The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!

[Jorge]

sounds pretty great to me.. love the off kilter time signature, reminiscent of pyramid song

"Pyramid Song" is in 4/4!

[tree_]

sounds pretty great to me.. love the off kilter time signature, reminiscent of pyramid song

"Pyramid Song" is in 4/4!

ooopsie poopsie, you're right! but it does sound off kilter. it has a jazzy 7/4, 9/4 drum part, which sounds similar to this song

[bodysnatcher]

I got your back, dad. Burn or no burn.

[tree_]

she's just another hack,man

[Happy Trees]

sounds pretty great to me.. love the off kilter time signature, reminiscent of pyramid song

"Pyramid Song" is in 4/4!

"Pyramid Song" is in 4/4 if you look at it simplistically. (Which is what Phil Selway does - he says it's in 4/4 like others do but with a pattern that he "feels".)

But to understand it at a deeper level, Selway is really "feeling" a syncopated time signature pattern. There is one bar of 5/4, two bars of 4/4 and then it concludes with one bar of 3/4 (the ending drum fill).

So technically it does change time signatures, but the pattern is 16 beats total so it fits within four bars of 4/4 as a sub-division. That's the genius of it.

These kinds of patterns are typical in the work of Frank Zappa, whose music sounds rhythmically disorienting at face value but can be easily learned if sub-divisions are understood. He would prove this by re-arranging "difficult" pieces into "danceable" 4/4 versions ("The Black Page" 1 & 2 on Zappa In New York for example, where he tells the audience what he is up to right on the album and encourages them to dance).

[tragabigzanda]

[dad]

I got your back, dad. Burn or no burn.

I knew I could count on you.

[Happy Trees]

Trag likes that post

And I like you right back.

[Jorge]

sounds pretty great to me.. love the off kilter time signature, reminiscent of pyramid song

"Pyramid Song" is in 4/4!

"Pyramid Song" is in 4/4 if you look at it simplistically. (Which is what Phil Selway does - he says it's in 4/4 like others do but with a pattern that he "feels".)

But to understand it at a deeper level, Selway is really "feeling" a syncopated time signature pattern. There is one bar of 5/4, two bars of 4/4 and then it concludes with one bar of 3/4 (the ending drum fill).

So technically it does change time signatures, but the pattern is 16 beats total so it fits within four bars of 4/4 as a sub-division. That's the genius of it.

These kinds of patterns are typical in the work of Frank Zappa, whose music sounds rhythmically disorienting at face value but can be easily learned if sub-divisions are understood. He would prove this by re-arranging "difficult" pieces into "danceable" 4/4 versions ("The Black Page" 1 & 2 on Zappa In New York for example, where he tells the audience what he is up to right on the album and encourages them to dance).

That's what I meant

[Higgs]

this new song is just a better version of The Numbers.

Not possible.

Spoiler: show

[Bammer]

Why can’t this thread just be called Radiohead

[tragabigzanda]

[Higgs]

Radiothread.

[Bammer]

Why can’t this thread just be called Radiohead

*ba

FUCK!!

[bodysnatcher]

Someone please change the name of the thread to “Why can’t this thread just be called Radiohead”

[Vitalogist]

I saw them on their 2018 tour. Would love to see them again.

[VinylGuy]

i listened a bit of the new Smile album...so Radiohead is dead right?

[Ello Sailor]

As in, The Smile is so good that there's no need for Radiohead, or The Smile is so bad that there's no need for Radiohead?

[dad]

I like this new The Smile album, though not as much as the first.

this one is more like a smirk for me.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem