The National Anthem

...analog Arthur Kreiger samples that flutter and bleep across Idioteque," or the free jazz traffic jam" that kicks in at the height of The National Anthem." According to a 2001 article in Wire by noted music journalist Simon Reynolds, Thom Yorke...

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Rodgers does even seem somewhat clone-ish, with an uncanny wheeling demeanor in the pocket reminiscent of You Know Who. Track 3 - "The National Anthem" (Is Favre) Chris Berman said that rooting against Favre was like "rooting against...

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By Adam Wieser Thom Yorke loves a good bass line. He was 16 when he wrote the riff for "The National Anthem" and played it when recorded for Kid A. On his solo album, The Eraser, the bass propelled songs forward and provided a melodic...

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...and made barely decipherable, yet fit the piece. An odd near vocal of someone possibly crying fades away as the song ends. "The National Anthem" is a transitional piece. Nearly a B-Side for OK Computer, the guitars have returned, front...

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"The National Anthem" is the third track from the alternative rock band Radiohead's 2000 album Kid A. The song is moored to a repetitive bassline , has a processed electronic production, and develops in a direction influenced by jazz. It has...

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...a mediation on death and regeneration, taking a common Lips theme and channeling it through the schizophrenic bombast of, say, Radiohead's "The National Anthem", beginning with insistent propulsion and devolving into eventual collapse. "The...

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...textures and Thom Yorke's warped voice-- all these other ideas feel secondary. Instead, I get lost in the dissonant horn blasts of "The National Anthem" and hypnotized between the play of the drones and the hissy beats in "Idioteque"; I...

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...rhythms on 'In Limbo' (and the piano version of 'Spinning Plates'). In short: there's a lot more jazz than just the wild skronks of 'The National Anthem'. With no accompanying singles there were no B-sides, so here the bonus CD shows Radiohead...

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...claims to admire in other electronic music-a break that mostly subtracts the song's beat and delays its return, to climactic effect. In "The National Anthem", an unremitting eight-player brass section that forms around the bass riff is not...

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...Place", and the title track threw listeners looking for "Fake Plastic Trees" falsetto immediately into the deep end. Then on "The National Anthem", Yorke is shouted down by horn section mayhem, and when he finally gets in an unfiltered...

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