For a small KZfaq channel your commentary felt super entertaining and natural, usually with small creators you can kinda tell they’re not comfortable in front of a camera yet

My personal favorite album of all time. Thanks brother

So "Exit Music" was actually for the Baz Luhrmann "Romeo and Juliet", and is very fitting :)

Let Down will grow on you. Try listening to it with headphones

If you like Radiohead, you should listen to Jeff Buckley's album, 'Grace', which was highly influential to bands like Radiohead, Muse and Nothing But Thieves.

I will say I disagree slightly with the interpretation of "Fitter Happier." On the surface, yeah, it really does seem like an innocent guide on how to live life 'correctly,' but listen to how dark it is...and that last lyric is the embodiment of the song's message. "A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics"...Living life correctly, normally, as per the status quo, will make you no different than a farm animal. Your life will be healthy and sustainable, but it will be miserable, and you'll feel trapped forever. Just a little bit of a darker interpretation :)

Climbing Up The Walls is a song talking about how you cannot escape anxiety and how it'll take everything you have and be everywhere you look. One of the darkest moments of this album. I recommend re-listening knowing the context of that one while reading the lyrics. love your first reaction and how many things you managed to observe

Listen to this album a few more times and Let Down will become one of your favorites. It's that song. It creeps up on you and when it clicks, it becomes a favorite. Also, Exit Music was written for the film Romeo and Juliet. It was meant to be the music for the credits, hence the title "Exit Music."

Thanks for finally listening to it, I knew you would love it. It’s def a 10/10 and my fav. If you want to head back to newer music Samphas new album was really powerful

When you said “I love when Tom sings like that” at the end of Karma Police I was just waiting for you to hear The Tourist haha

Let down is my favorite song of all time i think, which is funny cuz when i finished the album for the first time I thought it was forgettable and the least interesting on there. Theres something so genuinely emotional about the song not just lyrically but also instrumentally that I had to grow to see. Someone said let down sounds like every instrument is crying together with thom and that image fits it so well. I almost cry everytime I get to the climax and thom just lets it all out with the lyrics "One day I am gonna grow wings". Lyrically its my favorite radiohead song and probably the best theyve ever made imo.

It's a masterpiece! It's actually been entered into the Library of Congress, as a seminal album of the 20th Century.

Can’t wait for this channel to grow

This album was ahead of its time thematically... predicted our future reliance on technology, and the isolation it will bring. Also I believe that album cover picture was taken in Connecticut or something from some hotel. I cant remember right now. SONG NOTES: Karma Police - Also "I lost myself, I lost myself" at the end of karma police has to do with the singers realization that as someone squealing to the karma police for what he thinks is an injustice... he calls other people out, but then he realizes he is being just as terrible.. we are all terrible. The song is actually based on an inside joke between the band that anytime someone did something uncouth, they would say to each other 'oh don't worry, the karma police will get him" Thom is obsessed with the idea of karma, but remembers we all aren't perfect either. Fitter Happier - is a commentary on what society tells us we need to do in order to live 'happy/proper/productive' lives... but it's also a commentary on those things we are told, if we listen to them, makes us no better than the pigs in cages we use to eat.

I love watching your reactions, your not a incompetent reactor, you understand the majority of the music you listen to and you can analyze them, the majority of people who react to music do not do that. Or they just can not. And that's why I'm subscribing! (: You're amazing at reacting.

Imagine you were driving one day listening to airbag and you get in an accident only to get saved by your airbag.

fun fact about the album cover: the guy that made it, stanley donwood, his keyboard was missing the Z key during the time he made the cover, meaning he couldnt undo anything he added by pressing ctrl + Z. so the stuff in the corner is literally just stuff that he physically could not remove lol

Cool you let different songs from the other albums have a chance to simmer and go back to it a couple times, even if you don’t like it or not

The subscribe button shining when you said subscribe it's fire, im subscribing just because of that Damn you genius

A moon shaped pool next! I would say it’s on par if not better than the 3 you’ve listened to so far and is their saddest album because of multiple family deaths within the band as well as Thom going through his divorce right before they made the album.

Keep going - even the albums some consider not as good contain great songs, the Bends next... Enjoying your reactions

yess!! i've been waiting for this! i love your Radiohead reactions man, it just feels genuine, keep it up! you def gotta listen to Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side Of The Moon" next

Great reaction! You can tell you enjoyed it. IMO Airbag, Subterranean Homesick Alien, and the Tourist are the most underrated songs on this album. Amazing songs that rarely get talked about even by Radiohead fans. Also, Let Down is maybe the best Radiohead song ever

Yoooo this is my favorite album of all time, it was so cool to see your insights on it and how much you picked up on first listen!

Loving you reaction to one of the greatest albums ever it's Thoms commentary on technology amazing how it still resonates 30 yrs later great reaction 👍👍

In my top 5 albums of all time. Simple SUBLIME. A game changer for ever

First of all, really been enjoying your reactions. You are insightful and intelligent. A good majority of people would not only hate OK Computer, but the themes would be totally lost on them; they just wouldn't or won't "get it." Most of my favorite albums (and tops of many all-time lists) are by Pink Floyd and the Beatles. Can't wait until you get to some of those.

Your comment about fame and how you are reflecting on life really resonates and is totally on point - the outcome is less important than the journey. Success is all yours to experience - no one else gets to define what that means to you. "Subterranean Homesick Alien" has always been my favorite song off the album - it really shows off the band's ability to create this spacey sonic Universe, and their endlessly creative use of instruments - when you watch them do it live, just the five of them, no tricks, it's truly something to behold. One of the greatest live bands ever. This became my favorite album the first time I listened to it in 1997 and still is today, the 90's were a great time to be young and in love with music. In the same late night, we'd have Wu Tang, Nirvana Unplugged, The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead and Radiohead. From grunge to alt/rock to hip hop to underground techno. Good luck and good vibes for 2024! Peace//

This album and earlier albums have a harder edge than the later ones. When this came out, the CD didn't leave the player for months. Love your comments, subbed.

This video is wonderful, love your energy

I love your content, your opinions on music really changed my perspective on some songs, keep up the good work ❤🎉

Love watching you experience this ❤

My #1 album of all time. It's been how many years now? And still listen to this all . the. time.

IMO they have 4 10 out of 10 albums, OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool. The Bends, Amneisiac and Hail to the Thief are 8 or 9 out of 10 albums. King of Limbs is a 7/10. Pablo Honey is 6/10. They also have about 30 non-album tracks that are amazing that most bands would kill for.. A couple of Thom Yorkes solo albums are brilliant, Jonnys movie scores are great and then theres... The Smile (Thom and Jonnys side project), and the more I listen to The Smile album, I think it might just be another 10/10.

Let down is nobody’s favorite until it’s everybody’s favorite

incredible album

Bro, Let Down will still grow on you a lot, this art is truly wonderful

You should godspeed you! Black emperor's f#a# infinity, I would do anything to hear that album for the first time again

This album changed things in the music world LOL. Seriously. It was a head of its time.

This is a bit of an out-there recommendation compared to what you're listening to now, but I would love to see your reaction to Deathconcsiousness by Have a Nice Life. The album had one of the most interesting productions of any project I know of. It was made by two guys over the course of 5 years, and it cost only $1000 to make, so the final product had a very lo-fi sound. The duo managed to make this sound work really well with the album, and it creates a one-of-a-kind atmosphere. The album has a lot of slower moments, but the sonic peaks on this album are unbelievable. It's also a double album, with both halves being very distinct from each other in sound. I'd also heavily recommend having the lyrics pulled up while listening. The vocals have lots of reverb, so it can be hard to understand the lyrics, but those lyrics are really what give it so much emotional weight. It's an album that will probably be outside of your comfort zone at first, but it's an incredibly impactful listen and will be a great start to exploring even more new types of music. Great reaction btw! Let Down is known for being a big grower. It's my favorite on OK Computer, and it's my favorite Radiohead song in general.

I love that intro. Coming into it with more of a ‘Radiohead ear.’ Truth be told

Great review! Could you do a review of The Strokes - Is this it next?

you made so many people happy with this reaction lol (myself included)

Recommendations: -The Smile(Thom and Johnny sideproject): have 2 recent albums; I'd go for the newest, Wall of Eyes. - Amber Mark: Conexao EP, Three Dimensions Deep, and various other singles/EPs. As a Beyonce-hater, Amber is the Hip-Hop/R&B artist who *I* think actually deserves that level of recognition. - Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden & Laughing Stock(maybe too ephemeral to "react" to, when it hits it's a deeply felt beauty) - Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca, Lamp Lit Prose, and Flight Tower EP. Basically Dave Longstreth, who's worked with Solange, Kanye, and others, and rotating band. Super inventive writer/producer. - Mastodon: Crack the Skye. work of genius, conceptual/emotional, ...bludgening. - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: huge, brilliant catalog, but Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus probably his magnum opus. Push the Skye Away, a dark poetic album, is a personal fave. Also the live performance of "Jesus of the Moon" on Later with Jools Holland.

Dude exit music for a film was made for Romeo and Juliet -- gives a whole new take on those lyrics! Steeling themselves to run off, convincing themselves of their eternal love and how much better off they'll be dead together, dad i hope you choke.... But obviously their ignorance is a tragedy. Absolutely nailed by the music

For me, Fitter Happier is listing all the banality's of life and how meaningless it all is if we just do what we're "supposed" to do. "A pig in a cage on antibiotics". Are we free if we tow the line like that? or more like a placated caged animal. The perfectly "balanced" person can be boring as hell. Depends what type of things you're balancing though of course.

Yay, so glad to see you reacting to another Radiohead album! Of course, lyrical interpretations are all subjective, but here are my thoughts on some of the songs you mentioned. Karma Police: Apparently, Thom Yorke has gone on record saying that this song is supposed to be a little cheekier and less serious than some of the others on the album. To me, it's kind of a self-deprecating take on the narrator's own judgmental tendencies. He wants to call the "Karma Police" on people who offend his sensibilities, not even for doing anything morally wrong, but for being weird or off-putting: the man who "buzzes" and "talks in maths" or the girl with the bad haircut. On some level, the narrator knows that treating people this way is wrong and is trying to change, but he and his friends are "still on the payroll" of the karma police, judging and demaning others. Nonetheless, he tells himself that this isn't the real him, that "For a minute there, I lost myself," like he's making excuses for his behavior. To me, this song is poking fun at that kind of person. Like it's asking them, "Who do you think you are?! The karma police?" As for "Fitter, Happier," I think this song is about all the things we are told to do to "empower ourselves," while really, we remain trapped in an exploitative and cruel system. Yes, a lot of the habits the computer describes here will make us healthier. But administering antibiotics to a pig in a cage on a factory farm will also make it healthier. That doesn't make it free. We can all go to bed earlier, eat healthier, and be kinder to insects and animals, but will that change that our government treats us as cattle to be used up, belittled, and discarded when we're no longer useful? Will it stop our governments from doing terrible things to the civilians of other nations in our names? No-we are "concerned, but powerless," as the song says. Furthermore, there are also a lot of controlling messages threaded through the song in the midst of all the inoffensive, healthy advice. "Fond, but not in love" "No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows, nothing so ridiculously reenage and desperate, nothing so childish" "Slower and more calculated, no chance of escape." "Pragmatism, not idealism. Will not cry in public." All of these instructions are about suppressing the things that make us human: emotions, love, idealism, fear. The "computer" (perhaps a representation of the powerful people in our government or economy) doesn't care about those things; it only wants us to be "fitter, happier, more productive." Pigs in a cage for slaughter, healthy and fat. As for other albums I would consider "legendary," I'd say "Post" by Bjork, followed closely by "Homogenic." Thom Yorke is a big fan of Bjork and called her song "Unravel" from her album Homogenic "one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard." Also, he and Bjork collaborated on a duet! The song is called "I've Seen It All." Thom Yorke said working with Bjork ended up being "formative" to him following Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac albums. So if you're looking for the legendary artist who inspired a giant like Thom Yorke, then Bjork's your girl!

The funny thing with reactions to Radiohead, is that the listener's best album really depends on the order in which they listen to them. For instance, those who start with Ok Computer and end with In Rainbows will say that In rainbows is the Sh*t. And if they start with In rainbows and go then to Ok computer instead, they would say that OK computer is the ultimate stuff. In reality, there's no point in making Radiohead Albums compete. All we do is naturally giving our preference to the most recent thing we heard. This band is just stacking number ones. There are definitely albums of theirs that I rate higher overall because of the impact they had in my life but each album of theirs has some songs that systematically crush everything else they ever did and will ever do. It's nonsensical and paradoxical but it just is. And that's what makes them so phenomenal, unreal and out of this world.

Great review man. Radiohead really are one of the greatest bands of all time, you should do a reaction of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Everybody’s On The Run. It’s great.

Would LOVE to see you react to “The Joshua Tree” by U2 and “August and Everything After” by Counting Crows

IMO, listen to the bends for fun, but I think radiohead really reached their stride at ok computer. a few good songs on the bends for sure. but i would say you should do amnesiac next, cause now you will get a sense of the huge leap they made from OK computer to Kid A. Amnesiac was made at the same time as Kid A is why i say that, just released a year later. not quite as good as Kid a, but i still prefer it to the bends personally. Their 4th best album imo is A moon shaped pool, which i think is beautiful album and i might actually put it at 2nd or 3rd for fave. whatever order you go in, ill be curious for your thoughts!

There are two camps of Radiohead fans. The people that think OK Computer is their greatest album, and those that prefer In Rainbows. I personally prefer OK Computer as a whole album, but I love In Rainbows, too. The thing that makes OK Computer so great is the fact that there was nothing else that sounded even remotely like this album when it was released, the galactic sounds that drift throughout the entire album, and the fact that this album was prophetic in a way. I think it's Radiohead's most impactful album, for sure. It was so far ahead of it's time. I think people appreciate it more now, than when it was released. Subterranean Homesick Alien will always be one of my favorite Radiohead songs of all time.

Love ur radiohead and peggy reviews, if you want a melancholic album with a blend of hip hop, shoegaze, rock, folk, kinda stuff id reccomend i didnt mean to haunt you by quadeca. The album is from the perspective of somone who has decided to take their own life, leaving their body to roam an empty world. desperate to get someones attention, to be noticed, to go back to his family. The album deals with regret and the need to accept/move on in a pretty moving way.

You've gotta listen to Let Down with headphones in to get the full effect

as far as lyrical interpretation, I think sometimes there might be some kind of narrative or obvious or deducible point, but I think a lot of the time it's obscure, or otherwise the lyrics only serve to create like an image or a vibe with the words rather than construct a solid narrative. Karma Police sounds like a song to me where the words were sort of strewn together to create more of a vibe, or it's a collection of not necessarily related ideas, at least in my interpretation. Though if i remember correctly, the term Karma police was part of a joke the band came up with at some point that made it into a song.

The Strokes’ album is this it and Interpol’s Turn on the bright lights are certified rock classics that came out a few years after OK computer. Think you might like to start at these albums. The songs are pretty straightforward rock songs, but these albums are classics.

If you like good music you should react to a band called Supertramp. I'd recommend the albums: Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America and Even in the Quietest Moments

I like that, after all these melancholy songs about being mentally exhausted by the modern world, it ends with a spare but soaring song telling us to just slow down. It was the ending this album needed.

Hey JaKar, I wanna let you know that you should try out Deloused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta! It's an album filled with many diverse influences such as Hard Rock, Progressive, Jazz-Fusion, Latin, etc. I don’t see a lot of folks reacting to them but I'd like to see you try out their music. And by the way, if you do Deloused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta, I advised you to NOT pause in between tracks 1 & 2 as the first flows RIGHT into the second.

' ' What's goin' on back here? ' ' Play Station five (& PC, Mac) 4K 60fps "Kid A Mnesia Exhibition"

I would highly recommend both basement sessions probably the best thing musically they ever did and one of my favorite musical things ever.

This is one of my favourite album along with Rush's Moving pictures and Pink Floyd's The wall. Those are 3 perfect records. Check em out bro !! You'll lose your shit for real !!!! Very different but equally good in my opinion.

the thing with experimental rock, prog and such is you need to listen often more than once...you will keep finding things you didnt notice the first time around, on that note you might enjoy bands like pink floyd, dream theater, pain of salvation, tool...

i would suggest listening to nude more bcz that song is so good and will grow on you before you know and ok computer is my absoulte fav album in radiohead's discography

Not sure if this will hit the younger crowd the same way it was us back then. This was groundbreaking but for the 90’s. You have to think OK Computer, Fight Club and American Beauty. The concept of materialism and technology consumers.

Nice reaction! I think maybe you can make a full album reaction of A Rush Of Blood To The Head from Coldplay, this LP is considered their masterpiece, it contains songs like “The Scientist”, “Clocks”, and “In My Place”.

you should do a full album reaction to Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

To recommend an artist who has mutually influenced Radiohead, check out Bjørk's 1997 album Homogenic. She's an incredibly creative singer from Iceland, and it's an album that's still being cited by new musicians to this day for its effect on their sounds.

Great reaction. I recommend Nirvana-Nevermind or 311-Evolver

Need to watch in the basement live sessions and review it.

The part of The Tourist you thought was too slow & drawn out is( IMO) some of THE best singing of Thom York's career!

Karma police is about wishing bad luck or karma on people for small things like a hairdo or “buzzing like a fridge” and at the end. “I lost myself” is meant to be the narrator realising he is a terrible person by wishing karma on innocent people

Listening to Airbag in a car its something absolutely genius

Exit Music is on the Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack from the 90's.

Best. Radiohead. Album. EVER. Thanks!

Other than with headphones and your eyes closed, listening to Radiohead in a car is the best way.

If you want a great album, you should check out The Flaming Lips-Battle of the Mystics

Can you please listen to an animal collective album. Either Sung Tongs, Strawberry Jam or Merriweather Post Pavillion. Thanks in advance would love to see your thoughts on any of them. Cheers

Subterranean Homesick Alien Simply brilliant

Fitter happier is the idea that the pursuit of personal comfort can lead you to enslave yourself and your spirit to those comforts which become a prison. Sure, you end up fitter happier and more productive, but you’re still a beast in a cage if that’s all you concentrate on. Remember that the 90s were a reaction to the yuppy movement of the 80s. Greed was glorified in the 80s. So he’s trying to say nothings changed. The new Saab you got with the nice car seat, it costs some of your life and Free spirit. Your castle comes with a mortgage. And even the small things we do “check credit at moral bank/hole in the wall” or “charity standing orders” are not genuine aid but distractions from your own slavery. The dream life for most is a gilded cage.

Love this album so, while explaining it back to front is unnecessary, I'll offer you some key ideas surrounding the record: Fitter happier is designed to tie the album together. It's far from advice, it is the fear of a formulated, over structured life dictated by averages and simplicities. That is why the metaphor of a 'pig in a cage on antibiotics' is included - this life sounds ideal but in actuality the monotony of it terrified the band. That's, essentially, the point of the album. It is not just about technology - it's more about the affect our computerised revolution could have on the human condition. While everyone looked forward to the technological future with enthusiasm, Radiohead identified the loneliness that would grow in future generations, they identified the potential for computers to divide where they were meant to unite. 'Ok Computer' is a detailed, highly symbolic exploration of the band's paranoia and anxiety, at the time it was made, and for the developments that were to come. You hear the likes of 'bring down the government' on No Suprises. However listen to how it's expressed - it's a generalised, typical sentiment relayed with next to no passion. The perspective the song is told from is a man giving up. Radiohead are both mocking vague and lazy protesting and simultaneously sympathising with the beaten down place it's coming from. There are countless examples of similiar lyrical ideas littered across the album. It's a deeply personal album, with tracks like climbing up the walls really providing insight into the darkest parts of Yorke's psyche, however the themes transcend individuality as so many people have listened to the record and found themselves aligned with the isolation and anxiety that's being expressed. Pitchfork (music critic magazine/website) described it as an album with hope and an album to wield (or something along those lines) as by connecting to it you find greater strength in yourself because you able to hear this recognition of your experience - it's the album that brings together the isolated.

I think one of the biggest things about Gen X in is young culture was even more disaffected than Gen Z kids. But we didn’t have the numbers or the tools to do shit about it. The saddest part of my generation is having heard all of this, most of my peers have fallen for same tricks with our eyes open, defeated.

Subterranean: underground

In Rainbows is good but this album is on another level.

Don't sleep on "Hail To the Thief".

Hey JaKar, I was wondering if you were able to monetize this video? I want to start a album reaction channel but am worried about not being able to monetize

I believe "a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics" refers to all of us. We're all really just little piggies, stuck in cages, on our little antibiotics

OK Computer becomes 30% better when you listen while reading the lyrics too. You need to fully immerse yourself

Bro you said you want to understand radiohead's songs 100%, but the thing is, there's a lot of abstract lirycs. There's not always a clear message behind these songs, it's more about you just have to feel the lirycs, not understand them

doing a review of airbag sitting in a car xD

Drill holes in themselves ie Jesus was nailed to a cross

If not said and you didnt catch it, no surprises is about suicide.