Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)
Girl (In the Purple Dress)
A piano song with a beat far too fast for it.
Unreleasedalbum- 1986released
1986
on a friday
It is built on piano rather than guitar, which was unusual for them at that point, and the interesting thing about it is the mismatch: a hyperactive beat running underneath calm chords. That tension between the rhythm and everything above it is something the band would spend the next thirty years getting right.
the video
A recording of a song they never released.· AllRadioheadwatch on youtube →
sources1
- The site's own catalogue note, based on Stereogum and Citizen Insane.