Love how he phrased this. Like listening to sad music is embracing the truth of reality and not living in denial. But that doesn't mean life is sad, it just means that there are terrible truths about life that we can acknowledge yet still live anyway. Thom and gang's music comforts us, there, there, despite everything, true love waits. And that's optimistic.
True. One of the important things I've learned from this band is that while on the surface it focuses on melancholy or something depressing, it actually helps us face things in life easier. The more that we are aware of how deep sadness or pessimism can get, the more we can face it and confront our feelings.
What you guys are talking about is the turning point in the life of most of the truest artists... I think it comes to you in time by a lot of pain/sadness endured here on Earth with the other humans and their obscure system everyday. I just say that because I'm going through it at this very moment and it really feels like some kind of deeper understanding of oneself by considering himself as much important and equal as his exterior world ...that are perceived by his senses and which are making one and only! At a certain turning point in his life... I never thought this would happen to me and I just turned 40!! And now I realize that this same message has always been expresssd in about 95% of the music bands I had been listening too since ever... The lyrics of the poetry are the same, but their meaning is way clearer. According me, this proves that notes can talk to you without words and that all arts should be cherished forever as they are probably humankind's salvation no matter whats coming in the future... Light/Dark/Mask/ Mirror
@@supaidoruno4040 Personally, I think the main problem for the human race now is that the way to reach a better state of existence would be in giving instead of taking... And capitalism makes you take by using money. If you really consider it, why would you need to buy anything with money ...if you never gave away anything at the beginning??? 😶
@@GreyMan45762I don’t believe OP was labeling all life as tragic but rather recognizing that life is filled with tragedy along with many other wonderful and terrible things!
I mean, they’re my favorite band, but this is surprising to you guys? Their top hits are Creep, Exit Music, No Surprises, & Karma Police. That’s at least how the general public knows them, by those songs.
Give yourself some damn credit. If it wasn’t Radiohead you would’ve found another way to cope. Melodramatic. You would’ve made it through regardless because you’re more than likely stronger than you realize.
Music from Radiohead and Tom Yorke, They have help me to get out of my 25 years depression and to repairs myself and get forward. Thank you for all Tom
I agree with Thom... Radiohead is one the most incredible bands in the world I ever knew! And God I wish that ...when I AM sad, Radiohead's music will always be there and available for me to listen to!! And so I really wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!!" for what Thom and his bandmates have been giving us through all the years!! ✌️❤
Thom Yorke is an absolute legendary artist of all different times..,. He would have been good 2000 years ago and his music will be good still 2000 years from now
Radiohead has never made me feel sad. It’s like they create a sad feeling that makes you feel at peace and calm. There are other bands that make sad music with the purpose of making you feel the sadness, and this optimism in RH is why they’re one of my favorites ever in any gente
Apart from Thom’s insight, I dig the interviewers point as well: “Don’t think the fight doesn’t lead to optimism or a brighter future”. There’s value in trying than not trying at all.
“The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don’t want to know anymore” ❤ Wow! Never thought of it that way. If we can no longer connect with the empathy within us, then we are indeed in trouble.
Yeah I always defend them because their music actually uplifts me. The soundscapes, minor modes, expressive, emotional singing. It makes you FEEL something. It’s the same with sad movies. They’re so loved because they make us feel SOMETHING in this apathetic, numb world.
Fake plastic trees is accutualy suprsingly optimistic Edit: I never said Fake plastic trees wasn't sad, I said it had optimisim. In it's lyrics it talks about "being the real thing" saying either there are a lot of fake people and she is a real pesron on she is just another fake person. It is very similar to creep(forgive me rh fans) but is shows different points. Creep is about a guy wanting a girl but he knows he isn't good enough for her. Fake plastic trees on the other hand, is about why she is worth it, why he is not just some simp. Also Fake plastic trees is sad and melancholy while street spirit is literaly about all this pressure building up on someone making them want to "fade out". I im trying to do is reprove the point that Thom made about how it can be sad but with a reason. Not a pointless whining. Edit: please don't argue with me, you can have your own interpretation to the songs as long as we agree that fake plastic trees is a great song
@@Mcperson823i wouldn’t consider street spirit to be a pessimistic song any more than fake plastic trees is. fake plastic trees is imo actually a bit more bleak than street spirit, and street spirit is a PRIME example of radiohead songs that seem pessimistic and quite needlessly dreary when in actuality they’re kinda like snapshots of overarching humanity. overflowing with misery and hopelessness, but also twice that amount in love. fake plastic trees feels more like a traditionally pessimistic “creep” type of song in that it’s a picture of a life that sees no good in itself. a song that almost pities, or regrets the love it’s been written in. really, it’s actually quite a similar song to street spirit, now that i’m thinking about it. the two songs almost feel like cousins.
Out of all Radiohead songs I DO feel that Fake Plastic Trees is one of their most depressing... but obviously the hope comes from the recognition that this isn't the real thing, that it's not real life and not real love. When you realize you're not going the right way, you can finally turn around.
People ask me a lot why I like so many “sad” songs, and until I’d gotten asked a few times I hadn’t ever thought of the songs I like as “sad”, they’re just beautiful songs. They’re the most cathartic songs to sing. I don’t listen to “Yesterday” when I want to cry, I listen to that song when I’m at peace and I want to sing along to something, when I feel open to falling into those deep, simple emotions. There’s such raw passion in sad music, I hear someone singing honestly and passionately. “Sad” doesn’t cross my mind, it’s just real
I use Radiohead when working out. I find it's good for reflection, and moving onward from my sadness or bad situations. It's the light at the break of dawn that's really in their music, but you have to endure the darkness to appreciate it. Everything is just a moment or momentary emotion, healthy people move on.
They gave me immense succour. They still can. In the ninetees, they were as,or more important to me,than everyone and everything else. Literally. Profoundly important to me.
Radiohead was always about being real with your emotions. About facing how you feel and not pretending. It was always that for me. It's okay to be sad and not pretend all the time.
Radiohead siempre será mi banda favorita, sin embargo ya no los escucho con tanta frecuencia. Volver a sus canciones cada cierto tiempo es como volver a enamorarse, aunque suene exagerado.
i only started listening to radio head this year. i mean yeah, i knew creep, but i had no idea. i got hail to the theif and ok computer at the starvation army when i was taking a break from having a cell phone, and all i could do was wonder why i spent so much of my life not listening to radio head, so fn amazing!
I find radiohead helps me confront complex or obscure emotions within me, which is something i do to move past them or just know them better. I dont see it as sad, it's just challenging. If you're not willing to look at your feelings properly then i think that leads to a less rich life expirience.
For alot of people I feel sad music can enlighten the mood when your sad but when you're happy it's not the mood anymore doesn't mean it's bad now, it could be your exit but If you're a overthinker sad songs may re enter you into a sad mood when your fine it just depends on the person.
Radiohead songs are deeply optimistic. Yes there are songs like Creep and Paranoid Android. But there's also True Love Waits and Reckoner and How To Disappear Completely. Their songs are more hopeful than sad. They are right around that point when bad things are in the past and good feelings are in the horizon.
that description of radiohead’s music resonates with me heavily and i haven’t been able to come up with the words to properly articulate to someone how much the entire aesthetic of their sound just speaks to my soul on a spiritual level.
I was taking notice of Optimistic from Kid A and now on the same twenty minute bus trip I see this (I did search a Thom Yorke thing to get here) and thought "a little bit of Radiohead's music is literally Opti, Thom... Thom tell him about... ah he can't hear me he's in a TH-cam Short".
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and The National were the first three bands to pop in my mind with his description of RH’s sound. the melancholy overtones give me sense of coming to grips with the thought that the inevitable IS coming for everyone eventually and there is no stopping it. which you could take as sad and depressing, which, it is a bitter pill to swallow, sure, but like the interviewer says that below the “sad” emotions it pulls out of us their is optimistic messages. it helps bear the day to day tasks we must do on this rock to just accept just how ‘real’ reality is.
Radiohead thrives On Emotion the way that Nirvana utilized loud quiet loud. Every Radiohead progression contains some sort of conflicting minor chord, funny usually leads to a satisfying resolution
When someone says "Radiohead is just depressing, that's why I don't like them", it tells me two things: first of all that they probably have a very one dimensional taste in music, and secondly that they probably aren't very interesting to talk to.
One of my favorite songs by Radiohead gives an optimistic feeling… the lyrics describe it but the way it’s composed makes it sound almost like a dream… the constant questioning of himself in this particular song makes it sound like it’s not realized and it’s all just a beautiful idea… I think it’s almost as if it’s the second part to Creep. This song I’m talking about makes me cry and feel sad. I love Radiohead
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this ones optimistic. this one went to market.
This one just came out of the swamp
This one drops a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm
You can try the best you can...
@@critiqueeverything3297You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can
@@critiqueeverything3297 dam dam daram daram dam dam dam (guitar riff)
Love how he phrased this. Like listening to sad music is embracing the truth of reality and not living in denial. But that doesn't mean life is sad, it just means that there are terrible truths about life that we can acknowledge yet still live anyway. Thom and gang's music comforts us, there, there, despite everything, true love waits. And that's optimistic.
I see what you did there
True. One of the important things I've learned from this band is that while on the surface it focuses on melancholy or something depressing, it actually helps us face things in life easier. The more that we are aware of how deep sadness or pessimism can get, the more we can face it and confront our feelings.
Your comment is what makes me feel optimistic😊
What you guys are talking about is the turning point in the life of most of the truest artists... I think it comes to you in time by a lot of pain/sadness endured here on Earth with the other humans and their obscure system everyday. I just say that because I'm going through it at this very moment and it really feels like some kind of deeper understanding of oneself by considering himself as much important and equal as his exterior world ...that are perceived by his senses and which are making one and only! At a certain turning point in his life... I never thought this would happen to me and I just turned 40!! And now I realize that this same message has always been expresssd in about 95% of the music bands I had been listening too since ever... The lyrics of the poetry are the same, but their meaning is way clearer. According me, this proves that notes can talk to you without words and that all arts should be cherished forever as they are probably humankind's salvation no matter whats coming in the future...
Light/Dark/Mask/ Mirror
@@supaidoruno4040 Personally, I think the main problem for the human race now is that the way to reach a better state of existence would be in giving instead of taking... And capitalism makes you take by using money. If you really consider it, why would you need to buy anything with money ...if you never gave away anything at the beginning??? 😶
Radiohead are melancholic and procure a beautiful perspective to the tragedy of life. They transmute pain into beauty.
👍
Nicely said
Very eloquently stated.
Life is not a freakin tragedy guy. You can choose to stay that way though.
@@GreyMan45762I don’t believe OP was labeling all life as tragic but rather recognizing that life is filled with tragedy along with many other wonderful and terrible things!
Wow,I've never thought of Radiohead as "sad"...just self-aware. I'm really amazed this is the general opinion...it proves what he said.
Same
I mean, they’re my favorite band, but this is surprising to you guys? Their top hits are Creep, Exit Music, No Surprises, & Karma Police. That’s at least how the general public knows them, by those songs.
Imo loads of their songs are sad
Not sad but melancholic
I don't know if I would be here without Radiohead, they have got me through some seriously tough times over the years.
Me too.
Same here.
Give yourself some damn credit. If it wasn’t Radiohead you would’ve found another way to cope. Melodramatic. You would’ve made it through regardless because you’re more than likely stronger than you realize.
I've said that many times before. Their music got me through years and YEARS of tough stuff.
They may have helped but don't sell yourself short. You kept yourself here.
"The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don't want to know anymore"
I'm gonna tattoo that
Please don’t
Please don’t. Just stop being a woke liberal
she is well documented conservative@@Edward-yq5oj
@@Edward-yq5ojPointlessly political
@@Ixe2077 Go take the knee for George Pink Floyd
OMG! He is exactly right. This is why sad music is so beautiful. Where is the beauty without the tragedy? (William Shakespeare agrees).
i wish i could thumbs up your cute face
Music from Radiohead and Tom Yorke, They have help me to get out of my 25 years depression and to repairs myself and get forward. Thank you for all Tom
radiohead only kept me depressed for 20 years, rip bro
“Never trust a happy song” - Grouplove
laughs in KGLW. there is way more to life than feeling sorry for yourself.
That is absolutely right. The saddest music, the most meaningful keeps us listening. Street Spirit being on my list of the greatest of all time.
I agree with Thom...
Radiohead is one the most incredible bands in the world I ever knew!
And God I wish that ...when I AM sad, Radiohead's music will always be there and available for me to listen to!!
And so I really wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!!" for what Thom and his bandmates have been giving us through all the years!! ✌️❤
So true…. I feel the same… scary when people aren’t capable of feeling their emotions
thats all this band does lmao
Thom, so simplistic yet so profound ❤❤❤
Thom Yorke is an absolute legendary artist of all different times..,. He would have been good 2000 years ago and his music will be good still 2000 years from now
100%
Radiohead has never made me feel sad. It’s like they create a sad feeling that makes you feel at peace and calm. There are other bands that make sad music with the purpose of making you feel the sadness, and this optimism in RH is why they’re one of my favorites ever in any gente
Radiohead is badass.
why？
please tell me
@@user-og7fg2lo3k'cause their music is badass. they themselves are badass. everything they draw inspiration from is badass.
Apart from Thom’s insight, I dig the interviewers point as well: “Don’t think the fight doesn’t lead to optimism or a brighter future”. There’s value in trying than not trying at all.
“The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don’t want to know anymore” ❤
Wow! Never thought of it that way. If we can no longer connect with the empathy within us, then we are indeed in trouble.
gotta love this man, one of the few famous people who address directly negative emotions and emotional problems
I love Thom, one of my biggest heroes
Yeah I always defend them because their music actually uplifts me. The soundscapes, minor modes, expressive, emotional singing. It makes you FEEL something. It’s the same with sad movies. They’re so loved because they make us feel SOMETHING in this apathetic, numb world.
Radiohead is one of my favorite bands!!!
Thom Yorke is so gorgeous especially in Fake Plastic Trees which is my favourite song and music videos!
That's true. The only time I ever start looking at Radiohead as "sad" is when I'm emotionally exhausted and don't want to "know" anymore.
Exactly
Poetic it works as a quote in whole. He is a great artist.
Sad or rather melancholic music always helps me crawl out of the pit of despair into having joy again.
Fake plastic trees is accutualy suprsingly optimistic
Edit: I never said Fake plastic trees wasn't sad, I said it had optimisim. In it's lyrics it talks about "being the real thing" saying either there are a lot of fake people and she is a real pesron on she is just another fake person. It is very similar to creep(forgive me rh fans) but is shows different points. Creep is about a guy wanting a girl but he knows he isn't good enough for her. Fake plastic trees on the other hand, is about why she is worth it, why he is not just some simp. Also Fake plastic trees is sad and melancholy while street spirit is literaly about all this pressure building up on someone making them want to "fade out". I im trying to do is reprove the point that Thom made about how it can be sad but with a reason. Not a pointless whining.
Edit: please don't argue with me, you can have your own interpretation to the songs as long as we agree that fake plastic trees is a great song
why? I just got into The Bends and that one seemed one of the most pessimistic of the album
@@unacuentadeyoutube13 street spirit? Besides fake plastic trees compared to other songs is a breath of fresh air
@@Mcperson823i wouldn’t consider street spirit to be a pessimistic song any more than fake plastic trees is. fake plastic trees is imo actually a bit more bleak than street spirit, and street spirit is a PRIME example of radiohead songs that seem pessimistic and quite needlessly dreary when in actuality they’re kinda like snapshots of overarching humanity. overflowing with misery and hopelessness, but also twice that amount in love. fake plastic trees feels more like a traditionally pessimistic “creep” type of song in that it’s a picture of a life that sees no good in itself. a song that almost pities, or regrets the love it’s been written in. really, it’s actually quite a similar song to street spirit, now that i’m thinking about it. the two songs almost feel like cousins.
@@user-yj7cu5sk2wI made an edit just for you
Out of all Radiohead songs I DO feel that Fake Plastic Trees is one of their most depressing... but obviously the hope comes from the recognition that this isn't the real thing, that it's not real life and not real love. When you realize you're not going the right way, you can finally turn around.
Team Radiohead are geniuses ❤
Tom Yorke makes art out of music if you know about arts you can appreciate the the master pieces he can make!
People ask me a lot why I like so many “sad” songs, and until I’d gotten asked a few times I hadn’t ever thought of the songs I like as “sad”, they’re just beautiful songs. They’re the most cathartic songs to sing. I don’t listen to “Yesterday” when I want to cry, I listen to that song when I’m at peace and I want to sing along to something, when I feel open to falling into those deep, simple emotions. There’s such raw passion in sad music, I hear someone singing honestly and passionately. “Sad” doesn’t cross my mind, it’s just real
I use Radiohead when working out. I find it's good for reflection, and moving onward from my sadness or bad situations. It's the light at the break of dawn that's really in their music, but you have to endure the darkness to appreciate it. Everything is just a moment or momentary emotion, healthy people move on.
I’m ALWAYS inspired by Radiohead
Me too❤
They gave me immense succour. They still can. In the ninetees, they were as,or more important to me,than everyone and everything else. Literally. Profoundly important to me.
Thom deserves all the hugs :3
Radiohead is bliss
I could not love Radiohead more than I do. Have ruined me for most other music. Everything they do is a masterpiece.
Always found their music uplifting actually ❤
Thom as usual on point abd sharp.
Thom gives great eye contact as a live performer and is inspirational to his fans through his passion and joy alone
The beauty with many of their songs is they take you to a low point before building and rising with this hopeful energy
Radiohead was always about being real with your emotions. About facing how you feel and not pretending. It was always that for me. It's okay to be sad and not pretend all the time.
Ваша музыка меня слезами очищает от дерьма и я снова готова жить❤
Street spirit suits my soul so well💚
and the part at 3.34 in paranoid android is pure bliss to hear...ahhhh aahhh ahhhh ahhhh ahhh...love that part
Love you Thom. You and your crew have been joining people through difficult times, giving them a bright spot in a world full of darkness.❤
Radiohead is about there being something more to life than just suffering and struggling
I listen to sad music to think and be on my personal zone
Dude, you couldn’t meet a more optimistic man. He knows exactly what’s going on.
I love Thom Yorke so much
I fkn luv Radiohead I am sad music forever
Radiohead siempre será mi banda favorita, sin embargo ya no los escucho con tanta frecuencia. Volver a sus canciones cada cierto tiempo es como volver a enamorarse, aunque suene exagerado.
i only started listening to radio head this year. i mean yeah, i knew creep, but i had no idea. i got hail to the theif and ok computer at the starvation army when i was taking a break from having a cell phone, and all i could do was wonder why i spent so much of my life not listening to radio head, so fn amazing!
I find radiohead helps me confront complex or obscure emotions within me, which is something i do to move past them or just know them better. I dont see it as sad, it's just challenging. If you're not willing to look at your feelings properly then i think that leads to a less rich life expirience.
Radiohead is my silver linings playbook
melancholy, the beauty of heartache, immeasurably deep, makes this love so clear ... i cried for her river, it lead to the sea
i listen to sad music to be happy, thanks Radiohead
To be optimistic starts knowing where we are. Which kind of world we're living in. That's what these boys has showed us. Thanks god.❤❤❤
i guess, the moment someone stops listening to sad music, is the saddest moment off all. because they are tired of knowing.
For alot of people I feel sad music can enlighten the mood when your sad but when you're happy it's not the mood anymore doesn't mean it's bad now, it could be your exit but If you're a overthinker sad songs may re enter you into a sad mood when your fine it just depends on the person.
I stopped listening to sad music when my only child died at the age of twenty-four. I don't want to know anymore.
how are you?
I'm glad you are here to post this. You are strong.
Thoms super deep
Radiohead songs are deeply optimistic. Yes there are songs like Creep and Paranoid Android. But there's also True Love Waits and Reckoner and How To Disappear Completely. Their songs are more hopeful than sad. They are right around that point when bad things are in the past and good feelings are in the horizon.
Radiohead for life❤
The moment you stop listening to sad music is the moment you stop embracing your own humanity
climbing up the walls. amazing song honestly
Society is sad. Music is therapy. Through hard times, my choice of music is mostly grindcore and jazz 🫠
that description of radiohead’s music resonates with me heavily and i haven’t been able to come up with the words to properly articulate to someone how much the entire aesthetic of their sound just speaks to my soul on a spiritual level.
we've been blessed w A PIANO SESH
its perfect for eding my night ty for the peaceful vibes
melancholy music makes me happy
Radiohead was a huge influence in my music and younger days.
He is a great musician.The band is fabulous.
A great in the game of music.
One of my all time favorite bands, hands down.
I was taking notice of Optimistic from Kid A and now on the same twenty minute bus trip I see this (I did search a Thom Yorke thing to get here) and thought "a little bit of Radiohead's music is literally Opti, Thom... Thom tell him about... ah he can't hear me he's in a TH-cam Short".
Let down is optimistic
You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can; the best you can is good enough.
This made my day. Radiohead makes music for cinematic moments of life.
Beautifully put ,Thom! You too apple music guy!
Sud music makes me happy!
That's why I am listing Radiohead !
Toms the Greatest
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and The National were the first three bands to pop in my mind with his description of RH’s sound. the melancholy overtones give me sense of coming to grips with the thought that the inevitable IS coming for everyone eventually and there is no stopping it. which you could take as sad and depressing, which, it is a bitter pill to swallow, sure, but like the interviewer says that below the “sad” emotions it pulls out of us their is optimistic messages. it helps bear the day to day tasks we must do on this rock to just accept just how ‘real’ reality is.
One of the best live performances for this song man
Brilliant man
That's why i love Steven Wilson. ❤
Fan for life
WE WANT YOU IN CONCERT !! Dear Radiohead !!! I don’t want to die without listen to you !!
I love Radiohead and im a VERY optimistic person 🎉
I love thee so much
Pablo honey was one of the best albums of the 90s and 2000s.
He is my favorite of all time; I’m the happiest human I know and SAD MUSIC keeps me grounded; so hard to explain! I JUST ADORE HIMMMM
Radiohead thrives On Emotion the way that Nirvana utilized loud quiet loud. Every Radiohead progression contains some sort of conflicting minor chord, funny usually leads to a satisfying resolution
❤ ❤ ❤ Radiohead ❤❤ Thom's vocals
Absolutely ❤
Truly my generations great musical artist.
Great band
fr
Like Gustavo Cerati said "ponés canciones tristes para sentirte mejor"
When someone says "Radiohead is just depressing, that's why I don't like them", it tells me two things: first of all that they probably have a very one dimensional taste in music, and secondly that they probably aren't very interesting to talk to.
To me, Thom’s music doesn’t contain a lot of optimism. As a whole it contains a lot of realism, confessions, and searching. ❤
I feel the same way about my music
Radiohead communicated with people. You can see it in the reactions of the audiences. Radiohead helps music do what it's designed to do.
they are the music Fredrick Neitszche would listen to and recommend.
One of my favorite songs by Radiohead gives an optimistic feeling… the lyrics describe it but the way it’s composed makes it sound almost like a dream… the constant questioning of himself in this particular song makes it sound like it’s not realized and it’s all just a beautiful idea… I think it’s almost as if it’s the second part to Creep. This song I’m talking about makes me cry and feel sad. I love Radiohead
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