8 Outtakes From Amnesiac Rarlab
—'Subterranean Homesick Alien'Radiohead is an group from, often regarded among the most consistently acclaimed and influential bands since the 1990s.They formed in 1985 under the name On a Friday, this being the only day of the week they were allowed to rehearse at school. Originally your standard alt-rock band, the style of their early albums ( Pablo Honey, ) that incorporated echoey, operatic rock ( ) and (, ) before finding something of a happy medium ( and beyond). Long story short, every album is a. The band is known for its anti-establishment lyrics and, since Kid A, rejecting much of the standard promotion forms of the industry.
Most notably, the band opted to promote Kid A (which was highly anticipated after the success of OK Computer) with a series of one-minute-long viral videos featuring snippets of each song from the album. Furthermore, the group opted to allow fans to name their own price for the right to download their album In Rainbows online off of their website.The members have also put out solo work. Singer/principal songwriter/frontman Thom Yorke has made three albums and a, the first of the three receiving a nomination, as well as being part of another band called Atoms for Peace, working alongside people such as bassist Flea and frequent Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood, the only classically trained musician of the group, has found success outside the band scoring films such as Bodysong,. Drummer Philip Selway in 2010, with two albums already under his belt, whilst guitarist Ed O'Brien recently started putting out solo tracks. Their artwork is also The website for the man responsible for most of that artwork, Stanley Donwood, is just asAside from the collective band's social media (, ), all of the members (, ) have Twitter accounts, with varying degrees of updates.
In addition, and have individual Instagram accounts.Radiohead were inducted into the in 2019.Band members:. Thom Yorke: Vocals, guitar, keyboards, 'laptop'. Jonny Greenwood: Guitar, keyboards, 'laptop'.
Colin Greenwood: Bass. Ed O'Brien: Guitar, backing vocals. Phil Selway: DrumsNon-members who have had a major impact on Radiohead's sound and image:. Nigel Godrich: Producer of every album since OK Computer and has been involved with the band since he was hired as a mixing engineer for The Bends.
Considered to be so important to the band's sound that he is considered to be the sixth member, similar to how George Martin was one of the numerous people given the title of '. Stanley Donwood: Artist responsible for every Radiohead-related piece of artwork (album covers, liner notes, posters) since the 1994 My Iron Lung EP. Yorke often collaborates with Donwood, usually under pseudonyms such as 'Dr.
Discography:Studio Albums:. Pablo Honey (1993). (1995). (1997). (2000). (2001). (2003) not to be confused with.
(2007). (2011). (2016)You can now vote for your favourite Radiohead album by heading over to the You can also vote for your Radiohead track through theEPs:. Drill (1992).
Itch (1994). My Iron Lung (1994, doubles as the single for 'My Iron Lung'). Running from Demons (1997, doubles as the Japanese release of their single 'No Surprises'). Airbag / How Am I Driving?
(1997, doubles as the single for 'Airbag'). I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001).
COM LAG (2plus2isfive) (2004). TKOL RMX 1234567 (2011)This is what you get when you trope with us:.: The title of '2 + 2 = 5,' which is a direct reference to.: Thom Yorke has shown some shades of this.: Hail to the Thief as a whole was motivated by this — it directly followed both 9/11 and the birth of Thom Yorke's son. Clear-cut examples from the album include 'A Wolf at the Door' and 'I Will.'
.: 'Permanent Daylight' is commonly believed to be a parody of.: The 'Pyramid Song' video.:. A barely audible one for Pablo Honey appears in the song 'How Do You?' — the album was named after part of a by the comedy group The Jerky Boys, and the relevant quote ('Pablo, honey? Please come to Florida!' ) appears as near the end of the song.
Near the start of 'Everything in Its Right Place,' you can hear a distortion of Thom's voice saying 'Kid A' twice. '2 + 2 = 5' has 'All hail to the thief, all hail to the thief, but I'm not.' . In a lesser sense, 'The Gloaming' is also this.
HTTT was actually slated to be released under the title of The Gloaming, but the band found the title to be 'too ' and instead picked a line from '2 + 2 = 5.' The original title was relegated to an for the album. ' drops the same title of the album in its chorus. If you listen carefully, in the bridge of 'Reckoner,' you can hear soft voices in the background chanting 'in rainbows.' . 'A moon shaped pool' can be heard in the backing vocals for 'Identikit.'
.: Averted with Philip Selway, who is more subdued in style and personality than this trope suggests. His drumming focuses much less on manic energy and hard-hitting solos than it does on rhythm and texture. In fact, he's released two solo albums consisting of soft ballads that are quite light on percussion.: The video for 'There There' ends with a screaming Thom. The face sticks.: 'Paranoid Android,' 'Pyramid Song,' 'Go to Sleep,' 'There There' , 'Burn the Witch' (claymation), and.: 10 for In Rainbows: A ten letter title, ten tracks, tens prominent in the album art and in promotional material, and was announced ten days before release. All of this indicates a link to OK Computer, released ten years before In Rainbows.
Popular theory is that the two albums are companion pieces, released ten years apart. This culminated in the ' playlist. 15 also seems to be a minor one, appearing in several songs such as '15 Step,' 'Climbing Up the Walls,' and 'Just.'
.: Interestingly enough, the lyrics for most tracks on Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Thief became this. Lyrics from all three albums appeared cryptically (and usually slightly altered) in the Radiohead website's 'maze' section; phrases that would appear in Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief appeared in the Kid A certain lines from Amnesiac showed up in the I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings case.:. The ending of Kid A: the final track, 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', has an angelic atmosphere (what with the harps and such) and bows out on the line 'I will see you in the next life'.
Additionally, the that plays after this is considered to represent that 'next life'. The ending of the 'Pyramid Song' music video, after the protagonist, apparently the sole survivor of an commits suicide to rejoin his family.:. Everybody sings along to the second verse of 'Idioteque.' . The audience supplies the claps for 'We Suck Young Blood.'
. The audience regularly sings the 'for a minute there, I lost myself' section of 'Karma Police' just as loud, if not louder, than Thom does. Here's an example from. 'Creep,' of course. '.:. In 'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box.'
. For 'Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors,' Thom spoke the words and applied autotune with ridiculous pitch shifting settings. Used in 'Codex (Illum Sphere RMX)' and 'Little by Little (Caribou RMX).'
.:. The My Iron Lung EP consists of outtakes from Pablo Honey. Airbag / How Am I Driving? One can only guess at how this love song of gentleness and intimacy reads two decades later, but the effect is like stumbling upon an old love letter years after a relationship has grown cold. Where there was once a hint of redemption in its devastating refrain, 'Just don't leave' now sounds like the longest (and saddest) goodbye.:. The 'Daydreaming' video, which has Thom walking through doors that lead him to locations that are uncharacteristic of the doors that led him there. Examples include him leaving a dark hallway and entering a forest, and him going out of another dark corridor and onto a beach.
A similar thing is done with the 'Lift' video, which has an elevator that transports to places uncharacteristic of the ones preceding them, including a, a room where the elevator is part of the ceiling, and.:. The video for 'There There.' It's quite excruciating to see Thom. The video for 'Like Spinning Plates', which centers around a strange machine with a complex number of parts and functions that is ultimately revealed to have a pair of horrifically conjoined babies being ripped apart.:. OK Computer might begin and end with a car crash. They were cheering and wavingCheering and wavingTwitching and salivating like with myxomatosis.: 'Treefingers' has this role on Kid A, serving as an interlude sandwiched between a depressing ballad that concludes the first half of the album and a straight up hard-rocker that kicks off the second half.
The music video for 'Lift' serves as this after the other two singles taken from the 2017 reissue of OK Computer. All of them are, but instead of being distressing or melancholic, it's lighthearted, borderline comical, and full of nostalgic.: Thom. He even says he was nicknamed 'Jack-o-Lantern' in high school due to missing nine teeth.:.
'And the rain drops, and the rain drops, and the rain drops, and the rain drops, and the rain drops, and the rain drops' ad infinitum. Stand Up'). 'Wo-men first and the children, -men first and the children, -men first, -men first and the children' in 'Idioteque.' . 'Everything in Its Right Place.'
All of it. 'I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case' from 'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box.' .
'You have not been paying attention, paying attention, paying attention' from '2 + 2 = 5.' For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself' in 'Karma Police'. A lot of the lyrics in 'The Gloaming' are repeated.: The music video for 'Just' begins with a man lying down in the middle of the street and refusing to budge. As people gather, they ask him silently — the video is subtitled — why he's lying there.
After repeatedly refusing to answer, he finally caves in. The camera zooms in on his mouth as he's speaking, but with the subtitles suddenly removed, The final scene of the video is of all the people around him lying on the ground in the same posture, his words presumably having had the exact same effect on them as on him. The closeup has him repeating: 'God help me, I'll tell you.'
It's implied that he's actually saying it as the band leans out the window behind which they've been performing to see what's up. (They, of course, are not affected.).: 'Give Up the Ghost' is a weird form of this in a sense.:.
The in 'A Wolf at the Door' may be a callback to 'A Punch Up at a Wedding.' . 'Life in a Glasshouse,' the final track on Amnesiac, contains the line: 'packed like frozen food and battery hens.' This creates — the first track is 'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box.' .:. Thom's rather unsettling at the end of 'Climbing Up the Walls.' .
From '2 + 2 = 5'. 'Shame it's not a package with the artwork and all, but there you go. I feel bemused, though, not annoyed. I'm glad people like it, most of all. It's a little earlier than we'd expected, but there it is.'
.:. Kid A was available for streaming from their website before its official release, and their 2007 album In Rainbows was released for sale on a 'pay what you want' system, but they've since indicated that they will not pursue it further. When bootlegs of early live performances of Kid A songs made their way to the internet, the members of the band were both surprised and pleased when fans at concerts already knew the words to these new songs that had only been played once or twice previous. Colin Greenwood told a reporter.
'We played in Barcelona and the next day the entire performance was up on Napster. Three weeks later when we got to play in the audience knew the words to all the new songs and it was wonderful.' . Radiohead also forced their American label, Capitol Records, to back down from lawsuit threats against fansites that posted Radiohead lyrics.
The band has not only approved but contributed audio masters to fan-filmed concert DVD's, provided they are not to be sold for profit. Guitarist Ed O'Brien is the only member of the band involved in the Featured Artists Coalition, an anti-piracy group. However, he also notes that he is tolerant of the 'passive' pirates who really only download music to listen to it. It got edited, fucked upStrangled, beaten upUsed as a photo in Time Magazine.: The 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place' which features footage taken from cameras mounted on helmets that each band member is wearing as they play.:. From OK Computer: The sirens at the end of 'Karma Police' trail off into 'Fitter Happier,' and the beeps at the end of 'Airbag' set the tempo for 'Paranoid Android.' There's also a split second where the end of 'Exit Music (For a Film)' and the beginning of 'Let Down' overlap.
From Kid A: The phasing synth sound at the end of 'Kid A' continues into the very beginning of 'The National Anthem;' the chirping noises at the end of 'Idioteque' lead into 'Morning Bell.' . All of the tracks on I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings fade into each other, since it's a live album. From COM LAG: The cheering in '2 + 2 = 5 (Live at Earls Court, London, 26/11/03)' fades into the amp fuzz at the beginning of 'Remyxomatosis.'
. From The King of Limbs: A sample of birdsong allows 'Codex' to fade into 'Give Up the Ghost.' . From A Moon Shaped Pool: 'Decks Dark' directly transitions into 'Desert Island Disk', and 'Tinker Tailor.' Just barely fades into 'True Love Waits.'
.: An odd example. 'Climbing Up the Walls' consists of two of Thom's vocal tracks layered over each other. The one that's mixed lower is clipped and distorted in this manner, but it's actually much quieter than the Thom's other vocal track, which is more clean and melodic.: 'I Might Be Wrong' fades out toward the middle, but returns with a quiet instrumental section.: Lots, most notably the ones made for the official Aniboom video contest. Some fan-made music videos (' ' and ' most notably) are so popular that the fans consider them to be the actual video for the song.
It helps that of those three songs, only two ever had any official video made, and both were.:. The band claim that either the first or last song on each album hints at the sound of the next album. The melody of 'Where I End and You Begin's climax appears earlier in the song as the bassline.: Their music videos tend to have these, reasonably. 'Street Spirit' ends with Thom jumping up into the air in slow-motion and never coming back down. 'Just' ends with the man lying on the sidewalk finally telling everyone why he's lying there. But apparently.
'Karma Police' has a man being chased by a car with Thom sitting in the backseat. Once the man finds out that the car has a gas leak, he takes out a match and lights up the gas trail. The car starts backing away, but eventually gets consumed in flames shortly afterwards.
The camera turns to look back to the backseat — and Thom isn't there. 'There There' has a particularly disturbing one. If you stare into the dark / the dark will stare back / back into your.: Kid A has one at the very end, nested within the 7-minute 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', seeming to represent the 'next life' referenced in the song's final line. That the song and hidden track aren't supposed to be isolated (such as how streaming services did).: Thom goes by a variety of when collaborating with Stanley Donwood on the artwork and packaging.
These names include Zachariah Wildwood, Dr. Tchock, Tchocky, and The White Chocolate Farm.: Thom Yorke has admitted that he has a '. 'Where I End and You Begin:'.
I will eat you all alive and I will eat you all alive. 'Knives Out' also has cannibalistic imagery ('he's bloated and frozen / still, there's no point letting it go to waste').:.
The bridge of 'Creep' ends with several ('She runs, run, run, RUUUUUUUUUUN!' ), but it gets even more impressive with. Sometimes achieved artificially during the intro to live versions of 'Everything in Its Right Place' in which Jonny loops and manipulates Thom's voice. Thom has a lot of them in 'Bloom'.:. 'Kid A' invoked this.
Thom sang into a vocoder, heavily distorting his voice and obscuring the lyrics. Also, for the first half of 'Like Spinning Plates.'
The lyrics were sung and recorded normally; the recording was played backwards and Thom mimicked the sounds on that recording, which was then.also. played backwards to uncanny effect. The chorus utilizes both a standard recording and a sung backwards-played forwards recording. 'Feral.' .
The most likely interpretation, via translating the japanese lyric book that came with that version of, is 'i'm not yours / you're not mine / it's all fine / please don't judge'. Note Given the need to translate it, some words vary depending on your lyric source. The of 'Daydreaming', which has distorted, backmasked voices chanting something unintelligible.:. 'Treefingers' and 'Hunting Bears,' which also serve as interludes. Their first instrumental, 'Meeting in the Aisle,' was a B-side to OK Computer. 'Little by Little (Shed RMX).' .: 'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy.'
Yeah.:. 'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy' sounds like this, from the title to the moaning vocals to the 'UH-ah' when the drums come in. 'Pearly.' is a very dark example.
Thom described it as 'a dirty song for people who use sex for dirty things.' .:. 'The Bends,' though according to the band it's tongue in cheek. 'I wanna live, breathe. I wanna be part of the human race.'
. 'Dollars and Cents' is a cross between an and a, with Thom alternating between the roles of a corrupt cynic and an idealist. 'Bullet Proof. I Wish I Was' is an incredibly bleak and sad song about someone who suffers from emotional weakness over the big and small things in life ('limb by limb, tooth by tooth') and wants nothing more than to be stronger.:.
'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy' features distorted samples of a children's choir doing vocal exercises. The Matrix Music School children's choir also provides the 'YEAH!' On '15 Step.' .: The modified bears.: Despite the subtlety and darkness of most Radiohead songs, Thom enjoys indulging himself in hamminess occasionally, particularly in 'Bangers + Mash' and live performances of 'Idioteque.' . '2 + 2 = 5' is quite hammy as well.
In a rather less based example, tended to be rather over the top. One time Thom started randomly screaming and then jumped in a pool. Note His clunky Doc Martens almost caused him to drown; he also almost grabbed onto a live wire in an attempt to pull himself out.:. 'Karma Police,' which concludes with high-pitched guitar feedback (which then peters out into a low-pitched buzz and a couple of piano chords). 'Climbing Up the Walls.' Not just Thom's horrifying, but the last 25 seconds of ominous noises and sounds. Every song on Kid A has one of these, save 'Treefingers' and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack.'
. Hail to the Thief as an album has this, ending with the creepy 'A Wolf at the Door.' Note In fact, Thom Yorke has explicitly compared the album to a nightmare, with 'A Wolf at the Door' signifying waking up and finding out that the real world has become worse than the nightmare (hence the themes of in the song).
Inverted with 'Bullet Proof. I Wish I Was,' which starts with about 13 seconds of creepy noises. The beautiful ballad 'Daydreaming' ends with sinister, distorted, backmasked chanting voices.:. In Rainbows.
Played with in that while some songs are no less angsty than those on previous albums, the overall sound is lighter, especially on 'Reckoner.' . The King of Limbs was deliberately done this way.
Ed O'Brien has described it as retaining some of the 'warmth' of In Rainbows, and in 2012 remarked that from OK Computer all the way through to Hail to the Thief the band had been in a dark place. Though that gave them a lot of creativity, it killed them as human beings and wore them down very quickly. Live versions of 'Everything in Its Right Place' are much less morbid and emotionless than the studio version. 'Kid A' applies as well for the same reason, though Thom's use of a vocoder in post- The King of Limbs live performances to achieve the same effect on his voice as in the studio version counterbalances this somewhat.:. 'Pyramid Song' has one verse that is later repeated. 'The National Anthem' is almost six minutes long but only consists of these lyrics. EverythingIn its right placeYesterday I woke up sucking on a lemonThere are two colors in my headWhat is that you tried to say?.:.
'Fitter Happier' comes across as a demented checklist ('at a better pace / slower and more calculated / '). 'Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors' has an autotuned Thom listing different types of doors.: The Crying Minotaur, the super-deformed logo and mascot for the Amnesiac era. Considerably scarier depictions of bulls also factor into Amnesiac-era artwork.:. The OK Computer B-side 'How I Made My Millions'. A Moon Shaped Pool's piano rearrangement of 'True Love Waits'. 'Codex' also has a very isolated sound to it, although brass does accompany it later on.: Type 1. Note Technically, four-fifths of the band has been making music since 1985 as On a Friday.
Jonny didn't join until a few years later; furthermore, they didn't change their name to Radiohead until 1991. Nevertheless, it's been 24 years since they released the Drill EP in '92, and they haven't changed members since. Clive Deamer is the only person to join—as a touring drummer alongside Phil Selway.:. Thom in an OK Computer-era interview: apparently, an early working title for what would become 'Nude' was 'Your Home Is At Risk If You Do Not Keep Up Repayments'. He dropped it because it wasn't catchy enough.
'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box.' .
A lot of Hail to the Thief songs, since each song has a main title and a secondary one in parenthesis. 'Where I End and You Begin (The Sky is Falling In),' 'The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold),' 'A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No),' and 'Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky)' are particularly notable examples. 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief.'
Fans just call it 'Tinker Tailor.' .: 'Everything in Its Right Place,' 'Kid A,' 'The National Anthem,' and the outro of 'Where I End and You Begin.'
.: Thom suffers this twice while crows chase him in the 'There There' music video; the boots he steals beforehand grant him, until some vines entangle them, slipping them off of him. When his bare feet touch the ground, they.: Every post- OK Computer album is a victim.
OK Computer brickwalls in the louder parts. The Bends is mastered loud by 1995 standards, but is quiet by today's.
(Note that some of the albums are horribly clipped and others are not. Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, and A Moon Shaped Pool audibly clip almost constantly, while OK Computer, Kid A, and I Might Be Wrong might as well not have any clipping at all. In Rainbows and The King of Limbs are somewhere in the middle: some tracks are badly clipped, while others seem to have been compressed without any distortion). A rare exception in the band's discography is the 'Supercollider'/'The Butcher' single, which doesn't seem to have had any dynamic range compression applied whatsoever; the songs are respectively DR11 and DR10 and sound great. Of course, the band went right back to this trope with their subsequent 'The Daily Mail'/'Staircase' single.: Common throughout Radiohead's discography, here of the 'pretty music, harsh lyrics' variety. Note Thom dislikes how 'pretty' his singing voice sounds because it causes this seemingly regardless of what he sings about. 'No Surprises' is the go-to example here.
The music is soft, gentle, nursery rhyme material; the lyrics are replete with images suggesting alienation and pollution, not to mention lines about jobs that slowly kill you and carbon monoxide poisoning. 'Knives Out' is a catchy little song about cannibalism. 'I Will' is an acoustic song featuring soft vocals about women and children being bombed in bunkers. Yorke has also described it as. 'Cuttooth' is a beautiful, upbeat, track with lines like 'I build you up to pull you down / tie you to your feet and watch you drown / a little bit of knowledge will destroy you.'
. The first part of 'The Daily Mail' sounds like a lullaby, despite lyrics about corruption and scathing attacks on the newspaper of the title., which is essentially a in musical form. If you get past the vibe, 'Kid A' has a very beautiful, sweet instrumental. It just so happens to have dark and cryptic lyrics that are fed through a vocoder. '15 Step' is a very warm and upbeat song about a failed love that uses metaphors connected to hanging, with instances such as the line revolving around the ('15 steps, then a sheer drop').: Thom had 5 surgeries as a child to correct a paralysed left eye, and the last one was botched and left him with a drooping eyelid.:. 'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box:'. And there'll be no more lies, and there'll be no more lies, and there'll be no more lies, and there'll be no more lies.
'Idioteque' probably qualifies. 'Kid A' (the song, not the album) consists, for the most part, of Thom muttering: 'standing in the shadows at the end of my bed' over and over through a vocoder. 'Sit Down. 'THE RAINDROPS THE RAINDROPS THE RAINDROPS THE RAINDROPS.' .
The last thirty or so seconds of 'Morning Bell' feature Thom mumbling: 'walking, walking, I'm walking, walking, walking.' . 'Everything in Its Right Place' uses it to very offsetting and nigh-ironic effect.: Thom delivers a heavily distorted one at the very end of 'Climbing Up the Walls.' . There's a less obvious one at the end of 'Paranoid Android.' It's fed through a guitar amp (or something along those lines) and is nearly buried beneath the concluding riffs.: For ◊ It's taken to an extreme with the ◊ which is the red book pictured on the cover; the title is printed on the spine.: Inverted by 'Nude' and 'Pearly.,' which mock and criticize sexism.: Usually ranging from 5 to 7, though there are exceptions ('Worrywort' and most of The King of Limbs clock in at a 1. 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' is arguably a 9 based on the sheer bleakness of its intended message).: From 1 to 6, depending on the album, though usually averaging a 3.
Unusual examples include:. 'Trans Atlantic Drawl' (a 7 that becomes a 1 halfway through). '2 + 2 = 5' (which transitions from 3 to 6 to 5 over the course of the song), and. 'Paranoid Android,' which starts out as a 2, builds up to a 3, then suddenly explodes into a 6 or 7. How'd you get your teeth so pearly?.Vanilla milkshakes from Hard Rock Cafes. The climax of 'Exit Music (for a Film)' is probably the most awesome way someone could imagine the phrase 'Now we are one in everlasting peace' being sung. 'Everything in Its Right Place' manages to designate a segment of the song where the only sung lyric is 'Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon', and it still sounds fantastic.
The climax of 'You and Whose Army?' 'I am the next act / waiting in the wings / I am an animal / trapped in your hot car / I am all the days / that you choose to ignore.'
. Also 'Climbing Up the Walls,' which is about a stalking his victim.
'Where I End and You Begin' starts off as a basic (for this band) love song with some dark themes of disconnection. Much.:.
'Kid A,' which has one of the band's softest instrumentals. Of course, the lyrics are cryptic and a little horrifying upon further reflection. 'No Surprises' also qualifies, even though it uses a xylophone. The lyrics describe depression, overwork, pollution, among other things.: The man being chased by the car in the 'Karma Police' video. And later the car itself.: Thom often delivers them as a way to introduce songs live.
Given the band's they are often very strange.: The 'No Surprises' video. The continuous 57 seconds during which Thom Yorke is underwater was done by speeding up the track Thom is miming to as his face becomes totally submerged, then editing the footage to slow it down for the full minute. The making of this video is featured in, which shows Thom's frustrations with being unable to do the shot correctly for several takes.: examples. Invoked heavily throughout 'Climbing Up the Walls', as its narrator is strongly implied to be a personification of paranoia, fear, and anxiety. And I might as well. Of course, right after that, it's outright with the nonsensical phrase 'sleepy jack the fire drill.' .:.
The post-chorus section of 'The Bends,'. A much grimmer example is 'A Wolf at the Door.' .:.
The famous, strategically-placed 'you're so fucking special' in 'Creep.' . The line 'dance, you fucker' in 'A Wolf at the Door.' . 'Thinking About You:' '.
'Myxomatosis' also applies ('It got edited, fucked up'). A couple occur in 'Talk Show Host:' 'If you want me / fuckin', well, come and find me' and a bit later 'fucking come on and break the door down.'
. The single swear on OK Computer is in 'Fitter Happier' ('that's driven into / frozen winter shit').:. Jonny, who has scored all of 's films from onwards, and even garnered an Oscar nomination for.
Beyond that, he's also scored Bodysong,. He's also collaborated with avant-garde Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Thom also became one when it was announced that he was doing the score for the remake.: Idiot + discotheque = 'Idioteque.' .: and dabble in this genre.: The choruses of 'Myxomatosis.' .: The girl in 'Pearly.'
has a 'sweet tooth for white boys.' It's not played for titillation.:. 'A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No)'. The song begins, furthermore, with Thom singing 42 consecutive 'no's. After the chorus of 'A Wolf at the Door,' there's a section that has Thom doing nothing but this.: A on atease is notorious for this.
They're called for an infamous slashfic involving, and have a dedicated to archiving slash fics (there is little Radiohead fanfic out there that isn't slash in some way, shape, or form).:. 'Morning Bell' is re-arranged on Amnesiac as, appropriately, 'Morning Bell / Amnesiac', with more emphasis on atmospherics than rhythm. The B-side 'Fog' was re-arranged live on piano and titled 'Fog (Again).' A Wolf at the Door. Their original track numbers are 9, 8, 3, 2, 5, 6, 13, 1, 12, 14.:. The lines 'I don't know why I feel so tongue tied / I don't know why I feel so skinned alive' are included in both 'Cuttooth' and 'Myxomatosis.'
Additionally, 'Cuttooth' was a track that was supposed to be on Amnesiac but was held off for unknown reasons. The phrase 'staring up inside of me' is used in 'Inside My Head' (a B-side to 'Creep') and later used in 'Bullet Proof. I Wish I Was.' . A very early, rare demo called 'Ed's Scary Song' (which is just Thom and Ed goofing off with an organ and chanting lyrics) contains the seeds of several later songs. The lyric 'I live a wallpaper life of playing guitar in a band' would be altered and used in 'Cuttooth,' and 'Standing in the shadows at the end of the bed' would be used in 'Kid A.' There are also several lines that point ahead to 'Everything in Its Right Place:'.
He put everything back in its right place.:. Personality wise, Colin is the red, known for being chatty, energetic, and excitable. The shy, soft-spoken, and self-deprecating, Jonny, on the other hand, is the blue. On stage, the roles are flipped. Colin becomes the blue, keeping close to Phil's drum kit to focus on the groove, whereas Jonny becomes the red, and thrashes his guitar dramatically, with his limbs and hair flailing around. Also works in terms of comparing the guitar styles of Jonny and Ed.
Jonny's punchy, aggressive, and almost percussive guitar style is the red, while Ed's subtle, textured, and ethereal guitar sounds would be classified as blue.:. 'Just' is sometimes appended with '(You Do It to Yourself)' for this reason. The title appears in the song 3 times. The refrain appears 15 times. The same also applies to 'Street Spirit (Fade Out).' .
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'Creep' often appears on filesharing sites as 'So Fucking Special' after its best known lyric. Both 'Myxomatosis' and 'Cuttooth' have been mislabeled as 'Tongue Tied.' .
'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box' is probably out there on hundreds of filesharing websites mislabeled as 'Reasonable Man.' .: TKOL RMX 1234567 is a compilation of remixes from —with many them remixed by the same musicians who inspired the style of the original album.:, which focuses on the OK Computer era and the band's gradual burnout during their world tour. It.: The artwork, especially from OK Computer to Hail to the Thief. The hidden booklet that came with early pressings of Kid A deserves.: Thom has terrible typing skills. Sometimes this makes things weirder; sometimes, as in Thom and Nigel's 2013 Reddit AMA, it makes things funnier. This was apparently how 'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box' got its name. It fit the song so nobody bothered to change it.:.
'Idioteque' samples 'Mild und Leise' by Paul Lansky and 'Short Piece' by Arthur Krieger. The Lansky sample was so vital to the song that the band sent him a letter telling him they'd sampled him for the track and wanted to make sure it was okay with him. The song's and the background chirps were reportedly created from playing a ton of records all at the same time (creating white noise) and feeding them through a drum machine.
'Kinetic' samples the drums from 'Miles Runs the Voodoo Down' by. 'Dollars and Cents' samples an Alice Coltrane song for the bass.
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There's a very well hidden sample in 'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy.' The recurring downward melody appears to be played by a keyboard or distorted string instruments — but if you speed the song up, it's revealed to be a loop of a choir doing vocal exercises.
'Give Up the Ghost' and 'Codex' feature sampled bird noises, which.: 'Climbing Up the Walls.' .: Parts of the Kid A artwork, the blips especially. Stick figures bleed to death in the snow, their corpses are tossed into pools of blood, distant fires rage across frigid mountainous landscapes, and there is a strong implication that.: The narrator in 'Cuttooth' proclaims. As the tanks roll into town.: Thom does this on a lot of songs.: In 'Just,' at one point the guitar gets so high in pitch that at its most intense, it's an earsplitting screech (achieved by Jonny using his Whammy effects pedal to shift the pitch of the note a full two octaves higher than normal).:. 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' has Thom proclaiming that he wants to be. The title of 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' to 's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues.'
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'Optimistic' briefly references. The Bends is dedicated to the then-recently deceased.
'The Amazing Sounds of Orgy' references 's 'So Glad You're Mine.' . Thom mentions in 'Up on the Ladder.' .
Kid A's working title was No Logo after a seminal anti-globalisation text by Naomi Klein. The band refused to allow any advertising on the tour for the album. The ending of the video for 'Burn the Witch' is a big, long homage to. It's also animated in the style of. 'Exit Music (for a Film)' is inspired by, stemming from an idea Thom got while watching the as a teenager (what would've happened if the two ran away the morning after they consummated their marriage), and was specifically written for use in the (in which it was played in the credits).
Their fan club, W.A.S.T.E., is a reference to 's. 'Why don't you quiet down?' .:.
'The Tourist' and 'Airbag' from OK Computer. They tell a coherent story together, but are placed in reverse order,. 'Fitter Happier' is basically an extended spoken-word outro to 'Karma Police.' .
A very strange version of this trope would be 'Hunting Bears' / 'I Might Be Wrong.' They flow perfectly into each other, are in the same key, have the same tempo, and harmonize perfectly when played on top of each other.
But they don't follow each other on Amnesiac. Instead, 'Hunting Bears' serves as more of a of 'I Might Be Wrong,' or an intro to 'Like Spinning Plates.' .
The first track on Disc 2 of In Rainbows, 'MK 1,' is essentially a continuation of 'Videotape.' .: In 'Dollars and Cents,' Thom plays the roles of a corrupted cynic and an idealist, and eventually.: Radiohead are quite good at using only a few lines to get their point across.: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Phil Selway have all released solo work during the band's time together.
Thom: That's a nice way to start, Jonny. Heavily reverbed studio chatter can be heard in the background of 'Where I End and You Begin,' most notably Thom repeating: 'Check.
'Climbing Up the Walls' contains clips of what is apparently studio chatter pitch shifted and buried among the insect noises and violins. The song must be slowed down before it can even be noticed at all, and even then it's hard to make out what is being said (it seems to be 'We're playing.
Though it also sounds rather like 'Amazing. ).
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At the beginning of 'Down is the New Up', Thom distantly exclaims 'Uh!' Before the song begins. At the beginning of 'Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2),' someone says 'go' before the song starts.:. 'Morning Bell' has a brief one where all of the instruments die out except for the drums and keyboard while Thom sings.
'You and Whose Army?' I mean, one of the biggest days in my life. Obviously for all of us. Whoever this person was, just tore it to shreds.
And they just tore the audience to shreds. This person managed to totally and utterly ruin that day for me forever. And it really shouldn't have done, and I should be bighead enough to just ignore it. And there was a lesson there, which I have I learned now.
But I just didn't understand why someone, just because they had access to a keyboard and a typewriter, could just totally write off an event, that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people. And there'd been just no answering back, no nothing, that was it, the end of the story.: Thom Yorke said he 'blubbed his eyes out' after hearing the final mix of 'There There.' .: They're named after the song.: '(Nice Dream).' .: 'Kid A' and 'The Bends.' . Subverted with 'Palo Alto', which was originally called 'OK Computer'.
'Airbag,' 'No Surprises,' and 'My Iron Lung' are this for their respective EPs.:. 'I Will,' an anti-war song described by Thom as the angriest thing he's ever written (on an album full of angry songs!), is sung quite softly, uses a single guitar, and has no percussion. 'Nude' is a towards that doubles as one of the band's most beautiful songs.: This is Thom's punishment for stealing enchanted clothing from the woods in the music video for 'There There.' .: 'Sulk' ascends from G to A for its guitar solo and final chorus.
Inverted in 'Cuttooth;' after Thom's opening scream, his vocals shift down a step and remain there for the rest of the song.: Two decades on, the band has never had a member change. Ed said it best. '.Even if we disbanded tomorrow, I would still consider them to be my brothers.'
.: 'Pyramid Song.' Note It was originally called 'Egyptian Song,' which does in fact have something to do with the lyrics. It refers to an Egyptian philosophy of reincarnation and becoming one with everything.
Apparently the lyrics were inspired by artwork of the Egyptian underworld and Thom's fascination with 'time as a cyclical force.' Another relation to pyramids might be the hovering 'pyramid hotels' that are present in many of the Kid A / Amnesiac blips at the time.: The music video for 'Lift' puts a on this simple idea. Not only does said awkward moment extend for four minutes, but it involves a slightly troubled Thom sharing an elevator (or lift) with a variety of increasingly odd people note including his girlfriend and daughter, a group of bald businessmen, a very small person, a dog, and that are transported by the elevator to increasingly odd locations uncharacteristic of the last. The video ends with the elevator opening to show, where another Thom is standing inside with their back to the camera. Thom (and the camera) enter the other elevator, only for it to be revealed that neither person standing there are actually Thom. We're gonna crack your little souls.: Compare Thom's singing to his singing.: To promote The King of Limbs's retail release, Stanley Donwood and Thom went out and distributed copies of a newspaper called The Universal Sigh, a lyric taken from the album's intro track 'Bloom.'