![]() 'Everything In Its Right Place' I really, really love as well. Thom: "It came back when we recorded 'The National Anthem'. But that was because, personally speaking, I'd lost all confidence." Thom: "It wasn't really a writer's block because words were coming out like diarrhoea but they were all awful! And I couldn't tell the difference - which was much worse. Q: "Were you in effect suffering from a form of writer's block?" 'Knives Out' is the most direct one on there, and sounds most like when we play it live." That's what it feels like."Įd: "The songs won't sound like they do live. Jonny: "Do you want some acoustic strum-a-longs? A 'Mull Of Kintyre'? That's sort of what people mean, isn't it? They basically want their hands held through 12 'Mull Of Kintyre's. ![]() People say, 'Is your next record going to be more song-based?' and we're like, 'What were those ten tracks on the last record?' OK, 'Treefingers' might not be a classic verse-chorus-verse-chorus, but it's still a song." Q: "Is it going to be more conventional?"Įd: "We laugh at this. We need another two or three weeks to live with it and knock it into shape. I think most of the songs on there Radiohead fans will already have heard before, songs like 'Knives Out' will definitely be on there. You've got to shut everything off and go with your instincts. Jonny: "We're just trying to decide how to do it this time around."Įd: "The thing is you mustn't get into second-guessing or worrying about how this one might be received. Jonny: "We are just sequencing and planning the order of tracks for it at the moment." Returning to Britain, Radiohead immediately retreated to the studio to finish work on the follow-up to Kid A. i'm trying to get my head around some new software called logic which seems to be what all the right programmers are using.the manual is about the thickness of a hardback edition of 'war and peace'.he's singing along to 'fastrack'. Thom's got a busy old week this week.most of the finishing touches are vocal things. but i think we've done alright on 'knives out'. and often in doing so the song loses its essence especially if it was written on acoustic guitar. the need to embellish tracks with melodies and sounds becomes imperative. i'm a real believer that bands as they become more successful often lose the ability to do straight ahead stuff well. the song is probably the most straight ahead thing that we've done in years.and that might explain why we took so long on it. i was telling a mate over the w/end about 'knives out' and how it was started in copenhagen on 10/3/99.some 373 days later we finally finished it.a ridiculously long gestation period for any song.naturally my mate thought that having taken so long on a piece of music it would be some sort of magnum opus, a kind of paranoid android to the power of ten. that was the state of play at 5am friday morning. for the first time the tracks below and above the line are equal in number. There's a line drawn.above which are the names of tracks finished bar mixing.and below, those nearly completed.
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