The passage below is the perfect example of what sleep deprivation does to the mind. This actually dates back to a couple of months ago, but the topic came up recently when I was having dinner with some friends of mine, so I thought I'd dust it off and put it up here (for people to scoff at).
So, I know it has only just hit bookstore shelves (I found a review copy of it at work --- on the discard pile -- and read it), but in Chuck Klosterman's new book, "Killing Yourself to Live", he goes into great detail about how he feels that the sequence of Radiohead's Kid A (originally released on October 3, 2000) is eerily prescient with regards to the events of September 11, 2001. He's not suggesting that Thom Yorke is some sort've Nostrodamus, but this seemingly crackpot theory definetely made me want to listen to the album again.
From Chuck's text....any spelling mistakes are my own.....
The first song on Kid A paints the Manhattan skyline at 8:00 A.M. on Tuesday morning; the song is titled "Everything in Its Right Place." People woke up that day "sucking on a lemon," because that's what life normally feels like on the Manhattan subway; the city is a beautiful, sour, sarcastic place. We soon move onto song two, which is the title track. It is the sound of woozy, ephemeral normalcy. It is the sound of Jonny Greenwood playing an Ondes Martenot, an instrument best remembered for its use in the Star Trek theme song. You can imagine humans walking to work, riding elevators, getting off the C train and the 3 train, and thinking about a future that will be a lot like the present, only better. The term KID A is Yorke's moniker for the first cloned human, which he (only half jokingly) suspects may already exist. The consciously misguided message is this: Science is the answer. Technology solves everything, because technology is invulnerable. And this is what almost everyone in America thought around 8:30 A.M. But something happens three and a half minutes into "Kid A". It suddenly doesn't feel right, and you don't exactly know why. This is followed by track three, "The National Anthem"
This is when the first plane slams into the north tower at 470 mph.
"The National Anthem" sounds a bit like a Morphine song. It's a completley different direction from the first two songs on KID A, and it's confusing; it's chaotic. "What's going on?," the lyrics ask. "What's going on?" It gets crazier and crazier, until the second plane hits the second tower (at 9:03 A.M. in reality and at 3:42 in the song). For a moment, things are somber. But then it gets more anarchic. (Reader's Note: You might want to consider playing KID A right about now, since I'm not always so good at explaining shit like this). Which leads into track four, "How to Disappear Completely." This is the point where it feels like the world is possibly ending. People try to convince themselves that they are not there. People keep repeating: "This isn't happening". People are "floating" (read: falling) to the earth. We are told of strobe lights and blown speakers; there are fireworks and hurricanes. This is a song about being burned alive and jumping out of windows, and this is a song about having to watch those things happen. And it's followed by an instrumental piece without melody ("Treefingers"), because what can you say when skyscrapers collapse? All you can do is stare at them with your hand over your mouth.
Time passes. It's afternoon. KID A's side two, if you have it on vinyl. Action is replaced by thought. The song is "Optimistic, " a word that becomes more meaningful in its absence. It has lyrics about Ground Zero ("vultures circle the dead"), and it offers a glimpse into how Al Qaeda members think Americans perceive international diplomacy ("the big fish eat the little ones, the big fish eat the little ones/Not my problem, give me some"). Track seven, "In Limbo" is about how the United States has been shaken out of its fantasy, with "nowhere to hide," finding only "trap doors that open, I spiral down"......
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He goes on, but you get the general idea. You should really check it out yourselves if you're curious, but I thought I'd share some of it here.
Also, I have to say, I wasn't really all that hot about Kid A upon its release. I was freelancing at the time for an ill-fated "teen-oriented" website (`cos, y'know, who better to write for teens than me, eh?) called I-Stash (don't look for it, it's long gone), and I reviewed this album. I wish I could find what I wrote, but in a nutshell, I was basically pretty lazy in my description (which may have had more to do with spacial limitation than any disdain I may have harbored for the album at the time). I listened to it dutifully for reviewing purposes, and then filed it away until --- well, until last week, I suppose, when Chuck's suggestions prompted a new listening. I have to say, it's much better than I initially remembered.
Alright, bear with me on this one....this is where it gets a bit strange.
So, there I am: overnight shift. I finally get a chance to spin Kid A in its entirety, as synched up with Klosterman's admittedly half-assed outline of it mimicing the events of September 11. For some reason, during my overnight shifts in the dead of night and in the first light of the early morning, I so often think back to the events of that day, going so far as to trawl the `Net for conspiracy-theory sites or footage etc. It's like picking at a scar, I can't explain it. Like many New Yorkers, I suspect, I am still drawn to recapture the disquieting state of alarm that those events conjured.
In any case, there I am, tracking Kid A and attempting to match up in my mind the course of that fateful day as Chuck depicts it. In doing so, I'm flipping through the exhaustively complicated booklet that comes with Kid A (I'm not talking about the "hidden" booklet under the disc tray either, but rather the booklet that comes sheethed within the translucent front of the jewelbox. This website featuring the album artwork might help you follow along with this next part.
Open the booklet. The front is the front cover (featuring the crudely drawn mountains and the album title). The second two paged feature: on the left: another mountainous scene, dwarfed by an indefinable white figure that towers over little red cubes and menacing figures with big teeth and Mickey Mouse ears. On the opposite side, what looks like a drab landscape. No hugely defining characteristics to describe. Turn this page.
On the second two page, there is a flap on the left hand side that, if opened, depicts a nother mountainous landscape. Don't bother with that. On the right side, is an ambiguous design on translucent grey paper. Turn the page.
On this pairing, on the left hand side (on the translucent grey paper) is what looks like a hallway framed with stalagmites. On the right hand side is some geometric design over a crude landscape. The colors are black, grey and light brown. Turn the page.
On the right hand side of this paring, we see a group of figures (their backs to us) looking at what looks like a giant iceberg or possibly a wave. On the opposite side is just more of that same ice/wave imaery
(with a splotch of red in the lower left hand corner).
Stay with me, there's a point to all of this.
Turn the page again.
On the left hand side of the booklet, ther is an ambiguous picture of what looks like a landscape from a birds eye perspective with lots of grey and black geometric shapes. On the other side is another indefineable illustration on that same grey, translucent paper. Turn the page.
On the next pairing, on the left you have the other side of the grey, translucent page....on the RIGHT side there is a flap that opens. OPEN THAT FLAP .
Open the flap to its fullest extent. Over four colored panels, there is depicted what looks like a distressed landscape, followed by a black panel featuring liner notes
ON THE COLORED PANAL IMMEDIATELY TO THE LEFT ON THE LINER NOTES PANEL
there is a vague but discernible image of two oblong, rectangular blocks. One sports an antenae like spire from its top, while the other seemingly is hemorrhaging a swathe of fiery oranges and reds, as if it either ablaze or bleeding. To my mind, this image looks eerily similar to the Twin Towers.
Basically, I'm talking about the image to the far right here.
It's a bit small, but you should get the idea. Anyway, yes, it was late. Yes, the power of suggestion is a potent one, but indulge me and take a look at this design and tell me what you see.
The idea of syncing Kid A with 9/11 is absolutely moronic. Not only does it not fit but if you think How To Disappear Completely is about "being burned alive and jumping out of windows" you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Tom Piltoff | July 08, 2008 at 02:52 PM
I was wrong. I only see one flaw in that series of paragraphs, and realize now that I am the one that is absolutely moronic.
I'll shut up now.
Posted by: Tom Piltoff | September 27, 2008 at 07:35 PM
If you follow the link to where it shows the kid a artwork... scroll down to "Episode 15". The bear on "CNN" is saying some symbols.
Straight up, one of them is 9/11.
Holy shit.
Posted by: justin | February 10, 2009 at 08:15 PM
This is probably not true but it doesn't really matter it is still interesting. Of course, Yorke could have been aware of Iraq's displeasure with USA and predicted that they'd do something like a kind of revenge or it was simply coincidence, anyway, as I said, it's interesting.
The artwork where there's people standing with their backs to us watching ice bergs, I think that's about the global warmth that Yorke has been active with and lines in Idioteque confirms it too "ice age coming/this is really happening". The people standing there might be a resemblance of world leaders just watching global warmth happening, doing nothing.
Posted by: Fredrik | October 17, 2009 at 03:33 PM
Interesting stuff, really is. I myself suspect 9/11 was a inside job and that feeling has only got stronger by the years as more info comes out...at best it was allowed to happen. A friend said to me when we were watching this go down on TV that operation of this magnitude could only be oorganised and pulled off by CIA and Mossad, I feel so too.
Posted by: Inside Bilderberg | October 23, 2010 at 10:28 AM
I knew Radiohead were assets of the secret state from the beginning.
But actually, no. What's more interesting to note and it may be an expansion of this, is Thom Yorke's late 90's obsession with 'Michael K', a supposed author who, like a sister project, 'Luther Blissett', is most likely a collaborative project. (With Blissett, this is explicit, with K, it is tricky).
One of the more notable outcrops of K-dom came in 2000 when a long-winded series of emails circulated from 'Michael K' which, among other things, were very het up about oil adventures of America abroad. the author/character in the emails (aka the kmails) is using tantra and drugs to communicate or channel 'the gaiascript' which he says is becoming political. These crazy, cranky emails were pretty disturbing at time and pretty far out at all others (as well as being viciously and hilariously compelling).
A bootleg compilation of them came out a few years later, but my name and Thom's (amongst many other culture-heads known and obscure) were in the recipients-list for many of them.
THEY were VERY eerily prophetic of 911 and Michael K, towards the end of the sequence (at which time, the US is hung up on the recounts) is telling us that the 'gaiascript' which has been with him has moved, guided by him, to Texas.
The book is very rare as is all of the Michael K stuff and this is what makes it compelling and slightly sinister. I know TY is a big fan because I asked him about it at a signing. This is the first time this stuff has been pointed out to me but I offer that connection in the hope someboy knows a little more.
As I understand it, 'Michael K' first appeared as a print-era spectre in the early 90's and is well-known in other orbits including that of The KLF.
Posted by: Barney London | December 13, 2010 at 02:11 PM
This proves once and for all that Radiohead was behind 9/11.
Posted by: Rich Tweeter | December 15, 2010 at 02:39 AM
Fredrik wrote:
'Of course, Yorke could have been aware of Iraq's displeasure with USA and predicted that they'd do something like a kind of revenge'
This has to be the most moronic thing I've read on the internet in 5 years.
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. Saudi Arabia had EVERYTHING to do with 9/11.
Posted by: DmitriNoi | December 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM
This has got to be the most retarded excuse for a conspiracy theory I've ever encountered. And what's up with editing people's posts? If people want to dis you, well hell, you put your shit up publicly, so you asked for it. Deleting what people post and then replacing those posts with your own lies, with the intent that anyone reading it should think that those lies were the original post... that's just weak. Ok have a nice day.
Posted by: Elias | December 19, 2010 at 06:19 PM
Hmmm. Can't say I know exactly what you're talking about. For a start, this post is about five years old. Secondly, it's not my theory, it's Chuck Klosterman's. Thirdly, I haven't deleted any comments, let alone replaced them with any "lies." You'll have to elaborate.
Posted by: Alex in NYC | December 19, 2010 at 09:09 PM
Secrets and lies!
Posted by: Jo | December 20, 2010 at 10:08 PM
I think you can consider a theory like this without having any interest in the "truth" of it. The thing about great art is that it is applicable to many, many people on a personal level and can be applied to individual situations without being in any way connected to them. It's why listening to an album, reading a novel or poem, or looking at a painting can be interesting again and again. Maybe Kid A was written for 9-11 just like it was written for me or for the millions of other people who relate to the music on a personal/emotional level. It can help illuminate an event and aid in the human process of synthesizing a traumatic experience. It doesn't have to be a campy hoax, if you think about it all genius works persist and help us understand the world.
Posted by: Claret | December 27, 2010 at 12:29 AM
The problem with that, Claret, is that simply 'feeling' something doesn't make it worthy of consideration. You have to back it up with what exactly about the piece actually gives that interpretation. I mean, bloody hell, I could feel that the Birdie Song is a personal account of the loss of my goldfish faithfully documented in musical form, but unless I can back that up with relevant evidence from the work, it's just another stupid idea.
Case in point, this silly theory. It shows a complete misunderstanding of lyrics ("It has lyrics about Ground Zero ("vultures circle the dead") - no clear link), concepts ("How to Disappear Completely...This is a song about being burned alive and jumping out of windows" - picks on one line and forms a wildly inaccurate intepretation), and any information and ideas put forward by band members. And let's not forget the guided tour of the album artwork that leads to a vaguely oblong shape that is suddenly the twin towers being bombed.
It's all very well to say that a genius piece can mean many things to many people at different times, but even the ambiguous piece still has to offer some evidence for an interpretation. You can't just make stuff up with scant support and call it an interesting theory, because it's not. It's misguided. This whole thing smacks of someone who came up with the idea and concluded without even properly thinking about or listening to the album, then went through afterwards picking out quotes they thought sort of matched it out of context (though even here they struggle). It's just annoying. Diverse opinion is great, but there's such a thing as bad opinion.
Posted by: Adam | December 28, 2010 at 11:49 AM
To be fair, the theory that Pink Floyd's DARK SIDE OF THE MOON synching up with the visual proceedings of "The Wizard of Oz" is no less silly, and that's still an intriguing concept. Lighten up, Adam.
Posted by: Alex in NYC | December 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Wow this was pulled straight out of somebody's butt. Grasping at straws for conspiracy theories, like most do when discussing 9/11. It was a horrible tragedy, but one NO ONE could have predicted it. If they had, the twin towers would still be standing and the terrorists would have been imprisoned and/or executed.
Anyway, this band is British. Even if the government had intentionally allowed it to slip under their radar, why would these guys be involved in any way.
Posted by: nakeeya | January 27, 2011 at 06:05 AM
Any believers of this are retarded. Next, you're gonna say that Taylor Swift's "Love Story" is a foretelling of the coming of the Antichrist. You people need to stop sharing one brain cell between you, and learn to be less fucking ignorant. For those of you that will waste time arguing with me, don't bother. Your world is "ending" on December 21, 2012. So be prepared.
Posted by: Jason | February 16, 2011 at 06:06 PM
Shit...listen to love story backwards...holy christ its scary! Bloody ducking antichrist shit, I tell you! No, just kidding. I agree^^
Posted by: Jilly | February 17, 2011 at 12:41 AM
^^Submitted by an avowed Pokemon freak. Hey, thanks for all the rude posts, kids.
Posted by: Alex in NYC | February 17, 2011 at 07:34 AM
Maybe those who plotted 9/11 were Radiohead fans! That seems far more logical than Thom Yorke predicting the future or him and his band being in on the event. That is to say if there is any actual conclusive substance to these accusations.
Posted by: dan | February 17, 2011 at 03:28 PM
True lies
Posted by: ana | March 04, 2011 at 03:00 AM
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/09/11/the-texas-sharpshooter-fallacy/
Read this ^^^. Do it now.
Posted by: Kieselguhr Kid | March 06, 2011 at 03:15 PM
one of the pieces of artwork that radiohead's visual artist Stanley Donwood uses in Kid A is called "Trade Center" and can be seen here:
http://www.slowlydownward.com/kida5.html
Posted by: dmt4 | March 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Oh wow. You people have really lost it after 9/11 haven't you?
Posted by: Paranoid Android | April 16, 2011 at 04:18 AM
Its a long held travellor beleif that folk of "cafte" eye have 2nd site whether the know or like it or not. Just a thunk! SNAFU
Posted by: Jesus H Abdullah-Solomon | May 23, 2011 at 04:32 PM
I actually put Kid A in my discman (remember, the first iPod was still a month away on 9/11/2001) because the album was the only thing that captured the strangeness of the day for me. Weird.
Posted by: Dan | September 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM
I've listened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon synced with the Wizard of Oz. I think it's just one of those eery coincidences that only could happen to a prog rock band.
HOWEVER, there is no doubt in my mind that Pink Floyd intentionally synced their 1971 song "Echoes" to the last 23-min. segment of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. You have to see it for yourself to see how awesome it matches to the film.
There's also at least somehwat of an evidence for a possible synchronization. Roger Waters professed publicly of his regret to not record the score of the movie, which Kubrick had asked him to. Waters, seeing the success of the movie, perhaps arranged this sync for closure.
Posted by: adam j. | September 15, 2011 at 03:45 AM
Have you ever seen the episode of The Simpsons where they go to New York and Homer parks right there at the Twin Towers and gets a car boot put on the car?
He has to wait for the car boot key guy to show up "sometime before 5." Homer looks at his watch, says "It's 9:11. I've gotta go bad." And then he runs into Tower 1, all the way up to the top floor, the rest room is out of order, and he has to run to the top of Tower Two.
No kidding, he said 'It's 9:11." What are the odds of that????
Posted by: Anna who watches too much TV | November 01, 2011 at 09:10 PM
Just read Stephen King's book 11-22-63 very enlightening ideas about all conspiracy theories EVER! It is called Harmonies....so yes I think music could be at the root of all evil...which spelled backward is Live. Which takes us full circle back to the books title: Killing Yourself to LIVE! Bwhahaha ;)
Posted by: Brynn | December 05, 2011 at 01:24 PM
Flyer handed out for the Belgian Radiohead shows on mo 11 SEP and TU 12 SEP 2000. It's very spooky that the artwork depicts people falling from high towers. Much more weirdness was to come in the artwork of their summer 2001 release AMNESIAC.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/flyer%20I%20was%20handed%20for%20the%20Belgian%20Radiohead%20show/valis88/radiohead2000-1.jpg
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
we are not scaremongering this is really happening--while you were asleep
(under the graphic)
RADIOHEAD
under a big top
trickledown compressor
unsurpassed novelties
giant cogs turn
well adjusted
the ice age is coming
rubber bullets
last remaining
polar bears
a genuine freakshow
150.000 volts of electricity
mobiles chirping
cracks appearing beneath the veneer
abbatoir noises
weak reception
our name is legion
carrots & sticks
packt up like sardines in a crush tin box
(very small print)
SHELLSHOCK, PARALYSIS, SLEEPWALKING, any Child who is Backward in Study and BAD HABITS of any kind PERMANENTLY REMOVED, Etc.
For a due appreciation of the above INCOMPREHENSIBLE MUSICAL COMBINATION much and a little more is depending on the Imagination of the Audience.
FEAR STALKS THE LAND!
I am awake at 4AM to the terrifying undeniable truth that there is nothing I can do to stop the monster
This flyer is one year in advance, having not only the 911 date but also the second day bloody tuesday.
According to the flyer the capacity for the concert was 10000, which was the estimated deathtoll on the day itself before it turned out that loads of people hadn't arrived at work in the towers yet, or were warned.
There's an interview with Radiohead's Thom Yorke in may 2001 in the NME mag in which he states that if he would tell what he knew he'd be done in by MI5.
http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/7676
Posted by: WAKE UP SHEEPLE | April 30, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Holy shit. One of the pictures from the Kid A artwork is actually titled "Trade Center." WTF
Posted by: Daniel | June 07, 2012 at 04:53 PM
Wow, Klosterman sure is fucking stupid. That silly hipster will spout any bullshit to try to appeal to his stoned fanbase, yeah?
Posted by: Dicks Everywhere | July 07, 2012 at 08:17 AM
actually you're wrong. kid a does predict 9/11
pink floyd-animals does
zeppelin 4 does
You can make a conspiracy that backstreet boys discography predicts 9/11. you clearly don't know radiohead well enough and to think how to disappear completely is about being burned alive and jumping out windows then you, sir, are a complete fucking idiot
Posted by: mike | September 20, 2012 at 11:14 PM
Mike, a few things....
1. Learn to read. It's not my theory, it's Chuck Klosterman's.
2. One prediction of an event does not exclusively preclude others from doing same.
3. Try not to be rude, as it entirely undermines any argument you're trying to make.
4. It takes a big man to leave an insulting comment without leaving a credible return e-mail address.
Posted by: Alex in NYC | September 21, 2012 at 07:51 AM
To clarify: This is not a "Conspiracy Theory". This is an interpretation of an Album as a prediction of an event of Historical precedence. Nothing More. It in no way provides any person or persons as conspirators nor does it offer an actual conspiracy.
This is also not the only interpretation of a song being predicting a possible future. See 'Beat Street' from the movie 'Beat Street'. http://majorman.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/beat-street-a-song-that-predicted-the-future/
Also see: http://www.cracked.com/article_16886_6-musicians-who-predicted-their-own-death-in-song.html
Don't say this is a silly "Conspiracy Theory"....say you think this is a silly interpretation. I personally find it interesting.
Posted by: Johnny Raines | December 02, 2012 at 03:58 AM
Something Else: I would be considered what a lot of people would derogatorily call a "Conspiracy Theorist". I do not believe the official story on 9/11 and I believe the 9/11 Commission Report to be placating bullshit for the most part. It leaves so many questions ignored/unanswered that it is ludicrous.
I have poured over many conspiracies. I have also read about many instances of "this" or "that" predicting 9/11. In my opinion this goes to a collective subconscious.
Any time there is going to be a World changing event, and I believe that 9/11 was World changing and not only Nation changing, the collective subconscious begins at some point to "realize" this. Much like a person who is dreaming will sometimes realize that they are in a dream. The "predictions" for these events will begin to come out in our different ways of communication. Art, Music, Movies, Television and Literature. I can't list all the instances of this happening, just for 9/11 but a few simple searches will show you multiple movies using the date of 9/11 and that frequency tends to increase as the years grow closer from say Back to the Future of the 80's to The Big Lebowski. Then as it gets even closer, say just three years before with Armageddon: http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17368. And if you really want the most interesting parallel you need to check the plot for the pilot of the X-files spin-off series "The Lone Gunmen". For those too lazy to google: It's about a plane taken over by remote and to be crashed into the World Trade Center.
Now for those who follow the official story and believe or want to believe what the current administration at the time told you: Read the plot to that episode then watch George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice all say that "No One" envisioned using planes as weapons to fly into buildings without wanting to cry Bullshit on that.
Not to mention the fact that our own strategic intel and military community had tried to push through a plan to use a commercial airline as a weopon/sacrifice to get us into the Viet Nam war before the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Enjoy your blind lives.
Posted by: Johnny Raines | December 02, 2012 at 04:19 AM
"When you cut into the past the future leaks out" - WSB.
Posted by: Andy | January 09, 2013 at 05:21 AM
If you want to experience an incredible, truly spooky prediction of 9/11, listen to Laurie Anderson's song "O SUPERMAN," recorded 20 years before the event.
Posted by: Irv | July 01, 2013 at 05:01 PM
Anyone else notice how the two mountains on the album cover are on fire amongst a bunch of other mountains? Kinda like two skyscrapers on fire amongst a bunch of other tall buildings? Eh? Eh?
Posted by: Nick | July 26, 2013 at 09:47 PM
It's tongue-in-cheek satire. He's poking fun at 9/11 conspiracy theorists, and that's why this essay is brilliant.
Posted by: Em | April 10, 2014 at 02:18 AM
I totally agree with the paranoia of this thread. I graduated in 2001. That mushroom cloud over the states really fucked with me throughout my 20s from the album art in Amnesiac. I still feel it but I know the band didnt think 911 was going to happen. So it's a sad accurate accident.
Posted by: Weston James | August 23, 2015 at 01:59 AM
Amnesiac Special edition. The one that looks like an old library book. One of The dates on the checkout list is 9/11/2000. There is a sketch drawing of the World Trade Center burning. The drawing appears very similar to the actually images of the WTC on 9/11. Remember Amnesiac was released in June 3 months prior to Septembwr 11th. I'm just throwing out some info.
Posted by: Hairy | May 03, 2016 at 01:26 AM
Wow, some really interesting synchronicities (or more?) on this page.
You have to wonder how much of this is coincidence and how much of THAT is even statistically possible?
I have always loved Radiohead's music and, for lack of a better word, I have always thought much of their music had a "profound" quality to it that I couldn't really put my finger on.
While you can read meaning into almost anything - there does appear to be something more esoteric going on.
They say some of the best music comes from contact with the "muses".
Were Radiohead/Thom tapping into the global consciousness we often hear about that can predict the future? As in the Global Consciousness project that detected changes just prior to 911 indicating a huge impending event?
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/911formal.html
I know that they have a regular artist who does all of their album artwork so is he himself more plugged into this than even the band?
The multiple references to 911 in the "9/11" format is downright weird. I don't remember seeing that format until after September 11.
There are also many videos about 911 on youtube that incorporate Kid A's music where it just seems to "fit", the National Anthem in particular.
Finally, Radiohead's music in the film "Vanilla Sky" set in NY, released in 2001, which seems to be another strange tie-in, starring Tom Cruise (Eyes Wide Shut directed by Kubrick) it all seems to tie together at a deeper occultic, esoteric level.
I suspect Radiohead has never addressed the subject so we will probably never know.
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