@@nombreapellido310 jigsaw falling into place is definitely not one of their happiest songs. The song consistently makes a point of highlighting Yorke (or whoever the perspective of the song is coming from)'s consistent relationship failures as well as a potential relationship that never happened.
if you just pick out the “happy” words you totally miss tone and context, like thinking “Optimistic” is ACTUALLY happy.... and Fitter Happier, which is clearly sarcastic and unsettling
I mean how to disappear completely absolutely takes the cake for me. It might not be sad per se, but it’s so damn empty. Honotable mention is Daydreaming.
Im not here This isnt happening I'M NOT HEEEEEREEEE I'M NOT HERE In a little while, I'll be gone Tbh even though the lyrics are simple, I feel like out of all radio head songs, how to disappear describes all consuming feelings of psych ache and utter alienation the best. It's a song you feel when it's 3 in the morning and you're scream crying begging to just disintegrate and all you can say is one mantra because you're emotionally and mentally completely fried.
TheLastOne ToAsk The melon has spit the seeds of a meme from his melon tissue, and from these seeds, maybe, just maybe, a beautiful new meme shall grow and flourish.
@@Gekkodevon I think you mean "True Love Will Find You In the End"? pretty depressing song it's about how Thom's wife found the love of God before her demise
It was Roger Water that was in a fishbowl. But you are probably referring to Weird Fishes where he "hits the bottom" ... unless you were talking about where the video that was shot in a some kind of fishbowl.
Coincident Synchrony that's true but he basically said that the song itself is an embodiment of despair and sadness and that they themselves didn't even write it they are just the carriers of it so it's pretty safe to say it is
Black Star for me. I was listening to it all the time when my first serious relationship ended. "I get on the train and I just stand in the back, now that I don't think of you/ I keep falling over I keep passing out, when I see a face like you"
The original happy hopeful version of "True Love Waits" was written when Thom was first beginning his relationship with Rachel, and the devastating version from A Moon Shaped Pool was recorded when their relationship was ending and Rachel was dying of cancer... I'd say that it's probably the saddest song I've ever heard.
I listened to 5 Radiohead albums back-to-back a few months ago when walking around the National Gallery here in London - OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows, Amnesiac and A Moon Shaped Pool (it was as super long museum visit!). I have to say, nothing hit me as hard as 'True Love Waits' at the end of A Moon Shaped Pool. It was like a bitter goodbye - to their discography thus far, to Thom's partner of 20+ years...I admit I teared up in the museum and had to sit down and compose myself. So my vote goes to 'True Love Waits', definitely.
I know what you mean. I had a friend suggest that I try learning True Love Waits on the guitar to sing along with and I was merely aghast. I doubt I could get through that.
A Moon Shaped Pool is so desolate and hauntingly beautiful, even for Radiohead standards. Idk the critical reception but it's one of my favorites. Decks Dark my favorite on the album.
This data analysis doesn't take into account the context of a song like "True Love Waits". The way that song existed for years but was transformed after Rachel Owen's death makes it easily their saddest song, at least for me personally. I will never forget the feeling of looking at the track listing for A Moon Shaped Pool while coming down from a trip in the middle of the woods. Listening to Neil Young's "Out On the Weekend" all night over and over, only to find that as the first light of dawn was breaking, Radiohead's new album was out. I wanted to save the listening for later that morning, but checked the tracklist. Seeing "True Love Waits" at the end made me stone still. Having listened to the live version for years to sort out my life's melodrama, I couldn't fathom a happy reason to rearrange that tune. Lo and behold, it is the most heart wrenching and difficult song they ever released. No competition.
@@ethandeister6567 exactly, a computer can’t quantify the human experience, most people have gone through heartbreak at some point and fuck if that doesn’t encompass my internal bargaining trying to make it work
How to disappear completely, that song is truly beautifully hopeless. It so perfectly captures the feeling of being deep within the grips of depression and believing there is no way out. Communicating an emotion with such complex manifestations, in my opinion, has only been done on this track.
honestly, it is fucking devastating like "Red wine and sleeping pills Help me get back to your arms Cheap sex and sad films Help me get where I belong" FUCK
No Suprises is their one song that manages to stick with me. First time I ever heard it, I was at a low point in life when I lost someone close, and it took over a year for me to realize that the lyrics made me remember how I say the person I lost and how I saw they felt before dying. Not only that, it's not a song about being sad, it's a song about feeling empty and devoid of life, and that gets to me
Angsty post ahead: When my mom died 4 months ago in an ICU, everything around me seemed to fade. I stopped processing what my eyes saw or what my ears heard. The only thing I was aware of was numbness and "How to Disappear Completely" playing in my head. I think that at that moment I was completely paralyzed with no idea how to express the immense sadness I felt so my brain played the saddest song I knew.
Alex Block I think title has very little to do with it. Street Spirit is definitely comparable if not more depressing than htdc as well as a wealth of other songs
This automatic rating system is seriously flawed. I don't get how "High and Dry" is rated more depressing than "Street Spirit / Fade Out". It seems the algorithm just doesn't pick up on more abstract themes.
seriously, I don't necessarily get super sad when I hear street spirit but I would consider high and dry maybe middle, like just below "Just" imo bulletproof is the saddest on the album maybe behind FPT
Agreed. Hands down one of the hugest downers in their discography. Though a lot of their closing tracks can have the same said about them (True Love Waits, Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Tourist, etc.)
I know for a fact that this isn’t their saddest song lyrics-wise and probably not even music-wise but videotape makes me feel emotions that I can’t even explain. I legit busted out crying the first time I heard the song it’s just so raw, relatable and depressing imo
Here's my top 5 1. How to Disappear Completely 2. True Love Waits (Oslo and AMSP version) 3. Videotape 4. Bullet proof...I wish I was 5. How I made my millions
I don't get why so many are saying How to Disappear Completely. It's based on someone teaching him to remove himself from his environment in order to deal with stress and anxiety. It's not necessarily a sad song.
Tom Carno You can easily see this as being kind of depressing in that he felt the need to isolate himself to function. I'd argue the Wall is depressing for the same reason.
1. True Love Waits 2. Pyramid Song 3. Videotape 4. Bishop's Robes 5. Fog (Again) 6. Give Up The Ghost 7. Street Spirit...Fade Out 8. How To Disappear Completely 9. You and Who's Army? 10. (tie) I Will 10. (tie) Daydreaming
The Oslo version of True Love Waits is almost uplifting - you can hear a degree of hope in Thom's voice as he fully sings every note to their full length with power in the Oslo version. AMSP's version is beyond depressed and into the realm of deflated, defeated, and devoid of even the faintest concept of the word "hope." He barely has the strength to finish holding "don't leave" and let's it and the final note of instrumentation hang feeling unresolved. I just don't know how you can rank the Oslo version as high on the depression list.
I never cared so much about thoms lyrics, but to me let down is an uplifting song. In like how if you realize how trapped your life is and you decide to break loose from it kind of thing.
Saddest Per Album IMO: 1. Pablo Honey - Thinking About You 2. The Bends - Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was 3. OK Computer - Let Down 4. Kid A - How to Disappear Completely 5. Amnesiac - Pyramid Song 6. Hail to the Thief - Sail to the Moon 7. In Rainbows - Nude 8. The King of Limbs - Give Up the Ghost 9. A Moon Shaped Pool - True Love Waits
@@vermillionumbrella2939 I find Exit Music more intense than depressing. Climbing Up The Walls takes the cake for most depressing song on OKC, imo That song is just straight-up "you've spent the entire day in bed and now it's around 6 in the evening and the dusk is coming in through the curtains"-depressing
Hard to choose just one: Videotape, Daydreaming, All I Need, How To Disappeare Completely, Street Spirit (Fade Out), True Love Waits, Knives Out, Fake Plastic Trees...
Exactly. And Thom agrees with us "'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers. It's biological catylysts. "It's core is a complete mystery to me. I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. "I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack. "Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the f--king devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh."
That quote isn't real, look it up. Originated on a forum a while ago. Can't ever imagine radiohead being that pretentious. The original source for the quote also provides no source.
I'd say it's just a bit of an algorithm fart. It probably looks at the lyrics at face value so it just thinks of all the "happy" words in fitter happier as really happy.
Sam Glover there is no optimism unless you're referring to manic and blind optimism bred from psychic deterioration and hopelessness. The song is an ode to "I've tried everything and nothing is working"
Bullet proof... I wish I was Street Spirit True Love Waits (I actually think the acoustic version is sadder to me) Let Down No Surprises How to Disappear Completely Morning Bell (Amnesiac version) Motion Picture Soundtrack Scatterbrain Pyramid Song I will Last Flowers Videotape
None of their songs are depressing to me, just morbidly bittersweet. I've gotta give it to "Videotape", a song about someone who is dying recording their last moments in order to be remembered.
Videotape takes the win for me too. I don’t cry easily when it comes to music but that song made me burst into tears. Not the happiest listen as a suicide attempt survivor.
I think True Love Waits is their saddest song, but it doesn’t “depress” me, it just makes me long for someone/something/sometime I will never see, have or be again. Depressing for me are songs like Climbing Up The Walls, Street Spirit, or Creep. Those songs communicate to me feelings of depression, fear, doom, and self loathing. Which I can relate to completely.
From each album Pablo Honey: Thinking About You The Bends: Bullet Proof... I Wish i Was Ok Computer: Exit Music (For a Film) Kid A: Motion Picture Soundtrack Amnesiac: Pyramid Song Hail to the Thief: uhh... We Suck Young Blood... maybe? In Rainbows: Videotape The King Of Limbs: Give Up the Ghost A Moon Shaped Pool: True Love Waits
Pablo Honey: Thinking About You The Bends: Street Spirit OK Computer: Let Down Kid A: How to Disappear Completely? Amnesiac: Pyramid Song Hail To The Thief: I Will In Rainbows: Videotape The King of Limbs: Codex A Moon Shaped Pool: True Love Waits
For me. Street Spirit. Many of their songs seem quite introverted but I saw them in concert in London over a decade ago and boy was it anything but. They were incredible. People were literally dancing like lunatics inspired by the band. The best concert I have ever been too and there have been many. It was so bloody good.
Daydreaming. That's it. The subject matter. The chords, the video, the personal connection.... Nothing as depressing and beautiful as it in their discography.
