That’s such a good way to put it. Ive always said ranking Radiohead albums was one of the hardest things to do and everyone looked at me weird but this is like such a good comparison because they’re all so amazing in like their own unique way.
I always imagine stars being born, the universe expanding, plants sprouting, and flowers blooming, The music literally blooms throughout the song. It's definitely one of my favorite songs on the album.
It can't possibly be understood in one listen. Listen to it 100 times and it will keep revealing its layers. You can go SO deep with this album if you spend time with it
It sounds like you're embellshing but the instrumentation really has SO many subtle touches. Shout out to the secondary guitarist Ed O'Brien for so many haunting sounds and backup vocals.
Your enthusiasm is really infectious! When you started the music and it was through the speakers I thought "aww I don't think I'm gonna be able to listen to this" but then an hour later, looks like I did! Honestly I was a little worried when you restarted Climbing Up The Walls knowing how intense it gets at the end, so it's cool that you got so much out of it that it ended up being a fav. This whole reaction felt super personal and I really appreciate that, so thanks!
aww im so happy you stayed along!! :) and man, climbing up the walls really touched my soul! def in my top 3. means the world to me that you enjoyed the video
Johnny Greenwood is the main musical composer with Thom Yorke , he has composed film scores and for some major films . What you should know is that they do all this live when in stage it’s incredible. It’s not just computers in a studio .
I was 18 when this album came out, and had just got my first full-time job, in a record store, a busy branch of a big chain. It truly was the soundtrack to that year for so many, capturing the zeitgeist of late 90s Britain, but especially for me. I was struggling with so many things; my identity as a person, disenchantment with the world, with adulthood, relationship heartbreak. I felt lost, scared, alienated, numb. This album just captured everything so precisely that it felt like my own neuroses had started a band in my head. It remains one of my most cherished albums.
@@simonread8713 In your opinion but the facts are... Muse have many multi platinum albums. 176 award nominations with 70 of those winning. And are widely regarded as the best live performing band on the planet today. So...
@@Tass... but we're not talking about figures. We can point to endless cookie-cutter pop stars who've sold lots of albums and won lots of awards. Look, it's a subjective thing. You like what you like, I like what I like, somebody else probably thinks a Justin Timberlake album is the greatest. Enjoy what you enjoy.
earned yourself a sub, absolutely in love with radiohead rn and this video delivered all of the reactions this album deserves. In Rainbows is still absolutely my favorite right now. It is definately a comfort album for me
This is the most relatable reaction I’ve seen to this album. I had the exact same reaction. Can you please do the bends next ? Another amazing album by them. I appreciate how open you are about your mental health too , these songs make us feel a typa way that can’t really be explained but it’s definitely rooted from our anxiety and need to escape.
10:22 "What is happening?" was my EXACT reaction when hearing this song/album for the first time. I love how unpredictable radiohead is! Great video, I hope you react to kid A in the future :)
This was one of the better reactions I've seen to this album. It annoys me when reaction videos are a half the duration of the album, but this had the perfect amount of editing. I also appreciate you putting in time stamps. These are some albums that I think could make some interesting reactions, if you haven't listened to them already. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016) This is a super dark, and experimental hip-hop album with some of my favorite lyricism ever. Danny's voice can be off putting for some, but I personally love it. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt.2 (2001) This is an indie folk album with a lot of amazing genre blending and super lo-fi production. Just a warning though, it is extremely emotional. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind (1996) This is about as inaccessible as an album can get. It's disturbing, weird, and VERY long (It's almost 2 and a half hours long), but if you're able to get into it, then it's some of the most mind-blowing music out there. Black Midi - Hellfire (2022) This one's also super experimental and chaotic, but it's more fun and less of an emotional rollercoaster like the other three.
Really cool and REAL reaction - thanks for being so in the moment and open. I heard this when I was 21 when it came out and the first listen I knew I'd heard my favorite album yet and ever, and 25 years later it remains true. As you become more familiar and comfortable with the lyrics, it will feel less frantic and overwhelming and sink into your being and it'll be with you forever. "Kid A" is the next album they did and it is SO DIFFERENT it is crazy - equally genius but so experimental it is hard for a lot of listeners (myself for sure) to vibe with initially but if you are digging the sounds of the future, that album is even more unreal - it defies all genres and is it's will be it's own thing eternally just as this album is - but Radiohead makes a point to try new sounds every album on all 9 albums - you can trace the evolution if you know them all and look back, but you can experience them in any order you like and find something magical in each one). That being said, this one here is special - the only album I compare it to is "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd - I bet more comments will say the same. It has the same impact. Great tunes surrounded by mood and sound and atmosphere and makes you both uncomfortable while wrapping a warm blanket around you. OK Computer is about how fast things were changing in the 90's (I am so lucky that was my decade for music - it was epic in every genre) - alienation, disconnection, technology, globalism, paranoia - yet hopefulness, but hopefulness all of us as people while we need each other and we need a little help always, need to strive to ensure for yourself in the face of all that struggle, internal and external, you remain balanced through human connection. That has been true through all time but this album remains so beloved because it articulates that concept and all the hurdles while doing it with such amazing songs and a sound that shimmers through time without constraint, it is just the best. Thanks for sharing this! Peace from a fellow Pisces //
hey fellow pisces!! i love your comment so much because i feel like we both think then same about this. i also adore DSOTM. I want to get into more Pink Floyd soon! ❤
girl i literally love you this is the best vide’ i love this album and it changed my life i am so happy when i see other people who connect with some of these songs so deeply! keep doing what ur doing bae it’s working :3
Loved your reaction to this masterpiece, I wish I could listen to it for the first time again, I’m lucky enough to have seen this live at Glastonbury in 97’ there is no other band like Radiohead, simply stunning xx
Growing up in the 90s in the UK and managing to see Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Suede, Manics, OCS many times on tour I feel soo lucky! Great reaction btw ❤
I had this album on cassette when it was first released, played it to death, cemented my love of this band forever. Wonderful reaction - almost a trope that Radiohead is for depressed teens but you're coming at it with great energy and finding the joy in it all.
Also, The Tourist is one of their most underrated songs in my opinion. FANTASTIC tune. And that vocal performance was a one-take 'guide vocal' by the way - which they kept. Coz it's f****ing amazing.
Ayyyy this is what I watch reaction videos for. I love seeing someone get it the way I got it the first time I heard it. ESPECIALLY a song like Climbing Up The Walls 😌
I’m loving your reaction to this!!!! I love Radiohead!!! Would definitely love to see you do more reactions to their music!! I also recommend Portishead!!!
I love that you made all the same faces I did when I heard this at 13. I got this, and a Godzilla box set for Christmas changed/ruined my whole life. My condolences, it looks like you've caught it too.
16:03 one of my fav songs 🙏 you may have heard it at the end of black mirror ep 3 season 3, the end credits of Romeo + Juliet, the end of season 1 of the 100 or in the umbrella academy season 1 but I forgot the episode
This has to be the most random Radiohead reaction I've seen on The Tube. It's perfect. Also, FWIW, this album came out as I was recovering from my car accident (and all the paranoia that had been building up since I graduated from university) so it spoke volumes to me as well.
I watched the video for 'Paranoid Android' when it was in high rotation on NBC's Friday Night Videos. Then stopped listening to Radiohead until 'There, There'. Since then, I've been trying to convince people that Radiohead is the best group out there. To find a sista who loves Radiohead brings tears to my eyes.😂😂😂
You seem to have very good taste, as well as an unusually strong ability to articulate the meeting points between your emotional reactions to music and more objective aspects. If you're doing "Kid A" next, well, good for you! It's a strong candidate for Radiohead's most innovative, forward thinking masterpiece. For me, though, it took the longest of any of their records to get through to me. I essentially had to discover and fall in love with Krautrock (Can's "Future Days" and "Ege Bamyasi," in particular) before I really "got" "Kid A." Your obviously open mind will serve you well, there. Enjoy!
I really didn't expect to watch it for a whole hour with these heavily cut songs and no bass at all. 😁 But I actually couldn't stop watching, because of you. Your energy and expression is very charismatic. And I love the way you experience art with your whole heart. Yes, this album is about your life (and maybe Thom Yorke IS your mother, just kidding), but it's about my life in the 90s too. That's the magic of art. It transcends and elevates. And just to put this in perspective: When living in the 90s, "OK Computer" didn't come as a total surprise, because their album before that, "The Bends", already pointed in the same direction. What came as a total surprise was their album AFTER this, called "Kid A", because they just refused to do a sequel of "OK Computer" and completely re-invented themselves, which was a genius move.
This album is a masterpiece. I can never get tired of Radiohead. In Rainbows and OK Computer are my favorite. If you think in context of when the album was released you can better understand the message about technology. Airbags were still relatively new, so an airbag saved his life, that was kind of a new thing still. I'm glad you discovered this wonderful band.
That scream at the end of Climbing up the Walls always gives me shivers. It just cuts right through. What an album this is. Truly remarkable how applicable it is on todays society. They really were ahead of their time with this album.
I will always argue to the death that this is, and always has been Radiohead's best and most impactful album. In Rainbows is a very close second. I was 14 when this album came out and it literally blew my mind. I still get goosebumps every time I listen to it, even 20 years later. Also, I think Thom Yorke is everyone's husband. He's such an adorable man, and HIS VOICE. And Subterranean Homesick Alien is still my favorite Radiohead song of all time. This album was underrated when it came out(IMO), and now in hindsight it's so far ahead of it's time. It doesn't matter when you experience this album, it's going to be relatable, and magical.
You showed up on my recommendations!, I enjoyed your reaction to Ok,Computer,and subscribed, enjoy ing the voyage of the younger generations experiencing the music I grew up on,warms my heart,thank you for your enthusiasm ❤️😊🎵🎶
I loved this album when I was in high school. Probably the easiest Radiohead album for me to understand what it's about. Some might say it's TOO easy to understand, and I could see that, but it still gives me all kinds of deep thoughts.. so that's what counts to me :)
This is really radioheads transition album from a more strait forward rock band and to a more experimental one. It’s certainly my favorite. It’s really hard to understand the specific themes of isolation and disconnect this album invokes unless you were alive in the 90’s at this time. It was the transition period where the technology creep had changed from “on the periphery” to “front and center;” invading every aspect of our lives. This album incorporates those feelings so well; but it also adopts so those same themes of technology into the music. The third aspect is how mental health crashes into technology.
This is probably my favourite reaction to an album on RU-vid. To watch someone physically feel the music in the same way you did, like when I first listened to it is the closest I’ll get to experiencing these albums for the first time again. Real reaction, subscribed 👌🏼
You should absolutely check out the rest of Radiohead's discography. Trust me it will be a wild ride. My personal second favorite after ok computer is hail to the thief. Also, I think its kinda cute how you get all flustered and excited when youre talking about stuff lol. Maybe you should also listen to the full song and then give your comments after, so you can appreciate the song fully and then have the full picture aswell
You seem like a cool chick. I love it when people have the time to really indulge in an album. Some people just don't know how to do it these days... music is always just background, an over-produced video, or serves a purpose (dancing). I'm trying to get my wife to really properly listen to music and appreciate how the moving parts work together. I'm finding it hard without sounding like a pretentious prick. Music that surprises you and keeps you on your toes while still sounding good is always the best. Not easy to do though.
Great video!!! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings. This album came out when I was 17 and helped me find the understanding to my anxiety, my distress. It took me to read more about capitalism, and how work routine, institutions and all the stuff I wasn't aware of was taking me into depression. Sorry for my English! Greetings from Argentina, the land of wine, soccer, mate, and tango haha!
I really enjoyed this video and I’m really glad you loved this album. You made a lot interpretations about a lot of these tracks and I’d like to say you nailed it pretty well. Had a lot of fun watching this keep doin ya thing ❤.
oh, btw? Thom York dedicated OK Computer to the lead singer/writer of Cardiacs "OK Computer wouldn't have been made if it wasn't for Cardiacs and Tim Smith"
The first time I heard Paranoid Android, I was asking myself "What the hell did I just listen to?" By the third time I heard it, I was thinking that it was one of the greatest songs of all time.
I recommend doing Radioheads The Bends. They did this album prior to OK Computer and it really shows where they came from. And then do Kid A which is like a sequel to OK Computer
Thom does amazing solo work. There's a video of him doing 'Analyse' at the Mercury Music Awards on here. I must've seen it 100 times. Just him & a piano holding a room of music 'experts' in the palm of his hand. He creates such an atmosphere. It's easy to find. It would be a good little reaction. I love Harrowdown Hill too, it's about the mysterious death of a politician who opposed the Iraq war. His album is a classic. Best male voice in music.
exit music (for a film) was used in one of the seasons of the umbrella academy. not sure if thats where you heard it before or not but when i saw it while watching I was very surprised.
would love if you reacted to Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road, it has the most climactic moments of any album ive ever heard, and it is deeply heartwrenching
Notice your My Bloody Valentine record on your wall and I was like oh what she likes shoegaze!?? Then minutes later you mentioned your a big fan of shoegaze music which is pretty awesome 💯🔥
Great reaction. Very real. You should check out Beck-Odelay also released in 97 (or 96, can't remember) a melting pot of styles- hip hop, funk, country,rock,pop,blues, punk with crazy lyrics
