Really? You think that 'Exit Music' by Radiohead is a 'carefully constructed song'? Brilliant.

'Exit Music' thus seems like a carefully constructed song, perhaps more so than some of the more singable songs.' 'Tears' rhymes with 'hears', and 'everlasting peace' finally breaks the pattern altogether. 'Wake-dreams' and 'pack-dressed' connect alliteratively. ''Sing' and 'song' balance each other, 'now' and 'one' recall each other. For example, in discussing 'Exit Music (for a Film)': Most of his analysis amounts merely to describing the songs, as if we haven't heard them before, instead of providing any extra insight into the songs' structure, lyrics, or inspirations. But then he doesn't perform any actual analysis he doesn't tell us what all this means, or why we should even bother counting all these details. He also name-checks obsessively, but usually drops literary names, not names from music or rock music - Philip Larkin, Matthew Arnold (laboriously comparing Thom Yorke's voice to 'sweetness and light' - ugh).Īnd then there's the tedious, pointless quantification - he counts how many measures each song's various sections contain, the time signatures, the track lengths, whether the songs are 'wordy' or not, whether the lines employ verbs or nouns, etc. And when he does fold Radiohead into the discussion of how 'OK Computer' is a 'CD album,' the treatment is pretty minimal. This hardly seems relevant because while 'OK Computer' was released on an LP, it's pretty rare and so most listeners only know the album on CD. The author spends nearly a third of the book talking about how LPs are different from CDs, without mentioning Radiohead AT ALL.

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