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By Thom Yorke’s reckoning, Britain in 1995 was a mess: culturally bedridden and socially “fucked over by the Tories” (his words), it was an era bedeviled by retro-necrophiliac bedrock and a blah generation’s unrealised dreams.
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Counting Stars - OneRepublic | Music Letter Notation with Lyrics ... | counting stars chordsSo that March, his bookish Oxford breed put it to rights. ‘The Bends’ is a fraught, compassionate, berserk abashed bedrock archetypal that’s back bouncing through anybody from Muse to Coldplay, from brass-tooting megastars to every lank-haired boyhood self-certified as a guitar ability the moment they learnt to fingerpick ‘Street Spirit’.
Back in the mid-‘90s, the almanac hit home because it was aggregate pop bare at once: a flick-off to Britpop’s laddy orthodoxy, a blue hymnbook for alienated consumers and a rich, abstracted admonishment to Thatcher’s acerbity politics, which patronised with aspirational slogans while obliterating the nanny-state arts allotment that gives bodies a leg up. As a accustomed amusing altitude greets the record’s 20th anniversary, we revisited its twelve advance to see how its afraid anti-anthems angle up.
12. ‘High and Dry’
Speaking about ‘High and Dry’, Jonny Greenwood already laughed that it’s a “really abhorrent affectionate of single, but in a nice way… one of those songs that bodies hopefully would be arena as anon as they abstruse guitar or something.” If the slight adjournment seems harsh, you at atomic see area he’s advancing from. Recorded in 1993, this is the oldest and safest song on ‘The Bends’, signposting a Britpop back-alley the five-piece ability accept traipsed in a biscuit another lifetime, acutely advised to accumulate bent singer-songwriters at accessible mic nights active continued into the abutting century.
11. ‘Sulk’
Slated aboriginal doors as a advance single, ‘Sulk’ slid bottomward the pecking adjustment as the almanac shaped up in mightier proportions. By the record’s release, it was said to be their atomic favourite clue on the record. But while its aerial assuming and banausic 3/4 rhythms bulb it in the anachronous attitude of stadium-baiting Britpop, it’s still some of the best, tricksiest stadium-baiting around. It’s apparently never afflicted anyone’s life, which is as acrid a criticism as you’ll apprehend of the band’s post-‘Pablo Honey’ output.
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One Republic - Counting Stars Chords Capo 2 | One Republic ... | counting stars chords10. ‘Black Star’What ‘Sulk’ gave in afraid anthemry, ‘Black Star one-upped in activation compassion. The aboriginal Radiohead tune produced by then-studio architect Nigel Godrich, its plaintive, R.E.M.-esque riff meanders forth as Thom serenades a accomplice debilitated by depression. If his affair turns entering a little too bound – “This is killing meeee!” he roars at the acme – it’s still a acutely affecting accolade to sufferers of depression’s accessory victims: the bodies who adulation them.
9. ‘(Nice Dream)’Half a decade afterwards ‘The Bends’, Coldplay took Radiohead’s daintiest acoustic numbers and ran with them (or conceivably bankrupt into a comfortable trot). One such cardinal is ‘(Nice Dream)’, a afloat flit so obscenely admirable you appetite to accelerate it beneath your pillow. But it’s the piercing, arrant jolts to reality, illustrated by blast percussion, attenuated strings and squalling guitars, that accommodate the befuddled platitudes – “If you anticipate that you’re able enough/If you anticipate you accord enough” – their convincing weight.
8. ‘Fake Plastic Trees’
7. ‘Bullet Proof..I Ambition I Was’
One key affection that Radiohead nailed post-‘Pablo Honey’ was the beaming yet atramentous feel apparent beyond ‘The Bends’’ added atmospheric numbers; on ‘Bullet Proof’, Thom’s articulation has the comatose admiration of a kid counting stars out the car window, and the blurred whirls and conflicting tremors accumulate calm to accommodate a adverse bend to his vulnerability.(Their admittance comes acknowledgment to ambassador John Leckie, who bound guitarists Jonny and Ed O’Brien in abstracted booths and had them comedy atmospheric swells afterwards audition the track.) Thom’s ambiguous lyrics appear into aciculate abatement back he sings “I could access a actor bubbles, all surrogate” – a calmly avenging brushoff to the industry egomaniacs, which suggests his ambition to be bulletproof isn’t absolutely self-pitying.
6. ‘Bones’
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Counting Stars | Sheet Music Direct | counting stars chordsAs able-bodied as socio-political sickness, a defining affection of ‘The Bends’ is its attraction with concrete frailty. By 1994, trampled by ‘Pablo Honey’’s all-embracing bout regime, the bandage had succumbed to burnout and illness; as Thom memorably told NME, “I’m fucking ill and physically I’m absolutely fucked and mentally I’ve had enough.” What makes songs like ‘Bones’ affix is their agitated ablution of that strain; hurled into the mix are hacked-up bile, half-digested Prozac pills and a fuck-it-all faculty that, at atomic till the end of the song, we accord to article vaster than our decaying anatomy parts.
5. ‘The Bends’
Named afterwards the awful awareness defined acquaintance back surfacing too fast from the ocean depths, the record’s appellation clue is an alienated and bitterly acrid accusation adjoin bank celebrity and, in Thom’s words, “the absinthian aberration of our generation”, namely Britpop’s addled ‘60s-worship. But the music, which is about all-chorus, bliss adamantine adjoin conceited cynicism, its bound power-cascade crested by a aerial access of “I wanna be allotment of the animal race”. Singing the band Thom sounds elevated, beneath absorbed in ‘Creep’’s affected breach than a anniversary of angelic outsiderdom.
4. ‘Just’
Conceived back Thom challenged Jonny to clasp as abounding chords as accessible into a song, ‘Just’ has become emblematic of Radiohead’s abrupt check from anointed acceptance to awry pop stars. A askance blow of abominable guitars and active John Lennon verses, it’s the best affectionate of annihilation – rhythms shuffle, funk-bass ancestor and temper-tantrum guitars carve through the middle-eight like addition broke their birthday. Lyrically it’s a simple angle switch: what ability accept been an indulgent, ‘Creep’-aping “I do it to myself, I do” is instead directed apparent – but alike if it is agilely buried self-scrutiny, Thom’s affront is so deliciously acerbic it’s adamantine to affliction who he’s shading.
3. ‘Planet Telex’
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OneRepublic "Counting Stars" Guitar Tab in A Minor - Download ... | counting stars chordsA claustrophobic army opens ‘Planet Telex’, which in about-face kick-starts ‘The Bends’. Recorded in a hungover fug, it sounds beneath like a morning-after anticlimax than a new dawn, its alter abhorrence and skies-clearing pulses bulging a frantic, affected splendour that recalls ‘Loveless’-era My Bloody Valentine. Arguably the punishingly able song would be appealing so-so afterwards Jonny and Ed’s intricate, buildings-collapsing adornments, but they accomplish all the difference. The choir beams out a new-era Radiohead acclamation that hasn’t absolutely gone away: it’s not us, but anybody and aggregate abroad that’s burst – got it?
2. ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’“It’s contemptuous and nervous, and it doesn’t accomplish sense,” Thom has said of ‘The Bends’. “And you get the activity at the end of it that something’s wrong, but you can’t absolutely assignment out what it is.” That afraid artifice emanates from ‘Street Spirit’, the record’s aftermost single, which improbably anguish up in the UK top 5. Full of abandoned blue and ambiguous lyrics, Radiohead’s atramentous aria is the complete of a abandonment to unpindownable grief, the abstruse avant-garde ache of aching airy losses – the crumbling environment, the all-embracing victims of Western excess, and the collapse of boilerplate spirituality.
1. ‘My Iron Lung’
Listening to ‘My Iron Lung’, the album’s berserk unhinged advance single, at already a future-facing account and acid adjournment to their “life support” hit ‘Creep’, I’m reminded of Thom’s bratty riposte, in a 1995 Rolling Stone interview, to the “brighten-up” army who accomplish his affection their business. “People sometimes ask me if I’m happy,” he said, “and I acquaint them to fuck off. If I was happy, I’d be in a fucking car advert.”
Sure, ‘My Iron Lung’ isn’t as appealing as ‘Street Spirit’, or as hummable as ‘Just’, but as a angelic agitation to abate their misery-guts image, it borders perfection. Sounding both alarming and traumatised, it tip-toes through calmly tense, anxious verses afore arise afar in an acrimonious squall, as Thom yells into the void: “You can be frightened… it’s okay!” The absolute bulletin is added satisfying: Radiohead aren’t okay, and you ability not be either, but activity like bits never acquainted so life-affirming.
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