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The lead single from 'OK Computer', 'Paranoid Android' runs over six minutes and forgoes any conventional radio chorus, a choice Capitol Records nonetheless supported. Thom Yorke wrote the lyrics following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar, the song characterised by three distinct moods that shift between states of mind. The result is bleak but intentionally humorous, moving from exhausted plea to sneering dismissal to a final plea for deliverance.
Yorke sings 'ambition makes you look pretty ugly', the track cataloguing yuppie networking, vomit, panic, and a Gucci-clad figure kicking and squealing. The paranoid refrain insists on a human consciousness beneath the noise, whilst the closing section repeats its invocation of rain from a great height. The structure refuses to settle, each movement pulling against the last, the whole thing designed to resist the very format it was released into.
"Paranoid Android" is a single by Radiohead, from the album OK Computer, released 20th May 1997. The track is 6:27 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 16 articles about Radiohead.
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