Weird Fishes / Arpeggi is my favorite song of all time and on good quality headphones/iems you can hear subtleties that are uncovered in an overwhelmingly astounding and ethereally blissful way.
i had already been listening to this song for nearly a year when one day I was lying on my bed and i heard a sound I had never heard in the song before. that’s when i realized this is one of if not the best produced song ever made. so many details and sounds all come together to make a masterpiece. it’s definitely my favorite Radiohead song
Hate is a stretch. I was more of a generic alt rock fan before I first listened to Kid A and it hooked me on the electronic/experimental genres pretty much immediately. Not my favorite Radiohead album anymore, that is In Rainbows, but it’s certainly not an album to hate.
I’m sure others are telling you this, but you gotta listen to the live from the basement sessions. Seeing them make this music live is something special.
As someone who’s listened to In Rainbows ever since it was released as a pay-what-you-want album, I find it interesting how “Weird Fishes” has become the “hit” of the album. Don’t get me wrong, I find this tune to be absolutely incredible; I just don’t recall it garnering the praise and attention that it does now. It may just be the case that this song greatly benefits from repeat listens and only grows with appreciation with time.
Then you remember just how pioneering Radiohead's sound was from the beginning bro. Weird Fishes, Let Down (for example) are this generations first listen, and speaks to the time they are living in acoustically and lyrically. For first release listeners, those that had to wait years in between albums, the entire songbook day one was a new reference of sound. But for reactors today - so many bands, film scores, tv soundtracks, outros, and popular media have already been influenced by Radiohead as a defacto signature sound.
I don't necessarily agree with your assertion that people universally look back at "Weird Fishes" as the sole album hit. It's one of the standouts, sure. But, if anything, when I hear or read anyone talking about this album, "Nude" actually gets brought up more on rankings lists and so forth. But more interestingly, "Jigsaw Falling into Place" is talked about as the true underrated song on this album. That actually makes sense to me as when I first heard "Jigsaw" I was kind of meh about it, but now it's one of my favorites.
To be fair their entire catalog requires multiple listens, I can't begin to list all the songs of theirs that I love but really wasn't crazy about the first handful of times I listened to them. It took multiple basement listens for the King Of Limbs to finally click and I still prefer the basement versions although I can finally appreciate the studio album now.
@@JerryBees In ear or over ear preferred? In ear - Blessing 3 or Blessing 3 Dusk/ or ER2XR (best for 100 bucks if you're willing to violate your ears for sound isolation and seal for detail), truthear Nova, 7HZ timeless, ect ect Overear? I'm not as into as IEMs have more detailed and analytical sound that I like. The T990 that our friend mentioned here are more V shaped and fun at the expense of some fine detail but depending on your listening preferences you may prefer thise because you might find the more analytical options a bit bland or flat. Let me know if you have sound or fit preferences! (Oh and budget)
Great video. Thom definitely seemed to be much more confident flexing the vocals in the album this time around. I'd seen him do it in earlier live performances but the band really does a great job of building a record that incorporates a wider range of his vocal skills. It makes sense that this growth would happen over a decade. This was also the first album ever dropped as a "pay what you want" release, right off their own website.
Great reaction, good commentary. You REALLY need to react to Nude and Weird Fishes and Reckoner done live 'In The Basement' sessions, you get to see them performing up close and personal, AMAZING sessions. Cheers from South Australia
I’ve always considered In Rainbows to be the easy listening Radiohead album. Or perhaps the intro to their discography. The percussion on Videotape mimicking the sound of a VCR rewinding is inspired.
If you want the REAL crazy out there shit from Radiohead you gotta do Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief. Those 3 were back to back right after OK Computer and it's widely seen as one of the craziest, boldest left turns in music history. Achieved massive success as a rock band with OK Computer and then IMMEDIATELY decided to do something different. In Rainbows is just after that run and is actually a little bit of a return to earth by comparison, but it's album made by people who had been through that period of crazy experimentation and brought all they'd learned from that as musicians and distilled it down to fairly simple but really interesting tracks. EDIT: Also, eeeeeeeeverybody says that about Weird Fishes the first time. Good but not gonna be one of your favourites. Give it time.
Appreciate your thoughtful reactions - all Radiohead are growers - my rule - 10 Listens and then they click - they subvert your expectations so much from album to album you need to marinate a bit to appreciate them
Nigel was the producer on this. Those heavenly background vocalsnon Weird Fishes is Ed O'Brisn wailing "way down." These are the best background vocals ever laid down. I wait for them as much as Thom's gorgeous voice. Sometimes York's lyrics mean something deep. Sometimes, they are just personal jokes of his. He said for Fake Plastic Trees he wrote a song about nothing that turned into something. He said some of those lines he wrote made him laugh. I could never get tired of In Rainbows. I think OK Computer is better, but In Rainbows is my favorite.
No matt bellamy said he was inspired by Jeff Buckley when he was asked if he was inspired by Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has said multiple times he was inspired by Bono. Jeff Buckley and Radiohead are contemporary and Radioheads first album Pablo Honey came out a year before Grace by Jeff Buckley.
Wanna hear something wild about Videotape? It's not a 4/4 funeral march. It's 8/8, and the piano is syncopated WITH THE DRUM MACHINE SNARE THAT COMES IN LIKE TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY THROUGH THE SONG. Like, after the lyrics are done. When I learned that it blew my fucking mind.
Again loved your honest and open reaction- nice to see. Don’t neglect The Bends - the one before OK Computer - it’s the one where I fell in love with their original more guitar based sound 👍
It's hard not to think back to how good OK Computer was while listening to this and also be reminded of the old adage, "comparison is the thief of joy". This album has its own vibe which is consistent with their overall tone which may seem sad, but I feel like they do a great job of creating nurturing a space for emotional catharsis or mental pruning which is kind of what sadness is. And there is joy to be found in that.
It’s funny, having experienced every release since OKC, when this came out everyone was like woohoo happy Radiohead (sort of), have fun with the others!
its interesting how you listen to this band. yes the subject manner is depressing but only a few radiohead songs make me feel sad. Apart from the lyrics, the songs arent too dark. For example, Nude sounds beautiful if not hopeful. same with all I need.
For me there's never been a band that grows on me more over time than Radiohead - and, with their post-OKC albums, so slowly. I loved The Bends and OKC in college, then later I bought Kid A and HTTT with high hopes and only sort of enjoyed them. I paid like $3 to download In Rainbows and subsequently forgot about it for a solid decade...and now suddenly it's one of my favorite things of all time. I'm only now working my way into KoL and Moon Shaped Pool. It's so strange but I love it and they're my favorite band.
I'm not going to lie, I've listened to countless albums, but this one stands out as the biggest grower I've ever encountered. On the first listen, I appreciated it, just like you did. But by the third or fourth listen, it had already transformed into something phenomenal. Now, after even more listens, I'm seriously considering it as my favorite album of all time. All of the songs just keep getting better and better, and in my opinion work even better as standalone tracks than OK Computer. I highly recommend giving it more listens, it definitely rewards you for it.
Lots of the sound you hear in Radiohead is either made with Eds gigantic pad and pedal set up or Johnny's home made computer program for programing sound. It's unique.
Beyond being a concept album, in rainbows was always a experience for me, in a way that different songs affects me in different ways in different moments of life, and i'm always looking for this moments of bliss (like the beat switch in reckoner)
I personally don't know that I've heard a better 3 song run than Nude/Weird Fishes/All I Need. To me it's 13 minutes of transcendant perfection and, despite the sad and sometimes fucked up lyrics, has been one the ways I calm down from anxiety attacks for years.
Imho In rainbows is more interesting when heard in proper order - the transition from the bends to Ok computer - OKC to kid A and amnesiacs(the biggest transition) to hail to the thief to in rainbows etc… half the mythology of Radiohead is embedded in the evolution of the band
If you’re also gonna do Grace I recommend the Bends first, it’s very rocky and the vocals are directly inspired by Jeff Buckley. I think this month there’s a Grace 30 year anniversary special on BBC6 with Thom Yorke and other guests! Side note: 29:03 those background vocals are actually Ed O’Brien, Radiohead’s second guitarist! I also find it funny how you while these are sad albums, they’re not even in the top 3 saddest Radiohead albums for me
@@jyjjy7 Thom said in an interview he was stuck with writing for The Bends, but after he went to a Jeff Buckley concert he immediately went to the studio and wrote Fake Plastic Trees, and it inspired the songs going forwards
"You'll go to hell for all your dirty mind is thinking" - if that’s a message for somebody to go to hell, that’s a pretty gentle one. Yes - "hell", yes - "dirty", but how sweet was that anyway! I'm ready 😊.
Good reaction. Just a tip tho: when listening to a Radiohead song for the first time, it's not really necessary to pay attention to the lyrics imo (this is especially recommended when you get to Kid A except Track 4). You can go back to it after several listens.
Lyrics are important and make the song have more meaning. Just because he might not grasp them on a first listen doesn’t mean that it’s pointless to think about them a bit and theorize. It’s part of the fun.
@@illusion8457Nah it’s a more effective approach to listen to the entirety of the song, followed by going back to dissect individual elements such as the lyrics
If you really like the bass of this band I think you should listen to Where I End and You Begin from the album Hail to the Thief. For me personally it is Colin Greenwood's best performance and the song is also in what several have already recommended to you: From the basement 2008.
[With a few exceptions] they’re never strings. It’s either swells from Ed’s guitar on the sustainer pickup (think an Ebow for all the strings) run through a big box EHX Memory Man, Jonny rubbing the ridged edge of a coin across a guitar string, an ondes martenot (a weird theremin type early synth), etc, etc. They get so many cool sounds out of their instruments.
Unlikely that Yorke was influenced to first use his falsetto due to the influence of Jeff Buckley as Radioheads first album was released in February 1993, & Buckley’s first official release came out in November 1993.
Nice insightful reaction to the lyrics, but I personally think you've missed the point of Videotape. He isn't happy he's dead, the song is about a man who sees a videotape of his life and he realises it's beautiful (that life, being the one summarised throughout the album) So the point of the album is that even through all the torment we go through in life, the good and the bad we do or is done to us, at the end of the day, our lives are beautiful. Anyway, radiohead are the masters of making songs that are growers. And, finally, I recommend listening to The bends first before Kid A, so you have a better understanding of what people associated with radiohead before they suddenly released Kid A.
@@Themukhlis019 a left turn for Radioheads discography, a left turn for music - you are right my friend. I also love the variety of the tracks. How “Kid A” flows to the national anthem🫨
@@footber because after all the fun and relaxing time, thom decided to go out with his car until there is traffic jam. So yeah there’s that.( this is a joke).
While I believe OKC is about the isolation and sadness that comes from the digital age and capitalistic expectations - this album is very much about the human experience - the challenge of finding yourself, yourself in the context of relationships - the insecurity’s that relationships bring the struggle to find meaning and beauty in all those imperfections
Before I got my Stepdad to be a huge Radiohead fan like me, he only knew some songs like Creep, High and Dry, and some songs from Ok Computer. You know how I got him hooked into Radiohead? I played him the song Nude from this album and then showed him a video of a choir doing it A Cappella in a stairwell. It made him realize just how much goes into crafting those songs after hearing each part be sung, hummed, or beat boxed. In Rainbows is both mine and my Stepdad's favorite Radiohead album. Oh! and as far as the next album you should listen to, I'd go with Kid A first just because of how experimental it is compared to the two you've reacted to. While it's not my favorite album by them, it's still my favorite to watch people react to for the first time because of how surprising it can be for a first time listener. I'd listen to The Bends after that.
It's a love affair that's doomed to fail but you go into it anyways because you have to follow your heart. And that's what being authentic is all about.
The instrument you couldn't identify in Weird Fishes is a Fender Rhodes electric piano. It's a keyboard that uses metal chimes in the place of strings, and the metal chimes are magnetically amplified (similar to the same process in an electric guitar.) It dates back to the 1950s, and was heavily used in pop and soul music. It has a warm, dynamic sound. For an example, listen to "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" by Stevie Wonder.
If you really want a thorough, unique breakdown of this album song by song there is an awesome podcast. Its called Dissect . Cole Kushna does an amazing job of breaking down lyrics, music and production. BTW im having fun listening to your reactions at work.
At 21:30, you're wondering whether the swell was strings or not, the answer is not. It's a guitar and, a whammy pedal, into a delay and reverb pedal. All done by master of texture Ed O'brien
"There's that f**king 3rd act guitar! " Jerry Bees (OK Computer). On In Rainbows, Radiohead seem to have set themselves the goal of creating dynamic songs without stepping on the distortion pedal.
One of the earlier 'criticisms' (if you can even call it that) in Radiohead's sound was that Thom sounded too much like Bono from U2, and they were compared a lot in their debut and The Bends. Pretty sure he took deep offense to that while recording OK Computer tho haha, but it did come up in reviews here and there anyway. Chino and Billy Corgan is crazy work haha.
If we're going to compare Bono and Thom York, I definitely say Thom York has the better voice for the music he makes. At any rate, it's more interesting.
Check out their version of Videotape from Bonnaroo 2006, it’s completely different than the album and the greatest performance of their most underrated song…Jonny Greenwood is my hero
Nice reaction. Most people would say to do Kid A next but I would suggest Hail To the Thief instead. It is more "rockish". Or maybe The Bends. Kid A can be a bit of a challenge.
Well I love a good challenge! I might do kid a before the bends just on principle that I've had the CD for kid a for 10 years and I've never listened to it and it's about goddamn time lol
i dont know how much thom york puts himself in those lyrics, but i once heard radiohead say they write as distorted persona for the purpose of their themes. It's just my interpretation but for me this album is fully about obsession, with identity, failure, unrequited love or your own past. Like wanting to be "in rainbows" would be something beautiful you want to reach, but never can ? Doesn't invalidate anything you said about incel stuff, but i would like to believe it's intended in some ways
House of Cards is a song about two married people having an affair. "throw your keys in the bowl, kiss your husband goodnight" swinger couples in the 70's had "key parties" where everyone put their car keys in a bowl and the women would pull out a set of keys and go home with the keys' owner. "fall off the table, get swept under, denial, denial" ignore your responsibilities and risk your marriage "infrastructure will collapse from voltage spikes" i LOVE this line, it's such a Thom way of describing the urges and passions that lure you out of the comfortable life you build for yourself
This is about the music industry in general trying to pigeon hole them,,,, this was the first release after they left the majors and never went back. They are digging the major record labels. This album changed the game with its release also screwing the labels.
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Only psychopaths listen to Radiohead constantly pausing it trying to figure out what the lyrics' mean.
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Weird Fishes / Arpeggi is my favorite song of all time and on good quality headphones/iems you can hear subtleties that are uncovered in an overwhelmingly astounding and ethereally blissful way.
One day it clicks and you hear things in the song that are totally outside the realm of what you thought you were listening to.
i had already been listening to this song for nearly a year when one day I was lying on my bed and i heard a sound I had never heard in the song before. that’s when i realized this is one of if not the best produced song ever made. so many details and sounds all come together to make a masterpiece. it’s definitely my favorite Radiohead song
haha watching this reaction kind of reminded me that Reckoner is probably my favorite song of all time. Weird Fishes is incredible too though.
Guess I'll never hear those subtleties...
It's great watching reaction channels attempt to digest it knowing they don't know the Jonny Greenwood orchestral work it comes from.
Colin Greenwood's bass is the secret weapon on this album.
It's been so good in every song I've heard so far
most underrated radiohead member or at least most under-discussed
This album? All of them.
You’ve gotta see these guys do these songs “Live from the basement”.. amazing wizardry 😂
Live from the basement In Rainbows is one of the best musical act ever produced....
Best live recording of all time if you ask me.
same with tkol ftb@@jean-christophelebachelet5926
this guy would hate Kid A
@@kennygunawan2722 challenge accepted 🫡
I certainly look forward to it. 😂
@@JerryBeesneed it.
@@JerryBees Wait for your reaction :)
Hate is a stretch. I was more of a generic alt rock fan before I first listened to Kid A and it hooked me on the electronic/experimental genres pretty much immediately. Not my favorite Radiohead album anymore, that is In Rainbows, but it’s certainly not an album to hate.
I’m sure others are telling you this, but you gotta listen to the live from the basement sessions. Seeing them make this music live is something special.
Also NIGEL’s.
Especially if you hear The King Of Limbs
Less talky talky, more listening and enjoy-ey
I'm with you on that one. Does my head in.
ik but he's reacting
@@CorvusMortuus9 a little bit “overreacting” perhaps. 😉
if you want more listeny then just go listen to it 😂
Go listen to it yourself then.
As someone who’s listened to In Rainbows ever since it was released as a pay-what-you-want album, I find it interesting how “Weird Fishes” has become the “hit” of the album. Don’t get me wrong, I find this tune to be absolutely incredible; I just don’t recall it garnering the praise and attention that it does now. It may just be the case that this song greatly benefits from repeat listens and only grows with appreciation with time.
Then you remember just how pioneering Radiohead's sound was from the beginning bro. Weird Fishes, Let Down (for example) are this generations first listen, and speaks to the time they are living in acoustically and lyrically. For first release listeners, those that had to wait years in between albums, the entire songbook day one was a new reference of sound. But for reactors today - so many bands, film scores, tv soundtracks, outros, and popular media have already been influenced by Radiohead as a defacto signature sound.
I don't necessarily agree with your assertion that people universally look back at "Weird Fishes" as the sole album hit. It's one of the standouts, sure. But, if anything, when I hear or read anyone talking about this album, "Nude" actually gets brought up more on rankings lists and so forth. But more interestingly, "Jigsaw Falling into Place" is talked about as the true underrated song on this album. That actually makes sense to me as when I first heard "Jigsaw" I was kind of meh about it, but now it's one of my favorites.
To be fair their entire catalog requires multiple listens, I can't begin to list all the songs of theirs that I love but really wasn't crazy about the first handful of times I listened to them. It took multiple basement listens for the King Of Limbs to finally click and I still prefer the basement versions although I can finally appreciate the studio album now.
Agree, I loved it from the get go and have loved how everybody love it now.
Nigel Godrich also produced In Rainbows. As far as headphones go, I'm not a sponsor but I can give you some recommendations from an audiophiliac 🙂
Throw em at me!
@@JerryBees i want to know too
Cmon
Beyerdynamic T990 pro
@@JerryBees In ear or over ear preferred? In ear - Blessing 3 or Blessing 3 Dusk/ or ER2XR (best for 100 bucks if you're willing to violate your ears for sound isolation and seal for detail), truthear Nova, 7HZ timeless, ect ect
Overear? I'm not as into as IEMs have more detailed and analytical sound that I like. The T990 that our friend mentioned here are more V shaped and fun at the expense of some fine detail but depending on your listening preferences you may prefer thise because you might find the more analytical options a bit bland or flat. Let me know if you have sound or fit preferences! (Oh and budget)
That's Ed and he's singin' "Eeeeeeeed!"
Let Down actually took like...3 years for me to realize its not mediocre lol. Weird how that one works. Now I absolutely love it.
Absolutely the same thing happened to me I never expected it to click and I just did one day and now it strikes such an emotional chord
First listen to that it was okay. My third listen in and it's now my #1 favourite song lmao. I don't understand
for some of their songs it took years! Good thing is that I stuck long enough because of some others🤍
Funny, huh? Some music takes years to hit me. David Bowie, Sampha, Radiohead... All excellent.
Now try bodysnatchers, myxamytosis and daily mail.
This is one of the best reactions I have ever seen to this Album. Cheers
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed!
Are you shitting me??
@@AlexTapisevic no they are trentboyd5919
Great video. Thom definitely seemed to be much more confident flexing the vocals in the album this time around. I'd seen him do it in earlier live performances but the band really does a great job of building a record that incorporates a wider range of his vocal skills. It makes sense that this growth would happen over a decade.
This was also the first album ever dropped as a "pay what you want" release, right off their own website.
This album is a masterpiece that just keeps sounding better and better every year.
Absolute benchmark.
Great reaction, good commentary. You REALLY need to react to Nude and Weird Fishes and Reckoner done live 'In The Basement' sessions, you get to see them performing up close and personal, AMAZING sessions. Cheers from South Australia
STOP PAUSING THE SONG OMGGGGGGGG
Indeed. I find the best reactors just let their face do the talking without feeling the need to stop and make a comment about every lyric.
ruined the best part of nude to yap about nothing
pausing and talking can also be a smart move to avoid copyright strikes
The most annoying reactors
It’s a reaction video, if you wanna listen to the song just go listen to it man
I think this is Radiohead's warmest-sounding album; despite the melancholy, there is some sense of comfort I can hear coming from the music.
I’ve always considered In Rainbows to be the easy listening Radiohead album. Or perhaps the intro to their discography.
The percussion on Videotape mimicking the sound of a VCR rewinding is inspired.
I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH JEFF BUCKLEY 🙌🙌 grace is great but it feels very november / december so it’s good that you didn’t jump on it too soon
If you want the REAL crazy out there shit from Radiohead you gotta do Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief. Those 3 were back to back right after OK Computer and it's widely seen as one of the craziest, boldest left turns in music history. Achieved massive success as a rock band with OK Computer and then IMMEDIATELY decided to do something different. In Rainbows is just after that run and is actually a little bit of a return to earth by comparison, but it's album made by people who had been through that period of crazy experimentation and brought all they'd learned from that as musicians and distilled it down to fairly simple but really interesting tracks.
EDIT: Also, eeeeeeeeverybody says that about Weird Fishes the first time. Good but not gonna be one of your favourites. Give it time.
Absolutely worth watching both Scoth Mist (new years webstream of Radiohead playing this album) and their From the Basement performance of it as well.
Yes!
Appreciate your thoughtful reactions - all Radiohead are growers - my rule - 10 Listens and then they click - they subvert your expectations so much from album to album you need to marinate a bit to appreciate them
A lot of bands that I love have songs that grew on me. So far, Radiohead has the resume to be another one of those bands for me.
45:33 "oh shit where are we going?"
well, to one of the most beautiful passages of music ever created
Yeah pretty sure Nigel did In Rainbows too.
Yeah he produced everything from The Bends onward I thought
Nigel was the producer on this. Those heavenly background vocalsnon Weird Fishes is Ed O'Brisn wailing "way down." These are the best background vocals ever laid down. I wait for them as much as Thom's gorgeous voice. Sometimes York's lyrics mean something deep. Sometimes, they are just personal jokes of his. He said for Fake Plastic Trees he wrote a song about nothing that turned into something. He said some of those lines he wrote made him laugh. I could never get tired of In Rainbows. I think OK Computer is better, but In Rainbows is my favorite.
you make really good inferences, some of the best on UA-cam!
No matt bellamy said he was inspired by Jeff Buckley when he was asked if he was inspired by Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has said multiple times he was inspired by Bono. Jeff Buckley and Radiohead are contemporary and Radioheads first album Pablo Honey came out a year before Grace by Jeff Buckley.
kinda weird obsession with labelling things as 'incel'? even a song written by 40-yr olds about wife swapping lol
yeh that bit was so weird
“I love their bass tone, it’s not overpowering, but it’s everywhere” is such a perfect description of what Colin Greenwood does on this record
You need to do "Non-Depressed guy listens to Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life".
HOW THE FUCK DID YOU KNOW I WAS GOING TO DO THIS NOW I HAVE TO CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE 😭😭😭
@@JerryBees I’m just that good.
The backing vocal is Ed O'Brien in Weird-Arpeggi
Wanna hear something wild about Videotape? It's not a 4/4 funeral march. It's 8/8, and the piano is syncopated WITH THE DRUM MACHINE SNARE THAT COMES IN LIKE TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY THROUGH THE SONG. Like, after the lyrics are done. When I learned that it blew my fucking mind.
Again loved your honest and open reaction- nice to see.
Don’t neglect The Bends - the one before OK Computer - it’s the one where I fell in love with their original more guitar based sound 👍
It's hard not to think back to how good OK Computer was while listening to this and also be reminded of the old adage, "comparison is the thief of joy". This album has its own vibe which is consistent with their overall tone which may seem sad, but I feel like they do a great job of creating nurturing a space for emotional catharsis or mental pruning which is kind of what sadness is. And there is joy to be found in that.
stop pausing so much bro please. if you have thoughts just say them at the end
He’s pausing to avoid copyright, just go listen to the original if you don’t like pausing
That's called freebooting and it's illegal, he's adding commentary all the way through so its fair use
It’s funny, having experienced every release since OKC, when this came out everyone was like woohoo happy Radiohead (sort of), have fun with the others!
nonvirgin glitter gel pen but straight guy reacts to radiohead
No strings. It's Ed and his E-bow.
its interesting how you listen to this band. yes the subject manner is depressing but only a few radiohead songs make me feel sad. Apart from the lyrics, the songs arent too dark. For example, Nude sounds beautiful if not hopeful. same with all I need.
Iv'e always found them to be so cathartic and emotionally satisfying, I usually don't get sad at all listening to Radiohead.
For me there's never been a band that grows on me more over time than Radiohead - and, with their post-OKC albums, so slowly. I loved The Bends and OKC in college, then later I bought Kid A and HTTT with high hopes and only sort of enjoyed them. I paid like $3 to download In Rainbows and subsequently forgot about it for a solid decade...and now suddenly it's one of my favorite things of all time. I'm only now working my way into KoL and Moon Shaped Pool. It's so strange but I love it and they're my favorite band.
I think of this one as Radiohead fucking around and making the greatest 'garage rock' album of all time.
nice that the new generations are discovering GenX music, as a suggestion, Binaural by PEarl Jam is a nice overlooked GenX gem
someone with united states maps on his wall saying someone doesn't get bitches is funny to me on multiple levels
I'm not going to lie, I've listened to countless albums, but this one stands out as the biggest grower I've ever encountered.
On the first listen, I appreciated it, just like you did. But by the third or fourth listen, it had already transformed into something phenomenal.
Now, after even more listens, I'm seriously considering it as my favorite album of all time.
All of the songs just keep getting better and better, and in my opinion work even better as standalone tracks than OK Computer.
I highly recommend giving it more listens, it definitely rewards you for it.
Can't remember where I learned this, but All I Need is about the Sun.
Lots of the sound you hear in Radiohead is either made with Eds gigantic pad and pedal set up or Johnny's home made computer program for programing sound. It's unique.
Beyond being a concept album, in rainbows was always a experience for me, in a way that different songs affects me in different ways in different moments of life, and i'm always looking for this moments of bliss (like the beat switch in reckoner)
You listening to radiohead while being happy is powerfull!!!
I personally don't know that I've heard a better 3 song run than Nude/Weird Fishes/All I Need. To me it's 13 minutes of transcendant perfection and, despite the sad and sometimes fucked up lyrics, has been one the ways I calm down from anxiety attacks for years.
This
I saw Radiohead at Bonnaroo in 2006 and they debuted seven songs off of this album!
Regarding the bass in “All I Need”, it’s not produced via MIDI, but guitar
In Rainbows is addictive. The more you hear it the more you can't stop listening.
This is just the beginning for you. There's a pre 'In rainbows' world and Post, we welcome you.
Jigsaw is about Thom Yorke observing the Oxford night life. Such a good description
Imho In rainbows is more interesting when heard in proper order - the transition from the bends to Ok computer - OKC to kid A and amnesiacs(the biggest transition) to hail to the thief to in rainbows etc… half the mythology of Radiohead is embedded in the evolution of the band
nice vid jerry
Thanks Alex
If you’re also gonna do Grace I recommend the Bends first, it’s very rocky and the vocals are directly inspired by Jeff Buckley. I think this month there’s a Grace 30 year anniversary special on BBC6 with Thom Yorke and other guests! Side note: 29:03 those background vocals are actually Ed O’Brien, Radiohead’s second guitarist! I also find it funny how you while these are sad albums, they’re not even in the top 3 saddest Radiohead albums for me
Why do The Bends before what inspired it?
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@@jyjjy7 Thom said in an interview he was stuck with writing for The Bends, but after he went to a Jeff Buckley concert he immediately went to the studio and wrote Fake Plastic Trees, and it inspired the songs going forwards
"15 step" plays as the end credit song for the first Twilight movie
This was fun, I'm glad you dug it, every time you said "Drum Machine" though I just wanted to say, "Yeah, the drum machine's name is Phil Selway" :D
I'm finding that Phil and Collin Greenwood are rhythm section masters.
"You'll go to hell for all your dirty mind is thinking" - if that’s a message for somebody to go to hell, that’s a pretty gentle one. Yes - "hell", yes - "dirty", but how sweet was that anyway! I'm ready 😊.
Nigel is know as the sixth member of the band - contributed to every album but Pablo honey
which happens to be their worst
Good reaction. Just a tip tho: when listening to a Radiohead song for the first time, it's not really necessary to pay attention to the lyrics imo (this is especially recommended when you get to Kid A except Track 4). You can go back to it after several listens.
Lyrics are important and make the song have more meaning. Just because he might not grasp them on a first listen doesn’t mean that it’s pointless to think about them a bit and theorize. It’s part of the fun.
@@illusion8457Nah it’s a more effective approach to listen to the entirety of the song, followed by going back to dissect individual elements such as the lyrics
Agreed. I might be biased towards always prioritizing the melody and production of music, but I think he may be over-indexing on the lyrics here
If you really like the bass of this band I think you should listen to Where I End and You Begin from the album Hail to the Thief. For me personally it is Colin Greenwood's best performance and the song is also in what several have already recommended to you: From the basement 2008.
[With a few exceptions] they’re never strings. It’s either swells from Ed’s guitar on the sustainer pickup (think an Ebow for all the strings) run through a big box EHX Memory Man, Jonny rubbing the ridged edge of a coin across a guitar string, an ondes martenot (a weird theremin type early synth), etc, etc. They get so many cool sounds out of their instruments.
Hope I will be able to there for the next live listen to rectified a few things as you go. Hehe
I hope so too!
Unlikely that Yorke was influenced to first use his falsetto due to the influence of Jeff Buckley as Radioheads first album was released in February 1993, & Buckley’s first official release came out in November 1993.
You should listen to The Mars Volta, I would love to see your reaction on that band
Fortunately for me, I'm already well familiar! Wickedly talented.
@@JerryBees Ah, I see you're a man of culture aswell
Nice insightful reaction to the lyrics, but I personally think you've missed the point of Videotape.
He isn't happy he's dead, the song is about a man who sees a videotape of his life and he realises it's beautiful (that life, being the one summarised throughout the album)
So the point of the album is that even through all the torment we go through in life, the good and the bad we do or is done to us, at the end of the day, our lives are beautiful.
Anyway, radiohead are the masters of making songs that are growers.
And, finally, I recommend listening to The bends first before Kid A, so you have a better understanding of what people associated with radiohead before they suddenly released Kid A.
Kid A next
Can't wait for the Kid A reaction.
Kid A next?
I’ll say yes on his behalf
@@footber I’ll say that kid A is the most uniquely sound other than Radiohead albums, I mean it’s a left turn for music
@@Themukhlis019 a left turn for Radioheads discography, a left turn for music - you are right my friend. I also love the variety of the tracks. How “Kid A” flows to the national anthem🫨
@@footber because after all the fun and relaxing time, thom decided to go out with his car until there is traffic jam. So yeah there’s that.( this is a joke).
@@Themukhlis019ngl, the ending of national anthem is exactly that tho💀🙏
this guy likes the word incel
While I believe OKC is about the isolation and sadness that comes from the digital age and capitalistic expectations - this album is very much about the human experience - the challenge of finding yourself, yourself in the context of relationships - the insecurity’s that relationships bring the struggle to find meaning and beauty in all those imperfections
Before I got my Stepdad to be a huge Radiohead fan like me, he only knew some songs like Creep, High and Dry, and some songs from Ok Computer. You know how I got him hooked into Radiohead? I played him the song Nude from this album and then showed him a video of a choir doing it A Cappella in a stairwell. It made him realize just how much goes into crafting those songs after hearing each part be sung, hummed, or beat boxed. In Rainbows is both mine and my Stepdad's favorite Radiohead album. Oh! and as far as the next album you should listen to, I'd go with Kid A first just because of how experimental it is compared to the two you've reacted to. While it's not my favorite album by them, it's still my favorite to watch people react to for the first time because of how surprising it can be for a first time listener. I'd listen to The Bends after that.
bro you keep pausing in the wrong moment every single song jesus christ ahahha
It's a love affair that's doomed to fail but you go into it anyways because you have to follow your heart. And that's what being authentic is all about.
Real
You should see weird fishes in the basement session then you see the real brilliance of this band
You DEFINITELY have to listen to The Bends
The instrument you couldn't identify in Weird Fishes is a Fender Rhodes electric piano. It's a keyboard that uses metal chimes in the place of strings, and the metal chimes are magnetically amplified (similar to the same process in an electric guitar.) It dates back to the 1950s, and was heavily used in pop and soul music. It has a warm, dynamic sound. For an example, listen to "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" by Stevie Wonder.
The album was produced by Nigel Goodrich. Not spike whoever. The google search said that if you woulda read one more sentence
22:49 this pause physically hurt my soul
If you really want a thorough, unique breakdown of this album song by song there is an awesome podcast. Its called Dissect . Cole Kushna does an amazing job of breaking down lyrics, music and production.
BTW im having fun listening to your reactions at work.
What about the bends? If he’s a certified rocker
You have to remember there were 3 albums between this and OK Computer, just be aware that you could be missing some context.
At 21:30, you're wondering whether the swell was strings or not, the answer is not. It's a guitar and, a whammy pedal, into a delay and reverb pedal. All done by master of texture Ed O'brien
"There's that f**king 3rd act guitar! " Jerry Bees (OK Computer). On In Rainbows, Radiohead seem to have set themselves the goal of creating dynamic songs without stepping on the distortion pedal.
Arcade Fire used a Hurdy Gurdy.
in rainbows is so much more cohesive and polished than okc idk what anyone else says i love this album to death and back
Thanks for the reaction, don't hate too hard in the sad shit
Kid A reaction is the next.
Nigel Godrich has produced every Radiohead album after The Bends. He also worked on The Bends, but not as producer.
One of the earlier 'criticisms' (if you can even call it that) in Radiohead's sound was that Thom sounded too much like Bono from U2, and they were compared a lot in their debut and The Bends. Pretty sure he took deep offense to that while recording OK Computer tho haha, but it did come up in reviews here and there anyway. Chino and Billy Corgan is crazy work haha.
If we're going to compare Bono and Thom York, I definitely say Thom York has the better voice for the music he makes. At any rate, it's more interesting.
@@JerryBees as someone who's not a U2 fan 🤮😅 I 1000% agree!! haha, great breakdown & reaction btw!!
Check out their version of Videotape from Bonnaroo 2006, it’s completely different than the album and the greatest performance of their most underrated song…Jonny Greenwood is my hero
Nice reaction. Most people would say to do Kid A next but I would suggest Hail To the Thief instead. It is more "rockish". Or maybe The Bends. Kid A can be a bit of a challenge.
Well I love a good challenge! I might do kid a before the bends just on principle that I've had the CD for kid a for 10 years and I've never listened to it and it's about goddamn time lol
i dont know how much thom york puts himself in those lyrics, but i once heard radiohead say they write as distorted persona for the purpose of their themes. It's just my interpretation but for me this album is fully about obsession, with identity, failure, unrequited love or your own past. Like wanting to be "in rainbows" would be something beautiful you want to reach, but never can ?
Doesn't invalidate anything you said about incel stuff, but i would like to believe it's intended in some ways
In Rainbows quickly became my favorite album of all time but it took a bit of time
So it quickly took some time?
House of Cards is a song about two married people having an affair.
"throw your keys in the bowl, kiss your husband goodnight" swinger couples in the 70's had "key parties" where everyone put their car keys in a bowl and the women would pull out a set of keys and go home with the keys' owner.
"fall off the table, get swept under, denial, denial" ignore your responsibilities and risk your marriage
"infrastructure will collapse from voltage spikes" i LOVE this line, it's such a Thom way of describing the urges and passions that lure you out of the comfortable life you build for yourself
That bass tone is the Fender Precision bass
Listen to The Bends or A Moon Shaped Pool!
Colin with that THICC bass
This is about the music industry in general trying to pigeon hole them,,,, this was the first release after they left the majors and never went back.
They are digging the major record labels.
This album changed the game with its release also screwing the labels.