My history as a music fan can honestly be divided into before OK Computer and after OK Computer. I still hate that video today, partially because it still grosses me out but mostly because it delayed my embrace of what would become the most important band of my life, one that provided me with countless instances of sensory bliss and opened the door to a whole new world of undiscovered sounds. So I filed Radiohead away as a band I would probably never get and went back to obsessing over Metallica tabs. A part of me was intrigued, but mostly I was repulsed. The images are supposed to be troubling, and they definitely troubled me, but I was just as disturbed by the music, which matched whiny falsetto whimpering with a bizarre acoustic chord progression and some jarring electric jolts. Meek, bewildered slackers Robin and Benjamin casually amble through a day involving a sex worker in a tree, grotesque spectacles in a bar, topless mermaids, an angel in a helicopter, and an obese businessman who dons BDSM attire on a bridge and accidentally cuts his own limbs off with an ax. As a sheltered suburban middle schooler, I had no idea what to make of the clip, a gruesome cartoon of distinctly ’90s-MTV vintage starring characters from Swedish animator Magnus Carlsson’s series Robin. ![]() The first time I saw the “Paranoid Android” video, it made me hate Radiohead for the next three years.
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