Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates (Normal/Forwards)

[@cazsnap]

While we're here in 2017, Radiohead is living in 3017.

[@ProgrammerInProgress]

it's 2019. go back! back now, it's better back there...

[@Insuranceagentguy]

more like 7102

[@howie7281]

So Tru 👽

[@alfakennywon]

This was released in 2001

[@blackgoogle2248]

They're living in cloud cuckoo land

[@ghostpuppet31]

A song, that sounds like it's unraveling the mysteries of life.

[@rianorlando]

it sounds as if it has been recorded in the black lodge of twin peaks

[@Sinoops]

Haha I thought that exact thing while watching twin peaks last year

[@allanclark3283]

IT WAS!!

[@gasolineandwine]

David Lynch used the same technique of reversing vocals that they used in the Twin Peaks series. Sing forward, reverse it, learn it reversed, sing it the new way, then reverse it again.

[@murtadhaalsabbagh4710]

The more I listen to this track, the more I like it. Actually, the first time I did it didn't appeal me at all. Now, it's one of my favorites.

[@myxomaton]

The normal or reversed song both have forward and reversed tracks, theres some percussion and bass and a keyboard that is actually normally recorded over a set of reversed tracks. Me and friend reversed it back when it was first released and were mesmerized - glad i found this thanks for posting this.

[@Guadeloop]

Thom actually sang some of the verses backwards, you can notice it in the normal version that the sound his voice makes is a little weird, that's because the original recording was a backwards spelling.

[@tiffanyhouchin6055]

myxomaton I wonder if Thom was influenced by Bowie? Gary Numan? David Bowie was a master of early Computer and Synth wizardry. Earlier electronic Music was amazing! I had this on CD...this Album got scratched by Playing it and moving it CONSTANTLY. Mystical, Beautiful song. My baby brother is grown up and grew up on this one, and he was MESMERIZED WITH KID A AND AMNESIAC. THE 2ND VERSION Played here WAS NOT ON THE CD. MY GOD, WHERE THE HELL DID THE TIME GO? IT WAS JUST YESTERDAY, I SWEAR! MY brother grew to love Rave music. My fault? The raves are deadly these days, and they were not underground yet when this was produced. I ❤️ Radiohead! Timeless...

[@ledzeppelinrestores]

@@Guadeloop he actually sang the whole song backwards.

[@joshuaoser2174]

I wrote this

[@TheChasedanger]

@@ledzeppelinrestores not the chorus, just everything before it

[@LouieC]

this is when Thom is at his most fucking beautiful. Songs like this, Pyramid Song and How To Disappear Completely. Just fucking brilliant.

[@anna-louiseledet9245]

And after all this time, he's still got it. Think Daydream, among the rest on the new album.

[@utprez]

how to disappear completely...so good

[@davedunlop921]

Yeah boi Absolutely brilliant

[@ИванНовожилов-э9з]

++

[@ricardoiiiesplanada3415]

How to disappear completely makes me cry everytime

[@thovex]

Radiohead is a gift from the heavens. Amnesiac is pure genius -- a masterpiece. This track, along with Pyramid Song, will hold a very special place in my heart and soul for the rest of my days. Thank you

[@GregPicadash]

this right here, this is what music is all about.

[@amandamincheff5598]

Greg Picadash god yes

[@GregPicadash]

***** This is one of those groups that fly so far under the radar, but probably have one of the largest followings anywhere. I even tattooed them on my arm. Probably one of my top five groups of all time.

[@brandonroberts9717]

I'd like to get the bear. What did you get, matey?

[@bnnistrand9411]

Nice! I`ve got two Radioheadtattoos.

[@BrenMurphy1]

Yes, this is the glorious entry to the divine mindfulness #mindfulness

[@blackapple2938]

2:06 you feed me cheetoooooooos

[@melannyortega4308]

JAJAJAA OMG

[@zdrett]

omagad

[@rowan535]

i wont ever un hear this song ruined

[@bobgray2584]

God damn it

[@cessna688]

You feed me to the liiiioooonnnssssss

[@bowl1858]

This song really means a lot to me because I feel like my life is just fucking thinking the same stuff over and over and not being able to say it, it really does feel like spinning plates

[@mrneutral8423]

Break that cycle. Be happy. Harm nobody. Find yourself.

[@aarotoivari8940]

I know how you feel.

[@Realgigclin]

I love how thom yorkes voice gives off the impression of being buried, snuffed out or drowning through this song and then gracefully breaks through @ 2:28 goddamnit radiohead

[@Chapterhouse86]

This takes me back to over 15 years ago, still in high school...driving around smoking pot, having my mind blown by this amazing shit. Sigh, good times.

[@abandonedmuse]

Chapterhouse86 i was in college...same!

[@davemeese6788]

The intro to the reversed version is orgasmic

[@richardhiglett1944]

so evident it was an early version of I WILL. cheers for postings. You can get why Thom thought it was too Kraftwerk initially.

[@andrewdurand3181]

First time I heard the live piano version was live. Possibly greatest concert memory.

[@dawnjanvrin4271]

How could it not be the best concert memory?!?

[@TheletterJ2310]

Almost can't tell the difference in the vocals being Thom Yorke xD

[@giordanosantilli5539]

Me too,

[@luisalayosalazar6959]

Radiohead es una de las bandas mas originales y creativas desde final de los 90, nunca se encasillaron, suenan como ninguno, experimentan y sientan las bases para nuevos generos.. alucinantes canciones las que sacan

[@YlowX7]

I learned the live version of this on piano. it's a beautiful song. I've never listened to it forward, and I'm glad I have now.

[@pinkumiilku]

You can hear the "proper version" of the Forward Track as "I Will" in Hail To The Thief.

[@matthewbragulla151]

I feel like I traveled to another dimension

[@bazjones1171]

There's no One like radiohead for alternative/unusual music. GENIUS

[@juliosantiagoaquise6627]

Esa canción me hace sentir náuseas y un nudo en la garganta cada vez que la escucho. Escalofriante y macabramente bella canción.

[@kylefer]

5:54 Just lock me up... Take keeys... See them? Hear me out....

[@wakbagasi9337]

Holy fudge. It's creepy as hello

[@fnesbet]

I love this song, it is very dark... one of my favorites Radiohead's songs

[@fatimalago8784]

I ball my eyes out now at it's beauty but first I learned the song live .....the piano brings tears to anyone now I'm enjoying the studio version too which I weird for me I'm a live kind of radio head and favorite band girl❤️🎹🕺🎸⚡🕺🎸🥁🎹⚡❣️

[@fatimalago8784]

Omg ... Also when it stops and comes back in reverse I can hear the song (I will)and another one I love it it's so full of emotion for being so spaeu and electronic...Thom achieved what he wanted ❤😂😊🎸⚡🕺🎹🥁🎸🕺⚡

[@tunanman]

Normal: 0:00 Forward: 4:00

[@Damo3445]

Been looking for this weeks again its an amazing track....especially on piano

[@malt2187]

i cant, i just cant. This is to fucking good for me to handle like wtf

[@Drivel101]

“Can’t see that far back” on the Forward Track? - makes sense for the title Amnesiac. While you make pretty speeches, I’m being cut to shreds, you feed me to the Lions, a delicate balance. When this just feels like spinning plates, I’m living in cloud cuckoo land... our bodies floating down a muddy river How relevant to today this is... the fall of the next Holy Roman Empire .... we’re sliding down the slippery slope

[@scottdinges9580]

Lmao "cloud cuckoo land" 😂

[@olivierbarthelemyBE]

Le titre de la chanson est une référence à la technique de laboratoire de "spinning plates" utilisée pour mesurer l'alcalinité d'une solution.

[@juliangrant8358]

Best song ever. 84 people don’t understand art.

[@YellowMilk14]

Just discovered this, favourite track of the moment. What a piece

[@YellowMilk14]

I've been listening to this for the whole day and can't get enough

[@PursuedByAMemory]

@@YellowMilk14 Don't listen to it too much, it will lose it's magic.

[@andyachonesbet3505]

I love this song in this version. From my personal point of view, it is one of the best Radiohead's song

[@EugeneAxe]

This would be good music for a creepy horror film. I mean that as a compliment.

[@k-leb4671]

5:34 "Little baby's eyes...eyes, eyes, eyes..."

[@daveabrams4463]

this is my favorite radiohead song

[@gigachad192]

Dave Jordan fell in love with as soon as I first heard it. It has incredible, beautifully melancholic atmosphere.

[@luisurena100]

Holy fucking shit

[@myxomaton]

And yes its generated from "i will"

[@tx2pp]

even tho amnesiac came earlier than hail to the thief

[@alexander.m96]

i think I Will was written before Amnesiac. edit: maybe even before Kid A

[@jamesspencer2181]

There’s footage of Thom singing “I Will” during rehearsals in the OK-era documentary Meeting People Is Easy.

[@liquidmetal5616]

Thom wrote I will in 1994 mate.

[@User-xw6kd]

Haha it's I Will from Hail To The Thief reversed. But how the heck does that work? I mean how can you compose something which sounds great both forwards and backwards?

[@adriel68]

Shammo Hamid magic

[@charliez077]

check out "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" by Robert Wyatt - a fantastic palindrome epic:)

[@TheWanderer1000000]

It's called a musical palindrome. Something that sounds the same forwards or backwards.

[@treyshawnbeats]

Aleister Crowley

[@labarbara508]

thank you

[@cemeterywind6082]

I love the dark Thom/Radiohead effects and layers.

[@luismaniche4920]

Je ne sais si c'est le moment, ni le lieu, mais quelle beauté à écouter, c'est sincère

[@nsmklf6252]

Luis Maniche pas de lieu ni de moment pertinent tant que ça te touche !

[@andyachonesbet3505]

On my point of view, it is one of the best song of Radiohead. I love the darkness of this track. I prefeer this verssion not the another with simphonic style

[@vernellthomas6644]

I remember hearing this on the movie Bomb The System! Directed or produced by El-P! Awesome scene you all haven't seen it

[@christianlesurfmusic]

I've seen it! It's about graffiti artists who want to make a big mark on the city. It's got Mark Webber in it and Jade Yorker!

[@johnlau4580]

niemals traurig sein, gefühle dieser art und weise existieren nicht an der front, nicht an der front, wo wir waren, wir haben federn gelassen, bitte niemals fragen

[@robotiniksputinik8966]

Lol my cat always runs upstairs to my room when I play this in the living room. I guess she doesn't spin her plates lol.

[@scottdinges9580]

Lol she can't stand thom yorke yeowling

[@mojo76]

gorgeous 👍

[@charliez077]

I actually wish they some day (somehow) play this original track live! the piano version's good but.. I still love this more, one of the stand-outs from Amnesiac.

[@veevamm3642]

Karel Zich I love the live piano versions best but this one is amazing with headphones

[@beatspunkie]

Karel Zich I saw it live Greenwood puts a guitar on the floor and strums up and down the strings creating these weird worbly effects with it.

[@alexgehl8691]

K Hill I'm interested Do you have a video of it or know of any?

[@BareBandSubscription]

They really could just use a backing track with live embellishments, but they’ll probably never do that.

[@shadowchasernql]

@@BareBandSubscription i was thinking they could flip the envelope on whatever synthesizer they are using and play the notes backwards. for the "swooshing" sound one of them could use a glitch pedal on a drum played at the start of the song or something. the "strings" could also literally just be a guitar (or, you know, an actual violin) with a bunch of reverb pedals like they did for Treefingers. if there is a double bass then it could be played less staccato and have longer, drawn-out notes to hide the fact that it's not playing backwards. there's also some chimes in the background that could easily be sequenced and sampled onto a tape, it surely wouldn't matter.

[@ishimura8202]

the forward track is probably "I Will"

[@_Vissal_]

I agree. Great observation.

[@yesitsvish]

it is interviews from the time say this too

[@DeadCanDance31]

it is i will. Ed has already confirmed that definitely it is. Here’s more information: www.citizeninsane.eu

[@alialmuhamad4780]

Still GREAT music in 2019..

[@CharlesLamJr]

And took much more meaning in 2020 and beyond. Epic that the song was written in 2001.

[@roadkill5727]

what the fuck this made my spine tingle

[@JJohnson1340]

Just heard this for the first time ever ... I over played Ok Computer and so did like everyone I knew when it came out and never have listened to Radiohead since, they’ve come so far ... I feel I maybe have some catching up to do :)

[@elizabethbert5854]

No idea how I got here, but here I am.

[@c02c02]

0:48 is a sample from "Windows of the World" by Isaac Hayes

[@sujetosderendimiento]

Great observation!

[@dontquitdreamsarepossible]

Listening to this while drunk in NYC at night is very trippy

[@odettebalog6214]

Come to Berlin.

[@miyusti]

Prométeme que me llevarás en tus notas musicales, me llevarás de viaje por tu música.

[@lillyho3349]

This is a genius. Only Tom can feel the pain of the world like that. And she hasn't gone anywhere since. Now we're here in 2020 but Radiohead is living in Eternal.

[@acsone3546]

obsessed with the stuttering in the background

[@sethteamcap3598]

This is what it sounds like at the gates of Heaven. Mystical.

[@aninymouse1651]

Somehow I sincerely doubt it will sound anything like this.

[@krasimirdimov6480]

WTF !!! For years I have only listened to the reversed version. I am hearing this for the first time! Amazing!

[@bobafett9739]

This is a fog over your dinner plate

[@RazielDark]

my body is floating down the muddy river...

[@razycrandomgirl]

today years old when i found out there were actual lyrics instead of him just vocalizing... this was the first cd I bought from them I'm pretty sure I got it came out (for pyramid song)

[@adamcummings20]

I would absolutely love an instrumental version of the backwards LSP

[@chelseaacidcasual2825]

Cracking tune, South Oxfordshire calling 🍺

[@alexaguilar8546]

I Will: Im the most apocalyptic Radiohead song Like Spinning Plates: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@endingalaporte]

this is so incredible, I wish I could share my love of this song with one of the persons in the comment section, in reality ! ncredible botch backwards and normal

[@barryjones9409]

Best track on amnesiac by a mile

[@michaelmcdonald2348]

can we have more love for this amazing gem

[@danielmcmahan4393]

Thom said atop liking us we want normal lives 2020

[@caetanopedro2564]

Best song ever 😍

[@treyebillups8602]

This is a profoundly upsetting song but I love it so much

[@nicolec8884]

I love how weird this sounds.

[@daisyfuse]

4:49 - help me

[@stoneyll]

Feel the music...

[@TomerBenDavid]

holy crap this feels like something else!!

[@kevonedwards385]

My first Radiohead song

[@kaneholahan3467]

sounds like Thom having a stroke, but brilliant

[@Folk-rock]

that final line man

[@josephwhite619]

1:43 Look up "corrugaphone" and imagine Thom whirling a plastic tube in the studio.

[@jasonwalker7729]

transcendental

[@c.l.m.c.3328]

Push/Pulk Spinning Plates is a psychological masterpiece of a video, and this made me realise how it even fucking fits with I Will. "little babies' eyes..." fuck that video.

[@riccardocapobianco8595]

All spinning!! Different...time! F****ing perfect! All! CRy crazy

[@ploopybear]

Why do I enjoy this so much?

[@bazjones1171]

I think u could describe Thom Yorke as The Melodic

[@RazielDark]

2001 was a crazy year...

[@Sebastien_Marseillan]

Je ...... suis déconnecte de la réalité quand j’écoute ce morceau !!!!!!

[@stoneyll]

This is why Radiohead is the only band that Matters~!!

[@MrShahid0072]

@choi broken lol.. I laughed so hard.. you should try stand up

[@TheWizardYeof]

Stoney Curtis Well I don’t know about thaaat

[@jonahlouque9621]

Even the Vocal Melody is similar to I Will.

[@Sanny987]

Hearing this backward (forwards?) for the first time after listening to the original track more than 100 times is breaking my brain.

[@mrflibble1259]

Sounds a bit like analyse from the eraser when played forwards

[@edwardlam8277]

Why are people saying it's "I will"? The lyrics are, "While you make pretty speeches, I'm being cut to shreds. You feed me to the lions, a delicate balance. And this just feels like spinning plates. I'm living in cloud cuckoo land. And this just feels like spinning plates. My body's floating down muddy river."

[@tomflynn4720]

I think they’re saying that the reversed song sounds like an early version of I Will

[@anthonyrios2300]

Tommy Flynn It is. It was confirmed a while ago

[@moulanakratos]

This is some Tenet shit right here ! Forward Thom and Reversed Thom both came together to make this song !

[@TheVinipool]

This album is just trip.

[@S_E_R_]

I only just noticed how similar this song is to to the Lisa Gerrard song Shadow Magnet. The main melody and the synth that's really prominent at the end of this song is so similar to the synth in Shadow Magnet around 1:46 and 4:15 in that song.

[@buddymccallum5998]

I’m here in 2019

[@liamgallagher4368]

Fuckin great

[@gardomedia]

Greatest song oat

[@902101216]

The reversed version was found in Kid A MNESIA Exhibition!!!

[@anotherholywar]

the existential doom of OUR EXISTENCE IS PURELY reverbing in this song from the deep souls of Radiohead who are from another alien race

[@leeinnes7127]

Awesome stuff

[@kevinbourne9382]

Well thats blown my mind