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About This Track
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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Shouts
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littledragon092 wrote:
cool, i didn't know stephen hawking collaborated with radiohead
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inkalot wrote:
Microsoft Sam.
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Austin_Rac wrote:
Gosh, you ignorant fucks, this is NOT Stephen Hawking. What a bunch of fools.
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SantiagoOo wrote:
depressing as fuck (4)
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Wuzzly wrote:
god...damn
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MrMostauche wrote:
depressing as fuck (3)
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naotas_forehead wrote:
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?
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naotas_forehead wrote:
I actually find the computer voice as hilarious as it is creepy and depressing. And it's my third favorite track on OK Computer, fuck the haters.
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DonSmilo wrote:
a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.. <3 song
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kato1984 wrote:
depressing as fuck (2)
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BeetleJuice1993 wrote:
This is the Panic Office. Section 9-17 may have been hit. Activate following procedure...
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zielinsky wrote:
Pounding nails in the floor with my forehead
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JeffersonBV wrote:
I wonder if Stephen is indeed fitter and happier.
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totesmetalbro wrote:
Stephen, is that you?
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Nakkinak wrote:
This is the only piece by Radiohead that is without any hint of a doubt an intellectual, pointed and analytically sharp criticism of modern capitalism. Hats off and hands down. Fitter, healthier and more productive like a pig in a cage on antibiotics. Brilliant, Karl Marx is jealous.
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AceOfSpades24 wrote:
depressing as fuck
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Hasimere wrote:
ha, the modern human condition.
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Pubik_Vengeance wrote:
best Radiohead track
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kato1984 wrote:
still kisses with saliva no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
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JiveTurkey13 wrote:
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate, nothing so childish. At a better pace; slower and more calculated. No chance of escape.
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