Music Theory folks, please forgive me! I’m listening back to this and immediately am realizing that I misinterpreted the A section chord. It is D/Bb...but it is NOT two stacked perfect fifths...that chord would (in this case) have an F instead of an F#. Mea Culpa.
I recommend the band Lovebites and their song "Empty Daydream". I think you will like it. It's a group of 5 women and they play powermetal, but not with dark and angry attitude, they are positive and refreshingly different. One of the two lead guitarists also plays piano and composes the songs. She had an education in classical music. All musicians are very talented and should be much better known than they actually are.
I really like your recent treatise on Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". Sir, Would you like to give opinions or reactions on 'nu metal' / gothic metal group Rammstein especially their "Mein Herz Brennt" and hauntingly beautiful "Ohne Dich"?
Hey Doug, may I recommend the power/symphonic metal band "Blind Guardian" with their song "Wheel of Time". They also got many other epic songs but this one i think is quite varied, plus is is twice as cool when you like the book series. Thanks and have a nice day!
@@cluberti Think that got a bit too hyped up with the whole syncopation video and what not, pyramid song is far more intesting IMOwith it's pyramid like structure good stuff
That whole "From the Basement" live set is really amazing. They made two of them, one for "In Rainbows" and the 2nd for "King of Limbs", both with great sound quality and cool arrangements
The 'In Rainbows' set has arguably the best collection of songs, but, hey, Clive Deemer... who's going to fucking argue with Selway and Deemer together (I presume they also teamed up for my beautiful Sel-Mer amp?)? Just a shame they never got around to doing one for AMSP.
I always say this, but Radiohead is as close as my generation has come to having a band as important as The Beatles. The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A radically changed the landscape of popular music and basically heralded the "death" of rock (at least in the mainstream) and advent of electronic music. Even when they went back to traditional instruments like on this track it no longer sounded like rock, but some kind of progressive... whatever genre you'd call this. You should at least pick up OK Computer and Kid A and listen to them from beginning to end. I don't think there's been such a sea change in music since The Beatles released Rubber Soul and Revolver. As for tracks, Paranoid Android is a classic that echoes multi-sectional songs like A Day in the Life and Bohemian Rhapsody. For some of their most beautiful songs: Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, How to Disappear Completely, or Pyramid Song.
7:58 - the "WHOA!" moment. I love finding those bits in songs where the band/artist veers off into a direction that you didn't expect then to go. Radiohead is a band that provides a lot of WHOA! moments in their work. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.
Growing up in the UK, this just sounds like a British saturday morning for me. Hard to explain what I mean... The daily mail. Gives me the image of reading the newspaper on a dull, misty, grey saturday morning. Things are OK. (They aren't OK really, but nobody tells each other that.) 'How are you?' 'Yea, I'm fine, how are you?' 'Can't complain!' *That* is the feeling those opening chords give me
You HAVE to do a listen and analysis of Radiohead's track "How to Disappear Completely". It's from their fourth studio album Kid A from 2000. It's a very beautiful and at the same time haunting and conlicting piece of music with a lot of surprises as the song progresses. It also has a string section throughout that's actually very prominent in the mix.
Yes please,I totally agree. Possibly the best song they have ever done,(and they have such an amazing catalogue of songs to choose from) hauntingly beautiful, with a sprinkle of spine tingling shivers. Awesome song.
Another vote for How to Disappear Completely. Also pretty much every song on their last album, Moon Shaped Pool, has a pretty interesting string arrangement.
“you and whose army” “reckoner “codex” “knives out” “paranoid android” “sail to the moon” “burn the witch” “karma police” and definitely “suspirium” by thom yorke from what seems to get you excited i think you ll appreciate the musical ideas in those songs
@@Torthrodhel I have very similar taste too, lately i have been listening Soft Hair - Jelous Lies, Siberian Breaks - MGMT, You decided - Shintaro Sakamoto
Ah yes! I've noticed they do this so beautifully in so many of their songs! Build it all up beautifully. I was gonna give an example but I can't think of one darn song right now lol. I know they do it a lot. Couple of songs from in rainbows they do this. And I think exit music for a film! But yeah they do these build ups really really well
in 20 years radiohead is gonna be one of the bigest bands ever when people realise hopw truly great they where.i will say it,one of the greatest bands of all time
Thanks for a great reaction! So many great Radiohead songs to react to, hard to go wrong with the choices given already here. But I must say there was a SPIN magazine article a while back, asking musicians which Radiohead song was their favourite and the most common choice was All I Need from In Rainbows. But as I said so many greats. I think as a compose you'd enjoy Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army, Life In a Glasshouse, How To Disappear Completely, Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2+2=5, There There, A Wolf At The Door, 15 Step, Nude, Weird Fishes, Reckoner, Videotape, Bloom, Staircase, Spectre, Burn The Witch and Daydreaming. lol Sorry for going on an on. All the best to you.
Anything” Radiohead” pops up in my feed and I’m so glad your video greeted me this morning. :) Never too late to get (back) into Radiohead. I love watching the decomposition of their songs because it truthfully proves their genius. For composition: pyramid song, daydreaming, decks dark, bloom, motion picture soundtrack, and weird fishes (I could listen to that song 24 hours a day). Keep up the good work!
Doug, Really enjoyed your “Daily Mail” video. This is the first time I’ve ever commented on at YT video, to give you an idea. It’s hard to go wrong, but I think “How To Disappear Completely” will 1. knock your socks off and 2. provide a great content and analysis for your viewers. Cant wait. Cheers!
If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were alive today he wouldn’t be standing in front of some tight-a__ orchestra, he would be screaming down the mic in front of a band like Radiohead
My first exposure to that glorious embodiment was on the show Legion. I'm a...credibly committed Radiohead fan. BUT - that was totes unheard, at that point for me. The associative energy i now pair with the song - is sublime. Love it. Great taste, my friend.
Thanks Doug, I've never really appreciated The Daily Mail before. This video has given me a new perspective on it. My suggestion for another Radiohead reaction video is "Bloom" but the "From The Basement" version. It's quite a contrast to their studio album version. Lots of Steve Reich influences, would be keen to hear your take on it.
Fantastic to see your responses. So many suggestions: Weird Fishes_Arpeggi, In Limbo, There There, Bones, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Pyramid Song, My Iron Lung.
Doug, been loving your channel for awhile now. Always love watching your reactions and how you de-compose the music and share your insights with everyone. I must say though: as a trained classical pianist, lover of punk rock and technical death-metal - I always come back to Radiohead. They are just absolute modern music masters without question. As for further listening from these guys some I would recommend: Paranoid Android for more rock focused, Present Tense for the gorgeous groove, and of course Pyramid Song for the beautifully ethereal. But really, you can't go wrong lol. So cool you were at the Colbert taping!!
Wonderful to watch this! Radiohead is my favorite band and is so much fun to see someone break it down theory wise ... would love to see you break down videotape, pyramid song, and bloom
Thanks for doing this one! I remember watching that Colbert Show episode and especially noting this song. For one, I'd never heard it before. For another, it's a non-album track. So in fact, even though I remembered the name and actually think about it occasionally, for some reason I never searched it out to listen to again. So this may be only the second time I've heard it. Great stuff! A bit too short, actually.
No band has brought me deeper into my emotion: joy, sadness, anger, empathy, love, loss and pain....contemplation of many flavors of each emotion all induced by sound and how composition can invoke a certain feeling. There are worlds in every song. The great bands, artists and records are a product of time and interpretation but exist outside of it. Rarely do you remember where you were when you listened to “that” record, almost being taught how to listen by the act of it pulling you in. I wasn’t a fan, didn’t know them past enjoying ‘Creep’ when a friend popped in ‘Ok Computer’ into the CD player on the way to the Double Door in Chicago to see 11th Daydream. You remember, like a first kiss, a leap into that “new” experience when some piece of music teaches you how to listen just by the act of engaging with it. Each record becomes my favorite lp by tracks end. Very few bands mange to achieve this and so all the more mysterious when they do.
This song in particular is a perfect example of how context of the chords is what gives them their flavor not the chord in absolute. Some of the most hauntingly eerie chords in this whole song contextually are just D major and C major. How amazing is that?!
Your reaction and exploration is great, you looked so genuinely surprised. It's such a good tune and it's just sitting there in the wilderness in their catalogue, like if that was on OK Computer people would be covering it all the time. It's just got this meaty weightyness. It sounds like someone gearing up for a big fight with god incarnate.
I loved this. Very cool how you both showed a lot of respect for their work and made it educational. I wish I could play the piano or had the gene of any musical talent. You’re very talented and this was a cool video. New subscriber!
I love how you describe the notes and chords as "other worldly." The interesting and unexpected sound is not only a signature of this song, but, of their style as a whole.
Cool to see you finding a deep cut rather than the big hits. You should consider getting a Vidami TH-cam controller pedal , so you can stop/start/backtrack etc, without having to touch the computer, can leave your hands on your piano. Great for controlling the tubes when learning stuff too.
that's so funny, I stumbled across this video and what got me into radiohead was the colbert report performance version of this song. Wish I'd have been able to be there.
One of the greatest bands and songwriters of an entire generation imo. One of their songs that they're on record as being most proud of is "How To Disappear Completely" off Kid A. Johnny is the only one with any classical training, and he wrote some very haunting parts to it.
Love this song! Now I know the chords tooo I was always wondering why I loved it those modulations are amazing! :O also some other recommendations I love are: Present Tense Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Reckoner Pyramid Song Paranoid Android Go to Sleep Sail to the Moon Life in a Glasshouse Jigsaw Falling Into Place Daydreaming Lucky Street Spirit (Fade Out) That’s a good list to start! They have SO much good stuff
It's a shame there are so many people that have not experienced the depth of Radiohead's music yet. From big album chart-toppers to B-side basement deep cuts, so many incredible tracks and performances, they IMHO are hands down the greatest rock band since The Beatles and their music should be held to the same high regard.
Hi Doug. I just found your channel and Radiohead song. I am a fan of their music because of the simplicity and complexity at the same time and the sound conflict that you noticed. If you have the opportunity, pay attention to the song "Daydreaming" (lyric and melody of course, but most of all to what is happening in the background) from the album A Moon Shaped Pool (next to the album In Rainbows probably their best achievement). Best regards and thank you for the great time. Regards. G
Good to see you getting into the spirit of radio... head. 2112's 45th anniversary is today BTW. I can't wait for you to hear it. I watch every video and ill comment every day til you do it 😁.
My two favorite 2 bands Rush and Radiohead they have more in common then people think I love Yes too I always loved prog but even though Radiohead is not considered prog I get that vibe from it.
I wish someone could analyse Life in a Glass House from Radiohead, no one seems to pay much attention to that song and has one of the best orchestration I've heard
Dude, this is probably the coolest song I've ever seen a reaction to. I enjoyed the story about how you had to find that track you heard years ago. This one does stand out :). I end up sort of favoring the underrated songs on albums that didn't get mainstream attention generally (this is a great example). Recommendations: "Codex", "Reckoner", "How to Disappear Completely", "National Anthem" etc. Cheers.
10:27-10:36 gives me absolute chills. The harmony feels so simultaneously suspenseful but also released at the same time. It’s like the auditory embodiment of a liminal space - it just has that feel of zero gravity and pure silence or something. Like the shockwave after a bomb. That weird hush. The brass is mean there too, with the glide.
What a great story about getting to see the Colbert Report live performance in person! I would have been stoked just to see a taping of the show but to get THE show with Radiohead is like winning the lottery.
I've been a subscriber for a couple of years. I enjoy your enthusiasm for music. A lot of your comments on theory and musical mechanics go right over my head, but I can understand what notes make something sound sad or somber or powerful. Radiohead is amazing. I discovered them when I was about 60 years old. I'm a big fan now and have about 3 of their albums (2 on vinyl and one on CD). From what I understand Thom Yorke is not a classically trained Piano player & I don't know that he can read music. I think he falls into the same category as Paul McCartney. His writing and use of instruments is purely intuitive and I would say at near genius level.
I always loved this track and was so excited to see/hear it used on the TV show. Talk about a perfect choice for the sean it was used during. The use of music in that series was unlike in any other. I can just keep watching it
Yes, more Radiohead Both From the Basements are cool because sound quality is great and it’s live. 1) Jigsaw Falling Into Pieces 2) Pyramid Song 3) House of Cards
I don't know, man... That's probably our best band now, like the Beatles were back then... So, any song you do, even on their first album, apart from creep, will be interesting to all of us.
The Daily Mail, an absolutely fantastic song that deserves to be on "a real album". Feel free to check out Nude from the same Basement Tapes, it will literally take your breath away
Hi Doug, thanks a lot, it’s a pleasure to rediscover Radiohead with you! I’ll be interested in you’re point of view of a great Radiohead’s song, because of the rythme, texture and words. Weird Fishes.
I watched a live studio concert these guys gave I thought for sure the percussion parts were programmed (on the album) because they were so complex and difficult. These mf's freakin' pulled it all off live! Mind blowingly talented musicians in Radiohead.
Yes! That is such a choice to react to, have a subscribe. :) One of my top three of their tracks, the other two being Man o'War and Decks Dark. Those wouldn't be overdone choices either.
Music Theory folks, please forgive me! I’m listening back to this and immediately am realizing that I misinterpreted the A section chord. It is D/Bb...but it is NOT two stacked perfect fifths...that chord would (in this case) have an F instead of an F#. Mea Culpa.
Bbmaj7+5
great review
I recommend the band Lovebites and their song "Empty Daydream". I think you will like it.
It's a group of 5 women and they play powermetal, but not with dark and angry attitude, they are positive and refreshingly different.
One of the two lead guitarists also plays piano and composes the songs. She had an education in classical music.
All musicians are very talented and should be much better known than they actually are.
Sounds like he sings an F natural in the melody over that chord and then resolves to an F# at the top of the phrase.
I really like your recent treatise on Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". Sir, Would you like to give opinions or reactions on 'nu metal' / gothic metal group Rammstein especially their "Mein Herz Brennt" and hauntingly beautiful "Ohne Dich"?
Hey Doug,
may I recommend the power/symphonic metal band "Blind Guardian" with their song "Wheel of Time". They also got many other epic songs but this one i think is quite varied, plus is is twice as cool when you like the book series.
Thanks and have a nice day!
"I've got to start to listen to more Radiohead" - YES!
I am not even complaining
If interesting composition is the thing, do Videotape.
@@cluberti Think that got a bit too hyped up with the whole syncopation video and what not, pyramid song is far more intesting IMOwith it's pyramid like structure good stuff
Their "Pyramid Song" should also be interesting to react to on the piano
albeit a bit repetitive, perhaps...
Karma Police then
Pyramid Song ripetitive? It’s a palyndromical composition!
errr NO!
I second Pyramid Song. It’s perfect for this channel
also Sail to the Moon
That whole "From the Basement" live set is really amazing. They made two of them, one for "In Rainbows" and the 2nd for "King of Limbs", both with great sound quality and cool arrangements
The rhythm of the KOL basement set is sickenibng.
The 'In Rainbows' set has arguably the best collection of songs, but, hey, Clive Deemer... who's going to fucking argue with Selway and Deemer together (I presume they also teamed up for my beautiful Sel-Mer amp?)? Just a shame they never got around to doing one for AMSP.
My favorite maybe videos by the group.
These_2_videos_are_my_anti_depressants._Use_when_needed.
The From the Basement videos made me appreciate those albums more
"I've got to start listening to more Radiohead"
Radiohead fans: "well, yes"
I always say this, but Radiohead is as close as my generation has come to having a band as important as The Beatles. The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A radically changed the landscape of popular music and basically heralded the "death" of rock (at least in the mainstream) and advent of electronic music. Even when they went back to traditional instruments like on this track it no longer sounded like rock, but some kind of progressive... whatever genre you'd call this. You should at least pick up OK Computer and Kid A and listen to them from beginning to end. I don't think there's been such a sea change in music since The Beatles released Rubber Soul and Revolver. As for tracks, Paranoid Android is a classic that echoes multi-sectional songs like A Day in the Life and Bohemian Rhapsody. For some of their most beautiful songs: Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, How to Disappear Completely, or Pyramid Song.
100% one of the greatest bands of recent times.
I would add Subterranean Homesick Alien in there with one of their most beautiful songs
7:58 - the "WHOA!" moment. I love finding those bits in songs where the band/artist veers off into a direction that you didn't expect then to go. Radiohead is a band that provides a lot of WHOA! moments in their work. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.
Me too, such a nice treat!
Growing up in the UK, this just sounds like a British saturday morning for me.
Hard to explain what I mean...
The daily mail. Gives me the image of reading the newspaper on a dull, misty, grey saturday morning.
Things are OK. (They aren't OK really, but nobody tells each other that.)
'How are you?'
'Yea, I'm fine, how are you?'
'Can't complain!'
*That* is the feeling those opening chords give me
I get a v similar sentiment… well synopsised 👍
It can not be worse than the NY Post.
You don't want to be reading the daily mail in the first place mate
@@JG-nx3jg
'You don't want to be reading the daily mail in the first place mate'
*music starts*
You gotta have some majestic saturday evening when the brass comes in
Those guys are just geniuses. Glad to live at the same time as them. It's like living in Florence and seeing Boticelli and contemporaries.
7:49 that dissonant sound in that C-Dd-Eb progression is a C Major with an Eb at the top, crazy unique chord it really caught my attention !
You HAVE to do a listen and analysis of Radiohead's track "How to Disappear Completely". It's from their fourth studio album Kid A from 2000. It's a very beautiful and at the same time haunting and conlicting piece of music with a lot of surprises as the song progresses. It also has a string section throughout that's actually very prominent in the mix.
strongly agree.
@@vanilla_milkshake Strongly Strongly Agree
Yes please,I totally agree. Possibly the best song they have ever done,(and they have such an amazing catalogue of songs to choose from) hauntingly beautiful, with a sprinkle of spine tingling shivers. Awesome song.
came here to suggest this...
Worth watching for context - th-cam.com/video/Sk6FC7_P88g/w-d-xo.html
Radiohead is the perfect complement to all of the Metal bands you have showcased. They really are an incredible band.
They are respected in both the prog and metal community.
Another vote for How to Disappear Completely. Also pretty much every song on their last album, Moon Shaped Pool, has a pretty interesting string arrangement.
I was waiting the whole time for 7:48 to happen and the reaction was just priceless!
Same. When I first heard this song, that part blew me away. I wasn’t expecting it.
7:49 I had the exact same reaction. A true masterpiece. I'm so glad you did this song.
I mean, this song is just gorgeous. Great react
Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!
You're such good ear, still got surprised by the paths Radiohead produced there. Such good video
Clicked on this as soon as I saw it!! Oh yes, Pyramid Song, Desert Island Disk, Bloom, Glass Eyes are on the list for you, Doug. Thanks so much!
I recommend you listen to "Sail to the moon" by radiohead
probably one of radiohead's less talked about songs. one of my favorites though. really got into it as a teenager
Yesss
I agree
Omfg this song is just fantastic please
@@christopherrowley7506 Agreed. And also deceivingly complex even though it sounds simple.
“you and whose army”
“reckoner
“codex”
“knives out”
“paranoid android”
“sail to the moon”
“burn the witch”
“karma police”
and definitely “suspirium” by thom yorke
from what seems to get you excited i think you ll appreciate the musical ideas in those songs
@@georgebrearley8944
what have you been listening to lately?
Don't see enough love for Burn the Witch. Nice choice.
@@Torthrodhel I have very similar taste too, lately i have been listening Soft Hair - Jelous Lies, Siberian Breaks - MGMT, You decided - Shintaro Sakamoto
@@marcosaugustoelguetasalas138 I haven't heard any of those before, so that's good recommending, thanks! :)
Radiohead are masters of crescendo.
Ah yes! I've noticed they do this so beautifully in so many of their songs! Build it all up beautifully. I was gonna give an example but I can't think of one darn song right now lol. I know they do it a lot. Couple of songs from in rainbows they do this. And I think exit music for a film!
But yeah they do these build ups really really well
in 20 years radiohead is gonna be one of the bigest bands ever when people realise hopw truly great they where.i will say it,one of the greatest bands of all time
Thanks for a great reaction! So many great Radiohead songs to react to, hard to go wrong with the choices given already here. But I must say there was a SPIN magazine article a while back, asking musicians which Radiohead song was their favourite and the most common choice was All I Need from In Rainbows. But as I said so many greats. I think as a compose you'd enjoy Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army, Life In a Glasshouse, How To Disappear Completely, Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2+2=5, There There, A Wolf At The Door, 15 Step, Nude, Weird Fishes, Reckoner, Videotape, Bloom, Staircase, Spectre, Burn The Witch and Daydreaming. lol Sorry for going on an on. All the best to you.
At the Colbert Report AND watching Radiohead, you were living my dream
hahaha was waiting for 7:47, did not disappoint.
The seamless way doug's keys fit the song is 'pretty cool'. Talented fella, and good vids. Keep it going.
Thank you my bro. That C thing at the 13:00 part of your explanation totally fell into mental line for me. Sonically love it.
Anything” Radiohead” pops up in my feed and I’m so glad your video greeted me this morning. :) Never too late to get (back) into Radiohead. I love watching the decomposition of their songs because it truthfully proves their genius. For composition: pyramid song, daydreaming, decks dark, bloom, motion picture soundtrack, and weird fishes (I could listen to that song 24 hours a day). Keep up the good work!
seldomly seen such a fascinating analysis of anything! Chaw is open! Congrats!
Doug, Really enjoyed your “Daily Mail” video. This is the first time I’ve ever commented on at YT video, to give you an idea. It’s hard to go wrong, but I think “How To Disappear Completely” will 1. knock your socks off and 2. provide a great content and analysis for your viewers. Cant wait. Cheers!
If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were alive today he wouldn’t be standing in front of some tight-a__ orchestra, he would be screaming down the mic in front of a band like Radiohead
And laughing crazily
Radiohead IS BRILLIANCE👏❤️
Damn right!
Moar Radiohead! :). Anything from the from the basement sets. Get to watch the band, and great sound quality.
Love your musical analysis btw.
My first exposure to that glorious embodiment was on the show Legion.
I'm a...credibly committed Radiohead fan.
BUT - that was totes unheard, at that point for me. The associative energy i now pair with the song - is sublime.
Love it. Great taste, my friend.
Thanks Doug, I've never really appreciated The Daily Mail before. This video has given me a new perspective on it.
My suggestion for another Radiohead reaction video is "Bloom" but the "From The Basement" version. It's quite a contrast to their studio album version. Lots of Steve Reich influences, would be keen to hear your take on it.
Fantastic to see your responses. So many suggestions: Weird Fishes_Arpeggi, In Limbo, There There, Bones, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Pyramid Song, My Iron Lung.
Doug, been loving your channel for awhile now. Always love watching your reactions and how you de-compose the music and share your insights with everyone. I must say though: as a trained classical pianist, lover of punk rock and technical death-metal - I always come back to Radiohead. They are just absolute modern music masters without question.
As for further listening from these guys some I would recommend: Paranoid Android for more rock focused, Present Tense for the gorgeous groove, and of course Pyramid Song for the beautifully ethereal. But really, you can't go wrong lol. So cool you were at the Colbert taping!!
Wonderful to watch this! Radiohead is my favorite band and is so much fun to see someone break it down theory wise ... would love to see you break down videotape, pyramid song, and bloom
The thing about videotape is that it is syncopated ... 🙂
Thanks for doing this one! I remember watching that Colbert Show episode and especially noting this song. For one, I'd never heard it before. For another, it's a non-album track. So in fact, even though I remembered the name and actually think about it occasionally, for some reason I never searched it out to listen to again. So this may be only the second time I've heard it. Great stuff! A bit too short, actually.
No band has brought me deeper into my emotion: joy, sadness, anger, empathy, love, loss and pain....contemplation of many flavors of each emotion all induced by sound and how composition can invoke a certain feeling. There are worlds in every song. The great bands, artists and records are a product of time and interpretation but exist outside of it. Rarely do you remember where you were when you listened to “that” record, almost being taught how to listen by the act of it pulling you in. I wasn’t a fan, didn’t know them past enjoying ‘Creep’ when a friend popped in ‘Ok Computer’ into the CD player on the way to the Double Door in Chicago to see 11th Daydream. You remember, like a first kiss, a leap into that “new” experience when some piece of music teaches you how to listen just by the act of engaging with it. Each record becomes my favorite lp by tracks end. Very few bands mange to achieve this and so all the more mysterious when they do.
Oh man! I was at that Colbert taping! It was so cool and intimate. Such a great little space in the TV studio and they played so well.
great analysis! and glad you discerned the meaning too.
I love your enthusiasm man. Makes me happier listening to this track! Didn't think that was possible!
This song in particular is a perfect example of how context of the chords is what gives them their flavor not the chord in absolute. Some of the most hauntingly eerie chords in this whole song contextually are just D major and C major. How amazing is that?!
Your reaction and exploration is great, you looked so genuinely surprised. It's such a good tune and it's just sitting there in the wilderness in their catalogue, like if that was on OK Computer people would be covering it all the time. It's just got this meaty weightyness. It sounds like someone gearing up for a big fight with god incarnate.
This is imo probably the best song from Radiohead. Or maybe the best song of all time ever. I could listen to it the entire day.. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this and the little demonstrations on the piano. I think "daydreaming" would be a good reaction/analysis. Either way, I subscribed!
Finally some Radiohead , and In The Basement to make it even more eargasmic. Great.
I loved this. Very cool how you both showed a lot of respect for their work and made it educational. I wish I could play the piano or had the gene of any musical talent. You’re very talented and this was a cool video. New subscriber!
I love how you describe the notes and chords as "other worldly." The interesting and unexpected sound is not only a signature of this song, but, of their style as a whole.
Cool to see you finding a deep cut rather than the big hits. You should consider getting a Vidami TH-cam controller pedal , so you can stop/start/backtrack etc, without having to touch the computer, can leave your hands on your piano. Great for controlling the tubes when learning stuff too.
I didn't know that was a thing. Thanks...I'll look into it.
Fantastic! this and the Yngwie reaction were awesome, thank you
that's so funny, I stumbled across this video and what got me into radiohead was the colbert report performance version of this song. Wish I'd have been able to be there.
love that you play it back. .. super dope. thanks
One of the greatest bands and songwriters of an entire generation imo. One of their songs that they're on record as being most proud of is "How To Disappear Completely" off Kid A. Johnny is the only one with any classical training, and he wrote some very haunting parts to it.
It was so cool watching you talk me through it, keep it up 🤙🏻
Ah man, this was so much fun to watch. Thank you!!
Glad to have found your channel!
Happy you are here!
Pyramid Song, How to disappear completely, Weird Fishes next pleaseeeee
Love this song! Now I know the chords tooo I was always wondering why I loved it those modulations are amazing! :O also some other recommendations I love are:
Present Tense
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Reckoner
Pyramid Song
Paranoid Android
Go to Sleep
Sail to the Moon
Life in a Glasshouse
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Daydreaming
Lucky
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
That’s a good list to start! They have SO much good stuff
Too cool!! Great breakdown!
Oh man the introduction of you playing the piano is just so cool. Love this content. I need a piano😩
Wow. Your videos are great!! Thanks so much.
Awesome breakdown. True love waits from a moon shaped pool would be a great one. Really cool rhythm ideas.
Very cool reaction, comments and analyse !! You should try "Decks dark", "A wolf at the door" or even "the amazing sound of orgy" !
It's a shame there are so many people that have not experienced the depth of Radiohead's music yet. From big album chart-toppers to B-side basement deep cuts, so many incredible tracks and performances, they IMHO are hands down the greatest rock band since The Beatles and their music should be held to the same high regard.
People only know Creep, that's the real tragedy
I think they surpassed the Beatles a long long time ago
Gotta go with the “Pyramid Song” as my favorite Radio head song.. love your analysis!
Hi Doug. I just found your channel and Radiohead song. I am a fan of their music because of the simplicity and complexity at the same time and the sound conflict that you noticed. If you have the opportunity, pay attention to the song "Daydreaming" (lyric and melody of course, but most of all to what is happening in the background) from the album A Moon Shaped Pool (next to the album In Rainbows probably their best achievement). Best regards and thank you for the great time. Regards. G
Good to see you getting into the spirit of radio... head.
2112's 45th anniversary is today BTW. I can't wait for you to hear it. I watch every video and ill comment every day til you do it 😁.
My two favorite 2 bands Rush and Radiohead they have more in common then people think I love Yes too I always loved prog but even though Radiohead is not considered prog I get that vibe from it.
I wish someone could analyse Life in a Glass House from Radiohead, no one seems to pay much attention to that song and has one of the best orchestration I've heard
I know how brilliant that song is because it was in Peaky Blinders.
Everything in it's Right Place would be nice to see :)
I'm here for all of it! Great ones to analyze though would be Paranoid Android, Pyramid Song, How to Disappear Completely, and The Numbers!
Dude, this is probably the coolest song I've ever seen a reaction to. I enjoyed the story about how you had to find that track you heard years ago. This one does stand out :). I end up sort of favoring the underrated songs on albums that didn't get mainstream attention generally (this is a great example). Recommendations: "Codex", "Reckoner", "How to Disappear Completely", "National Anthem" etc. Cheers.
Edit, wow there are a lot of like minds here, So many similar suggestions in the comments. Not the ones I would of expected.
10:27-10:36 gives me absolute chills. The harmony feels so simultaneously suspenseful but also released at the same time. It’s like the auditory embodiment of a liminal space - it just has that feel of zero gravity and pure silence or something. Like the shockwave after a bomb. That weird hush. The brass is mean there too, with the glide.
I love this guys reactions so much! He loves music as much as i do 😎
Doug!!! Love your reviews !!! I studied voice and music theory growing up . Love your analysis.
just subscribed, loved this video. so come ooon next, pyramid song! :)
What a great story about getting to see the Colbert Report live performance in person! I would have been stoked just to see a taping of the show but to get THE show with Radiohead is like winning the lottery.
I personally really like a bunch of their songs off of Hail to the Thief, specifically There There. Really enjoyed your breakdown
I've been a subscriber for a couple of years. I enjoy your enthusiasm for music. A lot of your comments on theory and musical mechanics go right over my head, but I can understand what notes make something sound sad or somber or powerful. Radiohead is amazing. I discovered them when I was about 60 years old. I'm a big fan now and have about 3 of their albums (2 on vinyl and one on CD). From what I understand Thom Yorke is not a classically trained Piano player & I don't know that he can read music. I think he falls into the same category as Paul McCartney. His writing and use of instruments is purely intuitive and I would say at near genius level.
I always loved this track and was so excited to see/hear it used on the TV show. Talk about a perfect choice for the sean it was used during. The use of music in that series was unlike in any other. I can just keep watching it
Finally someone who knows what he's talking about and not only saying I liked or didn't. Thank you!
Yes, more Radiohead
Both From the Basements are cool because sound quality is great and it’s live. 1) Jigsaw Falling Into Pieces 2) Pyramid Song 3) House of Cards
I would love to see Doug's reaction to Pyramid Song. A most excellent suggestion!
@@happycadaver Thanks!! That one would be good with his piano at hand. And Jigsaw has cool brass section....French horn beautiful
I keep waiting for one of these composer reactions to do Feral...so underappreciated
Excellent video Doug, and I agree with some of the others that Pyramid Song would be cool to dissect.
Such a great song, the basement tapes is something i always come back to give a listen every once una while, cheers Doug.
I fucking lose it every time you look at the camera with that snarl when the song gets intense. I do the same thing! 😂
That's a lot of reverb! 🤪 AND YES, more Radiohead, there are nothing like it.
This song describes that last year or so perfectly, especially the first verse!
I don't know, man... That's probably our best band now, like the Beatles were back then... So, any song you do, even on their first album, apart from creep, will be interesting to all of us.
The Daily Mail, an absolutely fantastic song that deserves to be on "a real album".
Feel free to check out Nude from the same Basement Tapes, it will literally take your breath away
That chord progression is indeed absolutely brilliant.
Priceless reaction.
Now do bloom live from the basement - radiohead.
Hi Doug, thanks a lot, it’s a pleasure to rediscover Radiohead with you!
I’ll be interested in you’re point of view of a great Radiohead’s song, because of the rythme, texture and words. Weird Fishes.
I love this channel. Great watch.
DAYDREAMING by Radiohead is a gorgeous song. Music video by Paul Thomas Anderson. Wonderful filmmaker
I watched a live studio concert these guys gave I thought for sure the percussion parts were programmed (on the album) because they were so complex and difficult. These mf's freakin' pulled it all off live! Mind blowingly talented musicians in Radiohead.
Yes! That is such a choice to react to, have a subscribe. :) One of my top three of their tracks, the other two being Man o'War and Decks Dark. Those wouldn't be overdone choices either.
Nice to hear this cause when I listen to this song I love that ring in my head it produces. The piano sounds inside my head