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...gutter in the late 90s and changed popular music for the better—seeks inspiration from two acts that exemplify everything traditional, comforting and safe about modern pop (Yorke et al excused). “Real” musicians wouldn’t have come up with the android beatbox hiccupping under Missy’s “Supa Dupa Fly” or the schizo, kitchen-sink groove powering Bubba’s “Twerk A Little” or the stoned and surreal erotica of Tweet’s “Oops...
...left untangled and no sterile melody left emotionless. Speaking of Bush, Yorke is onto the president’s sneaksy ways, crooning to his own son on “Sail to the Moon” of the potential misuses of power and generally tapping his inner paranoid android to give the album’s final tracks a cornered hostility. Finer words have been published about this album, but don’t bother looking for them—just give the record about a dozen chances and it will gradually steal your soul...
...spirit of the evening’s musical fusion, the rappers even ventured into rock territory by joining into the jazzy rendition of “Paranoid Android...
With the aid of the breathy, nightclub-esque vocals of Sara Wajnberg ’04, their band transformed Led Zepplin’s “The Rain Song” and Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android,” two loud rock anthems, into soft, slow and yet powerful jazz songs...
...group followed trends, echoing the roar of Seattle on its tentative debut album Pablo Honey (1993) and mastering the genre on the more assertive The Bends (1995). On its critically acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997), Radiohead began to write its own rules, creating rock mini-suites like Paranoid Android and writing lyrics that captured the numbing ambivalence that many people feel about living in a microprocessed age. On Kid A, another Radiohead emerges: if the last album was about technology using up humans, the new one is about humans using technology. Kid A relies heavily on samples and synthesizers...