Radiohead: Kid A

Greetings to all our listeners! Tim and I had a blast recording this episode. Kid A is so out there. You can hear a huge leap  from a guitar-dominant sound to less commonly used synthesizers like the Ondes Martenot and the Mellotron. The more we drink it in, the fuller and richer it becomes… like that new Mococoa drink! Kidding aside, the episode is informative at the beginning and becomes more comical and lighthearted as we get into playing the songs. The music is phenomenal, and we have a blast from there on out. 

Enjoy and thanks for listening!

Transcript

You Are Life Observing Itself

Speaker 1 0:02

The Earth. This vast interconnected system of life is not divided into fragments, but is a continuous flow, a dance that never stops. Now take a moment and consider this you are not a separate observer of life. You are life observing itself. The very idea that you are different from the world around you is a mental construct, an idea built over time by our thoughts, language and conditioning. In reality, you and I, the trees and the rivers, the stars and the clouds, are all part of the same web of existence.

Kid A: Radiohead's Masterpiece

Optimistic: Capitalism and Survival

Speaker 2 0:48

All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris and playing a riff from Everything in Its Right Place from the Kid A album from Radiohead is my co-host Tim from Radiohead is my co-host Tim. Kid A is a masterpiece, ranked 20th out of the Rolling Stones top 500 albums of all time, recorded, I think, on October of 2000. So it was right at the beginning of the decade and you can hear a lot of influence in EDM that derived from this album and the more you listen to it, the more it sticks with you and it's so thought. I mean it's so. I mean there's something about it. I don't know what it is, just the way it's. So I mean there's something about it. I don't know what it is, just the way it's so intentionally ambiguous and fragmented, fragmented lyrics. It all comes together in just a way in which you can tell that this is about technology, technological overload, our what would I say? Just the way things have evolved over the last 25 years. You can, you can tell that're in a crisis of keeping ourselves having our society social connection or lack thereof, and it just getting worse and worse and worse. And so that's what this album is about and it's about fear. It's about anxiety about the future. Where are things going? Back in 2000, they had those same fears and unknowns that we have today, and so that's what we're going to. That's where you're going to hear today. You're going to hear some really great songs that don't sound the way you take in, rock and roll, I mean. In fact, I think at this time Tom York was thinking that rock and roll was dead and there's no rock on this album. No matter what anybody says, I hear a complete diversion from that in the whole album. So, like we always do, we're going to listen to all the songs in order, and this is the serious part of the show, but it's going to get lighter as we go along. Tim's going to come in, we're going to talk, we're going to riff, we're going to yuck it up. We've got a ton of sound clips. We're going to have a good time. We're going to listen to all the songs. At the end we're going to rank the top three non-hits. I don't know if we even are going to define a hit on this album. When you look at the number of downloads. Everything in Its Right Plays. The first song which Tim is playing has the most listens, at least on Spotify. How to Disappear Completely is second, and then after that it's a lot of just weird songs, but they're great. We love them.

Speaker 2 4:16

I don't think there's a bad song on this. I don't know Tree Fingers. It's a little out there but people like it. I've got some opinions, but maybe listening to it in full, I'm a little partial to national anthem. The third song it seems to be kind of on the cusp of my list, a little spoiler alert. But um, like all these, after I listen to them at the end of it you know the ones that I thought I was gonna, they were gonna, we're going to be my top three. You know that that completely gets turned on its head sometimes and, who knows, maybe that'll happen. But in any case, uh, what else can we say about this album other than uh, um, yeah, it's the same same guys, same, uh, same lineup.

Speaker 2 5:05

Tom York got Phil Selway drums, all the same cats Nigel Godrich produced, won a Grammy Best Alternative Album, nominated for Grammy Award for for album of the year. They were nominated. They didn't get it. They should have. But, uh, what can I say? Um, tom York had some writer's block, couldn't finish the songs on the guitar became disillusioned and, uh, I think that speaks to. You know not a whole lot of rock r to. You know not a whole lot of rock riffs, you know not nothing like that. But I think Tim did a pretty good job of the. The acoustic version of it, I mean, you got the basic melody and it was. It was good, it was good stuff.

Speaker 2 5:55

And he's got some definite opinions and we're going to we're going to hear from him how you doing bud. What do you want to get? Some?

Speaker 4 6:07

shout outs or oh, what do you want? Hello, yes, you got it. You've got an agenda. This is, this is a great album. Got some shout outs here. Shout out to those standing in the shadows at the end of my bed or any bed. Shout out, uh, to the true patriots out there who know what the definition of the word is in these crazy times. So the pitchforks have been traded up for decisions that we make with our enlightened minds. Okay, Okay.

Speaker 4 6:38

Shout out to those who keep citrus crisper drawers by their bed as well, and wake up sucking on limons okay and we have uh shout out to everybody, uh, with the ocd cleaners and tidiers out there, yeah, everything in its right place indeed, uh, shout out. Uh, tom york, you know, of course. Shout out, uh, course, shout out to everyone, shout out to everything, shout out to every notion in the universe. Shout out to nine-year-old universe kid.

Speaker 2 7:12

Oh, yeah, yeah, we have some clips from him. Shout out to.

Speaker 4 7:16

Alan Watts. Maybe Shout out to Alan Watts.

Speaker 1 7:18

Yeah, we got it.

Speaker 4 7:20

Shout out to the plant caretakers Get your spider plants before the 6G fries us all.

Speaker 2 7:26

What else Glad you got that one in.

Speaker 4 7:27

We have a shout out to Shout out to Johnny Greenwood, mr Osmond. Okay, mr Osmond, do we have the? Well, it's your band teacher, right? If he's still alive? Yeah, he would not like the whole national anthem.

Speaker 2 7:44

Anthem ending yeah at all. But let's shout out to him, even if he were dead, yeah, yeah, he's. He was a great guy. I'll have to look into that.

Speaker 4 7:51

He would if you made a mistake, you'd steal your instrument from you and, uh, he would play it right in front of you like really loud with your reed in the saxophone and you're like, oh, that's so gross, yeah. But you know, or would he change it out? Sometimes you'd change it out, he would change it out, but he would make a big deal about it. The reed on the on the saxophone, I got you you know so this, this album, we were talking about it.

Speaker 4 8:26

Uh, we're dealing with technology isolation modern alienation modern alienation, yeah, um, well, I don't know the answers to any of that, but listening to this, I think, can help you see it for what it is and identify it and maybe find ways to um, you know, um, and just pick it up and find creation, because we all need to create, we all need to do something to feel powerful, because the autonomy isn't always there.

Speaker 2 9:06

Yeah, well, we don't want to be too alienated from our work. Yeah, and you know what, like I was just thinking about this the other day, like sometimes, like I mean, I've got a specialized um occupation and the more that we're intertwined with, you know, with uh, technology, the more I find myself just clicking and pasting and clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking all the time, and it's a lot of times you can feel alienated from what you really do and it's it kind of. I think that's the what they're getting at in very, in a very vague and veiled way with this album. So let's just start off. Are you ready to get into this?

Speaker 4 9:54

man, they're just too smart, radiohead, they're just too smart. I know Too intellectual for their own good, I know. Um, yes, yeah, radiohead. They're just too smart, too intellectual for their own good, I know, yes.

Speaker 2 10:03

Here it is, you can hear.

Speaker 1 10:19

In a fantasy world.

Speaker 5 10:27

Right now we're inside a computer program. Is it really so hard to believe?

Speaker 4 10:31

How are you kids doing? Huh Good.

Speaker 3 10:35

A lot of action around here today. Huh, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. A lot of action around here today. Huh, we'll stop it again. You're gonna have me, mia.

Speaker 4 10:46

We'll stop Adam Adam's in on this album. I can barely see you, george. When's the next junk drawer? The other day, oh, yeah, yeah. What'd you find? Oh a right place for everything.

Speaker 2 11:26

Shout out to Scarface. Shout out to Tony Montana. It's good for digestion. Yeah, and his first meeting with Sosa.

Speaker 4 11:39

He's sucking on that lemon. Lemon helps with everything. Yeah, like what Digestion? Okay, which is everything? Yeah, it is. Everything has to be in its right place the colon you know the fistula.

Speaker 2 11:53

Oh no, the fistula ruins everything. The crotchal region. The crotchal region. Shout out to James, my roommate. He had a perineum surgery. It's sort of like that part between the anus and the ball sack, Not to be crude about it, but I guess there was some fistula thing that was created and they have to have surgery on it. So shout out to you man. God bless you. He had it today and he's recovering from it right now as we speak. Thoughts around the world james.

Speaker 3 12:35

A heaven-heavenly urethra, living in the shadows, living in the darkness. What do you say?

Speaker 2 12:59

What you say, man. I was born to love you.

Speaker 5 13:05

I was born to lick your face, man with a narrow and you're reedy with.

Speaker 2 13:10

I was born to rub you, but you were born to rub me first. This, this isn't real.

Speaker 1 13:22

What do you me? First this this isn't real. What is real? How?

Speaker 5 13:26

do you define real?

Speaker 4 13:30

This, because it's this.

Speaker 3 13:38

Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 4 13:40

Yeah, the little Me too. They create like wind with their music, with their instruments. The electronicness of it yeah, there's all kinds of just different instruments in this. It screams Roger Waters, like Pink Floyd too.

Speaker 1 14:00

In a fantasy world.

Speaker 4 14:02

How are you kids doing? Huh Good.

Speaker 2 14:05

It's ambient kind.

Speaker 4 14:06

A lot of action around here today. Huh, going on vacation. You're leaving the house so I can steal some stuff. That's Home, home alone. Joe Pesci, shout out, shout out to Joe.

Speaker 2 14:22

Pesci Shout to Johnny.

Speaker 4 14:25

Greenwood man. He's coming into his own here, I know.

Speaker 2 14:30

On the on days, Martin? No, she's playing the crap out of that.

Speaker 4 14:34

And then he goes into movie soundtracks, and you can understand why for a lot of reasons here the lateral rib vibrato if you will.

Speaker 2 14:49

This is it's very renamed and lady, yeah, from talking heads.

Speaker 4 14:56

oh interesting, good yeah, good reference. Oh interesting, good reference. That's good. Bjorky, bjork, it's Bjorky, what do you say?

Speaker 2 15:13

Bjorky.

Speaker 4 15:18

It's like Morse code One slips away.

Idioteque: Apocalypse in a Bunker

Speaker 3 15:20

Yeah, what I slipped on a little water.

Speaker 2 15:30

During the recording sessions, york read Ian McDonald's Revolution in the Head, which chronicles the Beatles' recordings of George Martin in the 1960s. Yeah, this is Kid, a Alright Song. Kid, a Title Title track. Song kid, eh, title track. Do you know what this is about? His vision of the first clone baby, or at least according to song facts, if it's true?

Speaker 4 16:39

yeah, okay, yeah, that makes sense, yeah.

Speaker 2 16:46

This song is about technology, both the possibilities and dangers, questions of what it means to be a human being Well, yeah, a cloned human wouldn't have a soul, so it'd be like a, a meat puppet yeah, the ventriloquist is that what that puppet uh references?

Speaker 4 17:08

okay, check out the big brain on uh tim all right, well, you know, yeah, clones it's uh, it's a thing yeah, it's something I put out of my mind, you know there are theories out there about people being cloned, and we're just not told about it.

Speaker 2 17:32

Maybe yeah, there's test tube babies and what not. Is that like a on PC term Westworld or whatever was like sort of that there's test tube babies and whatnot.

Speaker 4 17:41

Is that like an un-PC term? Westworld or whatever was like sort of that, where they made artificial clones? They're like robotic people that looked like people yeah.

Speaker 3 18:00

I don't know. Oh, the rats and children will follow me out of town.

Speaker 4 18:08

The rats and children will follow me out of town. You're freaking me out. The rats and children will follow me out of town. Are the rats coming under the bed? I mean, where are the rats coming from? Yeah, I don't know my kids. He says my kids, he's the smelly kid in class. Yeah, he's the smelly clone kid.

Speaker 2 18:31

You're freaking me out. Yeah, I mean, what'd you say, man? Yeah, maybe clones have. Yeah, what is a clone? I don't know. Let's get all Alan Watts-y about it.

Speaker 4 18:45

Let's get all nine-year-old discoverer. Oh yeah, that kid.

Speaker 6 18:49

Oh, for sure. If there really is anything in the search, it's just. It's an endless quest without knowing what your quest is.

Speaker 2 18:59

Yeah, this kid's like smarter than me at age three and a half.

Speaker 4 19:06

Yeah, he's smart, he's tapped in. Kids are tapped in, they are tapped in, we are too.

Speaker 2 19:14

We're just blocking it out.

Speaker 4 19:19

We just don't want to know how bad we're getting fucked. I think the daily exercises that I give you and you follow the regimented vigor, you can be a child too.

Speaker 2 19:35

But does that kid say we don't have to do anything, or something?

Speaker 6 19:38

Nobody can decide what you will do, except for you.

Speaker 2 19:44

So we can decide.

Speaker 4 19:47

Everyone then Decide now let's go, Hurry up.

Speaker 2 19:55

Shout out to Phil Selway on the cymbals and snare I like it. Shout out to Phil Selway on the cymbals and snare I like it.

Speaker 4 20:00

Shout out to David Icke. Shout out to Dissolving National Borders. Not right now, but you know.

Speaker 2 20:18

This bass line was written by Tom Yorick when he was 16.

Speaker 3 20:21

What.

Speaker 2 20:22

Yeah.

Speaker 4 20:24

It's like Mingus-y.

Speaker 2 20:32

You're freaking me out. Shout out to Charles Vegas.

Speaker 3 20:54

Are you, uh, you know holding, so you, you can never, indefinitely know that you cannot do this.

Speaker 4 21:12

Even if the odds are stacked against you. Alright, everyone.

Speaker 3 21:18

Everyone is so near.

Speaker 2 21:22

I thought you were going to go something down. Everyone is so near Fear and love.

Speaker 5 21:30

Fear is in the negative energy spectrum, and love is in the negative energy spectrum.

Speaker 3 21:49

Yeah, this is the Charles Mingus part.

Speaker 4 21:52

I was wondering if you could hold something for me. Hold this piece of knowledge.

Speaker 2 22:02

Chris coming at you. Yeah, Charles Mingus, jazz musician York, described Town Hall concert as just fucking chaos. This is incredible tension and it was the most formative record of the whole time.

Speaker 4 22:20

Like a traffic jam, that's right. Right, mr Osmond, the traffic jam of your saliva down my, my reed, do it again. This time right, you're freaking me out, you're freaking me out.

Speaker 2 22:39

You're freaking me out.

Speaker 4 22:42

Often I sit and yearn.

Speaker 6 22:55

After they've discovered what's up there, they know they're only a little part of this huge galaxy.

Speaker 3 23:02

So do you think?

Speaker 4 23:18

Mangus played piano and upright bass.

Speaker 2 23:23

Oh, charles Mingus, oh yeah, he did it all man. Yeah, he did improv Improvisation. Huh, he collaborated with Duke Ellington, charlie Parker, Max Roach, but he was an avant-garde Bass Jazz, mostly bass jazz.

Speaker 4 23:46

So every note Could be Predestined.

Speaker 6 23:52

It may be predestined, but you can change that destiny.

Speaker 3 23:56

Thank you, Genius Kid.

Speaker 2 23:58

Change that destiny. Thank you, genius kid.

Speaker 4 24:03

You can go into another jam, is what he's saying.

Speaker 1 24:20

That's true.

Speaker 2 24:23

Fear and love. Yeah, so didn't Tom York do the? This is in front of a whole orchestra and he was doing the directing, but he can't direct and so it was just chaos intentionally.

Speaker 4 24:30

Yes, they would jump if they wanted to go faster and make calming sounds. Shout out to the French national team. Yeah, that little thing at the end, marcel Zad was the french national team. Yeah, little thing at the end. Yeah, marcelo's dad was the french national team. Yeah, benzema zidane, you know. Alonso font de la patria, uh, dembele shout out the french national team oh, okay dissolving racism through coming together in a game.

Speaker 2 25:04

It's getting pretty bad, that whole that scene. I hope it's turning the corner. Yeah, don't Be cool, just be cool.

Speaker 4 25:14

Just because you're born somewhere doesn't mean you can have fake pride about shit.

Speaker 2 25:19

Yeah, born somewhere doesn't mean you can have fake pride about shit.

Speaker 3 25:26

Think win-win, yeah, don't. Oh, that's not me, that's not me I need to hold it longer. I go.

Speaker 4 25:52

It's catcher in the rye shit here. Yeah when I flee.

Speaker 2 26:01

It's very soulful. It's just simple lines intertwining. I walk through all.

Speaker 4 26:11

Hopefully he's got a raft for the Liffey. Yeah, I float down the Liffey. Shout out to the drunk kids at Temple Bar in Dublin. Don't go in the Liffey tonight, all right, don't do it.

Speaker 3 26:34

This isn't happening.

Speaker 2 26:41

We have to tell our listeners what a Liffey is. Now it's a river. Oh yeah, of course I knew that.

Speaker 3 27:08

It's the river in Dublin. Mine would look better in there.

Speaker 4 27:21

Stay in there, stay in there, tom and everybody listening.

Speaker 3 27:31

Stay with us.

Speaker 4 27:32

It's gone, oh shit, it's gone.

Speaker 2 27:35

Forget it, this isn't happening.

Speaker 3 27:51

It's here.

Speaker 6 27:55

What happened to soda?

Speaker 3 28:01

I thought we all agreed on soda. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm not here. Strong last Lord speaketh.

Speaker 6 28:31

Be silly, darling Light of my life.

Speaker 3 28:47

I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.

Speaker 4 28:55

This is kind of like Scatterbrain on their other future album, scatterbrain, which I really like. Yeah, violin, it's. This is an anti rock song yeah, it's very beautiful.

Speaker 2 29:19

You know it should be called. Oh, this place is called the Lip-on-Luff-Pum-Pling.

Speaker 4 29:25

How do you get your love-pum-pling, the Lip-on-Pling, if you're not even there? Though, if you're not there, if you're not here, I get it.

Speaker 2 29:36

There's a fine line between clever and stupid, right, let's just go back and forth with Spinal Tap, but you're right.

Speaker 4 29:49

Blown speakers, strobe lights, fireworks, hurricanes, charles Mingus, bass lines, oh yeah, yeah, it's got it all.

Speaker 2 30:08

This is very shiny-ish.

Speaker 5 30:18

Oh. Hey, violinist Just saying let it out, give it some air. Man Play with it.

Ranking the Top Three Non-Hits

Speaker 2 30:35

Yes, so beautiful, very, very lovely. How to Disappear Completely was that one. It's a good breakup song. This is Tree Fingers. I'm a tree fingers scotch drinker. Not one finger, not two fingers, not four fingers, but tree fingers.

Speaker 4 31:08

I feel like I'm in like a bog. I know, yeah, we're like here, but like you're, you're coming out of the bog Like there's like a sliver of sunlight through some trees, and you're like wading through a bog.

Speaker 2 31:26

Oh, okay, that's the image that you have in your head.

Speaker 4 31:28

It almost took you out. It almost just like totally sucked you down In a good way, right, but then you got out of it. Like you know, you're just like out of the bog.

Speaker 2 31:40

I thought you meant literally.

Speaker 4 31:42

You're in a forest, you're very warm.

Speaker 2 31:47

You're with Heather, all right, I knew you'd kill a rat. I'm digging tree fingers.

Speaker 4 32:01

It's one of the best ambience. Yeah, if you want another song to compare it to or from another era, it could be. What was it that David Bowie song Moss Garden on his Heroes album? Oh, which was Brian Eno? Yeah, I was going to say it sounds like Brian Eno. This is very Moss Garden. Yeah, tree Fingers same deal. Yeah, I mean, this is stuff they play at the spa, right, not my spa, but yeah, no, I've been trying to get them to play this.

Speaker 2 32:44

I'm talking about spas that Stop, yeah, spas that don't have happy endings.

Speaker 4 32:49

I'm just like hey, spa.

Speaker 5 32:50

Just saying let it out, Give it some air.

Speaker 2 32:55

Okay.

Speaker 4 32:59

You're referencing the towel and the air after the towel drops. Wait just a minute so. But yeah, this is experiencing technical difficulties here. Do you want to do like a?

Speaker 2 33:14

one minute meditation. We could do that, I'll try, and then we'll finish it off with a. Like a one minute meditation. We can do that, I'll try, and then we'll finish it off with a. A wait, just a minute and we can get back into it. But let's clear our heads, let's go. If the mind wanders, just bring it back to the breathing. ©.

Speaker 5 34:24

BF-WATCH TV 2021.

Speaker 2 34:25

I'll wait just a minute. All right, yeah, we got that in there, okay so this is.

Speaker 3 34:29

That was so great, that was good. Yeah, we needed it.

Speaker 2 34:32

Wow, all right, it's optimistic.

Speaker 4 34:34

Here we go, shout out to the divine frequencies on that one. That was great, yeah, not only in this song, but floating around us and whatnot.

Speaker 2 34:49

The drums are what I'm digging about this record.

Speaker 4 34:53

Selway, yeah, selway, yep, I'm a Selway fan. Yeah, ed O'Brien gets the riff on this one.

Speaker 2 35:05

Yes, he does Just right. He doesn't get much with the rest of the album, but he does a good job of singing.

Speaker 3 35:12

I thought you were circling the deck Picking up every last crumb. Big fish eat the little ones. They're picking up every last crumb. Big fish eat the little ones.

Speaker 4 35:30

Big fish eat the little ones, Not my problem kid Little capitalism poke.

Speaker 2 35:35

You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can. It's just like so downtrodden the best you can, you can try to best you can. This is like so downtrodden.

Speaker 4 35:42

It's like this is shout to thunder. This is best you can. Yeah, best you can is good enough. You know I'm not going to win every game this season, but thanks, tom, thank you, thanks Tom, thank you, thanks Rick.

Speaker 2 36:08

I'm hearing a lot more on this one.

Speaker 3 36:14

This song from previous listens.

Speaker 4 36:18

Time to get creepy. Oh the swamp, there it is. He's referencing the swamp that I was talking about. Oh the swamp, there it is. He's referencing the swamp that I was talking about. Yeah, there you go. Whoa, maybe that was subconscious Animal Farm. Yeah, Shout out to Orwell. Orwell knew he was going to get a podcast. Shout out yeah From the greatest non-hits. That's right, we're trying our best, george Okay.

Speaker 2 36:51

We're trying our best.

Speaker 1 37:02

He's probably saying the best you can is definitely not good enough. This is Living in the shadows, living in the darkness. What is real?

Speaker 5 37:17

No, wow man. Right now we're inside a computer program.

Speaker 4 37:28

I'm a man.

Speaker 3 37:43

I'm a man, man, I'm a man.

Speaker 2 37:47

I'm a man.

Speaker 3 37:54

That's second guy.

Speaker 4 37:56

Oh, it's good enough, gosh.

Speaker 1 38:03

How do you?

Speaker 3 38:04

define real. I'm a man, the earth, the earth, the earth.

Speaker 1 38:19

Thank you.

Speaker 2 38:20

Alan the Earth.

Speaker 1 38:25

Thank you, alan the Earth Earthlings. This is the Trigger, a Martian exploration vehicle Inside three men from Earth.

Speaker 4 38:59

Oh yeah, Phil, that little. Thing. This kind of slows it down a little bit. This is rock. This has a little rock on it. Yeah, this is a rock song, and now I wanted to keep this little segue in mind here, one of the coolest of all time this one, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 39:23

Yeah, it's cool. It sets the mood here. This is your kind of thing for limbo, yeah, but here's a transition. Optimistic change is over. It's optimistic Right Right now. Now we're in limbo, okay.

Speaker 4 39:44

All right, we're in limbo. Hello Houston, we're in limbo.

Speaker 2 39:50

The limbo.

Speaker 4 39:57

Lundy FastNet IRC. I got a message I can't read Hunter Reed.

Speaker 2 40:09

Shout out to Oxfordshire.

Speaker 4 40:18

Yes, good riff, wow so surreal. Yes, good riff, wow so surreal. Uh-huh, it's tempting to want to sing like Tom all the time.

Speaker 1 40:47

In a fantasy world. In a fantasy world.

Speaker 4 40:59

I didn't realize for the longest time there was another word after fantasy. I thought it was just saying you're living in a fantasy. But you can hear it, it goes well. Duh, it kind of changes that a little bit.

Speaker 2 41:11

Yeah, it's kind of cool, it goes down.

Speaker 4 41:16

I'm lost at sea. I bet your blood sugar's spiking low.

Speaker 3 41:24

Will somebody get you to the Happy Meal? I've lost my way.

Speaker 2 41:32

I've lost my way. Ladies and gentlemen, Tim on the sound banks.

Speaker 4 41:44

Talking to myself here. Yeah, talking to myself.

Speaker 2 41:49

It'd be cool if we could make an instrument that was just a bunch of sound banks. It's like thousands of little things. You can just play the sound bank. Yeah, I play sound banks, you can, yeah. You can just play the sound bank. Yeah, I play sound bank, you can. Yeah, you probably could.

Speaker 4 42:05

There's the drumitar. Yeah, shout out to Future man, he's created it. Nice, shout out to Future man, it's drum beats that he programs into each little button around it. Oh yeah, it's got like a drum guitar, right, it just taps. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do that.

Speaker 2 42:25

Yeah, a drum guitar could be applicable with the sound. Yeah, that'd be wild.

Speaker 4 42:31

See, now we're creating our own fantasy.

Speaker 2 42:34

Yeah, exactly, we're in limbo right now, as you can tell.

Speaker 3 42:42

I can barely see you exactly. We're in limbo right now, as you can tell. I can barely see you, george. What'd you?

Speaker 2 42:54

say man Come back.

Speaker 5 42:59

That's what that was I need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen.

Speaker 2 43:14

Oh, wow, okay, Alright, wow, this is a good segue. Like limbo into, this is idiotic, this is. It's getting so techy. It's getting techy it is. He's in a bunker.

Speaker 4 43:34

I think this is electronic dramas On this one one for sure.

Speaker 2 43:54

This was made 25 years ago. They did a really good job. I can see why it's ranked so high in the top 20.

Speaker 4 44:04

Tom York describes this as the happiest song he's ever written the happiest. This song takes place in a bunker during what appears to be an apocalypse. Yeah, I don't know. You fill in the gaps.

Speaker 5 44:33

Okay, yeah, look who's got Smatpak.

Speaker 2 44:45

Smatpak. Look who's got SmartPak, smartpak. But we have.

Speaker 3 44:49

SmartPak.

Speaker 2 44:50

I know it's an apocalypse.

Speaker 4 44:54

Fuck you car. Get out, get in this bunker, all right. Yeah, it's an apocalypse. It's an apocalypse, all right. Yeah, it's an apocalypse. It's an apocalypse, all right. The ice age is coming, babe, come on.

Speaker 2 45:09

I gotta hit both sides.

Speaker 4 45:12

This other scientist says some other bullshit. This is really happening, happening.

Speaker 2 45:40

Mobiles working, Mobiles shopping. Take the money run. Take the money run. Take the money. Here I am, and it's an hour To the time. It's crazy. Yeah Well, we don't have to go there. Did you ever say I could be alive? It's crazy. No Well, we don't have to go there.

Speaker 4 46:07

That was it's happening in this song Everything all the time, so you never definitely know that you cannot do this.

Speaker 3 46:25

Wow.

Speaker 2 46:38

What are these synths, man? They're just. Yeah, johnny Green would create a drum machine using synthesizer modules similar to those available in the 1970s, using components such as filters to create and shape sounds. It's quite amazing. Yes, it's quite amazing.

Speaker 4 47:03

Yes, recorded 50 minutes of improvisation and gave it to York, who took the short sequence and used it to write the song. What? Oh cool, yeah, these are just like. It's a section of about 40 seconds. That he was like. That was absolutely genius and I cut that up so funny, oh my God. Yeah, and then they add this little weird organ.

Speaker 4 47:25

Yeah, yeah, so this is like 40 seconds in the middle of this sample, which wouldn't have been created if Johnny hadn't just been a madman seconds in the middle of this sample, which wouldn't have been created if Johnny hadn't just been a madman on Like a, he's literally creating new machines and new ways to use machines. Yeah, in this album.

Speaker 2 47:56

It's also in a 5-4 time signature so it creates a grouping dissonance against the original 4-4, like a four on the floor yeah so there's a little tension there.

Speaker 4 48:06

It's not quite another great segue here, okay, is it?

Speaker 2 48:14

morning bell, right. Okay, yeah, is it Morning Bell, right?

Speaker 4 48:24

We're going into Morning Bell now it's still ending. Yeah, I see a faint out there.

Speaker 2 48:41

Subtle lines intertwining.

Speaker 4 49:02

Great drums on this. Great drum on this. It's a flash of green light on this. It's just like a globule.

Speaker 5 49:11

Just saying let it out, give it some air, man Play with it, keep the furniture.

Speaker 4 49:19

Thanks for the furniture, yeah.

Speaker 5 49:22

Just saying, let it out, Give it some air. Oh wait, just a minute.

Speaker 4 49:54

This is a very well-mannered release me request. Shout out to Morning.

Speaker 5 49:57

Bell on Amnesiac. Look who's got Smat Pack, smat Pack Look who's the Garden?

Speaker 6 50:03

Packed it Zagos. Packed it Swampscott.

Speaker 2 50:05

Revere the Haber. Are you kidding me? I packed it and then unpacked it.

Speaker 4 50:12

Your clothes are in the car. Your clothes are on the furniture.

Speaker 5 50:28

Saucy Jack.

Speaker 4 50:42

Round and round and round. Cut the kids in half. Cut the kids in half. See you around. Spotify says got the kids in half, Got the kids in here. It's. Cut the kids in half Round and round and round.

Speaker 3 51:07

They go around again. They just go round and round.

Speaker 4 51:12

Round and round. Shout out to Bells and their healing qualities. Absolutely, that's a good one. Tetrahedron.

Speaker 2 51:30

Shout out to the bows too. Shout out to the Walkers.

Speaker 4 51:42

Shout out to Walker Texas Ranger, he's a radio fan. Shout out to Mountain Dew the lights are on, but nobody's at home, at home.

Speaker 2 52:06

And the guitar gets a little, gets a little creepy, okay, walking no-transcript.

Speaker 4 52:23

Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking. Oh man, this one might be edging into my oh, this is doing it for you. Oh, I don't know that last minute of that with the walking walking, oh yeah, okay, like the crazy, like wildness, was quite an an experience this one.

Speaker 2 53:03

I had an experience with this motion picture soundtrack a couple days ago. I thought like it was like for sure, this is gonna be my top three I mean I love you know, I love this song.

Speaker 4 53:13

That's great. I know there's it's. It's their wolf of the door, sort of how to disappear completely.

Speaker 2 53:27

Hit me tonight you know kind of like the way that that last one did for you yeah and morning bell, but it's so hard to choose honestly, honestly. I know, but I need to give this song my full attention. I think in fairness.

Speaker 3 53:51

Yeah, cheap sex and cell phones Help me get rid of the curse.

Speaker 6 54:09

I think you're crazy.

Speaker 3 54:22

Maybe I think you could, I think you could.

Speaker 1 54:34

You're crazy.

Speaker 3 54:35

I like you, but you're crazy. Baby, baby, oh wow, it's perfect. Crazy sound effects going on here.

Speaker 4 55:00

Yeah, crazy sound effects going on here. Chimes, what is that Harp? It's a harp.

Speaker 3 55:04

I think yeah.

Speaker 2 55:09

I'm going to say harp without looking at the internet.

Speaker 3 55:23

Here internet. That sounds sad. I will see you in the next life. Oh, I'm getting a little verklem. Oh, I'm getting a little verklem.

Speaker 6 55:51

I don't know for sure if there really is anything in the search. It's just, it's an endless quest without knowing what your quest is.

Speaker 2 56:06

Ah Okay, I'm going to get you right here In the Ginecogazoink.

Speaker 4 56:16

Right here, mmm, is that it no?

Speaker 2 56:19

Okay, well, we get this.

Speaker 4 56:21

We have. This is like a 52 second.

Speaker 2 56:23

Thing.

Speaker 4 56:24

So palate cleanser.

Speaker 2 56:25

Yeah, A little palate cleanser. There we go. I don't know if you can do guided meditation or not. Not to this. Maybe we'll just.

Speaker 4 56:32

You can sit and yearn. Yeah, often I, I, yeah, often I sit and yearn, sort of like a. What would you describe this as? Like a?

Speaker 2 56:45

Yeah, like a transcendence from consciousness to the afterlife.

Speaker 4 56:52

It's sort of yeah, almost, if you're on the good side of it, it's an inspiring. I was going to say something less deep, but yes, okay, sorry man, no, I mean it's there, you know.

Speaker 2 57:11

All right, Okay cool. So that's it, man.

Speaker 4 57:16

They wrapped a bow on it with this sort of like beautiful yeah, crescendo, or something a calling crescendo.

Speaker 2 57:26

Okay, yeah, I mean, that's what you want to put it.

Speaker 4 57:28

Yeah, spiritual action.

Speaker 2 57:29

Yeah, no, that was good, that was good, that was deep.

Speaker 4 57:35

I got there.

Speaker 2 57:35

Yeah, yeah, you got yeah, you got there barely, so we got to look at our top three. What's your number three? Yeah, you can take your time.

Speaker 4 57:45

The other. Yeah, think about it. What did I say the other day?

Speaker 2 57:48

I mean, I mean, I think I'm know what I'm pushing out. Oh well, there's oh man, this is gonna be hard. This is gonna be harder than I thought.

Speaker 4 58:07

I don't know, I really don't know. I mean, on this one, this listen might've been slightly different. But no, I'm going to go, I'm going to kick Anthem off. Anthem was three, okay, so that's how honorable mention?

Speaker 2 58:30

Okay, yeah, and so many good, so so much goodness in that song Right, but I'm going morning bell number three oh, song Right, and you gotta, you gotta, but I'm going morning bell number three.

Speaker 4 58:41

Oh wow, okay, you know, living downtown, where'd you park the car?

Speaker 3 58:47

Where'd you park the car? I know, I think, that.

Speaker 2 58:51

Boston accent. That was good. Yeah, that was. I liked that. Yeah, you, you're making a case for it as well, but I'm going to go in a different direction.

Speaker 4 58:58

I've got the groceries. Walk in, walk in to my house, walk in.

Speaker 3 59:02

Okay, all right. All right, what do you?

Speaker 2 59:03

got. Got that motion picture soundtrack for me it was just yeah, it's, it's just so touching, it's, it makes you sentimental it makes you feel so joyous. We don't know how to express ourselves Of the fond memories of the deceased, a picture in your head that they're in a blissful state. It makes me hopeful that those that have left us are in a good place.

Speaker 4 59:41

I absolutely love that. All right done thanks, man damn, uh, number two for you you're getting me all in the feels here. I don't know, uh, shit, um, I'm gonna go. Uh, you know, you mentioned afterlife. What about the in limbo stage? Lin linda, in limbo too?

Speaker 2 59:59

here for me.

Speaker 4 1:00:00

Yeah, oh wow this sort of you know, in limbo okay, that in between stage, that that people don't know about. Uh, what do they call that in religion? Uh, yeah, in purgatory, purgatory okay, yeah, yeah, shout out to all those in purgatory, I'm going. Limbo number two, okay.

Speaker 2 1:00:21

Hey, no, it's good to be on the purgator's side. You're not. It's trippy yeah.

Speaker 4 1:00:26

It's psychedelic and it was tapped into the source. Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:00:40

Yeah, I sometimes feel like you and I man we're probably on the purgatory track, I don't know, man it's like it's like for yourself, no, no, no. Yeah, you're right, yeah, no, no no, you're going, yeah you're, you're in, you're going up into the heavens. You god bless you. You know you're, I know it's gonna be me. I'm the guy that's gonna be stuck there. I just stop. It's just gonna be stuck there. I'll stop. It's just going to be lights out.

Speaker 1 1:00:57

I don't know who knows.

Speaker 2 1:01:00

No, no, no, I'm hopeful.

Speaker 3 1:01:01

It's a big man's list, hilarious Okay.

Speaker 2 1:01:04

All right, so I'm going number two, the National Anthem. Oh, nice. Yeah, the chaos of the horns. It had that cool bass line. It's so musical and the horns like Charles Mingus, it's very artful. So number two for me Love that?

Speaker 4 1:01:23

Yep, all right. You know I do love tree fingers sometimes and it could be, you know, but no Kid A Really. Oh my gosh, the chimes, the delicateness of the song. I know there's also a bluegrass version I'm drawing a blank on the artist, but if you YouTube bluegrass Kid A you could find it. So hopefully they get some redirect there.

Speaker 4 1:01:57

Yeah, shout out to those guys, yeah, it's shadowy, so hopefully they get some redirect there. But yeah, shout out to those guys. Yeah, it's shadowy, it makes you think about science and technology and singularity you think of you as a kid in the endless possibilities. Even maybe I don't know Right.

Speaker 2 1:02:19

Oh, wow, that that was. That was deep, that was deep man. All right, good, yeah, you ended on a high note, yeah, okay, yeah, I'm gonna. I mean in my this is not gonna be a high, I'm not gonna outdo what he just did. Um, I just liked idiotech was my number one, nice um here I'm alive yeah. Yeah, everything.

Speaker 5 1:02:39

Wow, that's interesting yeah.

Speaker 2 1:02:42

Like that whole beat. You can hear the whole history thereafter from that song. I bet you a lot of trance, a lot of EDM, a lot of that stuff is present or or this. You can tell the influence that this had on the whole EDM genre. If this album hadn't been made, a lot of other music you know thereafter that's out there wouldn't, wouldn't have been possible.

Speaker 4 1:03:12

Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 1:03:13

I think that's gets to the crux of why this album is ranked number 20 out of 500 on the rolling stone list. I mean not that you know not to promote them or give them credit or any, but it is.

Speaker 4 1:03:25

I mean, that's how yeah transformative you know this album was, and just at a point that they, the band members, were themselves, you know, making this music to thus get even better and hone their craft, to make future albums which continued to bend, uh, the reality of what can be expected and what's possible. So yeah, man.

Speaker 2 1:03:51

And who's to say there is a reality? There is no reality, there's only the perception of reality. But it's yeah, there we go, all right, and we ended on that.

Speaker 4 1:04:00

Yeah, yeah, that was good. Yeah, we should. No, that was too good. All right, that was good, that's all.

Speaker 2 1:04:04

Right, man all right, thanks for listening.