This video was made in collaboration with David Bennett Piano! Take a look at David's video analysing Radiohead's 'Karma Police' here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IgjmSoSmaoc.html
Hello! As a Pole I'm very satisfied and astonished that Jonny compose such a very complex music inspired by classic music composed by Penderecki. Of course all of Radiohead music is very complex, comparing to the others famous rock bands. It reminds me by the way the music composed by Red Hot Chili Peppers band and this one created by John Frusciante (I mean his solo electronic music and this one created as Trickfinger project). I'm just curious if you could be inspired to make some material about this topic. Although his music is very different from RHCP one.
@@krzysztofkalinski2616 not sure it's fair to call rdhd more "complex" than other bands. prog rock for example is much more complex and virtuousic. complex doesn't mean good. imho what makes rdhd good is their ability to combine aspects of many music styles into the song format. similar to the beatles more than anything.
Radiohead's "A Moon Shaped Pool" (2016) really saw Jonny flexing those string arrangements. The ending of "Ful Stop" features glissandi that are almost identical to a passage from "Polymorphia". "Tinker Tailor..." is pure Messiaen with those ondes guiding the orchestra. And "Burn The Witch" features violins played with guitar plectrums (a technique Jonny also used in "Popcorn Superhet Receiver", a decade earlier).
Jonny was the reason I gave Radiohead a shot because I really loved his work with PTA. Now I can safely say I love both equally. They are a fantastic band.
Same. Ever since listening to Bodysong, I knew how heavily Johnny was orchestrating the sounds of Radiohead, and those were the sounds that kept me coming back.
I cant believe the production quality and the depth of analysis that comes from your channel. the amount of time, effort and care for the craft is so deeply appreciated. thank you for the work that you do
Thank you so much Daryl. This means a huge amount to me. The videos do take a long time, but I love doing them and I’m so pleased your enjoying watching.
The polyrhythm and and overlapping harmonies in Weird Fishes are certainly appreciated (it's one of Radiohead's most popular songs, I believe), but I don't know that we really state explicitly enough how cool it is that something as simple as having those two arpeggiated sequences played in different times (triplets vs. quarter notes) creates such a fluid sound. As if the driving harmony behind the song is bouncing around on the waves of the ocean. It's a concept the band explored further in the looped samples of Bloom (especially in that orchestral arrangement they did for BBC, but also comes to the forefront on all sorts of live takes of the song, like Thom's solo piano version we can find on youtube), and its absolutely fascinating. It puts me in a trance not unlike some shoegazing kind of music, but with a more natural, organic feel. But then on Weird Fishes, Jonny does that absolutely bonkers looped-and-played-backwards solo in the coda... and oh wow, I can only imagine how someone comes up with that part. It's genius.
I always loved Weird Fishes / Arpeggi because it turned the "boring" arpeggios I used to practice on the piano into something vibrant and textured, no wonder why!
I know the Oscars aren't really a measurement of the quality of an artist's work and Jonny certainly doesn't need one BUT. I lowkey wish the Academy would stop snubbing his scores all the time. Yeah, There Will Be Blood wasn't eligible because of technical criteria but its exclusion left a bitter taste in many people's mouths. And as much as I liked Desplat's score for The Shape of Water, Phantom Thread was just something else!
I've been listening the score from Phantom Thread for a while now. And it is without a doubt my favourite. Last night I watched The Master for the first time and again his music transports me into that world and characters mind. I love You Were Never Really Here Score too. I think that he is an artist with great passion. I want to hear right now his soundtrack for the upcoming "Spencer". And if some day Paul Thomas Anderson decides to make a horror film, well, Greenwood could be awesome un that way.
@@THE.N1KO The Master is so beautifully done all around. That film is a masterwork. One of the few films where I immediately went on to hunt down a vinyl of the score.
@@jackallenproductions I don't know that. Tell me more. And yeah, even today I listened some songs from the Phantom Thread score. I have experienced a lot of shocking things these times and I can say that his music save me in every way.
Extraordinary. Ten years I hosted a modern classical show, but I never came close to this kind of insight into the connection between Penderecki and Johnny Greenwood. Excellent. I am in debt to the producer for enriching my appreciation.
@@arturobelano6243 I wonder why i forgot to mention him. Thank you. There is also another one doing covers and tutorial of RH songs on acoustic guitar.
wow, this essay allowed me to distinguish Greenwood's influence on Radiohead's sound much more than I expected, the pizzicato sounds soooo similar to 'Burn the Witch' and the similarity is not an accident, great vid!
From a huge Radiohead and Jonny Greenwood fan : THANK YOU SO MUCH ! This is the best video i've ever seen about Jonny's music. Man, congratulations, your video just blew me away. You have really impressive editing skills ! You've got a new subscriber and a new fan from France. Peace and keep "Radioheading" the world :) Lio
One interesting thing about this is it's the case of seperate influences merging because a lot these ideas are also present in a lot of 80s indie rock, especially Sonic Youth (Who've been cited as an influence by Radiohead multiple times and are also heavily influenced by Penderecki), you can find it in basically all the interludes of Bad Moon Rising, expressway to yr skull and Silver Rocket
It is also quite interesting to see Jonny find new ways to produce different sounds from the instruments he plays live with Radiohead. e.g. the way he uses a string bow to play the guitar when they perform Pyramid song live.
There's a French band called Elend. Their work definitely absorbed Penderecki influence, especially in their second trilogy the Wind Cycle. It's a dark and mysterious journey listening to their music.
There's also a lot of Bartok in "There Will Be Blood" Such a seminal work of film scoring, cannot wait to see what else he develops for score/concert hall over the coming years
From the time I first heard Blow Out, I was hooked. I love those explosions of sound. He carried it right through to this year's Under Our Pillows. So great to immerse yourself into in a live show.
Woah, that quarter of an hour really flew on by ;). I thought it would feel longer because the subject matter is so detailed and deep but it was thoroughly entertaining while also being very informative. Thank you so much :). As a side-note I feel a desire to know more about the very details about how Radiohead operate internally. It's collaborative, but I feel like I want to know what parts typically come from what source... if there is such a simple division to be made... I always knew that Jonny was experimental and liked to play with electronics but I feel like there is so much to learn about how the group dynamics influence the end result.
This is an incredible video essay, well done, absolutely well done. It flows so well and has a coherent and rational thesis which is supported very nicely. Cheers. Grats on the collab with David, it brought me here.
Excellent video!! As a hardcore Jonny Greenwood fan, I really appreciate this. Still I have to say, I was waiting for Horror Vacui, but I get it might have been redundant to talk about it after all your amazing analysis of his previous work.
This was really cool. Thanks for introducing me to this music - I’d never heard it before (except for all the Radiohead stuff, of course!) Well done. Keep up the great work!
fantastic as ever - love your longer videos and that your channel is really starting to grow! I was in Poland for the Penderecki x Greenwood set at Open'er festival and the atmosphere created by their pieces performed sequentially combined with the huge space and fog was really something else! Thank you for reminding me
Excellent video: thanks! It's so cheering to see this lively dialog between different streams in music! Another example but in the reverse direction can be heard in Fausto Romitelli's beautiful music.
What an amazing video, David and Listening In! He used this technique ( 11:00 ) in Radiohead's "Burn The Witch", right? This is top notch research and presentation. Jonny's gonna love it!
I've been at that Penderecki's concert at Open'er. There was fog everywhere, clouding the festival space, it was unearthly. Avantgarde music at a pop-rock festival, amazing experience.
This channel is easily becoming one of my favorite channels in such a short time... Each video you upload sparks my enthusiasm incredibly! Thanks so much for your immense effort!
in Climbing Up The Walls you missed the greatest moment when Ondes Martenot comes in and song bursts it gives me chills every time I hear it. Plus idk why didn't you mention anything from other albums especially AMSP cause there are many orchestral parts written by Jonny. Overall it was still very good video. Thank you.
Is there order in the universe? Last night I was particularly marvelling at the haunting riding notes over the calm melody in the extraordinary live 'How to disappear completely' and today, through the medium of the RU-vid Rabbit Hole, I find a thorough and intriguing examination of that song/technique. And I feel satisfied that I can understand, a wee bit, one of the hooks that keeps me returning to Radiohead over and over again. Thank you so much - music is the language our conscious [neocortex] mind talks to our unconscious [lizard-brain]. See : Thinking Fast and Slow - D. Kahneman et al
