Artist: Radiohead
Album:Amnesiac & I Might be Wrong: Live Recordings
Year: 2001 (Amnesiac)
From: UK
Radiohead. Dear dear Radiohead. This has to be one of my favorite songs by them. Amnesiac is an album to conquer no matter how you look at the equation of lyrics and Jonny's guitar and Yorke's desolate voice, bound for some sort of video game hell. "Spinning Plates" originates from the reversed backing track of "I Will". Yorke learned the lyrics backwards, and then sang the reversed lyrics backwards. His droning claims clouds too high for airplanes, clouds only glimpsed by lucky astronauts and turquoise carebears.
What feels like spinning plates? What is this thing or feeling or event or drug that makes Yorke sound so uneasy about his whereabouts? The song begins as if the band's on an uneasy precipice, like they're about to jump off Mount Everest or something so daunting they can't bear but to chatter the words again again and again. The rusty flipping sounds like records being tossed through hands of evil DJ's, but in a good way, for the sound. You follow me?
It's like Radiohead took the sound of spinning, the vibrations of a birds wings or the noise of a propeller, and made it somehow perfectly fit their perplexing mood. Did they record in a cave? If I was recording this song I might need to be in a darkened hole with no mirrors so as to avoid pictures of my own warped mouth, voice, and eyebrows.
Spinning plates make me nervous.
When you see an acrobat or talented street artists toying with glass that's not meant for anything else than gluttony...I mean it gets you riled. I'm thinking 'don't drop them!' or 'If you drop them it'll be funny but sad because you can't maintain the pressure of a perfect circle'. The inordinate balance of degree is relayed in this song. Radiohead is sublime in every way possible. I bow down.
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