I love their music, love their lyrics, love the ambience they make in all songs! Hard sell again! www.myspace.com/buddhistson Maybe they would make you shed tears.
Transport, motorways and tramlines Starting and then stopping Taking off and landing The emptiest of feelings Disappointed people clinging on to bottles And when it comes it's so so disappointing
Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing Wings twitch, legs are going Don't get sentimental It always ends up drivel
One day I'm going to grow wings A chemical reaction Hysterical and useless Hysterical and ...
Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around
Let down again Let down again Let down again
You know, you know where you are with You know where you are with Floor collapsing Floating, bouncing back And one day.... I am going to grow wings A chemical reaction Hysterical and useless Hysterical and...
Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around
It's that feeling when you're just let the fuck down, cause the wave you've been riding just crashed shore and you don't really know what to do, so you're just "hanging around". Who cares what happens next. Maybe some day you'll grow new wings and get over it but that's "some day". Right now you're just crushed, and like the bug in the ground People notice your pain but just pass you by. Maybe that's a crack on western society. It reminds me of a quote by oscar wilde. He said, "a little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." I know how he feels. It's hard to be sincere these days because no one knows how to react to it. caring is creepy these days. People get freaked out by sincerity.
2007年UNCUT杂志2月刊：Keane的主唱Tom讲述Radiohead的专辑OK Computer对他的影响 "It was like a call to Arms..." Keane singer Tom Chaplin on how OK Computer changed his life
When it came out, I was just leaving school. I went off to South Africa for about six months. Richard, our Drummer, had lent me a tape of it. All I had was this little tape player with one tape: OK Computer. I don't think it was even in stereo.
We spent our whole time getting stoned and drinking, and I remember sitting underneath the stars, completely out of my head, while Ok Computer came drifting into my consciousnesss like a call to arms. The music was just so ambitious.
Because I didn't have the CD inlay card with the lyrics, I did a lot of imagining what the words were.. His voice is often quite low in the mix, and there's the classic Thom Yorke slurring-everything-together.
Gradually the lyrics became more and more apparent. They said a lot to me about the world I was living in. With No Surprises, you've got that very grim, suicide-inducing banality of British Surburbia. Then on the flipside you've got Paranoid Android which was about Yuppies and posh bars.
Let down is probably my favourite song ever. It's so bittersweet, and musically so beautiful and shimmering, but the sentiment is that eventually everyone will let you down. I'm sure being let down and hanging around is something plenty of bands experience.
Bands are always attempting to achieve one level higher - you're never quite satisfied with where you are, so inevitably there's always the sense of being slightly let down, a dissatisfaction with standing still. that song really goes to the heart of the matter. I love the image of people "clinging onto bottles".
The idea that people seek solace in a drink, that flawed route of escapism - I guess for me it's quite an appropriate image. OK Computer doesn't really feel so much political as a record about the various areas of society that Thom had come into contact with on his travels.
And also the sense of technological revolution and innovation, because there was this whole new world being opened up by technology.
OK Computer really sums up the feeling of being alive in 1997. It's also a very appropriate record for bands to listen to. The sense of being on the move. So many different places, so many strange experiences..."
"For my generation, it's the complete album in all aspects," acknowledges Keane's singer Tom Chaplin, an 18-year-old Sussex school-leaver at the time. " Musically, lyrically, the production, the performances, even the concept is far-reaching. It's the sound of a band completely on top of their game. Every aspect of the record is brilliantly done."
"I think that a lot of his predictions on that record have come true to a certain degree, " reckons Tom Chaplin. "Most people were just beginning to get their first mobile phones around that time, and have a computer at home, and the internet was taking off. There was a huge world of global communication and technology that had never been explored before. And while that was exciting, for a lot of people it was also very scary. You had this idea that, come 2000, all the computers were going to break and it was going to set off nuclear bombs in the power stations."
