Radiohead's "Videotape" is weird and amazing

I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half.

As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games), I have a keen interest in rhythm, syncopation... all that pure, tone-independent *goodness*. I also am a casual fan of Radiohead. Enough so that I've listened to all of their stuff at least once, not so much that I can identify even half the songs by name. I've barely paid attention to In Rainbows (that's going to change), and had completely missed how deeply strange the last track "Videotape" actually is. It's significantly faster (4x-ish) than it seems at first, and starts on the "&" of either beat 2 or beat 4, I'm not sure. This video goes into detail explaining the song's weird rhythm, tempo, syncopation, etc. I'm entirely dumbfounded, and this song just skyrocketed up in my list of favorites from the band.

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