TopicOK Computer - Colin Greenwood
The Tourist – Song Trivia
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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
Continue Reading→ Exit Music (for a film) – Song Trivia
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.
Continue Reading→ Subterranean Homesick Alien – Song Trivia
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
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