Song · Radiohead
The Chains
The band's attempt to sound like the Waterboys, using the fact that Jonny Greenwood can play the viola.
the entry
big music, briefly
The note preserved from the 2003 site is one sentence and it is a good one: taking advantage of Greenwood's viola, this was the group's attempt to sound like the Waterboys.
That is a real ambition at a particular moment. This Is the Sea was 1985 and the Waterboys' “big music” was what a serious young band was supposed to want. Greenwood's strings eventually went somewhere very different, through Messiaen and Penderecki and sixteen violins a quarter-tone apart on “Climbing Up the Walls”.
the record
unreleased
No recording has been released.
sources1
- This site's own preserved 2003 lyrics pages.