Radiohead - Amnesiac

Label: Capitol Records
Catalog#: CDP 7243 5 32764 2 3
Format: CD, Album
Country:US
Released:05 Jun 2001
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Leftfield, Experimental
Credits: Artwork By [Pictures Drawn By] - Tchocky
Artwork By [Pictures Drawn By], Artwork By [Designed By] - Stanley Donwood
Engineer [Assistant] - Gerard Navarro (tracks: 1 to 10) , Graeme Stewart (tracks: 1 to 10)
Mastered By - Bob Ludwig
Producer, Engineer - Nigel Godrich
Producer, Written-By - Radiohead
Notes:These recordings were made on location at the same time as Kid A.

The orchestras for tracks 2 and 8 were recorded at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire.

℗ 2001 The Copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Limited. © 2001 EMI Records Limited. Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc. Printed In U.S.A.

All tracks published by Warner Chappell Music Publishing Limited.

Barcode: 7 2435-32764-2 3

"They all became part of the river. It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. The river flowed on towards to it's goal. Siddartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all the goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water changed to vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew. But the yearning voice had altered. It still echoed sorrowfully, searchingly but other voices accompanied it, voices of pleasure and sorrow, good and evil voices, laughing and lamenting voices, hundreds of voices, thousands of voices............."
Siddartha
Herman Hesse
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Tracklisting:

1   Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box (4:00)
2   Pyramid Song (4:48)
    Arranged By [Orchestra] - Jonny Greenwood
  Conductor - John Lubbock
  Orchestra - Orchestra Of St. Johns, The
3   Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors (4:07)
4   You And Whose Army? (3:11)
5   I Might Be Wrong (4:53)
6   Knives Out (4:14)
7   Morning Bell/Amnesiac (3:14)
8   Dollars & Cents (4:51)
    Arranged By [Orchestra] - Jonny Greenwood
  Conductor - John Lubbock
  Orchestra - Orchestra Of St. Johns, The
9   Hunting Bears (2:01)
10   Like Spinning Plates (3:57)
11   Life In A Glasshouse (4:34)
    Clarinet - Jimmy Hastings
  Double Bass - Paul Bridge
  Drums - Adrian Macintosh
  Engineer - Dan Grech-Marguerat
  Trombone - Pete Strange
  Trumpet, Conductor [Bandleader] - Humphrey Lyttelton
User Reviews:
Mr-Self-Destruct, May 18, 2004

Radiohead came in for a lot of criticism when they went to an electronic sound for Kid A and Amnesiac(which were recorded at the same time)but I find it an improvement.
This is a mix of electronic stuff and more guitar-based songs.
Favourites include:
Pyramid Song- a dark,piano-driven track backed by rising strings and Thoms melancholic vocals.
Spinning Plates- the highlight.A swelling electronic riff is joined by Thoms distorted vocals and some bass and guitar.Eerie.
Life in a Glasshouse- a pretty straightforward piano and guitar song apart from a backing of trumpets and other jazz instruments.

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