dead air space*
about the song like spinning plates (amnesiac, 2001):
the song ["like spinning plates"] is built over the reversed backing track of an electronic version of the then unreleased "i will" (which would later be released in a much different form on hail to the thief). according to thom yorke, in an interview with the wire, "we'd turned the tape [of "i will"] around, and i was in another room, heard the vocal melody coming backwards, and thought, 'that's miles better than the right way round', then spent the rest of the night trying to learn the melody."
colin greenwood said of the vocals, "in copenhagen, i was listening to woman's hour. they were talking about this english composer, whose name i can't remember, who wrote a piece of music for a singer where all the phrasings were backward but she sung it forward. thom sung the backwards melody. it was recorded forward then listened to backwards and he did the phrasing so as to create backward sounding words but it's sung forwards. it's kind of my favourite track."
the song ["like spinning plates"] is built over the reversed backing track of an electronic version of the then unreleased "i will" (which would later be released in a much different form on hail to the thief). according to thom yorke, in an interview with the wire, "we'd turned the tape [of "i will"] around, and i was in another room, heard the vocal melody coming backwards, and thought, 'that's miles better than the right way round', then spent the rest of the night trying to learn the melody."
colin greenwood said of the vocals, "in copenhagen, i was listening to woman's hour. they were talking about this english composer, whose name i can't remember, who wrote a piece of music for a singer where all the phrasings were backward but she sung it forward. thom sung the backwards melody. it was recorded forward then listened to backwards and he did the phrasing so as to create backward sounding words but it's sung forwards. it's kind of my favourite track."
from wikipedia.
*the post was previously titled like spinning plates, after the radiohead's song i've mentioned. i've changed it because i intend to post more curious things about them - as if that would help making them coming back for a gig in portugal.
*the post was previously titled like spinning plates, after the radiohead's song i've mentioned. i've changed it because i intend to post more curious things about them - as if that would help making them coming back for a gig in portugal.
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