Kid A predicted 9/11

[The Final Track]

YOU KNOW WHAT IDIOTS SPRAY TAN THEMSELVES AS

 

ORANNNNNGE

 

Which makes them, contradictory to fire, not hot. Therefor fire can not be orange.

[The Escapist]

Emma, why are you always right?

[MrMagpie]

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"......

 

 

Shut up Kansas.

*Waits for Briggins*

[will16]

why does everyone have a thing against Kansas? :\

[the_gloaming09]

toto i don't think we're in Kansas anymore

[MrMagpie]

:laugh3:

[Cobalt]

Which makes them, contradictory to fire, not hot. Therefor fire can not be orange.

 

Subject to opinion YOU ARE POTENTIALLY WRONG!!!!!!

[Cobalt]

Emma, why are you always right?

 

'CUZ I'M TOO COOL FOR THIS FORUM :cool:

[Pseudonym]

EMMYTWIN! :heart:

[tauiwi]

I heard Thom Yorke just invented Purple fire.

[bjaiken]

This thread is still kicking?

[The Final Track]

Shut up Kansas.

 

:awesome:

 

Subject to opinion YOU ARE POTENTIALLY WRONG!!!!!!

 

:shame:

[Violet]

WTF is this shiznit? :inquisitive:

[Cobalt]

EMMYTWIN! :heart:

 

TIPSEUDONYM! :heart:

 

I heard Thom Yorke just invented Purple fire.

 

OUT OF HIS ASS!!!! LULZ GEDDIT LULZ

[tauiwi]

Classy.