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Welcome to the first time listening to "OK Computer" club - I was convinced it was the greatest album ever created back in 97 and I still haven't changed my mind.
That was such a beautiful reaction to "Let Down." I've been having that same reaction for years, and it brings me joy to see someone have the same reaction.
Randomly bumped into this reaction video and seeing you cry during Let Down brought my own memories in mind from 1997 when I was 20 and was listening to Ok computer over and over again. Let Down always got me too. The guitar patterns and layers are just perfect and the build up stunningly beautiful not to mention the lyrics that feel central to the whole album. I still think that Exit music and Let Down together create the most perfect moment in Radioheads discography. I also love the moment between the songs. There's just an amazing flow between those two songs and of course throughout the whole album too. Nice to see that younger generations are just as moved by this amazing album.
Great reaction man, actually Thom Yorke is one the most gifted singer if we are talking about range alone but he didn't really care to utilize correct techniques sometimes in his singing maybe because he tend to let his emotions flow freely during performance. Anyways, I really understand your reaction on Let Down. It's beautiful and peaceful but I can sense underlying sadness in it. To me the song sounds like the healing of nature after something chaotic happened like nuclear war that wipes human species. Trees start to grow again, animals started to roam looking for new habitats and moss started to cover abandoned buildings.
Definitely. One of the best albums of all time right there. I go back and forth a lot with which one I like more. OK Computer or Kid A. They're so different but but so close in quality. Both are absolutely genius. At the end of the day I do prefer Kid A, though. Its depth, complexity and originality make it an incredibly personal album for people. It touches on areas of the mind music can rarely achieve. It's also perfect as a whole. Every single song being incredible and unique. None worth skipping. Even Treefingers which has no rhythm, melody or lyrics is amazing from start to finish. So beautiful.
This album is fire! So glad Let Down hit u on first listen, it's usually a grower. And somehow, they did even better imo on their next album. U gotta listen to Kid A. It's something else. Edit: ok, I finished ur video, and I don't wanna say Kid A is better. It's more like the obvious continuation into the future of what OK Computer was talking about. It could be surprising which direction they decided to go in, but based on the themes of OK Computer, it makes complete sense
Currently watching this reaction and loving it. I've been heavily into music for about 30 years now. I've easily heard over five hundred albums fully through, as well as countless other songs. Radiohead might just be my favorite band of all time. I've heard everything they've done many times over. While all of their albums are great, their top three are OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows. Kid A needs to be on your reaction list. While it's their most different and experimental album, it's literally a masterpiece and a perfect album as a whole. Every song being a work of art. As with OK Computer it is widely considered to be one of the best albums ever recorded and possibly Radiohead's best work. Just keep in mind it is very different. It uses a lot of ambient soundscapes and a mix of real instruments and electronics. You'll definitely want to be in the right state of mind for a first time listen. Ready for anything and ready for something the likes of which you've never heard. It's incredibly beautiful and takes you for a ride. Tapping into areas of the mind rarely tapped into.
Also, it has the best artwork of all their albums and spawned a lot of posters and t-shirts. Whenever you do listen to it, keep in mind it has a hidden ending which occurs a little after the final track ends. (It's the true ending of the album) Lots of reviewers and reactors don't realize this and never hear it. It's a shame too considering how epic and utterly beautiful it is.
@@MovedbyTruth Completely agree with everything you said here. I've also been huge into music since the mid 90's and Kid A is my personal favorite album of all time. I mean, I like everything Radiohead's done but put Kid A at #1 out of all their albums. It's the music equivalent of looking at, and getting lost in, the most beautiful and intricate painting you've ever seen. It literally never gets old either. OK Computer being a very close second with In Rainbows right behind it and A Moon Shaped Pool following very closely after that. Amnesiac and Hail to the Theif are also very good but are kind of hit and miss with their songs. Same with The King of Limbs. You can literally take all the good songs off of those three albums and make one very long masterpiece album. Each one of those albums does have truly amazing songs. Some of their very best. It's just that they also include a few weaker ones mixed in. Espescially Amnesiac. They are still must hear albums due to all their brilliant songs, however. Their first two albums (Pablo Honey and The Bends) are both good too but they are also very different from their other stuff. They're both more basic British alternative rock albums and are more easily accessible. Not much in terms of electronics or effects and more so lighter alternative rock. They're still great albums as far as alternative Brit rock goes. Good songs from beginning to end on both. You can definitely hear the band beginning to evolve and get better from Pablo Honey to The Bends with the songs becoming more well written, deeper and complex. The bands skills on their instruments also improving. Then OK Computer hit and blew everyone's minds. After that Kid A hit and blew everyone's minds once more but in a completely different way. It left everyone scratching their heads and wondering how something so abstract and different could be touching them in such deep and profound ways. It's definitely the most successful experimental album ever released and is still held high as one of the very best albums of the last 30 years.
@@bill8856 The first time I heard Kid A was when I was in high school and before I had a driver's license. I was so captivated by it I would ride my bike around town at night, with my portable CD player strapped to my handle bars, and a pair of headphones on, and listen to it from beginning to end on a loop. The more I listened to it the more I liked it. It's just so complex and nuanced it's impossible to take everything in on a first listen. It really has this ability to take you away to another place. The only other albums I've heard that have that kind of an effect on my are by an ambient/experimental duo called *Boards of Canada* who are hailed as being the best ambient artists of all time. They only have a few studio albums but they're all absolutely incredible. Espescially *Geogaddi* and *Music has the Right to Children* which are their two most successful ones. They also have a few EP's that are also amazing. Check them out.
@@MovedbyTruth Wow. Didn't expect to hear Boards of Canada be brought up. They are literally the best electronic, ambient artists who ever lived. I'm not really big into electronic music myself but they are like no other. Geogaddi, Music has the Right to Children and The Campfire Headphase are incredible albums. This guy really should react to them. The EP's In a Beautiful Place out in the Country and Trans Canada Highway are also amazing but are both really short being EP's and all. If he chooses one to react to, just to see what they're all about, it's gotta be Geogaddi. So many amazing tracks on that one. I hold it in my Top 5 albums of all time.
I think what makes radiohead so great, is that all the band members have their own projects as well, some compose film scores, others have their own bannds, the drummer for example is a talented singer and one of the guitarrists composes for paul thomas anderson movies, and obviously thom yorke with his side band with flea form the chili peppers
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who reacts to Let Down that way. Listen to the vocal climax on Let Down again before ranking Thom's vocal abilities. Thom's goal on the vocals on this album was to sing each one in a different style or using different techniques. That takes some real talent too, and is quite an artful approach. Glad to have you in the Radiohead appreciation club. Thanks. Peace from SF
Dude. You have to listen to The Bends, their previous album before OK! It's not better than OK Computer, but it's still considered to be one of the best albums of the 90s (and the best one in 1995)! It has one of, if not their best album closers ever.
"One day, I am going to grow wings, a chemical reaction..." To me it's the hope that we all have that we will one day grow into something more, and reach our potential.
As great as the album is on first listen it’s better at listen 10, 100, 1000 - I’ve listened to this album multiple days a week for 23 years and it always gets better every time
Airbag is such a killer opening track. It pulls you in to the vibe from the first guitar line, and pulls you deeper as the track devolves and glitches. I think Subterranean Homesick Alien is my favorite Radiohead song of all though. I couldn’t really tell you why, it just is.
Have to say, for you to show your literal raw emotion shoes something. So cool to see how these songs made you feel, I’m a massive Radiohead fan. Big respect for you
I would say thom yorke is a very gifted singer who chooses the way he sounds. One the most difficult things a singer can do which he can do very well is hold really long notes quietly.
I've heard differing interpretations of the album's theme over the years. I think the consensus is that from Thom Yorke's point of view, many of the songs are about literal travel, or about disorientation caused by uninformed consumerism. Travelling around the world, moving from place to place, and his personal exhaustion about touring and being unable to create real relationships due to his fame and lifestyle. If you look at the album cover and the promotional materials, there's a lot of pictures of planes, and of roadways, stick figures, and signs - things about travel and interpersonal alienation. It also happens to fit in absolutely perfectly with a narrative about the dehumanization caused by technology. I mean, you call a song "Paranoid Android" and you call the album OK Computer and you compare people to "detuned radios," have a computer voice telling you how to live better and you warn people to slow down to close out the album and it's no surprise (no pun intended) people make that connection. So it kind of has been backfilled in as a prognostication of an old world obliterated by computerization, which was something that was kind of beginning to happen at the time. It's probably the greatest artistic coincidence of my lifetime. Or I don't know, maybe it's not a coincidence, but a subconscious connection the band made and put to music without even really knowing it.
The part at the very beginning of Lucky is indeed some feedback. But the real magic of that beautiful sound is Ed strumming the part of the guitar where the strings run off the fretboard and meet the headstock. I remember the first time I saw him do that and bit that style so hard, but somehow forgot about it til just now when you mentioned the feedback.
When people talk about ok computer they are so quick to mention paranoid android and no surprises. Let down is probably my favourite song of all time, it’s makes me feel so happy and makes me so emotional.
Great to see your first listen to the album that introduced me to Radiohead in 1997. There are so many songs spread through their discography you'll really enjoy. I look forward to your thoughts on the track How to Disappear Completely. It's on kid a. Keep it up you are a really genuine guy
dave, this is hands down my favourite reaction video from you so far. I knew some of the bigger tracks from this album already, but listening to it start to finish is just completely transcendental. thanks so much for your raw reaction and for introducing this stunningly beautiful album to me ♥️
If radiohead don't make you emotional there's something wrong, Nude from In rainbows always makes me cry, ok computer made me fall in love with Radiohead
Honestly, this video reawakened my love for this record (not that it was ever that far), but it definitely made me want to revisit certain songs that I didn't normally give much credence.
If I had a nickle for every time i saw a youtube video reaction to ok computer where someone just broke down crying I'd have 10 cents. Which isn't that much, but, actualy, given the album, it's not actually all that weird that it happened twice.
Absolutely loving your reactions here. Love that you’re just letting the vocals be an instrument and not trying too hard to know the words. This album still carries me away with every listen. Thank you for sharing the raw experience with us.
The bit referring to a “sketch” is the glue of the album’s content. In 1997 the internet was relatively new to technology thrown to the masses. The computer is telling the listener what to do, how to feel, creating an allegiance into the dark, cold web. That’s why the protagonist is saying “OK Computer” , I’ll do and feel however you say. It’s a foreshadowing of our society now. Scary how far we let inhuman things dictate how we live.
Let Down has done the same to me many times. Ridiculously beautiful song!
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hey, man. thanks a lot for sharing your reactions and emotions so honestly. it’s defintely one of the best albums ever. Really enjoyed listen to it again through your ears. thanks a lot!
This reaction was so personal and intimate I began to feel like I shouldn't be watching! It was amazing to see your open emotional reaction. And yes, even Fitter, Happier is emotionally affecting. Those detached robotic vocals and the haunting piano and chopped up background noises just sound desolate as fuck. It's like a requiem for mankind or something. I realise that might sound overly-dramatic but that's what it sounds like to me.
Definitely do the bends.. you can really see their evolution and hear them play a completely different genre than today- and it’s filled with great songs
I really think either of the basement sessions would be perfect there is nothing like seeing them pull these songs off live and sounding even better than the studio versions especially King of Limbs which is far better than the studio version it becomes next level and one of their better projects.
I've seen quite a few reactions to let down. Too often that track gets slept on. I consider it one of my favorite Radiohead songs. How it builds to a crescendo when the dueling vocals come in - emotionally cathartic.
OK Computer has been a favorite for a long time. There’s even a badass reggae cover of this whole album called Radiodread, by Easy Star All Stars; it’s a brilliant recreation while staying true to the original.
If "Let Down" doesn't move you, you're probably dead inside. It's a stunningly beautiful, haunting, shimmering mass of emotions wrapped in an incredible pop package. This whole album is a masterpiece. (Joining "KID A" and "MOON-SHAPED POOL)
The cool thing about this album is that the opening track, Airbag, is about Thom surviving a car crash and the closing track, The Tourist, is about a passenger in a car telling the driver to slow down before they both crash and die.
Dude, I'm with you on the drums. Phil Selway isn't appreciated enough for what he brings to the overall sound of the band. Colin Greenwood isn't given enough credit for his bass lines either. Just a perfect match of individuals. Don't feel bad getting emotional with this album, it still happens to me sometimes and I've been listening to this decades.
Damn. I remember when Paranoid Android dropped and I could not wait for the record to come out. I ended up buying it when I was traveling in France as soon as it was released. I think I was 17 at the time. Ha.. your reactions are like.. exactly how I felt listening to it for the first time. It's okay to cry, bro. Music is heavy shit.
Airbag, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Let Down, and No Surprises are not only my favorite songs on this album, but they are in my top 10 Radiohead songs of all time. You definitely aren't the first person who I've seen brought to tears by this album, and I hope you won't be the last. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.
I'm 54, been listening to Radiohead since seeing them third on the bill behind R.E.M. and The Cranberries in '95. Let Down gets me every time, this was an exceptional reaction.
that's such a great reaction, btw, can you react to in the aeroplane over the sea? it's my favorite album and i think it really deserves a reaction from you, because i loved this video tbh
Thank you for this. I Loved your analysis and how you expressed yourself, especially with Let down which I feel has a very euphoric melody in contrast with the depressing. I have exactly the same attitude to lyrics and went through thirty years of not really listening to them except to feel them as another musical tone in the song. Probably the leading instrument despite singing along with the songs. They just sink in and I can recall them 40 years later.
Fuck I wish I could have music hit me like this. Maybe I just don’t allow it to. Anyways, amazing reaction and would love to see more if you’re on a music discovery journey, especially Kid A.
now my fav rh lp; gr8t like me your crying emotion equals those certain extra special/important/true/honest/gr8t ballades from the band's awesome/beautiful musicianship. just/nice dream-gr8t songs as well; [rush 's alex lifeson luvs 'the tourist' guitarwork]. thankyou david
This was pretty damn great to watch. I wish I could listen to OK Computer for the first time again. I was (and still am) a big Jeff Buckley fan and I was shattered when he died in 1997. A few months later I was driving to soccer training and a song came on the radio that sounded like it might be a Jeff Buckley song I'd never heard before. Waited in the carpark at the soccer ground for the radio station to back announce the song but they didn't. A few days later I was driving to work and caught the end of that same song. Once again I missed hearing who the song was by. Around the same time all the music press I was reading at the time was banging on about how brilliant Radiohead's new album was. I'd never heard any Radiohead before but decided to go out and buy OK Computer solely based on everyone's rave reviews. I took the cd home, laid on my bed with some decent headphones, and started listening. I quickly realised that song I thought was Jeff Buckley was actually Paranoid Android. I listened through the whole album. It ended and I just lay there, speechless. The emotions, the ride, the brilliance. It was euphoric, depressing, beautiful, haunting, and so utterly brilliant. I laid there motionless for about half an hour digesting what I just took in. Then I played it start to end again. I've been a massive Radiohead fan ever since.
As fantastic as OK Computer and In Rainbows are, I think Kid A is even better. Definitely in the running for my favorite album ever. I don't want to build it up, but based on your taste I think you may even like it more than those. Will tune in if and when you get to that!
If "Let Down" hit you this much, I think you gonna love some dream pop album. The biggest name from this genre today is Beach House. Artist I personally recommended is Wild Nothing & Washed Out.
11.23. I feel you man, Let down is just like the zenith after the amazing build up of the first 4 tracks. Let it out fella. Edit. Kid A is a amazing, I look forward to you reaction for that
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@@alexmw14 unfortunately no 😔 I don't have the raw footage anymore
@@DAVECHER Sad, but at least we have this masterpiece.
Let Down is basically a bunch of musical instruments crying together with soul crushing lyrics on top
well described
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felt tf out that let down reaction 😭
Completely agree! Love it! Such a natural reaction
My favourite song, always has been, such joyful melancholy
Let Down is glorious!
the fight at the very end between the human acoustic guitar and the robot synth, and the acoustic guitar wins..
I remember when they played "Let down" in 2017 here in Italy and I couldn't stop crying. I was so happy that they were playing it in front of me
I was there too! We cried together once, internet stranger.
Welcome to the first time listening to "OK Computer" club - I was convinced it was the greatest album ever created back in 97 and I still haven't changed my mind.
until in rainbows lol
I'm of the same opinion.
Bro, Let Down gets me every time too. One of their more underrated songs. But one of my top 5.
seriously it’s so good
Let Down is not underated lmao
@@thallakai Yeah could be right actually. True fans like us know what’s up.
Let down and weird fishes are goated songs
@@adhyadhyaksa And Reckoner!
Thanks for not being lyric obsessed, and for and listening instead with your heart. You understand so much more that way! Great job.
That was such a beautiful reaction to "Let Down." I've been having that same reaction for years, and it brings me joy to see someone have the same reaction.
Randomly bumped into this reaction video and seeing you cry during Let Down brought my own memories in mind from 1997 when I was 20 and was listening to Ok computer over and over again. Let Down always got me too. The guitar patterns and layers are just perfect and the build up stunningly beautiful not to mention the lyrics that feel central to the whole album. I still think that Exit music and Let Down together create the most perfect moment in Radioheads discography. I also love the moment between the songs. There's just an amazing flow between those two songs and of course throughout the whole album too. Nice to see that younger generations are just as moved by this amazing album.
My favorite is the Insanity of Climbing Up the Walls right into No Surprises it never fails to elicit strong emotional reaction to me.
18:01 you emotionally raw and fragile going into No Surprises, me praying for you
Great reaction man, actually Thom Yorke is one the most gifted singer if we are talking about range alone but he didn't really care to utilize correct techniques sometimes in his singing maybe because he tend to let his emotions flow freely during performance.
Anyways, I really understand your reaction on Let Down. It's beautiful and peaceful but I can sense underlying sadness in it. To me the song sounds like the healing of nature after something chaotic happened like nuclear war that wipes human species. Trees start to grow again, animals started to roam looking for new habitats and moss started to cover abandoned buildings.
yeah that’s a really good description of let down. it really does do such a good job of creating an image, great song.
Definitely have to listen to kid a
Definitely. One of the best albums of all time right there. I go back and forth a lot with which one I like more. OK Computer or Kid A. They're so different but but so close in quality. Both are absolutely genius. At the end of the day I do prefer Kid A, though. Its depth, complexity and originality make it an incredibly personal album for people. It touches on areas of the mind music can rarely achieve. It's also perfect as a whole. Every single song being incredible and unique. None worth skipping. Even Treefingers which has no rhythm, melody or lyrics is amazing from start to finish. So beautiful.
@@MovedbyTruth both of them are great, even though i personally prefer in rainbows than those two
@@adhyadhyaksa Whichever of those three I’m listening to at the time is my favorite 😍
This album is fire! So glad Let Down hit u on first listen, it's usually a grower. And somehow, they did even better imo on their next album. U gotta listen to Kid A. It's something else.
Edit: ok, I finished ur video, and I don't wanna say Kid A is better. It's more like the obvious continuation into the future of what OK Computer was talking about. It could be surprising which direction they decided to go in, but based on the themes of OK Computer, it makes complete sense
And that... is how... music... should be listened to!
The way you really feel the music made ME cry and I’ve heard this album hundreds of times. Wow. I really loved this video
thank you!
This album triggered an existential experience for you. pretty awesome!
I'm 52, got into this album 1999, and was mainly into classic rock and classical. This album made me cry so much.
Currently watching this reaction and loving it. I've been heavily into music for about 30 years now. I've easily heard over five hundred albums fully through, as well as countless other songs. Radiohead might just be my favorite band of all time. I've heard everything they've done many times over. While all of their albums are great, their top three are OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows.
Kid A needs to be on your reaction list. While it's their most different and experimental album, it's literally a masterpiece and a perfect album as a whole. Every song being a work of art. As with OK Computer it is widely considered to be one of the best albums ever recorded and possibly Radiohead's best work. Just keep in mind it is very different. It uses a lot of ambient soundscapes and a mix of real instruments and electronics.
You'll definitely want to be in the right state of mind for a first time listen. Ready for anything and ready for something the likes of which you've never heard. It's incredibly beautiful and takes you for a ride. Tapping into areas of the mind rarely tapped into.
Also, it has the best artwork of all their albums and spawned a lot of posters and t-shirts.
Whenever you do listen to it, keep in mind it has a hidden ending which occurs a little after the final track ends. (It's the true ending of the album) Lots of reviewers and reactors don't realize this and never hear it. It's a shame too considering how epic and utterly beautiful it is.
@@MovedbyTruth Completely agree with everything you said here. I've also been huge into music since the mid 90's and Kid A is my personal favorite album of all time. I mean, I like everything Radiohead's done but put Kid A at #1 out of all their albums. It's the music equivalent of looking at, and getting lost in, the most beautiful and intricate painting you've ever seen. It literally never gets old either.
OK Computer being a very close second with In Rainbows right behind it and A Moon Shaped Pool following very closely after that.
Amnesiac and Hail to the Theif are also very good but are kind of hit and miss with their songs. Same with The King of Limbs. You can literally take all the good songs off of those three albums and make one very long masterpiece album. Each one of those albums does have truly amazing songs. Some of their very best. It's just that they also include a few weaker ones mixed in. Espescially Amnesiac. They are still must hear albums due to all their brilliant songs, however.
Their first two albums (Pablo Honey and The Bends) are both good too but they are also very different from their other stuff. They're both more basic British alternative rock albums and are more easily accessible. Not much in terms of electronics or effects and more so lighter alternative rock. They're still great albums as far as alternative Brit rock goes. Good songs from beginning to end on both. You can definitely hear the band beginning to evolve and get better from Pablo Honey to The Bends with the songs becoming more well written, deeper and complex. The bands skills on their instruments also improving. Then OK Computer hit and blew everyone's minds.
After that Kid A hit and blew everyone's minds once more but in a completely different way. It left everyone scratching their heads and wondering how something so abstract and different could be touching them in such deep and profound ways. It's definitely the most successful experimental album ever released and is still held high as one of the very best albums of the last 30 years.
@@bill8856 The first time I heard Kid A was when I was in high school and before I had a driver's license. I was so captivated by it I would ride my bike around town at night, with my portable CD player strapped to my handle bars, and a pair of headphones on, and listen to it from beginning to end on a loop. The more I listened to it the more I liked it. It's just so complex and nuanced it's impossible to take everything in on a first listen. It really has this ability to take you away to another place.
The only other albums I've heard that have that kind of an effect on my are by an ambient/experimental duo called *Boards of Canada* who are hailed as being the best ambient artists of all time. They only have a few studio albums but they're all absolutely incredible. Espescially *Geogaddi* and *Music has the Right to Children* which are their two most successful ones. They also have a few EP's that are also amazing. Check them out.
@@MovedbyTruth Wow. Didn't expect to hear Boards of Canada be brought up. They are literally the best electronic, ambient artists who ever lived. I'm not really big into electronic music myself but they are like no other. Geogaddi, Music has the Right to Children and The Campfire Headphase are incredible albums. This guy really should react to them. The EP's In a Beautiful Place out in the Country and Trans Canada Highway are also amazing but are both really short being EP's and all.
If he chooses one to react to, just to see what they're all about, it's gotta be Geogaddi. So many amazing tracks on that one. I hold it in my Top 5 albums of all time.
@@bill8856 Definitely. Then Music has the Right... both are awesome. Really hope he checks them out. 🤞
I love this! PLEASE do the rest of their discography, I will be watching every single one
I think what makes radiohead so great, is that all the band members have their own projects as well, some compose film scores, others have their own bannds, the drummer for example is a talented singer and one of the guitarrists composes for paul thomas anderson movies, and obviously thom yorke with his side band with flea form the chili peppers
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who reacts to Let Down that way. Listen to the vocal climax on Let Down again before ranking Thom's vocal abilities. Thom's goal on the vocals on this album was to sing each one in a different style or using different techniques. That takes some real talent too, and is quite an artful approach. Glad to have you in the Radiohead appreciation club. Thanks.
Peace from SF
Dude. You have to listen to The Bends, their previous album before OK! It's not better than OK Computer, but it's still considered to be one of the best albums of the 90s (and the best one in 1995)!
It has one of, if not their best album closers ever.
"One day, I am going to grow wings, a chemical reaction..." To me it's the hope that we all have that we will one day grow into something more, and reach our potential.
Let Down is by far my fav song of Radiohead... The emotion on this track is beautifully overwhelming
Good to see a fan of Let Down, it's been my favourite ever since I first heard the album back in 1998 - the perfect combination of sorrow and uplift
As great as the album is on first listen it’s better at listen 10, 100, 1000 - I’ve listened to this album multiple days a week for 23 years and it always gets better every time
I was 14 when this album was released. I was already a fan after The Bends, but Ok Computer got me obsessed! Great reaction!
Airbag is such a killer opening track. It pulls you in to the vibe from the first guitar line, and pulls you deeper as the track devolves and glitches.
I think Subterranean Homesick Alien is my favorite Radiohead song of all though. I couldn’t really tell you why, it just is.
U brought a tear to my eye man, this is such a genuine raw emotional reaction
glad you connected with it :)
I have cried listening to Let Down too, thanks for letting me know that's normal. Great react, thanks!
Have to say, for you to show your literal raw emotion shoes something. So cool to see how these songs made you feel, I’m a massive Radiohead fan. Big respect for you
glad you liked it :)
You: “I don’t know who the drum”
Me: “Phil Selway. It’s Phil Selway. You’re on his Christmas card list now. Drummers don’t get enough love.
I describe “that feeling” as nostalgia for a memory you’ve never had.
Anemoia :)
@@Tocy777isback0414 I never knew that word existed! Thanks!
@@jamesleblanc7437 no worries :)
Let Down is, for my money, Radiohead's greatest song. An absolute masterpiece.
I would say thom yorke is a very gifted singer who chooses the way he sounds. One the most difficult things a singer can do which he can do very well is hold really long notes quietly.
true. Thom is probably one of my fabourite vocalists now.
Let Down hits me a certain way everytime and I can't describe it
I've heard differing interpretations of the album's theme over the years. I think the consensus is that from Thom Yorke's point of view, many of the songs are about literal travel, or about disorientation caused by uninformed consumerism. Travelling around the world, moving from place to place, and his personal exhaustion about touring and being unable to create real relationships due to his fame and lifestyle. If you look at the album cover and the promotional materials, there's a lot of pictures of planes, and of roadways, stick figures, and signs - things about travel and interpersonal alienation.
It also happens to fit in absolutely perfectly with a narrative about the dehumanization caused by technology. I mean, you call a song "Paranoid Android" and you call the album OK Computer and you compare people to "detuned radios," have a computer voice telling you how to live better and you warn people to slow down to close out the album and it's no surprise (no pun intended) people make that connection. So it kind of has been backfilled in as a prognostication of an old world obliterated by computerization, which was something that was kind of beginning to happen at the time.
It's probably the greatest artistic coincidence of my lifetime. Or I don't know, maybe it's not a coincidence, but a subconscious connection the band made and put to music without even really knowing it.
First time a reaction video actually made me cry, I didn't think that was possible! You have something special here.
The part at the very beginning of Lucky is indeed some feedback. But the real magic of that beautiful sound is Ed strumming the part of the guitar where the strings run off the fretboard and meet the headstock. I remember the first time I saw him do that and bit that style so hard, but somehow forgot about it til just now when you mentioned the feedback.
Let down makes me cry almost every time i hear it alone as well. Its so beautiful and somehow hopeful.and heartbreaking at the same time
When people talk about ok computer they are so quick to mention paranoid android and no surprises. Let down is probably my favourite song of all time, it’s makes me feel so happy and makes me so emotional.
Great to see your first listen to the album that introduced me to Radiohead in 1997. There are so many songs spread through their discography you'll really enjoy. I look forward to your thoughts on the track How to Disappear Completely. It's on kid a. Keep it up you are a really genuine guy
appreciate it 🙏🏻 can’t wait to check out kid a!
anthemic, but in a sad way explains a lot of radiohead songs perfectly lol
also i can relate to that let down reaction a lot
Dang I wish I could hear this album for the first time again
dave, this is hands down my favourite reaction video from you so far. I knew some of the bigger tracks from this album already, but listening to it start to finish is just completely transcendental. thanks so much for your raw reaction and for introducing this stunningly beautiful album to me ♥️
If radiohead don't make you emotional there's something wrong, Nude from In rainbows always makes me cry, ok computer made me fall in love with Radiohead
Exit music and Reckoner made me cry the first time i heard them
you are wrong about thom yorke voice, because he really very talented singer and one best singer of all time
yeah he’s definitely very talented!
Agree 100% Yorke is one of the best of all time.
Honestly, this video reawakened my love for this record (not that it was ever that far), but it definitely made me want to revisit certain songs that I didn't normally give much credence.
If I had a nickle for every time i saw a youtube video reaction to ok computer where someone just broke down crying I'd have 10 cents. Which isn't that much, but, actualy, given the album, it's not actually all that weird that it happened twice.
i cried on my first listen at let down aswell
Love reexperiencing these albums with you man. Can tell you care. Good insights too, keep up the work
Appreciate that 🙏🏻
Absolutely loving your reactions here. Love that you’re just letting the vocals be an instrument and not trying too hard to know the words. This album still carries me away with every listen. Thank you for sharing the raw experience with us.
The bit referring to a “sketch” is the glue of the album’s content.
In 1997 the internet was relatively new to technology thrown to the masses.
The computer is telling the listener what to do, how to feel, creating an allegiance into the dark, cold web. That’s why the protagonist is saying “OK Computer” , I’ll do and feel however you say.
It’s a foreshadowing of our society now. Scary how far we let inhuman things dictate how we live.
Funny you say Lucky feels yellow. It has always felt orange to me.
It’s baby blue to me.
Radiohead's fucking goated bro they have 3 10/10 albums pretty rare to see bands like them these days
Great reaction video. I always cry when I listen to radiohead. It makes you feel everything. Thom and Johnny are geniuses.
You just entered the zone, man. Sometims music does that to you. Specially good meaningful music.
Let Down has done the same to me many times. Ridiculously beautiful song!
hey, man. thanks a lot for sharing your reactions and emotions so honestly. it’s defintely one of the best albums ever. Really enjoyed listen to it again through your ears. thanks a lot!
"I don't even know what to say"......says it all.
Thank you for sharing your reaction to this masterpiece of an album.
This reaction was so personal and intimate I began to feel like I shouldn't be watching! It was amazing to see your open emotional reaction. And yes, even Fitter, Happier is emotionally affecting. Those detached robotic vocals and the haunting piano and chopped up background noises just sound desolate as fuck. It's like a requiem for mankind or something. I realise that might sound overly-dramatic but that's what it sounds like to me.
Let down is my favourite song and im always like you when i hear to that song. No matter crying it must be the normal thing. Great content though!!
Definitely do the bends.. you can really see their evolution and hear them play a completely different genre than today- and it’s filled with great songs
Your Let Down reaction 🥺❤️
I really think either of the basement sessions would be perfect there is nothing like seeing them pull these songs off live and sounding even better than the studio versions especially King of Limbs which is far better than the studio version it becomes next level and one of their better projects.
The King of Limbs live from the basement is my favorite Radiohead project/album
and you really get a sense of how good of a singer Thom really is on those small, intimate performances.
Yep TKOL is far superior in the basement sessions.
I've seen quite a few reactions to let down. Too often that track gets slept on. I consider it one of my favorite Radiohead songs. How it builds to a crescendo when the dueling vocals come in - emotionally cathartic.
OK Computer has been a favorite for a long time. There’s even a badass reggae cover of this whole album called Radiodread, by Easy Star All Stars; it’s a brilliant recreation while staying true to the original.
paranoid android is literally just bohemian rhapsody but 10x more rock. two amazing songs
If "Let Down" doesn't move you, you're probably dead inside. It's a stunningly beautiful, haunting, shimmering mass of emotions wrapped in an incredible pop package. This whole album is a masterpiece. (Joining "KID A" and "MOON-SHAPED POOL)
i must be dead
@@BenDover-vg9ep agreed.
Dude couldn't recover after let down this is my favorite reaction of the album ever
The cool thing about this album is that the opening track, Airbag, is about Thom surviving a car crash and the closing track, The Tourist, is about a passenger in a car telling the driver to slow down before they both crash and die.
Dude, I'm with you on the drums. Phil Selway isn't appreciated enough for what he brings to the overall sound of the band. Colin Greenwood isn't given enough credit for his bass lines either. Just a perfect match of individuals. Don't feel bad getting emotional with this album, it still happens to me sometimes and I've been listening to this decades.
We need more radio head reactions. This is Your best reaction yet thanks for sharing it.
Damn. I remember when Paranoid Android dropped and I could not wait for the record to come out. I ended up buying it when I was traveling in France as soon as it was released. I think I was 17 at the time. Ha.. your reactions are like.. exactly how I felt listening to it for the first time. It's okay to cry, bro. Music is heavy shit.
Airbag, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Let Down, and No Surprises are not only my favorite songs on this album, but they are in my top 10 Radiohead songs of all time. You definitely aren't the first person who I've seen brought to tears by this album, and I hope you won't be the last. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.
I'm 54, been listening to Radiohead since seeing them third on the bill behind R.E.M. and The Cranberries in '95.
Let Down gets me every time, this was an exceptional reaction.
that's such a great reaction, btw, can you react to in the aeroplane over the sea? it's my favorite album and i think it really deserves a reaction from you, because i loved this video tbh
Loved how your blond poster at the back kinda fitted with your reaction in the end.. It felt right on spot...
Thank you for this. I Loved your analysis and how you expressed yourself, especially with Let down which I feel has a very euphoric melody in contrast with the depressing. I have exactly the same attitude to lyrics and went through thirty years of not really listening to them except to feel them as another musical tone in the song. Probably the leading instrument despite singing along with the songs. They just sink in and I can recall them 40 years later.
Yorke is one of the best rock singers of all time. His falsetto is gorgeous and he has an amazing range.
Let down is the only song that made me cry multiple times. It makes me really happy to see others having such a similar reaction to it.
The first album where I'm in love with every song. So is In Rainbows. That made me a Radiohead fanboy. lol
You crying made me cry. Jeez, what a reaction, what an album.
glad you enjoyed it :)
Man you're giving me an emotional nostalgia trip. You only hear it the first time ONCE. Thanks for sharing these.
Fuck I wish I could have music hit me like this. Maybe I just don’t allow it to. Anyways, amazing reaction and would love to see more if you’re on a music discovery journey, especially Kid A.
now my fav rh lp; gr8t like me your crying emotion equals those certain extra special/important/true/honest/gr8t ballades from the band's awesome/beautiful musicianship. just/nice dream-gr8t songs as well; [rush 's alex lifeson luvs 'the tourist' guitarwork]. thankyou david
hap.easter.thnx dave for yur Reply but on my move around edit,the system auto deleted It-i feel more manmade system let down[sad]
hi david: your reaction to rh let down had me learn/play that song's rhythm chords/lead notes on my open chord tuned guitar-awesome-thanks
'& the minstrel boy's not playing any more'-the guess who[rock group].
11:22 what the frig. Epic moment I’ve felt a hundred times! 🤟🏽👍🤟🏽😵💫
I sincerely want to thank you for sharing this honest reaction.
Let Down vs Reckoner. One of my most beautiful struggles in life is deciding which is best. Glad I’m not alone
let down easily beats reckoner imo
Hate to disagree, but I think he's an amazingly gifted singer. Enjoyed your reaction 👌one of my favourite albums
This was pretty damn great to watch. I wish I could listen to OK Computer for the first time again.
I was (and still am) a big Jeff Buckley fan and I was shattered when he died in 1997. A few months later I was driving to soccer training and a song came on the radio that sounded like it might be a Jeff Buckley song I'd never heard before. Waited in the carpark at the soccer ground for the radio station to back announce the song but they didn't. A few days later I was driving to work and caught the end of that same song. Once again I missed hearing who the song was by. Around the same time all the music press I was reading at the time was banging on about how brilliant Radiohead's new album was. I'd never heard any Radiohead before but decided to go out and buy OK Computer solely based on everyone's rave reviews. I took the cd home, laid on my bed with some decent headphones, and started listening. I quickly realised that song I thought was Jeff Buckley was actually Paranoid Android. I listened through the whole album. It ended and I just lay there, speechless. The emotions, the ride, the brilliance. It was euphoric, depressing, beautiful, haunting, and so utterly brilliant. I laid there motionless for about half an hour digesting what I just took in. Then I played it start to end again. I've been a massive Radiohead fan ever since.
Such a cool story, jeff is severly underrated and easily the best artist ive ever heard
I’ll be buried with a copy of this album.
All time fave.
Whether it's on your own time, or a reaction, you need to listen to the B-sides of this record.
thank you for this reaction man, really felt this
As fantastic as OK Computer and In Rainbows are, I think Kid A is even better. Definitely in the running for my favorite album ever. I don't want to build it up, but based on your taste I think you may even like it more than those. Will tune in if and when you get to that!
hyped to check it out!
We’ve all gone through the exact same thing with Let Down over the years. The thing is, it’ll still happen after your 1000th listen.
If "Let Down" hit you this much, I think you gonna love some dream pop album.
The biggest name from this genre today is Beach House.
Artist I personally recommended is Wild Nothing & Washed Out.
Btw Frank sampled a track off of Kid A on nostalgia, Ultra
I'm a "OK Computer is the best album of all time" club member
Thank you for your reaction
11.23. I feel you man, Let down is just like the zenith after the amazing build up of the first 4 tracks.
Let it out fella.
Edit. Kid A is a amazing, I look forward to you reaction for that
no matter what im doing whenever no surprises plays it always makes me cry