Paranoid Android Meaning
Shipham
work out whether it is just the ramblings of a paraoid androind or whether
there is a deeper meaning - a comment on society of some sort.
Even is I can't understand it - I guess I'll still love it anywway - but to
know what I was listening to would be great.
Michael Shipham
Jeff
That's what I heard when the song came out. I don't know, I'm not
into lyrics anyway. I guess I shouldn't have even responded to
this.Oh well, I love the song and the band!
jeff
Blind6
www.radiohead.com....the gallery part) mention that they come from a night the
band was hanging out in a bar in Los Angeles and the song lyrics are all about
feelings for the people he had there.....thom's quotes on those pages pretty
much sum it all up from there
the video for 'paranoid android' dives a little more into the theme that
religion and music,art, etc. are all synononimous....that if you have something
pure that you love, inner peace will follow....
just my opinion....hope it helps,
ben
DAYKARAK
>I believe it's supposed to be about the Fall of the Roman Empire.
>That's what I heard when the song came out. I don't know, I'm not
>into lyrics anyway.
"The Fall of the Roman Empire" being significant because it's got something to
do with progress...Rome wasn't built in a day, but it sure as hell didn't take
long for it to die out once it got too big for itself... Put that in context
with the song, throw in Thom's story about that girl in the bar in LA, and it's
all pretty clear.
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devi
> do with progress...Rome wasn't built in a day, but it sure as hell didn't take
> long for it to die out once it got too big for itself... Put that in context
> with the song, throw in Thom's story about that girl in the bar in LA, and it's
> all pretty clear.
but there was a rumour floating around here that the sng was somehow actually about
magnus carlsson (or whatever - the guy tat makes Robin) i dont know how thats
supposed to fit in, or how it can be true, whatever....
l.
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Lyons2187
>Can anyone supply a 'meaning' for song paranoid android. I really can't
>work out whether it is just the ramblings of a paraoid androind or whether
>there is a deeper meaning - a comment on society of some sort.
"Tibet is the spiritual home of the 20th century. America is the Roman
Empire."--Thom Yorke
this is taken from
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The people in the song are Americans.
Dunc...@aol.com
dayk...@aol.com (DAYKARAK) wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> >I believe it's supposed to be about the Fall of the Roman Empire.
> >That's what I heard when the song came out. I don't know, I'm not
> >into lyrics anyway.
I read in Select than Thom wrote the lines about `The unborn chicken noise` to
represen the backgound noise of society
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Tim Byron.
> "The Fall of the Roman Empire" being significant because it's got something to
> do with progress...Rome wasn't built in a day, but it sure as hell didn't take
> long for it to die out once it got too big for itself...
*actually*
The Roman empire took over a thousand years to die out, once it had
"gotten too big for itself".
You can say the peak of the Roman empire occured around the reigns of
Augustus, Tiberius, and Claudius, right? There was another 400 years
between then and when Rome to be abandoned and taken over by the goths.
If you consider the republic to be the peak of Roman civilisation (just
before old Tib. Gracchus and co. started the downfall) then make that
figure 550 years.
And after that, there was another thousand years of roman emperors in
Constantinople/Istanbul, before they were eventually conquered by the
Ottoman empire in about 1300BC.
The roman empire sure wasn't destroyed in a day.
I think what Thom might have been saying about the Roman Empire, was
that the Roman Empire was basically brought down by the corruption and
wealth of those in power. Add that to the LA bar thang, and then you
might be getting the picture, yo!
Tim.
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devi
Jase comes close to the real point:
> Empire but paranoia and conflict within its governing body. This can be
> seen, I believe, in a few lines that he writes. "Please can you stop the
> noise I'm trying to get some rest. From all the unborn chicken noises in my
> head", also "the dust and the screaming, the yuppies networking, the panic
> the vomit".
>
> The part "reign down from a great height" is the actualy and eventual
> destruction of the huge empire.
>
> I guess in the same way "Paranoid" the android is going to eventually
> destroy himself the same way - internal, not external pressures.
isn't the point that the lyrics are so universal.
the general paranoia, destruction, and constant noise
it applies to everything now.
why anyone would need a specific sotry to a song that so obviously says it all
in an enlightened/saddend/funny tone
i know they thinkthe song is a joke, but it's success is in it's ability to
cover SO much both with a sense of humor and irony as well as with despair.
IMNSHO
Health Hazard
>destruction of the huge empire.
I'll see you at Pedanticon '99, I know, but it says 'rain down' in my
lyrics. Are you sure you're not reading just a tad too much in there?
Love Theo
Alexi
>I'll see you at Pedanticon '99, I know, but it says 'rain down' in my
>lyrics. Are you sure you're not reading just a tad too much in there?
But then again aren't we all?
I read this brilliant line by line inicisive dissection of Street
Spirit once with the author asserting beyond a shadow of a doubt that
'this was what Thom meant' only to read an interview a week later in
which the whole thing was described as 'stream of consciousness' and
made up on the spot.
Paranoid Android isn't about an android that's paranoid. The character
from Hitchikers is. The song refers to that. The video was made
without Carlsson having heard the song and the band in a bar is
co-incidental. Or so I read somewhere. No references unless the
pedants insist.
Cheers
Alexi
Paranoia3
listened to the song for 8 hours straight whilst animating the video...
But who knows?
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Matthew Wootton
<para...@aol.comidols> writes
>Actaully, i read that magnus carlson (or whomever created the video) sat and
>listened to the song for 8 hours straight whilst animating the video...
I thought Magnus wasn't allowed to hear the song before he did the
video, so that the two would have nothing to do with each other. Prolly
wrong.
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Tim Byron.
of the song to use for the video. I mean, how the hell do you make a
music video without the music?
(don't answer that, i'm sure someone will do it eventually just to
piss me off.)
Have a happy boxing day!
(most under-rated public holiday)
Tim.
Matthew Wootton wrote:
> I thought Magnus wasn't allowed to hear the song before he did the
> video, so that the two would have nothing to do with each other. Prolly
> wrong.
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