| By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about No Surprises (page 5/ 11) ------ performed by Radiohead .. | Reviewer: Nizlopi | 9/6/08 'This is a nice song -- but spare me the philosophy -- this song is nothing more than an expression of the knowledge that selling melancholy songs to teenagers and people who act like they are teenagers well into adulthood is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel -- because people love to feel sorry for themselves.' This is the most intelligent comment I've seen on a song in a long time. Maybe they did want to have a 'deep meaning, but what you said worked for me. I'm a teenager. I like to feel sorry for myself. I'm like the proverbial fish in the Radiohead's barrel of money. oh please | Reviewer: posztoka | 9/7/08 Anonymous, maybe you should get to know more people. It's nothing unusual about being sad, it's not something only emo's do. And Radiohead is one of the few bands who doesn't try to sell suicide to teenagers who think they aren't enough for the measure and really feel sorry for themselfs because of that. oh please | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/26/08 This is a nice song -- but spare me the philosophy -- this song is nothing more than an expression of the knowledge that selling melancholy songs to teenagers and people who act like they are teenagers well into adulthood is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel -- because people love to feel sorry for themselves. Always Crashing In The Same Car.... | Reviewer: laughingnome | 8/2/08 As Morrisey of The Smiths once said: "Heaven knows I'm miserable now". Ditto as Talking Heads hinted at in 'Once In A Lifetime'. So The Radiohead song No Surprises deals with very similar subject matter to these two songs. Even Pleasant Valley Sunday by Neil Diamond Stooges The Monkeys. It is as if the social comment baton was passed relay style on to Radiohead. Though this song musically is very different to the three mentioned, the song remains the same.. Basically, social sheepishness is in all of us (our hunter gatherer gregarious nature), we all want to belong socially seek approval etc. So when every so often we as individuals (often thinkers),yearn for evolutionary change; the flip side of the coin is that we dare not speak our deepest thoughts in fear of losing everything in this socially and politically engineered liberal capitalist material world. The job, the career, "Such a pretty (lego)house" etc they could all go. Either way you look at it; Is it your downfall? Or your salvation? Its a question of attitude really. So advocating change is more often than not emotionally painful even socially alienating and ultimately can bring about rejection from our fellow humans even loved ones. Change and innovation can be one and the same thing. Involving an intellectual process. The person suffering from in socially conventionally terms a 'breakdown' is then often branded by those in societies comfort zone as an 'outsider'. Perceived to be 'thinking differently' or 'outside the box'. But all things decay and all things must pass its just the way it is otherwise there can be no no progress. Then 5 years later the sheep are playing catch up before being swept away in another economic recession once they have served their economic worker bee slave purpose... Remember the traumatised character in "No Surpises"? Well at this point he/she has choices to make; 1. Slowly suffocate. Keep quiet get drunk take other socially acceptable drugs etc turn away from your real self and pretend these feelings will just go away....; 2. Accept the need for some intellectual change with all the implied social risks; or you will have a breakdown of some sort anyway; Or 3. Be negative. Give in, become a victim and a loss to the intellectual cause and seek some sort of martyrdom. No Surprises | Reviewer: Abyss | 7/3/08 This is a song about what happens when you become dead inside. Floating, drifting far above the world. Participating in the routines of the everyday world, an imitation of life. But there is nothing left behind your eyes, no pain or joy, no sorrow or hope. Just the endless void, the endless abyss, the lost ones in the blizzard walking the endless road. You pretend. You try to kid yourself that you can live your life. You try to lose yourself in a million pointless details, and while away your life until its end. Each day the same, melting into one another, passing by in a blur across eyes that cannot see, eyes that have seen too much. And you're never really alive. Never really there. No Surprises | Reviewer: Abyss | 7/3/08 This is a song about what happens when you become dead inside. Floating, drifting far above the world. Participating in the routines of the everyday world, an imitation of life. But there is nothing left behind your eyes, no pain or joy, no sorrow or hope. Just the endless void, the endless abyss, the lost ones in the blizzard walking the endless road. You pretend. You try to kid yourself that you can live your life. You try to lose yourself in a million pointless details, and while away your life until its end. Each day the same, melting into one another, passing by in a blur across eyes that cannot see, eyes that have seen too much. And you're never really alive. Never really there this is my final fit | Reviewer: anticitizen | 6/22/08 I always thought this song, along with most in OK computer, was about escapism, struggling/embracing the dull & mediocre suburbia life. A dull unrewarding job, a pretty house with a pretty garden, all the stability with no alarms and no surprises, just routine. "My final fit" could be interpreted about suicide (or pondering it) but actually, and frighteningly, it could be about fully embracing this unrewarding life. Killing the last bit of humanity and becoming a pig in a cage on antibiotics? I think... | Reviewer: Luciole | 5/27/08 I think that, rather than himself committing suicide, it's the suicide of someone close, like a lover or a sister or a very close friend or something. I mean, I get the feeling that it's a song written for a woman. For example, the "bruises that won't heal" line might be a referance to an abusive relationship that someone is struggling to hide. Or something like that. It could also be seen as a social and political statement against the goverment and how the world is run. Maybe it even means that someone is committing suicide, rather than live with the way the world is now. But the "handshake of carbon-monoxide" might be pointing out that the world is dying from all this pollution. Not that I really see the song as political comentry, but, just some ideas. :3 <33 ---- | Reviewer: petey | 5/27/08 Why didn't I for once read the word depression in the comments? I think that's what the song's about - you loose touch with everyday reality, you dont care about anything, even living, because it just seems so meaningless, superficial and unworthy going through. For me, "Such a pretty house etc" again refers to the inability to appreciate things you otherwise would if you werent depressed - he just doesnt give a fuck about the pretty garden, about anything. He just wants peace and quiet - a handshake of CO about the pretty house | Reviewer: zoltán | 5/20/08 If we accept the suicidal interpretation then the lines "such a pretty house" etc. could describe what the writer of the song sees or hallucinates in the euphoric moments preceding the loss of consiousness due to CO-poisoning. Only in these few final moments could they find happiness. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 10 Pages | |
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