All I Need - Radiohead
May 22nd 2008 16:27
In Rainbows by Radiohead
Xylophone, with its immaculate and naive sound, has always been a favorite adornment for the British alternative rock band Radiohead. However, it has rarely ever sounded this dramatic, this heart-tugging as it does in All I Need. Elevating the listener to a neglected, barren universe in need of affection, the song in its entirety is a fiesta full of engulfing dreams. It is the next generation Creep with a better ambiance and a music video to ponder on.
Radiohead made their debut with Creep which opened the doors of international stardom for the band. Tom Yorke's desperation-filled falsettos merged into the song's inferiority complex perfectly. Bands such as Coldplay and Muse were soon to follow the same musical path which turned out to be quite fruitful. Ever since 1993, the year Creep became a worldwide hit, Radiohead has increased their fame and influence with many more breakthrough songs such as the guitary Paranoid Android, the sour No Surprises, the Clueless-featured Fake Plastic Trees and less mainstream tracks such as Subterranean Homesick Alien, How To Disappear Completely, Exit Music (for a Film) etc.
Male falsetto's superficial sound (it is the very same sound when a guy uses to comically impersonate the female sound) is easy to reflect disturbance. Unless trained for the opera, it does not sound easy on the ears. However, now and then comes a vocalist, such as Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries or Thom Yorke, who is inventive (genius?) enough to use falsetto in their vocals to a dramatic effect.
All I Need inherits an ambient start as if drifting out in the void, approaching to the unknown. This would be a very fitting dream sequence theme until the vocals in despair make themselves heard,
"I'm the next act
Waiting in the wings
I'm an animal
Trapped in your hot car"
Waiting in the wings
I'm an animal
Trapped in your hot car"
Feeling like being suffocated during waiting times is suspense and time's worst trick on man. Eyes keep drifting to the clock or the phone, the emails are checked continuously, the lid of the mailbox is prone to abrasion and time seems to flow in the speed of tortoise which is its trademark dark humor. During those moments one wishes it went by slowly, time loves to fly away and when prayed it went faster, it ignores the plea entirely.
"I am all those days
You choose to ignore"
You choose to ignore"
Unconditional love is the idealized form of love all human beings seek. To be loved by someone regardless instead of "on condition that" is what females openly and males implicitly look and hope for. Then again, seldom does one come across such form of heavenly love and it is usually in the form of a) first love or b) unilateral love, the former due to the innocence of the heart and the latter due to idolization.
"I am a moth
who just wants to share your light"
who just wants to share your light"
Sometimes one simply wishes to be with the other party. Simply be with them in the same room, in the same place is all they ask because love has its own eyes and those are the same beholder eyes that beauty is in. Even to be left out in the "ignored days" does not effect the vision the eyes of the beholder see. Those eyes only see one thing anyway.
"I only stick with you
Because there are no others"
Because there are no others"
When love is blind and operates on the heart instead of the brain, it feels as if there is only one sun to revolve around. The rest of the world fades back in the background and what was once a shadow suddenly shines through. People and nature slowly hush in a decrescendo until there's only one voice left in the air.
"Love has four seasons" says John Gray, writer of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. According to him, the summer of love is the period when both parties are head over heels in love and only have (beholder) eyes for each other. The partner seems fresh out of one's dreams. He/she bears no wrong, can do no harm and is the epitome of perfection.
"You're all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds"
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds"
The helplessness and feeling so small across something so strong are pungently delineated throughout All I Need. With its gloom and solitary dedication, the song is all about a long, lonely summer.
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Browse videos online at Dailymotion
Browse IMEEM's Radiohead Channel
Buy In Rainbows from Amazon
Meet the artist Radiohead at Radiohead.com
Read the entire lyrics at metrolyrics
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