@@chinyachinnu The line is “the best you can is good enough”, but it’s meant to be sarcastic and bitter. The song is about the brutality of an unfair capitalist world that devalues people in the name of profits, and justifies that behavior by saying “just try the best you can, that’s good enough”. The joke of the song is that it isn’t good enough, and no amount of optimism or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will fix this broken system. It needs to be changed before it destroys us all, sending us back to the Stone Age. Hence the song’s apocalyptic mood and imagery and the final line “the dinosaurs roaming the earth”.
@@LongSinceDead1funnily enough I think it works both ways. The whole “You can try the best you can, the best you can is good enough.” is a rejection of the rugged individualistic mindset where “The best anyone will do is all that’s good.” It’s kind of a rejection of the subtle Darwinistic programming that the school system programs you with that makes you eternally feel like a failure because “The big fish eat the little ones” aka “Your peers are constantly outperforming you and you need to sacrifice yourself and your potential to them because they are benefitting society more.”. I think there is a brilliant double meaning here that supersedes the simple pessimistic interpretation Radiohead songs usually get.
It was the year 2000. I used to walk to work with this album playing in my earphones, feeling like I was in the future...…..and now it's 20 years later. Wow!
what transition? It just goes from one song to the other one. I love this album as much as the next guy but come on now; and the same goes for the Idioteque/Morning Bell transition. The only really good transition in this album is EIIRP/Kid A/The National Anthem.
Listened to this album for the first time in its entirety while riding through the snow covered mountains of Washington state. Somehow the music fit perfectly against the snow, mountains, and pine. It’s a moment I’ll never forget.
Um im not a kid thanks I’m 30. And I know the album art has it on it. I just said that the moment moved me is all. I didn’t say it was profound. No need to be condescending.
I get what you mean. I used to go out for rides all the time w/ my GPS. I knew my GPS would always be able to find me a way home so I just went in any direction, sometimes until the sun went down. First thing I'd always do before going out for a car ride was build a playlist. Music + long car rides in rural parts of town, for me, is like a mini vacation. It's surprising how different things can seem only a few miles away from your hometown.
I didnt think Progressive rock and Alternative rock could flow together so smoothly, but once again, Radiohead pulls off the impossible. Those Limeys are fuckin geniuses...now if only they could handle their government as well
Yeah, this is like prog rock 2.0 or something. However, even long before "Kid A" there were very progressive pieces in the realm of alt rock, where I use alt rock as an umbrella term punk and its every descendant. For example, 90's post-hardcore was a very interesting genre, it kept the agression and feel of punk or hardcore punk but it introduced a lot of very sophisticated dissonance. Kinda as if punk musicians went to a jazz school. It was very abrasive. Some songs were very long and progressive as well, like "Luau" or "Sinews" by Drive Like Jehu, "Relectrolux/Electroduh" by Hoover. And don't forget about post-rock, bands like Slint or GY!BE. Very cool shit 😎
Kid A is a work of brilliance. 'Optimistic' gives you the haunting yet supernatural essence you need to embark on the wild sea storm that is 'In Limbo', one of Radiohead's most pivotal moments in their entire timeline (IMHO). You will find yourself stranded in the midst of wavy guitar work and Thom's voice cascading through the soundscape like a discarnate spirit taking a small boat captive in a chaotic ocean. When the storm washes out, Radiohead never returns to that aura ever again.
James, this is like the 20th time I've seen a comment of yours on a video. Do you comment on a lot of Queen videos too? I always see your comments there. Sorry if this comes across a little creepy lol, but it's crazy to me that I've seen the same youtube account comment on a video from a different channel.
When I first discovered "In Limbo" I listened to it every time I went hiking. It was at night in this nature preserve near San Pedro, CA. It was an abandoned missile site, and I was surrounded by creepy trees and plants. I would be the only one out there at 2AM sometimes with my headphones on. It's right next to cliffs and sounds of water crashing. The most beautiful place by day and haunting at night. I would listen to this over and over on repeat and walk forever.....the coolest haunting fantasy memory. Every time I hear this I feel like I'm on that trail.
The last part of Optimistic makes me imagine a person who’s starting to lose it. Drinking and throwing the bottles down while they smash and just having random split second encounters and when the chorus comes to a close and the outro plays the same person comes to a sense of realization. Love this feeling of something come into my mind through song. So glad i looked into Radiohead that’s not just Creep.
I remember that video for Weird Fishes!!! It was so cool. They've been fiercely enforcing copyright since around 2015/2016, it seems. I can't find Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong anywhere anymore. Guess I just gotta buy the EP.
In rainbows.... such food for the soul. Been listening to Radiohead since 1994, they've NEVER had a disappointing album, mostly since they were sent been God himself!
Agreed. Optimistic genuinely has an empowering and encouraging quality to it when listening - I think especially because it also acknowledges the absurdity of it all at the same time.
When I'm at my strangest in life, something about In Limbo is really nice to listen to. Radiohead does confusion and disorientation better than any other band.
Try some Aphex Twin stuff if you like disorienting and confusing music, he was a huge influence on Thom while writing Kid A (Even stating in an interview “Aphex [Twin] opened up another world that didn’t involve my fucking electric guitar")
Flies are buzzing round my head Vultures circling the dead Picking up every last crumb The big fish eat the little ones The big fish eat the little ones Not my problem, give me some You can try the best you can You can try the best you can? The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough This one's optimistic This one went to market This one just came out of the swamp This one dropped a payload Fodder for the animals Living on animal farm You can try the best you can You can try the best you can The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough Oh oh oh Oh oh oh Ah ah ah Oh oh oh I'd really like to help you, man I'd really like to help you, man Nervous messed up marionettes Floating around on a prison ship You can try the best you can You can try the best you can The best you can is good enough You can try the best you can You can try the best you can Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Ah ah ah (oh oh oh) Ah ah ah (oh oh oh) Ah ah ah Oh oh oh
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea I got a message I can’t read Another message I can’t read Being the first in the Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read I'm on your side Nowhere to hide Trapdoors that open I spiral down You're living in a fantasy world You're living in a fantasy world I'm lost at sea Don't bother me I've lost my way I've lost my way You're living in a fantasy world You're living in a fantasy world You're living in a fantasy world This beautiful world I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read? I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read Another message I can’t read I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read
Radiohead are my favorite band ever. And Optimistic is my favorite all-time song from them. It's so claustrophobic, yet catchy. I always thought that main riff sounded so bluesy, almost like a grunge song. Fun to play on guitar/bass too.
Bring it on 4:55 Flies are buzzing around my head Vultures circling the dead Picking up every last crumb The big fish eat the little ones The big fish eat the little ones Not my problem, give me some ... You can try the best you can You can try the best you can? The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough This one's optimistic This one went to market This one just came out of the swamp This one dropped a payload Fodder for the animals Living on animal farm You can try the best you can You can try the best you can The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough Oh oh oh Oh oh oh Ah ah ah Oh oh oh I'd really like to help you, man I'd really like to help you, man Nervous messed up marionettes Floating around on a prison ship You can try the best you can You can try the best you can The best you can is good enough You can try the best you can You can try the best you can Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Dinosaurs roaming the Earth Ah ah ah (oh oh oh) Ah ah ah (oh oh oh) Ah ah ah Oh oh oh
@@k-dogg711 what? every radiohead album except the king of limbs has topped the charts both sides of the atlantic, they sell out stadiums in second. they're a pretty big band, even now, and from ok computer to in rainbows they were probably the biggest band on the planet
Optimistic feels like it's all about someone trying to stay as positive as they possibly can, wishing they could help others but knowing they can barely help themselves. A song about hopeless hope, a delusion they're clinging to with every last breath. In Limbo calls that person out. It says that they both know how it ends, that the character of Optimistic is "Living in a fantasy". It's an adult bursting a child's bubble, their fragile protection of fantasy and imagination. It's a friend who believes themselves to be helping by forcing Optimistic to confront reality. In Limbo is, ultimately, Pessimistic. In the end we choose whether or not to let go of our fantasy and our hope.
thats a cool interpretation! i always figured that the ending of optimistic was highly sarcastic - it has an emotional crescendo right at the end (as my dad calls it, the oohs part) and then it all just leads up to this groovy little end coda that seems very mocking and sarcastic of all the emotions just displayed before.
That’s a great interpretation, and hope I don’t contradict myself here but is this one of those ‘take the artist out of the art for a sec,’ pieces? Because I know Thom was going through some mental challenges around this time, maybe still is, but he doesn’t come off as a pessimist or nihilist. Of course, it’s your interpretation but a spot on one I would say..
two years ago comment squad I think I wrote this from what I felt at 3 in the morning listening to the music, honestly. I love Radiohead's music, but I haven't really gone exploring the "iceberg" so to speak, so what I say about their stuff is what I see from a surface level. Also, you don't necessarily have to believe in a topic to give a commentary on that topic, right? Kid A was a very avant-garde album, and it explored a lot of emotional baggage, so who's to say the band didn't decide to explore it a bit? Regardless, two great songs that are wonderful to listen to together or apart, deeper meaning or no.
Optimistic is definitely a bitterly sarcastic screed against capitalism. Much of Kid A was inspired by the anti-capitalist literature that the band were reading at the time, and those sentiments are most obvious on Optimistic. The chorus is sarcastic. We’re taught that working hard and trying your best will get you far, but in an unjust system, it doesn’t truly work that way. There are people who spend their entire lives working as hard as they can, only to find themselves no better off than when they started. Trapped in a world where everyone is taught to value selfishness, where taking for yourself at the expense of others is an unquestioned good. That’s the landscape Optimistic depicts.
i listened to this album in entirety on a vacation in isreal & egypt summer of 2019 on my way back home on the plain letting the trip sync in. since the flight was so long i actual listened to every radio head album from '92-'11.
dont let it bring you down its only castles burning just find someone whos turning and you will come around you can try the best you can you can try the best you can the best you can is good enough
Heard this track a thousand times before, but i just needed it just now like a junkie needs a fix, first notes just felt like ointment quenching the burning sensation originating from my soul.. Music moves you beyond yourself.
Optimistic: sailing on a prison barge, starving to insanity on barren, foggy, ashen waters. In Limbo: being tied to concrete(impacting the water at 5:23) and struggling to escape the depths that turn from grey to brilliant blue the moment you're submerged.
hey same! I had been listening to them for like a year now, but then last month I listened to the entirety of in rainbows followed by every other album by them, and now I can't stop listening!
classic & timeless=] I love the George Orwell reference. In BCN there are statues and squares dedicated to him for his role in the Civil War. I recommend that everyone reads "Homenaje @ Catalunya" for a look at the history that humanists have fought for. It actually tells you where you can still find bullet holes in BCN dating back to the Civil War. It's amazing that Catalunya still celebrates "Independence Day" on September 11th.
In limbo Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read Being the first in the Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read I'm on your side Nowhere to hide Trapdoors that open I spiral down You're living in a fantasy world You're living in a fantasy world I'm lost at sea Don't bother me I've lost my way I've lost my way You're living in a fantasy world You're living in a fantasy world You're living in a fantasy world This beautiful world I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read? I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read
in limbo isn't peaceful to me, honestly. it's got an amazing, agoraphobic, drunken feeling of sea-sickness that generally is pretty disturbing, and it ends on him screaming "COME BACK" as the music melts. i always found it quite spooky
I totally forgot about Optimistic for years. Heard a song like it tonight, trying to remember who sang it and what song. Took a few hours, but finally nailed Radiohead, and...BAM! Been listening for the last half hour straight. On a different note, I was in the Seattle area when this came out, it is really making me miss the Pacific Northwest 99-01 right now.
In Limbo evokes images of scenes in Alice in Wonderland. Optimistic to me (while the lyrics are colossal), the tune itself reminds me of Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men... and I can't hear anything else when played lol
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i always thought he says "the best you can is not enough" Its actually the best you can is "good" enough!.... guess im not optimistic!
Yea same and I always thought about how much of a contrast are the lyrics to the actual song but I guess I was wrong lol
thank god I am not the only one and I will still continue to believe its "not" , I am optimistic that its not.
@@chinyachinnu The line is “the best you can is good enough”, but it’s meant to be sarcastic and bitter. The song is about the brutality of an unfair capitalist world that devalues people in the name of profits, and justifies that behavior by saying “just try the best you can, that’s good enough”. The joke of the song is that it isn’t good enough, and no amount of optimism or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will fix this broken system. It needs to be changed before it destroys us all, sending us back to the Stone Age. Hence the song’s apocalyptic mood and imagery and the final line “the dinosaurs roaming the earth”.
@@LongSinceDead1funnily enough I think it works both ways. The whole “You can try the best you can, the best you can is good enough.” is a rejection of the rugged individualistic mindset where “The best anyone will do is all that’s good.” It’s kind of a rejection of the subtle Darwinistic programming that the school system programs you with that makes you eternally feel like a failure because “The big fish eat the little ones” aka “Your peers are constantly outperforming you and you need to sacrifice yourself and your potential to them because they are benefitting society more.”. I think there is a brilliant double meaning here that supersedes the simple pessimistic interpretation Radiohead songs usually get.
In Limbo is easily top five Radiohead songs for me.
“You’re living in a fantasy, world”
same! it is a mental song for me
Such a gorgeous little piece of psychedelia. The subtle, ambient guitar tapping in the background (I’m assuming that’s what it is) gets me every time.
that guitar work is fkn brilliant...I really dont know what it is about this song...but...damn...I love it...and have always...
In limbo
1:31
Jesus christ that guitar is amazing..it's so simple but it sounds so ominous. It gives me chills
The whole album is great, but during the last months I can't stop listening to this particular combo
That climax at 4:21 gives me the chills every time. They hold it back until the very end of the song. Masterful
I love it too and my bday is 421 hehe extra
It was the year 2000. I used to walk to work with this album playing in my earphones, feeling like I was in the future...…..and now it's 20 years later. Wow!
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yes... look at all the change.
The transition from Optimistic to In Limbo is amazing.
The only problem with it is that it isn't longer!
yes... Kid A has many amazing song transitions
Isn't it bro! Genius!
what transition? It just goes from one song to the other one.
I love this album as much as the next guy but come on now; and the same goes for the Idioteque/Morning Bell transition.
The only really good transition in this album is EIIRP/Kid A/The National Anthem.
that said, the jazzy coda to Optimistic is great.
Listened to this album for the first time in its entirety while riding through the snow covered mountains of Washington state. Somehow the music fit perfectly against the snow, mountains, and pine. It’s a moment I’ll never forget.
Um im not a kid thanks I’m 30. And I know the album art has it on it. I just said that the moment moved me is all. I didn’t say it was profound. No need to be condescending.
i'm doing the same thing as we speak, but on the other end of the world. cheers.
I get what you mean. I used to go out for rides all the time w/ my GPS. I knew my GPS would always be able to find me a way home so I just went in any direction, sometimes until the sun went down. First thing I'd always do before going out for a car ride was build a playlist. Music + long car rides in rural parts of town, for me, is like a mini vacation. It's surprising how different things can seem only a few miles away from your hometown.
@TheGreatMediocre not sure if you're being ironic or if you're really that much of a tool
Nice memory!
The whole purpose of this song is to hear the songs conjoined and the UA-cam claim algorithm puts an ad between the song transition. ä.
I didnt think Progressive rock and Alternative rock could flow together so smoothly, but once again, Radiohead pulls off the impossible. Those Limeys are fuckin geniuses...now if only they could handle their government as well
Yeah, this is like prog rock 2.0 or something. However, even long before "Kid A" there were very progressive pieces in the realm of alt rock, where I use alt rock as an umbrella term punk and its every descendant. For example, 90's post-hardcore was a very interesting genre, it kept the agression and feel of punk or hardcore punk but it introduced a lot of very sophisticated dissonance. Kinda as if punk musicians went to a jazz school. It was very abrasive. Some songs were very long and progressive as well, like "Luau" or "Sinews" by Drive Like Jehu, "Relectrolux/Electroduh" by Hoover. And don't forget about post-rock, bands like Slint or GY!BE. Very cool shit 😎
If you want Alt Rock and Prog Rock combined listen to Porcupine Tree and The Pineapple Thief, there essentially Radiohead but Prog
Lol are you an American? I hope you are Irish-Irish.😂
In Limbo is my most favorite track on this album. It just clicks on me, drowning me in a sea of drunken lullaby. Escapism at its finest.
You got to be kidding me. They put an ad between the songs. That was the actual reason I looked this up, to hear them together. Uninterrupted.
Ruins one of the best transitions ever. Anything for an extra dollar...
UA-cam REVANCED
Kid A is a work of brilliance. 'Optimistic' gives you the haunting yet supernatural essence you need to embark on the wild sea storm that is 'In Limbo', one of Radiohead's most pivotal moments in their entire timeline (IMHO). You will find yourself stranded in the midst of wavy guitar work and Thom's voice cascading through the soundscape like a discarnate spirit taking a small boat captive in a chaotic ocean. When the storm washes out, Radiohead never returns to that aura ever again.
In limbo is everything i love about Radiohead, just so floaty and different.
Same!!!
I love Optimistic. I always thought the lyrics and feel of the song always had a jarring, apocalyptic nature about it.
James that's pretty much Kid A as a whole
I feel the guitar riff on Optimistic; reminds me of the full force realized in There There.
James, this is like the 20th time I've seen a comment of yours on a video. Do you comment on a lot of Queen videos too? I always see your comments there. Sorry if this comes across a little creepy lol, but it's crazy to me that I've seen the same youtube account comment on a video from a different channel.
Love that description! Perfect
The entire album I think so
When I first discovered "In Limbo" I listened to it every time I went hiking. It was at night in this nature preserve near San Pedro, CA. It was an abandoned missile site, and I was surrounded by creepy trees and plants. I would be the only one out there at 2AM sometimes with my headphones on. It's right next to cliffs and sounds of water crashing. The most beautiful place by day and haunting at night. I would listen to this over and over on repeat and walk forever.....the coolest haunting fantasy memory. Every time I hear this I feel like I'm on that trail.
Aw man, thanks for this wholesome comment i feel ya
Dude i gotta check that out, I love creepy abandoned shit. Not for the whole ghost joke, but the feel of history.
Alone , at night , creepy trees , headphones on , i've seen films where
that sort of thing doesn't end well .
The last part of Optimistic makes me imagine a person who’s starting to lose it. Drinking and throwing the bottles down while they smash and just having random split second encounters and when the chorus comes to a close and the outro plays the same person comes to a sense of realization. Love this feeling of something come into my mind through song. So glad i looked into Radiohead that’s not just Creep.
no joke, creep is bottom of the barrel for radiohead tbh(.. and still a banger)
weegie board yeah that’s so strange how people only know Creep, but their entire discography is so good.
In Limbo might be one of my top 5 favorite Radiohead songs. Can't help but visualize "I'm lost at sea" with the perfectly fitting instrumental.
There used to be a fan video here on UA-cam with footage of weird deep sea fishes, it was so cool but yeah it got deleted.
@@autismatic unfortunately it won't be long before this gets deleted too. Radiohead is pretty strict about how their music gets distributed
Yeah!!! In Limbo sounds like sounds like somebody lost in the sea! PERFECT.
I remember that video for Weird Fishes!!! It was so cool. They've been fiercely enforcing copyright since around 2015/2016, it seems. I can't find Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong anywhere anymore. Guess I just gotta buy the EP.
It's working title was lost at sea!
Can’t stop listening to Optimistic and not think of Ayrton Senna. Legend for the whole history of F1
Kid A is the BEST Radiohead album. What an incredible journey it is every time. Every single song is perfection!!!
OK Computer and In Rainbows would like to talk to you
@@oskwie861 A Moon Shaped Pool
In rainbows.... such food for the soul. Been listening to Radiohead since 1994, they've NEVER had a disappointing album, mostly since they were sent been God himself!
Hail to the thief !!!!!!
@@MegaCirse Soooo underrated!!!!
God bless this man for letting us appreciate this amazing transition
My fav transition on any album ever. So good!
The bass playing on the last couple sections of optimistic is fantastic
I don’t trust anyone that does not like or appreciate the magic that is Radiohead
I love Radiohead's music but most people I know don't get them.
southerner4566 same here
also same here
If you dont get radiohead you don't get music and are probably a Duran Duran fan
@@juliestone9196 i used to like Duran Duran...but then I discovered Radiohead
God Optimistic is powerful. It's my favorite Radiohead track followed by Everything In It's Right Place and Paranoid Android. Absolute masterpieces.
mine are Optimistic too and Let Down
Everything In It's Right Place just wow...
Agreed. Optimistic genuinely has an empowering and encouraging quality to it when listening - I think especially because it also acknowledges the absurdity of it all at the same time.
Optimistic is one of the best song written in the last 30 years....it's mesmerizing damn!!
I haven't heard Optimistic in many years. It has aged so well!
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When I'm at my strangest in life, something about In Limbo is really nice to listen to.
Radiohead does confusion and disorientation better than any other band.
Thom is a genius
Try some Aphex Twin stuff if you like disorienting and confusing music, he was a huge influence on Thom while writing Kid A (Even stating in an interview “Aphex [Twin] opened up another world that didn’t involve my fucking electric guitar")
Tool tho
@@thecichlisuite Ambient songs! I love them, and I always thinked "There's something of ambient in Kid A"
For disorienting, I gotta give it up to Dillinger Escape Plan
In Limbo is the last song my friend sang at karaoke before he killed himself. This song will never stop haunting me.
Holy Shit, im sorry man..
Fark ! Thats heavy
I suggest not listening to it voluntarily... or maybe listening to it so many times you no longer think of him.
I fucking LOVE that little groove at 1:30. Always have. Such a nice little interlude.
Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can?
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Ah ah ah
Oh oh oh
I'd really like to help you, man
I'd really like to help you, man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Floating around on a prison ship
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Ah ah ah (oh oh oh)
Ah ah ah (oh oh oh)
Ah ah ah
Oh oh oh
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can’t read
Another message I can’t read
Being the first in the Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
I'm on your side
Nowhere to hide
Trapdoors that open
I spiral down
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
I'm lost at sea
Don't bother me
I've lost my way
I've lost my way
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
This beautiful world
I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read?
I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read
Another message I can’t read
I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read
I got a message I can’t read, I got a message I can’t read
Thanks. Grettings from Perú.
"Dinosaurs roaming the earth?"
I thought it was "that isn't awayneoughhhh"
Lol
I think it's living on animal fun
@@BienAimee868 Occasionally he sings "Missiles are in the air" live.
still get goosebumps listening to optimistic
Radiohead are my favorite band ever. And Optimistic is my favorite all-time song from them. It's so claustrophobic, yet catchy. I always thought that main riff sounded so bluesy, almost like a grunge song. Fun to play on guitar/bass too.
The ending of Optimistic (beginning at: 4:22) is just utter perfection. The transition it makes into In Limbo makes it even better.
Always felt like in limbo lined up to optimistic's ending during the latter half of the song. I'm glad other people agree ☺️
Those dinosaurs 🦕 do be ruling the earth
God that fucking jazzy bass solo at the end of optimistic is so groovy.
Didn't expect to find my favourite tracks in one link!Splendid
Bring it on 4:55
Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
...
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can?
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Ah ah ah
Oh oh oh
I'd really like to help you, man
I'd really like to help you, man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Floating around on a prison ship
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Ah ah ah (oh oh oh)
Ah ah ah (oh oh oh)
Ah ah ah
Oh oh oh
Kubrick had the hurled animal bone to orbiting missile ship. Radiohead have Optimistic to In Limbo!!!
What an analogy! I remember the first time i saw 2001 and the bone scene may be my favourite out of all movies.
Optimistic into In Limbo into Idioteque into Morningbell..
Near perfect!
Both songs are perfect
2 of the most trippiest beautiful yet badass songs ive ever heard i love
you Radiohead
in limbo is an underrated RH tune. great arpeggio
Such a wonderful, dark, warm album.
My favourite combo ❤
Optimistic, Let Down and Just, my favourite trio of songs from these guys.
4:21 is my favourite part of Kid A, period.
Them Drumfills
favourite part in any radiohead song
Wow this is underrated. Figured this would have millions of hits.
お化け That’s most of Radiohead for everything after OK Computer
I suppose that's what Philistines are for.
Radiohead is not a band must People understood to stick we.
Thats ok mainstream listeners can have theyre mainstream commercial crap that leaves more of these masterpieces to us.
@@k-dogg711 what? every radiohead album except the king of limbs has topped the charts both sides of the atlantic, they sell out stadiums in second. they're a pretty big band, even now, and from ok computer to in rainbows they were probably the biggest band on the planet
Optimistic feels like it's all about someone trying to stay as positive as they possibly can, wishing they could help others but knowing they can barely help themselves. A song about hopeless hope, a delusion they're clinging to with every last breath.
In Limbo calls that person out. It says that they both know how it ends, that the character of Optimistic is "Living in a fantasy". It's an adult bursting a child's bubble, their fragile protection of fantasy and imagination. It's a friend who believes themselves to be helping by forcing Optimistic to confront reality. In Limbo is, ultimately, Pessimistic.
In the end we choose whether or not to let go of our fantasy and our hope.
thats a cool interpretation! i always figured that the ending of optimistic was highly sarcastic - it has an emotional crescendo right at the end (as my dad calls it, the oohs part) and then it all just leads up to this groovy little end coda that seems very mocking and sarcastic of all the emotions just displayed before.
That’s a great interpretation, and hope I don’t contradict myself here but is this one of those ‘take the artist out of the art for a sec,’ pieces? Because I know Thom was going through some mental challenges around this time, maybe still is, but he doesn’t come off as a pessimist or nihilist. Of course, it’s your interpretation but a spot on one I would say..
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I think I wrote this from what I felt at 3 in the morning listening to the music, honestly. I love Radiohead's music, but I haven't really gone exploring the "iceberg" so to speak, so what I say about their stuff is what I see from a surface level.
Also, you don't necessarily have to believe in a topic to give a commentary on that topic, right? Kid A was a very avant-garde album, and it explored a lot of emotional baggage, so who's to say the band didn't decide to explore it a bit?
Regardless, two great songs that are wonderful to listen to together or apart, deeper meaning or no.
Optimistic is definitely a bitterly sarcastic screed against capitalism. Much of Kid A was inspired by the anti-capitalist literature that the band were reading at the time, and those sentiments are most obvious on Optimistic. The chorus is sarcastic. We’re taught that working hard and trying your best will get you far, but in an unjust system, it doesn’t truly work that way. There are people who spend their entire lives working as hard as they can, only to find themselves no better off than when they started. Trapped in a world where everyone is taught to value selfishness, where taking for yourself at the expense of others is an unquestioned good. That’s the landscape Optimistic depicts.
This band are a definite MARMITE...band...I've noticed this over the years...love them or hate them. ...and I love them!!!
Masterpiece..you either GET IT..or Don't..
This two song stretch is one of the highlights of the album.
The transition like ice and wind , cool ❤
4:32 drum fill very perfect
Optimistic is one of my favorite songs of all time. Top 5.
i listened to this album in entirety on a vacation in isreal & egypt summer of 2019 on my way back home on the plain letting the trip sync in. since the flight was so long i actual listened to every radio head album from '92-'11.
One of the best transitions ever.
One of the best bands in my 43yrs on this blue dot!
dont let it bring you down
its only castles burning
just find someone whos turning
and you will come around
you can try the best you can
you can try the best you can
the best you can is good enough
Genii, every note just compliments the next hook and progression, instrument and sound source selection is top quality.
The best you can is definitely good enough. Love to all, Peace and Eternal Bliss. Let us all be Optimistic.
I love how in the Top Gear Tribute for Ayrton Senna, this was the song playing
Finally someone pointed that out here
I have to listen thanks man
I just found my “Best Of Radiohead” CD and heard this and thought, this sounds damn familiar, realized it was on that clip! Damn good song!
My two fav songs of kid A,
Heard this track a thousand times before, but i just needed it just now like a junkie needs a fix, first notes just felt like ointment quenching the burning sensation originating from my soul..
Music moves you beyond yourself.
Reminds me of winter 2000-2001
I was 8-9 yrs old listening to 99.1 HFS Washington DC
The greatest rock band that ever lived!!!!!!!!
Optimistic: sailing on a prison barge, starving to insanity on barren, foggy, ashen waters.
In Limbo: being tied to concrete(impacting the water at 5:23) and struggling to escape the depths that turn from grey to brilliant blue the moment you're submerged.
magical transition
I'm arriving really late to this party for sure. Just discovering Radiohead...wow.. in love !
hey same! I had been listening to them for like a year now, but then last month I listened to the entirety of in rainbows followed by every other album by them, and now I can't stop listening!
classic & timeless=] I love the George Orwell reference. In BCN there are statues and squares dedicated to him for his role in the Civil War. I recommend that everyone reads "Homenaje @ Catalunya" for a look at the history that humanists have fought for. It actually tells you where you can still find bullet holes in BCN dating back to the Civil War. It's amazing that Catalunya still celebrates "Independence Day" on September 11th.
Very good song, it makes me feel like flying over mountains
One of my favourite Radiohead songs. Good to see their music slowly making its way back on UA-cam after the Thanos-like purge.
this has always been my favourite moment of kid a
This give me the chills every time I hear it.
Waking up in the middle of the night,
Im lost at sea, don't bother me
Couldn't help but fill some of my emptyness with this band
Savage bass work on Optimistic.
Another very good combo is Bangers + Mash and Separator. From two different albums, but they mix perfectly!
Optimistic is what you want your internal monologue to be.
In Limbo is what it actually is.
best rock album ever
Marco Vitagliano could you really consider it rock tho? One of my favorite albums but I wouldn't put it in that box
experimental rock
@@jamespw6206 art rock
Electronic
That guitar on In Limbo!
The sound is so sweet i feel it in a way that a human cant describe it
Feeling very very down
Same
I totally understand. My mom died last week. We are living in a fantasy world.....
I hope you are feeling up now 💕
@@India6100 Hugs 💗
You'll come out of this stronger, you've got this. Hang on in there
This album made me lose interest in all other music when it came out. I was instantly addicted!
the transition is the apex moment of the apex album of the apex band.
In limbo
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
Being the first in the Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
I'm on your side
Nowhere to hide
Trapdoors that open
I spiral down
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
I'm lost at sea
Don't bother me
I've lost my way
I've lost my way
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
This beautiful world
I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read?
I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read
I got a message I can't read, I got a message I can't read
I could never pick a favourite song, but these might be my favourite two songs when combined.
This is Radiohead at their best!!!
I wish they played this live
How come ive only just found this amazing track !!
A melhor banda de rock de todos os tempos!
Sem dúvida
Classic and Timeless
Love in Limbo, love that song!
If you want to have best dreams you will ever have listen optimistic + in limbo and there there
There are plenty more...sorry, 😪I'm gonna sleep, I'm in Limbo🙍 right now... Regards🙋
These two tracks are the meat of this album in my opinion.
Big Time Radiohead Fan From Early 2000s. First Album I Heard By Them In Full Was
Kid A.
Coming in At Post # 333
Y'all sleeping on In Limbo
Like how can you listen to 5:48 and not feel in total peace
Guitar sound, Thom voice, smooth drums perfect peace
in limbo isn't peaceful to me, honestly. it's got an amazing, agoraphobic, drunken feeling of sea-sickness that generally is pretty disturbing, and it ends on him screaming "COME BACK" as the music melts. i always found it quite spooky
listen to the bass in optimistic is mind blowing
I totally forgot about Optimistic for years. Heard a song like it tonight, trying to remember who sang it and what song. Took a few hours, but finally nailed Radiohead, and...BAM! Been listening for the last half hour straight.
On a different note, I was in the Seattle area when this came out, it is really making me miss the Pacific Northwest 99-01 right now.
5:08 for In Limbo
Que disco tan bello!
Forget ALL the technical stuff, THIS is my SHIT!
I'm fuckin stoned right now, and this song makes me chills
In Limbo evokes images of scenes in Alice in Wonderland.
Optimistic to me (while the lyrics are colossal), the tune itself reminds me of Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men... and I can't hear anything else when played lol