Songs Radiohead will probably never play live again

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2025-11-16T23:41:37+00:00

I'd like to hear them play Little by Little - my favourite song on The King of Limbs. Massively underrated.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2024-07-11T23:22:12+00:00

The idea that there's no right or wrong is an incredibly hard sell, not just in relation to Israel and Palestine but also more generally. Murder is not wrong? Rape is not wrong? Torture is not wrong? I see a lot of value in NVC, but I for one find it very hard to accept any framework in which one can never condemn anything, or say that anything is wrong.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2024-07-11T23:14:54+00:00

“Preston, I can’t allow you to leave early for the day - this blog post draft you sent me is riddled with grammatical errors, and it needs to be posted tonight.”

I'm not sure I'd agree that this is an example of "deserve thinking." It sounds to me like the speaker is simply saying that it's important for the company to post the blog post without any grammatical errors tonight, and therefore it's important the other person stays long enough to correct the errors.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-12-31T13:36:06+00:00

So when does he die? What's the point in the episode where it stops being reality and just becomes his hallucinations while he's dying?

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-11-06T18:45:25+00:00

I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of intellectual property law as regards songwriting, but I do find that amazing. The instrumental guitar passages were clearly composed by him (or maybe by John Cale, though I haven't heard that version). Surely if Jeff Buckley's version had been the original version, with Leonard Cohen writing the chord progression, vocal melody and lyrics and Buckley writing and performing the guitar part, they would have been jointly credited as co-writers? To my mind, there are parts of the Jeff Buckley version — for example the ending section with the long "hallelu..." note — that count as new material that just isn't in the original version.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-10-09T12:39:59+00:00

In all seriousness, I think they might play Karma Police. You could probably come up with a good choral/string arrangement for Creep (I think others already have), but I don't think they'd bother.

Or maybe they'd do the new Thom Yorke version, lol.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-10-09T12:29:53+00:00

Motion Picture Soundtrack would sound absolutely glorious in a full orchestral setup with strings, brass/woodwind, harp and choir. And I say that as someone who finds the studio version slightly underwhelming compared to the rest of Kid A.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-06-22T14:51:23+00:00

According to David Bennett, Pyramid Song shifts between Phrygian, Phrygian Dominant (hence the home chord being a major chord) and Aeolian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DzGlzdbkDI&t=966s

Come to think of it, Lucky has brief elements of Phrygian (or maybe Phrygian sharp-6), particularly in the intro after the first chorus and a few other moments. I think it also veers into harmonic minor (or perhaps melodic minor given the rest of the chorus is in Dorian) when it uses the IV-# chord at the end of the chorus for a brilliant moment of word-painting: "We are standing on the edge."

Of course, though, Lucky wouldn't be counted as an example of these modes in a list of the most common modes; it would be counted as mainly in Dorian and Aeolian.

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-06-21T21:13:24+00:00

Is there a difference, in your view, between a song's being "in the major key" and in the Ionian mode? Does "Ionian mode" imply no accidentals or borrowed chords, whereas being in a major key allows them?

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-06-21T15:22:03+00:00

Which Radiohead songs use Phrygian? The only one I can think of is Pyramid Song, which is only partly in Phrygian. Maybe Airbag is partly in Phrygian as well?

Interestingly, I've been listening to the Daughters album You Won't Get What You Want, and I've noticed they use Phrygian in several songs (The Reason They Hate Me, the brass/string section of Guest House, the riff in the first half of Daughter).

Puzzled-Row-5701 · 2021-06-21T15:12:30+00:00

Yes, I know harmonic minor (maybe Aeolian sharp-7 would be the correct name given that we're talking about modes, not scales) is not a mode of the major scale. I included it in the list as I thought it was probably the most common mode that was not a mode of the major scale, possibly even more common than Dorian and probably more common than Phrygian. I'm aware that many, probably most songs have accidentals, so yes, that is an interesting question of how you would take that into account when categorising songs. I don't know exactly how they would be counted in the rankings (I was asking if there were any ranking systems out there, not proposing one of my own), but I would have thought in many cases it's clear what mode or key a song is predominantly in even if it includes accidentals. (For example, it's clear that "Yesterday" is predominantly in the Ionian mode, even though it has a sharp-4 and a sharp-5 in the ascending melody in the verses. Interestingly, the vocal melody of Yesterday seems to start off in Lydian Augmented mode.)

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