Subterranean Homesick Alien-Radiohead

 English Comp. I 26 October 2009 Subterranean Homesick Alien-Radiohead Radiohead’s take on “Subterranean Homesick Alien” in the album Ok Computer is serene and calm. Listening to their album and this song particularly with the tone of voice makes me sleepy, dreamy and full of thoughts. Many different things come to mind when I think of this prose piece. In fact, many things come to mind when thinking of other songs by Radiohead such as Karma police and others. The song sounds untroubled yet stressed when it mentions that the small town is uptight. The people are uptight. He is uptight as well in the end. Out of thought it makes me wonder if the complacency of thoughts coincides with his surroundings in the end. The song somewhat drifts on the verge of being out of touch with reality and includes things like aliens to make it more imaginative. For example, the lead singer in this poetic lyric piece is full of dreamy thoughts and observes his surrounding and then eventually becomes his surroundings as he drifts into the same “uptight” spaces as they do. He brings out how he would want to get on an “Aliens beautiful ship, have them show him the world as he’d love to see it, and tell all his friends though they’d never believe it.” He brings out how his friends would consider him to have “lost it completely” and that he could use the excuse to, “show them the stars the same and the meaning of life,” the same way the aliens had shown him in his dream. Even though his friends might shut him away he mentions how he would be all right. Then he drifts back into his real surrounding in the end and says I’ll be Uptight..I’ll be Uptight.” Showing the flashback and flash-forward in his dreams; he dazes from a daydream back into reality. [OK Computer, Audio CD (July 1, 1997) Capitol (Radiohead)]