Saturday, September 22, 2007

Day 6 - Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls

Hmm...here's a live performance. Okay sound quality.

Everybody always raves about OK Computer. It's alright. But I think it drags right from the beginning, and only lets up occassionally. "Airbag" opens with a cool guitar theme, but it just doesn't know when to let up. "Paranoid Android" is a very cool song, but after that, we visit boring town, and it seems like it takes forever to get back from there. Despite this being a slower song, it holds my interest pretty well. The verse chords and feel are so good. The chorus is almost more of a bridge than a chorus. It's function really seems to be to lead back to the verse. But when the verse comes back, it's reprised instrumentally, and it's ten times heavier. It sounds like a pretty epic struggle. The whole thing kind of just builds to the guitar solo, which I'm totally into, because the emphasis on vocals in popular music tends to point my interest toward the instrumental sections, for whatever reason. So this song suits me well.

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