this ones optimistic. this one went to market.

@elspookyboi3874

11 ай бұрын

This one just came out of the swamp

@stereocranium

11 ай бұрын

This one drops a payload Fodder for the animals Living on animal farm

@JulianSanchez-fk7ly

11 ай бұрын

You can try the best you can...

@KillaB777

11 ай бұрын

​@@critiqueeverything3297You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can

@monkeylaser

10 ай бұрын

@@critiqueeverything3297 dam dam daram daram dam dam dam (guitar riff)

Love how he phrased this. Like listening to sad music is embracing the truth of reality and not living in denial. But that doesn't mean life is sad, it just means that there are terrible truths about life that we can acknowledge yet still live anyway. Thom and gang's music comforts us, there, there, despite everything, true love waits. And that's optimistic.

@harperfultz7627

11 ай бұрын

I see what you did there

@supaidoruno4040

10 ай бұрын

True. One of the important things I've learned from this band is that while on the surface it focuses on melancholy or something depressing, it actually helps us face things in life easier. The more that we are aware of how deep sadness or pessimism can get, the more we can face it and confront our feelings.

@user-jf1ib2ml8c

10 ай бұрын

Your comment is what makes me feel optimistic😊

@francoistouchette4954

10 ай бұрын

What you guys are talking about is the turning point in the life of most of the truest artists... I think it comes to you in time by a lot of pain/sadness endured here on Earth with the other humans and their obscure system everyday. I just say that because I'm going through it at this very moment and it really feels like some kind of deeper understanding of oneself by considering himself as much important and equal as his exterior world ...that are perceived by his senses and which are making one and only! At a certain turning point in his life... I never thought this would happen to me and I just turned 40!! And now I realize that this same message has always been expresssd in about 95% of the music bands I had been listening too since ever... The lyrics of the poetry are the same, but their meaning is way clearer. According me, this proves that notes can talk to you without words and that all arts should be cherished forever as they are probably humankind's salvation no matter whats coming in the future... Light/Dark/Mask/ Mirror

@francoistouchette4954

10 ай бұрын

@@supaidoruno4040 Personally, I think the main problem for the human race now is that the way to reach a better state of existence would be in giving instead of taking... And capitalism makes you take by using money. If you really consider it, why would you need to buy anything with money ...if you never gave away anything at the beginning??? 😶

Radiohead are melancholic and procure a beautiful perspective to the tragedy of life. They transmute pain into beauty.

@kingshawukee

5 ай бұрын

👍

@janisg7409

4 ай бұрын

Nicely said

@Shade_Tree_Mechanic

3 ай бұрын

Very eloquently stated.

@GreyMan45762

14 күн бұрын

Life is not a freakin tragedy guy. You can choose to stay that way though.

@nnahler

6 күн бұрын

@@GreyMan45762I don’t believe OP was labeling all life as tragic but rather recognizing that life is filled with tragedy along with many other wonderful and terrible things!

Wow,I've never thought of Radiohead as "sad"...just self-aware. I'm really amazed this is the general opinion...it proves what he said.

@wonderwalledit

9 ай бұрын

Same

@RC-hv1yx

8 ай бұрын

I mean, they’re my favorite band, but this is surprising to you guys? Their top hits are Creep, Exit Music, No Surprises, & Karma Police. That’s at least how the general public knows them, by those songs.

@wolfzmusic9706

8 ай бұрын

Imo loads of their songs are sad

@n.ringheim7720

8 ай бұрын

Not sad but melancholic

I don't know if I would be here without Radiohead, they have got me through some seriously tough times over the years.

@MarsMcCarthy

9 ай бұрын

Me too.

@inafridge8573

8 ай бұрын

Same here.

@SolaceWhore

8 ай бұрын

Give yourself some damn credit. If it wasn’t Radiohead you would’ve found another way to cope. Melodramatic. You would’ve made it through regardless because you’re more than likely stronger than you realize.

@Mariagracewhoplaysthebass

5 ай бұрын

I've said that many times before. Their music got me through years and YEARS of tough stuff.

@dannye7612

3 ай бұрын

They may have helped but don't sell yourself short. You kept yourself here.

"The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don't want to know anymore" I'm gonna tattoo that

@russkiy6ot

9 ай бұрын

Please don’t

@Edward-yq5oj

8 ай бұрын

Please don’t. Just stop being a woke liberal

@tyrone-dh6iy

8 ай бұрын

she is well documented conservative@@Edward-yq5oj

@Ixe2077

8 ай бұрын

​@@Edward-yq5ojPointlessly political

@Edward-yq5oj

8 ай бұрын

@@Ixe2077 Go take the knee for George Pink Floyd

“Never trust a happy song” - Grouplove

@GreyMan45762

14 күн бұрын

laughs in KGLW. there is way more to life than feeling sorry for yourself.

Music from Radiohead and Tom Yorke, They have help me to get out of my 25 years depression and to repairs myself and get forward. Thank you for all Tom

@shekeib

9 ай бұрын

radiohead only kept me depressed for 20 years, rip bro

OMG! He is exactly right. This is why sad music is so beautiful. Where is the beauty without the tragedy? (William Shakespeare agrees).

@intellectually_lazy

9 ай бұрын

i wish i could thumbs up your cute face

That is absolutely right. The saddest music, the most meaningful keeps us listening. Street Spirit being on my list of the greatest of all time.

“The moment people stop listening to sad music, they don’t want to know anymore” ❤ Wow! Never thought of it that way. If we can no longer connect with the empathy within us, then we are indeed in trouble.

I agree with Thom... Radiohead is one the most incredible bands in the world I ever knew! And God I wish that ...when I AM sad, Radiohead's music will always be there and available for me to listen to!! And so I really wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!!" for what Thom and his bandmates have been giving us through all the years!! ✌️❤

So true…. I feel the same… scary when people aren’t capable of feeling their emotions

@GreyMan45762

14 күн бұрын

thats all this band does lmao

Thom, so simplistic yet so profound ❤❤❤

Radiohead is badass.

@user-og7fg2lo3k

8 ай бұрын

why？

@user-og7fg2lo3k

8 ай бұрын

please tell me

@syrup-

3 ай бұрын

@@user-og7fg2lo3k'cause their music is badass. they themselves are badass. everything they draw inspiration from is badass.

Thom Yorke is an absolute legendary artist of all different times..,. He would have been good 2000 years ago and his music will be good still 2000 years from now

@nothabad

Ай бұрын

100%

gotta love this man, one of the few famous people who address directly negative emotions and emotional problems

Radiohead has never made me feel sad. It’s like they create a sad feeling that makes you feel at peace and calm. There are other bands that make sad music with the purpose of making you feel the sadness, and this optimism in RH is why they’re one of my favorites ever in any gente

I love Thom, one of my biggest heroes

Radiohead is one of my favorite bands!!!

@underated17

5 ай бұрын

Thom Yorke is so gorgeous especially in Fake Plastic Trees which is my favourite song and music videos!

That's true. The only time I ever start looking at Radiohead as "sad" is when I'm emotionally exhausted and don't want to "know" anymore.

@John.Christopher

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

Apart from Thom’s insight, I dig the interviewers point as well: “Don’t think the fight doesn’t lead to optimism or a brighter future”. There’s value in trying than not trying at all.

Yeah I always defend them because their music actually uplifts me. The soundscapes, minor modes, expressive, emotional singing. It makes you FEEL something. It’s the same with sad movies. They’re so loved because they make us feel SOMETHING in this apathetic, numb world.

Poetic it works as a quote in whole. He is a great artist.

People ask me a lot why I like so many “sad” songs, and until I’d gotten asked a few times I hadn’t ever thought of the songs I like as “sad”, they’re just beautiful songs. They’re the most cathartic songs to sing. I don’t listen to “Yesterday” when I want to cry, I listen to that song when I’m at peace and I want to sing along to something, when I feel open to falling into those deep, simple emotions. There’s such raw passion in sad music, I hear someone singing honestly and passionately. “Sad” doesn’t cross my mind, it’s just real

Sad or rather melancholic music always helps me crawl out of the pit of despair into having joy again.

Thom deserves all the hugs :3

Fake plastic trees is accutualy suprsingly optimistic Edit: I never said Fake plastic trees wasn't sad, I said it had optimisim. In it's lyrics it talks about "being the real thing" saying either there are a lot of fake people and she is a real pesron on she is just another fake person. It is very similar to creep(forgive me rh fans) but is shows different points. Creep is about a guy wanting a girl but he knows he isn't good enough for her. Fake plastic trees on the other hand, is about why she is worth it, why he is not just some simp. Also Fake plastic trees is sad and melancholy while street spirit is literaly about all this pressure building up on someone making them want to "fade out". I im trying to do is reprove the point that Thom made about how it can be sad but with a reason. Not a pointless whining. Edit: please don't argue with me, you can have your own interpretation to the songs as long as we agree that fake plastic trees is a great song

@unacuentadeyoutube13

9 ай бұрын

why? I just got into The Bends and that one seemed one of the most pessimistic of the album

@Mcperson823

9 ай бұрын

@@unacuentadeyoutube13 street spirit? Besides fake plastic trees compared to other songs is a breath of fresh air

@user-yj7cu5sk2w

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@Mcperson823i wouldn’t consider street spirit to be a pessimistic song any more than fake plastic trees is. fake plastic trees is imo actually a bit more bleak than street spirit, and street spirit is a PRIME example of radiohead songs that seem pessimistic and quite needlessly dreary when in actuality they’re kinda like snapshots of overarching humanity. overflowing with misery and hopelessness, but also twice that amount in love. fake plastic trees feels more like a traditionally pessimistic “creep” type of song in that it’s a picture of a life that sees no good in itself. a song that almost pities, or regrets the love it’s been written in. really, it’s actually quite a similar song to street spirit, now that i’m thinking about it. the two songs almost feel like cousins.

@Mcperson823

9 ай бұрын

​​@@user-yj7cu5sk2wI made an edit just for you

@inafridge8573

8 ай бұрын

Out of all Radiohead songs I DO feel that Fake Plastic Trees is one of their most depressing... but obviously the hope comes from the recognition that this isn't the real thing, that it's not real life and not real love. When you realize you're not going the right way, you can finally turn around.

Tom Yorke makes art out of music if you know about arts you can appreciate the the master pieces he can make!

Team Radiohead are geniuses ❤

Always found their music uplifting actually ❤

Radiohead is bliss

I’m ALWAYS inspired by Radiohead

@dreznoryorkekeenanbuckley2226

6 ай бұрын

Me too❤

Thom as usual on point abd sharp.

The beauty with many of their songs is they take you to a low point before building and rising with this hopeful energy

Thom gives great eye contact as a live performer and is inspirational to his fans through his passion and joy alone

I use Radiohead when working out. I find it's good for reflection, and moving onward from my sadness or bad situations. It's the light at the break of dawn that's really in their music, but you have to endure the darkness to appreciate it. Everything is just a moment or momentary emotion, healthy people move on.

Music is a way to transmit feelings and emotions in a poetic way that isn’t able to be done through any other medium, and Radiohead just feels real and visceral and raw and that’s why I love them and so many people do

They gave me immense succour. They still can. In the ninetees, they were as,or more important to me,than everyone and everything else. Literally. Profoundly important to me.

I listen to sad music to think and be on my personal zone

Dude, you couldn’t meet a more optimistic man. He knows exactly what’s going on.

Radiohead is about there being something more to life than just suffering and struggling

Street spirit suits my soul so well💚

@CharlotteRothmeier

9 ай бұрын

and the part at 3.34 in paranoid android is pure bliss to hear...ahhhh aahhh ahhhh ahhhh ahhh...love that part

I love Thom Yorke so much

Radiohead was always about being real with your emotions. About facing how you feel and not pretending. It was always that for me. It's okay to be sad and not pretend all the time.

Radiohead is my silver linings playbook

I stopped listening to sad music when my only child died at the age of twenty-four. I don't want to know anymore.

@johnnycochicken

10 ай бұрын

how are you?

@michaelgood4939

8 ай бұрын

I'm glad you are here to post this. You are strong.

i guess, the moment someone stops listening to sad music, is the saddest moment off all. because they are tired of knowing.

I could not love Radiohead more than I do. Have ruined me for most other music. Everything they do is a masterpiece.

Thoms super deep

i listen to sad music to be happy, thanks Radiohead

Ваша музыка меня слезами очищает от дерьма и я снова готова жить❤

I fkn luv Radiohead I am sad music forever

i only started listening to radio head this year. i mean yeah, i knew creep, but i had no idea. i got hail to the theif and ok computer at the starvation army when i was taking a break from having a cell phone, and all i could do was wonder why i spent so much of my life not listening to radio head, so fn amazing!

I was taking notice of Optimistic from Kid A and now on the same twenty minute bus trip I see this (I did search a Thom Yorke thing to get here) and thought "a little bit of Radiohead's music is literally Opti, Thom... Thom tell him about... ah he can't hear me he's in a KZread Short".

I find radiohead helps me confront complex or obscure emotions within me, which is something i do to move past them or just know them better. I dont see it as sad, it's just challenging. If you're not willing to look at your feelings properly then i think that leads to a less rich life expirience.

Love you Thom. You and your crew have been joining people through difficult times, giving them a bright spot in a world full of darkness.❤

climbing up the walls. amazing song honestly

Radiohead for life❤

The moment you stop listening to sad music is the moment you stop embracing your own humanity

melancholy, the beauty of heartache, immeasurably deep, makes this love so clear ... i cried for her river, it lead to the sea

To be optimistic starts knowing where we are. Which kind of world we're living in. That's what these boys has showed us. Thanks god.❤❤❤

Radiohead siempre será mi banda favorita, sin embargo ya no los escucho con tanta frecuencia. Volver a sus canciones cada cierto tiempo es como volver a enamorarse, aunque suene exagerado.

For alot of people I feel sad music can enlighten the mood when your sad but when you're happy it's not the mood anymore doesn't mean it's bad now, it could be your exit but If you're a overthinker sad songs may re enter you into a sad mood when your fine it just depends on the person.

Radiohead songs are deeply optimistic. Yes there are songs like Creep and Paranoid Android. But there's also True Love Waits and Reckoner and How To Disappear Completely. Their songs are more hopeful than sad. They are right around that point when bad things are in the past and good feelings are in the horizon.

Let down is optimistic

that description of radiohead’s music resonates with me heavily and i haven’t been able to come up with the words to properly articulate to someone how much the entire aesthetic of their sound just speaks to my soul on a spiritual level.

melancholy music makes me happy

Like Gustavo Cerati said "ponés canciones tristes para sentirte mejor"

A great in the game of music.

we've been blessed w A PIANO SESH its perfect for eding my night ty for the peaceful vibes

Radiohead was a huge influence in my music and younger days.

He is a great musician.The band is fabulous.

Society is sad. Music is therapy. Through hard times, my choice of music is mostly grindcore and jazz 🫠

Beautifully put ,Thom! You too apple music guy!

Pablo honey was one of the best albums of the 90s and 2000s.

One of my all time favorite bands, hands down.

Sud music makes me happy! That's why I am listing Radiohead !

You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can; the best you can is good enough.

Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and The National were the first three bands to pop in my mind with his description of RH’s sound. the melancholy overtones give me sense of coming to grips with the thought that the inevitable IS coming for everyone eventually and there is no stopping it. which you could take as sad and depressing, which, it is a bitter pill to swallow, sure, but like the interviewer says that below the “sad” emotions it pulls out of us their is optimistic messages. it helps bear the day to day tasks we must do on this rock to just accept just how ‘real’ reality is.

This made my day. Radiohead makes music for cinematic moments of life.

"How to disappear completely"

One of the best live performances for this song man

Toms the Greatest

I love Radiohead and im a VERY optimistic person 🎉

I feel the same way about my music

Radiohead thrives On Emotion the way that Nirvana utilized loud quiet loud. Every Radiohead progression contains some sort of conflicting minor chord, funny usually leads to a satisfying resolution

Brilliant man

When someone says "Radiohead is just depressing, that's why I don't like them", it tells me two things: first of all that they probably have a very one dimensional taste in music, and secondly that they probably aren't very interesting to talk to.

WE WANT YOU IN CONCERT !! Dear Radiohead !!! I don’t want to die without listen to you !!

Thats my poetry philosophy

they are the music Fredrick Neitszche would listen to and recommend.

I love thee so much

That's why i love Steven Wilson. ❤

He's the same guy in MTV Beach House 1993, saying "Fat, Ugly, Dead" screaming incoherently then jumping into the pool

He is my favorite of all time; I’m the happiest human I know and SAD MUSIC keeps me grounded; so hard to explain! I JUST ADORE HIMMMM

It's so weird that ever since discovering Pablo Honey I have not ever thought their music to be sad. Creep made me smile from the start. Old songs like Fake Plastic Trees fill me with peace. I get a feeling that I don't have to be anything else than just who I am. When Bends came out, I was in the military at 20 years old. I also was a metalhead. I hated every single day there, it's mandatory where I live. I tried to listen to metal songs, which had always made me feel brighter and better, but they lost their power during my service and it was really depressing. I also got dumped while I was there. Then I saw the High & Dry music video one day on the mess hall - it was like the sun would have illuminated my heart. That was really ironic considering what the song is all about. After I got out, it was Radiohead and Suede for me and life could not have been sweeter.

anyone have the full interview ?

Great band

@sqeewr

21 күн бұрын

fr

❤ ❤ ❤ Radiohead ❤❤ Thom's vocals