(That's it sir, you're leaving) the decision to through with it and take this person's life The rain down part would be where you would see in slow motion the victim pulling the trigger or making that final decision to go beyond the point of no return and the second time you hear this is when the victim is actually shooting the person and maybe these are the things that are playing in his head or it could be all of those memories of being tormented flooding back into his mind while he is making that brutal decision: Why don't you remember my name?), but now that the tormentor has a gun pointed at him he is using his name (I guess he does). Off with his head man, off with his head man Perhaps this jock-type has called the singer names and never called him by his rightful name, and this angers the singer (You don't remember, you don't remember, why don't you remember my name So then the jock-type begs for his life, a kicking, squealing gucci little piggie. The jock-type tells him, "I do really like you." but his opinion is no longer of any consequence. So this person comes in with a gun and comes after this tormentor and everyone does what he says because he's got a gun (When I am king, you will be first against the wall). The person fears for his safety daily, but still refuses to assimilate and therefore will remain an outsider (I am paranoid, but not an android). One interpretation I get from it is the outsider who watches the upper-class born-again jocks with disgust and mocks them until the outsider decides to make them pay for their hypocrisy. Zilch.General CommentI think in tying the lyrics together to mean one thing creates a violent allegory where the victim finally exacts revenge on his tormentors while mocking their beliefs and their traits. And OK Computer placed at Number Five on our recent “125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years” list… making it, well, our choice for the best album of the past 15 years, for sure. In fact, the recent New York City visitors were SPIN’s 1997 “Band of the Year.” They had our Number Two album of that year, as well, trailing only Cornershop’s still too often overlooked When I Was Born for the 7th Time.
Then again, it’s not like we haven’t lavished praise on Radiohead or OK Computer.
Also beating out “Paranoid Android”: Prodigy’s “Firestarter,” Erykah Badu’s “On and On,” Oasis’s “D’You Know What I Mean,” Daft Punk’s “Da Funk,” Blur’s “Song 2,” the Chemical Brothers’ “Bock Rockin Beats,” and Spice Girls’ “Wannabe.” So. What did? Well, the Notorious B.I.G.’s brashly overpowering “Hypnotize,” Hanson’s insanely hooky “MMMBop,” and the inescapably funky “Mo Money Mo Problems,” featuring Biggie again along with Ma$e and the Diddy formerly known as Puff Daddy - and that’s just for starters.
But the best since the American release of the Tamagotchi? Since Elton John’s sappy piano-man tribute to Princess Diana? Really?įor the record, the Weezer-covered Radiohead idiot-tech epic didn’t appear on SPIN’s 1997 “Top 20 Singles” list. Capturing a certain pre-millennial dystopian unease, alternative rock’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” - OK, at least its “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” - was the first song released from the British rockers’ landmark 1997 album OK Computer, and it’s definitely a tough one to top. Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” is the best song of the last 15 years, according to British music magazine NME.
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