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About This Track
A favourite of Thom’s, he expected it to appear on OK Computer, but the band decided not to include it. The song has been played on a few occasions on the OK Computer tour, often as a powerful encore with just his voice and an acoustic guitar.
If the future of funerals has a sound, this is it. In its organ driven glory, Motion Picture Soundtrack is actually one of the more put together songs and optimistic songs on the album, despite the grim lyrical matter. The song has quite an ethereal, heavenly feel about it, given by the choir and the cascading harp at the end. The final line, “I will see you in the next life”, seems to agree with the “heavenly” part.
An early version of the song includes another final verse and then the chorus:
Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can’t even recognise you
If the future of funerals has a sound, this is it. In its organ driven glory, Motion Picture Soundtrack is actually one of the more put together songs and optimistic songs on the album, despite the grim lyrical matter. The song has quite an ethereal, heavenly feel about it, given by the choir and the cascading harp at the end. The final line, “I will see you in the next life”, seems to agree with the “heavenly” part.
An early version of the song includes another final verse and then the chorus:
Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can’t even recognise you
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mulololo wrote:
Inspired The beatles - GOODNIGHT
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maltezanin wrote:
This song will play at my funeral... ;)
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EdgeLike wrote:
I haven't. And this may be the greatest piece of music to ever have existed.
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EdgeLike wrote:
listen to it on LSD if you want a true mind altering experience.
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blondevagabonde wrote:
To listen Motion Picture Soundtrack at night, in the dark and in utter silence is a mind-altering experience. [4]
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XDRory wrote:
I was going to skip it but heard the first chord and just sat and did nothing.
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idoxcase wrote:
אני אראה אותך בחיים הבאאאאיייייייייייייייםםם
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ejbarto wrote:
sigur-rósesque
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spencermmm wrote:
still their best
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the_cwtimes wrote:
really special song.
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ViniciusStilt wrote:
I always imagine the second part as an opening of a portal to the parallel universe. [3]
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shapeform wrote:
I always imagine the second part as an opening of a portal to the parallel universe. [2]
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tim_9 wrote:
I always imagine the second part as an opening of a portal to the parallel universe.
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Seraraffyp wrote:
i doubt any one of you has experienced what i call my "radiohead experience". imagine the following setting: your room's completely dark, your laying flat on your bead, Kid A is coming from the speakers. so i was there, listening to the songs, then there's motion picture soundtrack - silence. thoughts are swifting away, the last part of the song gets you superficially back into consciousness, then again silence. the most ground shaking and far reaching thoughts are aching in your head and you completely forget where you are - and then all of a sudden "everything in it's right place" starts. guys, i tell the truth, i had for like 10 seconds the feeling of floating straightly upwards. then i was back in the here and now - all the thoughts were gone, i realised that i'm in my room, and that it's dark and wanted to go out and again mind my own business. believe it or not - from that moment i knew that i love radiohead. and big brother, as a matter of fact.
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Nakkinak wrote:
must not cry ლಥ_ಥლ
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captainyodel wrote:
this song reminds me of the performance of radio and juliet i saw recently. such an incredibly moving piece.
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mav2145 wrote:
To listen Motion Picture Soundtrack at night, in the dark and in utter silence is a mind-altering experience. [3] ahh the irony. It wouldn't be 'utter silence' if you're listening to it! tehe
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Pezrawr wrote:
Dreamy.
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VieraM wrote:
This song is special, that old organ sound it makes me homesick... this is a hard call but , BEST KID A SONG
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Hasimere wrote:
Wonderful tune
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