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Subterranean Homesick Alien

Certain Songs #1772: Radiohead – “Subterranean Homesick Alien”

March 11, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: OK Computer
Year: 1997

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While I kind of suspect that “Subterranean Homesick Alien” was written because someone came up with Dylan-referencing title and they all thought was too good not to write a song around it, it’s also one of the coolest, spookiest songs on this cool, spooky album.

Set around a strutting, disjointed Phil Selway beat, echoing electric piano and guitars that sound like spaceships that are hovering just out of your peripheral vision “Subterranean Homesick Alien” plays with multiple meanings of “alien,” as he sounds so alienated from his life that he welcomes abduction from aliens he figures see us as entertainment.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: OK Computer, Radiohead, Subterranean Homesick Alien

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