"oh, why does this have to happen...every week."
Oh, Reckoner. You have provided me with such joy.
I was right a year ago when I guessed that it would become my favourite off In Rainbows. I mean, I'd known all the other (current versions of the) tracks off the album --well, at least the first disc-- for at least a year except for Faust Arp. So those two will always have a different connotation for me.
And it still sticks with me, what I said: When I listen to this song, I feel like I'm listening to it being played in the past. It's even more resonant now that I routinely mope around and listen to this song and reminisce about last fall in London. And don't even talk to me about the music video.
But! Radiohead came to me in a dream and said, "Don't mope, Eve! Instead, it will be our latest single and we will sell stems of the song on iTunes for a remix contest like we did with Nude and everyone will make some funky tunes!" Only I made that dream part up. Basically they just made this post on Dead Air Space a while ago.
Before they officially announced the contest, they showed us two of their friends' remixes: James Holden's and Diplo's. (Yes, that Diplo.) The Holden one bores me, but Diplo seems to have remixed Beirut's Nantes into his, which I ♥.
And then a while ago Kanye West announced he was giving away stems for his Love Lockdown for fans to remix, and lo and behold, the internets provided us with Reckoner Lockdown. (Complete with a mashed up music video! That page also links you to Diplo's COMPLETED remix, because he was like, oh, that original one was a leak. What? Radiohead leaked your incomplete remix? Whatevs.)
The best thing, however, to come from this is that friend-of-the-band Adam Buxton (Hot Fuzz's Tim Messenger, Stardust's Quintus, The IT Crowd's Bill Crouse) made his own remix. Called It's Hard To Clear Radiohead.
If there is one link you click, let it be that one. Oh my god, I can't stop listening to it and laughing hysterically. It sounds like Flight of the Conchords' Inner City Pressure and is basically Adam Buxton rapping about two guys trying to score a police drama and fighting over what song to put over a dramatic moment --Reckoner? Coldplay's The Scientist? Some Philip Glass? And deciding that ultimately it is too hard to clear a Radiohead song and going with A-ha's Take On Me, which, as he points out, sounds a lot like the end of Reckoner.
Now all I need is someone to mix the stems with the original live thrash-rock version of Reckoner (reckoner! pa pa pa!), and my life will be complete.
I was right a year ago when I guessed that it would become my favourite off In Rainbows. I mean, I'd known all the other (current versions of the) tracks off the album --well, at least the first disc-- for at least a year except for Faust Arp. So those two will always have a different connotation for me.
And it still sticks with me, what I said: When I listen to this song, I feel like I'm listening to it being played in the past. It's even more resonant now that I routinely mope around and listen to this song and reminisce about last fall in London. And don't even talk to me about the music video.
But! Radiohead came to me in a dream and said, "Don't mope, Eve! Instead, it will be our latest single and we will sell stems of the song on iTunes for a remix contest like we did with Nude and everyone will make some funky tunes!" Only I made that dream part up. Basically they just made this post on Dead Air Space a while ago.
Before they officially announced the contest, they showed us two of their friends' remixes: James Holden's and Diplo's. (Yes, that Diplo.) The Holden one bores me, but Diplo seems to have remixed Beirut's Nantes into his, which I ♥.
And then a while ago Kanye West announced he was giving away stems for his Love Lockdown for fans to remix, and lo and behold, the internets provided us with Reckoner Lockdown. (Complete with a mashed up music video! That page also links you to Diplo's COMPLETED remix, because he was like, oh, that original one was a leak. What? Radiohead leaked your incomplete remix? Whatevs.)
The best thing, however, to come from this is that friend-of-the-band Adam Buxton (Hot Fuzz's Tim Messenger, Stardust's Quintus, The IT Crowd's Bill Crouse) made his own remix. Called It's Hard To Clear Radiohead.
If there is one link you click, let it be that one. Oh my god, I can't stop listening to it and laughing hysterically. It sounds like Flight of the Conchords' Inner City Pressure and is basically Adam Buxton rapping about two guys trying to score a police drama and fighting over what song to put over a dramatic moment --Reckoner? Coldplay's The Scientist? Some Philip Glass? And deciding that ultimately it is too hard to clear a Radiohead song and going with A-ha's Take On Me, which, as he points out, sounds a lot like the end of Reckoner.
Now all I need is someone to mix the stems with the original live thrash-rock version of Reckoner (reckoner! pa pa pa!), and my life will be complete.