Paranoid Android (track)
by Radiohead
Paranoid Android appears on the following album(s) by Radiohead:
- OK Computer (track #2) (this album) (1997)
- The Best Of (track #2) (compilation) (2008)
- Desktop (track #1) (compilation) (1998)
- Desktop (track #4) (compilation) (1998)
- 5 Album Set (Box Set) (track #26) (compilation) (2012)
- OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 (track #2) (compilation) (2017)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/18/2026 19:10 | wizardalien | 9,010 | 67/100 |
| ! | 01/17/2026 14:41 | Robert_fripp | 823 | 86/100 |
| ! | 01/16/2026 16:29 | philschmil | 427 | 88/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2026 09:55 | mattkwyatt | 58 | 84/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2026 04:45 | dekumoogle93 | 12 | 87/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 94.5/100, a mean average of 92.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 94.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.8.
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talinhosgameplay 04/06/2025 18:12 | #308366
I can understand that in a musical level this is one of the best songs ever. However it never "spoke" to me, there are half a dozen Radiohead songs that I like more than this one. It is not even the one I like the most on this album.
This Is my favourite Radiohead song. I love the lyrics and Yorke's vocals
Pretty, pretty, good.
I probably listened to this song everyday since I found it around a year and a half ago my band covered this exquisite masterpiece from Radiohead. I can not even get into it. This song poisoned me at first, I listened to it because my friend had mentioned it to me and I didn't think much of it the first time I listened to it. In fact I listened to it only about two times and I took a break for about 2 days but it was stuck in my head and I had almost completely forgotten what song it was because I listen to a lot of music and I found it and haven't stopped listening to it since.
Still my all-time favorite song. The lyrics and schizophrenic atmosphere speak to a timely mood that has remained relevant all these years later, instrumentation is off the charts, and the musical ideas are pretty wild despite how accessible this song is, and never once does it overstay its welcome, but it isn't over too soon, either. It pulls from the best of every world, making it one of the masterpieces of art rock, let alone the best thing Radiohead's ever done. Easiest 10/10 I can ever give.
StefanR10 07/02/2019 18:46 | #238813
Good at all but not The best Song ever
One of the few Radiohead songs with at least one guitar solo, and it's dang good. It's such a magnum opus of a song, but honestly, 90 percent of their work is just that, but at least for this song, it's one of their best. It's really progressive and just out of this world, and it's one of those songs where I hear different sounds and instruments the more i listen to it, I just love it so much.
Lukeanaderdude 11/08/2018 17:01 | #224140
If I had to choose one song that I had to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be this one. I never get tired of it.
I came here to see if I was the only one that saw this song as Radiohead's Bohemian Rhapsody... looks like I'm not the only one!
pjohnsongolf 09/29/2018 03:23 | #221824
This is a perfect song. So many layers to it
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