Weezer post a studio cover of Radiohead's “Paranoid Android”

Weezer put a studio performance of “Paranoid Android” on their YouTube channel on 27 May, with no warning and no reason given. For weeks they had been trailing a different cover on Twitter, one for the Cars 2 soundtrack; this one simply appeared. Josh Freese, the session drummer, plays on it.

It keeps close to the original on OK Computer, and most reviewers like the playing. Beats Per Minute and the blog We All Want Someone To Shout For both pick out the voice of Rivers Cuomo, Weezer's singer, as the part that fits the song least, and Music Feeds finds the band looking more solemn than in any video they have made.

It is not their first Radiohead song. Weezer once played “Creep” with fans joining in on acoustic guitars. Ray Padgett of Cover Me takes the care that went into the recording and the filming as a sign that more covers are coming.

Weezer covering Paranoid Android, posted on their channel on 27 May 2011· weezerwatch on youtube →