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About This Track
“Like Spinning Plates” is a song written by the English band Radiohead that appears on their 2001 album Amnesiac. It also appears on their live album, I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings.
The song is built over the reversed backing track of an electronic version of the then unreleasedI Will (which would later be released in a much different form on Hail to the Thief). According to Thom Yorke, in an interview with The Wire, “We’d turned the tape around , and I was in another room, heard the vocal melody coming backwards, and thought, ‘That’s miles better than the right way round’, then spent the rest of the night trying to learn the melody.”
To achieve the song’s distorted vocals, Yorke learned to sing the vocals backwards. Then, after hearing them back, he sang the backwards vocals backwards again, giving them an uneasy sound. This technique is similar to ones used by The Beatles and The Stone Roses on some of their songs.
Colin Greenwood said of the vocals, “In Copenhagen, I was listening to Woman’s Hour. They were talking about this English composer, whose name I can’t remember, who wrote a piece of music for a singer where all the phrasings were backward but she sung it forward. Thom sung the backwards melody. It was recorded forward then listened to backwards and he did the phrasing so as to create backward sounding words but it’s sung forwards. It’s kind of my favourite track.”
On Amnesiac, the song segues into the final track on the album,Life In A Glasshouse through the electronic noises at the start of the latter.
The song is built over the reversed backing track of an electronic version of the then unreleased
I Will (which would later be released in a much different form on Hail to the Thief). According to Thom Yorke, in an interview with The Wire, “We’d turned the tape around , and I was in another room, heard the vocal melody coming backwards, and thought, ‘That’s miles better than the right way round’, then spent the rest of the night trying to learn the melody.”
To achieve the song’s distorted vocals, Yorke learned to sing the vocals backwards. Then, after hearing them back, he sang the backwards vocals backwards again, giving them an uneasy sound. This technique is similar to ones used by The Beatles and The Stone Roses on some of their songs.
Colin Greenwood said of the vocals, “In Copenhagen, I was listening to Woman’s Hour. They were talking about this English composer, whose name I can’t remember, who wrote a piece of music for a singer where all the phrasings were backward but she sung it forward. Thom sung the backwards melody. It was recorded forward then listened to backwards and he did the phrasing so as to create backward sounding words but it’s sung forwards. It’s kind of my favourite track.”
On Amnesiac, the song segues into the final track on the album,
Life In A Glasshouse through the electronic noises at the start of the latter.
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MFORCE310 wrote:
unlikely if coldplay when some додумаются write track this level
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kikikirsche wrote:
Oo
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niqart wrote:
навряд ли Coldplay когда нибудь додумаются сочинить трек подобного уровня
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Bodysnatcher94 wrote:
Best anti-establishment song ever.
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TheFly1991 wrote:
The live version is incredible and I adore it, but the studio version is other worldly.
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bernlin2000 wrote:
From a technical standpoint, the studio version is really cool. Musically, though, the live version is incredible :-)
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niqart wrote:
i prefer the studio version
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Mushu_ wrote:
i didn't like this until i heard the live version. wow.
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mrdurden0422 wrote:
sadly one of my least favorite Radiohead tracks
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innerspeaker wrote:
God damn goosebumps
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dv_mn wrote:
Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
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Mizzou_Card12 wrote:
Feels like my brain is being warped.
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DaniloFerrreira wrote:
i prefer the studio version
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InfatuationR wrote:
eerie
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YUFFLE wrote:
Simply Wonderful
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Hurcule wrote:
The live version of this song is amazing (7)
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aFINEmess18 wrote:
this has got to be one of their best songs. so bloody good.
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bernlin2000 wrote:
The live version of this song is amazing (6)
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sebadohblue wrote:
one of my favorite radio head songs for some reason..
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Dakota3131 wrote:
and this just feels like spinning plates, my body is floating down the muddy river. like spinning platessssss, like spinning plates
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