It just spun and spun and it got very Deep Purple and went off." An early extended version was included on the 2019 compilation MiniDiscs. Producer Nigel Godrich said: "Nothing really happened with the outro. Greenwood said later that the organ solo was "hard to listen to without clutching the sofa for support". We'd bring out the glockenspiel and it would be really, really funny." Singer Thom Yorke sarcastically referred to the version as "a Pink Floyd cover". Guitarist Ed O'Brien said: "We'd be pissing ourselves while we played. The first version was over 14 minutes long and included a long Hammond organ outro performed by Jonny Greenwood. Further reference points during composition were Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody" and the work of the Pixies. Inspired by the through-composed musical structure (a non-repeating narrative of musical ideas) of the Beatles' " Happiness Is a Warm Gun", Radiohead fused parts from three different songs. Writing and recording Īlong with most of the rest of OK Computer, "Paranoid Android" was recorded in actress Jane Seymour's 15th-century mansion near the village of St Catherine, near Bath, Somerset. It was included in the 2008 Radiohead: The Best Of. The track has been covered by artists in a variety of genres. At the 1998 Brit Awards, the song was nominated for Best British Single. Its animated music video, directed by Magnus Carlsson, was placed on heavy rotation on MTV, although the network censored portions containing nudity in the US. The track has appeared regularly on lists of the best songs of all time, including NME 's and Rolling Stone 's respective 500 Greatest Songs of All Time lists. "Paranoid Android" charted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, their highest-charting position in the UK to date, and received acclaim from music critics, many of whom compared it to the songs " Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by The Beatles and " Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
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The name is taken from Marvin the Paranoid Android from the science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The song is over six minutes long and contains four sections. The lyrics were written by singer Thom Yorke following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. " Paranoid Android" is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album OK Computer (1997) on. For other uses, see Paranoid Android (disambiguation).
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