These days I've been listening to Radiohead a lot, REALLY. This was triggered by their recent release of the eighth album-- "King of the Limbs". This alternative rock band has been one of my gems.
Here's one of my favorite tracks from their old albums--- "Paranoid Android". This masterpiece was released in Radiohead's third album "OK Computer" in 1997. The title derived from Marvin the Paranoid from Douglas Adam's The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxyseries of books. The song was inspired by an unhappy experience in a bar in Los Angeles.Starting with the mid-tempo acoustic guitar backed by shaken percussion, Tom Yorke's vocal entered with electric guitar spanning an octave and a third --- "Please could you stop the noise I'm trying to get some rest"... The rising vocal captures the inner struggle of someone who's trapped in his anxiety and paranoia, and just makes you wanna scream out. The emotion of accusing grows more and more intense with the distorted guitar solo. Its lyrics is dark and "paranoid", suggesting themes of insanity, violence and objections against the world of machines and capitalism.
Well, somehow the guitar and percussion cools my head effectively in the heat of brainstorming for school paper... that's one of the reasons why I adore RH so much. XD
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