"You can last on that for months, and months, and months, and months."
"And you can last on that for months," Yorke quickly added. And that's a big rush, a really big rush." "It's a part where there isn't anything, and two days later there suddenly is something concrete and physical. "It's quite a delicate thing knowing what to put on top to make it better – or not to make it worse – and it's a kick, you know. I mean, it's kind of daunting and exciting in equal parts, I think. "Thom sits down and plays you ‘Exit Music' just with an acoustic guitar and says, 'Right, well, we're gonna put this on the album'. I tried to imagine that look."īill Hicks – for whom Radiohead's previous album The Bends was dedicated – would have approved of 'Paranoid Android's smirking and sinister closing lyric of ‘ God loves his children, yeah…' as the song nears its dramatic end.įor a succinct summation of the uneasy emotion, troubled mindset and, yes, humour, of this album, you need look no further than the computer voiced mid-album track ‘Fitter Happier.'Īs a description of modern life and how our fixation on having it all turns us into robots, programmed and directed by the insidious advertising machinery and mass media that surrounds us, its offers plenty of moments for a wry chuckle. "I couldn't sleep that night because of it. "There was a look in this woman's eyes that I'd never seen before anywhere," Yorke recounted to Q magazine in 1997. The lyric ‘ kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy' was a reference to a woman who lost the plot when a drink was spilled on her. The story at the heart of ‘Paranoid Android', a three-part epic that shifts restlessly and threateningly over six minutes, was a disturbing event that Yorke witnessed at a bar in LA.
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