Written by Jonny, this was a song which made it onto the album at the very last minute just as they were packing up, despite having been written at Read the rest of this entry »
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The song had it’s live premiere when Thom and Jonny played it for a US radio station in Atlanta on july 21st 1995.
This song was originally recorded in one day for inclusion on the Bosnian Warchild benefit LP Help. Despite many other major British artists contributing to the album, this song was immediately recognised by the critics as the most outstanding track. Read the rest of this entry »
The song premiered on december 4th 1995 in an acoustic version called ‘No Surprises Please’ with completely different lyrics:
he was sick of his clock stopping
wind it up, that girl stayed sleeping next to himthe watch stops, the batteries run down
he started his broken sentence
no alarms…the watch stops, the batteries run down,
he started his broken sentence
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he band tried out the song prior to recording it when they toured in support of Alanis Morissette in 1996. At that point it had a mellower feeling to it, almost like an acoustic rendition. This performance from august 16th 1996 features several lyrical differences in the verses:
I am the key to the lock in the dress
that keeps her toys in the basement
and if you get too far inside
you’ll only see my reflectionI am her face as she sleeps tonight
I am the crack with the smile
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23 Jan 2010
Climbing Up The Walls – Song Trivia
Author: Glen | Filed under: OK Computer, Song Information
Thom was thinking of the Poll Tax Riots as he wrote this, the scenes where people were breaking down the gates of Downing Street. As well as being political, the song is also about them, travelling around the globe and having to sell their records to people.
This page, titled ‘OESOPHAGUS’, appeared on radiohead.com during the recording of OK Computer:
fitter, happier more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3days 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
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A line similar to “this is what you get when you mess with us” can be seen at the bottom of this page of radiohead.com from the OK Computer period:
food and sex dont go
wilting before my eyesthey will peck out your eyes
mathematics aerodynamics
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The band tried out the song prior to recording it when they toured in support of Alanis Morissette in 1996, testing different arrangements. The lyrics of the final section (“you know where you are with” etc.) had yet to be written. In this version from the first gig of the tour on august 12th 1996 this passage is simply played without vocals. The instrumentation consists of guitars only for the first third of the song, bass and drums enter somewhere in the middle.
Written after the band had seen a ten-minute preview of the film Romeo and Juliet, Thom recorded the vocals outside in the stone courtyard of their studios at Bath. Read the rest of this entry »
23 Jan 2010
Exit Music (for a film) – Song Trivia
Author: Glen | Filed under: OK Computer, Song Information
This song was written in march 1995 at the time that The Bends was released. Thom and Jonny premiered it in Santa Monica on KCRW’s ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ shortly afterwards on april 4th 1995.
23 Jan 2010