I knew this day would come sooner rather than later. Radiohead, one of my favourite bands ever. The genius that drips off these guys knows no bounds. The Bends is one of the best albums ever with songs like Creep and Street Spirit. Guitarists hated the song Creep so much that he tried to ruin the song while recording but strumming down on his electric guitar with a high level of distortion before the chorus. The producers declared that this was the missing piece of the jigsaw and kept this sound in.
They could have made ten more "The Bends" but they chose to push boundaries with albums like OK Computer and Kid A. Their album In Rainbows is a masterpiece. They can't really do no wrong.
So as per usual I'm not gonna give you main stream like the Creeps or the High and Drys. I prefer the tracks that are hidden in between the greats but are greats in their own right.
Spectre
They only went and asked Radiohead to do a Bond theme tune and this is what they came up with. I tell you what it is a grower but now I love it. The orchestra alone in this is unbelievable. It's so Bondy with the swirling string section and just the Shirley Bassey backing. It's class.
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Weird Fishes
Ah I just love In Rainbows. I recently watched a video on Youtube of a son sitting down with his classical music educated father to sit through In Rainbows and the father nearly creamed himself at the quality. Weird Fishes is one of those tracks that is just class. I quite like dancy music in general so I am a big fan of the high tempo, fast beat music.
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Vegtable
We go back to the beginning for this one to their breakthrough album of Pablo Honey. I loved the guitar arpeggio all the way through on this one and then the build up to the guitar solo at the end. Johnny Greenwood is a legend on the guitar with his own style. He makes the guitar scream at him. His solos are amazing. Here is a live version. Love the ending. Doesn't make sense but it is right. It's in E minor if anyone is asking.
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So these are my three tunes for this Tuesday. I could do 90 tunes on Radiohead and they would be great. The three I picked out are the ones I liked this year. Maybe next year I will do 3 different ones. The Bond song though. What a thriller.
But the sad part is I have never seen Radiohead live yet myself so they are on my bucket list the next time they are in the UK or Ireland I will be there.
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