It's interesting that early versions of paranoid android transitioned from the churchy mid-section back into the chorus of the 1st section. That version was great too! th-cam.com/video/BNZ2pauQezc/w-d-xo.html
they were front act for alanis morissette when they played the earlier version of paranoid android live (before ok computer was released)... one hell of a rockstar moment for alanis, i bet, and foo fighters taylor hawkins was her drummer at that time too
I notice that a lot of singers pick interesting pronunciations to maybe sing it better or more comfortably. May just be a British thing here though idk lol
Jonny plays through a Small Stone Phase Shifter in the first section…that’s how the swirling watery effect is achieved. But my favourite of Jonny’s contributions is the lead guitar at the end, where he processed the signal (twice) with a Mutronics Mutator. It’s more of an electronic music/DJ tool but it produces one of the most inspired and original guitar sounds I’ve ever heard. Just awesome.
Absolutely love his use of the Mutator. I wish he'd used it more. I think the only other tracks I can remember him using it on were B-sides like Palo Alto and maybe Pearly? Although they did use it on the drums on Airbag I think as well.
@@matthewsaul3533 He may have used it on those b-sides you mentioned...it would make sense, because those are both OK Computer era tracks and that is the period he obtained it and used it most. Subterranean Homesick Alien is definitely another example. To his credit, Jonny never overused it and to my knowledge he never played through it again post 2000. He didn't bother bringing it on tour either...it does seem to be more of a studio tool. I think he uses some type of envelope follower stomp box for Paranoid Android, which unfortunately will never sound quite the same.
@@monsieurmitosis I’m definitely certain he used it on Palo Alto. Nothing else would’ve gotten that sound. Not sure about pearly though. Doesn’t really sound like it but I don’t know how else he would’ve made his guitar make those sounds on pearly lol oh interesting, did he use it on subterranean homesick alien? I’ll have to listen again. Where does he use it? Oh, is it during that “I’ll tell all my friends but they’ll never believe me” part? Yeah I agree. It’s awesome that he didn’t over use it. And unfortunately I agree that the filter pedal he uses live really doesn’t come close.. but honestly for 90% of listeners or more I don’t think they’d know the difference so I don’t blame him at all
About Jonny's magical guitar tone, more or less it looks like that : EHX Small Stone V2 > Demeter (for tremolo) > whammy > DOD440 env filter > and the famous Roland RE-201 space echo ... and the magic happens And by the way thank you so much for your musical analysis. Such a great job !
There are moments in life that are so pivotal, that they always feel so vivid. I remember sitting at my mother's dining table, listening to BBC Radio 1 (when it was worth listening to) and they premiered Paranoid Android. To this day I could swear that I didn't breathe for the six or so minutes. I couldn't compute what I had just heard/witnessed. It's the closest that I've come to experiencing what it must have been like to live in 1967 and hearing Sgt Peppers for the first time. On a side note, I hope this is the first of many Radiohead deep dives!
I love this song. I got this album when it came out, I was 17 and It was one of the first songs I fully worked out by ear. I played the beginning section in the first position on guitar compared to how Thom plays it further up the neck. My way was so much harder to play and inefficient, even though note perfect. I felt pretty silly many years later when I realised how much easier it could be to play, but am still strangely proud of my obfuscated version
It was years I waited for someone to do a such in depth analysis of this song. I ve spent so much time arranging it in more than one style and so I’m happy to see I’m not the only one so obsessed with Paranoid Android. Love the fact that you gave the church section so much time, it is often overlooked while it has some of the most interesting cadences of the entire album. Looking forward watching more of your content!! :)
Incredible content please keep it up cannot wait for Let Down because that is one of the 5 greatest songs ever made even if it's pretty simple harmonically
It's amazing how you can show me things about music I've listened to thousands of times. The way you highlight the underlying prettiness of Jonny's solos was mindblowing. You make me want to learn piano!
The first time I heard this song I said to my friend angrily “They blown it”. About a week later I liked it, a month later I loved it, and now I think it’s probably the best song ever written.
Lol. It's interesting to know there was a guy who had that initial reaction. I was 12 and saw the video on MTV. The rain down part blew my mind - until then I thought a Babyface ballad was as powerful as music could get.
Radiohead are not my favorite band by a long shot, but I enjoy them. However the first time I heard Paranoid Android, I was f-Ing floored. My roommate in college was blasting it, and I wanted to hate it so bad, but holy shih tzus this song was such an ever changing mood. Interesting, textural, great rhythms and time signature changes. Oh god, to hear it again for the first time! I can’t even imagine hearing it and being like … “meh.”
I always thought this was Radiohead’s attempt to make a song that is impossible to cover. Almost too complicated to fully enjoy or appreciate. Kinda beautiful and playful with touches of ugly, haunting and tragic. Which eerily mimics life. Only they could depict such a roller coaster of emotions all in one song and somehow make it work. Well done, Ixi. So talented and eloquent! No one can break down a song like you. 💜
21:09 when you played that chord for a second I was transported to the In This Twilight breakdown, sounds exactly like one of the chords in the chorus for that song
Ah the 90s, when this song can be the lead single from a major label album. I liked Radiohead at this time, but owned nothing of theirs, just enjoyed when their videos came on. Paranoid Android entranced me and I couldn't shake the feeling. Bought OK Computer and was just mesmerized. I saw them on that tour in Chicago and it was an amazing show. Thanks for this breakdown, really shows how much damn thought and care they put into their songs. Really great stuff, thanks ixi.
Love Radiohead, love this song, love your content. I was in punk bands my music scope was punk, ska and punk/ska.. then I heard Radiohead, and my life changed in a single moment.
At one point during the last solo you said “sounds like a film score” and now Jonny is writing film scores. Even back then (and I’d dear say from birth) he just had that sound. It’s so beautiful and fucked up like the human condition. I love that about Radiohead. It’s that dichotomy of the beautiful and ugly, dark and light, soft and hard that we all experience through out our experience.
As an avid music fan, as well as an avid Radiohead fan with limited musical knowledge, I found this fascinating. You're immensely talented, too. Thanks for your video. Much love from England
Your videos are amazing. As someone who loves music and especially Radiohead that makes music but has no idea about music theory I feel like your videos are so open and fun yet informative and I thank you so much for your passion and care for the craft!!! It goes a long way!!
my wife and I recently discovered your channel and your music taste is EXTREMELY similar to my wife's so we are really enjoying it all. anyway you are a queen and this is a great and funny video have a nice day
Always a pleasure watching you talk about Radiohead. As someone who obsessed about this album when it came out and learned every guitar part and almost every keyboard part, that chromatic transition from the 7/8 section with the killer bass line to the piggy part, I always played as C-B-Bb-Ab-and landing on A.. that's how I always heard it. But I think if any of them are actually playing it, Thom might be the only one on his acoustic guitar
Came here by mistake. Captivated I stayed. Never would I normally watch a 40+ min breakdown video about anything. Thank you so much (even though a fair chunk went over my head) just brilliant content and presentation.
yay amazing videos ixi! i love that swirly guitar tone jonny has too and i'm pretty sure it's achieved through a phaser pedal with a slow rate, so it goes: tele > EH small stone phaser pedal > vox ac30 amp (atleast that's the main gear used i think)
Your music perception is out of this world. Thanks for illuminating us mere mortals! All I can say: This music sounds super wild, and super awesome throughout. Deeply enjoyable. And really really unusual everywhere. Maybe the kind future generations will be listening to after a few centuries like how we listen to Vivaldi, Bach today.
Thank you for this wonderful walkthrough. I’ve waited 25 years for someone to do this - but the buzz has never dissipated in all that time. I get the same joy from Jonny’s chromatics at the end of Just. Would love to hear your analysis of that (though will check if you haven’t already!)
Fantastic video. As someone who plays but is clueless about musical theory, this gives explanation to why this song hooked me and dragged me under 30 years ago.
The upper harmony is glorious! Thank you for the video❤
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thanks for making this video! Paranoid Android has been one of my favorite songs for over 2 decades but I never quite knew how genius of a composition it was until now. And I love how you made the 3 personas 😆very nice touch!
Love this channel. This is such an enjoyable breakdown. I remember buying this album just because of this song. It blew me away. I taught other boys at school how to play it on guitar. The “church” section was the DRAW for me. Pulls you in. Always reminded me of the middle-8 from Flash by Queen actually Masterpiece is thrown around alot in modern culture but if someone called this a masterpiece you wouldn’t really argue with it Oh and I like the “raucous” sections btw 😉
I loved the way you broke down my first favorite song by Radio head and you have a beautiful singing voice as well thankyou it was great fun watching this video ❤
WOW! I remember staying up late to watch the world premier of the music video for this song on channel 4. I've just stayed up until 4am to watch your analysis. This song still amazes me.
Youre videos are so well researched, and comprehensive. Also the different lipstick colors really help find the parts Im looking for when scrolling through the video haha. Cant wait for your analysis of climbing up the walls, no surprises, and the tourist
Ixi, I can't thank you enough for showing us the notes so that I could pick up my guitar and follow along. Whatever software add-on that gives you your keyboard on the screen is super helpful and adds a bunch to the videos.
I love this video (and I love Milo).... I have probably learned more in the --4hrs?-- I've watched of your TH-cam videos than I have in the 2 decades I played an instrument. Thank you, and I look forward to many more!
Great analysis! Honestly, that last rowdy part analysis, when you start harmonizing over Jonny's solo notes just gave me the chills. Kinda like listening to some deeper, more raw version of the song's core (also, it could be one of Trent's haunting piano melodies). Anyway, thanks again, hope you continue with the whole album.
This is the first of your videos I've ever seen. I experienced a lot of positive emotions watching it. I like you a lot and your analysis is amazing. Sufficiently accessible for non musicians but also with enough theory thrown in. You have a new subscriber 🙌
This channel is amazing, this person has the exact same music taste as me but can articulate things technically in a way I could never do, it really adds a new dimension and I really appreciate it. Subscribe people, come on!
I like how you described Johnny's guitar playing in the beginning. I was listening to this a long time ago and falling asleep and went into a dream like (maybe hallucinatory?) state and its hard to describe what I saw but I can still see it. The best I can do is it was shimmery, cascade-like, and beautiful colors and this colorful thing was sort of falling down slowly. Kind of spilling but not really.
Awesome analysis of one of my favourite songs ever. I loved the parts on Johnny’s solos as I knew the so well from playing them, but just as patterns on the guitar, not really musically. They work as patterns on the fretboard under your fingers, esp the Maj7/maj7/octave one which is just repeating the pattern one string lower each time, so it seems obvious on a guitar in a way that it really wasn’t musically when I see your compositional analysis. Just when you think you know a piece because you can play it, it can apparently still be blown wide open!
When I hear Paranoid Android I can't help but feel it is my personal favorite/most iconic song of my life. Then I remember...there's also Airbag. Wow, what an album.
Love your analysis and flowing presentation and without all the gizmos Mr Beato is using, just your voice, piano AND your hands, love your hand movements!
Something that I think is often missed in musical analysis, is how much the physicality of an instrument influences the music that people make with it. Something that you might not realize as a pianist is just how much fretted, stringed instruments lead you to chromaticism. Just like C-major is the most likely scale for someone to play notes out of on their first time sitting in front of one (I certainly assumed that the black notes were there for special occasions only when I first saw a piano), the chromatic scale is the obvious one on fretted instruments. Obviously a skilled played can play whatever their instrument is capable of, but some things are unusually difficult or super easy and that has an effect on what ends up being actually played. As a pianist, what with the two types of keys, it may not be obvious that chromaticism is a comfortable thing to fall into on guitar. I'm an on-and-off amateur bassist, and when I learned this bass line, Colin's chromatic bass parts were so physically satisfying to play regardless of how they sound! In that little F Gb Bb B C lick, one way you might play it in standard tuning is 3rd fret, 4th fret on the D (3rd lowest) string, then 1st, 2nd, 3rd fret on the A (2nd lowest string) (though, if I recall, I ended up playing it higher on the neck). So you're playing frets 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 only separated by one string which I find immensely satisfying and I suspect played a part in why those notes came to be. An equivalent run on the piano might be something like C# D# C D E. I've seen you call out that you're not a guitar player a few times in your videos. I think that's really cool, and something that not enough TH-camr types do, since it highlights where your expertise lies which is what made me think of this, so thanks for that! :) Anyways... long comment for such a short section of the video, but I thought the idea was interesting. :)
I just found your channel today. Eventually, I’ll watch videos that aren’t breakdown of Radiohead songs, but probably not for a while. Can’t wait to see what you do with The Smile. (Ahem… Teleharmonic)
i first heard the song when i was 16 during that summer as it was like "what the fuck is this and how did they get from "creep" to this?" it is my 2nd favorite album of all-time (behind the stone roses' first album) as i was reading all of these reviews from the magazines i was reading at the time including some local magazines. when i finally heard it in full. it was like unlike anything that was happening at the time. i heard the song was partially inspired by the beatles' "happiness is a warm gun" due to its time signatures and tempo changes.
It's always interesting to see guitar parts like this on piano because so much of guitar, at least rhythm or chord based playing, is that all the notes have to be, or at least tend to be in a certain proximity. You can't stretch out like you can on the piano at times (I guess that's where three guitars come in!). I think it's the reason (my guess) that those higher notes tend to be "sticky" (like you mention at 11:30) while the lower bass notes of the guitar are positioned around the anchor of those two other notes. If that makes sense. On the fret board you need two fingers on those two high notes then you swing another finger around on the bass notes. Some open strings are used if I recall, that's usually a way to get around finger positioning. But again, that's a limit you don't really have on a keyboard. I wonder when you play guitar parts like this if you can feel those constraints?
I'm really interested in how the instrument informs the composition as well. I do things like that section at 11:30 on the piano too; in my experience it happens naturally to keep something common (as you said, an anchor) and move a note or two up and down, like exploring the space around your hand and seeing if it sounds good. Sometimes it's really easy to play guitar parts on the piano, meanwhile on the guitar it was some really tricky fingering, but sometimes it's difficult to replicate. Like rhythm guitar parts can be hard, or certain arpeggios (Weird Fishes is exhausting!).
@@iximusic Thank you for dissecting Radiohead pieces in this manner. It proves what genius musicians they really are. It also shows how much better the band is compared to their contemporaries, including Muse and Coldplay, who fail miserably as musicians in comparison.
Some Radiohead songs make me automatically count along with the beat, and what a pleasure it is to feel a bit off kilter. The 7 in Paranoid Android, the 5 in Morning Bell, and the glorious 10 in Everything In Its Right Place.
It's interesting that early versions of paranoid android transitioned from the churchy mid-section back into the chorus of the 1st section. That version was great too! th-cam.com/video/BNZ2pauQezc/w-d-xo.html
wowww was that cool or what. Hearing the differences and how it evolved. Thanks for linking this!
they were front act for alanis morissette when they played the earlier version of paranoid android live (before ok computer was released)... one hell of a rockstar moment for alanis, i bet, and foo fighters taylor hawkins was her drummer at that time too
@@iximusic no problem!
This girl's fantastic.
i want to personally thank that lady for spilling her drink and making thom upset
This is my favorite 3 song songs ever.
lol!
Lmaooo
Concur 😊
i didnt get it at first😭
😅three songs, heavy syncopated tritone use, flat 3rdminor 9th. Three songs to free ur musical neurocognizance.
The vibrato control when Thom sings "What's that?" is *_So. F*!@ing. Beautiful._*
I mean the whole song is incredible but still...
Also have been singing "what's there" my entire life. Sticking with it.
excellent.
I’ve been singing “what’s this?” Feels right.
I notice that a lot of singers pick interesting pronunciations to maybe sing it better or more comfortably. May just be a British thing here though idk lol
I feel like this channel is seriously underrated
Jonny plays through a Small Stone Phase Shifter in the first section…that’s how the swirling watery effect is achieved.
But my favourite of Jonny’s contributions is the lead guitar at the end, where he processed the signal (twice) with a Mutronics Mutator. It’s more of an electronic music/DJ tool but it produces one of the most inspired and original guitar sounds I’ve ever heard. Just awesome.
Absolutely love his use of the Mutator. I wish he'd used it more. I think the only other tracks I can remember him using it on were B-sides like Palo Alto and maybe Pearly? Although they did use it on the drums on Airbag I think as well.
@@matthewsaul3533 He may have used it on those b-sides you mentioned...it would make sense, because those are both OK Computer era tracks and that is the period he obtained it and used it most. Subterranean Homesick Alien is definitely another example. To his credit, Jonny never overused it and to my knowledge he never played through it again post 2000. He didn't bother bringing it on tour either...it does seem to be more of a studio tool. I think he uses some type of envelope follower stomp box for Paranoid Android, which unfortunately will never sound quite the same.
@@monsieurmitosis I’m definitely certain he used it on Palo Alto. Nothing else would’ve gotten that sound. Not sure about pearly though. Doesn’t really sound like it but I don’t know how else he would’ve made his guitar make those sounds on pearly lol oh interesting, did he use it on subterranean homesick alien? I’ll have to listen again. Where does he use it? Oh, is it during that “I’ll tell all my friends but they’ll never believe me” part?
Yeah I agree. It’s awesome that he didn’t over use it. And unfortunately I agree that the filter pedal he uses live really doesn’t come close.. but honestly for 90% of listeners or more I don’t think they’d know the difference so I don’t blame him at all
About Jonny's magical guitar tone, more or less it looks like that :
EHX Small Stone V2 > Demeter (for tremolo) > whammy > DOD440 env filter > and the famous Roland RE-201 space echo ... and the magic happens
And by the way thank you so much for your musical analysis. Such a great job !
There are moments in life that are so pivotal, that they always feel so vivid. I remember sitting at my mother's dining table, listening to BBC Radio 1 (when it was worth listening to) and they premiered Paranoid Android. To this day I could swear that I didn't breathe for the six or so minutes. I couldn't compute what I had just heard/witnessed. It's the closest that I've come to experiencing what it must have been like to live in 1967 and hearing Sgt Peppers for the first time.
On a side note, I hope this is the first of many Radiohead deep dives!
I love this song. I got this album when it came out, I was 17 and It was one of the first songs I fully worked out by ear. I played the beginning section in the first position on guitar compared to how Thom plays it further up the neck. My way was so much harder to play and inefficient, even though note perfect. I felt pretty silly many years later when I realised how much easier it could be to play, but am still strangely proud of my obfuscated version
It was years I waited for someone to do a such in depth analysis of this song. I ve spent so much time arranging it in more than one style and so I’m happy to see I’m not the only one so obsessed with Paranoid Android. Love the fact that you gave the church section so much time, it is often overlooked while it has some of the most interesting cadences of the entire album. Looking forward watching more of your content!! :)
Incredible content please keep it up cannot wait for Let Down because that is one of the 5 greatest songs ever made even if it's pretty simple harmonically
It's amazing how you can show me things about music I've listened to thousands of times. The way you highlight the underlying prettiness of Jonny's solos was mindblowing. You make me want to learn piano!
The first time I heard this song I said to my friend angrily “They blown it”. About a week later I liked it, a month later I loved it, and now I think it’s probably the best song ever written.
Lol. It's interesting to know there was a guy who had that initial reaction. I was 12 and saw the video on MTV. The rain down part blew my mind - until then I thought a Babyface ballad was as powerful as music could get.
Radiohead are not my favorite band by a long shot, but I enjoy them. However the first time I heard Paranoid Android, I was f-Ing floored. My roommate in college was blasting it, and I wanted to hate it so bad, but holy shih tzus this song was such an ever changing mood. Interesting, textural, great rhythms and time signature changes. Oh god, to hear it again for the first time! I can’t even imagine hearing it and being like … “meh.”
What a brilliant way to showcase the sections with the outfit/makeup changes. You're a great storyteller of storytellers!
your analysis is so fucking perfect and your edits are hilarious, especially going from psychedelic to rowdy 😂
Please more Radiohead videos... yeah. It's so satisfying listening to you interpreting them! Thank you!
I always thought this was Radiohead’s attempt to make a song that is impossible to cover. Almost too complicated to fully enjoy or appreciate. Kinda beautiful and playful with touches of ugly, haunting and tragic. Which eerily mimics life. Only they could depict such a roller coaster of emotions all in one song and somehow make it work.
Well done, Ixi. So talented and eloquent! No one can break down a song like you. 💜
YESSS, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS THANK YOU IXI
21:09 when you played that chord for a second I was transported to the In This Twilight breakdown, sounds exactly like one of the chords in the chorus for that song
Thanks!
thank you so much!
Ah the 90s, when this song can be the lead single from a major label album. I liked Radiohead at this time, but owned nothing of theirs, just enjoyed when their videos came on. Paranoid Android entranced me and I couldn't shake the feeling. Bought OK Computer and was just mesmerized. I saw them on that tour in Chicago and it was an amazing show. Thanks for this breakdown, really shows how much damn thought and care they put into their songs. Really great stuff, thanks ixi.
This was easily the most enjoyable 49 minutes I’ve spent on youtube
Love Radiohead, love this song, love your content. I was in punk bands my music scope was punk, ska and punk/ska.. then I heard Radiohead, and my life changed in a single moment.
At one point during the last solo you said “sounds like a film score” and now Jonny is writing film scores. Even back then (and I’d dear say from birth) he just had that sound. It’s so beautiful and fucked up like the human condition. I love that about Radiohead. It’s that dichotomy of the beautiful and ugly, dark and light, soft and hard that we all experience through out our experience.
As an avid music fan, as well as an avid Radiohead fan with limited musical knowledge, I found this fascinating.
You're immensely talented, too.
Thanks for your video. Much love from England
Fantastic break down. Love what you do. The bit around 45:20 with Johnny's solo reminds me a lot of Tori Amos for whatever reason.
Every time I see an in-depth analysis of Radiohead, my admiration for them only deepens. This is one of the best!
i love that you are still discovering while showing us what you already found.
I could listen to your Radiohead ramblings for ever. Can't wait till you get round to doing Let Down.
Your videos are amazing. As someone who loves music and especially Radiohead that makes music but has no idea about music theory I feel like your videos are so open and fun yet informative and I thank you so much for your passion and care for the craft!!! It goes a long way!!
my wife and I recently discovered your channel and your music taste is EXTREMELY similar to my wife's so we are really enjoying it all. anyway you are a queen and this is a great and funny video have a nice day
My fave Radiohead song since I was a kid. Thank you for this.
“what’s that” part is so genius with the root tones and stuff it makes me want to explode
00:30 you're a very smart cookie 🤣🤣Loving your editing, and I'm happy I found you!
38:42 that was just awesome. Thanks for being so transparent about rethinking a thing while filming.
Hee Hee, more wonderful music analysis to throw on while I get some work done. Tysm!
Nothing else in the world was able to breake my heart in more pieces than the rain down part.
Always a pleasure watching you talk about Radiohead. As someone who obsessed about this album when it came out and learned every guitar part and almost every keyboard part, that chromatic transition from the 7/8 section with the killer bass line to the piggy part, I always played as C-B-Bb-Ab-and landing on A.. that's how I always heard it. But I think if any of them are actually playing it, Thom might be the only one on his acoustic guitar
Came here by mistake. Captivated I stayed. Never would I normally watch a 40+ min breakdown video about anything.
Thank you so much (even though a fair chunk went over my head) just brilliant content and presentation.
yay amazing videos ixi! i love that swirly guitar tone jonny has too and i'm pretty sure it's achieved through a phaser pedal with a slow rate, so it goes: tele > EH small stone phaser pedal > vox ac30 amp (atleast that's the main gear used i think)
Your music perception is out of this world. Thanks for illuminating us mere mortals!
All I can say: This music sounds super wild, and super awesome throughout. Deeply enjoyable. And really really unusual everywhere.
Maybe the kind future generations will be listening to after a few centuries like how we listen to Vivaldi, Bach today.
this lipstick looks really good on you btw!❤
Looking forward to the rest of this album being stripped down, great job!
Thank you for this wonderful walkthrough. I’ve waited 25 years for someone to do this - but the buzz has never dissipated in all that time. I get the same joy from Jonny’s chromatics at the end of Just. Would love to hear your analysis of that (though will check if you haven’t already!)
Thanks! No haven't done Just...yet. It's a doozy!
Smashed it. Great job! Did you noticed that Thom actually says ‘boop’ on the fourth click of the opening metronome!?
ha what? No I didn't!
Is that actually true? I’ve heard that but I didn’t realize it was Thom, if you’re right.
For a moment there at 24:30, I heard similar voicing and chords from Everything in its Right Place. Another great breakdown!
that melody in the middle part of the song almost reminds me of intro to Prodigy-Breathe
Fantastic video. As someone who plays but is clueless about musical theory, this gives explanation to why this song hooked me and dragged me under 30 years ago.
I love that you have costume for the video on top of how good it already was
The upper harmony is glorious! Thank you for the video❤
thanks for making this video! Paranoid Android has been one of my favorite songs for over 2 decades but I never quite knew how genius of a composition it was until now. And I love how you made the 3 personas 😆very nice touch!
One of my very favourite songs, awesome video, thank you!
Love this channel. This is such an enjoyable breakdown.
I remember buying this album just because of this song. It blew me away. I taught other boys at school how to play it on guitar.
The “church” section was the DRAW for me. Pulls you in.
Always reminded me of the middle-8 from Flash by Queen actually
Masterpiece is thrown around alot in modern culture but if someone called this a masterpiece you wouldn’t really argue with it
Oh and I like the “raucous” sections btw 😉
I'm loving this series. That was an epic breakdown!
i'm pretty obsessed with this song since i listened it for the first time.
so, it's REALLY satisfying see a great analysis like this, i love it.😸❤️
I loved the way you broke down my first favorite song by Radio head and you have a beautiful singing voice as well thankyou it was great fun watching this video ❤
WOW! I remember staying up late to watch the world premier of the music video for this song on channel 4. I've just stayed up until 4am to watch your analysis. This song still amazes me.
Thanks for this breakdown, Ixi! Your analysis videos are the perfect background soundtrack for half-naps.
Youre videos are so well researched, and comprehensive. Also the different lipstick colors really help find the parts Im looking for when scrolling through the video haha. Cant wait for your analysis of climbing up the walls, no surprises, and the tourist
You have a great voice, great analysis of such a beautiful song
Been binge watching all your videos. What an amazing channel, and what an inspired, joyful person you are. Thanks for sharing your passion!
Good things come to those that wait. Thanks for this one. Fantastic!
Ixi, I can't thank you enough for showing us the notes so that I could pick up my guitar and follow along. Whatever software add-on that gives you your keyboard on the screen is super helpful and adds a bunch to the videos.
I love this video (and I love Milo).... I have probably learned more in the --4hrs?-- I've watched of your TH-cam videos than I have in the 2 decades I played an instrument. Thank you, and I look forward to many more!
Some videos you just have to like before you even watch.
no way ixi finally did it
Great analysis! Honestly, that last rowdy part analysis, when you start harmonizing over Jonny's solo notes just gave me the chills. Kinda like listening to some deeper, more raw version of the song's core (also, it could be one of Trent's haunting piano melodies). Anyway, thanks again, hope you continue with the whole album.
Your voice is so gorgeous, I can't wait to hear your original stuff with it
oh how i love this already!
Watched a good handful of your vids now,
You’ve earned my sub.
Wonderful breakdowns.
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This is the first of your videos I've ever seen. I experienced a lot of positive emotions watching it. I like you a lot and your analysis is amazing. Sufficiently accessible for non musicians but also with enough theory thrown in. You have a new subscriber 🙌
This channel is amazing, this person has the exact same music taste as me but can articulate things technically in a way I could never do, it really adds a new dimension and I really appreciate it. Subscribe people, come on!
So I knew this guy who wrote for AMG and your reviews and analysis of music are so pro.
I like how you described Johnny's guitar playing in the beginning. I was listening to this a long time ago and falling asleep and went into a dream like (maybe hallucinatory?) state and its hard to describe what I saw but I can still see it. The best I can do is it was shimmery, cascade-like, and beautiful colors and this colorful thing was sort of falling down slowly. Kind of spilling but not really.
Was looking forward to this one, and it delivers. Thank you.
Awesome analysis of one of my favourite songs ever. I loved the parts on Johnny’s solos as I knew the so well from playing them, but just as patterns on the guitar, not really musically. They work as patterns on the fretboard under your fingers, esp the Maj7/maj7/octave one which is just repeating the pattern one string lower each time, so it seems obvious on a guitar in a way that it really wasn’t musically when I see your compositional analysis. Just when you think you know a piece because you can play it, it can apparently still be blown wide open!
omg yeah love the 90s mode mixture in the flat 6 7 major 1, reminiscent of everything u were talking about in the Teardrop video as well
Working on this tune with a band currently and this deep dive is so helpful! Thanks! Eagerly awaiting the next track.
When I hear Paranoid Android I can't help but feel it is my personal favorite/most iconic song of my life. Then I remember...there's also Airbag. Wow, what an album.
Love your analysis and flowing presentation and without all the gizmos Mr Beato is using, just your voice, piano AND your hands, love your hand movements!
Thank you for tackling one of my favorites, ixi! :)
This song has been stuck in my head for the past 3 days, i got goosebumps when i saw the thumbnail.
I love this. Amazing musical and emotional review that few can explain. Love it!
Interesting observation about the vocal section being like a stand-in for strings. Now I'm betting Jonny arranged this section.
Something that I think is often missed in musical analysis, is how much the physicality of an instrument influences the music that people make with it. Something that you might not realize as a pianist is just how much fretted, stringed instruments lead you to chromaticism. Just like C-major is the most likely scale for someone to play notes out of on their first time sitting in front of one (I certainly assumed that the black notes were there for special occasions only when I first saw a piano), the chromatic scale is the obvious one on fretted instruments. Obviously a skilled played can play whatever their instrument is capable of, but some things are unusually difficult or super easy and that has an effect on what ends up being actually played.
As a pianist, what with the two types of keys, it may not be obvious that chromaticism is a comfortable thing to fall into on guitar. I'm an on-and-off amateur bassist, and when I learned this bass line, Colin's chromatic bass parts were so physically satisfying to play regardless of how they sound! In that little F Gb Bb B C lick, one way you might play it in standard tuning is 3rd fret, 4th fret on the D (3rd lowest) string, then 1st, 2nd, 3rd fret on the A (2nd lowest string) (though, if I recall, I ended up playing it higher on the neck). So you're playing frets 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 only separated by one string which I find immensely satisfying and I suspect played a part in why those notes came to be. An equivalent run on the piano might be something like C# D# C D E.
I've seen you call out that you're not a guitar player a few times in your videos. I think that's really cool, and something that not enough TH-camr types do, since it highlights where your expertise lies which is what made me think of this, so thanks for that! :)
Anyways... long comment for such a short section of the video, but I thought the idea was interesting. :)
Ah you are so cool. I love the way you analyze/teach. Thank you!!
I just found your channel today. Eventually, I’ll watch videos that aren’t breakdown of Radiohead songs, but probably not for a while. Can’t wait to see what you do with The Smile. (Ahem… Teleharmonic)
The best analysis of this song ever!!!!
The 4th click at the start of the song is Thom doing it with his mouth. If you listen closely you can hear it.
"He says what's that, I always thought it was "what's there""
Me: I thought it was what's this...
I can’t wait for subterranean homesick alien that was the start of my Radiohead journey and is still probably my favourite song of theirs
i first heard the song when i was 16 during that summer as it was like "what the fuck is this and how did they get from "creep" to this?" it is my 2nd favorite album of all-time (behind the stone roses' first album) as i was reading all of these reviews from the magazines i was reading at the time including some local magazines. when i finally heard it in full. it was like unlike anything that was happening at the time. i heard the song was partially inspired by the beatles' "happiness is a warm gun" due to its time signatures and tempo changes.
It's always interesting to see guitar parts like this on piano because so much of guitar, at least rhythm or chord based playing, is that all the notes have to be, or at least tend to be in a certain proximity. You can't stretch out like you can on the piano at times (I guess that's where three guitars come in!).
I think it's the reason (my guess) that those higher notes tend to be "sticky" (like you mention at 11:30) while the lower bass notes of the guitar are positioned around the anchor of those two other notes. If that makes sense.
On the fret board you need two fingers on those two high notes then you swing another finger around on the bass notes. Some open strings are used if I recall, that's usually a way to get around finger positioning. But again, that's a limit you don't really have on a keyboard.
I wonder when you play guitar parts like this if you can feel those constraints?
I'm really interested in how the instrument informs the composition as well. I do things like that section at 11:30 on the piano too; in my experience it happens naturally to keep something common (as you said, an anchor) and move a note or two up and down, like exploring the space around your hand and seeing if it sounds good.
Sometimes it's really easy to play guitar parts on the piano, meanwhile on the guitar it was some really tricky fingering, but sometimes it's difficult to replicate. Like rhythm guitar parts can be hard, or certain arpeggios (Weird Fishes is exhausting!).
Thom plays his guitar like a piano. Some of the fingerings he uses are just insane.
@@iximusic Thank you for dissecting Radiohead pieces in this manner. It proves what genius musicians they really are. It also shows how much better the band is compared to their contemporaries, including Muse and Coldplay, who fail miserably as musicians in comparison.
Some Radiohead songs make me automatically count along with the beat, and what a pleasure it is to feel a bit off kilter. The 7 in Paranoid Android, the 5 in Morning Bell, and the glorious 10 in Everything In Its Right Place.
Loved every second of this. 🙏❤️🙌
I absolutely loved your analysis. Thank you!
also, holy shit your singing voice has improved a lot in the last year!
I did indeed love this, thank you. Milo looks gorgeous also.
So dope. Always love these breakdowns. You do them the bestest :)
Excellent breakdown!!!
Love your Radiohead stuff!!!!