Classical Composer Reacts to High and Dry (Radiohead) | The Daily Doug (Episode 145)
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2021
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In this episode of #TheDailyDoug, I'm reacting to High and Dry by Radiohead by special request. It's a well-conceived pop-style plea for authenticity in friendship, and I enjoyed hearing it and playing along a bit.
Radiohead Reference Video: • Radiohead - High and Dry
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I absolutely love how Doug just jumps in with the piano. That’s why this is the best music review channel. Someone who knows music so well he can improv to a song he’s never even heard before.
When he did that shit with Harvest I was absolutely blown away... That song took me a week to figure out by ear!!
Without doubt Doug is a quality bloke and his commentary on music is educational and always interesting
It sure helps to have perfect pitch!
Real musicians can improv with songs they've never heard. It's a skill you learn
@@pwethman1 most musicians actually dont have perfect pitch even though it seems like it. Perfect pitch is really something your born with or learn at a very young age where you can identify pitches based off sound. He probably has quasi or semi-perfect pitch where you can identify notes based off of your memory of hearing those notes over and over again. When he figured out the chord progression he used something called relative pitch were he know what the intervals were. People with actually perfect pitch have trouble with this because they dont think in intervals. So someone like me who doesnt have perfect pitch would think that its a ii-IV-V progression and then figure out the key, someone with perfect pitch would go thats a F#m-A-E and then think about the interval based on the pitches. So basically perfect pitch is something your born with and may be different than what you think and may not be the best thing. It definitely helps with audiation but intervals are actually harder to figure out based off of their sound vs how far apart the notes are. And one thing about perfect pitch is it actually goes away when you get older and can really make you struggle with your music. Check this if you want more information:
ua-cam.com/video/QRaACa1Mrd4/v-deo.html
Sorry if this is too much or confusing, i realize that you didnt have a question i just wanted to share that he probably doesnt have perfect pitch and it isnt all that it is made out to be.
I’d love to hear your take and breakdown of “Pyramid Song” by Radiohead
I second, third, and fourth this!
Really deep song
yeah
Absolutely! Totally agree re ‘Pyramid Song’. Bear in mind that Thom was performing ‘High and Dry’ when he was about 18, with Headless Chickens, so it’s a very early song for him.
@@BarbNeillBottle Been a Radiohead fan for years, never heard of Headless Chickens before! Though it does sound like a very Thom Yorke thing to call a band 😂
-Karma sponsors video
-Video reacts to Radiohead
-Reaction isn't to Radiohead's Karma Police
...Seems like a lost opportunity!
Please do How To Disappear Completely by Radiohead. I think you'd love the string arrangement. It's seriously a masterpiece, probably their best song!
Probably the best song in the universe 🙏🏻 especially the Live version 🔥
That its my favorite song
The entire “A Moon Shaped Pool” is a sonic adventure! Compared to the Bends it’s extraterrestrial!
Choosing one song is tough. I’d say either “Daydreaming” or “Decks Dark”.
For me it's The Numbers - a soaring masterpiece
@@DJChizzlesworth My favorite changes like every week!
'How to disappear completely' by Radiohead is really interesting, the music and the lyrics are supporting eachother and is unconventional...
For a composer I would definitely recommend some Radiohead hits like, Pyramid song, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, or Jigsaw Falling Into Place!! Love the reaction btw 🤙🏻
If you're doing Radiohead then you really should be looking at Paranoid Android
is that the one Chris Martin said would give his left testicle just to make a song like that? :D it would be interesting to see Doug's take on it,,
I really like when you listen at the piano! I think you'd like Radiohead's Hail to the Thief album, seems right up your alley.
So much of Radiohead 👌
Radiohead
- Karma Police is also an nice Radiohead song
Don’t know if Karma Police is the other Radiohead song on this UA-cam channel.
Please, do a Plague of the lighthouse keepers by Van Der Graaf Generator next. You won’t regret it
Excellent suggestion. 👌
What have I started!!?
If you do Lighthouse Keepers I'll do a reaction video of myself and some Einojuhani Rautavaara! I heard some of his piano stuff once and was lol like "WTF?" While laughing and extremely cool at the same time. I wish I could remember which piece it was!
From that same album check out Fake Plastic Trees
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Your section on the sponsorship felt so much like my father's attempts to explain technology to my mum. Keep up the good work and god bless.
I love that riff you begin playing at the 9:54 mark. Lovely.
love your radioactive joy of playing over this song :)
Excellent again. Really enjoy it when you join in.
Thank You Doug! Love Radiohead and love your piano playing.
I need more doug in my life. Im subbed im excited for this musical journey
Would love to see Starship Trooper by Yes. Great video as always!
That was so delightful Doug, thank you :)
Love you Doug!! Radiohead is one of my favorite bands of all time, please check out, Everything in its right place by them!!
The Bends is just the best album. Probably my favourite album from the 90's. Got to listen to it start to finish.
You've changed the way I listen to this music... thank you so much... I understand it so much better now...
Thank you for this video
Congrats on the sponsorship! Hoping that your channel keeps on growing.
But 6 minutes out of 13 for the sponsor seems a lot - I hope that settles down!
Dear Doug, this is for you: CACOPHONY - Speed Metal Symphony (title song)
Friedman and Becker?
@@pendleeldnep What ??? just Go OFF !!
@@robinstrauss4351 Don't mess with the BLACK CAT because I've got X-RAY EYES, possessing E.S.P. and the SWORD OF THE WARRIOR. I am a STRANGER in a FLOATING WORLD of IMAGES and I won't GO OFF!
@@RedmiNote-lb2qm And thats all inside GO OFF!
@@robinstrauss4351 YES. it's a great album, maybe less cosy than the previous one by Cacophony. GO OFF was unreasonably underrated by the media. To me, this kind of music was simply astonishing.
Man, I can't listen to anything off The Bends without singing along. Better start warming up my voice before I play the video.
Never heard the song before but he plays along and is able to dissect the song on his first listen, Doug you are a genius and I love your channel, keep up the good work sir, many thanks from Yorkshire
Great Song, Album and thanks Doug…
Please do more Radiohead songs. Thank you!
Cool name bro! (Doug) I love hearing a piano or violins covering songs! Sounds so cool
Big Request : Ulver - I Troldskog Faren Vild
I would absolutely adore seeing a break down of Life In a Glasshouse or Like Spinning Plates.
if you'd like to do a deeper cut try The Amazing Sounds of Orgy which predicted the Great Recession of 2008.
Great! Happy that you're sponsored too. Suggestion: Gentle Giant -- Just the same. Masterpiece. Plus, you won't have copyright/blocking issues.
Paranoid Android, There There, and How To Disappear Completely should be good ones for you to check out.
After hearing this, I want this song only in piano now.
subbed, liked, shared, belled. one of my fave bands, and honestly their output in later years (particularly once Jonny Greenwood became a film score composer) would perhaps be more appropriate for your channel. Recommended: Daydreaming or True Love Waits from A Moon Shaped Pool.
Douglas, please don't let us lose you because of karma.
I love the bass in this song. so simple, very, very powerful.
and what an album!
Love these guys. So good. Still looking forward to you doing Yes Awaken and Gates of Delirium. Cheers.
Doug has never heard this tune before yet jams amazing to it
Pyramid Song review would be awesome Doug!
The version rett madison did with stories leaves me breathless
If you're planning to do more Radiohead songs, you should really check out some of their more complex pieces: Paranoid Android, Daydreaming, Exit Music (For a Film), Just, Climbing up the Walls, The National Anthem, The Reckoner... There is really plenty of great stuff from them.
Love it in a great music space. Sounds better, looks better.
Wow that was very good, it's really like having music lessons. Congrats!
Btw, It would be awesome seeing you react to The Shadow Hunter from Angra. It's one of the most beautiful musics by this brazilian band.
Best regards.
Hey Doug, found your site, purely by chance about a month ago and listened to your reactions and other stuff daily when at work. A few weeks ago you reacted to Close to the Edge by Yes; you should try Awaken Where Mr. Rick Wakeman plays the church organ amazingly. It will certainly take you to a higher plane.
After pleading with you to react to some King Crimson I was really sorry to see your video on Starless get taken down. King Crimson used to be notoriously protective of their copyright until the last year when they released all of their studio music to streaming services and UA-cam on their own channel. Unfortunately, it seems that the copyright owners of some of their live material (not the band themselves or DGM, their management) haven’t loosened up so I’d recommend sticking to studio recordings if, as I hope, you decide to try again with KC.
I find it pretty amaze that for someone who doesn’t know the song at all can listen to it, break it down and play a perfect piano accompaniment to a classic song.
Thanks for explaining why I play E major with my right hand in the chorus on the words 'High' and 'Dry' even though my left is playing F#m and A, when I play this. I was unsure whether I was doing it right. I don't have perfect pitch but I can pick stuff up by ear, and that's the way I play it but I doubted that I was hearing it properly.
OMG if you have never heard this Pllllllleaaaase do OK Computer - full album. It broke my other favourite reaction video.
Many many years ago when i was going to college my mum said 'Don't forget to write'..i thought,'well,it's a fairly basic skill.......'....i feel the same way about shopping Doug but thx for the 5 minute ad for something i certainly don't need...love your reactions,i'll just remember to ff 5 mins from now on..cheers and good luck with the new place
Nice reaction, Doug! Always fun to hear what you improvise as accompaniment when you're listening at the piano.
My own requests for reaction (and reasons why):
Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
[NeO is an amazing melodic metal band. Their music is even being taught in an Australian music conservatory as examples of the advanced compositional techniques of modern music]
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick [by preference the MSG 1978 performance, but any will do]
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
[I mean, Jethro Tull defined prog rock in the 70s and 80s. TAAB ranks with 70s Genesis or Pink Floyd as a masterwork of early prog, both in lyrics and music. Aqualung is interesting for the different musical styles used, and even employing atonal phrases where arguably there isn't really a key-center to the melodic phrase]
Moon Hooch - Number 9
[Moon Hooch is a pair of saxophonists backed by a drummer, exploring just how far they can stretch their instrument's sound. Catchy rhythms, multiphonic notes, strong melodies, and more]
Definitely looking forward to your reaction to TARKUS tomorrow!
There's something to be said on the simplicity yet the effectiveness of pop music but I always prefer the "what is that" reaction when I'm bombarded with complexity.
Yes and there are many Radiohead songs that would provide that not a song from their 2nd album when they were just finding themselves.
@@jameshannagan7830 Agree on that. Ok Computer is a spetacular album and Kid A and In Rainbows are very interesting too..
According to Thom, the sing is about Evil Knievel
that makes sense - he was always 'thriving' on the failing - I always wanted him to be great but he loved to talk from a hospital bed in traction - if he was an actual friend you'd feel like he was leaving your friendship High and Dry.
A friend told me years ago that it was about Eddie Kid but equally it could also be about Evil.
We, me and the band I was playing in, covered that song in 1998, I think... loved playing it.
Boy are they young.
I love the way you analyze the classics! It brings me back to when I 1st discovered metal, many years ago... I'd highly recommend you check out Creep by Radiohead. It is yet another very deep song and one of their very best.
Since you enjoy the compositional aspect of these things, I'll once again recommend Speed Metal Symphony by Cacophany, and Air by Jason Becker (half of Cacophony). Becker has a fascinating backstory; you might like his "End of the Beginning" as well. You'll also like Malmsteen's Trilogy Suite Op. 5 I think.
Surprised Doug hasn't done Deep Purple Child in Time live 1970.
Doug, would you like to rate the composition Vitalij Kuprij - piano overture?
when I played in an instrumental band, I tried to arrange some covers, I've learnt the diffrence the bands what who write beautiful main melodies over simple chord progressions vs the bands where the singers are (usually) singing the base note of the chords, like a high pitch bass guitar :) guess wich type is RH ? :)
Undertow performed by Marty Friedman on emgtv.
Something to remember about Radiohead is their chronological journey. They couldn’t fully express themselves until they had gained a critical mass (experimental rock didn’t have interest in the early/mid 90s). It’s why Pablo Honey and The Bends (to me) are kinda safe and pop-adjacent. I mean you said it: “this sounds like the 90s”.
Once they had a foothold, they could be expressive. That’s when we got OK Computer.
You’d be well-served to do piano reactions to things from Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief, In Rainbows, The King Of Limbs, and A Moon Shaped Pool, as that’s the more sonically creative stuff.
Plus the B-Sides. You already did The Daily Mail (a personal favorite), but I’d recommend Spectre, their submission for a Bond theme.
Splendid album by Radiohead. You might get a kick out of their later, more experimental material!
How about an album: Doug Helvering 'Pianohead - assorted Radiohead songs for solo piano'? 👍
shall we react to "Box of Rain" Grateful Dead?
So much for that much awaited ‘Yngwie Thursdays’.
Gentle Giant: I lost my head
Please, react to Blind Guardian - And then there was silence!!!
Or sacred worlds or war of the thrones or dark clouds rising or war feeds war or the bards song or a past and future secret or the road of no release. Any blind guardian would be great!
Anything from blind guardian!!!!!
I totally agree!!
you should listen to daydreaming it is an amazing song
Hey, Doug - I Have you ever composed for a pipe organ? This could be fun - pipe organ is like a huge, analog, kick-ass synthesizer, after all.
Please visit their album In Rainbows and Kid A. My personal favorites. Great music right there, I'm shure you gonna enjoy it Doug. Have a great day brother!
I recommend that you check out Jabra headsets. You could use a good blue tooth headset that would rid you of the cumbersome wire when sitting at the piano. Jabra's fidelity is excellent and are similarly priced to the corded headset you put in your Karma account. Amazon sells them.
You have a good ear, Mr Helvering
Love to hear your analysis! I recommend you check out Band of Horses “The Funeral”. Would love to hear your thoughts/analysis on it.
There's two versions of this music video. The other one has a café scene with a briefcase bomb and lots of tension
Please react to Carolina IV, by Angra (studio version). They mix metal with Brazilian music...
Fairy tale from Shaman (live version) is also a great song
Great song
Man, the piano really fit well with this song in particular. I love it! Also, my usual recommendation still stands, Metropolis Pt. 2 full album by Dream Theater. You know the fans would be down for a double feature, Doug ;)
Opeth - Damnation - Do the full album. You won't regret it and you'd get many views on it :-)
omg, yes.
Rather just Heir Apparent, Lotus Eater or The moor
I’d love to hear some Gentle Giant. They’d fit in perfectly. I’d recommend The Advent of Panurge.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do weird fishes by radiohead. The song is all about arpeggios and I would love to hear your take on it
How about the Portishead - Mysterons (Roseland NYC)
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Wow ! you just deconstruct my favorite song and it was so easy !
Would love to see you react to Dimmu Borgir - Gateways Metal band from norway doing live concert with a Classical symphony
Totally agree in this one
Hey Doug, can you react to Savior in the Clockwork - Avantasia? They don't have a live version, but it's a very complete song with a great instrumental arrangement, epic story telling, amazing lyrics and insane vocals.
If you want something really amazing from radiohead check out "The Numbers", it´s simply a masterpiece. Have a good day :)
Check out "Mein Herz Brennt" by Rammstein (the original or the piano version)
I have so many suggestions for RadioHead - Fake Plastic Trees, the entire OK Computer album KidA's Star Spangled Banner.Most of the songs on Hail to the Thief. They are all worth checking out!
The Watchmaker- Steven Wilson please!
Please. I feel a reaction to Frank Zappa is in order. Maybe Inca Roads or the Yellow Snow Suite? Possibly Montana? Pleeeeeze!
.. or Hot Rats
Could do something unusual like. Bubbles by Yosi Horikawa. Or. The one winged angel (Version from Advent children)
Go Dream Theather again!!
Finally Free - Metropolis Pt2
Also, check the Metropolis Pt2 album, it has an amazing story behind it.
Just type korolev waves and you ve been BLOWN AWAY.
Paranoid Android will really give you something to sink your teeth into.
Yes, they like to use a common tone a lot of their songs. It really works.
So funny to see you do a song that they have effectively disowned. (I still like it; but they clearly have not been fans of it in a long time.)
They've got much more interesting material.
Try out Pyramid Song on the piano. You'll have your mind blown.
This is one of my favorite Radiohead tunes. I love that they made 2 videos. One for US and one for the rest of the world. I had never seen this version or realized their was an alternate version until years later when youtube became a thing. This video is garbage but the US version is an amazing cool video that tells a wild story that makes no sense but keeps your attention.
Doug you have to check the band Leprous the song Slave. Live version is amazing
Day nr. 8 of asking a metropolis pt.2 (dream theater) reaction. It is a really special album with incredible story. I went to the last tour and the played the whole album and it was the best thing in my life. I recommend the Live Scenes from New York version just because the Portnoy solo in Finally Free is the most epic s*** i ever seen
It's on the list...but it may be a while. I've got a back-up of many great suggestions.
@@Doug.Helvering thank you so much. Ill be waiting. Keep going, love the videos
Nobody seems to talk about Black Butterfly by the late great Russian guitar god Ivan Smirnov. Could you review that one, please?