My favorite Radiohead song. That moment where "one day I am gonna grow wings..." overlaps with "you know where you are" is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
I hated the album when it first came out. I was furious I wasted 30 bucks on it. I put it away for 2yrs then listened to it again with headphones. Wow now it's one of the greatest albums ever written love it.
The thing about Let Down is that lyrically, it's pretty cynical if not fatalistic. Even lines that seemingly inspire hope ("One day, I am going to grow wings") are immediately torn down ("Hysterical and useless") because the song is lyrically bleak. But it's Thom's voice, especially towards the end when the song reaches its crescendo, that keeps an underlying sense of hope regardless going. It's the part of the song that makes it unforgettable for me.
I agree: it's the perfectly-held tension between the crushing lyrics and the soaring vocals and melodies that makes this track much more than it perhaps appears at first listen. It tells you there's no such thing as beauty, hope, escape or redemption - at least, not in the modern world. And yet, it seems to hold out the promise of those very things - in the very same modern world.
If I was to write a scene for this song it would be a heart breaking moment of someone fighting on to save someone whilst dying only to save the person he was trying to save before dying completely.
@@johndeighan2495 I took it that society may believe that there is no hope and just give up but they are wrong and we can overcome any hardship no matter what the world throws at us.
@@thomasford2032 I don't think the track commits to a definite answer. If the negative pole is "There is no hope" and the positive pole is "There is hope despite everything", I think the track is formed out of the tension between those two poles. And that's probably the psychological space the modern world inhabits as well. That's why it works so well for me. I think.
I don't see ""Hysterical and useless" as negatives when I hear them in the song. I hear it as giving up the head ("useless") and letting all the feelings flow through ("hysterical") to be in the pure experience, to plug in deeper to the here and now.
Grew up in the 90s, never been a fan of showing my emotions, so I don't admit this easily. Radiohead is a rare band that will bring me to tears, but especially Let Down. It triggers something in my brain, I cannot explain it.
In such a heavy song that alludes to being held back by life and trying to rise there is just something about Thom's high etherial drone in the background of the last passage, rising up like an angel, enough to bring you to tears
Man, you don't know how happy this makes me! This song is one that is overlooked, not just in the reaction community but really in general. Top tier song. Those layered harmonies at the crescendo were an "oh shit" moment for me when I was discovering these guys. Weaving those almost crying, distraught vocals over the bright, almost poppy melodies really sealed the deal for me, and I've felt that it's these types of songs where they really just outshine the competition. Thank you!
I'd love to see a full album breakdown. Radiohead has so many great songs that are worthy of a listen. And they put just as much thought into their albums as cohesive pieces as they do their songs. You'd love Moon Shaped Pool with all its string arrangements!
I'd definitely agree with this, and especially OK Computer. There are so many brilliant individual songs on there but I think it's best listened to as an end-to-end journey. Just a perfect album.
I do think Radiohead would be incredibly rewarding for you to do a deep dive on for your channel, the way you did with Tool. Their songwriting and craftsmanship is a generational talent.
"There's always a price to pay with an emotion." For some reason that resonated really deeply with me today. Thanks for what you do. Radiohead is one of my top 3 so I always enjoy your view on them because it gives me a different perspective.
@@whirlwhind666 that's a difficult thing to try and explain, but I'll try. Emotions are a state of mind that usually come from inside us. There are basic emotions like love, sadness and anger. But there are secondary emotions as well. They usually flow from one to another, and sometimes we have to go through a journey of feeling bad emotions to get to good ones. When you're in that journey it can be hard to reconcile that at the moment you're feeling bad, that it will never end. But if you work through it, the payoff will be a form of enlightenment. The journey through the hard, negative emotions to get to the good, positive ones is the price you have to pay, emotionally, to reach a better state of mind. That's my opinion, at least. Maybe someone else can explain it better than me. 🤔
I’ve been waiting for you to get to this one for a while-it’s quite possibly my favorite track from them-so thank you! One thing that I love about this is how the intro guitar plays in 5/4 while the rest of the band comes in with the traditional 4/4. Another great example of Radiohead’s tiny nuances/complexities in composition. That high point with Thom’s voice at the end always takes me to another realm. Could go on forever about them and this song. Much love to you brother!
Love that people on this channel are so into the aspects of music that most other people are almost entirely unaware of, especially when it comes to Radiohead. Ace.
Loving this Radiohead journey with you Geebz. Been a while since I actually listened to them, but they are a huge part of my soundtrack of life. Whenever you decide to return to them do not skip the song Fake Plastic Trees. It is an absolute must listen. Lots of love to you!
Love this comment, and love fake plastic trees. In rainbows is by far my favourite album but Fake Plastic Trees and High n Dry are two amazing classics from The Bends.
Can't get enough of these Radiohead reactions. Would be interesting to see what you think of some of the more recent releases; "Present Tense" being a particular standout, especially lyrically
Wonderful song. I especially like the "Jonny and Thom and a CR78" version, because it's nearly as rich--perhaps even richer in some ways--as the album version with just those 2 and a drum machine. Amazing.
There's so much cool syncopation going on here, which to me is so interesting for an ambient piece like this. It's like a cool, ethereal, ambient wash of syncopated emotional energy.
I would love to see you review some RH songs "from the basement" so you can get a better idea of just how good these guys are with their instruments in a live setting.
I agree with most of the comments below: as "simple" (or conventional) as the song is (for a Radiohead song), the arrangements are lush and spacy, and the song is utterly beautiful. My favorite from the masterpiece "OK Computer". The last verse with the different entangled harmonies from Thom is out of this world.
It's such a joy to see someone discover Radiohead for the first time, please keep going! Really hoping you do "Climbing up the walls" it's probably my favourite track on OK Computer.
Yay! Geebz is covering Radiohead-it’s a post-Christmas miracle! Also . . . I’m looking forward to seeing how the addition of the lyrics affects your first listen. As a poet, the lyrics always open the door to music for me. I love how we have different entries into the music but sort of end up in the same space together. It’s magical. “One day I am going to grow wings.” I love the ember of hope in this line. 💕
I rarely listen to OK Computer as a whole nowadays - it’s a album that hits hard for me. But Let Down is one track that gets a somewhat regular rotation.
Geebz - Daydreaming from Moon Shaped Pool. The strings and arrangement is really amazing, as well as the production. The guitarist Jonny Greenwood actually does many movie soundtracks so he is an experienced composer
It seems you don’t often do live tracks, but PLEASE hit Radiodead “Bloom” live from the Basement series…. It’s live recorded in the studio with the visual of the band actually creating the music, it’s really something to behold!!! BTW , the composer you always mention Jonny Greenwood is on 3rd percussion for the the track! YOU MUST CHECK IT OUT !!!
This is one their most beautiful songs. I love the middle part in particular when they change it up and also pick up the pace just a notch towards the end. Its so subtle and beautiful. Amazing.
I am a huge Radiohead fan. Have been for the past 25 years or so, and they are a big part of the “soundtrack of my life”. What I love about their music is they have songs that sound like how an emotion feels. And not just the simple emotions to put to words like sadness, anger, or joy, but the really complex emotions like languishing, anxiety, resignation, etc. This song sounds like pure joy to me and I’ve always loved that this lyrically bleak song is so oddly joyful sounding. In the album, this song beautifully juxtaposes against the musically much sadder Exit Music and reminds us of again about the anxiety from our computerized reactions. It’s lovely. In your own personal life, Geebz, Ok Computer would be lovely for you to absorb all at one time. It’s a journey. Thanks for the reaction!
Thank you for the wonderful reaction on this truly great band... if you want to catch some AMAZING, adventurous confounding and brilliant work from them: THE NATIONAL ANTHEM is the way to go. That track should be made into the Planet Earth's Anthem. A perfect marriage of an amazing riff and beautiful dissonance.
this song hit me this year, cry every time i hear this now. Funny how Radiohead songs come in at the right time in my life and completely take on a new meaning and wormholes into your brain and heart.
I feel like everytime geebz decomposes an ok computer track he mentions an unorganic eerie type sound that permeates thru the tracks. It's the brilliance of Radiohead, to make almost a concept album about how computers and technology is taking over our lives, it's always there in the back stalls or between every track while the human emotion of the band ebbs and flows over it, trying to take over
You can't imagine... for a guy his 40s now like me. When OK Computer came out it was an atom bomb... my friends who listened exclusively to dance music and others who were heavy into Rap music(which I liked but it wasn't mostly my jam) bought the album and were playing it... a whole bunch of elder millennials were completely blindsided. It was our Beatles...
Great to hear your thoughts about this amazing band. Yeah, I'm a radiohead fan and I do wish you to react to the whole ok computer album. You'd feel a even deeper feeling and see that it all connects from one song to another. Cheers from Brazil
So enjoyable watching/ listening to your reactions! Radiohead are my favorite band- so unique and inventive. They create just beautiful music. Please give the National Anthem ago, the 'jazz' if you can call it that will blow you away
Don't remember what I thought when I first heard this, but over the years, this has become my favorite Radiohead song, which makes me stop and listen every time it plays.
Nice review of one of my favourite Radiohead songs. For info, could be wrong but I don’t think there is any keyboard in this song until the very end synth bit. The main repeating sounds you can hear are the 3 guitars of Thom, Ed and Johnny. Seen them play this live and it’s amazing.
Great work as always Geebz. Thanks for hitting some of favourite songs. Lots to unpack here for a first listen. I’d love to hear some of your favourite songs for the first time. Songs they’ve been with you for years that you could really deep dive for us all. Health and happiness to you.
I would really love to see you review Arpeggi (Weird Fishes) from their album "In Rainbows". They are my favorite band and I believe that is my favorite song.
Maan my favourite RH track ever. It invokes such emotion. This was recorded live at 3am in St Catherines Court (just outside Bath-UK) I took a trip there because The Cure also recorded their album 'Wild Mood Swings 'there as well. anywho..Jonnys guitar is in 5/4, creating an overlapping polyrhythm with the rest of the instruments which are in 4/4. I love the engineering in this track and the prolonged vocal panning after the breakdown (which was written by Ed)
"and the prolonged vocal panning after the breakdown" - following Pablo and Bends, I didn't listen to radiohead for about a decade; decided to circle back to OK and it was listening to this precise moment in this song with some decent headphones when I fell in love with radiohead - nothing fancy or overly technical, just beautiful and wonderfully executed . . .
If there's one Radiohead song I've had on repeat more than any other, it's this one. My absolute favourite by the band. The use of the tambourine is very reminiscent of what you'll find in an instrumental by Duran Duran, of all bands, called Tiger Tiger.
The last time I saw radiohead live, they started with let down. Seen them about 10 times and had never seen this one, amazing. Followed up with lucky. What a gig
Listening to Radiohead makes me accept my shortcomings, keep calm and move on. If one had bipolar disorder or ADHD then Radiohead is the equivalent of a mood stabilizer. The songs have effects similar to serotonin releasing agents that are not neurotoxic. Serenic is the word I guess.
My band were in the middle of recording an album when OK came out. We listened to it in the studio start to finish then sat there in stone cold silence. It was like the last best album of our generation had just fallen out of the sky.
despite the sad lyrics I adore this song, its a song that I’d listen to look outside the window of a car, or if I had a stressful day and needed to start with a track to calm me down😊 I also love singing along when I’m doing chores!😂👌
I think you've got to that point where you just need to sit down for an hour and listen to the whole album, as it's a hugely rewarding listening experience when taken as a single piece.
This is my absolute favorite Radiohead track. At your first stop all I had in my head was "ethereal" and then you said it. Spot on. Tillthis day this song takes me on a journey. Great breakdown Geebz.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this song. OKC is my favorite album from them and this song is my favorite song from the album. I think it was really the space I was in in my life when this album came out but it just struck a chord with me. The melodic flow of this song almost feels like a trance and the feeling of being lost in the shuffle and forgotten. Mahalo as always for reacting to their stuff and when you eventually do circle back around to them a couple songs I’d really love to hear you react to are “Nude” and “Videotape”.
I remember listen to Ok Computer in school, year 97-98 I and my friends loved Paranoid Android and Karma Police (the song, the music video, etc.). Then... in some moments I really loved no surprises, airbag and lucky... During university, listening again and again I said my favorite song of OK Computer was Subterranean homesick alien... and then, after a long time enjoying this wonderful album I have to say Let down is my favorite Radiohead song and probably top 5 of 90's song. Not the most complex execution, not the most deep lyric, but it's total emotion, feelings. I love this song and I can't hear it in any place cause the feels.
Thank you for these great Radiohead reactions. I would LOVE to hear you dissect Myxomatosis and There There. There There is actually the song that got me into them.
Thanks for doing these kinds of songs. It's been many years since I've been into music and the Radiohead songs you've reacted to have reinvigorated me for it.
I took the the meaning of that song to be that life is cruel and unfair where life constantly tries to beat you down and make you give up but is after suffering through that hardship that you gain the strength to take on anything. I get this from how it talks about things a chick being knocked out of it's nest and made to survive followed up with the image of growing wings.
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My favorite Radiohead song. That moment where "one day I am gonna grow wings..." overlaps with "you know where you are" is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
That ending is peak radiohead IMO.
Man, I haven't listened to this in awhile and I didn't expect the same emotions to come rolling back. God they're so good.
Absolutely! Best song ever made
agreed
Same, that's my favorite part! It somehow makes me feel good about the world, even though the song overall is kind of sad.
27 Years old and still fresh an beautiful!
💯💯💯
The "you know where you are" falsetto is my #1 Radiohead goosebumps moment
Mine too.... Certainly... Up there with the backing cries to Weird Fishes....
Without a speck of a doubt the same for me. I've been looking forward to this video for a very long time, just because of that.
EVERY. TIME.
"I might be wrong" middle 8 does it for me ☺️
For 30 years, chills...does it every time. This is a spirit lifter.
Let Down is how the transition from sadness to happiness sounds like
They do this even better on their song Separator.
Best Radiohead song ever. It's a masterpiece of absurd proportions.
Yes!
jigsaw falling into place comparing to this I would choose jigsaw
Yes
the note he harmonizes with from the bridge into the last hook is so beautiful
The “you know where you are” part in the background, before the last chorus?? Brings a tear to my eye
@@erock864 art at its best
My favorite part of the song, and probably the reason why it's my favorite track on OKC.
Chills every time for 20 years
I hated the album when it first came out. I was furious I wasted 30 bucks on it. I put it away for 2yrs then listened to it again with headphones. Wow now it's one of the greatest albums ever written love it.
everyone likes radiohead, they just realise at different points in their life ☝🏻
this is one of the if not the most beautiful song i ever heard in my life. since i first listen to that, i never skipped that song
You can’t skip anything on Ok Computer.
@@joshshrum2764fittier, happier exists so we can skip it.
The thing about Let Down is that lyrically, it's pretty cynical if not fatalistic. Even lines that seemingly inspire hope ("One day, I am going to grow wings") are immediately torn down ("Hysterical and useless") because the song is lyrically bleak.
But it's Thom's voice, especially towards the end when the song reaches its crescendo, that keeps an underlying sense of hope regardless going. It's the part of the song that makes it unforgettable for me.
I agree: it's the perfectly-held tension between the crushing lyrics and the soaring vocals and melodies that makes this track much more than it perhaps appears at first listen. It tells you there's no such thing as beauty, hope, escape or redemption - at least, not in the modern world. And yet, it seems to hold out the promise of those very things - in the very same modern world.
If I was to write a scene for this song it would be a heart breaking moment of someone fighting on to save someone whilst dying only to save the person he was trying to save before dying completely.
@@johndeighan2495 I took it that society may believe that there is no hope and just give up but they are wrong and we can overcome any hardship no matter what the world throws at us.
@@thomasford2032 I don't think the track commits to a definite answer. If the negative pole is "There is no hope" and the positive pole is "There is hope despite everything", I think the track is formed out of the tension between those two poles. And that's probably the psychological space the modern world inhabits as well. That's why it works so well for me. I think.
I don't see ""Hysterical and useless" as negatives when I hear them in the song. I hear it as giving up the head ("useless") and letting all the feelings flow through ("hysterical") to be in the pure experience, to plug in deeper to the here and now.
Grew up in the 90s, never been a fan of showing my emotions, so I don't admit this easily.
Radiohead is a rare band that will bring me to tears, but especially Let Down. It triggers something in my brain, I cannot explain it.
Great! Would love to see some "unusual" Radiohead reactions to likes of The National Anthem or Life In a Glasshouse
He has to do those two
RH has so many great ones that it's hard to go wrong, but I would not have a problem with either of those.
Life In a Glasshouse, for sure!
Another one is Motion Picture Soundtrack
@@gmmgmmg 100% agree
Yes! and big up Sonatine!!
In such a heavy song that alludes to being held back by life and trying to rise there is just something about Thom's high etherial drone in the background of the last passage, rising up like an angel, enough to bring you to tears
As a composer ... The National Anthem is going to mess you up in the best way possible 🤣🎉
It’s so good!
My favorite Radiohead song
Man, you don't know how happy this makes me! This song is one that is overlooked, not just in the reaction community but really in general. Top tier song. Those layered harmonies at the crescendo were an "oh shit" moment for me when I was discovering these guys. Weaving those almost crying, distraught vocals over the bright, almost poppy melodies really sealed the deal for me, and I've felt that it's these types of songs where they really just outshine the competition.
Thank you!
Well said, I totally agree!
I'd love to see a full album breakdown. Radiohead has so many great songs that are worthy of a listen. And they put just as much thought into their albums as cohesive pieces as they do their songs. You'd love Moon Shaped Pool with all its string arrangements!
Agree 100%
I'd definitely agree with this, and especially OK Computer. There are so many brilliant individual songs on there but I think it's best listened to as an end-to-end journey. Just a perfect album.
Calling them "god tier"... Well then he's gotta do the holy trinity from start to finish: OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows
I do think Radiohead would be incredibly rewarding for you to do a deep dive on for your channel, the way you did with Tool. Their songwriting and craftsmanship is a generational talent.
"There's always a price to pay with an emotion."
For some reason that resonated really deeply with me today. Thanks for what you do. Radiohead is one of my top 3 so I always enjoy your view on them because it gives me a different perspective.
That's the moist poignant line I think I've heard from Geebz. Radiohead in a nutshell.
I agree with everything you said.
what did he mean when he said there’s always a price to pay with an emotion?
@@whirlwhind666 that's a difficult thing to try and explain, but I'll try. Emotions are a state of mind that usually come from inside us. There are basic emotions like love, sadness and anger. But there are secondary emotions as well. They usually flow from one to another, and sometimes we have to go through a journey of feeling bad emotions to get to good ones. When you're in that journey it can be hard to reconcile that at the moment you're feeling bad, that it will never end. But if you work through it, the payoff will be a form of enlightenment. The journey through the hard, negative emotions to get to the good, positive ones is the price you have to pay, emotionally, to reach a better state of mind. That's my opinion, at least. Maybe someone else can explain it better than me. 🤔
Jeff Sanders Your other two top bands?
What s SONG. *ABSOLUTE CHILLS* EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
I’ve been waiting for you to get to this one for a while-it’s quite possibly my favorite track from them-so thank you! One thing that I love about this is how the intro guitar plays in 5/4 while the rest of the band comes in with the traditional 4/4. Another great example of Radiohead’s tiny nuances/complexities in composition. That high point with Thom’s voice at the end always takes me to another realm. Could go on forever about them and this song. Much love to you brother!
Love that people on this channel are so into the aspects of music that most other people are almost entirely unaware of, especially when it comes to Radiohead. Ace.
6/4
Loving this Radiohead journey with you Geebz. Been a while since I actually listened to them, but they are a huge part of my soundtrack of life. Whenever you decide to return to them do not skip the song Fake Plastic Trees. It is an absolute must listen. Lots of love to you!
Love this comment, and love fake plastic trees. In rainbows is by far my favourite album but Fake Plastic Trees and High n Dry are two amazing classics from The Bends.
Exactly the same for me.
Someone after my own soul. Fake plastic trees is my all time favorite song ever. So beautiful and cathartic.
This album needs to be listened to in its entirety. Brilliance. One of the best ever made.
Can't get enough of these Radiohead reactions. Would be interesting to see what you think of some of the more recent releases; "Present Tense" being a particular standout, especially lyrically
yesyesyes, present tense is my absolute favourite song, standout in terms of capturing an emotion in both words and sound!
Wonderful song. I especially like the "Jonny and Thom and a CR78" version, because it's nearly as rich--perhaps even richer in some ways--as the album version with just those 2 and a drum machine. Amazing.
There's so much cool syncopation going on here, which to me is so interesting for an ambient piece like this.
It's like a cool, ethereal, ambient wash of syncopated emotional energy.
Let Down is a beautiful Radiohead song one of my favourites ❤️
I would love to see you review some RH songs "from the basement" so you can get a better idea of just how good these guys are with their instruments in a live setting.
In Rainbows From the basement is for my money truely Radioheads peak and something incredibly magical captured on camera.
For the love of everything, the Daily Mail one.
my RH introduction started when i saw King of Limbs from the basement tapes. I changed that day.
I keep thinking exactly the same during every single RH breakdown.
I agree with most of the comments below: as "simple" (or conventional) as the song is (for a Radiohead song), the arrangements are lush and spacy, and the song is utterly beautiful. My favorite from the masterpiece "OK Computer". The last verse with the different entangled harmonies from Thom is out of this world.
It's such a joy to see someone discover Radiohead for the first time, please keep going! Really hoping you do "Climbing up the walls" it's probably my favourite track on OK Computer.
Yay! Geebz is covering Radiohead-it’s a post-Christmas miracle! Also . . . I’m looking forward to seeing how the addition of the lyrics affects your first listen. As a poet, the lyrics always open the door to music for me. I love how we have different entries into the music but sort of end up in the same space together. It’s magical.
“One day I am going to grow wings.” I love the ember of hope in this line. 💕
I rarely listen to OK Computer as a whole nowadays - it’s a album that hits hard for me. But Let Down is one track that gets a somewhat regular rotation.
Geebz - Daydreaming from Moon Shaped Pool. The strings and arrangement is really amazing, as well as the production. The guitarist Jonny Greenwood actually does many movie soundtracks so he is an experienced composer
I love this song! Radiohead have been a constant in my life since my sister got me into them when I was 10 :)
THANK YOU...just THANK YOU SIR, again for doing this song along with other Radiohead's songs
It seems you don’t often do live tracks, but PLEASE hit Radiodead “Bloom” live from the Basement series…. It’s live recorded in the studio with the visual of the band actually creating the music, it’s really something to behold!!! BTW , the composer you always mention Jonny Greenwood is on 3rd percussion for the the track! YOU MUST CHECK IT OUT !!!
Bloom live is a must!!
I like the one with Hans Zimmer even better.
Or the one getting the Stephen Colbert show. Phenomenal performance.
I love a whole lot of Radiohead songs, but this one's my favorite :) Thanks for checking it out!
these radiohead reactions always make my day, thank you :)
This is one their most beautiful songs. I love the middle part in particular when they change it up and also pick up the pace just a notch towards the end. Its so subtle and beautiful. Amazing.
God! I love this song. Thanks Geebz!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
My favourite Radiohead song ❤️
I am a huge Radiohead fan. Have been for the past 25 years or so, and they are a big part of the “soundtrack of my life”. What I love about their music is they have songs that sound like how an emotion feels. And not just the simple emotions to put to words like sadness, anger, or joy, but the really complex emotions like languishing, anxiety, resignation, etc. This song sounds like pure joy to me and I’ve always loved that this lyrically bleak song is so oddly joyful sounding. In the album, this song beautifully juxtaposes against the musically much sadder Exit Music and reminds us of again about the anxiety from our computerized reactions. It’s lovely. In your own personal life, Geebz, Ok Computer would be lovely for you to absorb all at one time. It’s a journey. Thanks for the reaction!
Thank you for the wonderful reaction on this truly great band... if you want to catch some AMAZING, adventurous confounding and brilliant work from them: THE NATIONAL ANTHEM is the way to go. That track should be made into the Planet Earth's Anthem. A perfect marriage of an amazing riff and beautiful dissonance.
"don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel. One day i am going to grow wings..."
SO F'ING GOOD.
I adore this song, the melodic build and rotating pattern is just sublime
this song hit me this year, cry every time i hear this now. Funny how Radiohead songs come in at the right time in my life and completely take on a new meaning and wormholes into your brain and heart.
My all time fave Radiohead song. Love you, man!
This is one of my favorite RH songs. This entire album is magnificent.
There is so much more Radiohead to discover! Thanks for doing this one.
This one is special. Very special.
One of my favorite album of all time. Thank you!
These songs have been with me for years but some parts still hit as if it's the first time hearing them
This is my favorite song on OK Computer. A true gem amongst more known, beloved songs on the album. It's just a perfectly done song.
I feel like everytime geebz decomposes an ok computer track he mentions an unorganic eerie type sound that permeates thru the tracks. It's the brilliance of Radiohead, to make almost a concept album about how computers and technology is taking over our lives, it's always there in the back stalls or between every track while the human emotion of the band ebbs and flows over it, trying to take over
The highlight of this song is the build up to that wonderful last verse.....and Thom's vocal delivery of the last verse. Just so good.
You can't imagine... for a guy his 40s now like me. When OK Computer came out it was an atom bomb... my friends who listened exclusively to dance music and others who were heavy into Rap music(which I liked but it wasn't mostly my jam) bought the album and were playing it... a whole bunch of elder millennials were completely blindsided. It was our Beatles...
Great to hear your thoughts about this amazing band. Yeah, I'm a radiohead fan and I do wish you to react to the whole ok computer album. You'd feel a even deeper feeling and see that it all connects from one song to another. Cheers from Brazil
Thank you so much for continuing the Radiohead reactions! I’d highly recommend analyzing theirs songs Motion Picture Soundtrack or Spectre!
So enjoyable watching/ listening to your reactions! Radiohead are my favorite band- so unique and inventive. They create just beautiful music. Please give the National Anthem ago, the 'jazz' if you can call it that will blow you away
Love the guitar tones on this one, Ed’s guitar in particular sounds quite whimsical. Also love the lyrics. One of my faves
Don't remember what I thought when I first heard this, but over the years, this has become my favorite Radiohead song, which makes me stop and listen every time it plays.
It’s brilliant one of the best songs ever composed IMO thank you sir for your reaction subscribing now cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
You’re like the nicest guy to listen explain all this. Great job man. I’ve spent hours binge watching your stuff just going song by song.
Nice review of one of my favourite Radiohead songs. For info, could be wrong but I don’t think there is any keyboard in this song until the very end synth bit. The main repeating sounds you can hear are the 3 guitars of Thom, Ed and Johnny. Seen them play this live and it’s amazing.
Really good technical talk while still appealing to the emotion that all music and art has, great video, song, and reaction
So glad you did this song! It really is an interesting song. Both hopeful and hopeless.
Exactly!
Great work as always Geebz. Thanks for hitting some of favourite songs. Lots to unpack here for a first listen. I’d love to hear some of your favourite songs for the first time. Songs they’ve been with you for years that you could really deep dive for us all. Health and happiness to you.
F'ing amazing song. I still get chills every time I hear it. And I play it a lot.
Funny that just watching someone listen to this for the first time gave me goosebumps, as if I was having the experience myself.
I would really love to see you review Arpeggi (Weird Fishes) from their album "In Rainbows". They are my favorite band and I believe that is my favorite song.
Thanks for this. My all time favorite song.
The synth at the end is beyond beautiful.
Maan my favourite RH track ever. It invokes such emotion. This was recorded live at 3am in St Catherines Court (just outside Bath-UK) I took a trip there because The Cure also recorded their album 'Wild Mood Swings 'there as well. anywho..Jonnys guitar is in 5/4, creating an overlapping polyrhythm with the rest of the instruments which are in 4/4. I love the engineering in this track and the prolonged vocal panning after the breakdown (which was written by Ed)
"and the prolonged vocal panning after the breakdown" - following Pablo and Bends, I didn't listen to radiohead for about a decade; decided to circle back to OK and it was listening to this precise moment in this song with some decent headphones when I fell in love with radiohead - nothing fancy or overly technical, just beautiful and wonderfully executed . . .
I'm glad amongst your decomposition journey you're finding bands that are evidently your favorites. Hope you had a Merry Christmas Geebz! 🤘
If there's one Radiohead song I've had on repeat more than any other, it's this one. My absolute favourite by the band. The use of the tambourine is very reminiscent of what you'll find in an instrumental by Duran Duran, of all bands, called Tiger Tiger.
The last time I saw radiohead live, they started with let down. Seen them about 10 times and had never seen this one, amazing. Followed up with lucky. What a gig
This is a genius level song with a very special moment in there aswell ...the high vocal towards the end is ❤ outstanding ❤😮😮
(You know where you are)
Listening to Radiohead makes me accept my shortcomings, keep calm and move on. If one had bipolar disorder or ADHD then Radiohead is the equivalent of a mood stabilizer. The songs have effects similar to serotonin releasing agents that are not neurotoxic. Serenic is the word I guess.
You could do nothing else but Radiohead and Rush and I would watch every moment loving it along with you.
I just can’t remember how many times I ve heard this song and still moves me so much. Nice dream is another song that blows my mind.
My band were in the middle of recording an album when OK came out. We listened to it in the studio start to finish then sat there in stone cold silence. It was like the last best album of our generation had just fallen out of the sky.
My favourite song ever probably anyway. I cry every time I hear it and I don't know why but I literally start crying and thing it's so beautiful
Thankyou. Subscribed because of your heart felt opinion of this wonderful song.
It's just fantastic, the build to a crescendo towards the end, the tension and then release. It's a brilliant piece of music.
despite the sad lyrics I adore this song, its a song that I’d listen to look outside the window of a car, or if I had a stressful day and needed to start with a track to calm me down😊 I also love singing along when I’m doing chores!😂👌
I think you've got to that point where you just need to sit down for an hour and listen to the whole album, as it's a hugely rewarding listening experience when taken as a single piece.
My favorite song of all time. So glad you got to this one.
Thom angelic voice is superb and meloncholy music arrangement
This is my absolute favorite Radiohead track. At your first stop all I had in my head was "ethereal" and then you said it. Spot on. Tillthis day this song takes me on a journey. Great breakdown Geebz.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this song. OKC is my favorite album from them and this song is my favorite song from the album. I think it was really the space I was in in my life when this album came out but it just struck a chord with me. The melodic flow of this song almost feels like a trance and the feeling of being lost in the shuffle and forgotten.
Mahalo as always for reacting to their stuff and when you eventually do circle back around to them a couple songs I’d really love to hear you react to are “Nude” and “Videotape”.
I remember listen to Ok Computer in school, year 97-98 I and my friends loved Paranoid Android and Karma Police (the song, the music video, etc.). Then... in some moments I really loved no surprises, airbag and lucky... During university, listening again and again I said my favorite song of OK Computer was Subterranean homesick alien... and then, after a long time enjoying this wonderful album I have to say Let down is my favorite Radiohead song and probably top 5 of 90's song. Not the most complex execution, not the most deep lyric, but it's total emotion, feelings. I love this song and I can't hear it in any place cause the feels.
The snare coming at 3.30 😳🌟👌
Thank you for these great Radiohead reactions. I would LOVE to hear you dissect Myxomatosis and There There. There There is actually the song that got me into them.
This song gets me in the feels.
radiohead and deftones are my favorite ones you do! thanks for the good times!
Thank you for this. Please do "there there" from the álbum "hail to the thief"
Thanks for doing these kinds of songs. It's been many years since I've been into music and the Radiohead songs you've reacted to have reinvigorated me for it.
love radioheads bassist too. just offering so much tease, release and groove
Jonny Greenwood's guitar part in this song is absolutely perfect.
All the guitar parts are imo, especially loves Ed’s solo and the way the guitars marry together is stunning
@@sarajohnson5653 Very true. I'm so glad you mentioned Ed O'Brian.
Thank you Geebz ! This is litteraly my 'let down' song when I'm low and after a listen (or 10), things don't look so bad...
Radiohead is my favorite band… my favorite song of theirs always changes… it’s been “Let Down” for a while, now
I took the the meaning of that song to be that life is cruel and unfair where life constantly tries to beat you down and make you give up but is after suffering through that hardship that you gain the strength to take on anything. I get this from how it talks about things a chick being knocked out of it's nest and made to survive followed up with the image of growing wings.
My favorite Radiohead song