Radiohead: The Bends

Embark on a sonic exploration with us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of Radiohead's "The Bends," an album that redefined the '90s musical landscape. From the haunting melodies of Johnny Greenwood's guitar to the visionary drumming of Phil Selway, we reminisce over a time when music was an authentic reflection of societal pressures and personal battles. Feel the nostalgia as we rank the top three non-hit tracks that might just shift your perception of this iconic album.

Step into the complex world of Thom Yorke's songwriting, where each note and word is steeped in metaphorical prowess, painting a vivid soundscape shaped by experiences from single-sex education to Evel Knievel's daredevil stunts. Our candid discussion traverses through the band's ethos of staying genuine amidst the tumultuous waves of fame, as we dissect the layers of emotion that make their music a mirror to the listener's soul. Join us as we celebrate the individual contributions of each band member that together, create the undying legacy of Radiohead.

Wrap up your Radiohead rendezvous with our pop culture roundtable, where Yorke's introspective lyrics find their echo in the scenes of 'Entourage' and 'Kingpin'. We explore the resonating themes of authenticity in the shiny veneer of Hollywood, and how "Fake Plastic Trees" became synonymous with the character depth in 'Clueless'. From laughs over attempts at singing Yorke's high notes in karaoke to our affectionate analysis of the song "Bones," this episode promises a heartfelt journey through the bends and curves of Radiohead's enduring masterpiece.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

We make machines that actually send copies over ordinary telephone lines. In fact, everything Xerox does helps you manage information. That way there'll be fewer gaps to bridge.

Speaker 3 0:22

Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm your host, chris, and playing Planet Tellex, which is the first track of the Benz album from Radiohead. It's my co-host, tim. Thank you for joining us. The Benz is the second studio album by Radiohead, the English rock band, and it was released in 1995. The Benz is a term for scuba diving and a condition that you get in your brain where your blood vessels pop when you rise from deep depths into the ocean to the surface. It's a metaphor for Radiohead's meteoric rise to fame. From their first album, pablo Honey, they decided to name it the Benz as that metaphor the disillusionment that they encountered from their fame and how they were ready for it and how it was probably really tough for them.

Speaker 3 1:29

It's a great album, great songs and kind of forgotten a little bit, by me at least, in the sense that at this time in my life I was probably in the working world. It was probably two or three years in the working world and I was completely out of tune with indie music. You can't really put a label on this album. I wouldn't call it indie, I wouldn't call it rip pop, I wouldn't call it grunge, I wouldn't call it alternative. It's just sort of a mix between those things which makes it so brilliant and which makes made it like ahead of its time. When you listen to it, at times you hear things from deeper into the past, from the 70s and 80s. I hear a little bit of Zeppelin even sometimes. But more recent to when this came out, you can hear a little bit of influence by the smashing pumpkins, nirvana, some other genres as well.

Speaker 3 2:27

It's a great album, it's an important album, it's important to us, it's important to Tim and one of his favorite albums for sure. But I'm going to read something that is interesting. I guess the press release when this album came out in 95, it says rock and roll is the most important thing in the world. To the members of Radiohead it's also the biggest joke. Coming to grips with that dichotomy is the key to understanding a remarkably unselfconscious, adventurous quintet that managed to make itself into one of today's most incendiary bands while probably claiming to be the antithesis of the rock and roll lifestyle.

Speaker 3 3:16

And that was in quotes. I guess that part, or the part the antithesis of the rock and roll lifestyle, is in quotes. Also in quotes. We're not purposely contradictory, says hyperkinetic singer Tom York. It just happens that we like to use our brains. If you consider what you're doing at all important, you'll pay more attention to it and not just get drunk around the pub until it's time to get on stage, which was a thing back in the day. I think it's a thing now. That has its time and its place. That wasn't their deal. So I think it's important not to lump this band into any one particular genre.

Speaker 3 4:04

They're a thinking man's band and I respect them for that. And one of the things after reading that, remarkably on self conscious, adventurous quintet, that's what I admire. It's almost difficult to listen to. Sometimes it gets really personal. They get really into the depths of their feelings, like their insecurities, and I think that resonates with a lot of their fans, and how they're not afraid to go there, so to speak.

Speaker 3 4:41

So if you don't like this music at all, if you want to rip on it, it's fine. But it's really good stuff it makes references to Well, we just have to listen to it and we'll talk about it along the way. So we've got a lot in store for you. Of course, as always, we're going to listen to all the songs, rank the top three non hits. Each of us will at the very end and Tim is really excited because this is one of his jams, this is one of his albums. He knows all the songs by heart.

Speaker 3 5:19

I do too. Actually, I've listened to it for the last couple of weeks like a few, like more than a few times, I'd say. And we get some cool sound clips too. I think we're both kind of excited about that part of it too. We're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to poke fun at the band, we're going to poke fun at ourselves, we're going to praise the music as well, and we're going to have a good time. So, again, thanks for joining us and continuing to download our podcast wherever you get them. We're on all the major platforms, as we always like to say, at least in most of our episodes, and Tim is playing the hell out of that planet. Tell X if that's still it or if he's meanderd into you, I'll shut up and listen.

Speaker 2 6:27

Yeah, like this chord changes.

Speaker 3 6:29

Plantel X Woo All right, that wasn't bad.

Speaker 4 6:35

Thank you, akron Ohio. Hello Cleveland.

Speaker 5 6:39

Cleveland.

Speaker 3 6:43

That's good, aka Derek Smalls, it's Tim, how you doing bud.

Speaker 4 6:48

Good, you couldn't see me playing that, but I looked like the guy on the cover of the album. I was just mouth slightly ajar.

Speaker 3 6:57

Eyes closed.

Speaker 4 6:58

Yep Pure.

Speaker 3 7:01

Is that a look of ecstasy?

Speaker 4 7:03

What is that? It's like some weird mask of, like AI mask or something.

Speaker 3 7:10

It looks AI-ish.

Speaker 4 7:13

AI-ish.

Speaker 3 7:14

But this is in 1995. I don't even know the internet, the internet came out, we're creating words here. Yeah, ai-ish, yeah, we always do that though don't we.

Speaker 4 7:24

That's a good dog name AI-ish, ai-ish, get over here.

Speaker 3 7:29

It kind of looks like Brad Hamilton too. I don't know. That's what I'm thinking. He's doing something that Brad Hamilton might do. Wait just a minute, yeah, that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 7:43

Yeah, we're settled in. We're here to take you on a journey. Maybe there's a kind of a bridge.

Speaker 1 7:54

Open, you bridge that gap.

Speaker 4 7:56

Yeah, we're going to bridge that gap. We're going to go back in time. We're going to talk to the Rubberman, that's right, we're going to play a little spinners.

Speaker 1 8:08

Rubberman takes the ball from his good left hand and moves it carefully. We've got some fake, you know.

Speaker 4 8:14

There's also, you know, a story about plants. Well, it's a short story, but we'll get to that. With fake plastic trees, we've got some, we just. This is such a great album. I think, like you said, you know this is coming up too fast and worried about just imploding, literally.

Speaker 3 8:38

It's a sophomore album and it's the Jinx. Maybe they wanted what they do. They take it super seriously. I think that they wanted to succeed and they wanted to build on what they did. They didn't want to suck.

Speaker 4 8:49

Yeah, but they wanted to be slightly different. I think it's a little more attempted to be more sensitive than their first album, which was very just guitar distortion in your face, you know sort of other than Creep, which was their sub dude. Just masterpiece that you know, got them in this pickle in the first place. Really, right, right.

Speaker 3 9:17

Well, they didn't have mass appeal, but they are critically acclaimed, and they have been from this time forward. This is their, because Pablo Honey with Creep was their big hit. That's what got them to the fame, and so they. But I think that they wanted to do more than just that, because that's more of like a. I thought the rest of that album wasn't as good as that one song.

Speaker 3 9:39

And that one song was pretty. It was just sort of a I wouldn't say ground. It wasn't groundbreaking at all, it just sort of wrote. It felt like it wrote on the coattails of Grunge Right At the time, but they were also.

Speaker 4 9:53

I mean, these are Oxford's boys. These are, like you know, well educated, they're we didn't know that they're full of existential crisis, left and right with their cryptic lyrics.

Speaker 3 10:04

At the time we didn't know that, though it was like for the, for the listener like just for the, the average, the common man at the time, what you heard on the radio, there was a revolution going on, kind of in music. So but I think with this album coming out in 95, this is what really what made them their own, like they were just a part of a wave up until this album. I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 4 10:27

Yeah, they were their own little wave as well. I mean, they're just not get into this.

Speaker 4 10:32

Ah, I mean I always had family members cousin Lindsay and cousin Adam and my sister into this and you know they're like you have to get past the hits and and really listen to the band and as a fish guy in a jamban guy like Radiohead doesn't really mash well into that, but they've become, they've wedged themselves to be, you know, one of my favorite bands now because and and a lot of the times you can only listen to them by yourself or it's not like you know it's solo music, you're on your own, shout to the lone wolves out there, but it really is it. I mean it's, you know, for a breakup or whatever. It's just like, and you know, discontent with society that like bubbles up, yeah there were a lot of breakup songs in here or relationship songs.

Speaker 4 11:25

Yeah, existential crises. And Tom York is so political too, he would go to these rallies. There was he had some one interview that he was laughing about how he went to this rally and these guys were nuts, like they were just protesting like parking or something, and they had these big floats and they're all making all this noise to cover up underneath the float.

Speaker 4 11:45

They were just jackhammering the pavement Like just you know, anti-establishment shit, that's like you know, cool hand Luke, when he's just cutting off the, the heads of parking meters just to see the right the establishment burn because he's, you know, but it's there. You know, radio has kind of like that Sure.

Speaker 3 12:07

Well, their first song Planet Tell X is I think it's sort of a it's gonna be it's sort of like that. It's a, it's a protest song, but it's very subtle. It's you know, would you say that? Or I mean what?

Speaker 4 12:22

Yeah, I think it's a call to action in a way.

Speaker 3 12:26

Or just a just sort of like a discontent in society, like I mean at the time there was no internet. You know that's the thing was crazy. It's like it's well.

Speaker 4 12:36

Information doubles, as we know.

Speaker 1 12:37

Mount of information in the world is doubling every 10 years, right.

Speaker 3 12:42

But tell that they were the original. That's the first song we're gonna go into the first song. Okay, it was gonna be.

Speaker 4 12:46

Planet Xerox exactly.

Speaker 3 12:48

That's why we're playing the Xerox clip this year X clips. I didn't explain it, yeah Well.

Speaker 4 12:52

yeah, this is not an ad, that's true.

Speaker 1 12:55

Yeah, we're gonna splice this in the song, for sure where it's needed, when it's needed and in the form it's needed.

Speaker 3 13:09

Why say we get right into it. What do you think let's do it Okay. And like karma police on okay computer kind of, has this little like this, this echo e in the beginning.

Speaker 4 13:20

Yeah, it sort of ends with this whatever this is drums were cut up from Other parts of other songs for this album.

Speaker 3 13:34

I think this is supposed to be Planet Xerox. It's Planet.

Tom York's Music and Metaphor Reflections

Speaker 4 13:44

Xerox. They couldn't name it that because it was copyrighted. Tom York says the product of a single-sex education, romantic novels and art college is this song. Well, which they did drunk, apparently nice Improvising lyrics on this one.

Speaker 3 14:18

Yeah, there was this one.

Speaker 4 14:19

Yeah, yeah, he lied on the floor and they did this in one take. How crazy is that? How do you know you're a great band? Boom, there it is. I Shot the runners. This is a good running song here. Yeah, shot the runners.

Speaker 3 14:55

Everyone is broken.

Speaker 4 15:03

Yes, johnny Greenwood on guitars. They're fantastic with effects throughout his career at O'Brien, that's right.

Speaker 3 15:13

Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 15:14

Colin Greenwood on bass and Phil cell way is amazing on drums.

Speaker 3 15:22

Yeah, phil cell way chaps, Phil cell way drummer.

Speaker 4 15:25

He got Sort of automated a little bit later in his career with doing half the drum loops when they started going electronic.

Speaker 3 15:34

But it's a little harsh but I like it's good.

Speaker 4 15:50

Yeah, you're just going into society and trying to make it and selling your soul.

Speaker 3 16:02

You know it's 1995, so you're like you know how do I get that document over? It's my attorney, yeah, everything.

Speaker 4 16:16

Business card. Do you have good business cards?

Speaker 3 16:21

This is bone. There's no shot bone coming up that Patrick paid. He's like getting pissed off and everybody's business cards. It's like this is bone For the shade of white creepy. Ah, such a fine line between clever lyrics the effects. Play your phone. Shot the spinners. Yeah, I do a little spinners, for like the Well Palak cleanser we can do the talca. I guess it overlaps too much I.

Speaker 4 17:14

Love that just Infinite, like Pink Floyd effect there yeah very proggy.

Speaker 3 17:29

Okay, that was a clip, I don't.

Speaker 4 17:32

Alright, they're trying to. They're trying to bridge the gap with us here.

Speaker 3 17:37

And what is this thing? Oh, this is a marching band. Oh Wait, okay, so it goes out and that very that first.

Speaker 4 17:45

Yeah, play it again, play it again.

Speaker 3 17:46

Yeah, we just.

Speaker 4 17:48

That was a clip from oh, there was a Coffinus Rompus outside the hotel in the US and the guy was dragging an eight-year-old to parades with all these instruments. The guy had a small mic on his sweater and he kept shouting yeah, keep it up, keep it up. So so I went outside and recorded him. This is Tom York always having an ear for for this kind of thing.

Speaker 3 18:24

Yeah, this, keep it up. Yeah, all right, all right. Yeah, this is the bends, and our non hits are everything except pie and dry. Is this gonna be a hit? I Think this is. It's called a hit not because of it was like it was big at the time, but it's been a lot on a lot of shows, hot culture.

Speaker 4 19:01

Yeah, oh what was it on? This is kind of indicative of what would happen to a band who's just going through the motions. Right, right, okay, but not that it happened to them, but you know.

Speaker 3 19:49

It's a nice metaphor.

Speaker 4 19:52

Who are my real friends?

Speaker 2 19:56

I, yeah, oh, no.

Speaker 3 20:16

Oh, it's horrible. Yeah, classic situation. What's a shy? People who are brilliant, don't have very many friends. Begin with, all of a sudden, have everybody at their friend.

Speaker 4 20:31

I wish it was the 60s too. Where do we go, brought in the CIA tanks and the whole Marines?

Speaker 3 20:56

I Baby's got the bands.

Speaker 4 21:03

This is a girl friend, I don't know.

Speaker 3 21:31

Got married in 2020. Dijana Rancione shout out to her.

Speaker 4 21:55

Oh, it's pretty guitar forward here.

Speaker 3 22:10

It seems to be discontent with, like his life this point in time, and it's feeling all this.

Speaker 4 22:25

That's awesome song.

Speaker 3 22:26

I love that one. Wow, I was just like looking at this. There's a rancor. I think there's a website that has time, your spouse, girlfriends and dating history. That's the most recent one.

Speaker 4 22:38

There's an original way passed away recently.

Speaker 3 22:42

That's sad, Justine freshman Anyway he's never really married. Well, I guess it's no matter, it's over with now You're uh well, should we have a little palette cleanser here? You want to, let's see a little little, little rubber band man. Hey you know who this is right.

Speaker 4 23:11

Spinners.

Speaker 3 23:11

Yeah.

Speaker 4 23:17

You should have a bridge to gap there. Can you bridge that gap? All right.

Speaker 3 23:24

This is the first mix of rubber, band, man and high and dry.

Speaker 4 23:31

It's very iconic. This is like the Wonderwall of the 90s. It's another Wonderwall. It's almost got that feel to it, this one.

Speaker 2 23:51

I think that's pretty clever, don't you boy Flying on your motorcycle watching on ground?

Speaker 4 24:03

with ease. It's mocking Machi's mo vanity. You killed yourself for recognition.

Speaker 3 24:13

You killed yourself to never ever start. Shout out to Abingdon, Oxfordshire Birthplace band.

Speaker 4 24:25

Shout out to Exeter University, where Tom York wrote this as a student. This is about evil can evil, at least in the first verse.

Speaker 3 24:44

Shout out to evil can evil. God rest your soul.

Speaker 4 24:50

It's about the daring stunts that don't always work out.

Speaker 3 24:56

Oh yeah, that's what he was known for.

Speaker 4 24:57

Well, kind of like a music career. It's like hard. You know it's always introspective with Tom here.

Speaker 3 25:06

Yeah, he's like the king of metaphors, isn't he? Yeah, that's pretty impressive. The whole evil can evil thing.

Speaker 4 25:14

He ties some deep shit together, yeah.

Speaker 2 25:19

This is the end of the video. I hope you enjoyed it.

Speaker 4 25:29

If you did, please like and subscribe. Thanks for watching.

Speaker 3 25:45

Shout out to the Sussers out there.

Speaker 4 25:48

Screaming out. I love Tom York saying screaming out. See how I drew it out there, folks.

Speaker 3 26:01

And you get at the same time. Shout out to the High.

Speaker 2 26:05

Get some lotion.

Speaker 3 26:10

A little chalky Tim was reminiscing a couple days ago about my shout out to the heroin addicts Sorry, I didn't mean to People on heroin are people too. It's just like no judgment, Creative stuff.

Speaker 1 26:32

Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber.

Speaker 6 26:38

Thank you.

Speaker 4 26:42

Little harmonics.

Speaker 5 26:51

You go and do something like this and totally redeem yourself.

Speaker 4 27:04

We're going to Aspen, baby, let's go. This is great Karaoke song. Not pulled off by everybody, though. This one's tough to sing. Tom York does this thing with lyrics. Where he goes, he speaks in normal voice and then he goes up. No, it's very difficult to sing. His range is phenomenal. Alright, pal, what do we got here?

Speaker 3 27:45

Rubber band.

Speaker 5 27:49

Guaranteed to blow your mind so high you won't come down.

Speaker 2 27:58

Alright.

Speaker 3 28:01

Make this a hit too.

Speaker 4 28:05

This seems like a hit.

Speaker 3 28:09

It's just that there's so many good songs on this album. I want to look.

Speaker 4 28:17

What's the main character in Entourage? The actor guy.

Speaker 3 28:23

Adrian Grenier.

Speaker 4 28:27

He gets home and after a long day of work, everybody else has their own life. It's no longer revolving around him. They play this song and you're just like damn that's. He just comes home to a dark house and then this song comes on. It's good.

Speaker 3 28:51

In a town full of rubber plants. Rubber plant.

Speaker 4 28:56

Shout out to the laundromat who procured my fake plant and is now in their window. It's good to see that, good to see it. How many plants do you have now? Like 200?. Less fake trees, more real ones.

Speaker 1 29:38

Now I'm getting a little bit clumped.

Speaker 3 29:40

I am too.

Speaker 4 29:44

Talking about yourselves, I'm not crying.

Speaker 3 29:50

Tim, collect yourself. He's got the biggest lump in his throat. He's trying to hold my hand.

Speaker 2 30:04

He's trying to hold my hand.

Speaker 3 30:12

The movie Kingpin came out around 95, didn't it?

Speaker 1 30:18

The rubber man.

Speaker 2 30:19

The rubber man takes the ball from his good left hand and lives carefully. That again.

Speaker 3 30:27

He's not the one anywhere in this song at all, other than the rubber man. We have rubber plants.

Speaker 4 30:39

You've got the real one. No fungus nats yet. Okay, the Hydrogen peroxide. You've got the fungus nats.

Speaker 3 30:57

I want my fake plastic love games. I can't help the feeling I've been through the ceiling.

Speaker 2 31:09

I've been through the ceiling, I've been just to run.

Speaker 4 31:20

Ah great crescendo.

Speaker 3 31:23

And transition too between electric guitar and acoustic there.

Speaker 4 31:31

This song is just freaking goosebumps.

Speaker 2 31:35

It was me, it was me.

Speaker 3 31:44

I mean, it is whiny bull crap, but with a purpose, you know.

Speaker 4 31:47

It's like you could be whiny, maybe yeah, this is about an area in East London called Canary Wharf which is built on unused wastelands by the docks of Thames, a landscape with a lot of artificial plants.

Speaker 3 32:22

I'm too happy of a mood right now to fully appreciate the genius of this. You have to be in a real, you have to be in a little bit of a dark place.

Speaker 4 32:37

You'll be happy too.

Speaker 3 32:42

You have to be. You have to be in a place of reflection, you have to be open to the philosophical aspects of life from circumstances that were challenging or confusing. This is an album for disillusioned thinkers. Well, also.

Speaker 4 33:11

You know yeah, maybe it's, it was includeless. It's the song that York says he really finds his voice, he really takes part in this sort of transverse introspection and he wakes up and says he hears, finds your head and sings some words to it. It was like one of those things it came to him. But uh, yeah, this was on Clueless. Ah, as if. Uh um what else?

Speaker 3 33:49

Well, we've got bones coming up next. I mean, unless you've got any other thoughts about what you're sure about.

Speaker 4 33:55

Oh, in the movie actually Clueless, you can hear the song and they're criticizing her stepbrothers' taste in music when she overhears him listening to this tune, calling it a crybaby. What is it about college and crybaby music?

Speaker 3 34:08

I know that's the kind I like. That's F. Yeah, no, I remember that scene. Isn't Paul Rudd in that?

Speaker 4 34:15

one too. Yes, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 34:17

She's talking to him. That kind of thing.

Speaker 4 34:19

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 34:19

Yes, and there's sort of like a push and pull. He's sort of like the man of substance and she's, on the surface, very plastic, but when you get to her character, his word is a lot deeper than she is deeper, yeah, and then you know we have other you know unsavory, paul Rudd characters.

Speaker 4 34:36

Here it is.

Speaker 1 34:38

It's a mix tape I made.

Speaker 3 34:40

All right, yeah, so that was a good transition into Bones, which is the next song, right, yes, all right, any other thing? Maybe Paul Bateman a little or no, not Paul Bateman, but oh yeah, american Psycho, patrick Bateman. Good coloring, that's Bone.

Speaker 1 34:55

And the lettering is something called Sillian Braille. It's a very cool Bateman, but that's nothing. Look at this, that is really nice. Egg shell with Ramalian type.

Speaker 2 35:07

What do you think?

Speaker 1 35:09

Oh nice Jesus. That is really super. How do they look like you would color it All right, Good coloring.

Speaker 3 35:18

That was like Egg shell white Ramalian type. That was Paul Allen's business card. This came to that just a few years after this came out. I love the amp.

Speaker 4 35:27

Whatever the amp is doing right now, that is kind of cool. This is such a freaking good song.

Speaker 1 35:46

I take head, shoulders, knees and toes. Okay, you can have those.

Speaker 4 35:57

Oh, a little crawling out on a horse.

Speaker 3 36:10

A bone roller coaster.

Speaker 1 36:15

One more time.

Speaker 2 36:20

I can't climb a stair.

Speaker 4 36:23

Get a ride on the old bone roller coaster. This is missing everywhere. Only 10 bones and one four-core folk Prozac painkillers. Ed O'Brien shout out We've got a little rock out here. You hear the? I love it yeah.

Speaker 3 36:57

You kind of feel it in your bones.

Speaker 1 37:16

Hello Peter, what's happening?

Speaker 4 37:20

Peter Pan Used to fly.

Speaker 3 37:34

Too loud.

Speaker 4 37:38

Cranking it up here. Crank it up to 11. This one goes to 11. Shout out to the pilots out there and the bus drivers, and you know, shout out to Peter Pan line. Yeah, fly on those buses. Hopefully you're not sitting next to somebody eating chili out of a bag. That's bone.

Speaker 1 38:05

And the lettering is something called chili and brim. It's a very cool baby.

Speaker 3 38:10

Very cool man. All right, this is called nice.

Speaker 4 38:15

Oh nice.

Speaker 6 38:27

Noise.

Speaker 3 38:37

When did that show? When how I met your mother? When did that come out 2010s.

Speaker 4 38:47

Okay.

Speaker 3 38:47

I guess I think season three, like the end, had this song.

Speaker 4 38:52

Yeah, that's right, it was in a song.

Speaker 3 38:57

I don't know I don't follow a show, I just I read it somewhere. Like this song was like that's your dream.

Speaker 1 39:07

That's, the dream One and only dream, forever that's.

Speaker 3 39:13

Barney, yes, great, and Ted, that's Ted and Barney.

Speaker 5 39:19

We were in a deserted city.

Speaker 4 39:25

A little eyes wide shut here too.

Speaker 1 39:27

It's a dream.

Speaker 3 39:33

Shout out to, I don't know, cole Kiven, it's too awful.

Speaker 1 39:38

It's a dream.

Speaker 2 39:46

It's a dream, oh.

Speaker 3 39:51

Shout out to the other guy Cole Kiven's ex husband. What's that guy's name?

Speaker 4 39:55

I'm not sure in the movie, but yeah, even the actor.

Speaker 5 40:02

And a man. What death of a woods.

Speaker 3 40:07

That's the orgy scene right now.

Speaker 4 40:09

No, no, no, that was her telling him the dream. That's what I'm saying, but she's about to potentially Right, yes, she's talking about that.

Speaker 3 40:19

That's what I meant. God damn it. No, it's a shout out to him too.

Speaker 6 40:34

Nice dream, no.

Speaker 4 40:47

One and only dream for this has sort of like a modern Peter Frampton thing going on here. Rock opera that's screaming.

Speaker 3 40:59

It's kind of like Pearl Jam a little bit and a man of more death of a woods.

Speaker 5 41:10

We were in a deserted city.

Speaker 3 41:19

Shout out to Tom Cruise it's too awful.

Speaker 1 41:25

One and only dream.

Speaker 4 41:33

That's such a good song though. All right, this is their. My sweet Lord, according to John Lecky. Shout out to Nigel Godridge as well. Okay.

Speaker 3 41:54

Yeah.

Speaker 4 41:56

Sound tech guy that ended up being there. Oh yeah, confidant, he was huge in this, wasn't he?

Speaker 3 42:01

Pretty much God, god rich, yeah, okay, no, no, what he did.

Speaker 4 42:09

It was he the producer of okay computer. Yeah, okay, he stayed with him. He was the engineer guy for for the this album. Yeah, that's how they met him, right, john Lecky.

Speaker 3 42:21

An employee of the studio and he became, yeah, an employee of Radiohead thereafter and collaborated with them. This for okay computers comes next, which we're gonna hopefully do one of these junctures.

Speaker 6 42:34

So but anyway, that was good, that was nice noise.

Speaker 3 42:39

Okay, this is just paper. And I didn't keep a beat and I was told this is this. Song is just so in our wheelhouse. Oh yeah, with all the Fred Hamilton, the most, probably one of the most overplayed sound clips that we have. Shout to Linda Barrett. We'll get to you Shot to cavemen out there.

Speaker 2 43:20

I'm just a caveman.

Speaker 3 43:40

It kind of reminds me of that. That scene in the four-year-old version is hitting on Elizabeth Banks character yeah he's like oh, do you like to do it yourself?

Speaker 4 43:55

She's just laughing hysterically, yeah but she's loving it.

Speaker 3 43:57

He's like totally hit ballpark.

Speaker 2 44:10

Hell.

Speaker 5 44:44

I have a great section of do it yourself. Do you like to do it yourself? I was the mood striking me now.

Speaker 1 45:17

What's your name?

Speaker 3 45:39

This song.

Speaker 4 45:47

Wow, oh, wait a minute.

Speaker 6 46:02

Ask a question to pay that it because oh.

Speaker 3 46:13

It is rock.

Speaker 2 46:18

I'm just a caveman.

Speaker 1 46:20

I fell in some ice and later got thought out by some of your scientists.

Speaker 4 46:28

And picked up a guitar. Oh wait, hey Aqualov. Yes, you want to be told on Beth.

Speaker 3 46:41

Alright, alright. Next song my Iron Lung Alright. Wasn't it like a contraption in the 50s?

Speaker 4 46:50

Oh yes, it's for breathing or something For breathing. Yeah, why are?

Speaker 3 46:54

they jacuzzo and Jock All the other equipment that came out, or ventilators.

Speaker 4 47:01

This is about the ventilator pretty much. Yeah, sick people breathe in the 50s. Yeah, and how the band felt like that after they're hit Creep.

Speaker 3 47:13

They really hated Creep, didn't they?

Speaker 4 47:14

They hated it.

Speaker 3 47:17

I think Tommy Orc hated it.

Speaker 4 47:18

Yeah, he did, yeah this. Ah, man Aqualov, you're a, I'm a, stiff, alright.

Speaker 6 47:45

Hey Aqualov, what is it about college?

Speaker 4 47:50

and private music.

Speaker 3 47:51

I like that.

Speaker 4 47:56

We're too cynical to speak about that. That's right, we're losing it here. Ah, that's Johnny Green over there With the fuzz Distortion. She's a 20th century, 21st century bitch.

Speaker 6 48:22

I was a bitch.

Speaker 4 48:25

No, my gosh Daddy, can I get a new car? I want everything. That's right. My uncle Bill, my Belisha Beacon.

Speaker 3 48:52

Oh wow, you can barely hear that my uncle Bill.

Speaker 4 48:55

It's kind of weird. That is so weird, that's.

Speaker 3 49:00

I mean, we missed a whole stanz of lyrics. You can barely see it.

Speaker 4 49:04

I kind of read it.

Speaker 3 49:05

No, I did too, but yeah, because we have it in front of us. If you're just like listening to it on a, you can't hear it. Yeah, You're unaware of this. There it's like simple and all. That's F.

Speaker 2 49:15

The power of time will just turn this way. This is our new song, just like the last one.

Speaker 4 49:37

Thanks for wasting your time with us. Listeners Shout out to the time-wasted Headbangers, that's right. Headtrinkers, they want everything. My uncle, bill, my Belisha, beacon, the Headtrinkers.

Speaker 3 49:55

Everything.

Speaker 2 49:57

My uncle Bill.

Speaker 4 50:02

Shout out to cousin Adam Huge Radiohead fan. He's going to be on the next one, hopefully with us.

Speaker 3 50:09

Yeah, but hopefully which one do?

Speaker 6 50:11

you want to do next.

Speaker 4 50:13

Well, we'll do something in between, maybe, okay.

Speaker 3 50:16

Well, I mean, we're doing the 90s this year, so it's got to be either Pablo.

Speaker 4 50:20

Javier or Kate Computer. Yeah, don't be frightened. To the 90s, no no, no, it's okay, I'm not afraid anymore. I'm not afraid anymore. Oh, that would be good.

Speaker 3 50:36

That was a misopportunity, I'm not afraid.

Speaker 5 50:50

I'm not afraid anymore.

Speaker 4 50:56

That's on the fly, that's good stuff. Wow, such a discordant yeah. Who is it? That's Ed O'Brien, probably Wow.

Speaker 2 51:18

I'm not afraid anymore.

Speaker 4 51:21

Oh God.

Speaker 3 51:23

Alright, what's next? I did not meet the other people. Okay, this is bulletproof. I wish I was. Yeah, dot dot dot, I wish I was. No, this is not why I need it all. What is it about college and private music? Oh, it's. I like the song, though, despite that. Ah, it's Ed.

Discussion on Radiohead's Songs

Speaker 4 51:58

Alright, we'll let it play. This speaks to Tom York's wishing he wasn't so sensitive, maybe, yeah well.

Speaker 3 52:39

You're not going to get better at that, making songs like this, right, but you know I kind of like it. It's kind of mellow. Breaks up at the chaos of the last song, right. I mean if you're listening to it from beginning to end. Yeah, and this is done during the days when albums were meant to be listened to from beginning to end.

Speaker 2 52:58

Right, this is a part of a package.

Speaker 3 53:01

Piggity.

Speaker 2 53:03

As if.

Speaker 4 53:09

Yeah, with Johnny acoustic.

Speaker 1 53:24

You want an only dream forever. Yes, great.

Speaker 4 53:30

This is a dream To be born. Proof. Kind of a dream world here.

Speaker 2 53:47

There's a little that's.

Speaker 4 53:51

That's Ed and Johnny improvising last minute here in the studio. These little guitar like yeah, ah, I think the guitar makes. The Tom Cruise voice is so good on this, yeah.

Speaker 5 54:14

You're in a deserted city and a man walked out of the woods.

Speaker 3 54:38

You see, Don Nance on this. Yeah, I was just gonna say I'm just like super proud of you. You're not the man here with fire, right? I was about to say I'm proud of you for not playing any Don Nance. Help, you had to go there.

Speaker 4 54:53

I know, all right, well done, sir. Well done, that was good.

Speaker 6 55:00

Noise.

Speaker 3 55:01

All right, thanks, All right. This is Black Star.

Speaker 2 55:15

I can't go from work and lost a standing address and got a word out of it.

Speaker 1 55:25

Oh, I'm getting a little reclaimed.

Speaker 2 55:28

I know all the things around your head, but what they teach you. What are we gonna say? What are we gonna do? We're Black Star, we're painting on the falling sky, we're the sun. Yes, yes, they copy. I'm just acting.

Speaker 3 56:10

Shout out to Gravity.

Speaker 2 56:12

Shout out to Sandra Bullock.

Speaker 3 56:15

Shout out to Sandra Bullock. Always Somebody tells me we ever met her. She'd like you a lot more than me. I don't know.

Speaker 2 56:24

I mean, I mean, yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I'm spinning it, Either that she'd really hate you a lot more than me.

Speaker 3 56:31

She would hate me a lot. She would hate me a lot.

Speaker 4 56:33

I hate you a lot. I hate you. I hate you Asking her all these weird questions.

Speaker 3 56:38

Yeah, I think she can get frustrated with your impulsivity. I personally like it. It's an acquired taste.

Speaker 4 56:59

The sky's falling.

Speaker 3 57:09

I like this part. It kind of has hints of the black crows, but it's its own thing. Yeah, wow, good Like that I can't breathe. It's a nice little baseline, colin. Yeah, I give Colin a little shout out. I'm going to melt down here. That always works. You have a meltdown. It was the black star, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 58:19

What was that?

Speaker 2 58:23

The very matter that makes us up is generated as long ago far away in red giant stars.

Speaker 6 58:42

How much more black to the speed. How much more black to the speed.

Speaker 1 58:56

The answer is none.

Speaker 2 58:58

None Good.

Speaker 4 59:00

Downers no.

Speaker 2 59:05

Some of these guns I like toys. That's 38.

Speaker 1 59:09

You go out and have my nails with her all day. Come back and it'll cut dead center on target. Every time it's got a really nice action to it.

Speaker 3 59:16

Yeah, that would be good for bulletproof A little bit more. I like that. Black star was decent man, that's great song. I've heard it like I don't know. This is my tenth time hearing it. It sounds the best.

Speaker 6 59:28

You're the one being childish.

Speaker 3 59:30

Oh, that's Linda Barrett. Shout to Linda, just a minute. Shout out to BB Kates.

Speaker 6 59:38

Dog. Anyhow, if you think that I'm listening around and waiting for you, you can forget it.

Speaker 3 59:46

She had a version where she called him a dick. She's like no, no, this one's more mature.

Speaker 2 59:55

She's like yeah.

Speaker 3 1:00:04

The metaphor is just keep coming. This one is called Salk. Well, that's not nice. Disinfecting is important in that position. It's a little Raga here yeah, it is, and a little misogynist really, if you think about it. What's the God? Rest your soul.

Speaker 4 1:00:49

Just like your dad, you'll never change Cool effects on every song. Honestly.

Speaker 2 1:01:07

I agree, let's behave here.

Speaker 3 1:01:42

Is she going to get on her knees again?

Speaker 1 1:01:44

I take head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Speaker 2 1:01:48

You can have those.

Speaker 3 1:02:00

You had to bring up her dad. I know he had to go there. He had to go there. I like to have rocks right here.

Speaker 4 1:02:14

Here it is Boner Jam 03, it's a mixed tape I made.

Speaker 6 1:02:32

There's a lot of guitar.

Speaker 4 1:03:02

This one's not my favorite. The little unhinged, almost like the amp is going to explode on some of these.

Speaker 3 1:03:20

We're at the end. Is this the last?

Speaker 2 1:03:21

one.

Speaker 3 1:03:22

Spirit fade out.

Speaker 4 1:03:26

Street spirit. This is the last song.

Speaker 3 1:03:38

This is Pink Floydish. Is there anybody out there? This is what this reminds me of Again they hint at certain songs, but it's its own thing.

Speaker 4 1:03:57

This is one of his darkest songs, a foreboding message. He didn't especially enjoy playing it live, but was one of the most highly anticipated and requested shows. Tom York insisted that he didn't even write this. It wrote itself. He claimed the band were merely its messengers for something he called our purest, saddest song, with no redeeming qualities, Sometimes just.

Speaker 3 1:04:51

There's a string section. Is there anybody out there as well? I'm hearing a lot of Pink Floyd in this song. At the wall I'm hearing a lot of Barbershop.

Speaker 2 1:05:44

I'm hearing a lot of Blackpink.

Speaker 3 1:05:55

I had the wall on there a little bit. Can I play it over?

Speaker 2 1:06:21

Can I play it over? Is there anybody out there?

Speaker 3 1:06:43

Whoa, that blew you away.

Speaker 4 1:06:46

Trippy. Oh, just that string part is very reminiscent of Whoa do it.

Speaker 2 1:07:03

Dove it.

Speaker 3 1:07:23

Nice, I think there's strings coming up right now.

Speaker 6 1:07:42

There's a little more strings.

Speaker 3 1:07:58

I just wanted to.

Speaker 4 1:08:02

Wow, that was cool. I was just saying, that's how it sounds.

Speaker 3 1:08:09

I think it's the end of this.

Speaker 4 1:08:16

It really is reminiscent of that.

Speaker 3 1:08:19

What song is that? Is there anybody out there from the wall? But this is Street Spirit. The point is is that they borrowed from that song. I think they borrowed from it, but they still made it their own, subconsciously, maybe, maybe subconsciously, we don't know.

Speaker 4 1:08:43

I'm just wondering, that's ever been out there. Is there anybody out there that knows the answer? Tom York and Radiohead. Who knows Direct inspiration from? Is there anybody out there? From Pink Floyd to the wall.

Speaker 3 1:09:02

Maybe, maybe, maybe we can discuss it. Maybe we can If the mood strikes us, maybe not? What's our top three? Can we get into that?

Speaker 4 1:09:16

I'm still in Dream World here.

Speaker 3 1:09:17

It's too awful. Shout out to Nicole. I hear Orgy Dream.

Speaker 4 1:09:23

Yeah, so, so yeah, my Number three, number three. It's really hard for this one, but I'm going to go. Number three, I'm going to go Just Nice, I'm just going to. It is hard to get three, it's usually four or five.

Speaker 3 1:09:56

That are awesome.

Speaker 4 1:09:57

Yeah, just is rocking. And it's just so in your face it's great. I know Great Radiohead before the electronic shift which kind of you can see happening in OK Computer.

Speaker 3 1:10:13

Nice. I mean in mind number three. I'm going to go with Black Star. Wow, okay, black Star, yeah, I mean, it deserves its time in the sun. There are a few. I mean, on any other given day it would not be up here, but today it's up because I discovered a fondness for it. Okay, so that's my number three.

Speaker 4 1:10:33

Okay, my number two is Planet Tellex. You know, information just doubles and triples in life, and it's just an endless, infinite equation just multiplying into infinity. There you go. And that was well said, man. I guess I have to be about it. So, planet Tellex.

Speaker 3 1:11:00

Number two. Well, I'm going to say number two. My number two is going to be Nice Dream. Okay, I like how it kind of the transitions.

Speaker 1 1:11:11

You like that one?

Speaker 3 1:11:12

Yeah, but it's not too over the top, as my iron lung was, where it just kind of goes off and off the rails. This one is a sort of a controlled up and down in terms of tempo and mood, etc. So that'll be my number two.

Speaker 4 1:11:32

Well, I think you know what my number one is. You see, if you're not familiar with firearms.

Speaker 1 1:11:37

These babies can go off. Really.

Speaker 3 1:11:39

This one, bulletproof, bulletproof. I wish I was.

Speaker 4 1:11:44

Boom, there's my number one. You know more sensitive than we let on here on the podcast. I think that's a song about wearing sensitivity as a badge of honor in a way, because you're like the canary in a coal mine with a situation that's not going well. Everybody can look at you like, is this okay? If they can see it's not from your reaction, then it's not. Some people you know have that bolstered shell. They perfected it and you know I'm just going to stop there, I'm going to go in the deserted city.

Speaker 5 1:12:28

We're in a deserted city.

Speaker 4 1:12:30

What's your number?

Speaker 3 1:12:31

one. I like bones, nice. I mean, I don't know, it's just something about.

Speaker 4 1:12:36

Nice.

Speaker 3 1:12:37

Noise. Well, it doesn't get too crazy.

Speaker 1 1:12:45

You know what I'm saying? It's got a nice melody to it.

Speaker 3 1:12:47

They're showing off.

Speaker 1 1:12:48

You know they're showing their chops on this one.

Speaker 3 1:12:50

And I think it's you know, and I like the fact that you can have fun with it and play with it. Yeah, you did In a way.

Speaker 3 1:12:59

It would have been. It would have been Street Spirit, at least in the night top three. That's kind of going to give. I want to give that an honorable mention because I like the way it, because I like is there anybody out there as a song and it's kind of like. I like the way they did with it and how it sort of mirrors and echoes that without oh, echoes. With it being a completely different song you know.

Speaker 4 1:13:24

So no pun intended with the Pink Floyd Echoes reference there.

Speaker 3 1:13:29

Oh no, the wall, I meant to say the wall Well, echoes kind of, has that similar. Oh, it does, it has the experimentation and the yeah, yeah, the overdubbing and whatnot. Well, also is it. What's the song that has that? The band, the marching band, playing over the bands, the bands intro yeah, the band yep High and dry great song.

Speaker 4 1:13:51

Fake Plastic Trees obviously such a great song.

Speaker 3 1:13:56

Yeah, the hits. We didn't even touch those right.

Speaker 4 1:14:00

No, we didn't but yeah.

Speaker 3 1:14:02

So album is deep, way, way down Way deeper than we know. Well, it's got good stuff and I think that puts a bone on it. Don't you think, man? What do you think it puts a bone on it? It puts a bone on it. Put a bone on it.

Speaker 4 1:14:14

It's.

Speaker 3 1:14:14

Ramalian type. All right, so again, hey everybody. Thank you so much for listening.

Speaker 4 1:14:21

Tasty waves.

Speaker 3 1:14:22

Cool buds and I'm fine. All right, take care.