:Space Week: Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

Ah, Radiohead. I dont really like picking favorites but if someone were to come up to me and ask me what my favorite band was and I had to say the first thing that popped into my mind, it would be them. Or if I were held at gunpoint and told to name my favorite album, it would probably be OK Computer. The album is just perfect. Its got insane rockouts, lulling piano pieces and very intricate messages about technology and human beings.
"Subterranean Homesick Alien," whose title is a play on Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a song contemplating alien abduction and getting the chance to see the universe for what it really is as opposed to what we see on Earth. Something I find awesome. If I had a chance to get abducted and not get probed I'd do it just to get off of the dump of a planet. Synths and Jonny Greenwood's beautiful guitar work mesh perfectly in this song creating a dizzying airy mood. Thom Yorke sings in his longing falsetto to add to the  mood.

The breath of the morning I keep forgetting
The smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet for cracks in the pavement

Up above aliens hover
Making home movies for the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets

They're all uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight

I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it

I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life
They'd shut me away but I'd be alright, alright
I'm alright, alright

I'm just uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight, uptight
Uptight