{"id":142,"date":"2019-12-19T23:59:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=142"},"modified":"2020-04-25T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:23:27","slug":"daydreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/daydreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDaydreaming\u201d \u2013 Radiohead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Radiohead - Daydreaming\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TTAU7lLDZYU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Radiohead was the most important band in the world to me between the ages of 13 and 25 or so. No other music can ever do to me what Radiohead did then, when my wiring was at its most fragile. Their mark is indelible, not only as shepherds of my musical taste, but as the emotional language my brain adopted to survive my teenage years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a weird thing to be a brooding, introverted kid, find the band whose music speaks to you&nbsp;in the most profoundly personal way, and then learn they\u2019re the favorite band of an entire generation of introverted kids just like you. In retrospect, learning this was really validating for me \u2013 at a time when I felt disconnected from people, I understood I wasn\u2019t alone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am very much not a teenager anymore. <em>OK Computer<\/em> and <em>Kid A<\/em> \u2013 the best albums of the \u201890s AND the \u201800s respectively, if you trust Pitchfork on such matters (and I certainly did at the time) \u2013 will soon both be over 20 years old. So, in the 2010s, what does Radiohead mean? What does the most important band in the world to a generation of sad teens do when those sad teens don\u2019t exist anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <em>A Moon Shaped Pool<\/em>, their ninth LP, they found a surprisingly simple answer: age. Expose the toll the years have taken. You can\u2019t resonate with your audience at the same extremes you did two decades ago, but there\u2019s a different kind of power in showing where we\u2019ve all arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This unflinching focus on time is central in the video for \u201cDaydreaming\u201d (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which I suppose is one of the perks of being beloved by arty types). A grizzled Thom Yorke walks in and out of doors, over and over, through seemingly disconnected environments: homes, parking garages, stairwells, a hospital, a beach. People flash by in the background, visible too briefly to leave more than a fleeting impression of what they\u2019re doing. Finally, Yorke scales a snowy hill and climbs into a small cave. His voice, backwards and distorted, repeats the phrase \u201chalf of my life,\u201d reflecting the duration of his recently-collapsed marriage with the mother of his two children. The effect of the music and visuals together is powerful, compressing the expanse of 23 years into 23 doors with barely a moment spent between each.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve seen Radiohead live eight times. The first was shortly before my eleventh birthday, when they were R.E.M.\u2019s opener and I had no idea who they were. The eighth was last year. The journey between the first and last was unquantifiably immense, impossible to explain in words. Radiohead opened the most recent show with \u201cDaydreaming,\u201d and it was an amazing night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead was the most important band in the world to me between the ages of 13 and 25 or so. 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