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Thom Yorke – The Eraser
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The opening song from Thom Yorke’s solo album of the same name, with repeated refrains, a tripping drum beat, and syncopated piano, sets the tone for the album.
The song can be
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Thom Yorke – Dawn Chorus
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The track begins with Thom addressing someone who seems to be repeating the same mistakes in life. And he is questioning how this person would conduct himself if he had the chance
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Thom Yorke – Suspirium
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“Suspirium” is a song taken from Thom Yorke’s soundtrack for the 2018 horror film Suspiria.
Thom sings about the dilemma of existence. He starts off with the beautiful line that “
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Thom Yorke – Traffic
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The techno-infused “Traffic” acts as the opener for Thom Yorke’s third solo studio album. It had first appeared in a live show in 2015 — almost four years prior the official
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Thom Yorke – Guess Again!
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This track is the only one on Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes with a co-writer, being written alongside Thom Yorke’s Radiohead bandmate Colin Greenwood.
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Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
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[Verse 1] / A tear in the membrane / Allows the voices in / They wanna push you off the path / With their low-frequency wiring / [Chorus] / You can do no wrong / In my eyes, in my
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Thom Yorke – Black Swan
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Black Swan is the fourth song off of Thom Yorke’s 2006 solo album, The Eraser.
A black swan is an unprecedented event that is rationalised afterwards as if it could have been
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Thom Yorke – Interference
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In the third song from Thom Yorke’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, Yorke sings about the transience of our lives, our loves, our identities. We have moments in time that seem to be so
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Thom Yorke – Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)
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[Chorus] / I woke up with a feeling I just could not take / I woke up with a feeling I just could not take / I woke up with a feeling I just could not take / I woke up with a
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Thom Yorke – Not the News
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“Not The News is the sixth track on Thom Yorke’s third solo album, "Anima”. It was debuted in Japan in August of 2015, and in the time between its debut and release, it underwent
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Thom Yorke – Unmade
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This song is played during the film’s climactic scene. Without going into spoiler territory, the song’s soft delicacy is in stark contrast with what happens on screen. It is thus
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Thom Yorke – Analyse
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“Analyse” is the 2nd track off of Thom Yorke’s debut solo album The Eraser released in 2006. The song is a subtle, quiet and mournful piano ballad (made electronic for the album
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Thom Yorke – Twist
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[Verse 1] / To you who brought me back to life / To twisted thorns that grow inside / The shingle washing my old bones / Of woe betides and woe begones / With just enough love to
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Thom Yorke – Gawpers
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Telephone / Calling me / Who put all the shit in your head? / Telling things / Saying things / 'Till you break / Filthy water bubbles up / Who put all the shit in your head? / Pile
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Thom Yorke – Cymbal Rush
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[Verse 1] / Try to save it but it doesn't come off the rug / Try to build a wall that is high enough / It's all boiling over, all boiling over / Mmm, mmm / Try to save your house
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Thom Yorke – Truth Ray
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This is likely one of Thom Yorke’s most personal songs ever released as a solo artist. While Radiohead’s “Daydreaming” and indeed much of A Moon Shaped Pool’s lyrics appear to deal
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Thom Yorke – Atoms for Peace
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One of the most musically blissful songs on The Eraser, featuring an almost childlike, bubbly bass line for the entire song which is joined by airy, light droning synths and guitar
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Thom Yorke – Open Again
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The title of this song references a new dance piece that Viva (Tilda Swinton) creates for Susie (Dakota Johnson), which is called Wieder öffnen (“Open Again”). Viva says that the
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Thom Yorke – Volk
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This selection plays as the background track for a contemporary dance work performed by the dancers of the Helena Markos company for a small audience in their building. Viva Blanc
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Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill
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In one of his most direct (and directly angry) songs, Thom Yorke sings about Dr. David Kelly, a weapons inspector who was responsible for raising questions about the invasion of
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Thom Yorke – Has Ended
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Shortly after making several tweets containing the lyrics to the song, Thom Yorke premiered “Has Ended” on BBC Radio 6 while doing an interview with Matt Everitt. The song contains
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Thom Yorke – The Axe
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[Verse 1] / Goddamned machinery / Why don't you speak to me? / One day I am gonna take an axe to you / The pitter patter / What does it matter? / And where's that love / You
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convolk – Thom Yorke But Worse
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[Intro] / Oh-woah-woah / Oh-woah / (The Shinra Corporation has arrived) / [Chorus] / Oh, the star I'm gonna be / Lose the weight when I don't eat / I'll shave my face and fix my
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Thom Yorke – The Clock
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“The Clock” talks about time running out for humanity and its problems. Thom Yorke called this the most explicit song about environmental concerns on The Eraser. In a TV interview
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Thom Yorke – The Mother Lode
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[Verse 1] / Another clown jumps off the ladder / A shallow pool but it doesn’t matter / The way it goes, the way it goes / He’s falling through barriers and hedgerows / [Chorus 1
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Thom Yorke – Impossible Knots
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[Verse 1] / I'm heading in the wrong direction / I can't make the big connection / And in my line of business / There is no room for mess / [Verse 2] / I'm tied up in impossible
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Thom Yorke – Runwayaway
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Before being finalized as the closing track on ANIMA, “Runwayaway” was quasi-released instrumentally in 2014-2015 for Rag & Bone fashion shows, and again but with some added
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Thom Yorke – I Am a Very Rude Person
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[Intro] / Won't bother me / You don't mean a thing, but it won't bother me / You don't mean a thing, but it won't bother me / You don't mean a thing, but it won't bother me / You
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Thom Yorke – A Brain in a Bottle
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Single track from Thom Yorke’s second solo album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, complete with a twitchy music video shown below:
http://vimeo.com/107278326
The fluctuating background
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Thom Yorke – Nose Grows Some
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“Nose Grows Some” is the last track on Thom Yorke’s second solo LP, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. The song depicts a confrontation between two (potential/former/current) lovers, where
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Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke – His Rope
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Here's the tiny piece of you I saved / I awake to the birds singing / I cut the rope / Step out / In an instant it's all over / I'm done / Here's the tiny piece of you I save
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Thom Yorke – Skip Divided
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This is Thom’s own way of describing what goes on in his head when he’s involved with women or relationships. There’s a notable tension in the heart monitor-like beep throughout
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Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke – Her Revolution
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She waits, she waits / Wily as a fox / She is watching us now / She will sell us out / Our treasure, our treasure / Cracks appearing at the centre / On a dying star / Breaking
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Thom Yorke – FeelingPulledApartByHorses
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[Verse 1] / Feeling pulled apart by horses / Insect bites, machine gun cameras / Fobbed off with lame shite excuses / [Verse 2] / I've no sons and I've no daughters / Feeling
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Thom Yorke – Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry
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Earlier in 2014, Yorke self-released Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes on BitTorrent. He later included the album on Bandcamp on December 26th, along with this new track that serves as a
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Thom Yorke – 5.17
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[Verse 1] / Amaryllis are for beauty / Calla lilies for magnificence / I will lie them for you / For you / For you / For you changed the lanes / [Verse 2] / Violets are saying
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Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke – Ego
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[Intro] / (I don't want to ever regret) / (I don't want to ever regret) / (I don't want to ever regret) / [Verse 1] / I feel light upon my feet / From the way you look at me / You
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Thom Yorke – The Universe is Indifferent
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I've turned, turned / All broken, my bones / I'm sorry, must go / Some water, some water / I walk in willows, the willows / Somehow I go where I don't know / To where I don't know
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Thom Yorke (Ft. Andy Yorke) – All for the Best
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This song is a cover of Miracle Legion’s song of the same name, recorded as part of a tribute album for the group’s front-man, Mark Mulcahy. The idea was conceived after Mark’s
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MF DOOM – Gazzillion Ear (Thom Yorke Remix)
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[Verse] / Villain man never ran with krills in his hand and / Won't stop rockin' til he clocked in a gazillion grand / Tillin' the wasteland sands / Raps on backs of treasure maps
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Thom Yorke – Suspirium Finale
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[Verse 1] / This is a waltz thinking about our bodies / What they mean for our salvation / With only the clothes that we stand up in / Just the ground on which we stand / Is the
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