Guy on the left is so lucky. It's like you can see him realize he's about to have a new favorite band and Radiohead have the largest most diverse catalogue... probably only The Beatles can compare in terms of volume and quality. If you enjoy Radiohead on first listen, that's a great sign. These guys grow on you a lot. I suggest you listen to full albums on your own time. Every album is supposed to be its own emotional ride, and every album is a concept album. There's soooo much material. They have so many amazing B-sides and side projects as well.
Oh they compose !!! Jonny Greenwood has been nominated for an oscar and won many awards for film scores, Thom Yorke has also started doing film scores and has been lauded for it. (all of the band are multi-instrumentalists) They have done 9 studio albums and 7 of them are considered classics, they probably have another 3 albums worth of b-sides and non album tracks that most bands would kill for, they constantly progress and evolve, none of their albums sound the same. They are going to be in the company of Pink Floyd and The Beatles in 30 years time, it is no coincidence that a huge part of Radioheads fanbase are musicians and artists themselves.
In "National Anthem", the band literally hired brass players but gave them no sheet music. They just gave them signals with their arms to indicate "play more" and "play less", so they were basically playing whatever they wanted at the same time.
Right on. Cant wait to see what yall think. Radiohead isn't often covered on my reaction groups I follow. Production wise, they're very purposeful and know how to use ambience to find the emotion they need out of you and deepen any lyrics they put to it.
Subterranean Homesick Alien is my favourite Radiohead song (it is tough to pick a favourite) but it is nearly impossible to speak over that song. It keeps you on your toes and you just don’t know where it is going. It’s… incredible.
Radiohead = Greatest Gen X Band of them all. They are our Beatles. Their music can often take a few listens to hit, so they aren't for everyone and certainly plenty of people wouldn't agree with my opinion but that is always true in music so it's all love no matter. But - growing up Pink Floyd was my favorite band period - then I fell in love with Stevie Ray Vaughan (as an aspiring guitar player,) but going to High School and college in the 90's got to experience the onset of Hip Hop, Grunge, Modern Alt Rock, Electronica - I love so many genres and bands and artists - and for me, Radiohead remains my all time favorite. "OK Computer" is considered by many as the best album of all time and is commonly compared to "Dark side of the Moon" (mostly as it - like Dark Side - also feels like a concept album though loosely really, but it is for sure best heard front to back). And while the 2 bands write songs differently - Floyd even with their deep art experimentation are at their heart a blues based band - Dave Gilmour was my guitar idol until I heard SRV, and now looking back I see clearly most early big classic rock bands were as such (and the Blues rule, so this is meant as a complement as well as 'fact' - is it - who knows, I feel pretty god bout my take!) including the Beatles and Zeppelin. Radiohead are not a typical blues chord progression band. They make some simple songs ("High and Dry" you heard)but generally a lot of very unique compositions ("Paranoid Android" as you heard). They all play around on different instruments in studio and live, but at the core they are a 3 guitar, bass and drum - 5 person setup and I love 3 guitar bands - having that other player gives so many opportunities for ambient space and swapping over to synths mid song and all the things Radiohead do at the highest level of musicianship. A lot of the time you think you are hearing synths, you are, but also many times it is just them being masters of making every sound a human being can conceive of somehow come out of a guitar. Hell - their lead guitarist Johnny Greenwood has been nominated for an Academy Award for his classical music film score work - so yes, example like the fusion jazz Miles Davis inspired section at the end there was their composition (never hurts to have a dude like that in your band!). He did the music for the epic "There Will Be Blood" and the music is SO crucial to making that one of the unofficial best movies of this century so far by many accounts. They are so tight live, check out any clips from "In Rainbows - Live from the Basement". Very cool to hear your take as active musicians - reacting to my all time favorite band. Appreciate it, I enjoyed it! Best next stop to get into them is probably to have a complete listen to OK Computer.
Gen X?? Come on, they're millennial, or at least deserve to fall into that category. I'm early millennial, born in 81, so that made me just before my teens when they started, and it stuck with me all the way through my formative years. Either way, Radiohead are the shit! :) Not as up to speed with their later stuff, but I really followed them up to 'In Rainbows'.
@@Kainlarsen Fair enough - you got me, I concede! Those labels ae nothing but trouble anyway - starting high school in 1991 puts me at the tail end of Gen X and you are at the early days of Millenials, maybe we are X-ennials. Be that as it may, funny thing is OK Computer got me to love them, but Kid A let me down so badly (I was SO into Ok Computer I was dying for the next album and wanted - well probably what ended up being "In Rainbows" next) and Kid A - now I love - sent me on pause with them and down a different multi year path into blues music, like further and further in time to the 30's and 20's, for several years and I still considered Radiohead my favorite band as they'd made my favorite album - so when I caught In Rainbows - From the Basement randomly on IFC TV one night, unaware they even had a new album for a year, it was so astounding, and I was so over the moon and excited and thrilled they could still put out music this great, it caused me to go full dive BACK in, listen to the most gorgeous acoustic version that night of "There, There" on youtube, listen to In Rainbows but now also their whole catalogue incessantly, I turned into a - probably too much - diehard super fan for life. But much of their music takes so many listens then POP becomes an all time favorite track. It is one of their best attributes and downfalls as to why people turn their nose up at them, but who cares. As to the last 2 albums, The King of Limbs is short and can be a head scratcher at times but again, grows much over time AND is so crazy how much better it sounds altogether when done from the Basement. A Moon Shaped Pool is very solid - its like a lush soundscape vibe, some true standout moments, nothing bad, and especially with Thom and Jonny just putting out a really fun side record The Smile, I am optimistic they have one last mega level album left in them. No disrespect to our respective generational labels - someone born in 81 has a pretty close life experience and as it relates to Radiohead, I caught my link to them mid college with Ok Computer but had followed them as Creep happened and Fake Plastic Trees came out, but they were well on their game from 99 to 2009 for sure. Words, words - so many words - you said it all when you said they are the s**t. If at all interested in their last records, and I definitely think it is worth it, check out that King of Limbs live set from the Basement - its a cool way to mess with the post In Rainbows stuff - and "Daydreaming" and "Present Tense" are 2 songs from the Moon Shaped Pool album that are on par with anything they've ever done.
If you're going to do another EP with 3 Radiohead songs, here are three I'd highly recommend: Pyramid Song from Amnesiac: hauntingly beautiful song, not particularly rocky but has some very interesting time signature/drum pattern features.. Jigsaw Falling Into Place from In Rainbows: an incredibly catchy tune, with really groovy guitar/bass guitar riffs throughout 15 Step from In Rainbows: in my opinion by far the catchiest song in 5/4. The song rlly hooks you in from the moment you start listening to it and is their best opener to an album imo
You’re bang on with all 3 songs, there will be a part 2. All depends how I feel the day of, there’s a few other tunes still, the relentless violin pace of burn the witch, & the King of Limbs is under appreciated. Too many
I had a dream that National Anthem was playing as the Earth’s last people took over an alien planet. It was so real. Just dark ships descending on the small planet shooting EMP blasts down; frying their technology and then swooping down and fighting them
7:56 for Just's case, I don't think there's a single song out there with the exact same set of chord progressions used as this song. It's a super weird one. The song was created when the vocalist and lead guitarist were trying to compete to each other how many chords they were able to fit in one song. The lead guitarist won which lead to this song.
The difference between Radiohead and Pink Floyd is that Pink Floyd sounded like Pink Floyd their whole career. Radiohead sounded link Pink Floyd a little bit for an album or two, before moving onto free jazz, electronica, orchestral, soul, and a half dozen other vibes. Ridiculously talented band that just kept evolving and evolving for 25 years. Legit brilliant group.
Their name is one word, 'Radiohead'. But seriously, I'm really glad you lads enjoyed their work! They really do fantastic things with sound and instruments that few other bands did in that time. Little side-note, they have since softened their stance on 'Creep', and will still sometimes play it live. It was just back in their earlier career, they were afraid it would overshadow their other songs, and refused to play it for a long time.
The guy on the left should have his own reaction show - he's the only one listening properly and doesn't have continual bullshit coming out of his mouth.
I think they are better than Pink Floyd who I also love. PF never departed from their blues based template and Radiohead has drawn from many genres musically which gives them an incredible amount of diversity from album to album more like the Beatles ( thanks to George Martin ). Radiohead is the only band that I put up there with bands like the Beatles, Zepplin or Pink Floyd When you next do Radiohead make sure you do the two basement sessions I understand you can not do the entire session so just cherry pick.
I mean, I get putting them over Pink Floyd (I would put both in the same category myself) but saying that Zeppelin is better than Pink Floyd? Nah. I like Led Zeppelin a lot but Pink Floyd were so much more innovative and sonically diverse. Led Zeppelin basically took the blues blueprint, added some elements from bands like Cream, cranked up the volume and intensity and voilà, you have the Zeppelin sound. There's some acoustic folk in there too but that's also not really mindblowing compared to the stuff that came before them. Pink Floyd on the other hand really created their own sound. A song like Echoes just introduced something new to rock music. Plus, Led Zeppelin never released an album as powerful and convincing as Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here or The Wall.
@@hansmahr8627 I only like about half of The Wall and overall I like Animals better I might even like Meddle better than The Wall. And I agree I do love Zepplin but I much prefer Pink Floyd even though I really only love 3 records and like 2 very much honestly I prefer Yes to Zepplin.
I'm just going to say it. Subterranean Homesick Alien is arguably better than anything Pink Floyd ever did. There are few bands that can match Radiohead's composition/instrumentation. I'm not even one of those elitist Radiohead fans, but facts are facts.
It's not even close to their best song either. I love Pink Floyd, but I would put Radiohead in the top 3 best rock bands ever along with the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Anyone who claims to be a musician in the 21st century and doesn’t know the depth of Jonny Greenwood’s work in this band and the film industry, doesn’t really know much at all about what’s driving the sound of music from the past 30 years.
Leave Brian as he is, he looks better that way ;) Seriously though: How about another Doors episode? Great band but I don't think the songs chosen for their episode where representative for their artistry. Peace Frog, L.A. Woman maybe?
It’s not Brian it’s Ryan, & you’re spot on with your Doors pt 2 episode - the 1st Doors episode I was under the impression that these kids knew the basics (which is why we picked the least ‘Doorsian’ song to play first). I honestly thought that if we played LA woman they would know right away. This has been a learning experience for ALL generations.
Second time you guys picked the wropng songs to represent one of the greatest bands on earth! Below are their best work: 1) paranoid android 2) karma police 3) Fake plastic trees 4) No surprises 5) Just 6) Creep
Guy on the left is so lucky. It's like you can see him realize he's about to have a new favorite band and Radiohead have the largest most diverse catalogue... probably only The Beatles can compare in terms of volume and quality. If you enjoy Radiohead on first listen, that's a great sign. These guys grow on you a lot. I suggest you listen to full albums on your own time. Every album is supposed to be its own emotional ride, and every album is a concept album. There's soooo much material. They have so many amazing B-sides and side projects as well.
Which left?
@@RailwayScholar Bottom left.
@@memetherapy Yeah agreed
Oh they compose !!! Jonny Greenwood has been nominated for an oscar and won many awards for film scores, Thom Yorke has also started doing film scores and has been lauded for it. (all of the band are multi-instrumentalists)
They have done 9 studio albums and 7 of them are considered classics, they probably have another 3 albums worth of b-sides and non album tracks that most bands would kill for, they constantly progress and evolve, none of their albums sound the same.
They are going to be in the company of Pink Floyd and The Beatles in 30 years time, it is no coincidence that a huge part of Radioheads fanbase are musicians and artists themselves.
In "National Anthem", the band literally hired brass players but gave them no sheet music. They just gave them signals with their arms to indicate "play more" and "play less", so they were basically playing whatever they wanted at the same time.
Right on. Cant wait to see what yall think. Radiohead isn't often covered on my reaction groups I follow. Production wise, they're very purposeful and know how to use ambience to find the emotion they need out of you and deepen any lyrics they put to it.
On National Anthem, I think that was a Bari Sax you all were trying to guess, tight before all the other wind instruments came in.
I think you guys would love The Cure - Disintegration album
Jonny and Colin Greenwood went nuts on just. Radiohead is on another level
Subterranean Homesick Alien is my favourite Radiohead song (it is tough to pick a favourite) but it is nearly impossible to speak over that song.
It keeps you on your toes and you just don’t know where it is going. It’s… incredible.
Radiohead = Greatest Gen X Band of them all. They are our Beatles. Their music can often take a few listens to hit, so they aren't for everyone and certainly plenty of people wouldn't agree with my opinion but that is always true in music so it's all love no matter. But - growing up Pink Floyd was my favorite band period - then I fell in love with Stevie Ray Vaughan (as an aspiring guitar player,) but going to High School and college in the 90's got to experience the onset of Hip Hop, Grunge, Modern Alt Rock, Electronica - I love so many genres and bands and artists - and for me, Radiohead remains my all time favorite. "OK Computer" is considered by many as the best album of all time and is commonly compared to "Dark side of the Moon" (mostly as it - like Dark Side - also feels like a concept album though loosely really, but it is for sure best heard front to back). And while the 2 bands write songs differently - Floyd even with their deep art experimentation are at their heart a blues based band - Dave Gilmour was my guitar idol until I heard SRV, and now looking back I see clearly most early big classic rock bands were as such (and the Blues rule, so this is meant as a complement as well as 'fact' - is it - who knows, I feel pretty god bout my take!) including the Beatles and Zeppelin. Radiohead are not a typical blues chord progression band. They make some simple songs ("High and Dry" you heard)but generally a lot of very unique compositions ("Paranoid Android" as you heard). They all play around on different instruments in studio and live, but at the core they are a 3 guitar, bass and drum - 5 person setup and I love 3 guitar bands - having that other player gives so many opportunities for ambient space and swapping over to synths mid song and all the things Radiohead do at the highest level of musicianship. A lot of the time you think you are hearing synths, you are, but also many times it is just them being masters of making every sound a human being can conceive of somehow come out of a guitar. Hell - their lead guitarist Johnny Greenwood has been nominated for an Academy Award for his classical music film score work - so yes, example like the fusion jazz Miles Davis inspired section at the end there was their composition (never hurts to have a dude like that in your band!). He did the music for the epic "There Will Be Blood" and the music is SO crucial to making that one of the unofficial best movies of this century so far by many accounts. They are so tight live, check out any clips from "In Rainbows - Live from the Basement". Very cool to hear your take as active musicians - reacting to my all time favorite band. Appreciate it, I enjoyed it! Best next stop to get into them is probably to have a complete listen to OK Computer.
Gen X?? Come on, they're millennial, or at least deserve to fall into that category.
I'm early millennial, born in 81, so that made me just before my teens when they started, and it stuck with me all the way through my formative years.
Either way, Radiohead are the shit! :) Not as up to speed with their later stuff, but I really followed them up to 'In Rainbows'.
@@Kainlarsen Fair enough - you got me, I concede! Those labels ae nothing but trouble anyway - starting high school in 1991 puts me at the tail end of Gen X and you are at the early days of Millenials, maybe we are X-ennials. Be that as it may, funny thing is OK Computer got me to love them, but Kid A let me down so badly (I was SO into Ok Computer I was dying for the next album and wanted - well probably what ended up being "In Rainbows" next) and Kid A - now I love - sent me on pause with them and down a different multi year path into blues music, like further and further in time to the 30's and 20's, for several years and I still considered Radiohead my favorite band as they'd made my favorite album - so when I caught In Rainbows - From the Basement randomly on IFC TV one night, unaware they even had a new album for a year, it was so astounding, and I was so over the moon and excited and thrilled they could still put out music this great, it caused me to go full dive BACK in, listen to the most gorgeous acoustic version that night of "There, There" on youtube, listen to In Rainbows but now also their whole catalogue incessantly, I turned into a - probably too much - diehard super fan for life. But much of their music takes so many listens then POP becomes an all time favorite track. It is one of their best attributes and downfalls as to why people turn their nose up at them, but who cares. As to the last 2 albums, The King of Limbs is short and can be a head scratcher at times but again, grows much over time AND is so crazy how much better it sounds altogether when done from the Basement. A Moon Shaped Pool is very solid - its like a lush soundscape vibe, some true standout moments, nothing bad, and especially with Thom and Jonny just putting out a really fun side record The Smile, I am optimistic they have one last mega level album left in them. No disrespect to our respective generational labels - someone born in 81 has a pretty close life experience and as it relates to Radiohead, I caught my link to them mid college with Ok Computer but had followed them as Creep happened and Fake Plastic Trees came out, but they were well on their game from 99 to 2009 for sure. Words, words - so many words - you said it all when you said they are the s**t. If at all interested in their last records, and I definitely think it is worth it, check out that King of Limbs live set from the Basement - its a cool way to mess with the post In Rainbows stuff - and "Daydreaming" and "Present Tense" are 2 songs from the Moon Shaped Pool album that are on par with anything they've ever done.
The official video is pretty trippy
If you're going to do another EP with 3 Radiohead songs, here are three I'd highly recommend:
Pyramid Song from Amnesiac: hauntingly beautiful song, not particularly rocky but has some very interesting time signature/drum pattern features..
Jigsaw Falling Into Place from In Rainbows: an incredibly catchy tune, with really groovy guitar/bass guitar riffs throughout
15 Step from In Rainbows: in my opinion by far the catchiest song in 5/4. The song rlly hooks you in from the moment you start listening to it and is their best opener to an album imo
You’re bang on with all 3 songs, there will be a part 2. All depends how I feel the day of, there’s a few other tunes still, the relentless violin pace of burn the witch, & the King of Limbs is under appreciated. Too many
3 great picks. If they opt for a fourth, they should check out lotus flower or exit music
I had a dream that National Anthem was playing as the Earth’s last people took over an alien planet. It was so real. Just dark ships descending on the small planet shooting EMP blasts down; frying their technology and then swooping down and fighting them
7:56 for Just's case, I don't think there's a single song out there with the exact same set of chord progressions used as this song. It's a super weird one.
The song was created when the vocalist and lead guitarist were trying to compete to each other how many chords they were able to fit in one song. The lead guitarist won which lead to this song.
Great video! Please do more Radiohead, they’ve had so great songs but you haven’t covered anything past Kid A
Tool, NIN, and Radiohead are my top 3 bands! I would love to curate a list of songs to react to.
The difference between Radiohead and Pink Floyd is that Pink Floyd sounded like Pink Floyd their whole career. Radiohead sounded link Pink Floyd a little bit for an album or two, before moving onto free jazz, electronica, orchestral, soul, and a half dozen other vibes. Ridiculously talented band that just kept evolving and evolving for 25 years. Legit brilliant group.
Their name is one word, 'Radiohead'.
But seriously, I'm really glad you lads enjoyed their work! They really do fantastic things with sound and instruments that few other bands did in that time.
Little side-note, they have since softened their stance on 'Creep', and will still sometimes play it live. It was just back in their earlier career, they were afraid it would overshadow their other songs, and refused to play it for a long time.
1 - Pink Floyd
2 - Radiohead
3 - The Beatles
I've never been able to get into Floyd, but I respect that
Nah Brudda not even close Radiohead is the best
Pink Floyd should be 2nd here.
1 - The Beatles
2 - Pink Floyd
3 - Radiohead
1.Radiohead
2.Led Zep
3.Bowie
I prefer pre-2000s Radiohead. The Bends is probably my favorite album of their's.
Love Radiohead! Good to see you guys are back! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 Sorry but I'm blazed as fuck and had a few IPA's lol so I cant comment properly 🤪🤪🤪🤪
The guy on the left should have his own reaction show - he's the only one listening properly and doesn't have continual bullshit coming out of his mouth.
I've had the pleasure of seeing those guys twice and they are absolutely clean live!! Amazing live band!
Give em Paranoid Android and let see their reactions.
This is so funny 😂!!!
I think they are better than Pink Floyd who I also love. PF never departed from their blues based template and Radiohead has drawn from many genres musically which gives them an incredible amount of diversity from album to album more like the Beatles ( thanks to George Martin ). Radiohead is the only band that I put up there with bands like the Beatles, Zepplin or Pink Floyd When you next do Radiohead make sure you do the two basement sessions I understand you can not do the entire session so just cherry pick.
I mean, I get putting them over Pink Floyd (I would put both in the same category myself) but saying that Zeppelin is better than Pink Floyd? Nah. I like Led Zeppelin a lot but Pink Floyd were so much more innovative and sonically diverse. Led Zeppelin basically took the blues blueprint, added some elements from bands like Cream, cranked up the volume and intensity and voilà, you have the Zeppelin sound. There's some acoustic folk in there too but that's also not really mindblowing compared to the stuff that came before them. Pink Floyd on the other hand really created their own sound. A song like Echoes just introduced something new to rock music. Plus, Led Zeppelin never released an album as powerful and convincing as Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here or The Wall.
@@hansmahr8627 I only like about half of The Wall and overall I like Animals better I might even like Meddle better than The Wall. And I agree I do love Zepplin but I much prefer Pink Floyd even though I really only love 3 records and like 2 very much honestly I prefer Yes to Zepplin.
TNA feels like Stravinski's TROS
Do a part 2 please
Radiohead!!!
Can they react to: Portishead, massive attack, tricky
Ryan back on camera and moderation this group again. I strongly relate to your perspectives.
Stranglers was also an unique band
Love this!! Thanks
We vote yes for sure Ryan
Radiohead, one word
Guys react to Thom Yorke - Traffic please
I vote yes
I'm just going to say it. Subterranean Homesick Alien is arguably better than anything Pink Floyd ever did. There are few bands that can match Radiohead's composition/instrumentation. I'm not even one of those elitist Radiohead fans, but facts are facts.
It's not even close to their best song either. I love Pink Floyd, but I would put Radiohead in the top 3 best rock bands ever along with the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Well said. I’ll put Airbag in there too
@@AMVryan Airbag and SHA and No Surprises are my top 3 from OK Computer.
Anyone who claims to be a musician in the 21st century and doesn’t know the depth of Jonny Greenwood’s work in this band and the film industry, doesn’t really know much at all about what’s driving the sound of music from the past 30 years.
I vote no
Leave Brian as he is, he looks better that way ;) Seriously though: How about another Doors episode? Great band but I don't think the songs chosen for their episode where representative for their artistry. Peace Frog, L.A. Woman maybe?
It’s not Brian it’s Ryan, & you’re spot on with your Doors pt 2 episode - the 1st Doors episode I was under the impression that these kids knew the basics (which is why we picked the least ‘Doorsian’ song to play first). I honestly thought that if we played LA woman they would know right away. This has been a learning experience for ALL generations.
Second time you guys picked the wropng songs to represent one of the greatest bands on earth! Below are their best work:
1) paranoid android
2) karma police
3) Fake plastic trees
4) No surprises
5) Just
6) Creep
The guy in the middle is beyond annoying. Talk less, please.