My favorite Radiohead record. This album touches me deeply. At one point or another I'm sure we can all identify with the feelings of isolation and and despair that are on this record. Although it does have those themes of an impersonal and artificial society which has become so in part because of technology, still this record is absolutely beautiful! Stunning! Gorgeous! We all know Paranoid Android and Karma police are awesome, but Exit Music is so dreamy and haunting as a lead in to Let Down. Few songs can pick me up like Let Down can. I have no idea how many times I have listened to that song. By the time it gets to the line "you know, you know where you are with", it's like someone has grabbed me by the spine and lifted me up into the air! The song feels like it actually lifts me. The high point of this record for me is the low point. No Surprises is the stand out track lyrically on an album that is about as strong as a modern rock album can be. When I am feeling tired and weak and powerless, this song is like therapy. It's lullaby. Whenever I read about some obviously innocent person being harassed by the TSA or Obama wasting billions of dollars with nothing to show for it, I think of these words. After listening to this song, I still feel helpless and weak, but I don't feel alone.
A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent
This is my final fit, my final bellyache with
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please
Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)
God, I love this record so much. It means more and more as the years go by.
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