Listening to OK Computer by Radiohead for the first time... 

I’ve heard someone describe Let Down as all of the instruments crying into a beautiful serenade of music. That’s the best description of it I’ve ever heard

While In rainbows is great you need to do Kid A next - to follow This up With such a creative departure is not Only important context to their impact on pop culture … it’s also helps understand the band themselves and their pursuit of art and growth over everything else. okc and IR are my favs but Kid A is the one I respect the most for its integrity , artistic statement and bravery.

Every time you mentioned them being experimental, I was thinking to myself, "wait til he listens to Kid A!" lol

it's cool to live in a time where i can watch someone else react to one of my favorite albums for the first time

Pausing Let Down when you did broke a million Radiohead fans’ hearts.

There's a great documentary on the tour of this album called MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY. Totally worth watching. "Exit Music For A Film" was based on the plot of Romeo & Juliet because Baz Lurhman asked them to write a song for his 1996 film version of it (hence "For A Film"). Thom Yorke was always upset by the story because he never understood why Romeo & Juliet didn't just run away together so the lyrics reflect that sensibility which is why the final lyrics have such bitterness to it.

When Let Down clicks, it becomes the best song on the album.

dang you picked up on the last track tying into the first one so well, that's why you're the best Doug!

The guitars and bass in Airbag are so damn beautiful 🤩

They get “trippy” in later albums…It has its trippy moments but they embrace that even more down the road. Your only getting started. Very blown out drums… I think (Ministry/ Skinny Puppy?) preceded that blown out sound. I’m sure that others used it…the Beatles even, but you hear it very well on Flaming Lips ‘The Soft Bulletin’, which you should also visit. They can pull all of it off live; the production, arrangements and execution is just unrivaled. The sonics man, the sonics! Each album is its own universe. Always melancholic, but you feel like you’ve had a good cry or catharsis so I’m always strangely uplifted….and aliens, lots of alien references. That and car crashes. They 8 times out of 10 subvert what you expect next. Queen is a green touchstone. The kind of record you remember where you were when you first heard it. Do Kid A if you want to get weird, Hail to the Thief if you want to rock, Amnesiac..when you don’t feel good and you don’t know why, In Rainbows for some beautiful version of neo-soul, King of Limbs for total groove pushing boundaries, Moon Shaped Pool -remembrance, The Bends for teenage bliss; Then bust out THE Smile for total prog with a kraut touch. A complete well balanced diet.

Radiohead's discog is one hell of a journey, OKC and Radiohead in general definitely deserve every bit of the praise they get

I'm almost certain that Happiness is a warm gun, A day in the life and even The Who were bigger influences than Bohemian Rhapsody...

Just caught your channel because I'm a massive Radiohead fan. Not gonna lie, this is the way everyone should do music reviews. You have you, your chat and the lyrics all clearly displayed for everyone to follow along with. Excellent job. Sub Alien is my personal favorite track on the album. But Climbing Up The Walls is a perfect description of depression and The Tourist, to me, is the most perfect description of what its like as an autistic person to try and navigate the world. So many reasons I love the band and this album. Thanks for the review and keep up the good work.

This is an awesome reaction. I’m going to school right now for Music Technology- hopefully working in a studio/with live music, etc. It’s great to hear someone pick out all the production aspects that makes this album so special.

I’ve just rediscovered Radiohead’s music this week; I’m familiar with their hits but All the other songs are amazing! I’m watching their 1994 live at Astoria video. Watch this when you can just enjoy the performance- when they were younger and really rocking out. I haven’t listened to Ok Computer-Where have I been!?!

Great stuff. Found this looking for new Radiohead reactions. Will definitely check out more of your stuff. Their progression musically through the albums is really interesting. Would love to see you dig into In Rainbows down the road. Keep it up!

Been a RH listener since '95 and a complete fan since '97, when OKC was released. If I were you I would listen next to their previous release, The Bends, which is a good 90's rock album and allows you to appreciate how their sound evolved so quickly. After that, give OKC another listen and just follow their discography. It's a hell of a journey. I envy you man 😁

Hey. Glad you enjoyed this-it's one of my favorites all-time. Radiohead is one of my favorite bands, and they are the soundtrack to my life. In 2017, they released a 20yr reissue with a second disc of previously unreleased tracks that weren't included in the original, but are worth a listen. Man of war is one of the tracks that I really enjoy.

Hell yeah i was watching your yeat reactions back then and im so excited seeing u react to Radiohead

That was an amazing concert tour, brilliant gig, The hail to the thief gig was my favourite gig to have attended in Glasgow,

Great reaction, i just experienced this album yesterday ❤

Love watching you enjoy this album. I wonder if the time signature comment in Let Down is referring to the electric guitar pattern being in 5/8 over the rest of the band’s 4/4. Pretty dang cool how natural they make it feel.

Hi Doug, may I suggest you listen to their albums in the order they were released following this one? I think you may like how their sound developed and why they are regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time.

Enjoyed hearing you discover Ok Computer, and for me a re visit to a massively impactful album

Brother, you are a very lucky man to hear this band for the first time. I envy you. I hope you keep listening to more of them, they are different. Nice video!!!

cant wait for u to see their other albums. theyre such different sounds and it seems like whatever genre radiohead tries to do they can do it perfectly

"Exit Music (for a Film)" was written for Romeo + Juliet.

Great reaction man, I liked it a lot. Good comments about this masterpiece. You just earned a new sub 👍🏼

45:42 its funny how you say its a left turn because after this album, Radiohead tuck a complete left turn and made Kid A (an album ranked higher on the rolling stones top 500 albums than OK Computer). They quite literally have the title of "the greatest left turn in music's history".

expecting a typical reaction but this was fantastic. it's good you let them flow seamlessly and you didn't pause a lot. not to mention a breakdown and critique you did it perfectly well done.

I hope I can join you on your Radiohead journey. Awesome reaction

It always amazed me that No Surprises was such a hit while being one of the top darkest Radiohead songs. I'm glad more people don't 'get it' because it (...) sucks. When a person -accepts- their final decision they can get a profound feeling of relief, calmness...peace? It's literally all right there.... no alarms (not waking up) and no surprises (no more trauma) please. I find a lot of people are misdirected by the such a pretty house/garden part. Its more of a take on how people will say "oh but look how beautiful everything is! how can you be sad when they house is pretty?! and the yard, you must be so lucky" ....yes. They can see it. Doesn't fix things. Sorry for being so down with this comment....I realy did enjoy your reaction. Great job!

Very good react. Excellent work.

Keep up the good work. It's really a pleasure to her comments from somebody who seems so "educated" in music. Will certainly love to hear your reaction at Dark side of the moon !

DOUGGGGG U GOTTA DO KID A AND IN RAINBOWS NOW

climbing up the walls is my favorite track on the album also believe it or not, most people who listen to radiohead don't really like electioneering much. i kind of understand in the context of the album since it's sandwiched between two songs that are very different to it feeling-wise (fitter happier and climbing up the walls). as a standalone song though, i like it a lot. probably would've worked out better towards the beginning of the album

Amazing that you picked up on the irony about the idiot in The Tourist at the end of the album causes the car crash/Airbag that opens it. The album thus ends before it begins. Mad props that you can analyze the instruments, time signatures, production values, etc, and still focus on the feeling presented by the music in each song, all on a first listen! On future listens you'll see how much the lyrics and themes are in synch to the sound and emotion of the music. Great review!

When this album came out I was living in very rural Western Washington, living in a natural wonderland. I fell in love with this album. A year after this album was released and it held my mind I was living in Tokyo. I would listen to this album through new eyes as I traversed an alien culture. I like seeing people discover this album

I bought this the day it was released, walked to the store in my lunch hour. Back at the office I read the lyrics in the booklet. I was shocked and amazed. I had a crappy boombox. That evening I lay on the floor with it behind my head. I was transfixed. It’s an amazing album. A work of high art beyond anything I’d ever heard before

In exit music (for a film) it’s not really a synth but a mellotron. It’s also what Beatles use in ”strawberry fields” etc. The keyboard trigger small cassette tapes with samples of flutes, strings etc. It’s cool and very much used in 60-70’s prog. :)

Funny you mention Twilight for climbing up the walls, if I remember correctly their movie soundtrack featured some Radiohead. Also I really hope you continue this journey, Radiohead is really what got me into the album format when I first started exploring music. Best discography of all time in my opinion, they really do a fantastic job at switching soundscapes and doing it so tastefully (unlike so many bands who try to venture outside of their sound) . A band perfect for the masses and for pretentious music heads.

you should totally do kid a by radiohead next. one of my personal favorite albums of all time

They have 4, 10 out of 10 albums IMO, this is one of them..... but I think they're side project The Smile might have just released a 10 out of 10 as well in these last couple of Months, its stunning, they are musical geniuses.

Thanks foe this, its a great album. You shluld check out Thom Yorke and Jonny Gdeenwoods sife project, The Smile. They just released their second album, Wall of Eyes. Its an instant classic. The best rasiihead side project. Genius!

The rabbit hole is deep with this band. They experimented with so much sounds and evolved to music geniuses. Listen to in rainbows. Or hail to the thief’s

This album, The wall and Moving Pictures are 3 of my favourite records of all time. From beginning to end, just absolute bliss !!!! It's a rare thing when albums don't have a single weak song and flows from start to finish in a cohesive fashion.

Fourth track Exit Music is indeed about family troubles. Written on request from the director of the film Romeo And Juliet. Ultimately, another song of theirs was used.

The choir sound in Exit Music (For a Film) is from a Mellotron (an original one, not a synth or sample)

So happy to see some Subterranean Homesick Alien, it's my all time favorite Radiohead song

Let Down is constantly voted by Radiohead fans as one of their favorite songs. When you listen to this record a few times, it will unlock. It's not as straight forward as you think. One guitar is in 4/4 and the other is in 5/4. It creates these complex harmonies throughout the song that you probably don't notice the first couple of times through. Then one day, it hits you and suddenly it's your favorite song on the album. It also presents some of the core themes of the record, the alienation, the dissociation with the modern world... "One day I am gonna grow wings from a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless."

Really enjoyed the reaction - amazing you were only just born when the spaceship landed. My advice would be to go via planet Kid A first - it will be a better play out of my life’s journey through Radiohead.

I'm so curious about your pc motherboard. What product do you use? The sound is really good

would love to see you react to Kid A, huge departure from their previous music

Ahh..to have never listened to Radiohead, and listen to them the first time, I so am jealous.

Many people have called this the modern Dark Side of the Moon.

OK Computer is - among its other exceptional aspects - the perfect soundtrack to the original Star Wars. Futuretro! Martin

Crazy thing, there's basically no consensus on best Radiohead album among fans, most people will probably say one of the 5 albums from OK Computer to In Rainbows but with the possible exception of their first album they are all strong contenders

The lead singer is called Thom Yorke. You should listen to his solo projects, one called Atoms for Peace and the other is called The Smile. The band members of Radiohead are Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood (brothers), Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway.

The wall behind you made me convinced that my PC screen was really dirty

Yesssss, Electioneering slaps so fucking hard!! 😭✨

The Tourist though..? So good.

Airbag is my favorite, very underrated imo. Also if you think this is experimental you've clearly seen nothing yet lol this is one of their more conventional album by far.

Welcome to the mighty, mysterious, wonderful, soul enhancing world of Radiohead.......

'In Rainbows' is even better IMO

lucky is amazing

Plughole is english for bath/shower drain.

Kid A and In Rainbows are at the same level.

How did it make you feel?

Can't wait for Kid A

Man your gonna love In Rainbows

Damn you're young. Bought this album the exact same week it dropped. Had it on a loop for literally that whole summer and beyond. I was 17.

Without Radiohead, we don't see bands such as Muse as they are seen today at least. They really opened the door for alot of bands wether they were directly inspired by them or not. Radioheads success helped other bands that were off the normal path boom

Let down is the sort of thing you'd here at a Prom, Really.. lol Did you listen to the lyrics.

Exit music for a film - it’s Romeo and Juliet

Hope he does In Rainbows one of their best albums

i started tweakin when u stopped let down at its climax

Jumped the gun with Let Down.

Great great reaction. Highly recommend In Rainbows next

Are you Brazilian? His surname is Araújo and I'm from Brazil and this surname is quite common here

Please more Radiohead sir!

of all the music reaction channels who view this album, you're the one i LEAST expected to have never listened to radiohead before

You were in from the first bar, you just didn't know it yet😊

This album is a very dark and empty melodic take on the early 2000s and the way the future was (and is) heading. Blew me away in my late teens, doing a computer science degree.

I'm almost sure radiohead recorded a cover of wish you were here..

Kid A next please

I can’t interpret Exit Music as being about anything else but two people taking their own lives, likely by inhalation of car exhaust fumes (“Keep breathing, don’t lose your nerve, I can’t do this alone…and now we are One, in everlasting peace.”) The title and lyrics seem pretty unambiguous to me. No Surprises seems like another final goodbye song, “My final fit, my final bellyache”, literally via “A handshake of Carbon Monoxide.” Incredibly sad songs.

Ok computer is the bible

You have to React to YEAT-2093 !!!!!

Karma Police reaction was ruined by Pink Floyd questions 😢😅

Hype i recommend in rainbows because imo its better, bot to downplay ok computer because it changed everything but in rainbows is just an evolution

Don't go right into In Rainbows please. You gotta go through their experimental ambient phase with them.

Let Down, a song about homeless suffering. "This song can be played at the prom" 😂

Let down is so underrated. Green day and foo fighters do prom songs, not radiohead

The purple text on the blue background was not legible my man. React to In Rainbows next, you will love it.

Do the catalouge, skip pablo honey...

u kinda look like an arabian drake ngl

Wow you really insulted Let down by calling it pop rock and cheesy... did you pay attention to the lyrics?!? And the instrumentation definitely isn't pop rock.

hi, not an AI comment bot. me as a 16 year old in 1997: "ok, this thing needs processing". you in 2024, content creator: immediately having pre-programmed opinions about sounds and guitars about an album "you've never heard before making the video". enjoy your AI bot replies.

Let down is FAR from straight-forward!!!

Yeah…..In Rainbows is better.