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"Fitter Happier" by Radiohead
From "Ok Computer"
Transcribed by Steven McGovern
There is actually only piano is this but this is it for guitar
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Starts at "a patient better driver......
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....calm, fitter, healthier......
Steven McGovern
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Anthony Average |
#1 by Anthony Pardee at Apr 18, 1970 at 11:05 AM EST |
| jeezus, 1984 makes so many references to radiohead, wait... flip that around. | |
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Mikel Average |
#2 by Mikel A. at Sep 19, 1971 at 8:05 PM EST |
| The computer voice is telling of a man who changed his life around and became fitter, happier, and more productive. It tells the drawbacks of being perfect, in general (whether a person or a society). Striving for perfection leads to depression. | |
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Jer Average |
#3 by Jer at Nov 23, 1972 at 3:36 AM EST |
| When radiohead was recording OK Computer. They rented out a house to do it in. They like recorded parts in different rooms and all this crazy shit. For a while, thom was taking clippings from magazines and newspapers and finally one night he got drunk and went on a Mac computer and just put all the clippings he saved in to the computer and that's where fitter happier came from. (Read in Radiohead: From a great height) | |
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Bye! Average |
#4 by Bye! at Mar 5, 1978 at 11:38 PM EST |
| Very weird song, but good. Immediately, you notice that speaker is actually a computerized voice, which lets you know that the lifestyle it describes is too scheduled and perfect according to examples set by "experts" and such that it couldn't possibly be real. He goes on, desribing how fit, happy, and productive he is, and how he's kind to all animals, has a very safe car, is a patient and better driver, eats well, etc... As the song goes along, you notice the tone of the music getting more ominous and sad, hinting that there's still something missing in this "ideal" lifestyle. He says "Concerned, but powerless" which reveals that the speaker can do nothing and is, basically, as he proclaims later like "a pig in a cage on antibiotics". Apparently, living the so-called "Ideal" lifestyle is so dehumanizing that it basically rots your soul into an oblivion, and you basically become a shell of a person, not feeling or loving, which is a fate even worse than death. Man... | |
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Kornowski - Wanna Be |
#5 by Kornowski - Im не русский, Бог Черт возьми! at Nov 7, 1981 at 12:11 AM EST |
| this song is just awesome. when i first heard it, i was like, what the hell is this? it was just totally weird. to me it is about the ideal life--the life we are expected to live, as happier people. but as the song goes, and in the computerized, monotonous voice of the computer, you can tell that that ideal life is unachievable because it isn't all that it's cracked up to be, that in truth it isn't the ideal lifestyle, it's the lifestyle people want and expect you to live because it leaves you emotionless and therefore not human. | |
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♥WeEzY Average |
#6 by ♥WeEzY♥ at Jul 7, 1984 at 9:11 PM EST |
| the computer voice is prof hawkings,he who wrote the book a breif history of time/universe. | |
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cody Average |
#7 by cody jay at Sep 29, 1986 at 5:22 PM EST |
| my girlfriend actually thought the voice was of stephen hawkings. hahaha | |
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Joan Average |
#8 by Joan Rius at Jan 7, 1989 at 11:41 AM EST |
| 1984 | |
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Venti Average |
#9 by Venti at Feb 15, 1989 at 2:57 AM EST |
| everyone thank max wayne for a concise clear and exactly exactly correct interpretation, many high fives to max and the incredibly talented radiohead its such a perfect song the dry cold computer voice is the perfect thing of society laying out for us the perfect model life in all its lifelessness | |
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Lee Professional Badass |
#10 by Lee the bass player, known as blacktooth90™ at Nov 22, 1994 at 9:21 AM EST |
| All missing the point, totally. The emphasis of this song is on the emotional deadness that comes from striving towards economical and mechanical perfection. Also, think 1984. Hail to the Relocater | |
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Lex Average |
#11 by Lex Nafrodosze at Oct 12, 1996 at 12:21 PM EST |
| Hmmm the perfect lifesyle of the perfect person. A pig in a cage on antibiotics... that is so powerful. | |
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Vinny Average |
#12 by Vinny Spano at Dec 21, 2001 at 3:52 AM EST |
| this song(?) depresses me more than any other Radiohead or Eels song combined. truly some hopelessly powerful imagery here. | |
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niles Wanna Be |
#13 by niles lewis at Jun 22, 2002 at 5:47 PM EST |
| I also notice a few contradictions in this song as well. This, I'm sure, was done purposely, as to prove that perfection is not fool-proof and the very concept has flaws itself. Great Lyrics; Yorke does it again. | |
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Sawyer Rhythm Player |
#14 by Sawyer Hildebrandt at Dec 26, 2004 at 7:10 AM EST |
| This is a little strange the final line sum up the home song. What appears to be the perfect life is also one that is shallow and pointless where we have very liitle to do and everything we do do has been pre destined very powerful and good use of metaphors towards the end to show us how the perfect life may indeed be not quite so perfect. The line, "Calm fitter, healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics" sums this up very well because all though the pig is all of these things mentioned it is also trapped (in society?) its cage and so its quality of life is terrible | |
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adg Average |
#15 by adg ??? at Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05 PM EST |
| Far from depressing me this song makes me smile more than any other rhead tune, very very good. | |
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