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Radiohead's "Videotape" is weird and amazing

submitted by moonsammy

3 years 8 months 1 week ago

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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I just love hidden secrets in art, especially when it's done purely for the sake of the trick. It makes so much sense in retrospect, even though most of the trick still completely eludes me.

Definitely worth a *promote - if this is going to be stuck in my mind for a while it can stick in the sift too.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, April 15th, 2021 10:48pm PDT - promote requested by noims.

StukaFox says...

Not only is "Videotape" brilliant, it's also incredibly haunting -- right up there with "Exit Music (For a Film)". There's very few pieces of music which have actually stopped me in my tracks and forced me to listen, and "Videotape" is among those few pieces.

Radiohead will be considered "Classcial" music in 200 years.

Seems to be more like jazz in how the musicians on occasion enjoy themselves more than the audience does. I like Radiohead btw.

Also just dont clap. The music is already made as simple as possible to be played at a concert and reducing it to a stomping rhyhm devalues the experience.

Unless / until the performers encourage it, absolutely.

Also just dont clap.

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