![]() ![]() It’s in a room made of glass out in the garden.Įd O’Brien: People thought it was prog, but prog always took itself so seriously. I think he just needed to go out and scream. Nigel Goodrich: He did that in the orange room. They were cutting vocals for “Paranoid Android,” and Thom was just letting go and screaming his head off. Stanley Donwood: I remember watching them run a microphone with a long wire out into some little ornamental building, a shed, in the garden. I sort of stood there and said, “You guys have no idea what I’ve just done.” It was pretty clever. But I had to do a sort of pretty snazzy … I was very pleased with myself. It’s a very hard thing to explain, but it’s all on 24-track and it runs through. ![]() We had to fake and tape-edit to make the different sections of it go into each other. We had to put different sections of the song together from completely different parts. So the moment we think it should go up, he just goes around on the acoustic. Then it was like, “We’re going to change sonically what happens in the middle, so it’s a jump.” At the end, Thom came up with the whole thing about the delaying the band coming in. It just spun and spun and it got very Deep Purple and went off. Nigel Godrich: When we started at Canned Applause they would play the song linearly. It’s hard to listen to without clutching the sofa for support.Įd O’Brien: To me, the song sounded like Queen meets the Pixies. Jonny Greenwood: It originally had a Hammond organ solo that goes on forever. Thom Yorke: It was 50 percent “Bohemian Rhapsody,” if I could ever get that many vocals together, and 50 percent “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.” Have you heard the original ending? Thom Yorke: – “‘Paranoid Android’ is about the dullest fucking people on Earth”įrom a Radiohead interview published in Rolling Stone in 2017 for the 20th anniversary of OK Computer: The song was also used as the ending theme for the anime series Ergo Proxy. They came with the tapes in and it turned out they all belonged to Tangerine Dream, which is getting into prog territory. Some relative of the inventor was trying to remake them and had a few. I love the fact that the notes run out after a few seconds. Instead there was a choir, and a weird, fucked-up sort of choir. It was either “ Nursery Cryme or ” Selling England by the Pound“. I remember hearing a Genesis record and thinking the Mellotron sounded amazing, so I stole it. And “Paranoid Android,” there’s a kind of serious message in there, but it’s kind of cartoon-like. People thought it was prog, but prog always took itself so seriously. To me, the song sounded like Queen meets the Pixies. It was 50 percent “ Bohemian rhapsody,” if I could ever get that many vocals together, and 50 percent “ Happiness Is a Warm Gun.” In an issue of Rolling Stone, the band has compared the song to other multi-part rock pieces by famous artists, and tackled the often-raised comparison with progressive rock. There was a look in this woman’s eyes that I’d never seen before anywhere… Couldn’t sleep that night because of it. Yorke described her as “inhuman”, and said ![]() ![]() The woman inspired the line “kicking squealing Gucci little piggy” in the song’s second section. In particular, Yorke was frightened by a woman who became violent after someone spilled a drink on her. Yorke’s lyrics were based on an unpleasant experience at a Los Angeles bar during which he was surrounded by strangers high on cocaine. The song’s lyrics tie in with a number of themes common in OK Computer, including insanity, violence, slogans, and political objection to capitalism. “Paranoid Android,” the first single from OK Computer, is characterized by three distinct moods written in what Thom Yorke referred to as three different states of mind. ![]()
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