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About This Track
“Anyone Can Play Guitar” was a single taken from Radiohead’s first album Pablo Honey, released just in advance of the album. It was the band’s second single, and their first to receive a wide hearing (“Creep” had been issued in limited quantities some months earlier, and had failed to chart, but would soon become a hit and ultimately be re-released later in 1993). “Anyone Can Play Guitar” made relatively little impression on the charts, but it remained a staple of the band’s live sets throughout the early-mid nineties.
Thom Yorke has said that the song is about the mysticism that guitarists seek to perpetuate around their instrument, rather than it being about practice, a talent that anyone can gain with some application.
He has also said that he has a pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison. He has said that he feels it affects people in rock, “in that they believe that they think they have to act like fuckng prats in order to live up to the legend”
He has also been quoted as saying:
“Jim Morrison’s a fat talentless bastard - and he’s dead.”
Thom Yorke has said that the song is about the mysticism that guitarists seek to perpetuate around their instrument, rather than it being about practice, a talent that anyone can gain with some application.
He has also said that he has a pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison. He has said that he feels it affects people in rock, “in that they believe that they think they have to act like fuckng prats in order to live up to the legend”
He has also been quoted as saying:
“Jim Morrison’s a fat talentless bastard - and he’s dead.”
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naturalway wrote:
noise influences <3
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freakin_jorjo wrote:
Destiny protect me from the world.
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ImmortaLuv wrote:
He's no Jim Morrison, not even close.
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RobCanning wrote:
I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morisson...
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Roc_Melo wrote:
Yeah except ginger people
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KAGA1984 wrote:
just a college rock song
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IndieBritrock wrote:
Sonic Youth Under The Influence.....
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CharlotteRos wrote:
el quiere ser...jimmm morrisoooon! xD♥
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p-augusto wrote:
i cant play guitar hehe but i tried ;)
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TheShwagShop wrote:
almost forgot about this gem
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ProjectorStars wrote:
Enjoy this song more now that I can call myself Anyone.
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AGuitarSolo wrote:
I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morisson! (Thom growl implied)
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thirteenstone wrote:
If the world does turn and if London burns I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I wanna be in a band when I get to heaven. Anyone can play guitar they won't be nothing anymore
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Soundservant wrote:
This song makes me want to be Jim Morrison
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Bub_Clifton wrote:
No, not everyone can play guitar..Believe me I tried.. :( [3]
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lackadazikal wrote:
awww yeah
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RafaelDivoz wrote:
No, not everyone can play guitar..Believe me I tried.. :( [2]
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samuel8 wrote:
....Destiny proctect me from the world.... lol
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RohrboughCop wrote:
"their best song." lol
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Dplee95 wrote:
here's a comment.
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