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The studio version of Like Spinning Plates was built over the backing track of an unreleased song, I Will, played backwards.
Machine-gun quick, turntable-scratch-like noises, and what sounds like backwards guitar notes define the rhythm, while Yorke's voice sounds distorted, like the creepy dwarf from Twin Peaks. Is it about the hubbub of a musician's lifestyle finally starting to wind down to a more manageable pace? Or is the spinning plate Yorke sings about actually the fragile balance of the world about to come crashing down? (from Jam!)
Colin: The ominous tones of Like Spinning Plates. In Copenhagen, I was listening to Woman�s Hour [popular BBC Radio 4 programme]. They were talking about this English composer, whose name I can�t remember, who wrote a piece of music for a singer where all the phrasings were backward but she sung it forward. Thom sung the backwards melody. It was recorded forward then listened to backwards and he did the phrasing so as to create backward sounding words but its sung forwards. It�s kind of my favourite track. |
