Pyramid Song from there 2001 album Amnesiac is also 4 minutes and 50 seconds just like Reckoner and also at the exact same time (2 minutes 49 seconds) Strings come in.

All artists have personal processes they use to generate or explore ideas. Often, the method is not as important or interesting to most people as the final product. Some people get into the process. Some people like to try to reverse-engineer the process from the product using any available clues. It’s all good.

Tool have been doing this sort of shit in their music for the past decade, If you don’t appreciate it just don’t worry about it and enjoy their music. For those that want to know a little more about the bands creative process then these sort of gimmicks are interesting and entertaining to read about, they also educate you a little bit!

why can’t they just make a fuckin’ record and be done with it?

all this intellectual pissing won’t make one note on the album sound one speck better!

So basically we learned nothing about whether or not these theories are correct.

It is also very close to a ratio found in the fibonacci sequence.

A song is a song. Either you dig it or you don’t! When describing music starts to sound like you’re talking about the periodic table of elements or the seizemograph, you might as well flush it down the toilet.

And that’s not good, because Radiohead is incredible. Whatever happened to the suspension of disbelief or not knowing how the magician does his tricks?

I slept through 4 years science in high school; don’t bring this intellectional wanking into the musical realm. it’s not fun, nor necessary. Just me writing about intellectual wanking is starting to make me sound like an intellectual wanker! just close your eyes and listen to the damn music.

most people are guilty of pifering a song here and there. but for a “fan” to steal from radiohead right to their face is pretty classless, and makes me wonder how they can call themselves fans.

The golden ratio is not uncommon. Good artists have been sequencing their music so the climax of the song would happen at the golden ratio. Not that they do it consciously but good artists seem to have a sense for it.

Croke snack.

A lot, a damn lot.

sounds like a marketing ploy to me

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@jamEs

That’s a load of bollocks. I’ve tried it, as well as many others when that theory got Dugg, and it’s a lot more wishful thinking than a perfect mesh (not to mention OK Computer has 12 tracks, not 10).

JamEs: no, they don’t.

how about my theory?

http://www.mortigitem po.com/too_bored/showthread.ph p?t=68025

i dont wanna be your friend.. i just wanna be your lover!

Very cool James! I can’t wait to try it.

As for Alan…”cut your hair and get a job”? Check your head.

people are overanalyzing the album.
the more hype and bullshit you put to an album is a desperate attempt to make the album good.
the music should be enjoyed and not overanalyzed.
radiohead is OVERRATED. They are beginning to retread shit they did on OK computer.

If you play In Rainbows backwards and stand on your head it sounds like “cut your hair and get a job”.

They didn’t mention the whole interplay with OK Computer, that was part of the binary theory. If you play OK Computer and In Rainbows tracks in a certain alternating order with crossfade they both mesh together as if they were one album. It’s pretty cool.