Amnesiac is genuinely my favorite radiohead album. The atmosphere and mood it sets from the beginning perfectly carries throughout the entire album, it's beautiful and so weird. I love it.
I like to imagine when I listen to Amnesiac that I'm hearing a series of vignettes about periods of time (Ancient Egypt, Holy Roman Empire, Wild West America, Jazz Funeral New Orleans) and its interesting to me that as the album progresses the songs become closer to modern day
@@andyblanton6570 Pyramid Song - Ancient Egypt You and Whose Army - Holy Roman Empire Hunting Bears - Wild West America Life in a Glasshouse - Jazz New Orleans
Knives Out feels like empathy to me. I have been through that situation of imminent danger where I got those cold stares, people looking through me, the same people who could have changed the course of my life by merely snapping their fingers but preferred to judge and leave me for dead, who stick around only to pick up the spoils of my demise. I kept saying "If I disappear, no one will come looking for me, and they know it. They are vultures." So Knives Out really speaks to me. I know that if I had been a dog, they would have drowned me at birth. This song makes me feel seen, heard and understood, a rare gift. The guitars on this track are also unbelievably pretty.
Knives out bears an uncanny resemblance to paranoid Android. Its pretty blatant though, I don't think they were trying to be inconspicuous about it though. They just made an entire new song from the same chord progression/sequence.
To me "Kid A" is icy and frosty mountain peaks, while "Amnesiac" is to me having a heat stroke in an empty desert. I think "Kid A" is a better album, it has more variety and better flow but to me "Kid A" works really great with "Amnesiac" as a whole in the aspect of atmosphere and mood. As I said at the beginning, they compliment each other
Also, I think of "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" as a desert version of "Idioteque". Both songs' base is an amazing electronic rhytmic pattern but "Idioteque" sounds absolutely COLD. The main synth sample is just chillingly frosty. At the same time "Pulk/Pull" is more psychedelic, dense, like a stroke caused by heat and sun. I love both of them. And, Obviously, "Pulk/Pull" is more minimalistic but I just love this forkin' FAT beat so much that I just look at it as an advantage
This is my favourite record of theirs. I can't help defaulting to it when I listen to this band. I usually remember one song from any one of their records, listen to it, and that song leads to another song leads to another song leads to Amnesiac, which I then listen to in its entirety. Always. The beauty of the compositions, the emotion, the fact that it is easy to make meaning of the lyrics and to relate, and the singular musicality of it (no, this isn't Kid A) are haunting. These people are such conscientious artists, pushing themselves to leverage all they've got, and not in the least interested in "the product," in being impressive, in introducing novelty. They seem to be in a constant state of flow (psychology) and to live for their craft. They are people with experiences, thoughts, feelings, and they have something to say about them. I feel like a lot of the lyrics are self-reflective, they are not meant for me to listen to, I am witnessing another human being lost in thought, and it makes me do the same. Extremely stimulating music, which we are fortunate to have been blessed with.
"I might be wrong" is quite a special song for me Lately I've found myself stressing over the topic of climate change and global warming it really scares the shit out me From day to day I just slowly falling deep into this rabbit hole, from the topic of global warming all the way to the topic of humanity to the point where I've become so paranoid and hating humanity entirely and seeing human as this evil creature and slowly distancing myself from this shitty thing called the humanity I found myself in a crisis One day I had enough with all of these bullshit and just wanting to stop thinking about all these things and just living my life but I can't So I use this song to cope To me the song is about wanting to find peace in life as the world burns you choose to not care about it at all and just living your life and just focusing on yourself and just be careless y'know And this carelessness philosophy thing also backed by my friend, one day I vented to my friend about my life crisis and dissociation and my friend told me to just take care of myself and nothing else and stop caring about things outside of me And now I'm in the process of letting things go and start focusing on internal stuff instead and not having this crisis and this song helped me a lot :')
@@theorangeoof926 Yeah they flow well together. The "Open up" refrain in IMBW sounds eerily similar to the latter part of Hunting Bears, in terms of chord progression and even the melody. Makes me wonder which came first, and also whether both of them were specifically inspired by Brian Eno's Zawinul/Lava, one of them was, or none of them were and it's a strange coincidence.
As a radiohead fan for almost 20 years, amnesiac has become one of my favorite and most played RH album over the past 4 years or so. I feel that the album has aged much better than HTTT, which is also a good record but doesnt get much play time in its entirety these days. If im going to listen to Amnesiac, I play it from start to finish. Call me crazy, but once I started to really understand amesiac, I stopped skipping "Pulk/pull rebolving doors" and it actually works really well in context of the album! Its such a hypnotic few minutes. I really love every song on the album, especially dollars and cents, hunting bears, like spinning plates, and the absolute epic closer. This album is so fucking underrated.
An unexpected surprise, but a very welcome one. This was amazing, you really did Amnesiac justice. It’s also interesting seeing one of these tribute videos cover an entire album in one video unlike what it normally is. But not to mention the editing and transitions was amazing, that You and Whose Army to I Might Be Wrong was great. Seriously I can’t give you enough praise, you are great at this, and I can’t wait to see what you make next!
Late reply but just wanna add something, On a Q magazine I read about radiohead's amnesiac album, It was said that Alice In wonderland was actually the inspiration for Thom to write Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors. Thom said it was because of the chapter on that book where Alice is in a hallway surrounded by doors. There are different kinds of doors that leads to different kinds of places. Just like our life has different choices that makes different results. There are open doors, locked doors, secret doors, and trapdoors, that you can't come back from.
I think if this record didn't get as positive a reaction as some of their other records, it is because it is less accessible, nothing like a pop record. There are some crazy things on it that are quite a ways off the beaten path. You know how it is: the really good stuff only exists for those who can appreciate it. People throw away diamonds in the rough all the time, preferring vulgar rhinestones to them, because a diamond in the rough needs to be cut and polished first-and that's work. This is why I don't judge any piece of art by its popularity and gravitate towards the lesser known, less popular works.
Well Stemp, all I can really say is that upon returning to nearly each album(and I generally listen as a piece, not individually unless I’m just jonesing for that quick fix turn of phrase, elevation of whatever mood I’m struck by) and what a world they paint with sonics and sentiment. I have amnesia each time upon return and exit and the cycle is fascinating. I don’t have this experience with any other discography as a whole or individually. It’s like a phase of my favorite painters and this was the style they adopted, explored and perfected. Each revisit is an experience in and of itself with only a memory of the past visits like repeatedly visiting an unfamiliar place over and over to get a sense of it and then suddenly your back home. Each visit has its own amnesia. I go under and feel the world I’ve sank into to awake later saying wasn’t that grand. It pours over me like a water; my body enjoying each drop. I’m clean and go through my day. I’ve really enjoyed your breakdowns as I never experience the songs this way. I just have a feeling and it’s usually like a perfect pair of shoes or we’ll broken in pants that you slip on with delight that you are going to feel alright today, in your most comfortable version of yourself. Time travel to the distance between now and then. Then it was different but familiar all the same. Thank you 🙏
I'm sorry for the late upload! rendering took forever and had some issues with copyright, but it's here! Also subscribe if you enjoyed were nearing 600 :) Timestamps: 0:00 intro 0:40 Packt Like Sardines in a crushd tin box 2:00 Pyramid Song 4:00 Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors 5:00 You and Whose Army? 6:46 I Might Be Wrong 9:32 Knives Out 11:28 Morning Bell/Amnesiac 13:35 Dollars And Cents 14:25 Hunting Bears 15:03 Like Spinning Plates 16:21 Life In A Glasshouse 18:20 Outro
This is exactly the kind of video you need to watch when you are learning to sing these songs. The songs become much deeper and you can feel them much better when singing them.
Thanks so much. I only discovered the Kid A Tribute recently and I've shared it with a few friends and family members. All this stuff makes Radiohead easier to understand and relate to. Thanks.
The problem with Knives Out is that it's about the only time they've ever really repeated themselves, with inferior results. The main riff is basically Paranoid Android-lite. It's kinda like Led Zep doing Tea For One after Since I've Been Loving You.
Literally only the first chord, and melodic contour carry over from Paranoid Android. It’s not even the same rhythm. They’re more than different enough.
Epic video, I was trying to make A Tribute to Hail To The Thief, but I don't think that I can make it as good as for example you, well I didn't really started doing A Tribute to HTTT, since I have a kinda shitty programme on my phone, I think I will save it for future
3. Life in a Glasshouse 2. Dollars and Cents 1. Pyramid Song My top 3 from this awesome album. The only thing I would change is the opener (Amazing Sounds would fit way better and it sets the jarring mood of the album really well, Cuttooth could also really fit) and take out Morning Bell/Amnesiac. Still adore the album, though.
Awesome video, would love to hear you talk about more albums, Radiohead or not! Also did the way Thoms lips touch the mic in the pyramid song video make your uncomfortable? I usually don’t flinch at stuff like that but it was kinda weird.
Was this inspired by jschlatt’s video on ok computer? If so, it’s really cool that people still acknowledge the existence of that video and that my favorite album got reviewed in that format. edit: Whoa, I just checked the rest of you channel and you have one on Kid A too! You really deserve more attention for this.
Yes! It is 100% inspired by the Ok Computer vids! I really enjoyed watching them and always thought it was a shame he didn’t finish them so I wanted to try it but for Kid A! Now, Amnesiac and will probably do more in the future! Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you enjoyed!
Do you know what Amnesiac means? It's about someone that experienced apparent death, and when he wokes up he is amnesiac. That person is me, i'm the man who sold the world. Now the world is getting warmer because of the global warming. Nobody nor the die hard Radiohead fans know what Amnesiac means. *sorry english is not my native language
When Amnesiac came out, I had the feeling that most people see it as a better album than Kid A for some reason. Understandably, that changed over the years. Amnesiac is one of the three weaker Radiohead albums.
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Okay it's been a year. We would really love to have that "A Tribute To Hail To The Thief" video now. Thank you🥲
December will be an interesting month
@@Stemp it wasnt
@@willgd5950 never said what year
@@Stemp fuck, what year?
@@willgd5950 prob this one lmao, i ended up being stupid busy recently gonna try to get some stuff out soon
Amnesiac is genuinely my favorite radiohead album. The atmosphere and mood it sets from the beginning perfectly carries throughout the entire album, it's beautiful and so weird. I love it.
calling 'Like spinning plates' a "rather experimental" track just shows how far down the rabbit hole we've gotten on this channel 😅
It‘s also rather catchy, though.
I like to imagine when I listen to Amnesiac that I'm hearing a series of vignettes about periods of time (Ancient Egypt, Holy Roman Empire, Wild West America, Jazz Funeral New Orleans) and its interesting to me that as the album progresses the songs become closer to modern day
What song would be what period?
@@andyblanton6570
Pyramid Song - Ancient Egypt
You and Whose Army - Holy Roman Empire
Hunting Bears - Wild West America
Life in a Glasshouse - Jazz New Orleans
TL;DR: we live in a society
LOL
Knives Out feels like empathy to me. I have been through that situation of imminent danger where I got those cold stares, people looking through me, the same people who could have changed the course of my life by merely snapping their fingers but preferred to judge and leave me for dead, who stick around only to pick up the spoils of my demise. I kept saying "If I disappear, no one will come looking for me, and they know it. They are vultures." So Knives Out really speaks to me. I know that if I had been a dog, they would have drowned me at birth. This song makes me feel seen, heard and understood, a rare gift.
The guitars on this track are also unbelievably pretty.
Knives out bears an uncanny resemblance to paranoid Android. Its pretty blatant though, I don't think they were trying to be inconspicuous about it though. They just made an entire new song from the same chord progression/sequence.
To me "Kid A" is icy and frosty mountain peaks, while "Amnesiac" is to me having a heat stroke in an empty desert.
I think "Kid A" is a better album, it has more variety and better flow but to me "Kid A" works really great with "Amnesiac" as a whole in the aspect of atmosphere and mood. As I said at the beginning, they compliment each other
Also, I think of "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" as a desert version of "Idioteque". Both songs' base is an amazing electronic rhytmic pattern but "Idioteque" sounds absolutely COLD. The main synth sample is just chillingly frosty. At the same time "Pulk/Pull" is more psychedelic, dense, like a stroke caused by heat and sun. I love both of them. And, Obviously, "Pulk/Pull" is more minimalistic but I just love this forkin' FAT beat so much that I just look at it as an advantage
"Im a reasonable man, but sometimes i must do unreasonable things"
Packt like sardines in a concrete bulldozer
THE ALGORITHIM WON TODAY.. im gonna binge these videos oh my god
This is my favourite record of theirs. I can't help defaulting to it when I listen to this band. I usually remember one song from any one of their records, listen to it, and that song leads to another song leads to another song leads to Amnesiac, which I then listen to in its entirety. Always. The beauty of the compositions, the emotion, the fact that it is easy to make meaning of the lyrics and to relate, and the singular musicality of it (no, this isn't Kid A) are haunting.
These people are such conscientious artists, pushing themselves to leverage all they've got, and not in the least interested in "the product," in being impressive, in introducing novelty. They seem to be in a constant state of flow (psychology) and to live for their craft. They are people with experiences, thoughts, feelings, and they have something to say about them. I feel like a lot of the lyrics are self-reflective, they are not meant for me to listen to, I am witnessing another human being lost in thought, and it makes me do the same. Extremely stimulating music, which we are fortunate to have been blessed with.
"I might be wrong" is quite a special song for me
Lately I've found myself stressing over the topic of climate change and global warming it really scares the shit out me
From day to day I just slowly falling deep into this rabbit hole, from the topic of global warming all the way to the topic of humanity to the point where I've become so paranoid and hating humanity entirely and seeing human as this evil creature and slowly distancing myself from this shitty thing called the humanity
I found myself in a crisis
One day I had enough with all of these bullshit and just wanting to stop thinking about all these things and just living my life but I can't
So I use this song to cope
To me the song is about wanting to find peace in life as the world burns you choose to not care about it at all and just living your life and just focusing on yourself and just be careless y'know
And this carelessness philosophy thing also backed by my friend, one day I vented to my friend about my life crisis and dissociation and my friend told me to just take care of myself and nothing else and stop caring about things outside of me
And now I'm in the process of letting things go and start focusing on internal stuff instead and not having this crisis and this song helped me a lot :')
Hmmmm. Lol
Also it’s nice to actually combine You And Whose Army, Hunting Bears and I Might Be Wrong into one continuous song. They all flow very well.
@@theorangeoof926 Yeah they flow well together. The "Open up" refrain in IMBW sounds eerily similar to the latter part of Hunting Bears, in terms of chord progression and even the melody. Makes me wonder which came first, and also whether both of them were specifically inspired by Brian Eno's Zawinul/Lava, one of them was, or none of them were and it's a strange coincidence.
As a radiohead fan for almost 20 years, amnesiac has become one of my favorite and most played RH album over the past 4 years or so. I feel that the album has aged much better than HTTT, which is also a good record but doesnt get much play time in its entirety these days. If im going to listen to Amnesiac, I play it from start to finish. Call me crazy, but once I started to really understand amesiac, I stopped skipping "Pulk/pull rebolving doors" and it actually works really well in context of the album! Its such a hypnotic few minutes.
I really love every song on the album, especially dollars and cents, hunting bears, like spinning plates, and the absolute epic closer.
This album is so fucking underrated.
An unexpected surprise, but a very welcome one. This was amazing, you really did Amnesiac justice. It’s also interesting seeing one of these tribute videos cover an entire album in one video unlike what it normally is. But not to mention the editing and transitions was amazing, that You and Whose Army to I Might Be Wrong was great. Seriously I can’t give you enough praise, you are great at this, and I can’t wait to see what you make next!
Thank you so much!
Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army, Knives Out, and Dollars & Cents are my favorite tracks from Amnesiac.
4:01 That transition is SO GOOD
Late reply but just wanna add something,
On a Q magazine I read about radiohead's amnesiac album, It was said that Alice In wonderland was actually the inspiration for Thom to write Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors. Thom said it was because of the chapter on that book where Alice is in a hallway surrounded by doors. There are different kinds of doors that leads to different kinds of places. Just like our life has different choices that makes different results. There are open doors, locked doors, secret doors, and trapdoors, that you can't come back from.
I think if this record didn't get as positive a reaction as some of their other records, it is because it is less accessible, nothing like a pop record. There are some crazy things on it that are quite a ways off the beaten path. You know how it is: the really good stuff only exists for those who can appreciate it. People throw away diamonds in the rough all the time, preferring vulgar rhinestones to them, because a diamond in the rough needs to be cut and polished first-and that's work. This is why I don't judge any piece of art by its popularity and gravitate towards the lesser known, less popular works.
Well Stemp, all I can really say is that upon returning to nearly each album(and I generally listen as a piece, not individually unless I’m just jonesing for that quick fix turn of phrase, elevation of whatever mood I’m struck by) and what a world they paint with sonics and sentiment. I have amnesia each time upon return and exit and the cycle is fascinating. I don’t have this experience with any other discography as a whole or individually. It’s like a phase of my favorite painters and this was the style they adopted, explored and perfected. Each revisit is an experience in and of itself with only a memory of the past visits like repeatedly visiting an unfamiliar place over and over to get a sense of it and then suddenly your back home. Each visit has its own amnesia. I go under and feel the world I’ve sank into to awake later saying wasn’t that grand. It pours over me like a water; my body enjoying each drop. I’m clean and go through my day.
I’ve really enjoyed your breakdowns as I never experience the songs this way. I just have a feeling and it’s usually like a perfect pair of shoes or we’ll broken in pants that you slip on with delight that you are going to feel alright today, in your most comfortable version of yourself. Time travel to the distance between now and then. Then it was different but familiar all the same. Thank you 🙏
I'm sorry for the late upload! rendering took forever and had some issues with copyright, but it's here! Also subscribe if you enjoyed were nearing 600 :)
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
0:40 Packt Like Sardines in a crushd tin box
2:00 Pyramid Song
4:00 Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
5:00 You and Whose Army?
6:46 I Might Be Wrong
9:32 Knives Out
11:28 Morning Bell/Amnesiac
13:35 Dollars And Cents
14:25 Hunting Bears
15:03 Like Spinning Plates
16:21 Life In A Glasshouse
18:20 Outro
This is exactly the kind of video you need to watch when you are learning to sing these songs. The songs become much deeper and you can feel them much better when singing them.
Enjoyed working on this with you, came out really nice :) Amnesiac is an album that deserves to be remembered.
amnesiac is my favorite album of all time and my fav songs are ''i might be wrong, hunting bears''
It’s a great album. It’s definitely top five alongside OK Computer, In Rainbows, Hail to the Thief, and Kid A.
Pyramid Song is about everything going in circles Thom Yorke.
I look at Amnesiac as KIDAs twin brother. I Might Be Wrong is a great track.
Finally someone who apreciates radioheads most underated album
f'ing incredible album. the most insane 3 song intro of all time
I wish there was more commentary on Dollars & Cents... One of their more overlooked gems.
Amnesiac is my third favourite Radiohead album, thank you for making this!! Great to see some Amnesiac love :)
I love pulk / pull
You're a really good music critic, and these videos are nicely edited, hopefully your channel blows up, much deserved.
My favourite Radiohead album. Great tribute of it!
you deserve more subs, bravo on the video. It's great to see this often overlooked album get the coverage it deserves
This video is so good.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much. I only discovered the Kid A Tribute recently and I've shared it with a few friends and family members. All this stuff makes Radiohead easier to understand and relate to. Thanks.
i love amnesiac sm, thank you for putting your time into this video
Thank you man, I really like these videos
Man I'm fucking loving your videos, looking forward to seeing more!
The problem with Knives Out is that it's about the only time they've ever really repeated themselves, with inferior results. The main riff is basically Paranoid Android-lite. It's kinda like Led Zep doing Tea For One after Since I've Been Loving You.
Literally only the first chord, and melodic contour carry over from Paranoid Android. It’s not even the same rhythm. They’re more than different enough.
Glasshouse is definitely one of my favorites
you might be wrong
I might be wrong
he might be wronG
@@KomikSanz she might be wrong
soo good
Everyone everyone around here, everyone is so near it’s holding on
nice job on this tribute, I love this album, it's really nice
man i love you
Pretty sure it is just Kid A B-sides, which was evident from the Kid Amensia box set. I always view them as one album, but KID A is my favourite.
This was amazing !
Thanks for your work again !
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for this very interesting video
YESSS BLIPPS
Your videos are great, not sure why you don't have more recognition and views :((
Im fairly new, im sure it just takes time. thanks though, i really appriciate it :)
One of Radiohead's best albums!
Epic video, I was trying to make A Tribute to Hail To The Thief, but I don't think that I can make it as good as for example you, well I didn't really started doing A Tribute to HTTT, since I have a kinda shitty programme on my phone, I think I will save it for future
3. Life in a Glasshouse
2. Dollars and Cents
1. Pyramid Song
My top 3 from this awesome album. The only thing I would change is the opener (Amazing Sounds would fit way better and it sets the jarring mood of the album really well, Cuttooth could also really fit) and take out Morning Bell/Amnesiac. Still adore the album, though.
Awesome video, would love to hear you talk about more albums, Radiohead or not!
Also did the way Thoms lips touch the mic in the pyramid song video make your uncomfortable? I usually don’t flinch at stuff like that but it was kinda weird.
This is pretty good
Was this inspired by jschlatt’s video on ok computer? If so, it’s really cool that people still acknowledge the existence of that video and that my favorite album got reviewed in that format.
edit: Whoa, I just checked the rest of you channel and you have one on Kid A too! You really deserve more attention for this.
Yes! It is 100% inspired by the Ok Computer vids! I really enjoyed watching them and always thought it was a shame he didn’t finish them so I wanted to try it but for Kid A! Now, Amnesiac and will probably do more in the future! Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you enjoyed!
Amazing
I love you
5:28 i love do-woop music!
Do you know what Amnesiac means? It's about someone that experienced apparent death, and when he wokes up he is amnesiac. That person is me, i'm the man who sold the world. Now the world is getting warmer because of the global warming.
Nobody nor the die hard Radiohead fans know what Amnesiac means.
*sorry english is not my native language
nah you lost me with the ‘cancel’ point in the first song. chud talking point
When Amnesiac came out, I had the feeling that most people see it as a better album than Kid A for some reason. Understandably, that changed over the years. Amnesiac is one of the three weaker Radiohead albums.
So excited for this, Amnesiac is my favorite album of all time
I hope you enjoy!