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}} "Paranoid Android" is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, featured on their 1997 third studio album ''OK Computer''. The lyrics of the darkly humorous song were written primarily by singer Thom Yorke, following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. The song is more than six minutes long and contains four distinct sections. "Paranoid Android" takes its name from Marvin the Paranoid Android of Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series. When released as the lead single from ''OK Computer'', "Paranoid Android" charted at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It was well received by music critics and highlighted in many reviews of ''OK Computer''. The track has appeared regularly on lists of the best songs of all time, including ''Rolling Stone''s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Its animated music video, directed by Magnus Carlsson, was placed on heavy rotation on MTV, although the network censored portions containing nudity in the US. At the 1998 Brit Awards, the song was nominated for Best British Single. Since its release, the track has been covered by numerous artists working in a variety of musical genres. The song also served as the ending theme for the 2006 cyberpunk anime series Ergo Proxy. In 2008, the song was included in the ''Radiohead: The Best Of'' collection. == Background and recording == In composing "Paranoid Android", Radiohead fused together parts from three different songs, each of which had been written by a different member of the band. The idea to combine the pieces into a single track was inspired in part by the format and structure of The Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". Colin Greenwood admitted that the band, in attempting it to see if they could make the disparate elements work together, "felt like irresponsible schoolboys who were doing this ... naughty thing, 'cause nobody does a six-and-a-half-minute song with all these changes. It's ridiculous".〔Randall, 2002. pp. 214–215.〕 The song was at first intended to be humorous, and took its title from Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series of books. Yorke has said the title "was chosen as a joke. It was like, 'Oh, I'm so depressed.' And I just thought, that's great. That's how people would ''like'' me to be. And that was the end of writing about anything personal in the song. The rest of the song is not personal at all."〔Sakamoto, John (2 June 1997). "Radiohead talk about their new video". Jam!. Accessed 20 October 2008.〕 In an early interview, Colin Greenwood described it "just a joke, a laugh, getting wasted together over a couple of evenings and putting some different pieces together".〔Jabba (February 1998). "Interview with Colin Greenwood". Channel V.〕 The band used Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the work of the Pixies as reference points while writing; yet Ed O'Brien denies they wrote "a 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for the nineties", and Jonny Greenwood considers it too tense and simple to rival Queen's song.〔Sutherland, Mark (31 May 1997). "Return of the Mac!". ''Melody Maker''.〕 "Paranoid Android" was recorded in actress Jane Seymour's 15th century mansion near the village of St Catherine, near Bath, Somerset.〔(Paranoid Android ) (9 December 2004). ''Rolling Stone''. Accessed 4 October 2008. 〕 The first edit was over 14 minutes long and included a long organ interlude performed by Jonny Greenwood.〔"Thom Yorke loves to skank". ''Q''. 12 August 2002.〕〔 Radiohead played this extended version during a tour with Alanis Morissette in September 1996. O'Brien said "when we started playing it live, it was completely hilarious. There was a rave down section and a Hammond organ outro, and we'd be pissing ourselves while we played. We'd bring out the glockenspiel and it would be really, really funny."〔Doheny, 2002. p. 62.〕 Before the song's first live performance, Yorke told audiences that "()f you can have sex to this one, you're fucking weird."〔Haynes, Gavin (26 September 2008). (TV On The Radio – Live Reviews ). ''NME''. Accessed 9 October 2008.〕 He also sarcastically referred to the version of the song played during the tour as "a Pink Floyd cover".〔Footman, 2007. p. 54〕 Radiohead were inspired by the editing of The Beatles' ''Magical Mystery Tour'' (described by Colin Greenwood as "brutal"), to shorten the song to a final six and a half minutes,〔Randall, 2004. pp. 150–151.〕 a process that led to Jonny Greenwood's organ section being replaced by a substantially shorter guitar fade out.〔Kitts, 2002. p. 151.〕 However, it took the band a year and a half to learn how to play the final version in live performance.〔"Airheads". ''Rip It Up''. June 2001.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paranoid Android」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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