Paranoid Android
December 14, 2005 4:33 PM   Subscribe

Paranoid Android Covers
posted by parallax7d (28 comments total)
 
The Brad Mehldau cover off of his Live in Tokyo CD, is absolutely wonderful. It's one of my favourite pieces of contemporary jazz piano, actually. He manages to take the already very spare progressions of Paranoid Android and strip them down even further, using them as a point he can depart and return to throughout the piece as he improvises. It works wonderfully, though it's much longer than the original if that's a concern.
posted by Pseudoephedrine at 4:42 PM on December 14, 2005


Mehldau has also made excellent interpretations of "Exit Music" and "Knives Out".
posted by mr.marx at 4:51 PM on December 14, 2005


Mehldau has a couple versions of "Paranoid Android" floating around...
posted by hototogisu at 4:54 PM on December 14, 2005


There's also that pianist who specializes in Chopin, wossname, who released an album called True Love Waits of Radiohead covers arranged for solo piano.
posted by kenko at 4:57 PM on December 14, 2005


Christopher O'Riley.
posted by kenko at 4:57 PM on December 14, 2005


I bid you all to listen to the original Radiohead version, then immediatley listen to the version in the second link.
posted by parallax7d at 5:00 PM on December 14, 2005


Don't forget Mr. Mayer.
posted by JPowers at 5:00 PM on December 14, 2005


Brad Mehldau is the new George Winston.
posted by bardic at 5:20 PM on December 14, 2005


From the url I assumed that the second link would be a cover by Ben Folds. I was very much mistaken... and thoroughly amused.
posted by Wingy at 5:37 PM on December 14, 2005


The second link is bad enough to be awesome. Nice post parallax7d.
posted by Popular Ethics at 5:38 PM on December 14, 2005




O'reilly put out a second radiohead piano album, kenko. it's called Hold Me To This, and it features a cover of Paranoid Android.
posted by carsonb at 5:47 PM on December 14, 2005


I got into a discussion the other day by the trash compactor about whether Radiohead was comparable to the Talking Heads from an "influential art-rock band of their respective decades" perspective. there was contention over which was a better affect: David Byrne's spastic shoulders vs. Thom Yorke's lazy eye.
posted by carsonb at 5:53 PM on December 14, 2005


The first link is kinda fun, but not knock-my-socks off good. Btw, it's not a marching band (which would have been cooler).

That second link is definitely terrible, but it gets a little funnier as it goes.

I couldn't get the .rams to work with real alternative ("Cannot render the file."). Wish I could.
posted by mrgrimm at 6:23 PM on December 14, 2005


carsonb: defiantly Thom Yorks eye. It's looking in fear and horror at the infinite corporate greed taking over world!
posted by Mach5 at 6:51 PM on December 14, 2005


That UMASS band sounds all right, but they've got nothing on the Devil's Workshop Big Band. ITMS link.
posted by emelenjr at 7:24 PM on December 14, 2005


And not one word about poor, old Marvin.
posted by SPrintF at 7:47 PM on December 14, 2005


I read somewhere that the line right before Marvin was introduced is "OK computer". I'm gonna whip out my copy, but don't know where to start looking.
posted by parallax7d at 7:58 PM on December 14, 2005


Rodeohead (warning: the mp3 will start playing as soon as the page starts loading).
posted by josephtate at 9:42 PM on December 14, 2005


"...Unborn Chicken voices in my head

What's that....
What is that?
That is just disgusting--"
posted by Jesse H Christ at 10:14 PM on December 14, 2005


It's amazing how that second link still captures the same spirit of the original. O for awsome.
posted by Foaf at 12:14 AM on December 15, 2005


great stuff thanks
posted by hypersloth at 12:45 AM on December 15, 2005


"Ow! Bit the recorder. Fuck."
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:25 AM on December 15, 2005


Life. Don't talk to me about life.
posted by toothgnip at 7:08 AM on December 15, 2005


That Rodeohead medley beats em all.

I got into a discussion the other day by the trash compactor about whether Radiohead was comparable to the Talking Heads from an "influential art-rock band of their respective decades" perspective. there was contention over which was a better affect: David Byrne's spastic shoulders vs. Thom Yorke's lazy eye.

Well, Radiohead are named after a Talking Heads song, so they're definitely comparable to TH. As for the better effect, I'd have to go with Thom Yorke's eye. And he even has Byrne beat in the spastic dancing department.
posted by Devils Slide at 1:56 AM on December 16, 2005


Another Mehldau lover here. That whole Live in Tokyo is fantastic. You can listen to the whole thing on the official site ("Album Preview").
posted by funambulist at 2:11 AM on December 16, 2005


(...sorry, not the whole thing, only approx. half of it.)
posted by funambulist at 2:19 AM on December 16, 2005


I read somewhere that the line right before Marvin was introduced is "OK computer".

"Look, Zaphod," she said, patting his arm, "don't worry about the aliens. They're just a couple of guys, I expect. I'll send the robot down to get them and bring them up here. Hey, Marvin!"

In the corner, the robot's head swung up sharply, but then wobbled about imperceptibly. It pulled itself up to its feet as if it was about five pounds heavier than it actually was, and made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room. It stopped in front of Trillian and seemed to stare through her left shoulder.

"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed," it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.

Chapter 11, pgs 90-1 in my mass market movie tie-in edition
posted by carsonb at 11:22 PM on December 16, 2005


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