The Radiohead Effect
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- Only a handful of bands truly command attention and analysis when one of their songs enters a scene. Radiohead is undoubtedly one of these bands. Sure, two of their key members are successful film composers and their unique sound definitely lends itself to cinema, but it’s more than that.
Radiohead’s music is hard to define. It weaves in and out of various genres; it’s distant yet comforting; it’s harsh yet beautiful and poetic. But maybe most importantly, Radiohead’s music makes us think. Listen to any random track and you can immediately tell that an extraordinary amount of thought went into every single note and word. When one of these songs accompanies a scene, this thoughtfulness bleeds into the narrative. In short, Radiohead’s songs are the keys to opening doors that filmmakers didn’t think they could open.
If you’re as fascinated as we are about how a great composer can elevate a film, don’t miss our “Score Auteur” series, featuring Radiohead’s own Jonny Greenwood, Hans Zimmer, and Trent Reznor. And follow up those great videos with our article on the aesthetic of the late, great Jóhann Jóhannsson.
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Everyone knows Radiohead they just don't necessarily know they know Radiohead
I would also go so far as to say everyone likes Radiohead, even though they don't know they like Radiohead because they don't necessarily know they are hearing Radiohead.
@@mandia_macnot true, that may apply to people that don't know about them.
That’s what I say about Queen
Felt like that with Gorillaz until a few years ago lmao
I don't tend to recognize songs I heard in movies, so Radiohead songs still sound new when I play them for the first time. Doesn't feel like I "know them".
If I ever hear a Radiohead song in a movie or show, I’m going to let EVERYONE in the room know that I know Radiohead and what song is playing.
You're like the vegan of music bands
i do that too, but not only when Radiohead is playing but with every single song/band that i know
same Same SAme SAMe SAME S AME! S A ME!! S A M E!!!!!!!!
Guilty pleasure.
same
I thought the Radiohead effect is you first listen to them you cant stop and end up buying all their albums without hesitation......this is me.
SAME
This is actually what happened to me.
Same thing happened.
CitizenErased 17 once I listen to radiohead I cant stop, it’s impossible. Radiohead is my key to survival.
People still buy albums? Not trying to look down upon it just honestly surprised and curious, I and pretty much everyone I know stream music nowadays. I still remember the good o’l days with the MP3 players and discs..
Takes me back to when I got my first car and bought the most expensive speakers I could find and would ride around picking up friends and girls while playing whatever song with the strongest and quickest bass at full blast.
I love creeper by Tom and the radios
Also I like muse
dead
These two comments are Gold. Thank you.
I'm dead
My favourite mine craft parody
additional trivia: Thom Yorke declined to score Fight Club due to the stress of releasing OK Computer.
Would've been great
I just learned that recently
same lol
or maybe just too much violance ?
Chemical bros killed it though....
Now i wanna watch every film that has a Radiohead soundtrack
I've been there trust me it's worth it
you shoulddd
And that's Radiohead effect
I need a list
@@maria-pd5fb i think he listens to kidA not ok computer
radiohead can make me feel things that i don’t even understand
stargirl13 Well said...
This usually happens with bitches
@@mateusrezenderibeiro3475 lol what?
That is what exclusively music is ought to do. Make you feel impressions too complex and too vast to be able to name them. Music is the least conceptual of all arts.
so can i
i thought the radiohead effect was just making you really sad. then i got diagnosed with depression so i guess not.
same asf
I'd say Radiohead is more of a symptom of teenager's depression rather than a cause.
Not sad....melancholy,,.
@@aazreaal what if u are 48 & u still feel that way. ? lol
Haha
I love how they used Radiohead in Black mirror
New season of Black Mirror fixing to be out. .... Did you see one of the episodes is supposed to have a Choose your Own adventure ending? You get to pick from a few different endings. Can't wait for the New season of B Mirror
That song would improve any video you apply it to
They did?thanks for the info!
It really made the end of that episode much more impactful. Such a masterpiece of a song.
On probably the best episode too
Just listen to Jigsaw Falling into Place and tell me you can't imagine either an opening or closing scene of a movie going perfectly with it.
literally my fav
It's my favourite song. It's got such a nice energy thats uncopyable
Its such a good fucking intro ony
For a minute there , I lost myself
PHEW, FOR A MINUTE THERE I LOST MYSELFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
heartbreak and soul relief at same time -- cannot be put into words
@@SoloQSights*insert long instrumental*
FOOOOR A MINUTE THERE, I LOST MYSELF, I LOST MYYSEEEeeEeeeeeEEEEELF,
phew for a minute theEERe
I LOST MYSELF
I LOST MYSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELF
Radiohead is one of the few bands/artists that I'd argue has never released a bad album
LOL okey it's all a crap
King of Limbs
@@nicoffee777 TKOL has some great songs. Got to persevere I’d say
@@musestarlight1 spell
@@musestarlight1 how
I always think of the use of "No Surprises" in the episode where House winds up in the mental hospital. To me that perfectly captures scene and song.
Have you seen how it was used in Rock Dog? Perfectly captures the song’s vibe!
Dude that song fits so perfectly in that scene it makes me cry
I just heard about 6 seconds of that song in exactly that scene and I was dying to know its name, it really got me hard.
I just remembered that scene, it broke my heart opening the 6th season like thattttttttt :(
that song is like an existential crisis in a shopping mall
I can listen to any Radiohead album on repeat for weeks at a time. Never gets old
I've been on a Radiohead bender for months now and I don't see it ending anytime soon. Right now I'm overdosing on AMSP
except of pablo honey))
They are the only band have ever gone the distance.. by grabbing their entire discography before streaming was available
Learning this fact currently I can’t stop listening to “ok computer”
@@haleybarton4821 Fantastic album!
_Everything In it’s Right Place_ is incredibly comfortable and catchy, *what*
Yes, and sucking a lemon is delicious
Max Marks Umm it is though? I fucking love lemon
Same but I love it because it kinda hurts.
its a pop song. arranged for weird minimal electronic sounds. that's what radiohead does, puts pop songs under avante garde arrangements.
Tanner B I wouldn’t say comfortable at all, but it is incredibly catchy to me.
The moment Ramin Djawadi’s version of “Exit Music” started playing in Westworld...I’ll never forget this as long as I live. One of the greatest moments in TV history.
fake plastic threes too
Fake plastic threes too
That's how my friend sold me on the show
still baffled why the show didn't use Paranoid Android
@@kevincarter2020I am a bot. I fail to see the connection.
I really love how Radiohead is used in Peaky Blinders too!
where? which song? didn't notice it !
@@fsociety_ Pyramid song at the end of the last season
@@fsociety_ also I might be wrong and You and whose Army
I remember the scene with "I might be wrong", Arthur washing blood off his hands. That was so intense, almost hypnotic.
@@fsociety_ Life in a glasshouse as well. They actually used only Amnesiac songs
Guess they did really make a Motion Picture Soundtrack...
The Prestige doesn’t end in a Radiohead song, It finishes with a Thom York song from his solo work.
Analyse :)
A seeelf-fulfilling prophecyyyyy
There’s endless possibilities, really.
But there’s no time.
Does anyone know if this lessens the Radiohead effect?? remember??
@@Lazarettootvlove that song. That video of him playing it solo while staring down an audience member who’s yapping away at some celebrity shindig. Epic.
thought the radiohead effect was just depression
No thats beyonce
@@kelownarealman it's funny.. cause it's true 😁
I feel the opposite. Me finally getting out a depression feels like the Radiohead effect
No, depression is depression. Radiohead just provides the perfect soundtrack.
And anyway, I think that depression is just the result of looking at the crap that surrounds us all, without the filter of naive optimism.
"Everything in its right place" not catchy? U mad?
YESTERDAY I WOKE UP SUCKIN' ON A LEMON
THERE ARE TWO COLOURS IN MY HEAD
lol this song makes me feel like weird-dance the SECOND it starts..
i mosh to everything in its right place
Yesterday, all my lemons seemed so sucked away
I hate how I'm just discovering how amazing radiohead is now.
Same. I went through my entire despicable teen sad rock phase without once discovering Radiohead. Probably a good thing, high school me would’ve listened to them in a whole wrong way
me now
@@fredhasopinions back in high school, i only listened to a handful of radiohead songs (creep, karma police, paranoid android) and i don’t understand why NOW? why have i listened to all of their albums now but i never bothered listening beyond those three songs in high school? 😅 i think it’s just bc music taste evolves tbh i was listening to panic and the disco and twenty one pilots at the time ffs 😂
@@El1society i had a radiohead phase in early high school and i only listened to their popular stuff, now that i’m going into college, i reignited my love for them in a kind of rediscovery. i’ve went through their whole discography and found so much more to love.
There is still more music that we didn't fully appreciate. I like discovering things I missed. For example, Tool is better than I realized in the past. TH-cam is helpful for this.
In 1997 I was managing an independent Record Store in Santa Monica , CA . Our lease was up and we were about to close. Ok Computer and Urban Hymns ( The Verve) came out and sold so well we singed a 5 year lease. I owed my job to Thom Yorke and Richard Ashcroft. The power of Rock & Roll.
Oh yeah good times before internet piracy and illegal download
freaking awesome
Fuck yes! Ashcroft and Yorke are my favorites.
Nothing to do with Nick McCabe, Jonny Greenwood, Simon Jones, Simon Tong, Pete Salisbury, Phil Selway, Ed O’Brien or Colin Greenwood eh?
I love this story.
When I heard 15 step in the credits of twilight, I start clapping and didn't stop untill they threw me out of the cinema theater...it was so cerebral.
damn I can´t blame you
Truly disturbing.
I wish I saw this hahhaa
I only watch 💯 cerebral
Lol I would have done it if I had known Radiohead at that time
Also the use of "Deck's Dark" to set the perfect tone for the end of the first episode of Ozark. Just one drawn out long shot with the track playing into the credits. Great Essay man!
This is definitely the most profound and effective use of Radiohead music onscreen
noo now i got to see that show, i love that song
100% enjoyed that .
JRhodes in my opinion is the best ending to a prologue episode in a tv show, and the song is a big part of it.
@@CarolUlloa ozark is worth the watch.
It will be the saddest day in my life, when Radiohead no longer produce music. From the day I was introduced to OK Computer in my late teens, Radiohead has been the definitive soundtrack to my life.
Who's gonna tell him they haven't made any Radiohead stuff in 8 years?
That one scene in the Creator with "everything in its right place"
Fun fact: Exit Music (for a film) was written for Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet”! Luhrmann sent them a tape of the last part of the film and that is what the song is about, the tragic and everlasting love of the star crossed lovers. The song in the film is really quite a powerful device and if the rest of the film didn’t make you emotional, listening to that song paired with the knowledge of the past events will.
Exit Music for a flim wouldn't work well with that movie at all, Romeo + Juliet is batshit insane
I can’t get over how different this band is from others. They create art in their own way. Sometimes it can take me off to a different thought process of my mind.
That Incendies opening scene is one of the very best there is.
And Thom Yorke’s forthcoming film score is one of the reasons I cannot wait for Suspiria.
Thom Cruise is Thom Yorke's brother
*Yorke
Miguel Pereira thx!
Score was fine but film was trash
Arlo Steiner IMHO it was the most adventurous, crazed, yet brilliant film of 2018. Not the best of the year (as Green Book and the Favourite were impeccably executed), but steeped in symbolism to the point in which the second watch clearly exceeded the first. Looking forward to a third pass with friends now that it’s on Amazon Prime.
not me adding to my watchlist every single movie he’s showing in the video cause there’s radiohead music in them so they must be amazing
Also ad the second season of invincible.
In my world "Everything in it's right place" is comfortable and welcoming, and I can't get it out of my head
Same dude.
It feels like diving into a pool of Kid A
You forgot to add House MD to this list. In the pilot episode of S6, the protagonist goes through hell in rehab for his Vicodin addiction. It is this moment when “No Surprises” plays and the character screams for help. It is so scary how the music connects you with the character on an emotional level.
I love when I hear a Radiohead song in film, I’m like YESSS! They’ve been my fave since I was 10
I love radiohead ... I listen to radiohead when I am feeling depressed or emo, and it helps me regulate my emotions... They really do make very powerful music and you can feel that every cord, note, bar has a purpose!
"emo" ugh. When Radiohead came out 'emo' wasn't even a term.
@@masterninja9716 wow shocking a Radiohead kid thinks Radiohead invented music so "original lmfao" band is trash especially thom
The end of the pilot of Ozark using “Decks Dark” fit perfectly
Also the end of S3E1 they used "The Daily Mail" and it couldn't have been any better.
exit music was just perfect for that disturbing ending of the black mirror episode
Thom Yorke voice and music is haunting....
"Lucky" playing at the end of an episode of Six Feet Under was incredible too.
I discoverd Radiohead through a movie. It was Confessions by Tetsuya Nakashima and it used Last flowers from In Rainbows.
In Rainbows is such a good album. Videotape is such a good & probably the most depressing song ever.
Yeah, there's this blog post about what the saddest of their songs is. Acording to the post, it's True love waits. But Videotape is pretty much on the top 10. www.rcharlie.com/post/fitter-happier/
You and whose army in incendies still gives chills
It truly did
Perhaps one of the most memorable and impacting use of Radioheads songs, (for me) was at the end of the movie 'I Origin'. One of the most beautiful scenes ever. A great film overall
I thought the Radiohead effect is not liking the song at first, but then getting obsessed with it.
What's great about hearing them in the background of Children of Men is that theyre saying 'this what some of the fanbase will be like in the future' and I would love to be Micheal Cane.
He's the most likeable, father figure like character in that whole movie.
I could watch an entire series just based off Micheal Cane as a hippie. I really love his character.
It made me completely light up hearing Radiohead in that scene. It definitely added to the atmosphere and made Michael Caine even more genuine.
The use of Exit Music at the end of Black Mirror's Shut Up and Dance is just the best.
I always love to watch other people praise this band as I do, Radiohead changed my life!
Radiohead always seems to make me cry. Especially when it’s snuck into a movie. Almost instantly I will get more invested with the film and then tear up.
I think the radiohead effect is literally just, these songs have meaning, and when you put them in the context of a film it actually carries emotional weight cause the songs have meaning XD
Honestly they dont have much meaning to it lol........Radiohead's music is like Star Wars where once you see Star Wars, you HAVE to tell everyone that you saw Star Wars..........
@@KrisBryant99 Its not just lyricsal meaning, cause yeah some of those dont have meaning of course. But the songs themselves have purpose for existing, theyre not refreshing the same old same old paint by numbers, they have new ideas, new innovations, new feelings. The Instrumental meaning, is just as important as anything else, and these songs definitely do have that
two of their key members are successful film composers because they developed their skills in Radiohead, they started out as a university rock band but honed their skills to the point they could cross genres and write music fitting of a score.
Radiohead is something else. It's genius.
When I was extremely depressed I heard “Everything In It’s Right Place” for the first time and I remember stopping what I was doing to lay down on my bed. All I thought was, “THIS IS IT! This is what my head feels like!” and I started crying.
Don't forget the Japanese film CONFESSIONS where they used LAST FLOWERS by Radiohead.
kokuhaku ? damn must watch it one more!
one of the best uses of radiohead music on film, can't believe he didn't include it in the video
Incredible film
@@OR161null You Must!
@@skatzigrov You are absolutely right!
"the song creates a distance and forces us into the perspective of an outsider..."
THAT´S SO F TRUEEEEE
I have a strange relationship with Radiohead I wouldn’t say I like them i never find myself easily listening to them like you do when you enjoy a piece of music but I have a deep appreciation for their art and sometimes I sit down and go out of my way to listen and it greatly moves me in a way I cant understand in a way that no one else does...
You still feel this way?
When I saw them live, it changed my life. I wasnt a fan, and then everytime I hear them, im instantly moved.
I dream about a work made by David Lynch and Radiohead or Thom Yorke
YES
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That no one understands?
Remédio algum sana tua lobotomia. Vou avaliar tua silhueta comportamental: universitário, netflix, café, cerveja, wanderlust, pseudo intelectual com sensações orgásmicas em relação a supérfluas análises psicanalíticas, celular, microondas, lacrações e imensa credibilidade perante os pares asnos.
Colocas em prática a distopia de Orwell vislumbrada em 1984. Ademais, a ti falta o básico: argumentação.
Lmao never gonna happen. These worlds collide. They're too much their own to become one. Leave it to NIN and Johnny Jewel to fill the void of Lynch when it's in need of another kind of nostalgia.
To not have a westworld standalone section is criminal, the best use of radiohead in tv/film of all time
My god. Thank you for this video. This is a subject that I have thought about many times. For a lot of Radiohead songs that I listen to, I close my eyes and think, 'This song sounds like a movie moment.' If I had to give a description of Radiohead's music, it would be "film scores with lyrics." Everything In its Right Place, Daydreaming, Ful Stop, etc. The best usage of one of their songs, I believe, is Exit Music in Black Mirror. You can just tell that that entire sequence was built around that song and it was brilliant. Great video, man.
Ozark from Netflix ends S1E1 with Decks Dark and pulls you into the show with its foreboding, and fatal message of no escape.
UGHHH the goosebumps and angst when I experienced that!
Thank you for the mentioned detail in Prisoners,I adore that movie and appreciate any new detail I can get my hands on,and this one was brilliant! 🔥 This honestly was a wonderful subject,v well done
Optimistic is best song for me.
Radiohead FOREVER!!!i hope, my kids will love one day..
"though often classified as alternative rock, radiohead's music transcends genres"
wow!!! incredible
It's funny how this video is enjoyable while not saying anything deep or new. Perhaps the compatibility of great music and great picture is so obvious in each case that it doesn't need further explanation. After all, those people in the movie industry quite often know what they're doing:-).
I felt the interpretations of all the songs weren't explained very thoroughly.
You can just listen to them, you don't need to interpret anything
Upon further review you did a great job with this video. I don’t know what my bitch ass was thinking 4 years ago, but your calling of attention throughout the video in which the song shows up throughout the different movies and having cool tonal effects on perspective was very keen. My bad for the useless comment before, though, seriously.
I remember hearing Radiohead when I started Incendies. The film is now in my top 4 or 5. I loved the use of “You and Whose Army?”.
I am a huge movie lover, and also a huge Radiohead lover. So, this is gold for me
6 minutes in I was about ready to comment on how you left out "I Origin", one the best uses of RH, and then it came on for the save in the last seconds.
I love how important that song is for the films conclusion, the music and lyrics are just as much a part of the film's ending as the story and visuals.
Honestly that song and how well it fits the emotion of that closing scene is why I still have such strong memories of that little indie film I watched 5 years ago.
I watched Black Mirror and discovered Radiohead. That's how amazing they are.
I don't understand how being in Black Mirror makes them amazing
Seeing Leo as Romeo with Radiohead playing in the background was one of the coolest things ever
The films that are dark and ethereal and contemplative and slow paced pair well with Radiohead. Also, i freaking loved Thom Yorke’s song for Suspiria, it was so tear-worthy.
the use of radiohead songs in peaky blinders was so clever. i gasped everytime i heard the first notes in a very heavy written scene. perfect choices
I remember seeing them play You and Whose Army? in concert.
I remember watching I Origins for the first time, just when I thought I couldn't physically get anymore emotionally invested in the film - the intro to Motion Picture Soundtrack began. I became far more emotionally invested into the film. One of the all time great bands. Great video.
Saw Prisoners and Radiohead in one video and I never clicked so fast.
i cant wait to hear thom yelling "ANWHEhh...ANYWHEEEEEERE!!! ANYWHEREEE!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" in a movie i am watching
Great video, to watch a film and hear RadioHead is mindblowing. Black Mirror and I Origins blew me away. I also agree that they really set a mood in a film, it's all very cinematic. By the way, Codex doesn't finish because it fades into Give Up the Ghost on the the album. I should know, I got my yt name from the song lol.
If you find "Everything in its right place" is not catchy is that you haven't listened to it enough times, or with proper headphones. Kid A is a crazy album. I think people find RadioHead unapproachable because on a surface level it's kind of weird. But listen to an album twice, maybe three times, there's no doubt most of the songs will grow on you. Start with OK Computer, In Rainbows or The Bends. If you like that, you should love it all.
A group of artists that have a deep love for the craft and emotional affects of music. There’s not a doubt in my mind that Radiohead will live on to be considered the greatest band ever conceived-pushing the envelope far beyond traditional genres and solidifying themselves as legends...
Thank you for making this video! If it wasn't for this video I would of never discovered the film "I Origins". Everyone check that movie out. Incredible film and the Radiohead song at the end haunts me every time.
the scene from "And They Lived Happily Ever After" with Creep has always been one of my favourite movie scenes ever and I always get chills.
Radiohead is heartbreak
The worst thing about discovering Radiohead is that, the bar is so f*cking high it's so hard trying to search any other music in the same calibers
Don't forget that Radiohead appeared closing one key episode of The Sopranos.
Which? I don't remember that...
@@BuddyWillis Season 4, Episode 2, No Show
Kid A specifically
This was a commendable post and description using proper vernacular for the topic. Thank you for having so thoroughly hashed this out.
I have often wondered for what reason the writers of Peaky Blinders have chosen Radiohead. It was hauntingly beautiful this past season (6), with Thom having written the finale piece. We, the audience, are outsiders from another era. Thanks for sending this home.
I just realized that this was posted on Thom’s 50th birthday last year
Well, now you did it, now I have to listen to Radiohead again the rest of the day.
Everything in it's right place is one of most perfect tracks I can think of. That music makes my tongue taste electricity (not kidding)
Thank god he credited TH-cam for all those clips.
Makes me wish there was a Godspeed You Black Emperor Effect... two of my favorite bands, and they both make gorgeous music for film.
I really hope they (or maybe even just Efrim) compose for a film one day. Their music already speaks tremendously for itself so imagine what it would sound like in other different contexts as music in films.
Season 1 of The Bear on Hulu ends with the song Let Down from Okay Computer and its very deliberate here as well.
Please make the Smiths Effect. It would be amazing!
karma police in the show invincible is the reason I now love radiohead and started listening to them, thank god they allow their music to be shared through other forms of media
You Should Make A Video About Jake Gyllenhaal If You Can
Yes! I got a chance to see Wildlife and he is so great in it!
Just came out
It is out
Btw i clicked because i saw jake.
Exit music for a film in THAT scene in Black Mirror really crushes your soul
So, just more reason to love Villenueve, PTA, and Radiohead.
Genius complementing genius.
The ending of "I Origins"
I didn't expect it to blast a Radiohead song and it hits like a train
I've never cried in my life like in the "I Origins " scene
I can't believe how many Radiohead songs I've heard without knowing it. Listening through their discography now, I don't remember the actual songs but I remember the scenes hitting really hard with the music they had.
No Surprises in L‘ Auberge Espagnole and Lucky at the end of a Six Feet Under Episode were also great moments.
Radiohead (Paranoid Android) was also used for the ending of Ergo Proxy, a noir philosophical anime.
2:32 middle eastern inspired music, plays something that's more like Indian or Chinese
Isn't it middle Eastern , then can you link some real middle eastern music