History Is Over (2021)

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Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 16.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As the end of the 20th century approached, Radiohead took to the recording studio to capture the sound of a society that felt like it was fraying at the edges. Many people had high hopes for the new millennium, but for others a low hum of anxiety lurked just beneath the surface as the world changed rapidly and fears of a Y2K meltdown loomed.

Amidst all the unease, the famed British band began recording their highly anticipated follow ups to their career-changing album OK Computer. Those two albums, Kid A and Amnesiac, released in 2000 and 2001, were entrancing and eerie — they documented the struggle to redefine humanity, recalibrate, and get a grip on an uncertain world. In this episode, we travel back to the turn of the millennium with Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood and the music of Kid A and Amnesiac.

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0:00.0	I keep thinking of this phrase, I kept writing in one of my books.
0:15.6	I've born a monster.
0:18.9	You can see it when you look out your window.
0:21.0	People don't want passmen, say, get a job on.
0:24.0	Or when you turn on your television.
0:25.7	The American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.
0:31.9	It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
0:36.4	I'm not a problem, I'm a human being.
0:39.6	Somehow we'd mutate it and it was not necessarily a good thing.
0:43.9	The A and then the ring around it?
0:45.8	At?
0:46.8	See, that's what I said.
0:47.8	Case that you thought it was about.
0:48.8	Thank you so much Facebook for hosting.
0:50.4	What do you think about it?
0:52.6	You know, progress is not necessarily a good thing.
0:55.0	Our success was not necessarily a good thing.
0:57.2	The day and the day.
0:58.4	Tomorrow, tomorrow.
0:59.4	We need to do the nature.
1:00.4	Oh wow.
1:01.4	The spiral will probably have a wall in the back.
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