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Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
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A fine example of Radiohead’s “post-grunge” / “pre-electronic” phase on The Bends.
The song is supposed to be a call against consumerism. While recording the song, the band went
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Radiohead – Airbag
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“Airbag” is the first song off OK Computer.
The song is somewhat autobiographical – Thom had been involved in a car accident roughly a decade before, his life saved by an airbag
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Radiohead – No Surprises
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“No Surprises” is the fourth and final single from Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer. It was the first song to be recorded for the album, and the band actually stuck with the
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Radiohead – Karma Police
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One of several stunning singles from Radiohead’s heavily influential masterpiece, OK Computer, “Karma Police” is a haunting and atmospheric track. Thom Yorke’s strained
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Radiohead – Exit Music (For A Film)
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Radiohead was in the middle of their 1996 tour when they were approached by director Baz Luhrmann to record a song meant for his upcoming film, Romeo + Juliet.
The band was shown
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Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls
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Sung from the perspective of paranoid fear itself, “Climbing Up the Walls” takes the English idiomatic expression for utter unpleasant feelings, such as worry and doubt giving the
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Radiohead – Let Down
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Featured on Radiohead’s 1997 alternative-rock classic OK Computer, “Let Down” was recorded at 3 AM in a ballroom at the historic St Catherine’s Court. The song structure features
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Radiohead – Man of War
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For a long time considered one of Radiohead’s “lost classics,” (akin to “Lift” and “True Love Waits”), this song first emerged in setlists supporting The Bends in 1995.
It was
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Radiohead – The Tourist
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“The Tourist” is the final track on OK Computer, punctuating the album with soaring guitar solos and ethereal vocals. The track is about enjoying life; when a tourist visits a
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Radiohead – Lucky
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“Lucky,” the penultimate track from OK Computer, was written around the time of the 1990’s Bosnian conflict and recorded to be featured on relief record The Help Album.
The song
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Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien
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In “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” Thom speaks of being isolated or different from the rest of his brethren. He wishes an alien colony can take him away just so he could be a silent
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Radiohead – Electioneering
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One of the straightforwardly political songs in the Radiohead catalogue, it captures the unrest against neoliberal policies that plagued the globe in the late 1990s, and would soon
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Radiohead – Lift
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One of the band’s “lost classics,” Radiohead originally performed “Lift” in 1996 as part of sets that included early arrangements of songs that would end up on OK Computer
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Radiohead – Paranoid Android
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“Paranoid Android,” the first single from OK Computer, is characterized by three distinct moods written in what Thom Yorke referred to as three different states of mind. The song’s
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Radiohead – Fitter Happier
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Fitter Happier is a list of bullet points that diagnosed society for what it was, and where it was headed at the time of this song’s release and arguably the world we live in now.
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Drugstore (Ft. Thom Yorke) – El President
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This song is a tribute to Salvador Allende, the president of Chile, a Marxist democratically elected in 1970. When the CIA sponsored a coup d'état in an attempt to overthrow his
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
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A single from the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 1999 album Californication, the “other side” here is a metaphor for both the struggle to get back to a normal life after addiction and also
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
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The first single off of Californication describes the struggles addicts go through to get sober and how they are viewed different when they return to reality. Scar tissue is a good
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Radiohead – Airbag Ace! MD117.3
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[Verse 1] / The next world war / A jack-kniffed juggernaut / I am born again / In the neon sign / Scrollin' up and down / I am born again / [Chorus] / In an interstellar burst / I'
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can't Stop
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Released as a the third single from By The Way, “Can’t Stop” is known for its simple but catchy guitar riff, pulsating bass and thoroughly cryptic lyrics.
Throughout the track
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Radiohead – Airbag (early acoustic)
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This is an earlier recording of their song Airbag, with the lyrics differing in a few places. It appears to be a later version of the draft that Thom Yorke wrote in a book of
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Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
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“Sweet Child O’ Mine” is the 9th track of Guns N’ Roses’ debut album Appetite for Destruction. The song became GNR’s most successful single, topping the Billboard Hot 100.
The
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
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The song is about front man Anthony Kiedis and the period in his life when he walked around Los Angeles sad and very alone, finding solace in the streets and hills and the wind
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Linkin Park – One More Light
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“One More Light” is the eponymous song on this album. Mike Shinoda sat down to describe the song in an interview with Zach Sang:
The song, “One More Light”, was actually, it’s
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Radiohead – The Tourist Samples
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See all of “The Tourist” by Radiohead’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow ((Hey Oh))
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This song is from their 2006 album Stadium Arcadium and is one of the songs to sit longest at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart.
In the words of the lead singer it’s about “
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Viscera – Climbing Up the Walls
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I am the key to the lock in your house / That keeps your toys in the basement / And if you get too far inside / You'll only see my reflection / It's always best when the light is
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Vance Joy – Riptide
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The intro and first single to Vance Joy’s debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing was a critical and commercial success. Critics praised its clever lyrics filled with pop
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases “A Dawn Chorus” One Decade After First Teasing It
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Yorke called it his favorite song in a March 2009 interview.
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Radiohead – Exit Music (For A Film) Interpolations
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See all of “Exit Music (For A Film)” by Radiohead’s interpolations
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Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Samples
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See all of “Climbing Up the Walls” by Radiohead’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Genius Farsi Translations (ترجمهی فارسی) – Radiohead - Electioneering (ترجمه ی فارسی)
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[Verse 1] / I will stop, I will stop at nothing / به هیچ قیمتی نمیایستم / Say the right things when electioneering / موقع انتخابات حرف درست رو بزن / I trust I can rely on your
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Radiohead - Airbag (Traducción al Español)
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[Letra de "Radiohead - Airbag (Traducción al Español)"] / [Estrofa 1] / En la siguiente guerra mundial / En una gigantesca fuerza con forma en V / Vuelvo a nacer / En la señal de
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Radiohead – Let Down Covers
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Genius traductions françaises – Radiohead- Electioneering (Traduction française)
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[Couplet 1] / Rien, rien ne m'arrêtera / Je dirais ce qu'il faut pendant ma campagne électorale / Je sais que je peux compter sur vos votes / [Refrain] / Quand j'avance / Vous
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Radiohead – Lift Samples
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See all of “Lift” by Radiohead’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Samples
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See all of “Climbing Up the Walls” by Radiohead’s samples
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