What the fuck?!
Okay, if that didn't scare the shit out of you, then you either don't have a pulse or you're not actually a cognitive being. Honestly. He just said that.
Okay. Radiohead. A band. Went into a giant mansion in the English countryside in 1997. During a hailstorm. And laid down one of the most haunting and fucking epic tracks ever recorded in the history of the human race.
"Climbing Up The Walls" comes to us from OK Computer, Radiohead's now-legendary release that sends critics into fits and fans into aural orgasms.
Okay, in my opinion, this track begins at 3:08... when Greenwood starts playing the theramin and all hell breaks loose. Layered in are guitar solos that would dominate Hendrix with their precision and string arrangements that would make Leonard Bernstein come in his trousers.
Beside "climax" in the dictionary, there's sheet music for this song.
The last 1:30 of this track is literally the soundtrack to the apocalypse. The devil emerges from hell and gives a long, loud roar in the sky before attacking the earth.
This is what the end of the world sounds like.
So it's an appropriate name for the song... because all I want to do after hearing it is climb up the walls and escape.
This is terrifyingly good music.
Listen to "Climbing Up the Walls" by clicking here.
1 comment:
Somebody needs to make an animated video that follows the script you just created: we see a bunch of skinny hunched figures escape from the hail storm into the mansion where they set up and begin recording. Nice juxtaposition of the band inside, safe while the storm rages on outside.
When 3:08 hits, the floor rips open. Huge demons emerge and tear the band to shreds. Radiohead's ghosts finish playing the song. At around 4:12, the ghosts start to float upward. The demons try to grab the souls, but they continue to ascend and as they do we see the earth from their point of view: ravaged, black, and smoldering.
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