On one level the lyrics are absurd on another, they're quite serious. Thom: "Basically it's just about chaos, chaos, utter fucking chaos."Īfter being asked if the song was about the Fall of the Roman Empire, Thom adopted his explanation, but other band members have likened the lyrics of the track to those Spilt over her dress and whose face contorted in venom at the culprit - she was the 'kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy' that Thom sang of and he was horrified. Of particular horror to him was one especially vicious lady who had a drink Song for months in rehearsals, but that night, while he couldn't sleep, the lyrics flooded into Thom's head at 5am. I felt like my own self was collapsing in the presence of it, but I also felt completely, utterly part of it, like it was all going to some crashing down any minute." The band had been playing the Everyone was trying to get something out of me. Thom: "The people I saw that night were just like demons from another planet. Unbeknown to him, virtuallyĮveryone in the room, except himself, was on cocaine. He had gone there for a quiet drink, but found himself surrounded by parasitic groupie types and pretentious California posers. It had been inspired by a bad experience Thom had one night in a Los Angeles bar. Paranoid Android was a complicated affair, not least because of the three disparate yet cohesive sections. You'd have to hear it to know, but this track sums up the feeling of the entire album pretty well. It's over 6 minutes long, and can honestly be described as an epic. Possibly one of the most famous Radiohead songs to date, Paranoid Android was the first single released from OK Computer. The band refused to make a radio edit of it, yet it still achieved a lot of airplay,Īnd it peaked at number 3 in the UK charts - Radiohead's biggest hit to date. According to Thom it's about the fall of the Roman Empire. ![]() It shook up the entire industry, a six-and-a-half minute epic schizophrenically switching betweenĭifferent styles and tunes. The single that marked Radiohead's return after over two years of no new material. String Version - Strung Out On OK Computer Live Glastonbury - Mud For It: Glastonbury '97Ĭover by Mitchell Sigman - Plastic Mutations Tribute LP Disc: OK Computer | Paranoid Android single | College Karma EPīrad Mehldau's Piano Version - Groundwork Organisation CD 2001
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