YES! As per usual this is going to be an absolute masterpiece of in-depth analysis on one of the greatest songs ever written! Thanks David! You Rock! And thanks for being in our video too!

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

Thanks Warren! It was a real pleasure to work with you! Let's do it again!

@Producelikeapro

Ай бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano Yes! Let's! So much fun, thank you ever so much

@thesongacademy5017

Ай бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano great video, really enjoying this!

@metalman3227

Ай бұрын

Excellent to see you together in Warren's video David

@Mal1234567

Ай бұрын

Paid shill.

This song is Radiohead's Bohemian Rhapsody. They never did manage to write something so proggy and epic and yet still accessable since then IMHO.

@okenough2124

Ай бұрын

That's a great description. I've always considered this Radiohead's bohemian rhapsody. It's a shame they never went for an epic multi-sectioned song like this later

@peterwilliams3324

Ай бұрын

It's funny, I was just thinking the same thing. Far prefer them to Queen, though.

@thomashightower7881

Ай бұрын

Funny enough, William Maranci makes a killer mashup between both songs

@mejsjalv

26 күн бұрын

Some of the stuff they released later on is still accessible... sort of... and proggy leaning towards the electronic part of prog. But I guess if you like their earlier albums you're basically listening to a much different band.

@montaguehorseposture6203

17 күн бұрын

@@fathuman I think it's a great song/ album but I'm ecstatic they went a completely different path in the new century.

DBP & Radiohead, a love story that will be told through the ages :p Love all your breakdowns!

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Such a musical masterpiece. At least, I can safely say that I once saw Radiohead live. When Thom started singing "rain down" , by then, it was literally raining down on us. A day that I'd never forget. Thanks, David!

@j_murdoch

Ай бұрын

That happened when I saw them in Atlanta on the Hail to the Thief tour.

@CarbonSolutions

Ай бұрын

@@j_murdochme too!

@tonybates7870

Ай бұрын

I saw them in Victoria Park, London, in 2000. Magnificent band.

I have always compared Paranoid Android to The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”. It is truly a pocket symphony and my favorite song from the band. Awesome video.

@mikkysteaders

Ай бұрын

@@arcynic5404 I agree, it definitely goes through a similar structure, but I would counter it by saying it’s more like ‘Heroes & Villains’ 😊

@j_murdoch

Ай бұрын

I always saw it more like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".

@rico879able

Ай бұрын

@@j_murdochit’s in the category of songs that never get old

@rome8180

Ай бұрын

It's closer to "Bohemian Rhapsody," imo.

@arcynic5404

Ай бұрын

@@j_murdoch I get where you are coming from, but Bohemian Rhapsody is, well, more like an actual “Rhapsody” than these two pieces. It’s more free in composition as compared to Paranoid Android or Good Vibrations, which still call back musical ideas established in the start of the piece.

This is why I love Radiohead so much. This song is so complicated and intricate, yet whenever you listen to it, you can't help but feel relaxed and calm (in all the sections!). They are the greatest composers in the world, no doubt.

gosh, i think my favourite part of this song is that last chord progression. it feels like an inverse Shepard's tone, constantly falling and falling deeper into despair.

David: if Paul and Ringo ever cover "Paranoid Android", would your head just explode?

@MightyPinecone

Ай бұрын

Paranoid Android does feel a lot like Happiness Is A Warm Gun in that it changes vibe a bunch.

@IdreamOfDouche

Ай бұрын

@@MightyPinecone It was inspired by Happiness is a Warm Gun

@montaguehorseposture6203

Ай бұрын

I'd be happy if they didn't bother.

@gavinthecrafter

17 күн бұрын

Radiohead + 1/2 of the Beatles would be an absolutely insane collab

Whenever I look at a Radiohead chord progression I come to the conclusion that Jonny at least must be a massive figured bass nerd

"That progression hasn't appeared in any other song" I'm scrolling to see if someone could make you wrong... Anyone?

Okay, I suddenly feel a need to listen to "OK Computer".

@Boppsta712

Ай бұрын

Can never go wrong with that decision~

I knew this song was weird, from a theory perspective, but didn’t know HOW weird. Thanks David for the awesome explanation as always!! That Gm/Am move on the first part, and the mirrored move of Cm/Dm in the third part… crazy unintuitive but so beautiful!

Hell yeah, knew what it would be from the video title. Diving in now, can already tell it’s a fantastic video!!

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊

Radiohead's feeling for sounds is simply unbelievable. And, the song (like every RH song) is far from being over-produced. Chords, melody, the whole composition speak for itself.

Nice work David, one of my Radiohead favourites - I always felt that the E alternates to Esus4 before the A Cm in the slow section

Awesome, wow, great choice, and thanks for playing the instrumentals in the background, too.

Paranoid android is definitely my favorite Radiohead songs, and on and my most favorite songs in general. Thank you for analyzing it!

The “rain down” section reminds me of like a melancholy version of the “let the sun shine” section of Age Of Aquarius

@andybaldman

Ай бұрын

Totally!

These videos centered on ONE song are my favourite. You learn much more from these than the others. Well done.

9:34 I get the same feeling with Let Down too. It's always amazing to remind how much of a masterpiece OK Computer definitely is.

thanks for this, david. whether an artist creates with intention or not - and i think usually it’s a combination - i always find the break down fascinating, to see the underlying order and structure, bridging music theory with the unplanned, spontaneous creativity. a mysterious paradox.

Man, the progression in this song is absolutely gorgeous.

A great analysis! I love your focus on chord progressions. I feel that I’m a bit weak when it comes to those stuff, so your videos really help. Have you ever considered making videos about the arrangements of more classical music? Like the fugue, requiem, sonata, symphony, and string quartet?

Fantastic. I had no idea of the counterpoint going on in the song, but it all makes sense now.

I really enjoyed this video, David! This song really is Radiohead's greatest work

Masterpiece. Period.

Great video! Love your collaboration with Warren

Superb video! Loved this, just half way through Warren's too!

Whoa, a David Bennett and Produce Like a Pro collab? That's wicked! Gotta watch the other video now!

David finally breaking down my all time favorite song, today is a good day

Great video! Learning the theory behind a song makes it much more manageable to learn how to play...and this one's been on my list for a while. Thanks!! 😁😁

I first heard this song for the closing credits of one of my favorite anime shows, Ergo Proxy. It is an alternate reality show, I think is in the future and it’s about their robot assistants they call auto-raves and part of the robots contract a virus that gives them consciousness. It’s worth the watch only one season and the English voice acting in my opinion is very good. The closing credit song really puts the show in a neat (imo) perspective. ☺️☺️

While we’re throwing our analysis requests, can I ask for Turn It On Again by Genesis. It’s a song that really shouldn’t be a pop hit but somehow just works.

Produce like a pro _and_ David Bennett! best. day. ever!

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

😁😁

7:40 The funny thing is that still sounds like Radiohead (the progression sounds similar to Nice Dream).

Thanks for this David. I've always loved this song. It's almost a mini-symphony. There's a fantastic live version on Later with Jools Holland from 1997 here on KZread. Also, I've never undestood what a secondary dominant is ... until now. Nice simple explanation, thanks.

I'm also a huge Radiohead fan too dude, but they aren't the only band to ever do experimental or quirky stuff. They feature super heavily in most of your videos... Paranoid Android is indeed and insanely beautiful and intricate song though. Lots of interesting stuff. I'm more interested in the production which I think is actually far more interesting than the chord progressions, which can be found in other tracks. Wait until you discover the lesser known Beach Boys material! :P

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

Find me another track with these chord progressions and then we can talk...

@mikkysteaders

Ай бұрын

You can find them smattered around the back catalogues of bands like Pink Floyd, CAN, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Fugazi, David Bowie, Doctors Of Madness to name a few. Listen to the album Tago Mago by CAN. It would be interesting to see what you think of it :) you’ll certainly hear where a lot of their influences come from for the middle era of Radiohead and especially Thom Yorkes other projects like Atoms for Peace and The Smile. As for the Beach Boys stuff, listen to the albums ‘Surf’s Up’ and ‘Love You’. Obviously we all know the brilliance of ‘Pet Sounds’ and ‘The Smile Sessions’ which are insanely intricate but their 70’s stuff is slept on for how mad it is too!

@diegocuneo9100

Ай бұрын

I think this Is not your channel...

@mikkysteaders

Ай бұрын

@@diegocuneo9100 I wasn’t trying to start any argument… Introducing people to different ways of writing music and explaining why these changes, melodies and chord progressions work is great. I’ve previously tried but ultimately failed to have a similar platform years ago. It’s just saying that Radiohead aren’t the only ones to come up with a progression or a style or things like that. Not only that but it’s taken a long time for someone like myself to realise the world of music doesn’t revolve around a select few bands like Radiohead or The Beatles (who also were fantastic and I love them, but by no means were the first in everything they did!)

@mikkysteaders

Ай бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano I don’t have a specific song in mind but listen to a band called ‘The Cardiacs’ They may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but they are like avant-garde punk-ska-psychedelic-rock. They have insane key changes and chord progressions that are almost impossible to keep track of. Been around since the late 70’s. I’m sure Radiohead would have heard of them on the scene and borrowed ideas. 👌

What a Masterclass, Mister Bennett!! And only with one song (but what a song!). Thank you so much for you work. 🤩 Cheers, from Spain.

Such a great video

i’ve tried covering this with my band but it’s so tough, this breakdown is definitely going to help!!

Awesome video, as usual. Thanks so much! Now, if you ever felt like analysing Sinéad O'Connor's "In this heart" it'd make me SO happy. 🙏😄

Knew what was up as soon as I read the title -- so excited that you're finally analyzing this modern masterpiece!

Finally!! This is my favourite Radiohead song and I'm so glad you're talking about it!!!

Thanks for this analysis of a brilliant piece!

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

🙂🙂🙂

Goated Radiohead song. Another great video! Thanks, as always, David.

Thanks for another great song breakdown video. OK Computer and kid a are pretty much the top of my favorite albums list along with Remain in Light and Black Holes and Revelations.

The slow section always reminds me of Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding."

OK I love this kind of analysis. And this song. (Obviously I knew in a split section it was about this song. It IS obvious!) Probably this is their Magnus Opus, which they released when I was 18 years old. It was also the main album I listened to in the weeks and months after my mom died. And the song is probably one of the main reasons why Radiohead will stick with me 'till the end of times...

this is probably radiohead's most detailed song. there are SO MANY percussive instruments during the first part of the song. and some details you might not notice like the rhodes piano playing during the heavy guitar solo, or thom saying the fourth "beep" during the intro, and the vibraslap during "whats that?"

Brother! This analysis is magnificent. I appreciate it.

Amazing thumbnail

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

Which thumbnail did you get? Because I'm actually using the new YT function on this video where you can have two different competing thumbnails. I'm interested to see which one you saw!

@MatrixEvolution17

Ай бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano I saw the one with the guy with hairy armpits. That's a cool feature, I didn't know you could do that!

@ilickcatnip

Ай бұрын

@@MatrixEvolution17 I saw the same at first and loved it! but YT replaced it with the other one now, atleast for me :(

A full video dedicated to Radiohead? This is the David I know.

Like a lot of good movies I have yet to see, or purposefully sit down to watch, Ima listen to "Paranoid Android" a few times and come back to this breakdown. It's just good to know such resources are available. Radiohead may just become to me what King Crimson once was...only with the option of Mr. Bennett's generous offering of the music theory behind it. Like from the Dutch Masters to the impressionist age.

Even if Radiohead are not comfortable about this tag, for me this is the prog rock masterpiece of the '90s. I remember not liking it the first time and loving it more after each listen. Although the ending still feels too abrupt to me.

Fantastic breakdown of an absolutely beautiful piece of music.

i just realized this is a brand new video, nice

Brilliant analysis of a fantastic song

Such a perfect song OMFG i love radiohead so much

Dude, that thumbnail 😂

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

Which thumbnail did you get? I'm actually using a new KZread feature where you trial multiple thumbnails at the same time!

@ecoop20

Ай бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano I got the weird little man with the hairy armpits lol Great breakdown, btw! Love your explanations, they make it really easy to understand the theory behind it all

@slidenaway

Ай бұрын

@@ecoop20I just saw that too, what in gods name even is that 😂😂😂Lol

@smintube

Ай бұрын

Same, nearly instinctively unsubscribed

@princesspiranha

Ай бұрын

@@slidenaway It's from the official music video

Does anyone else interpret the slower tempo section, the "bridge", as having a sort of Shepard's tone effect? It feels like it's constantly descending with each loop and never quite jumps back to the top, even though that obviously can't be the case.

Paranoid Android is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. It's one of the few examples of contemporary music that will likely still feel interesting and noteworthy to people centuries in the future.

EPIC!

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

😁😁😁😁😁😁

YES!!!

I remember the first time I heard this song. I was driving in my car in probably December of 1998 and had to pull off the road because my brain was melting. Safety first 😂

OK Comupter is amazing but my favorite album is HTTT But my favorite song is a tie either The National Anthem or Polyethylene The EP how am I Driving is amazing too not a bad song on it

One of my favourite albums of all time

If you think about it, Paranoid Android has kind of a symphony structure

This should have gone on for another hour! More please.

Upon many further listens, trying to find similar stuff, I recalled a song by Françoise Hardy called ‘Rêve’. Listen to the chord progression in that. I wouldn’t mind Radiohead were inspired by the inner movements of that track. Very French classique in feel. 🇫🇷

A magnum opus of a video. Well done, sir!!!

My player skipped back like 10 seconds after you said "it gives a skipped record feel" and I thought you did something really clever/cute lmao

I'm a simple man, I see David Bennett's video on Radiohead, I watch it

I don’t hear the E -> A -> Cm as a secondary dominant, dominant, tonic. I hear it as a dominant, tonic, tonic. It sounds more like a key change.

Paranoid Android, obra-prima do Radiohead, é uma canção episódica de 6 minutos e meio, com mudanças dramáticas de humor, tempo, tonalidade e compasso. A composição é complexa, com progressões harmônicas incomuns e uma textura contrapuntística envolvente. momentos-chave: 00:02 A música 'Paranoid Android' do Radiohead é considerada o principal trabalho da banda, com mudanças intensas de humor, tempo, tom e tempo. A progressão de acordes da música é complexa, movendo-se entre acordes do quarto, sétimo, tônica e sexto grau da escala, criando uma sonoridade única. -A estrutura da música 'Paranoid Android' apresenta um loop de acordes intricado, com variações e inversões inusitadas, criando tensão e dinamismo ao longo da composição. -Além da complexa progressão de acordes, a música realiza uma transição suave para uma nova seção em uma tonalidade diferente, utilizando o acorde E7 como elemento de ligação entre as chaves de G menor e A menor. 02:20 A música apresenta mudanças de humor sinistras, alternando entre acordes menores e maiores, e trocando de ritmo de 4/4 para 7/8, criando um efeito de corte e um aumento progressivo de intensidade até um clímax. -A mudança para o ritmo 7/8 cria uma sensação de encurtamento no final dos compassos, gerando um efeito de disco arranhado até o retorno ao ritmo 4/4. -A transição entre acordes menores e maiores, além da alternância de intensidade, leva a um clímax na progressão da música, destacado pelo acorde de F sustenido. 04:49 A progressão de acordes em Dó menor é analisada, destacando a mudança para Dó Maior e o uso do acorde E como dominante secundário. O vídeo também destaca a resolução incomum do acorde A para C menor em vez de D menor. -Explicação da mudança de tonalidade de Dó menor para Dó Maior na progressão de acordes. -Discussão sobre o acorde E como dominante secundário na tonalidade de Dó menor. -Análise da resolução incomum do acorde A para C menor em vez de D menor na sequência de acordes. 07:07 A progressão de acordes incomuns cria uma sensação de tensão e liberação, resultando em um som único e atraente. A adição gradual de diferentes linhas vocais enriquece a melodia, criando uma trama musical envolvente. -A importância da resolução incomum do acorde A para C menor na criação de tensão musical. -A evolução da melodia com a adição progressiva de novas linhas vocais a cada repetição, formando uma complexa rede de vozes. 09:27 A escrita contrapontística em 'Paranoid Android' do Radiohead demonstra como várias linhas melódicas se entrelaçam para criar harmonia, equilibrando diferentes melodias horizontalmente e verticalmente. -A importância da escrita contrapontística na música e como ela pode criar uma rica textura sonora. -A transição de mood e intensidade na música 'Paranoid Android' com destaque para a mudança para um final frenético de guitarra. Gerado por sider.ai

YESSS I WAS WAITING FOR THISSS!!!!!

I never seem to get tired of Paranoid Android analysis

Love this song! Great video again from you David! Btw I'm gonna write a song about your YT channel soon, what do you think about it?

Thank you.

I don't think calling this an episodic song has much explanatory power at all. To me, it's better to think of as an instrumental chorus song. The "first section" are the two verses. The "second section" is the first two choruses, the first being the riff just on an acoustic and the second when the distorted guitar joins in (the fact that there is singing over part of it is kind of irrelevant, many instrumental choruses have some unobtrusive vocal work to accompany the centerpiece) The "third section" is the bridge. And the reprise of the second section is the final chorus. This has the benefit of acknowledging that each of these sections behave as you expect in a standard song. The verses are quiet, the lowest energy of the song, and divide pretty cleanly into verse-prechorus configurations (a second immediately repeating verse before the first chorus is also a common strategy.) The chorus is higher energy, catchier, and each builds on the energy of the previous while being periodically recurring. They are clearly the focal point of the song. And the bridge is a much slower build into the final chorus (it's also modulating which is common for bridges but every section modulates so that doesn't mean much.) Obviously, there's a substantial deviation from the standard verse-chorus structure as one would expect from Radiohead. But it goes a much longer way to explaining how those parts actually fit together and are heard. This isn't Bohemian Rhapsody.

Thank you for this video

"Never appeared in any other song" is a large statement but I'll take it with salt for this song

YES

Simply brutal.

I'm seeing other people in the comments comparing this tune to other classics, so I'll throw "South Side of the Sky" by Yes onto that pile.

I was today years old when I found out the fat guy with the mask and axe in the music video was Boris Yeltsin...

Good job i like this song

I wish more songs had that many chords like this song has. Heck this isn't even Jazz and it has a lot of chords.

There ought to be more piano covers of Anyone Can Play Guiter.

Hey DBP you should do one on Happiness is a Warm Gun.

@DavidBennettPiano

Ай бұрын

@@arcynic5404 check out my video on “Songs with no chorus”, I covered it a bit there 😃😃

Analysis i needed

Hey David! Do you plan on making more videos where you create original songs or recreate existing ones? Those are some of the ones i enjoy the most from you Cheers

FINALLY for the hail of thieves you have at last made it huhu

Great stuff 👍

truly a magnum opus of any songs

Sounds like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in parts 🎸

You should collaborate with The Art Of Guitar. He does these great/hilarious videos about guitar tablature books and how inaccurate and terrible they often were. I remember having the OK Computer tab book as a teenager and suspecting even then that what it was telling me to play didn’t sound quite right

Very instructive video thank you ! Any idea on why, according to the couterpoint melody, Ed is not singing backing vocals until the "that's it Sir line" live ?

The only problem with this video is that I'm gonna drop it to listen to Paranoid Android now

6:20 I think you missed the E# E Eb chromatism that creates a nice link between A and Cb

When I’m in a glazing Radiohead for the 51836th time competition and my opponent is David Bennett Piano: