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Trying to get into writing mode but RH thoughts keep intruding.
So I'm exorcising the Radiohead thoughts by doing a quick RH spam here.
Second week of the tour just started, and there's yet another new song already, as well as some rarities nobody ever expected to hear at a concert in 2012 - like this eleven years old b-side that had never been played live at all.
Actually, the new song isn't a new song. Rather, it's the (or perhaps just: *a*) full-band version of a song that Thom Yorke has been playing solo for a while. I find it pretty interesting how Yorke's songs evolve. They usually start as solo pieces played on piano or with a single acoustic guitar. And then they're brought into the band arena - either Radiohead, or Yorke's other band, Atoms For Peace - and frequently become entirely unrecognisable in the process that follows.
Here's some examples:
Let's start with the obvious, the new song, "Skirting on the Surface". This is the pre-band version:
And this is what became of it in the hands of Radiohead:
Took me a few listens to get used to the new version!
Then there's "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses", which began like this:
And, with Atoms For Peace, became this:
And for a last example, here's "Separator", which started its life as "Mouse Dog Bird":
... and sounds like this nowadays, after the full-band treatment:
(I hope this works... I've never embedded video here before, let alone across platforms.)
Second week of the tour just started, and there's yet another new song already, as well as some rarities nobody ever expected to hear at a concert in 2012 - like this eleven years old b-side that had never been played live at all.
Actually, the new song isn't a new song. Rather, it's the (or perhaps just: *a*) full-band version of a song that Thom Yorke has been playing solo for a while. I find it pretty interesting how Yorke's songs evolve. They usually start as solo pieces played on piano or with a single acoustic guitar. And then they're brought into the band arena - either Radiohead, or Yorke's other band, Atoms For Peace - and frequently become entirely unrecognisable in the process that follows.
Here's some examples:
Let's start with the obvious, the new song, "Skirting on the Surface". This is the pre-band version:
And this is what became of it in the hands of Radiohead:
Took me a few listens to get used to the new version!
Then there's "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses", which began like this:
And, with Atoms For Peace, became this:
And for a last example, here's "Separator", which started its life as "Mouse Dog Bird":
... and sounds like this nowadays, after the full-band treatment:
(I hope this works... I've never embedded video here before, let alone across platforms.)