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May 16, 2007
Roxy Music bracket: 2+2=5 (2) v Climbing up the Walls (15)
2+2 = 5
Hail to the Thief (2) Radiohead continues its streak of killer album-leading songs. Oh, the Bends-era fanboys must have salivated upon the first sound being a guitar plugged into an amp. Pscyhe! While astute Radiohead students must have known the metronome-like (muffled hi-hat?) drums were harbingers of a climax, but what strikes me so much about this song is that frenetic break seems simultaneously completely controlled and as if the sound got away from the band like water permeating after a wave hits the shore.
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Climbing Up the Walls
OK Computer (15)Speed junkies might initially look at the end of OK Computer as soporific, but there's some real nuanced quality back there. "Climbing" at nine (immediately following the rousing "Electioneering" is perhaps the least compelling of the "come down" songs, but its brooding quality (and seagull-like effects) make it a worthy contender.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at May 16, 2007 12:35 PM
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