No Surprises
"No Surprises" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997), in 1998. It was also released as a mini-album in Japan, titled No Surprises / Running from Demons. It features glockenspiel and a "childlike" sound inspired by the 1966 Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. The song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart. In 2011, NME named "No Surprises" the 107th-best track of the previous 15 years.
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| Single by Radiohead | ||||
| from the album OK Computer | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Recorded | July 1996 | |||
| Studio | Canned Applause, Didcot, Oxfordshire, England | |||
| Length | 3:49 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Radiohead | |||
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| "No Surprises" on YouTube | ||||
The music video, directed by Grant Gee, features the singer, Thom Yorke, wearing a helmet as it fills with water. Gee was inspired by the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, underwater escape acts and the television series UFO. He fixated on the lyric "a job that slowly kills you", and conceived a real-time video that would convey the feeling of "murderous seconds".