I stumbled across this cover of Radiohead’s Paranoid Android by Ball Park Music. I have never heard of Ball Park Music before, but I was captivated by their surprisingly faithful cover.

Radiohead managed to make a few guitars, bass, and drums sound like nothing I’d ever heard before in Paranoid Android. Seeing it recreated in such an unassuming way makes me appreciate the original song even more.

Ball Park Music does a great job with the cover—particularly the vocals, but no one can recreate the sound of Johnny Greenwood on guitar.

I can remember listening to OK Computer when it first came out in 1997 and being annoyed by it on the first listen. It just sounded like a noise to me. After a few more listens it not only stopped sounding like noise, it turned out to be a collection of beautiful melodic pop songs.