RadioheadFitter Happier (1:56)

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Many people mistook the computerized voice on this track for that of physicist Stephen Hawking. The strange voice was, in fact, created by Thom on his Mac computer. He recorded it one night in an isolated area of the rehearsal space that the band had set up. Ed: “Thom basically had this checklist, like a nineties checklist if you like, and he had written it out. There is a bit of him playing piano, in the rehearsal room. He was very drunk one night, which you can tell by the sloppy playing on it, and he just played out this melody and stuff. He was very anxious that it wasn’t him saying - this voice is neutral. By the computer saying it, it hasen’t become a bit of a pretentious art-wank, it’s something neutral in the way that the computer stumbles over words and doesn’t get the pronunciation or the inflections right.” Adds Thom: “The reason ‘Fitter Happier’ exists is ‘cos of mental background noise. Some days you’re in a disturbed state and it moves to the front.” The track was used as an entrance song for the band on their 1997 tour.
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  • OK Computer
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  • Album Box Set
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  • ComplexThirteen

    I like how this starts off as a pretty up-lifting track and then you get depressed when you realize how repetitive it is.

    last month
  • paw999

    THIS MAI JAM.

    last month
  • NarayanaDutra

    a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics

    last month
  • Ennish

    Like a cat. Tied to a stick. That's driven into. Frozen winter shit.

    last month
  • licoricepizza

    fatter, hippier

    March 2012
  • Seeeeeeeed

    Fascinating.

    March 2012
  • Rawrrrrr_

    party song, fuck yes

    March 2012
  • innerspeaker

    Once you can dance to this, you have obtained the level of 'Dance Grand Master'.

    March 2012
  • Qtgurl7

    my jam

    March 2012
  • timmerd

    annoying

    March 2012
  • Blvd_Nights

    This track makes me cry....a lot actually..

    March 2012
  • galinalistens

    I love this track. It's deliciously creepy.

    March 2012
  • Canoecat

    ...wonderfully disturbing...

    March 2012
  • fuzbox

    Yea, Stephen Hawking must be very very busy. I'm glad he took out so much time from writing books to record with Radiohead.

    February 2012
  • littledragon092

    cool, i didn't know stephen hawking collaborated with radiohead

    February 2012
  • inkalot

    Microsoft Sam.

    February 2012
  • SantiagoOo

    depressing as fuck (4)

    December 2011
  • Wuzzly

    god...damn

    December 2011
  • MrMostauche

    depressing as fuck (3)

    November 2011
  • naotas_forehead

    I'm not gonna lie, I laughed the first couple times I heard it say, "A cat, tied to a stick, that's driven into... frozen winter shit" Does that make me a bad person?

    November 2011
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