1,685,788 plays (377,071 listeners)
Many people mistook the computerized voice on this track for that of physicist Stephen Hawking. The strange voice was, in fact, created by Thom on his Mac computer. He recorded it one night in an isolated area of the rehearsal space that the band had set up. Ed: “Thom basically had this checklist, like a nineties checklist if you like, and he had written it out. There is a bit of him playing piano, in the rehearsal room. He was very drunk one night, which you can tell by the sloppy playing on it, and he just played out this melody and stuff. He was very anxious that it wasn’t him saying - this voice is neutral. By the computer saying it, it hasen’t become a bit of a pretentious art-wank, it’s something neutral in the way that the computer stumbles over words and doesn’t get the pronunciation or the inflections right.” Adds Thom: “The reason ‘Fitter Happier’ exists is ‘cos of mental background noise. Some days you’re in a disturbed state and it moves to the front.” The track was used as an entrance song for the band on their 1997 tour.
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Shouts
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
5/10
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Hempoki wrote:
Brainswashiest song ever.
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boozec wrote:
The greatest song ever made.
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jojowas wrote:
The fact that this track has so many plays and shouts just speaks for itself : Radiohead fans are as pretentious as their idols. Artfags.
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shineslikegold wrote:
oh hey, my life.
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Endri-FM wrote:
1,651,640 plays (370,924 listeners) lol xD
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malentedeadfuck wrote:
Anyway it has melody. I love it.
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Sunshine9908 wrote:
creeps me out but i love it.
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mikecampoviejo wrote:
this is a link song, not a song to listen apart from the all album. [2]
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RIPELIVEJAM wrote:
every detached robotic phrase of this song is like a gut punch. it's so essential to this album.
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hug_in_a_box wrote:
it's so disturbing and true at the same time...
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rcstars wrote:
best radiohead song
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paintedover wrote:
this song creates a whirlwind inside my head.
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pigajv wrote:
“The reason ‘Fitter Happier’ exists is ‘cos of mental background noise. Some days you’re in a disturbed state and it moves to the front.” Listening to it over and over again in that state
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jsas818 wrote:
a cat tied to a stick
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danydaniella wrote:
fitter, happier, more productive
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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
"No more microwave dinners" blasphemy!
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JoelsJokeKids wrote:
So good.
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Gudinge wrote:
spooky, love it
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elgambitero wrote:
da miedo
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