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5:26 The moment when everything is so dense and dissonant, and Thom Yorke's voice breaks through, as if sunlight is breaking through overcast clouds, is one of my favorite moments in Radiohead's entire discography.
Tom Yorke once said How to Disappear Completely is his favorite Radiohead song. He was struggling with popularity, and he called Michael Stipe and he told him that just imagine that you are not here on stage and this isn't really happening. He wrote a song about it.
During the OK Computer tour, where Radiohead went from being a "band" to "Rock Saviors and the biggest Band in the World". Anyone who hasnt seen the movie "Meeting People is Easy" should watch it.
How to Disappear Completely is probably Radiohead's finest moment, especially when you know the context of why/how it was written. Thom's voice is clear for the first time on the album for a reason, and Jonny's chilling orchestral score adds beautifully to the uneasiness. Also, extreme kudos for the David Sylvian reference. A truly great artist, and a favorite of mine for longer than I care to mention.
You've mentioned The Beatles, King Crimson, Eno, Talk Talk and David Sylvian in your reviews of Radiohead to date. All among my favourite artists and not bad comparisons, I agree. They're definitely in that creative, boundary-pushing company of artists who made/make music for its own sake and not for commerce.
Radiohead feels so weird. They feel like an indie band and you want to think you found some rare gem, but millions of people feel that way. I just love this album so much and it isn't even my favorite album of their.
Thank you for recommending Secrets of the Beehive. A dear friend gave me this album years ago (maybe 16 or more?). I didn't "get it" then. I just gave it a relisten with How to Disappear Completely as a reference point, and I finally appreciate this album, a lot. And my friend is no longer with us and I cannot tell him. I'm feeling very bittersweet about it. But I really appreciate being able to feel some thanks and connection again.
I actually prefer Amnesiac to Kid A, which was mostly recorded during the same sessions. This album felt like such a left turn at the time, bit at the same time was an entirely natural progression. They could so easily have cashed in on the Bends/ OK Computer vein for a while, but they chose to progress. Nearly split the band too.
I believe How to Disappear Completely was written the night after a show in Dublin. Tom Yorke imagined himself dead floating down the main river in Dublin (The Liffey) which is mentioned in the song "I float down the liffey". It's very on point, because the arena Radiohead would have played, formally the Point, now called the 3Arena is right at the end of the river at the end of the docklands before you drift out to the Irish sea.
16:58 there were NO singles released for this album…but ‘Optimistic’ was considered by the band to be the most ‘commercial’ track off the LP and got the most radio play (in the UK at least) by far. The lyrics are also heavily influenced by PJ Harvey.
How to Disappear Completely has a very similar feeling with Scott Walker's It's Raining Today (1969) in regards to the dissonant orchestral background.
The year is Omega 17. A sneak of 4 Karahai walks along the foothills of iñueguintz. They were the first such Karahai to venture this far away from the village since the Great Bombardment 2 millennia ago. They came to a petrified forest. Having never seen a tree in his life, Rhatka called to the group “the valleys used to be covered in them. These tree fingers are the only sign they were ever here.” It was getting cold. High noon had reached its peak and the 4 set up camp for the night.
Every time I hear Treefingers I can't help but also hear early U2. I have visceral memories of reading childhood books while listening to Boy and October on repeat. There's an eerie soundscape to a lot of those songs and Treefingers sounds like all of it in one song.
Really thoughtful reaction to one of the greatest left turns in rock history. RADIOHEAD had gone from a Brit Pop kind of band to producing a masterwork in OK Computer. So how do they follow that up? With something completely different and equally compelling. I slightly prefer KID A... but both of those albums are absolutely brilliant. I HIGHLY recommend you check out their other album that is on this upper tier: "A Moon-Shaped Pool"... which is, I think, CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED. It's gorgeous, deep, sorrowful, and amazing. You will LOVE it. Cheers!
@@Ennui. I wasn't reading interviews with the band back in the Pablo Honey days... So I was talking about the Magazines like "Q" and NME and Melody Maker... they were sometimes lazily lumping them in the Brit Pop category back then...
You should check out one of Thom's favorite performances of How to Disappear Completely here: ua-cam.com/video/zw1kDxjDSxk/v-deo.html. It's my favorite version. The Onde Martenot's being used make the whole performance that much more intense.
The string on htdc are in the style of penderecki. You can listen to penderecki and jonny greenwood collaboration . Also you must listen to jonny greenwood ,radiohead's multiinstrumentalist solo project. Albums bodysong and there will be blood are excellent movie score
I put off listening to this cd for many years b/c I was a big fan of Radiohead's progressive rock roots, but amazingly, I wound up liking it a like. You see I enjoy electronic music, just not electronic music by Radiohead, or so I thought. How to disappear Completely gives major Moody Blues vibes. In fact this whole cd gives me retro vibes, almost like they were trying to bridge the gap between past and future, The sound is both futuristic and rero at the same time-how is that even possible?
@@Agostoic I believe Optimistic and a few others were promotional singles but not formally released/sold as singles. Suspect was just to support with record promotion.
@@Agostoic Yeah, they played that Live in Dublin performance video of Optimistic on MTV2 a lot, so it def functioned as a single/promotion at the time.
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0:00 How To Disappear Completely (5:49) comments
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11:19 Optimistic (16:31) comments
5:26 The moment when everything is so dense and dissonant, and Thom Yorke's voice breaks through, as if sunlight is breaking through overcast clouds, is one of my favorite moments in Radiohead's entire discography.
just started this video and i bet i know what you are talking about. where the whole song resolves to Major chord for a moment. incredible
Same!
That's a great description of this particular moment!
@@stuarttusspot4769 Thanks!
Tom Yorke once said How to Disappear Completely is his favorite Radiohead song. He was struggling with popularity, and he called Michael Stipe and he told him that just imagine that you are not here on stage and this isn't really happening. He wrote a song about it.
great story, relistening now and looking at lyrics. brilliant.
During the OK Computer tour, where Radiohead went from being a "band" to "Rock Saviors and the biggest Band in the World". Anyone who hasnt seen the movie "Meeting People is Easy" should watch it.
Htdc is my favorite Radiohead track. So powerful.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to beat ☺
Saying you love ambient music 2 seconds into Treefingers was a great setup for what was coming.
How to Disappear Completely is probably Radiohead's finest moment, especially when you know the context of why/how it was written. Thom's voice is clear for the first time on the album for a reason, and Jonny's chilling orchestral score adds beautifully to the uneasiness.
Also, extreme kudos for the David Sylvian reference. A truly great artist, and a favorite of mine for longer than I care to mention.
You've mentioned The Beatles, King Crimson, Eno, Talk Talk and David Sylvian in your reviews of Radiohead to date. All among my favourite artists and not bad comparisons, I agree. They're definitely in that creative, boundary-pushing company of artists who made/make music for its own sake and not for commerce.
I have loved all of those acts for decades myself.
HTDC is a work of art, plain and simple. Awakens something deep inside you every time you hear it
all the sounds made in Treefingers were made on guitar
Kevin Shields likes it
Radiohead feels so weird. They feel like an indie band and you want to think you found some rare gem, but millions of people feel that way. I just love this album so much and it isn't even my favorite album of their.
Which album is your favorite then?
One my Top 3 songs from Radiohead - How to dissappear completely... it takes me to my safe place.
Looking forward to your take on Life in a Glasshouse.
Yes, very
I should be doing amnesiac next but requests for rainbows is unquestionable. But I will circle back and do the album...and more rh as well.
He likes weird and experimental so I think he’ll dig Amnesiac. It’s my 2nd favourites after Kid A.
Thank you for recommending Secrets of the Beehive. A dear friend gave me this album years ago (maybe 16 or more?). I didn't "get it" then. I just gave it a relisten with How to Disappear Completely as a reference point, and I finally appreciate this album, a lot. And my friend is no longer with us and I cannot tell him. I'm feeling very bittersweet about it. But I really appreciate being able to feel some thanks and connection again.
I've revisited the Beehive album too. Happy to hear
Thom Yorke said how to disappear....was the best song Radiohead have written. Agree, it's a stunner.
Thanks for the recommendation too 👍
I actually prefer Amnesiac to Kid A, which was mostly recorded during the same sessions.
This album felt like such a left turn at the time, bit at the same time was an entirely natural progression. They could so easily have cashed in on the Bends/ OK Computer vein for a while, but they chose to progress. Nearly split the band too.
So glad you had the cover art on the screen during Treefingers as I think that track is the sonic embodiment of that picture.
I believe How to Disappear Completely was written the night after a show in Dublin. Tom Yorke imagined himself dead floating down the main river in Dublin (The Liffey) which is mentioned in the song "I float down the liffey". It's very on point, because the arena Radiohead would have played, formally the Point, now called the 3Arena is right at the end of the river at the end of the docklands before you drift out to the Irish sea.
I was in the 3 arena a few years back when they played the song, the crowd went nuts, goosebumps!!!
16:58 there were NO singles released for this album…but ‘Optimistic’ was considered by the band to be the most ‘commercial’ track off the LP and got the most radio play (in the UK at least) by far.
The lyrics are also heavily influenced by PJ Harvey.
The band actually decided to not choose any single on the album. So the record company sent to radio stations ... optimistic ;-)
Optimistic is a great song
How to disappear completely has 60s vibe because its strongly influenced by Scott Walker's "3"
Scott Walker was an incredible artist, R.I.P.
If I remember right, someone from Radiohead said that everyone in the band is a fan of Scott Walker.
@@_CoasterNinja Jonny is for sure
How to Disappear Completely has a very similar feeling with Scott Walker's It's Raining Today (1969) in regards to the dissonant orchestral background.
HTDC is one of my fav songs of Radiohead
The year is Omega 17. A sneak of 4 Karahai walks along the foothills of iñueguintz. They were the first such Karahai to venture this far away from the village since the Great Bombardment 2 millennia ago. They came to a petrified forest. Having never seen a tree in his life, Rhatka called to the group “the valleys used to be covered in them. These tree fingers are the only sign they were ever here.” It was getting cold. High noon had reached its peak and the 4 set up camp for the night.
Love Secrets of the Beehive. Your reactions are great.
Every time I hear Treefingers I can't help but also hear early U2. I have visceral memories of reading childhood books while listening to Boy and October on repeat. There's an eerie soundscape to a lot of those songs and Treefingers sounds like all of it in one song.
*How to Disappear Completely* achingly beautiful song.
The opening track was on the soundtrack for 'vanilla sky', maybe you heard it there?
I saw that movie funny enough and I've been meaning to watch it as I haven't seen it since it came out
love a Talk Talk reference. Colour of Spring might be a top 20 all time album for me.
and to add to actual content here maybe a tri-tone at 3:47??
Really thoughtful reaction to one of the greatest left turns in rock history. RADIOHEAD had gone from a Brit Pop kind of band to producing a masterwork in OK Computer. So how do they follow that up? With something completely different and equally compelling. I slightly prefer KID A... but both of those albums are absolutely brilliant. I HIGHLY recommend you check out their other album that is on this upper tier: "A Moon-Shaped Pool"... which is, I think, CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED. It's gorgeous, deep, sorrowful, and amazing. You will LOVE it. Cheers!
I'll be sure to check pool out
I really do love all their albums each in their own way except PH although Blow Out is still awesome.
They were quite Anti-Britpop since the start...
They sounded closer to Grunge early on tbh.
@@Ennui. I wasn't reading interviews with the band back in the Pablo Honey days... So I was talking about the Magazines like "Q" and NME and Melody Maker... they were sometimes lazily lumping them in the Brit Pop category back then...
@@johnmavroudis2054 ah that makes more sense...
Yeah magazines usually lump bands that don't belong into a genre, trying to box them in.
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive. Thanks for the tip !
aaahh i love this album
You should check out one of Thom's favorite performances of How to Disappear Completely here: ua-cam.com/video/zw1kDxjDSxk/v-deo.html. It's my favorite version. The Onde Martenot's being used make the whole performance that much more intense.
I love this album. These tracks are emotionally too hard for me to listen to at this stage in my life. Major trauma in 2012 -2013 for me.
I'm really curious what you'll make of King of Limbs.
He should react to the basement version I know it helped me get the record.
@James Hannagan same here, now i listen to KOL and enjoy it.
Thank you.
Can you listen to Grace album by Jeff Buckley??
I'll consider it César
The string on htdc are in the style of penderecki.
You can listen to penderecki and jonny greenwood collaboration
. Also you must listen to jonny greenwood ,radiohead's multiinstrumentalist solo project. Albums bodysong and there will be blood are excellent movie score
maybe and Olivier Messiaen
I put off listening to this cd for many years b/c I was a big fan of Radiohead's progressive rock roots, but amazingly, I wound up liking it a like. You see I enjoy electronic music, just not electronic music by Radiohead, or so I thought. How to disappear Completely gives major Moody Blues vibes. In fact this whole cd gives me retro vibes, almost like they were trying to bridge the gap between past and future, The sound is both futuristic and rero at the same time-how is that even possible?
please reacting to el jardín de los presentes
Hey Dean, what is the album on your wall with the three rings?
Tool, Lateralus
this album had zero (0) singles
Wasn't Optimistic the one? At least as far as I recall.
@@Agostoic I believe Optimistic and a few others were promotional singles but not formally released/sold as singles. Suspect was just to support with record promotion.
@@Agostoic Yeah, they played that Live in Dublin performance video of Optimistic on MTV2 a lot, so it def functioned as a single/promotion at the time.
The singles off this were National Anthem and Idioteque.
There were no singles for Kid A. There were some promotional airplay releases for a few tracks, namely Optimistic.
@@finnnnnnnn1258 Those were the only 2 I heard on the Radio, and the 2 they played on SNL.
i love your reactions but your microphone looks like a gameboy with an afro
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