Radiohead's OK Computer (33 13) by Griffiths Dai

Author:Griffiths, Dai [Griffiths, Dai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Continuum US
Published: 2004-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

‘Sing’ and ‘song’ balance each other, ‘now’ and ‘one’ recall each other. ‘Wake-dreams’ and ‘pack–dressed’ connect alliteratively. Now the second lines:

The first lines seem neater, the melody line for the second line taking two notes of the second line adapting to words in various ways. ‘Tears’ rhymes with ‘hears’, and ‘everlasting peace’ finally breaks the pattern altogether. That leaves the last lines: ‘today we escape’, ‘before all hell breaks loose’, ‘there’s such a chill’ and, echt Thom Yorke, ‘we hope that you choke’. Again, notice that these are largely ordinary turns of speech stuck into the pattern of the music. The middle sections follow this approach: the first has ‘breathe’ as a light word for the music, the ‘spineless laugh’ sounds right for that point. ‘We hope your rules and wisdom choke you’ is notably ‘stuck in’ to the melody line. ‘Choke’ obviously cancels out the breathing of the first bridge passage. ‘Exit Music’ thus seems like a carefully constructed song, perhaps more so than some of the more singable songs.

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