Saturday, November 19, 2011

radio in my head

i feel like i am hallucinating!!
the hair on my arms has been standing up for almost two hours.

i am listening to radiohead's "lost" album, called 01 and 10. apparently, ok computer and in rainbows were made to complement each other like the binary digits 01 and 10 (i can't explain this to you, but i confirmed that they do.). thom yorke dropped hints by releasing in rainbows 10 years after ok computer on october 10 and releasing cryptic messages all involving the roman numeral X. clearly i missed all of this since in rainbows was released four years ago and i am just now catching up. i am a radiohead loyalist for sure, but not "that" kind. anyway i read that it took a couple of years for anyone to even notice or suspect anything. if you piece together the albums, song by song, it creates one seamless album (using a 3-5 second overlap makes it even better). WHAT?!? and it's not just the tempos or key signatures or architecture of the songs, even the themes of lyrics flow seamlessly. YES!!!

1 airbag (ok computer)
2 15 step (in rainbows)
3 paranoid android (ok computer)
4 bodysnatchers (in rainbows)
5 subterranean homesick alien (ok computer)
6 nude (in rainbows)
7 exit music (for a film) (ok computer)
8 weird fishes/arpeggi (in rainbows)
9 let down (ok computer)
10 all i need (in rainbows)
11 karma police (ok computer)
12 fitter happier (ok computer)
13 faust arp (in rainbows)
14 electioneering (ok computer)
15 reckoner (in rainbows)
16 climbing up the walls (ok computer)
17 house of cards (in rainbows)
18 no surprises (ok computer)
19 jigsaw falling into place (in rainbows)
20 lucky (ok computer)
21 videotape (in rainbows)
22 the tourist (ok computer)

(what is going on in my brain?? why do i keep having the urge to throw up??! my eyes won't shut!! i can't get any words out of my mouth.)

i refuse to geek out so i won't go into all of the specifics, but the listening experience is religious and painfully heart pounding, especially if you have a fondness for either/both albums.

on a side note, i'm pretty sure "young people" think of radiohead in the same way that i think of the rolling stones or the beach boys*.

*the exception here is that hipsters like to claim that they love the beach boys, but i am only including those who listen to it outside of the ironic value.

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