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This song is just perfect. The electronic assemblance, the dissonant and chaotic horns, the bass line, the drums. Everything is just amazing. Probably one of the most complex piece of music that Radiohead has ever created.
I love this song, there's just something so hauntingly beautiful about it. Just the way it starts off as a dark indie rock tune before evolving into a disturbed, demented, chaotic monstrosity of a nightmarescape by the end . It sounds like all of the big band and swing music of the 1940s just melting and dissolving in a big vat of molten metal.
One of the coolest things about Radiohead is that they leave it up to the fans to create sick videos to their music. Thats more of a complement towards the Radiohead fans tho.
I wasn't a big Radiohead fan until I saw them do National Anthem, and Parinoid Android on SNL. I was blown away! I realized they were good enough to realse songs like Creep, to make $, and get famous, yet still do what they wanted creatively. Bands like this don't come around very often
Dissonance isn’t a bad thing. A wrong note is just out of key. It’s not a bad thing. Once I explored that in music, I started to like sounds of car horns and sirens and numerous trains. There’s beauty in disarray.
I remember on the morning of 9/11 I had do get out of D.C. and get to Baltimore. I put this album in and cranked this song doing about 100mph north on I-95. Every time I hear this song now it gives me chills 16 years later.
peacelord : F' Yea. Good song to face the possible end of the world head on. Nice choice. I had only been in the military 10 months. I went down to the chowhall (dining facility to be politically correct) that morning and seen the carnage on tv. All of our planes were grounded within an hour. All I remember the next few months was barricading buildings on base. Never deployed intil 03.
The song is called the national anthem. The trumpets are almost always used to play countries respective anthems its a instrument of nationalism. Also, the chaos of the conflicting instruments creates disorder like we have in our society. Too many voices with opposing goals resulting in chaos creates confusion and panic among the mass population.
"The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss."
Lyrics: Everyone Everyone around here Everyone is so near It’s holding on It’s holding on Everyone Everyone is so near Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on It's holding on [x3]
Well you can immediately discount this bands' work for the at least 65% of people in cental southern england whom 'choose' to listen to " wave 105 " and the equally tragic " sam fm " . Only the most popular of the most popular tunes are popular with this population . Popping out - bye.
I know exactly what you mean. On first impression it seems like a completely random series of musical ideas and riffs all clashing amidst the wailing horns. Each piece like a random shape on a painting. But the more you listen, the more the shapes form patterns and come together into a Coherent idea
it's like the 'The Velvet Underground & Nico" of the turn of the 21st century: muckraking critics looking for commercial attention and pseudo-intellectual forum nerds will tell you that it's overrated and only shallowly experimental for its time - but it inspired millions of people at the time to think beyond the superficially normal scope of pop and rock music and deserves a permanent accolade in the hallways of the history of music based on that alone. When that sax kicks in. Holy shit. Was obsessed with this ~14 years ago as a kid and revisiting the whole Kid A album just validates my entire childhood way of thinking. A classic.
This whole album freaked me out when I first listened to it when I was 14. Mostly this song tho. I remember my friend showed me this song and we both thought it was awesome but creepy as fuck. It's also one of the easiest songs to play on bass and is the only song I can instrumentally play lol
This is the best song ever!!! like you said, hits me every time... unfortunately, i've been to two amazing shows from them and never had what i undoubtedly think it would be the greatest pleasure a man can have, musically speaking, of having them play it... :/ hope the third time's a charm... WHEN WILL YOU GET BACK HERE, ALREADY?!?!?
With all the other uploads taken down, this seems to be one of the only places left to listen to the original studio version of this song. At least you made a good video to go along with it.
It seems to me that fan made videos that has considerable effort put behind it were let to stay up. For example 2+2=5, A Wolf At The Door, How To Disappear Cpmletely, Kid A are still up.
This song is still one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard. And I've heard a lot of experimental rock and hip-hop music. The attention to detail in this song is amazing. The bleeps, Jonny's string instrument, the blaring and chaotic horns.
I love that baseline at the beginning. I’m thinking it’s going to be loud (for Radiohead standards) and then the horns come in about 3 minutes in and my mind was blown.
Everyone Everyone around here Everyone is so near It's holding on It's holding on Everyone Everyone is so near Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on It's holding on It's holding on It's holding on
I remember when I first heard this on Steve Lamacq's radio 1 show, I heard the Portugal/Spain live versions of course which were fantastic, but nothing could have prepared me for the sounds of those brass and reeds blaring away. I couldn't believe how different it sounded to what I thought it was going to sound, almost introspective chaos. And then the radio played the whole album in its entirety after, absolutely transported into another dimension.
I love how you used a changing aspect ratio as part of the vid. A very creative presentation in general and a fine accompaniment to The National Anthem. Nice work!
Well if we're going off the E string, it'd be 14-10-10-10-14-10-10-10-10-13-10-10-10-12-10-10-10-10-14-10, and A would just be 5 frets down from that. I agree though, playing it on the E string is how Colin plays it, and it makes it sound chunkier, though during the sax and trumpet parts I like to play it on the D string for a bit more vibrancy.
before i found out what this song is actually about, i used to think it was about the way all the government choices happen under the table, and the way population is being controlled without being concious about it. the bass riff at the beggining made me imagine the government planning everything, and when the drums start playing they start carrying it out. the saxos mean the plan is working well, but the trumpets are the first sign of chaos. then it all starts getting out of tune, representing total chaos and discordia. for me, this song is the previous stage for a distopic reality. as i said before, it's just a theory. (sorry for my english)
After viewing this video for this song the thought came to mind that this could've been in a show like Cowboy Bebop or something. This must not be viewed while under the influence lol
brunopietrazzi flea is a monster..... they hav way better basslines than can't stop tho, go back to the bssm era and that's the groovyiest stuff u can find
Beyond exquisite mod squad bangin witch hangin. Never recovering i love all the funk jazz sexyphone too great invention of sounds im way attracted to this song and album
I hated this when I first heard it. One day I was at work and for some reason, I couldn't stop humming it. I got home, popped the CD in and I could not stop playing it that night. The rest is history!
