King of Limbs and Radiohead in Rainbow Songs
February 18th, 2011UPDATE: You can go to The King of Limbs website, log in, and download your purchased album.
Monday of this week, Radiohead surprise announced the release of their next album The King of Limbs for digital download this coming Saturday. Apparently, download codes have already started being sent out to preorders a day early. I’m looking forward!
Look! It’s Thom Yorke! And he’s a tramp! (My acting professor will love this: anything Radiohead and existential clown.)
A couple weeks ago, in my music class, I was teaching the cabasa. And one of the examples of “where you may have heard a cabasa,” was in the Radiohead song Paranoid Android. People would chuck, I would move on. But after making this joke for a couple of days, the joke then evolved into, “We are now going to sing Paranoid Android.”
Then THAT joke evolved into me sitting down at the computer and kinda sorta learning out to hack out a recognizeable rip on the Paranoid Android intro (which is bloody unintuitive to my style of play) AND the much more recognizeable bass riff leading “You will remember.” And THAT got some laughs.
The following week, a dad said, “What Radiohead instrument are you showing this week?” Hmmm… a bit character from the video for “There There”? (At that point I was showing wooden frogs, a wood block/guiro hybrid.)
So I’m thinking that dad might dig it if I am able to throw in a song from King of Limbs on the CD player during Parachute time, tomorrow. I know this is riveting. I’ll report back.
Posted in Spotlight | Comments (1)
June 2nd, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Hey this came up on a search for Rainbow Songs (will more now that I put that content in there).
Gave me a chuckle. Your blog is a nice place.