Paranoid Android Paranoid Android "Paranoid Android" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album "OK Computer" (1997) on 26 May 1997. The darkly humorous lyrics were written primarily by singer Thom Yorke following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. The song is almost six minutes long and contains four distinct sections. "Paranoid Android" takes its name from Marvin the Paranoid Android of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Released as the lead single from "OK Computer", "Paranoid Android" charted at number three on the UK
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" at #42 among their top 150 best games of all-time, writing that "Douglas Adams' humor comes alive in this text adventure". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" gained a reputation for deviousness. "Computer Gaming World" reported on rumors that "several important people within the [video game] industry cannot (snicker, snicker!!!) even get out of [the] first room!" Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship, which would translate the Vogon language to English. This tricky puzzle appears early in the game