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The contradiction between the pessimistic lyrics (' A heart that's full up like a landfill, A job that slowly kills you, Bruises that won't heal, You look so tired, unhappy') and the memorable melody is what makes it a masterpiece, as if Louis Armstrong sang ' We’re all gonna die' to the tune of What A Wonderful World.įour chords played over and over again, in the verses and in the chorus, four chords taken from the Hollies' The Air That I Breathe - who would have guessed that on those four tiresome chords one of the most important songs of the 90s would be built? Thom Yorke leaves his soul in a song about his mixed feelings towards a popular girl he liked, but it is Greenwood who elevates it with a guitar that sound like punches in the jaw. Then there is one of the most beautiful melodies ever written and Yorke's ability to bend his voice and make wonderful harmonies, all with one of the darkest lyrics of his career, embedded in a song that could pass for a lullaby.

No Surprises starts with some light arpeggios from Ed O'Brien's Rickenbacker 360 and then gives way to an acoustic guitar, bass, drums and the privileged voice of Thom Yorke but what gave it the special touch was Jonny Greenwood ‘putting on Brian Jones ' suit’ and playing the Glockenspiel, which complement O'Brien's arpeggios. From Guitars Exchange we want to pay tribute to them by talking about our 10 favorite songs of their career. With a career approaching 30 years, Thom Yorke's band has delivered a number of masterpieces and has pushed the limits of what a rock band can, or cannot, play. One could argue that Radiohead was the band that made the last great classic rock record with OK Computer and then proceeded to kill it with Kid A, but I think that would be a reductionist view, because what they did was to lengthen their life by destroying all the restrictions that had exhausted the genre.

Lyrics to karma policsongs list ok computer radiohead