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+ Fri, February 25

13. Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

It was July of 1997 when I heard Radiohead’s Ok Computer for the first time.  How on earth did I, a seventh grader, nab one of the best albums ever produced the month it came out?  I really don’t know.  Ask Mark Tuttle, he told me to buy it that one day we were at the old Tower Records downtown.

I didn’t really know the band at the time so I didn’t really have too much of a drive to listen to it, honestly.  The first time I did though was quite the experience.

It was one of those dull afternoons you can have in the summer when you’re left with too much time on your hands.  No one was terribly up for doing much so, being bored, I rented a movie.  That movie, as it turned out, was 1993’s Fire In The Sky, some alien abduction “true-story” that I had wanted to see years earlier.

I remember sitting there listening to Subterranean Homesick Alien when that scene where the narrator wakes up the ship came out.  Him floating down the hall, covered in alien juice as those lofty guitars floated here and there.  His terror along with the disorientation in that song.  Lost, foreign, ethereal.  Listening to it today walking back from work, I could steal feel that organic claminess just as clearly as I could 8 years ago.

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1 → Eric  –  (Mar  3 2005, 12:34 PM)

so much for a song a day…






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