Radiohead - Paranoid Android (Later Archive 1997)

Radiohead perform Paranoid Android on Later... with Jools Holland in 1997.

[booled]

How does someone even COME UP with these chord progressions? Radiohead is something else man…

[FatLeonard]

It's crazy that this song is 27 years old now and it still feels ahead of it's time compared to modern rock bands

[simonsigns]

As a Deaf person, I'm using a tubular sound bar to feel the music.... The rhythm of the bass, climax of the whole sound is just simply outstanding

[lusion]

this is one of the greatest songs of all time

[mindovermarrow]

Johnny's guitar playing is just insane. No histrionics, no flamboyance, just pure focus and epic, epic shredding. I love it.

[ramehtaz]

The "Rain Down" segment is one of the greatest musical compositions of all time in my opinion, but this is further amplified by the sheer perfection of this live performance. Truly remarkable.

[bincy]

Every member of the band is so talented

[nadyameanshope]

Now I get why Radiohead is legendary. This sounds even better than a studio version!

[davidwyatt]

They say "Never meet your heroes" but I met Ed O'Brien once and he is genuinely one of the nicest human beings I've ever met in my life! 😄

[hawsrulebegin]

1997. I was homeless. Living in a park in Munich. One day I thought I was dying. This song was being played on a ghetto blaster by someone. Lying in the park grass, hearing this, thinking I was dying. It was perfect. Needless to say. I didn’t die that day. What an incredible piece of music.

[solskjaer]

This was my generation's Bohemian Rhapsody. It's just such a ridiculously incredible song.

[jamesmikula]

Everyone plays great on this, but seeing Jonny go from instrument to instrument flawlessly is incredible. He manages to make it back to the Rhodes piano back to his guitar and to the other keyboards without missing a beat.

[mojack]

Its fascinating watching Jonny run from one instrument to the other during this song, cover multiple parts.

[pauldeverill]

As a guitar player obviously johnny's parts are amazing....but this song clearly shows how underatted thom is as guitar player...they ain't easy chords and there are a LOT of they carry the whole song...it's just amazing...the whole thing is a fuckn masterpiece

[vickytaylor]

I still believe this is one of the greatest live performances ever..I mean the "Rain Down" segment and the blending of Ed O'Briens vocals with Thom's and Johnny's guitar and everything..it's a masterpiece...

[Grecianfan]

I don't say this lightly but those that witnessed this in the studio, probably saw the greatest live music track ever recorded in the TV era so far.

[bashab]

When I first heard this album I didn’t think it would be possible to perform it live, I didn’t realise it was so rooted in a foundation of instrumentation, believing it had to have come from a computer, was never so happy to be wrong, and that is why they are geniuses.

[urwackdude]

i’m a 15 year old girl watching this for the first time and this is one of the most incredible songs and performances i’ve seen.

[kafka]

One of the best performances of Paranoid Android.

[maxsinclair]

Thanks to the studio crew at bbc for capturing this perfectly