The Greatest Non Hits

Radiohead: OK Computer

• Chris & Tim • Season 4 • Episode 1

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Speaker 2:

oh, that's beautiful what do you call that?

Speaker 1:

well, this piece is called lick my love pump ah, no, seriously, thank you for listening to the Greatest Nine Hits. I'm Chris and playing a mashup of the song Airbag and electioneering from OK Computer. Radiohead's 1997 album is my co-host. Tim. Thanks for joining us. I hope a lot of fans are listening. Radio heads man.

Speaker 1:

We did the bends earlier this year and we're going to end this season with OK Computer. So this is going to be the last album that we're going to do this year. We did the 90s, but in the next year we're going to do. This year we did the 90s, but in the next year we're going to be doing some other stuff too. We'll do some 90s, 80s, 70s.

Speaker 1:

I think what we want to do is kind of mix it up and just kind of widen and open the format of what we can do, expect a mixed bag moving forward. We're happy that we're four years in. It's exciting for us. We couldn't be happier to do this album. We're pretty stoked about this because we love Radiohead, tim especially, and this is around the time I think some of these guys who do these interviews and write reviews I should say you know, I think they nailed, nailed it with.

Speaker 1:

This is sort of like a post Brit pop shift. So, you know, you gotta think you're in the blur era and then you're kind of going into the late nineties and this is a little bit deeper and heavier. And we could go on and on about the intricacies of Tom York. He's brave, he's articulate, he's intellectually honest about just the unsettling feelings that we get that we can't really put into words. I mean, he's super poetic at you know, capturing like those awkward feelings in life and, uh, you know, and that's that's a theme throughout the. The songs on this album, all of them kind of relate back to past experiences where he's kind of like, you know, I don't kind of freaked out a little bit or, you know, know stuff like that.

Speaker 1:

But nevertheless we'll listen to all the songs, like we always do on all of our podcasts, and then at the end we'll rank our top three non-hits, the hit songs on OK Computer we're talking Karma Police, par, no surprises. I think the rest of them will be in the in the hunt for the top three. So I'm excited to listen to what tim has to say. Usually the albums or the songs that he he does sometimes a lot of times, are kind of a hint as to where he's going to go, but not always. So I'll be. I'm uh, I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued what he's going to, what he's going to do, um, but anyway, um, but I think that this is probably one of the most critically acclaimed of the um, the different albums, you know, of course they, the fan base is incredible.

Speaker 1:

They're kind of like a Rush fan base and a Phish fan base. You know, tim's a Phish guy, I'm a Rush guy, of course, and then many of you are diehard Radiohead fans, as you should be, because you know, tom York is he's sort of like the Neil Peart or the Trey Anastasio kind of a guy. You know the leader and a lot of the creativity emanates from him, his ideas, his influences, et cetera, and it all coalesces and comes together.

Speaker 1:

so you know, just so perfectly, so perfectly, and um you know there's artwork um that had is very like, has a lot of symbolism. There are just different, uh nods to uh that um what is in there, it's uh. Who was the artist for? That anyway, I'll have to look that up. I mean, that's what I'm saying. I haven't really gotten that deep into it but, oh nice.

Speaker 2:

Well, this piece is called lick my love pump.

Speaker 1:

All right, so well, he puts the guitar away. We're going to get settled in. We're going to listen to songs. I'm curious. Tim is so excited for this one. He's got notes. He can't wait to share anecdotes, song facts. We're going to do all that oh my gosh. First of all, how?

Speaker 6:

are you doing, man? I'm doing well here.

Speaker 1:

Good.

Speaker 6:

Now buckle, buckle up. All right, it's the law, or should it be? The law I don't know probably uh, if you're tom tom york it shouldn't be the law, because you know um yeah yeah, you know, a bunch of laws, a bunch of red tape for society here.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, this is, uh, you can't wait. You know, even the album cover is like they did this sort of collage, slash mixed media over, uh, this basic freeway. That's sort of a story of how it divided the town and it was sort of a hot-button issue when it was built.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and obviously, Well, it also is sort of a depiction of, yeah, a dystopian world. You know, rampant, you know there's. These are symbols of capitalism, consumerism. The highways, social alienation, you know highways that cut through big cities. It disconnects us alien alienation it does, it alienates us it alienates aliens technology insanity shout out, globalization shout out to the runners aliens shout out to the aliens.

Speaker 6:

Okay yeah, this just has everything. It doesn't have everything. It has the things that are a social critique of society, I should say in an angsty format of musical brilliance.

Speaker 1:

Well, along that thought, the first song is Airbag and we're going gonna start with that and we should probably, you know, without it, should go without mention that this is about, you know, the car accident that he was in right with, uh, with an ex, and it just kind of underscores, like the fragility of life. You know things are more random and you know we're not as secure as we think we are, kind of a thing. It's kind of the idea according to song facts, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6:

And when you're in a close collision with destiny, you come out on top. Well, you got to celebrate. There we go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, exactly. Okay, with that being said, and away we go, all right.

Speaker 3:

I'll get my spacesuit, okay.

Speaker 6:

Let's keep the peace, all right. Keep the peace out there, whatever you're doing.

Speaker 3:

Well, this place is cool, but I left my laptop. That's the last time.

Speaker 1:

Jackknife juggernaut.

Speaker 6:

Jackknife Juggernaut Reminds me of Halo Juggernaut.

Speaker 1:

That's right.

Speaker 6:

Neon is 10th on the periodic table. One and zeros, friends, it's all one and zeros.

Speaker 1:

What the fuck is he?

Speaker 5:

talking about.

Speaker 1:

We didn't have a sound clip, so I just sort of.

Speaker 3:

I've got my spacesuit.

Speaker 1:

I like the strings man. It's like a cello.

Speaker 3:

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

I gotcha.

Speaker 6:

Sounds like new babies listening.

Speaker 2:

And I am a racing car driver just like you.

Speaker 1:

Now bless this guy's teeth out. You tell him, Paulie.

Speaker 6:

And I am a racing car driver just like you, and I am a I am, I'm back.

Speaker 1:

Weren't you doing this in the intro, this part, yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 6:

You've got to attach your guitar pick to one of those little rotary drills. Oh yeah, okay, and then hold it and then just go, just slide your yeah, your hands.

Speaker 1:

Check out the big brain on Tim. I saw that on YouTube. Oh, okay, instagram, it's still cool. It's the whole idea. Interstellar, yeah, isn't that danger like like breaking the strings? You've got to be kind of careful, yeah.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to Ernie Balls making those strings.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, I remember Ernie Ball. Yeah, ernie Ball Kind of cool, that was always a cool brand, that PB. You know the PB Ball. Yeah, ernie Ball, that's kind of cool, that was a cool brand, that PB. You know the PB amps yeah.

Speaker 2:

Now bless this guy's teeth out.

Speaker 1:

A little Marvin action, that little Martian.

Speaker 6:

Man George, washington man Aliens. Greetings little Martians, man George.

Speaker 1:

Washington man, aliens greetings.

Speaker 6:

There he is does that mean it's well, it's one matter, isn't it?

Speaker 1:

this does go to the weather. This is a ripper. It does rip, that's ripped.

Speaker 2:

I can't help Joshua fight the battle of Jericho yes.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that was a little, a little pal of Clinton. It's a good song, man. What do you think what we got coming up next?

Speaker 6:

Paranoid Android this song is. What is this about? This is like freaking out in la or something like that where he panic attack at a bar kind of everybody wants to talk to him about his stuff and he's just like tired and like this sucks was.

Speaker 1:

It wasn't he kind of like? He was kind of like freaked out a little bit, though beyond just like bored and tired yeah, because american la people right most likely it's a culture clash a little bit maybe. For him I'm sure it would have been overwhelming, you know yeah, you could be in jet lag. You know you're kind of disoriented, you know, and yeah, dealing with your fame and it's like what's going on?

Speaker 6:

Everybody knows you and you don't know any, Tom already has a bad eye and it's. It was probably twitching out like really bad yeah.

Speaker 1:

So I mean, that was the inspiration for this next one. So this is a great song, this is a hit.

Speaker 6:

Loud noises, okay, okay, loud noises, okay, yeah, johnny, on these crazy effects that he does. Uh-huh, colin, ed, could you?

Speaker 5:

stop the noise and try to get some rest.

Speaker 4:

Simple lines intertwining and all the unbound chicken voices in my head oh heaven, you're right, but my point is.

Speaker 3:

My point is you must take this fine cassava melon over to him, Show him what you got.

Speaker 4:

but don't let him have it. You gotta tease him a little.

Speaker 1:

That's not chicken Foghorn's. You got rooster. That's not chicken Foghorn's horn. Look at Rooster. You will be fast against the wall.

Speaker 4:

With your opinion, which is of no consequence at all.

Speaker 5:

That's just like your opinion, man you look for the person who will benefit.

Speaker 1:

Simple sound clips intertwining.

Speaker 2:

You look for the person who will benefit and you know I am the walrus, you know you'll uh, you know what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 6:

I am the walrus, I am the walrus, I am the walrus. You're out of your element, donnie, that's right.

Speaker 4:

You're having your way, but my point is. My point is that's all folks.

Speaker 6:

Little Gucci piggy Pig Off of his head. He doesn't remember your name. Is he going to cut off his head? Yeah, I guess Does that mean it's one night, isn't it? Again, the arpeggio pattern of.

Speaker 1:

Johnny, yeah, this is chaos right now deeper and deeper way down.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to office space killer movie this is why a lot of people get turned off with the radio. A lot of the yeah, but it's layered so well. God loves his children, okay, pen?

Speaker 1:

I mean that's like a time signature, it's like hard for people to adjust.

Speaker 6:

yeah, it's a six and a half minute song from a great height.

Speaker 1:

I wonder how having this album in the background can impact a party, if it can change the tide of the yeah.

Speaker 6:

I think you would need somebody on screen playing visuals and then everybody be on psychedelics or something and then listen to this album. That would be a party. Yeah, Not a conventional party. No, Not a conventional party.

Speaker 1:

No, there's got to be careful preparation for this kind of gathering.

Speaker 6:

Crackle of pigskin. I hate my life. Yeah, the vomit.

Speaker 1:

You can't really dust for vomit Choked on vomit.

Speaker 2:

Hey, hey, I got something, I got something.

Speaker 1:

They said no belly up.

Speaker 2:

Hey, hey, I got something to bail you out. Man, You're just fucking out here.

Speaker 1:

There's so much going on.

Speaker 6:

If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make it our time?

Speaker 1:

All right Way to end that song.

Speaker 6:

So next song Subterranean homesick alien. So what you know this is about, you know boarding a spacecraft, obviously and um you know aliens again seeing the, seeing the planet and having your friends not believe. Originally titled Upright. And then we had Bob Dylan.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, an influence on the song was an experience York had when he was driving down a country road and hit a pheasant. After stepping out of the car to investigate, he began thinking about alien abduction. So with that, away we go.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

All go, yeah, all right, shh what.

Speaker 5:

Breath of the morning.

Speaker 1:

Oh, we got a Breath. Oh, we got a little clip from Do we have the? Oh, what's the guy's name? That's all folks. Well, there's also Subterranean. Yeah, we do.

Speaker 4:

But my point is my point is Damn it.

Speaker 1:

No, what's his name? Bob Dylan.

Speaker 6:

Oh, after the song. Yeah, we'll play it after, okay.

Speaker 4:

We can play it after.

Speaker 6:

I watch my feet all the time Shout out to the runners. Watch the cracks on the pavements, okay.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, especially in this town. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 6:

Head up, head down, though, if they don't fix these damn sidewalks.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to raise my fist to the Alderman.

Speaker 6:

We're going to get the jackhammers out. Yeah, make some new sidewalks, right, tom? Tom knows about that in that interview. Shout out to Tom About that jackknife and protesting man, george Washington man, he was in a cult. The cult was in the aliens man. You didn't know that. You didn't know that, todd.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you didn't know that, malabar man, malabar man, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired.

Speaker 5:

I'm tired, I'm tired.

Speaker 4:

I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm he does it.

Speaker 6:

Walter, you're drunk, go home.

Speaker 1:

This is like being in a nice bubble bath.

Speaker 6:

After you hit an animal. This is Tartaria Tartaria. Most people don't know about it.

Speaker 1:

Subtle U2 and the verb intertwining.

Speaker 4:

Simple lines.

Speaker 1:

Nice, I love that organ. I was born to love you. I was born to Nick your face. I was born to love you, but you were born to love me first.

Speaker 6:

Who gets the first rub?

Speaker 1:

They see Enderol? No well, no, chevy does first. Who gets the first rub? Lacey Underhill? No well, no, chevy does. Oh no, no, lacey. Lacey gets the first rub.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, I'm tired. I'm tired, tom York could use a little rub. Get him down right. I'm tired, down loose. I should say, tom, go get a massage, get down loose for us. We need a new album, alright.

Speaker 4:

Just take it easy, champ. Why don't you stop talking for a while?

Speaker 2:

Maybe sit, the next couple plays out.

Speaker 1:

All right, that was good.

Speaker 3:

All right.

Speaker 6:

Do you want to do the Bob Dylan song?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah we got it. I don't, oh, yeah, no, you know what that is. Just that's gone, mia man, that's that's my bad.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, subterranean homesick blues, bob Dylan yeah.

Speaker 1:

Subterranean homesick blues is sub subterranean homesick alien, so it was sort of like a. The name was a, a take on that, so yeah that's on me, missed opportunity. The bluesy aliens, that's right, they're gray, but you know, whatever, this is exit music for a film Movie Movie.

Speaker 3:

Wake from your sleep, the drying of your tears.

Speaker 4:

Today, we escape, we escape.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this is like this would be good if you're out partying, maybe puking the next day Choked on vomit.

Speaker 4:

And get dressed Before your father hears us perform. Oh, hell breaks loose.

Speaker 2:

Breaks loose Breathe Can't breathe, breathe in.

Speaker 4:

Don't lose your nerve.

Speaker 2:

Hey, I got something to mail you out. Man, Breathe, come breathe.

Speaker 6:

Cheech, you got this, get out. I've been here a long time.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to Mr Ramsey.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's right. That was the guy that Rescued us, helped rescue. Yeah, he was one of the rescuers. Yeah, shout out to him Definitely.

Speaker 6:

F'd up news story.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, f'd up news story.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's actually kind of a weird time. Of course we're talking about.

Speaker 6:

Well, this is about being in a basement. This is yeah, you're in a basement, no exit music. You have to exit the yeah, no, yeah. This is very Escaping some kind of the father, maybe the father which is abusive and the kids and the mother have to leave. Yeah, that's what I'm kind of picking up on.

Speaker 1:

I got you Okay. So Well, that clip was you know from in Cleveland where there was a rescue of a woman. That was Three women, three women that were in captivity in the basement. They escaped after like years, yeah.

Speaker 4:

It's chilling, it's chilling.

Speaker 6:

It's going to come one more time here.

Speaker 4:

Oh crazy. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and do that oh, oh crazy.

Speaker 3:

Okay, huh, what Choked on vomit Choked on.

Speaker 4:

Oh wait, it's just a vomit, Okay.

Speaker 1:

That was. That was the worst Vomit.

Speaker 5:

This is.

Speaker 1:

Let Down. This is the next one it this is Let Down. This is the next one it's called Let Down.

Speaker 6:

Cheer up everybody. Yeah, all right, turn that frown upside down.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this is. We need a Baptist preacher right now.

Speaker 6:

Power of Christ compels you. The cleaning of the house.

Speaker 5:

Comes. So, so disappointing, I'm down and hanging around Cross-striped girl hanging around and Pug Me Top and on and round and round they go around again.

Speaker 4:

They just go around and round, round and round, they go around again.

Speaker 5:

They just go around and around, go around and around I feel bad.

Speaker 6:

Killing bugs yeah, that's a bunch of drivel. That's a bunch of drivel, tim. Yeah, be a man, be a man, kill that bug. Here's a bunch of drivel, tim. Yeah, be a man, be a man, kill that bug. Here's a magnifying glass. Yeah, do it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think Jesus was for it. I don't know.

Speaker 5:

I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, sometimes it's unavoidable, it is.

Speaker 6:

I mean, yeah, if I can avoid it, okay, fine, circle flight yeah there are less bugs when we drive that are hitting our windshield than previous decades.

Speaker 1:

Bugs have a life force around them too. The bugs have bugs. There are bugs on the bugs.

Speaker 6:

The bugs have parasites, just like you do. Yeah, it's just infinite. The parasites have parasites, just like you. Yeah, it's just infinite. The parasites have parasites.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, just a parasitic concentration, alright, that's a nice couple plays there.

Speaker 6:

Just round and round and round.

Speaker 5:

I'm free. All that shit is fucking bullshit.

Speaker 1:

Get out. I've been been here a long time. I like how they have this little computer thing in the background. It's kind of cool, right yeah. The very matter that makes us up, you know, you know where you are with the poor collapse.

Speaker 4:

Around.

Speaker 5:

Around.

Speaker 1:

The very matter that makes us up was generated long ago and far away in red giant stars. That song was like more of an aesthetic, you know, it's just something that's just kind of like repetitive and it's just a the effects really take it over the top.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, really yeah.

Speaker 1:

I like the way the songs are ordered too, because this is a good song to listen to after that kind of changes it up.

Speaker 6:

Different instruments there's a piano we got shout out to fate and destiny on this song here it's round and round. They all catch up to you, karmic circle. They'll all catch up to you, karmic.

Speaker 1:

Circle. You would get them if they didn't behave. According to Tom York, this is on Song Facts. Karma's important. The idea that something like karma exists makes me happy, makes me smile. Karma Police is dedicated to everyone who works for a big firm. It's a song against bosses. Okay, yeah, that's kind of cool. Just a little shout out to Stiffs.

Speaker 3:

Grinding it out. Me feel it when we have crashed a party Big oink oink police officer, deeper and deeper.

Speaker 4:

Way down. This is what you'll get. This is what you'll get. Get in the goddamn pool.

Speaker 1:

Alright, get in the fucking pool. This is Mark Reboulet. Yeah, shout out to Mark Reboulet.

Speaker 6:

I like how this song ends. It's not enough.

Speaker 4:

This is what you'll get.

Speaker 1:

I like these videos too.

Speaker 6:

Ed O'Brien said in an interview when someone in the band behaved like an a-hole, one of the other band members would say the Carmel Police is gonna get you.

Speaker 5:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's funny. I suppose it's all rubbish that your destiny depends on your deeds in a previous life. We have to trust on something.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, that's great. Yeah, love that.

Speaker 1:

Just think of Tom York Getting harassed by a bunch of LA people Freaking out on them. Yeah, like in the 90s. I picture it. The 90s was like it was like Wilder in Ler in LA. At the time people didn't have boundaries. People would just get right in your face over everything.

Speaker 6:

For sure.

Speaker 1:

It was just kind of like culture in America at the time, like the rock scene Everybody knew that from Creep.

Speaker 2:

Wait, just a minute.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that right there. That's some motherfucking tits Right.

Speaker 2:

Call the fire department. This one's out of control.

Speaker 3:

Happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much regular exercise at the gym, three days a week, getting on better with your associate employee. Contemporaries at ease eating well no more microwave dinners and saturated fats. A patient, better driver, a safer car. Baby smiling in backseat, sleeping well, no batteries no paranoia.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it sounds like Stephen Hawking.

Speaker 3:

Shout out to the late Stephen Hawking Fond. But not in love. Yes, no, putting water on the pants. It's a ridiculous tweet. So ridiculous and cheap Calculated.

Speaker 5:

No chance of escape Now self-employed, concerned but powerless.

Speaker 1:

An empowered and informed member of society.

Speaker 3:

Pragmatism not idealism. Will not cry in public, less chance of illness. Tires that grip in a wet. Shot of baby strapped in backseat a good memory. Still cries at a good film, still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit frozen winter shit. Pigs show up a lot. When Nick don't start with me in front of our guests, do you think I like hitting you? I am sorry you had to see that oh here we go.

Speaker 5:

We had to do stephen hawking having the makeup sex after you hit her.

Speaker 1:

So anyway, yeah, okay, anyway, uh is this on okay? All right. So what's next electioneering? Here's some of your guitar musings. We're going to come in third in Iowa. We would have given anything for that.

Speaker 6:

We would have given anything for that.

Speaker 5:

All right.

Speaker 4:

Howard Dean yeah, yeah, oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington DC to take back the White House.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, you didn't even make it to Fairfax County.

Speaker 5:

Say the right things when I'm actually.

Speaker 6:

It's all a script.

Speaker 4:

It's all a script, just like in the light In Oregon and Washington. I used a little more cowbell, I used a little more.

Speaker 2:

cowbell Could have used a little more cowbell.

Speaker 1:

How was that? Christopher Could have used a little more cowbell, oh.

Speaker 5:

Thank you?

Speaker 3:

Oh God, yes, so I will. South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona.

Speaker 1:

So this is inspired by the writings of Noam Chomsky. He said like a lot of songs I write came from two places at once. I had this phase I went through on an American tour where we just seemed to be shaking hands all the time and I was getting a little bit sick and upset by it. So I came up with this running joke with myself where I used to shake people's hands and say I trust I can rely on people's hands and say I trust I can rely on your vote. They go ha ha and look at me like I was a nutcase, but the phrase sort of carried on. It was like a mantra. As well as that, I had been reading a lot of Chomsky and I had that feeling when you read Chomsky that you want to get out and do something and realize, in fact, that you're infatuated. Okay, wow.

Speaker 6:

So yeah, world politics, Cattlebot and the IMF.

Speaker 1:

Cattlebot and the IMF. Yeah, I guess the Conservative Party had been in place since 1980. It had been in for 17 years and this is like a time period where, yeah, everybody's letting loose Because, yeah, it was like a Margaret Thatcher-y kind of a thing that they I remember that we're like on the opposite side of that present day. Actually, we're on the dark side of the moon right now, compared to that time, which was things are going in the opposite direction the whole band's just doing an American tour.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, you know, kissing hands, shaking babies, yeah, it's good stuff the music, the drums, it's like all over the place.

Speaker 1:

This is badass. I like this.

Speaker 2:

Ooh.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this is different.

Speaker 6:

Some blues here.

Speaker 1:

There's a wide range of stuff going on in this album, for sure.

Speaker 6:

Depending on the mood you're in, you can just go to one song or another. This has the same sort of theme as exit for for a film, exit music. It's that same sort of locked in a scary basement, right a lot of strings Locked in a scary basement Right.

Speaker 5:

A lot of strings, I guess.

Speaker 1:

Can I read off another York story? This one he says this is about the unspeakable, literally soul crushing, skull crushing. He used to work in a mental hospital Around the time that care in the community started and we all just knew that was going to happen. And it was one of the scariest things to happen in this country because a lot of them weren't just harmless, it was hailing and violating, but we recorded this. Oh, so while they're recording this, the hail's coming down Care in the community. But either way you turn, I believe in what I'm to show.

Speaker 5:

I believe in freedom. I believe in freedom.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so care in the community. British policy aims to treat care of the physically and mentally disabled people in homes rather than in institutions.

Speaker 6:

Okay, Wow, okay, that kind of brings it.

Speaker 1:

It's always better on the outside.

Speaker 5:

The teen blows the back of your mind.

Speaker 6:

Okay, yeah, ooh, the eyes in the cupboard, because you know some people can't sleep with the curtains open in case they see the eyes. They imagine their head every night burning through the glass. As York, lots of people have panic buttons fitted in their bedrooms. They can reach over and set the alarm off without disturbing the intruder. This song is about the cupboard monster, the boogeyman.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, right.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

State of agitation. Oh, listen to this. Radiohead recorded the OK Computer album in the mansion of actress Jane Seymour who was busy filming her show Dr Quinn Medicine. As Ed O'Brien the name of the guy who produced this created a gothic mood. The phrase climbing up the walls means being in a state of agitation through stress or worry.

Speaker 6:

Ed's a guitarist.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, I'm sorry Did he record?

Speaker 6:

I mean, did he Slash bassist, slash instrumentalist?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, Wow, this is crazy.

Speaker 2:

Mellow out man.

Speaker 5:

Pretty cool. Yeah, oh, that feels so good Hello.

Speaker 6:

Like that oh oh, nice, I like that. Oh, I like that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah yeah. Brian does a lot of the backing vocals too.

Speaker 6:

He's very, very good, good, pretty good guy drumming's really good.

Speaker 1:

I was kind of good solo career now. Yeah, phil is good this guy, col Colin Greenwood, composer.

Speaker 6:

I bet Tom York would probably have some disdain for us doing this album. Of course He'd be like what are y'all doing?

Speaker 1:

Of course he would be like what the hell?

Speaker 6:

Go kiss your loved ones, all of them On the lips.

Speaker 1:

This is sacrilege what we're doing, isn't it?

Speaker 5:

Well.

Speaker 1:

I mean.

Speaker 6:

It's a great album.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it is. It's incredible. So this is no surprises, man. It's a hit, so we're not going to.

Speaker 6:

Stadium friendly. Yeah, this is Colin. This is Colin like time.

Speaker 1:

York said like if you play this song right, it is effing dark, he said. But it's like acting. It's on the edge of totally hamming it up, but you're not. It's just the words are so dark when we play it. We have to play it slow. It only sounds good if it's fragile. Okay, interesting.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, that's true, if it sped up, it would lose its charm.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean like his. You know the uneasiness in his voice. You have to be really. He probably has to be really, really delicate. He's got to do that Peter Brady thing like every night.

Speaker 6:

York introduced the rest of the band to this song in a dressing room in Oslo following a support gig to REM in 95. Oh, that's cool. Later the lyrics were rewritten and a new glockenspiel melody was added.

Speaker 1:

What? No, it adds to it. I can hear it. Oh yeah, okay, the back of this is that glockenspiel, so they just layered on that.

Speaker 6:

They got a fresh glockenspiel and all slow and we're like hell, yeah, I surprised I found this on the street. Yeah, okay, it's free glockenspiel. Let's write this song about how society will never live up to our expectations and will be soul crushing, and we have to somehow persevere.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so okay, I'm glad.

Speaker 5:

I don't have to.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know, it's a nice, it's a beautiful song, yeah, so okay, I'm glad I don't have to. Yeah, I don't know, it's a nice, it's a beautiful song.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to Sarah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, all Sarahs out there, Anybody feeling lucky?

Speaker 4:

What's this song about?

Speaker 1:

Let's see what SongFact says. This was recorded on September 4th 1995. It was a charity album for children of Boz. That war was going on at that time Ed O'Brien told Q Magazine we wanted to give the Help album the best song we had at the time. We didn't have any fear about holding songs back. We've been touring the band and playing and played Lucky for the first time in a soundcheck in Japan. Okay, cool, he said it was probably. He said this song is probably the best song that they've done to that day. It was like okay, this is what the next phrase could be Interesting.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, standing on the edge, York said. The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge Of a cliff without seeing. The power of their Imaginations keep them suspended In midair, but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall. That did mid-air.

Speaker 5:

But as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

Speaker 6:

Hopefully you remember that answer yeah.

Speaker 5:

Remember, it's gonna be a blast.

Speaker 1:

And I feel my luck could change. Pull me out of the way.

Speaker 4:

Cause I'm your Savior. Why are you going to the airport Flying somewhere, man?

Speaker 6:

this is going to be tough. Shout out to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Still never to be found.

Speaker 1:

How did I disappear, still never to be found, disappeared.

Speaker 6:

Disappeared. Will they locate the aircraft? Who knows?

Speaker 1:

Like a lemming that was deep, deeper and deeper way down. Alright, this one's called the Tourist. We're coming to the home stretch. I think this is the last one, so we've got to make this a good one. Talk about.

Speaker 5:

Yikes.

Speaker 2:

This piece is called Lick my Love Pump.

Speaker 1:

You knew I was wanting that one.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, yeah, sorry, this deals with reckless driver. Again, slow down. Intended to be a song about the speed you live your life with.

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm, oh Interesting. Okay, yeah, this is heavy, so slow down. Okay, yeah, this is heavy.

Speaker 6:

So slow down. Not about technology, says Tom Tom's sleep-deprived paranoid. He's got a dog barking at him In the middle of the night, that's right. And he's in Germany, that's. That's where we're at.

Speaker 1:

When he wrote this Say hello out man.

Speaker 6:

Chill man, a German shepherd on your tail, brother Flying somewhere.

Speaker 4:

Why are you going to the airport, flying somewhere?

Speaker 1:

How'd you guess I saw your luggage and when I noticed the airline ticket, I put two and two together and when I noticed the airline ticket, I put two and two together detected.

Speaker 4:

Here is an ordinary square. Tell them, Chief Ligger.

Speaker 1:

Slow down, I think I know I know my top three. You have yours, yeah yeah, yeah slow got another minute minute. Slow down wanna.

Speaker 6:

Wanna fade it out, we'll ride it out yeah, we can alright we can keep it on in the background while we yeah alright, yeah, let it go.

Speaker 1:

So my what's your number?

Speaker 6:

three man number let me get him up here for you three. Take a look. All right, yeah, let it go. So my what's your number three man Number? Let me get them up here for you Three. Take a look. It's tough. On any other given day I would say Other songs, songs maybe. I mean. After just listening to the last songs, I feel like they're just going to be my, you're going to be on there Just because they're fresh in your mind.

Speaker 1:

They're fresh Well okay, I had three distinct ones.

Speaker 6:

I'm going to go. The Taurus number three.

Speaker 1:

Really yeah Slow down.

Speaker 6:

Okay, slow it down here. I've always liked that one. It does wrap a bow on it. The little bell at the end yeah, I like to put it on when I'm in foreign countries and just walk around. It's good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well, I mean, my message was just think. If you just slow down and just think about what you're doing and how everything is going to impact you, you can make some choices, thoughtful choices, that can get you so much further. If you just slow down and think things through.

Speaker 1:

So I mean it was a great sentiment. But there was just something about like number three for me is electioneering. There was something just super great about that. I mean it's just kind of I just like how all the instruments came together and it was just really trippy and the symbolism, you know, the electioneering, et cetera.

Speaker 6:

you know, yeah, I, you know like I appreciate your vote, Like you know, yeah, I can see Tom saying that to people Exactly and just getting a laugh out of that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, what about your number two?

Speaker 6:

Oh, geez, um, yeah, what about your? Number two oh geez um let down, I think it's, it's, uh, it's catchy okay and it just will stay with you. If you, if you let it, the song could go and go and go. It's got a really circular emotion and it is about expectations and not having them. Maybe. It hits a nerve, you're happy at the same time, yeah and it's cathartic.

Speaker 1:

Maybe in some way You're giving up to being let down, which is a good thing. You can kind of it's a. It's that tipping point between being super let down and moving on, kind of a right, you're, you're breaking that threshold. So okay, yeah yeah, this is uh for you. This is like a mental exercise it is for me. I was just like jamming out, I'm like number two. I was thinking uh, subterranean, homesick alien that was uh, that song rocked, I think it was.

Speaker 1:

Uh, I just like the music and it grooved, so I would just leave it at that okay, yeah.

Speaker 6:

Well, like a juggernaut slipping through the time portal to save the universe in an interstellar blast, I'm going to go with Airbag no 1. Oh yeah, great song, good riff, uh-huh, simple lines intertwining, yeah Just.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love Pump.

Speaker 6:

It's a great, it kind of is. Yeah look, I love pump it's uh, it's a great kind of is. It's a. It's a good sort of song to drive to.

Speaker 1:

Uh, obviously, drive responsibly to gotcha under five under in the slow lane I'm glad that was a song that was worthy of being in one of our top threes, but also.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, for me honorable mention goes to every other song on here.

Speaker 1:

I know, yeah, this is what's so gross about what we're doing, because every song is so good and it's so open to interpretation, or in what mood you're in can dictate what the? Top three is, and so let's not.

Speaker 6:

If I was in a more subdued mood, exit Music and Climb Up the Walls. Like subdued mood. Exit music and climbing up the walls, yeah, and maybe even Karma Police, no Surprises, all those songs could be on there, a sort of sad melancholy playlist, yeah, anyway.

Speaker 1:

My number one is going to be climbing up the walls, wow.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I thought that that was. I did not see that coming. Yeah, I know, that was incredible that thought that that was. I did not see that coming. Yeah, I know that was incredible. That was a great song. You know a lot of just like a lot of these noises all together there's difference, like a whole host of the Greenwood was Unexpected things.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, doing some, he was doing some. Mastering yeah, he was yeah.

Speaker 1:

So for me, me, it was all about, you know, just the, the jams and then for tim, I think it was more like the like, the cerebral, uh, ideas, you know, that evoke such a like a strong, like emotional reaction. Yeah as it, yeah as it definitely does, you know, on many levels. So, all right, let's put a bow on it, we're good well porky that's all folks, all right all right guys later take care.

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