sorry to the people who i already sent this to and anyone that doesn't
want this. i got about 26 emails today of people wanting this.
(about airbag)*This track clearly shows how Thom's
demons haven't been
exorcised and still haunt him. When Thom was still
a
teenager and just
started to make his social life, his parents
decided
to move from Oxford and
he saw himself away from his friends. So he got a
license and purchased a
car. One night after drinking and having fun in a
pub, he decided to take
his girlfriend home and crashed. His girlfriend
suffered serious wounds. But
Thom survived without a wound. An airbag saved his
life. The track was
originally going to be called "The other night, an
airbag saved my life",
but it was too long. *thanx dave s.*
(on subterranian home sick alien) - Originally
called "Uptight", which was
how Jonny referred to it in its early stages, the
song pays homage to Bob
Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". It deals
with
alien abduction and
stems from an incident in Thom's life. It occurred
in Abingdon School, when
he was assigned an essay question that went
something like this: "If you
were an alien from another planet arriving on
Earth,
how would you describe
what you saw?" (Clapps).
(on exit music (for a film)- While on tour with
Morissette in September
1996, Radiohead was sent the last last half-hour
of
Baz Luhrmann's film
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and asked to
write a song for the
closing credits. Band members were impressed by
the
clip, and Thom wrote
theis song for the movie. At first he attempted to
use lines from
Shakespeare's play as lyrics, but finally ditched
the idea. The moment in
the film when Claire Danes (Juliet) holds a Colt
45
to her head was the
actual inspiration for "Exit Music". Thom also had
the 1968 version of the
film in his head: "I saw the Zeffirelli version
when
I was 13 and I cried my
eyes out, because I couldn't understand why, the
morning after they shagged,
they didn't just run away. The song is written for
two people who should run
away before all the bad stuff starts. A personal
song." (Harris, review).
[Radiohead: From a Great Height]
- Ed: "Thom looked at Shakespeare's original text
and tried to incorporate
it into the song - but he gave up on that quickly.
But I still think it fits
with the film amazingly well, especially as the
lyrics are actually quite
personal."
(street spirit [fade out])*Thom: "'Street Spirit'
is
our purest song, but I
didn't write it.... It wrote itself. We were just
its messengers... Its
biological catylysts. It's core is a complete
mystery to me... and (pause)
you know, I wouldn't ever try to write something
that hopeless... All of our
saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a
glimmer of resolve...
'Street Spirit' has no resolve... It is the dark
tunnel without the light at
the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is
so
hurtful that the sound
of that melody is its only definition. We all have
a
way of dealing with
that song... It's called detachment... Especially
me.. I detach my emotional
radar from that song, or I couldn't play it... I'd
crack. I'd break down on
stage.. that's why its lyrics are just a bunch of
mini-stories or visual
images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its
meaning... I used images
set to the music that I thought would convey the
emotional entirety of the
lyric and music working together... That's what's
meant by 'all these things
are one to swallow whole'.. I meant the emotional
entirety, because I didn't
have it in me to articulate the emotion... (pause)
I'd crack.... Our fans
are braver than I to let that song penetrate them,
or maybe they don't
realize what they're listening to.. They don't
realize that 'Street Spirit'
is about staring the fucking devil right in the
eyes... and knowing, no
matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last
laugh...and it's real...and
true. The devil really will get the last laugh in
all cases without
exception, and if I let myself think about that to
long, I'd crack. I can't
believe we have fans that can deal emotionally
with
that song... That's why
I'm convinced that they don't know what it's
about.
It's why we play it
towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it
shakes me, and hurts like
hell everytime I play it, looking out at thousands
of people cheering and
smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning,
like when you're going to
have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail
on
the way there. That's
what they all look like, and it breaks my heart.
I wish that song hadn't picked us as its
catalysts,
and so I don't claim it.
It asks too much. (very long pause). I didn't
write
that song."
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