Ep 31: Radiohead - In Rainbows (w/ special guest Nathan Forster)
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02:17This is the last stop on our trip through the Radiohead records.Last stop on the Radiohead Choo Train.Yes, for us at least.We started with OK computerAnd we're stopping at In RainbowsFor now, at leastWe might circle back and talk aboutMaybe moon-shaped pool at some point
02:39But for now we thought in RainbowsWould be the perfect place to stopAnd we have a special treatIn store for you guys todayYou're probably tired of hearingJust myself and QuentinTalk to each other about recordsDude, that's probably the main reason why we don't have more listeners because they're like, dude, I can't listen to these twin bros, geek out and be all weird together another fucking week.
03:10Well, we're giving them a break at least one week of a break because we have a special guest on the episode today.His name is Nathan Forster.He is a musician.He was in a band called Grass Fight for a number of years.I was their guitar player for like two months.Anyway, we're just introing the episode here.We've already had our conversation with Nathan.We taped it a few days ago.
03:42He was actually in town, which was sweet because I haven't seen him in years.So it was fantastic being able to look him in his eyes and chat with him about Radiohead.Yeah, man, it was a blast.We had a good time.We covered every song on the album, which you're about to fucking hear.I haven't pieced it together all the way through, dude, but it's probably going to bea solid close to two hours long.Yeah.
04:10So anyway, let's just get right into it.Like you said, this is going to be a long episode, so let's stop yapping and get to theconvo.Yeah.All right.So here's our conversation with Nathan and we're covering radio.It's 2007 release in rainbows.Travis, you've got Nathan in the flesh.
04:55That's right.Sitting in your room.I wasn't expecting to have him right in front of me like this, but here we are.Here I am.That is amazing.So let's talk about who Nathan Forrester is.Oh boy.Here we go.
05:08Here we go.How long is your podcast?That'll be the extended episode.Okay.So where were you born and raised?What are your hopes and dreams?We don't know. We don't got to get into that, dude. So I, so Nathan made my rock and rolldreams come true by letting me play guitar and Grass Fight. And we, I guess if we were to, like,
05:34we always said, oh, Grass Fight is like Interpol and Radiohead, right? That's the sound that wewere going for. So Radiohead being one of those two sounds that we were going for means thatyou're a giant radiohead fan, is I correct?I am a giant radio head fan.I think I know most everything except for their birthdays.You don't know their birthdays?No.Oh, I got Wikipedia right here, dude.
05:58I mean, you can find out right the fucking.Wouldn't it be something else?I'm going to do it right now.I'm going to see if today is Tom York's birthday.So are there any left-handed members in the group, Nathan?There are not.Okay.Yeah, all right-handed.
06:17Yeah.Okay.Even though, you know, I could picture Johnny just swinging the guitar around the other side and play it the same way.He could probably do it.Yeah.He's talented enough.But, so I feel like this is a full circle moment for me.Yeah.
06:33Because I feel like Radiohead wasn't really on my radar until I joined Grass Fight and saw how obsessed you guys were, or at least you were.I don't know about the other guys.So here we are.Travis, when were you in Grass Fight?Trying to remember.2008?Yeah.So it's been like a decade.
06:56Yeah.And Nathan, when did you first get into Radiohead?Like, what album was it?Well, I remember when I was a kid and Creep came on the like the Buzzbin, MTF Buzzbin.And I was like, that's a cool, like, guitar sound with the chug chug joke.Yeah.And, but I didn't get the album then.And then in seventh grade, a friend let me borrow the bins.
07:23And I listened to it while I had a broken wrist from jumping out of the swing.And then OK Computer came out.And that's when I hit.Yeah, that was when the obsession started.Yeah, I missed out on all of it, man.I just, yeah, it just wasn't on my radar, unfortunately.I kind of wish it was, but...Yeah, well, you needed better friends.
07:46Yeah, seriously.We were into the strokes.I feel like the strokes was our big band back in high school.That was who we were obsessed with.Yeah.Which, you know, it's the strokes.They're pretty...Yeah, they're decent.
07:58Nothing to front out.Right.There are no radio head.All right, so is in Rainbow's your favorite radio head album?I think it's...I was actually thinking about this on my way over here.I think it's my second favorite behind OK Computer because, okay,computer just has to be number one. But I do think like moon-shaped pool is probably like number three.
08:19Really? I need to give that one another good listen. It's, it's been a while. And I only everlistened to it all the way through once. I love in rainbows, man. But like for me, it's alwaysbeen a tie between Kidae and Amnesiac for like my favorites. What's funny is like I, I like wasn't,I kind of like was rebelling a little bit against Kidae when I.came out, like everybody's going crazy about it, but I wanted that, like, guitar, rock.Oh, yeah.And, you know, they didn't give it to me, but then, like, years later, I realized how muchof an idiot I was.
08:58Well, that's what's...Okay, so we talked about Hale to the Thief on our last Radiohead episode.And I feel like Hale was, like, when they kind of mixed the electronic stuff that they weredoing with the music with the guitar, melodic rock stuff that they were doing in the past.Yeah, like, Hillel the thief is like, I feel like the collective, like radiohead, like, up to that point, it's like they threw in like everything they'd been doing.Right.And then put it into like a 14 track album or 13 track album.Yeah.
09:24I always say that Hale the Thief is my favorite radio head album.And I think in Rambos is probably number two.Well, and we learned at that point, too, that Tom Yorker's finally starting to let other band members have a say and like creative, like writing.but before that it was like his way or the highway kind of so it was we were finally starting to hear the entire bandI think that was actually that was around like the kid a amnesiac time but you know but then from that point onyou know it was more of a collective effort for each album well I'll be actually I'm going to behonest I heard differently but uh yeah this is why you know this is I'm your guest here I don't I don'tyou know no lay it on me I mean I have read in radioid books and that kind of
10:09thing, but, uh...Yeah, so please.Tell us where we were wrong.Like, King of Limbs, I think, was just basically like Tom York 2.0.Like, I don't think they did much of anything on that.Really?But, uh, but yeah, I mean, I think the, how it, like, worked before, basically, it was, like, um, Tom York would kind of, like, do, like, the song writing, uh, like, you know, solo stuff and then bring it to everybody else.and then they would kind of like scramble to like find things to like add on top of it.
10:44You know what?That reminds me of a quote that we had from on the Hale episode.We talked about.Sail to the moon.Sail to the moon.Yeah.So they were talking about how like Tom came into the table with that song.He had written everything.
10:59And they didn't like they were nervous to like it.Like it was one of those things where they felt like they had to handle it with like with care and stuff because it was so perfect.they didn't want to it's like there were several there's like a tom york song where it's likeperfect we don't have to do anything to it and then there's the ones where they've likethey feel like they have to you know they they contribute to it with a guitar rip or something like thatwas one of those instances where it's like don't touch it it's perfect so i wonder if that's thecase with a lot of them it's like tom york probably writes or has the main idea probablyalmost all the time like i think with that one uh seal a moon uh what i what i heard was that uh like
11:36Phil Selway took like the like you they like worked on like the the um whatever like the measureslike they started to like F up the measures like I think it was like kind of normal at first and thenhe was he was like let's try this out and I think it's like some crazy like if you listen to itand you listen to it like on a four four kind of like scale like it's totally jacked up like it'skind of hard to follow that's what I love about ready hit stuff all the quirky things they challenge youYeah, exactly. Exactly. So, all right, let's talk about what we're here to talk about in rainbows.So compared to Hale to the Thieve, I feel like in rainbows, or I guess compared to everything else that they've done, I feel like in rainbows was more, it's more like traditional rock song structures.as far as like
12:34it's the albumwith the least amount of like electronicstuff. Yeah. Yeah. I think...I feel like they almost...Because with Hale, they said, we brought the laptopsand whatnot into the studio andtry to treat him as other instrumentsalong with everything else.
12:51But with this one, I feel like there's lessof that... There's some of it,but there's not as much of it.It's more straightforwardmelodic stuff. Would youagree with that? Yeah. I thinklike, I forget who said it, but there was some, uh, some reviewer of the album said it was a,it was radiohead coming back down to earth. Okay. Yeah. So it's kind of like, it's kind of like,
13:16like, stripped away like a lot of the effects and, uh, yeah, and just like the drums are like super dry.Right. And so it was like, in that way, it was like totally different from the stuff they had donethe past. But it was also kind of like a, like coming back to like the bins a little bit. Yeah.Which I think a lot of people were happy about.Yeah, exactly.But what's funny is, like, I think track one, 15 steps has that electronic drumbeat.But, I mean, I feel like the rest of the album, it's really light on the electronic stuff.Yeah, for sure.
13:50Well, hey, let's just jump in, man.Let's do clip one.Speaking of 15 steps, let's jump right into it here.Let's do it.We're going to go track by track on this album, which is something we've never done.So this is going to be a lengthy episode.but we just couldn't we couldn't worth it yeah it's going to be worth it for sure we couldn'tnot talk about every single track so yeah so it's going to be a song heavy episode so here's
14:14track one 15 step tracks for an album yeah i love the i love the drums man yeah and yeah how it allit's it's like you know they got the collapse in the background and it's really just reallypercussive at the beginning you know and then it all comes in with that that baseline yeahI think when they, like, debuted it live.It was before the album came out.I remember I've seen his video where, like, Ed was, like, telling the crowd to, like, follow his clap.So it was like, so he did that, you know, the pop-pop.So it wasn't like the standard, like, okay, put your hands together.
16:12Let's do this.Yeah.Just the regular, you know, thing.So it kind of like what I was saying is like that it's like a perfect example of, you know, radio head, like, challenging the fans being like, you can do this.get with us on the same page.You can stick with us.But yeah, I love the guitar that comes in.Like, it's just, it's, what I like about,
16:36I feel like the drums are always off during their own thinga lot of times with the radio event song.And then like the guitar might be like much more like soft and like light or like,you know, light on the distortion or something like that.But then the drums are over here doing this crazy thing.So one thing I've always said about Phillips drumming,and it's why he's one of my favorite drummers.So I like drummers that you almost don't realize that you're not listening to just a loop,
17:07like a drum loop.A lot of his drumming is extremely repetitive and simple,but that's what I love about it.Yeah.I love so many of his drum beats, man.I just love him, especially on this album.Yeah, there are a lot of tracks on here that are like that,where it really does sound like just a loop, you know.
17:25Yeah.But then I'll do something different to it.You know, I'll change it up a little bit.And let's not forget that this was the song that played in the credits of the first Twilight.Really?Yes.Dude, I had no idea.Yeah.
17:37Probably because I've never seen it.Yeah, I mean, I just heard somebody tell me.All right, I have another clip for 15 steps.All right, let's hear it.Yay.Let's give it a go.Of that bass line?number one. That's like one of my fucking. I fucking love the bass, dude. I feel like Colin is
19:39becoming my favorite bass player. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like the more I, the more I listento Radiohead, the more I realize how like crucial his bass is, you know? Yeah, he's like abass, like, nerd. Like he like, he like, will only do like what, like he doesn't like show offunless it's like that where it's like, this like little, little bit and like a, yeah, almost like adrum fill or something like that. But yeah. He's not a flea. Yeah. He's not a flea.he's not a flea or a Carlos Dand that's what I'm talking aboutwith like my favorite drummers
20:09are the ones that keep it simplebut like you knowthey're doing all the right things manlike I've always felt that way aboutRingo Starand Jim Enowho I talk about all the timeSpoon
20:22also in that cliplike one of the most memorable momentsof that song is that little clipof the childrenYeah.Playing and yelling.Yeah, that's just like a, it's like one of the clips.It's like in the sound bank on,
20:40in Logic or Garage Man too.Really?Yeah, like, that's funny.Nice.I can have it on your computer.Oh, shit.Yeah.So like, I always wonder, like, why did they,
20:49why did they throw that in there just for fun?Or like, is it,does it have some sort of like connection to the lyrics or something like that?Like kids?Or was it literally just,let's just throw this in here real quick.Yeah.I mean, there's a lot going on towards.
21:02towards the end of that song, you know, it seems to kind of build up, like, the intensity of it all the way to the very end.I mean, that's one way to build intensity is to have a random clip of kids yelling, you know?I wouldn't think kids yelling.Also makes it, like, it has like a cheeky vibe to it.Yeah.It makes it kind of funny a little bit.But, yeah, I always just wonder.And Radiohead does stuff like that all the time, you know.
21:28Yeah.Stuff in that, that just, like, comes out of nowhere, it seems like, you know.All right, so we're going to jump into track two, spoiler alert, friends.Body Snatchers, one of my favorites, man.Absolutely.It's like impossible not to make the duck face when it starts.Like the rock out duck face.And do like air guitar and just make the duck face.
23:05Dude, what's funny is I made that face and you probably saw it.I did do.Yeah.Involuntary.I didn't get to see anything, guys.Well, you probably made the same face over there.dude.Something like that.
23:14By the way,pitchfork saysit in rainbowsis the best new music,I guess,whenever they wrote it9.3 on the pitchfork scale.Yeah,
23:23and that's like the,the collective,like thing,because they originally did itwhere it was like,because it's just like the,because you remember when the albumcame out,
23:34it was like the pay what you want.Yeah.And then,so pitchfork initially did like,they did a great review,which I find a little,a little rare sometimes with pitchfork.Hey, you're on the same.
23:46We're on the same. Yeah.But we agree on radiohead for sure.Yeah.But yeah, the review is like,basically review what you want.So I think that they took that numberfrom like another like average of like reviewers.Yeah.
24:00That's clever actually that they did that.Yeah.I guess we'll need to talk about that at some point on this episode.Like the whole what you want thing.And like how they were really the firstthe first major act to do something.Yeah, I think like nine inch nail.did shortly after.
24:14Yeah.And 9-inch nails,like,they're known for,like,their source files,audio files are,like,
24:21available for people to download and stuff,which is kind of the next step,I feel like with,like,as far as,like,putting it out there for your fans,you know,
24:30like you can download,like,you know,the instruments or whateverfrom a certain 9-inch nailstrack and remix it.Oh,yeah,
24:38he wants his fans.Like the stem.Yeah,to remix his music and stuff like that.But,But anyway, so, Q, you said this is one of your favorite radio hit songs.What do you like about as much?Tell us what you like about it.
24:52Well, for one, like I said, that's one of my favorite drum beats of his.I mean, it's, like, if you're listening to the, like, the bass drum is just constantly going.Like, you know, it's all just the same, very repetitive.It's fucking hard to do, man, because, like, I've tried to play along with a song.Like, dude, my right, my right limbs are just.dead by the timeyeah like it's you know by the time itchanges up like the beat so you would say that
25:20you're not the king of limbsyou know what I'm sayingthat's exactly what that's exactly what I would saythat's that's where theboi-oing sound good yeahyeah we need to have a sound board for those momentsa little high head hat but myso this is one of my favorite
25:36Tom York moments in a radio head song toomy favorite line of his dudewhen he's likeI have no idea what I am talking aboutI had to finishI was wondering if you were going to do the whole thingI had to go through itI fucking love that dude
25:56I love how he's meanjust listen to him he's just fucking screamingNathan you probably know the answer to this questionbut like I remember I've seen himlive performanceswe actually went to a show togetherremember that that was the in Rainbow's tourYes it was
26:10Um, so he uses his, the microphone, like, like, you know, he's doing, he's probably doing thatwith the, the, that line that Quinn just said that I'm not going to sing.Um, it sounds like he's, he's, he's got some tremolo or something, or like, like, he's probably, like,kind of moving his mouth around around the microphone to, to make that effect, right?Yeah.Am I just like, am I, am I?Yeah, something like that.Exactly.
26:38Q, you missed it.I just saw it.I don't know if he does it on purpose or what, but yeah, definitely.He has this, like, almost like, purposeful, like, lazy way of, like, singing sometimes.Like, yeah, like, you know, like, I think he started, like, on OK computer, you know, if you think of, like, airbag, I'm back to say the year.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.And he definitely, like, does a lot in this album, too.He's all over the, obviously, his vocals are, like, all over the map.
27:09and that's why he's amazingbecause, you know,he's got such a huge range with his vocals.But I feel like, especially on stage,like that guy's, like, he's moving all over the placeand really, you know,his head's moving all the time.And I feel like that does stuff to your voice,
27:26obviously, when you're going into a microphone, you know.Maybe he's just trying to find the micbecause he has a lazy eye, so.I don't think you've ever talked about the lazy eye on this.I know, I was going to say, like,I was thinking about it.But I never had it.He would have some serious issues if he couldn't find the microphone right in front of his face.
27:46But anyway.So I feel like I'd done goofed myself, my friends.I know, Travis, you made a second clip for this one, but, dude.You better fucking play it, dude.I don't know where your second clip starts.But, like, I cut it off like 20 seconds too soon because one of my other favorite things.Yeah, don't worry.I got your cover.
28:06The second half to me is like, it's like one of the.best parts of like any song and that's why i made a second clip because you did not have it in thereso don't worry i got you covered yeah so i feel like there was a change like that on 15 stepwhere like it shifts gears and goes into a different place and then the same thing happens herelike that change that happens like you said it's like yeah fucking yeah they do that on uhweird fishes too it's like yeah there's like the piano i think it's the piano partthere's something we'll get we're gonna getBut yeah, I love it when they do shit like that, man.
30:17And like you said, it just, you know, takes it to a whole different place.It's amazing.And that drum fill.Yeah.The fill drum fill.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.
30:27The drum fill.Yeah, dude, it's so simple, but so effective.Yeah.All right.Well, Trabbe, you didn't have my favorite part, man.Really?I thought that was the whole song.I don't, I don't.
30:39I don't.I don't know the very last few lines.No, no, no.No.No.No.I like the second verse, dude.I don't know if I'm going to play it, man.
30:47Because it's like, I'm not going to sing it for you guys.Come on.Come on.Q, you're among friends.No, no.All right, well, just play it then.All right, hang on.Yeah, dude, I fucking love that line and the way he sings it.
31:29Okay, yeah, I see what you're saying.So good.Yeah, and that's what I'm talking about.Like, I feel like with Tom's range, you know what I mean?Like, it's such a, that's almost like a punk rock sound almost.Yeah.And he just throws it in there.And like it's, you know, the lyrics with, or, uh, with the edges sawn off or whatever, that's
31:48very, you know, he comes at it very aggressively with the vocal thing.And it's, he's talking about sawing off the edges of something.So like it fits with the lyric too being a little bit more aggressive.And he cuts that, it's like he cuts that verse in half, you know, he goes right back into,but then, but then he doesn't have any idea what you're talking about.The second one, the second time around.It's like, he's resolved.He's like, no, it's not.
32:10me, it's you.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.Interesting.All right.Moving on.Yeah, we're only two tracks.There's not, you know, this is kind of a short album.All right.
32:22Let's keep, let's keep it on.So I feel like, obviously, the next three songs kind of go, like, have a whole differentfeeling, you know what I mean?And that's what I love about this album is, you know, there's so many different, like,moods, you know, and I feel like the next three are very, like, soft radio head songs, younow. So let's hear it. How many clips do we have for this one, Q? So for for nude, I've got two clips.But really what I did. Okay. No, I'll I'll get to it on the second clip. All right. So here's clip one fromtrack three. It's called nude. Just going to say something first. This is like a, I think there was
35:27like the first time that they, because they had like all these songs in the 90s that they would play live.And then they wouldn't they wouldn't record them. So like for the.the hardcore radio fans like radio had fans it would be like uh like we'd be expecting thesesongs on like every next album and then they would never use them uh like there was like lifttrue love weights was one of those man-of-war and this is one of them and so this is like the firsttime they actually brought one back and uh so it was like this like sweet relief for for all of usso when did they write this one um i think it was i think it was around the okay computerIt might have been like the Ben's time.
36:08Yeah, that seemed to be the case with a lot of the tracks on Hale to the Thief.Like the songs were written years prior, you know, and they kind of recycle him, brought him back.Yeah, he seems, they seem to do that quite a bit.Like, he just sits on songs, you know, and then.Yeah, his vocals, too, like, you know, it's, like different from what we're just talking about,where he, like, he sings it lazy on purpose.this was like he actually like bonoed it up yeah it's like pretty it's the more like you know i just feellike tom has like all these different you know flavors of his voice you know and this is one
36:48particular flavor which i've heard before uh so you get a variety pack with each of yeah exactlybut that's the thing he mixes it up like on the next verse when he says you'll go to hell forwhat your dirty mind is thinking like the the voice like switches to anotherto another flavor of Tom York that I've heard before.Yeah, they're almost like characters.Yeah, exactly.Do we have another clip?We do, but here's what I did.
37:14So I like to hear transitions, like from song to song sometimes,and we miss out on that playing clips.So the second clip of nude is really just the outro of it.I don't think I have any more of his lyrics,but then it goes straight into weird fishes.So guys don't get too excited about it.I think that's a great idea.Pumped, yeah, pumped.
37:41Thanks, Nathan.Nice.There's so much going on in that song.I think this is my favorite song on the album.Yeah.I always used to go to Jigsaw.Jigsaw was my favorite for the longest time.Jigsaw's fun.
41:28I think this is my favorite song, dude.I love how like it seems like there's like this,it's like you're going up, you know what I mean?Like it's just building and building and building and building.And like the drum changes.Like he hits that high hat.Like it's that repetitive drum beat like we talked about.And then like he hits the high hat or something like that and then does something a little bit different on the drum beat.
41:47But it's the same.You know what I mean?But then the guitar is getting like there's a lot.Like you said, there's a lot of stuff going on in the background.I feel like everything's building up, you know?Yeah.I think it like it debuted like I think like Johnny Greenwood was doing something with an orchestra and Tom Yorksang a little bit at this performance
42:07and they brought this song in.So before the album was released,there was this thing.So the song was kind of like hoveringfor a couple of years like that.But you can kind of hear like the orchestralthing that kind of comes in.Yeah, yeah.
42:22A little bit of like,yeah, yeah.That's what I'm saying.Like, yeah.And that's the kind of weird, like the,like it just,there's a lot of stuff going onas it builds up and up and up
42:32to this like,pay off, you know, and then it switches to that,I get eaten by the worms, weird fishes, you know, that part of the song.Or it's like you get this sort of like break from it a little bit from this buildup.Yeah.And I don't know if anyone else cares about this, but I just love how Philip counts them in on this one.Yeah.At the beginning, you hear this drumsticks.
42:57I love that kind of stuff.Yeah, it sticks with that like raw feel.Mm-hmm.Yeah, so that's the only clip I have for word fishes.Only because we still have so many songs.I want to talk about one more thing with this one.Go for it.So, like, I know we're going to talk about the basement tapes at some point.
43:13Oh, yeah.The performance for this one, and like you hear it in the background, it's, or at least on live performances, it's Ed, the second guitar player.Like, you hear this voice in the background of the song, like, oh, yeah.I can't, I don't know what he said.I think he's just, yeah, doing that.But I've always loved that because, like, I'm always waiting for it to happen because I know,coming.Yeah.
43:36And I just,I love that,not just a subtle sort of extratexture in the background or whatever.Yeah.You're gonna know your way around a microphone to pull that off live.Yeah,I think he was,
43:49he's kind of,cupping his hands for that one.Yeah,something like that,yeah.But anyway.All right,should we move on to track five?
43:57Let's do her.All right.This one's called All I Need.That almost sounds like a,someone's,I guess beat boxing is the right word.But someone'smouthing along to the drums.
45:33Yeah, that sounds like it might be Tommy Ork.Yeah, I think it is.Okay.Yeah, he's mimicking the same drumbeat with his mouth.Yeah, it's like a, it's cool because like it's like this,obviously the feeling's like very, you know, serious.It's very, very lovely and nice, but it has this like groove to it.Yeah.
45:54Yeah, that's what I, yeah, it seems like, I was kind of going back to what I was saying earlier about the drums always seem like they might be doing something like different than like the feeling of the song.Yeah.Because like you say like a beatbox and stuff like that.It doesn't really match the tone of the song.But like the lyrics are great too because it like it, like for most of it you're thinking, oh, it's like a love song.And it is.But like that this lyric, I only stick with you because there are no others.kind of like turns it a little bit right yeah almost like there's nothing else here yeah it's like
46:28i'm in love with you but but this is this like he's kind of like stuck in the relationship yeah surebecause there's nothing else yeah available but yeah we talked about johnny greenwoodyou were talking about like the last song the like the orchestra kind of or like he obviouslydoes that like he does soundtrack and stuff like that like he's i guess he's always sort of had thatside to him, right? Yeah, especially around this time. Classically trained. Yeah, because when didwhen did rainbows come out? Seven. Seven. So yeah, this is when he was doing,there will be blood. Came out the same year. So, yeah, so like, you know, I wonder how much ofthat type, son of a bitch. Hold on. Sorry. My phone's ringing and then it rings on my computer.
47:21so it's likeApple's trying tosmart meyeah like I wonder how much of thatthatlike if he's in that mindsetof like I'm making a soundtrackfor for you know
47:34there will be blood or whateverlike I wonder how much of that spilledinto the in rainbow sessionsyou know or if there was any sort ofbecause if you're in that mindset you knowyeahbecause maybe that's why you knowsome of that orchestral stuff
47:45kind of spills into this yeah I think he kind of likedove into it and thenthen I think there was likesome interview where he said thatBefore this came out, he said he was playing more guitar than he has, like, ever.So I think he was, like, doing the orchestra.Then he picked the guitar back up and kind of like, you know, almost made a guitar, like, with arts,like kind of like how you would create, like, an orchestral piece.
48:09Yeah, exactly.Yeah, that's what I wonder about.But anyway.So, I know you have a second clip, right, Q.I do.So I was going to say, there's a, there's something.thing that happens in this next part that's like one of my favorite moments on the album there'slike this piano that comes in and i i fucking love it i fucking love it so i think we all know what you're
48:31talking about oh yeah oh yeah it's about to get we're picking up what you're putting down yeah yeahhere we go i just love that man it's just so gorgeous you know what more do you want in a songthere's nothing else that you need that's all you need all i mean yeah yeah it's fuckingperfect.Am I crazy or did it sound like there was an accordion at the end there?Oh, like that.Yeah, it does sound like a great.Yeah, it has like that, uh, yeah, something, something orchestra or something.
50:33Yeah.I don't know what that was.Wikipedia does not list the instruments used in this album so I can tell you.Step it up, Wikipedia.media.What the fuck.Anyway.Yeah, I think that's one of my favorite parts on the album.
50:52Yeah, it's, it gets you.That pay off, you know, and the drums and everything that's happening in that moment, you know.Yeah, this is one of those albums.I mean, I feel like with all radio head albums for sure, like it's worth listening to with a good set of headphones at least once.You know, it kind of envelopes you the way that they record it.So is it Godrich or Godric, Nigel?I would say it Godrich, but it's kind of like that Cigarose, Cigaross, you know.Right. It's however you want to say it.
51:32Yeah, I just love the way he produces these albums.Now, he's done every single one of their albums, right?Yeah.Okay.Cool.Except for Pablo Honey.He was the engineer on the bend.And that's how they met.
51:50All right, so track six,I don't know how to say this.Foss, Farrp.Yeah, we're moving along, Prince.We've got a good clip.I think we're at like at the hour mark.Not even an hour, so we're doing good.Yeah, we're doing good.
52:05So this is just a little over two minutes long,so I'm going to play the whole song.Wakey, wakey, rise and shine at sun.on again, off again, on again.I watch me fall like dominoes in pretty patterns,fingers in the blackboard pie.I'm tingling, tingling, tingling, tingling.It's what you feel, no, what you are to, what you are to.
52:34Reasonable is sensible, death from the nickel.But guess I'm stuck, stop, stop, stop.Without your head, even, no, no.The reason squeeze the tubes and empty bottlesI take about, take about, take about, take aboutIt's what you feel now, what you are to, what you are toLittle for dancing and the wound is tumourine, tumour and tumourineand duplicate and plastic bags and duplicate and duplicate
53:10there from the neck up, I guess I'm stuck, stop, stop, stop.It's almost like a acoustic rap, like when it gets out,is enough, is enough.I love you, but a love is enough.You know, and I start.There's no real.It's almost like a acoustic rap, like when it starts.Yeah, wiki, weekie, wiki, right?
54:23Or like a, or like a, or like a, how do I, like, or like a song that you're, like,singing in the shower.You just like come up with a shower.She's just fucking around in the shower.scrub scrubbed up yeahbabywinkieyeah I've always felt like this song
54:38kind ofit's like aI don't knowsore thumb on the album maybeI don't knowI don't want to be harsh on itbut like it you knowyeah they they do that
54:48I mean it's like theyou knowit's likethe middle ofokay computeryou know they likeit's kind of likethe transition of like
54:57the first part of the albumto the next part albumAnd the middle song is kind of like the, kind of like, you could do without it.Yeah.But, you know.But they're trying to.But you can go to the bathroom like I did just now.Nathan used this song as a bathroom break, which is perfect for this song.
55:17But yeah, I guess, so it's like a intermission or something like that, I guess.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.
55:25But the one thing that stands out is like there's a whole.string section on thislike an obvious like stringsin the background. So I thoughtthat was interesting. When we were deciding whether or notwe want to do track by track, I mean likethis is a song that you know we could have left out.But but listening
55:45to it again and hearing the stringarrangements, you know, it's worth listening to.Yeah. Yeah. Right.But it does stand out obviously from the rest of the albumto me at least. It's justdifferent. Yeah. And obviouslyit's a good transition to the nextone because like it makes the next track like that much stronger.
56:05That's true because kind of like we're talking about like nude and weird fishes and all I needall have this very, to me they feel like a softer kind of song and then Reckoner is likestarts right off with those drums.Yeah, and Reckoner is another one of my favorites.Before we play this clip though, let's, so what I'm going to do, clip two is going to be fromthe basement.Let's talk about from the basement for a second.So, dude, I didn't know this.
56:35Show us how little I know.I didn't know this was Nigel's baby.Do you know that?Actually, I didn't know that either.Yeah.That's all.That's, this is his thing.Oh.
56:44Yep.He started it in 2006.He conceived from the basement to capture, quote, the true representation of the artist's workwithout the pressure of television promotion or interference from presenters and audiences.So, and I mean, no wonder it sounds so fucking good.It's Nigel, you know?Yeah.Yeah, it sounds like exactly like the album almost.
57:10It sounds amazing.Yeah, man, some of my favorite performances of my favorite artists are basement tapes.Like Fleet Foxes did a basement tapes and it was fucking amazing.Yeah, now you know it's all thanks to Nigel, man.It's all Nigel.But, uh, yeah.So here is the first clip as you hear.on the album.
57:28This is track seven.It's called Reckoner.That's the angelic Tom York side, that voice.Yeah, that's the angelic flavor.Did you guys hear the Seelow Green version of this?No.Fuck that guy.Well, I mean, yeah, I don't know much about him.
59:26But, but yeah, like, I think it was like the same year.He's got the voice for it.Yeah, they did a, yeah, with Norwell's Barclay, right?That's like what the group was.Yeah, that's right.It's him in Danger Mouse, right?Yeah, yeah.Yeah, they did like a live version of this, and it was really, really good.
59:45I bet it was.I bet it was.Man, so let's talk about the drums because it's fucking killing it.Yeah, and actually, like, I was really paying attention to the way he's got it, like, in each ear.Like, the actual drum kit is mostly on my right side, but there's, like, something going on.I mean, it's, it's like a snare hit.I don't know if it's a snare drum, but it's something.like there's something going on almost in like a different room with like a lot of echo
01:00:12and stuff.Yeah, there's definitely a lot of echo or reverb and stuff.You got shakers, you got tambourine.What I like about the drum beat is it almost sounds like a, like it's like a down tempoor breakbeat drum beat, you know what I mean?Yeah, and like I was saying, that snare hit.Actually, you know what?Let's just play it again, dude.
01:00:34Just the beginning.Like, notice how it's almost like there's two different.beats going on at the same time.It's almost like, I don't know, like one's trying to catch up to the other.I mean, it's all on the same tempo or whatever, but it's kind of hard to describe it.Let's see if we can hear it again.But yeah, like that three hits in a row right before he sings.It's like it's catching up, like I forgot to hit to hit once and then it caught up.
01:01:18I don't know if that makes sense.Yeah, it sounds like almost like there's a beat going with just the,symbols like they're using like a one of the symbols for like a snare hit yeah yeah and that'smostly on like the right side and like yeah his actual snare drum that you're hearing on theon your right ear is very subtle but he's doing one of those things that um you know where it's it'salmost like nothing but it's not it's not a drum fill but you know it's just um there's lots of reallydelicate hits on the snare drum.Yeah, anyways, I love that.
01:01:59And it's really fun to watch them pull this one off, you know, from the basement because, you know, Johnny and Colin, everyone's shaking tambourines.And Johnny's like shaking a, he's got like a lemon shaker.Yeah, those lemon shakers probably started flying out the shelves.Oh, yeah.that performance. Every gentleman.So one of the top comments, one of the top comments on YouTube for the Reckoner recording,some guys like, you know, I got tabs on Johnny's Limit?What?
01:02:34Get it like guitar tabs.Oh, I get it.You get it, Josh?Yeah.Oh, I get it.All right.Now I got it.Okay, so here is clip two from Reckoner.
01:02:44This is recorded live from the basement.Are you notAre you not entertainedWhy can I just be in a band like thatLike they don't have to be radio head, you knowI just want to beYeah, I'll take the Ed rollYeah
01:05:45You know whatI'll take the role of the guy that's just shaking the tambourine in that oneIt's kind of weirdTravis and I have thisthe lyrics up andit's not ait's not a miss like amisspelling or anything
01:06:02because it's like repeated down herebut it says the lyrics areyou can't take it with yourhe's saying yourwhat instead of and it repeats it downthe next time it's almost like he's doing like aTyler Perry or something like that thank youoh my god
01:06:20that's probably what it was yeah thank youSo I don't know why he'sMaybe because it rhymes with ReckonerMaybe that's maybe that's why he's doing itReckoner you can't take it with hereHe just wanted the two words to rhymeYeah but yeah it'sYou know that just shows the
01:06:36The genius of radio headIs that yeah I mean you think that they're going to sayYou can't take it with youBut no noThey're gonna keep you on your toesIt's yourIt's like youYou think you know something
01:06:48It's yourMy youYeah I don't know if theI don't think thelyrics were in thealbum. Yeah.So I don't know. I actually never noticedthat the lyric in rainbows
01:07:00is in this. Yeah. Yeah.That's like that, you know, like in the scenein a movie where a character says the name of themovie. Like, oh, that's the name of it.Yeah. Yeah, I thought of the getting the namefrom the lyric and videotapein red,blue, green. Oh, yeah.
01:07:19But no, it's flat out.It's straight out right there.So what is this song about?These lyrics are kind of weird.I like the, I like the line you were not to blame for bitter, sweet distractors.Yeah, dare not speak his name makes me think of Oldemort from Harry Potter.That was very popular around that time.Yes, it was.
01:07:40But yeah, dedicated to all human beings is a weird line.Like, I don't know what, I mean, you know how it is with his lyrics.Maybe I should go to that fan website that we were talking about the other day.citizen somethingCitizen insane.EUThis guy breaks it downLet's go to it
01:07:57Let's try it out hereWrecking errorI'm getting to the bottom of itIt was written in 2006,2007HmmWait, when didAnd revokes came out?
01:08:10It was twoYeah, 2008 or?Oh yeah2007.I think I said 2007 beforeBut wellDead wrongGet the hell out of here
01:08:20Hold on a minute, let me see.I thought it was 2006.What are we talking about, guys?The release of this album?Yeah.2007.Okay.But he wrote it in 2006.
01:08:34This song was written in 2006.I was just trying to get to the bottom of the lyrics here, and I can't quickly find it.So we can move right along here.All right, let's do it.What are we at now?Okay, track eight.This is called House of Cards.It's like a Tom York's pattern again of like starting a song off super sweet and then
01:10:36you know being like yeah no this is too sweet uh we're a dark man we're gonna we're gonna change thelyrics uh because it's it like the lyrics to me are like uh you know talking about like a relationshipthat's like uh i don't know i just picture like a married couple has been together for like a longtime and it's kind of like dead uh and then they're like trying uhswingers, like try to be swingersor throw your keys in the bowl.Yeah.Yeah, your ears should be burning denial.
01:11:06Denial.Good God.Yeah, you're right.And yeah, that definitely, you know,is a contrast to the song.The song sounds like a sweet love song.It does.Yeah.
01:11:20So I've got citizen insane.that EU up right now,which is like,I was always joking that like,that you're behind this website,but I don't think so.Because it's like this giant,this guy's obsessive to the point of like,
01:11:36we need to check in on every once in a while or something.Because like he posted,he'll post pictures like,House of Cards was from the titles that appearedon this picture of a blackboardthat the band used during two weeks of rehearsalsfrom September 19th to the 30th, 2005.So like he just,
01:11:53he's good.Oh, he's good.He collects it all, man.He'll take screenshots from the websitethe radio head website, like the word denial showed up on the website on 2006 or whatever,this exact day, which may be a nod to the song.But like, anyway, he posts snippets from interviews and stuff.And here's Tom talking about this song.
01:12:14He says, it's his personal favorite.It reminds me a lot of that tune by Fleetwood Mac Albatross, which I absolutely love.Now, I know you're a huge Fleetwood Mac fan, right?If we ever do a Flewwood Mac episodeOh yeahAbsolutelyWe're coming to you dudeYeah
01:12:31Thank you I thank you in advance for thatYeahWe haven't really talked about doing a Flewitwood Mac albumBut obviously we have toWhat would you want to do?What would you want to do?Nathan if you were to pick an album to doMan that's tough
01:12:44Which one should we do?Yeah I mean rumors would be theMost Collective oneCan we do the greatest hits?That would be a firstI meanWell the funny thing is likeOn the Black Sabbath out
01:12:57that we blacked episode that we didI picked songs from like fourother albums so like we could do something like toowe could just do a flea-upac episodebecause it was like during the time wherethey likethey made sure they had like the hitsand then they like kind of filled in the rest
01:13:13like the albums are greatI don't want to like discount that butbut yeah like they definitelylike their hits are definitely like spread over likedecades right exactlybut anywayI'm not familiar with AlbatrossI got to admit.
01:13:29But is it similar to the song?I thought Albatross was a instrumental.Cue?Let's cue it up, Prince.Because Tom himself says that House of Cards reminds him of Albatross.So I want to hear it.Can you handle the pressure here of playing something on the fly here?I'm sorry, what was that?
01:13:54I can see the similarities.He has the same mood.Yeah, same exact vibe.But I guess that's before Nick's joined because that was came out in 69.So there you go.This is from, that was a compilation of,called The Pious Bird of Good Omen.Came on in 1969.
01:15:19And it looks like that, I think that's where this song shows up,but doesn't show up on an actual album.Isn't that what they, like, what an albatross is supposed to like represent or something?Really?I think, yeah.In Omen.A good omen.Yeah.
01:15:34You know stuff that I don't.I don't know.About birds.And I'm a trust as a bird, right?Oh, yeah.If you guys do an episode about birds, please send the invite my way.Bird guy.It would just be sound bites of bird calls.
01:15:47Bird calls.And then we react.Yeah.It's us reviewing.Oh, I love that one.Yeah.That's my favorite bird call.All right.
01:15:58Do you guys want to play Jigsaw?This is my favorite, one of my favorite songs of Radiohead, period.periodit's the perfect songdudehis voice is all over the mapin that one manyeah
01:20:12and I had one of thoselike Tommy York momentswhere he saysyou knowthe beatthe beat goes round and aroundand then he kind ofswitches his voice
01:20:20again and kind of screams ityou knowyeahI don't know manto mefor the longest timethis was my favoriteradio head song
01:20:27and I think itmight still bemy favorite radio head songbut yeahit justit's fucking perfectmanhe does that
01:20:33lazy kind of styleof singing likeAt the beginning, especially when he says that line before you're comatose.Like he just barely drags that word out of his mouth.The word is comatose too.Yeah.It kind of makes sense that he would sing it like that.But I always remember the music video for this where, like, the cameras attached to their bicomots or whatever.
01:20:58It looked kind of like goofy.Yeah.But like Tom's face, because you have a straight shot of Tom's face the whole time.Perfect shot of the lazy guy.Yeah, that's what I said.If you didn't know before, you definitely know in that video.No denying it.But yeah.
01:21:14I remember he was always, he always looked like a goofball when he's singing that song.He's having so much fun with the song, too.Like, the guy is such a interesting performer.But anyway.This is my favorite picture of Tom York.Are you going to show it to?I got to pull up a Skype.Hold on, Q.
01:21:31Hold on.I got to put this up here.he's just a he's a goofy looking guyhappy as all get outI mean he definitely has agedokay like he looks a lot better nowbut when he was youngman that guy was just a goofy looking dude
01:21:51yeah is there a screenshot of thethe no surprises videono surprisestry to find no surprises I don't even know if I've seen thatthat's uh oh myoh yeah that's what I'm sayingyeah like the wateryeah yeah
01:22:09I remember this videoyeah so uncomfortablebecause he actually did thatbecause they should likebehind the scenesand the meeting peopleis easy documentaryyeah
01:22:19and he had to do it like overand over and overhe must haveI love that this is an audioformat and we're talking aboutpictures no one knows what the hell iswe'll post all these photoson the liner notes
01:22:33on the websiteit's just it's justwww.Google.comslash searchquestionmarkB.
01:22:40Yeah.Well,I'll post thethe Google searchURLparameters on there.All right.Hey,
01:22:50we've reachedthe final song.Yeah.It's like we blinkedand we did itat the end of the episode.It's almost a little sad.Yeah.
01:22:58What the fuck?Well,the song is sad.So it's a video tape.Gives me chills too.Well, did you guyshave any any,Did you guys have anything to say about Jigsaw?
01:23:07Because I just kind of, you know.I mean, I'm right there with you.It's just one of those awesome radio hit songs.Nothing to much else to say about it.Yeah, it's kind of in the same style as weird fish is what the plucking, the guitar plucking.Yeah, yeah.But yeah, I think this is one of those songs.It's like it's just them and their instruments.
01:23:29I feel like there was no programming, computer programming.Yeah.Like it's just pure them and their instruments, you know?Yeah, this is one of those that they played live before.And I was like super excited about it because, but it was like, it was like done like the guitars were electric.And like Johnny had this like other part of like the end that they didn't include.But the way they did it, it's like perfect.You know, like that's the album.
01:23:58So you heard this song before you heard it on the album?Yeah.Yeah.It was like, it was one of those like, holy shit moments.Yeah, like you're like like that, yeah, because you're going to sneak peek of the next album, right?Yeah.Yeah, yeah, you know, the drumming and the bass, I love the bass and that too, you know, the way he kind of, that, that slide down that he does on that bass line, you know?Yeah.
01:24:20I fucking love it.All right, videotape.Let's hear it.Memphis.Let's look it up right nowbecause there's a word in this song.If you don't worry, I got you covered.Something is already trapped in his...
01:26:24Wait, hold on.It's a character.Demon featured in German folklore.Originally appeared in literature as a demonin the Faust legend.Fossed art.Whoa.You're getting to the bottom of it.
01:26:39And he was, yeah, since appearedin other works as a stockcharacter.So there you go.So apparentlyFaust issomething else here.Some sort of
01:26:52a German legend.But yeah, the lyricsthe lyrics areMemphisophilus is just beneathand he's reaching up to grab me.Sounds like sort of your standardboogeyman type thing.Yeah, it makes sense because
01:27:10I think a song, you know,it's like he's saying as like life real.but he's like trying to take in the moment, I think.Yeah, yeah.When I'm at the pearly gates.This will be on my videotape.Like when you're when God's like, hey, here's all the shit you did.Yeah.
01:27:29You think you're getting in here?Yeah, but Methastopheles is trying to.Not on my watch.He's trying to grab him and take him back down the hell.I get it.So apparently, and unfortunately I have not actually watched this video,but Vox did a earwormEarworm is this series of videos
01:27:48where they kind of dig into like songs and stuffand they did an episode on this songand the secret rhythmapparently the piano in the songis syncopatedbut there's this guy thatwho had been obsessing over the songfor a decade
01:28:10and was kind of like digging into it a decade, which is crazy.Because he was trying to figure out the complex and challenging hidden rhythm.Yeah, it is like the part that's about to come up, thatthat beat, how it syncopated, but like you can't wrap your head around itbecause it's, how does it like still fall in line with a beat?Yeah.Like it makes no sense.Well, like, that reminds me of a, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
01:28:40It's kind of crazy.So what does this guy say?Do you figure it out?Let's just play it.Oh, it's 38 minutes long.I mean, we don't want to do that.Like I said, he really digs into it.Let me find it.
01:30:10Let me try to find it quick.You guys can talk amongst yourself.Oh, wait a minute.Wow.I'll figure this out here.Sorry.The song's great.Yeah, I mean, it definitely sounds like,
01:30:21there's like three or fourit seems like there's three or four differentlikeyeah yeah because there's athe piano's doing therhythm part and then you havethe drum goingyeah it almost sounds like it's
01:30:35yeah it's crazy manit almost sounds like just a standarddrum track thinguh god damn that I can'twhen I was uhI was in Alabamamy grandmother's uh this past falland I was in the hammock
01:30:53and like it had this like squeaky sound on itand I noticed like while I was laying thereit had this like rhythm that kind ofreminded me of this a little bit because it hadbecause it like as the hammock like slowed down a little bitit like you know the it got fasterso just like the songso I felt like at that moment that I was like
01:31:17I kind of understand what they did hereHe was on a hammock.That's when he figured it out.Yeah, apparently you have to watch a 38-minute video to wrap your head around it.We can post it in the show notes.Yeah, we'll post it in the show notes if you want to dig into it yourself.But either way, it's just one of those songs that this guy, he said that he played it on the piano, played it on guitar.I sing, I hummed.
01:31:48I sequenced its 808 drum samples,recreated its synth-based recipe.I superimposed a metronome over itso I could learn how to count it,and I still have some difficulty counting it.There you go, difficult to count.That's the takeaway from this.So he spent 10 years on this,
01:32:09and that's his result.Yeah, I spent five years with the metronome.Yeah, this 10 years.I mean, I don't know.Yeah.We're going to have to, you know, he's probably the guy that does that website,Citizen-EU or whatever, Citizen Insane, the obsessive guy.He probably could have found a cure for cancer in that time.
01:32:31Seriously.Just listen to the song and enjoy it.Yeah, let's put our efforts to better news.But anyway, that reminds you of the, we did a sidetrack on Johnny Greenwood's soundtrack for,shit what was it called it's a movie with uhit's got watching phoenix in it wasn't that one it was a different one it was uh you were neverreally here oh yeah but anyway one of the songs that we played had one of those weirddrum beats where like it purposely goes off beat but then it sinks back up to
01:33:05it stuff and it's going off and on so i don't know if that's johnny that's doing all that stuffor if that's phil selway that did all the drumming drum tracks on this episode or on the songradio tape butobviously like if it's a complexlike countingrhythm like they probably useda computer to do quite a bit of thatright
01:33:25that might all beyou know drum tracks and stuffbecause it doesn't sound like a traditionaldrum kitright yeah they probably had a biglike whiteboard in the studiofiguring it out they were likeyou know
01:33:41Russell Crow and beautiful mind you knowYeah.Or Matt Damon in Goodroll Hunting.Either one.Any other ones we can think about here?Whiteboards and stuff?No, that's it.That's the only two.
01:33:54That's the only two in the history of movies.So are we done here?Yeah, we did it.Holy moly.We did it.The funny thing is, you know how cute?We usually say at the end of an episode,I feel like we barely scratch the surface.
01:34:10It's because we only do like three or four songs, you know?Yeah.I still feel like we barely scratch the surface.And we did track by track.on this. But that's the thing with radiohead. It's like, as this guy has proved, he spent 10 years dissectingvideotape. Yeah. It's like, I feel like you're in every song. With every song, yeah, it's like,you know, these aren't, there's always something, like you listen to in rainbows especially.You're always going to hear something different, I feel like every time you hear a song or something
01:34:38because there's so many different things that, that go into a radiohead song.Yeah, in the basement, it's like a good, like, uh, things.to have like on psych is you can hear like other guitars that uh you don't really pay attention tolike on the recording and stuff like you can actually watch them do it yeah did they do everytrack on oven rainbows no i don't think they did every drink um they did mix them a toces whichwas fucking awesome and they did um bangers and mash which is on disc two yeah and then they did uhwhatever that bluebird song on com lag EPno idea what you're talking about I don't even know what that is
01:35:20but you're saying oh yeah I know what that is that you just said I justI feel like on com lag maybe I don't know what com lag is it's like aa hill with thief EPI oh well that's why you're sitting hereso yeah they did pretty much all the songs on in revis yeah they they uh workinggoing to do Foss Tart, but then they had to go to bathroom.Yeah.They're like, can we take a bathroom break in place of this song?We'll throw a video of the basement tapes up on our show notes as well for sure.
01:35:57Well, thank you, Nathan.Guys, thank you.For being our first legitimate guest.Yeah, you have given me the honor and pleasure and enjoyment of geeking out on radiohead this morning.And that's the best gift.Anyone can get me.How else, what a better way to spend the morning.
01:36:16Yeah.And it's fucking lunchtime.Yeah.Other people are church.Yeah, exactly.This is our church right here.This is our church, right?I would worship Tom York any day.
01:36:29Cut that out, cute.I was good.I'm keeping that in, brother.But yeah, so, you know, like I said, I feel like we barely scratch the service.But this is our, I guess we need to say, this is our,last Radiohead episode for a while.I mean, I'm sure we'll circle back and do moon-shaped bowl at some point.Yeah.
01:36:53Well, we'll take a break from Radiohead for a little bit.Nathan, I don't know if you know this, but we've done every album from OK computer to in rainbows.We sort of staggered them with other episodes in between, but like it was a purposeful,like, we're going to do a radiohead album every other episode.We did the same thing for Spoon.We covered a ton of their stuff.Oh, nice.I feel like Spoon is like the
01:37:14Radiohead for like fun music.Yeah, right?You know, because they have a bunch of intricatelike things.They put a lot of work into it.Dude.Yeah.You might be right about that.
01:37:25Yeah.And they're just as,I'm always just as impressed with.Like,there's never an album from Spoon that I won't.Like fall in love with immediately.Right.Same with Radiohead.
01:37:36Uh, all right.That's,that's a wrap.Thanks again, guys.Yeah.All right.So that is our.episode with Nathan Forrester on Radiohead's 2007 release in Rainbows.
01:38:07I hope you enjoyed it.We had a blast recording it.And yeah, that's going to do it for us today.Hey, man, let's put it this way, dude.If you're still listening, God bless you.You know, you're stuck in there for.Yeah, seriously.We don't know how long it's going to be, but you stuck in there for close to two hours.
01:38:29Yeah.Track by, you stuck with us, track by track.Hopefully you had as much fun as we did listening to it.Yeah, that was a blast.Cool.So we figured we would outro this episode with a song from Disc 2.That's what we're going to cover next week on our sidetrack.So as always, thank you so much for listening.
01:38:56Check out our website, no-filler podcast.com.You can find our show notes.You can find us on any podcast app we should be on there.Yeah.And again, that's going to do it for us this week.Thank you so much for listening.My name is Quentin.My name is Travis.
01:39:17Take care.
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