{"id":787,"date":"2008-01-02T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/2008\/01\/02\/ten-tracks-that-mattered-5-radiohead\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:02:23","slug":"ten-tracks-that-mattered-5-radiohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/ten-tracks-that-mattered-5-radiohead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Tracks That Mattered: #5 – Radiohead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Radiohead“Bodysnatchers” by Radiohead<\/span><\/p>\n

How could I not? I mean, did Radiohead really need another amazing album? Couldn’t they have just slowly faded like U2? Well, apparently not. I liked their last album. Hail to The Thief<\/em> had some interesting stuff on it. It was a bit of a return to their tighter Bends<\/em>-y construction, a step away from the rampant experimentalism of Kid A<\/em> and Amnesiac<\/em>. So I didn’t know what to expect with In Rainbows<\/em>, and frankly, I wasn’t dying to know. Radiohead released the album themselves in that peculiar “Pay What You Want<\/a>” fashion that was either brilliant or daft, depending on your point of view. I paid nothing. I picked it up out of curiosity. And then I sat on it for weeks for some reason, perhaps not wanting to be disappointed, perhaps afraid of getting suckered by hype, perhaps I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind. But finally, sitting at a coffee house tapping away at the novel-in-progress, I decided to give it a spin.<\/p>\n

I didn’t listen to anything else for three days.<\/p>\n

\"In<\/p>\n

This isn’t peer pressure. This is not me going, “Oh Gawd, since everyone else says it’s good, I might as well squeeze it into the top ten.” This is me going, “Holy pus bucket, Batman!” which, in non-derivative slang translates to, “Heck, these guys have put out something really special.” It’s tough to single out a solitary track to represent this album, and indeed, as we climb higher in the ranks of Tracks That Mattered, we’re getting away from songs and focusing more on albums. But I love this one. “Bodysnatchers” is a paranoid, rapid-fire growl with rich, rounded guitars and a humming bassline. Thom Yorke howls about abduction and paralysis and defeat:<\/p>\n

Has the light gone out for you?
\nCause the light’s gone out for me
\nIt is the 21st century
\nIt is the 21st century
\nYou can fight it like a dog
\nIt brought me to my knees
\nThey got scared and they put me in
\nAll their eyes wrapped around my face
\nAlthough everybody else can see<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is classic Radiohead. The stuff I love, come back again to haunt.<\/p>\n

Radiohead: official site<\/a>, in rainbows<\/a> (no longer available as a download), Bodysnatchers<\/a> (youtube)<\/p>\n

Listen and weep:<\/p>\n

Radiohead – “Bodysnatchers”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radiohead - In Rainbows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,125],"tags":[130,126,147,146,145,127],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}