thanks

[@the_oslovian]

That's a lot of reverb! 🤪 AND YES, more Radiohead, there are nothing like it.

[@alexcraig8543]

One of the greatest bands and songwriters of an entire generation imo. One of their songs that they're on record as being most proud of is "How To Disappear Completely" off Kid A. Johnny is the only one with any classical training, and he wrote some very haunting parts to it.

[@ap7498]

Yes, more Radiohead Both From the Basements are cool because sound quality is great and it’s live. 1) Jigsaw Falling Into Pieces 2) Pyramid Song 3) House of Cards

[@happycadaver]

I would love to see Doug's reaction to Pyramid Song. A most excellent suggestion!

[@ap7498]

@@happycadaver Thanks!! That one would be good with his piano at hand. And Jigsaw has cool brass section....French horn beautiful

[@tobiasmuller470]

This is imo probably the best song from Radiohead. Or maybe the best song of all time ever. I could listen to it the entire day.. Thank you!

[@jori1]

Really enjoyed this and the little demonstrations on the piano. I think "daydreaming" would be a good reaction/analysis. Either way, I subscribed!

[@Consan67]

The Daily Mail, an absolutely fantastic song that deserves to be on "a real album". Feel free to check out Nude from the same Basement Tapes, it will literally take your breath away

[@missmelody6185]

I love how you describe the notes and chords as "other worldly." The interesting and unexpected sound is not only a signature of this song, but, of their style as a whole.

[@galacticgam3r105]

Love this song! Now I know the chords tooo I was always wondering why I loved it those modulations are amazing! :O also some other recommendations I love are: Present Tense Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Reckoner Pyramid Song Paranoid Android Go to Sleep Sail to the Moon Life in a Glasshouse Jigsaw Falling Into Place Daydreaming Lucky Street Spirit (Fade Out) That’s a good list to start! They have SO much good stuff

[@matiasagustin832]

Oh yeah please, do more Radiohead reactions. I'd go for Pyramid Song, Codex, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Everything in it's right place.

[@MrScrofulous]

Cool to see you finding a deep cut rather than the big hits. You should consider getting a Vidami KZbin controller pedal , so you can stop/start/backtrack etc, without having to touch the computer, can leave your hands on your piano. Great for controlling the tubes when learning stuff too.

[@Doug.Helvering]

I didn't know that was a thing. Thanks...I'll look into it.

[@kraftwerk974]

Sounds like late Beatles digested by Radiohead. Cool, two of my all-time favourite bands 😛

[@neodental7312]

Wow. Your videos are great!! Thanks so much.

[@ThommyUnderhill]

DAYDREAMING by Radiohead is a gorgeous song. Music video by Paul Thomas Anderson. Wonderful filmmaker

[@cryonicbonkers7880]

Oh man the introduction of you playing the piano is just so cool. Love this content. I need a piano😩

[@karlosed]

Fantastic! this and the Yngwie reaction were awesome, thank you

[@leviathan76]

What a great story about getting to see the Colbert Report live performance in person! I would have been stoked just to see a taping of the show but to get THE show with Radiohead is like winning the lottery.

[@Marrero1]

Good to see you getting into the spirit of radio... head. 2112's 45th anniversary is today BTW. I can't wait for you to hear it. I watch every video and ill comment every day til you do it 😁.

[@jameshannagan7830]

My two favorite 2 bands Rush and Radiohead they have more in common then people think I love Yes too I always loved prog but even though Radiohead is not considered prog I get that vibe from it.

[@benjaminjonathanjamessisko7095]

Hi Doug - enjoyed your vid. :) There's SO MUCH Radiohead I think you would enjoy - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Subterranean Homesick Alien I Might Be Wrong All I Need Everything In It's Right Place Airbag Supercollider (live from the basement) Fake Plastic Trees Paranoid Android There There Just Codex (live from the basement) Reckoner Where I End And You Begin Life In A Glasshouse The National Anthem Bloom (live from the basement) Jigsaw Falling into Place The Gloaming Electioneering My Iron Lung Their Album "OK Computer" topped lots of polls for "Best Album Of The Last 25 Years" etc. For my money - I think the albums "In Rainbows" and "The King Of Limbs (live from the basement)" are better. "The King Of Limbs" is also a studio record, but all the tracks are better on the "From The Basement" recordings - which is where the version of "The Daily Mail" came from that's in your vid. They are my all-time favourite band. Later. :)

[@benwest123i]

Everything in it's Right Place would be nice to see :)

[@zachanley2114]

Weird Fishes would be a great track to go to next

[@TSPH1992]

Daydreaming is also a good one. Decks Dark, Spectre. That song is amazing. Edit: And if you want to listen to an underrated piece of progressive metal. Threshold-Echoes of Life (Album: Critical Mass. It's kind of a niche album) Threshold-Pilot in the Sky of Dreams (Album: Dead Reckoning. Another album a lot of people overlook). If you have the time of course

[@GoSolar]

Pyramid Song. It's a must. It's a piano-based song, and the timing is syncopated in a very interesting way.

[@harryandrews3347]

Glad to have found your channel!

[@Doug.Helvering]

Happy you are here!

[@t.d.k8006]

Hi Doug. I just found your channel and Radiohead song. I am a fan of their music because of the simplicity and complexity at the same time and the sound conflict that you noticed. If you have the opportunity, pay attention to the song "Daydreaming" (lyric and melody of course, but most of all to what is happening in the background) from the album A Moon Shaped Pool (next to the album In Rainbows probably their best achievement). Best regards and thank you for the great time. Regards. G

[@LK-cc4uj]

Ah man, this was so much fun to watch. Thank you!!

[@mariusabel5787]

just subscribed, loved this video. so come ooon next, pyramid song! :)

[@Eighthgenbucket]

It was so cool watching you talk me through it, keep it up 🤙🏻

[@Torthrodhel]

Yes! That is such a choice to react to, have a subscribe. :) One of my top three of their tracks, the other two being Man o'War and Decks Dark. Those wouldn't be overdone choices either.

[@vimalota1292]

Too cool!! Great breakdown!

[@atothek302]

Please please do Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes” from The Basement session, Codex, Let Down, and Reckoner.

[@crohno]

I wish someone could analyse Life in a Glass House from Radiohead, no one seems to pay much attention to that song and has one of the best orchestration I've heard

[@israelp348]

I know how brilliant that song is because it was in Peaky Blinders.

[@Pier77Tampa]

That chord progression is indeed absolutely brilliant.

[@josephc5493]

I keep waiting for one of these composer reactions to do Feral...so underappreciated

[@_Vissal_]

Excellent video Doug, and I agree with some of the others that Pyramid Song would be cool to dissect.

[@iamthejavafox]

This song is such a beautiful emotional rollercoaster

[@greenvelvet]

Radiohead is what happens when visual artists make music. Thom comes from a visual art background and I think it really shows. That's why his music is so weird. He's more concerned on creating a mood and an atmosphere, than nice, neat, theory correct "music". LUV IT.

[@jameshannagan4256]

I like that explanation I think I am going to use it from now on instead of trust me they are so great.

[@loqisi77z]

This song describes that last year or so perfectly, especially the first verse!

[@maisonneuve3919]

"Such a hauntingly opened and conflicted sound". It couldn't be more accurate.

[@KyleTheWynner]

There's some SUPER interesting chords in Karma Police that might be fun to look at. OK Computer as a whole has a lot of super unique chord movements and harmony so really anything from there you're bound to find some interesting things to break down.

[@carlkolthoff5402]

Oh, we're doing Radiohead now? That's great news! You'll probably get a ton of suggestions for Pyramid Song and How to Disappear Completely. Two songs by them that I really love are 2+2=5 and Life in a Glasshouse.