The Smile are a good BAND: “Cutouts” analysis
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watching this review and pretending whenever you say "the smile" you're talking about smiling. like just normal smiling. i like that thought.
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@@professorskyebut normal :)
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"How lucky we are to have these artists who are not just cashing checks and waiting to do reunion tours" is exactly how I feel about these guys. I have the utmost respect for their creativity and work ethic. We are truly lucky to be here to experience these guys in real-time.
I would not want to live in a world without them.
On top of releasing a new album Thom is out and about on a solo worldwide tour too, I’ll be seeing him in Kyoto next month. Crazy work ethic.
I also feel super grateful for being alive and being able to listen to the smile. Because my favorite band from the last 10 years have been Radiohead, and it's so great to be part of a time where Tommy and Johnny are still blowing my mind with their crazy sounds. And thanks a lot professor for caring so much for the music. Your reviews always make my days better.
Foreign Spies isn’t really a Thom song, when Jonny Greenwood did Night of the Proms the finale was basically this song. The change is the instrumentation and the vocals obviously. I think Thom mentioned that this project exists because Johnny wanted to work faster, than it was possible within Radiohead.
Faster Jonny!
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That makes so much sense 😶
I would have loved to leave many more likes here than I was able to. Great work there, Prof!
I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES WHAT IS THIS
THE PUPPETS PLEASE
Itd be cool to hear your perspective on radiohead as someone who was young at the time of their releases
It's not a b-sides album. They left these off Wall of Eyes, because they didn't fit with that group of songs, not because they were "leftovers." They even reconvened after the Wall of Eyes sessions to finish many of these songs (according to a recent Skinner interview). "Cutouts" is from the lyrics of Zero Sum, and also seems to apply to Foreign Spies. A "cutout" is "an agent who functions as an intermediary between a spymaster and other subagents." Great review, though!
wow.
I’m sure it’s also somewhat tongue in cheek of them knowing people will think they’re…cut out songs
Multivalency.
i really enjoyed this review and all your different train of thoughts!
If I didnt know better, Id say all the stuff radiohead/the smile do is coincidental however after listening to the Podcast Disect which went over In Rainbows, I learned that everything they do is intentional but they still leave room for the audience to enjoy at their own pace.... so with that being said, as you go through all your points, I think there is some truth in everything you are saying!
In regards to your tiptoe intro and where it comes from.... It also sounded familiar to me and I think its because they also used in the beginning of their Tiny Desk Concert. But then yeah... where did that come from i suppose is your question
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This album is such a masterpiece. Loved hearing your thoughts.
i would kill to own that jonny puppet
also AVAA, i love you
Tiptoe really reminded me of Nicholas Britell's Agape from If Beale Street Could Talk! It's those stepping, climbing strings. Though, Tiptoe is a bit more wandering and warmly dissonant (which is something Jonny always does incredibly well). Awesome review and a great listen as always!
The winds in Skrting On The Surface reminded me of Agape as well. I think that style of arrangement has become really impactful to recent music
Tiptoe reminds of Scott Walker... Maybe Plastic Palace People or Boy Child. Beautiful
Nailed it! Boy Child is one of the most beautiful songs of all time IMO.
The think the term for singing the same melody as an instrument plays it is called Doubling or Unison. I noticed that right away in Tiptoes as well. King Gizzard does this A LOT.
Foreign spies is Ash Ra Temple
And prof! It was a Johnny track from the night at the proms with Thom on it
this video made my love for this album feel validated AVAA
AVAA wow I just checked out the album after watching this, it’s great!! Haven’t listened to much of The Smile but I will def check out more
Im glad you love your life prof! Wish I could say the same right now. The smile are certainly helping though.
Page and Plant come to mind as two bandmates who made something on the side (granted WAY later in their careers, but there are not many of these types of examples!). With regards to the sound, there are a few times on the record where Skinner catches some John Bonham vibes, like on No Words. So damn good. AVAA
AVAA The same thing happened to me when I first listened to Tiptoe!! But I thought it was coming from a film that Jonny scored.. for some reason I keep thinking it’s from There Will be Blood, but I listened to the soundtrack and couldn’t find anything. I might have to watch the film again because I’m certain that’s where it’s from!
Update: The scene on There will be blood after Paul comes to Daniel to tell him about oil at his family’s ranch has very similar notes but they’re played in a higher key.
AVAA! I believe the reggae influences are from Jonny primarily because he talks about the genre a good bit in interviews going long back. You can also hear some of it on the first The Smile album. Particularly the track "The Smoke," the ominous lyrics of which I think are also meant as an entendre on marijuana use, given its relevance to reggae culture.
He also curated the "Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller" album.
by minute 8 i knew i had to watch the whole thing
Awesome Video As Always. Curious about your thoughts on Thom's singing on Eyes and Mouth. BTW.. you draw Radiohead members better than The Smile members. 😅
not to act like a know-it-all but Foreign Spies is one of Jonny's songs. It can be found as Horror vacui: K16 (granular stretch).
The Flaming Lips have a dorky and wonderful cover of What a Wonderful World. The guitar solo is tear inducing
Those are real good characterizations !
nice review!
29:40 I think it's: Window's 9 to 5 as in 'the window of availability is 9 to 5' A typical work week time frame shift.
In a recent Dutch interview, Jonny specifically talked about how they were watching the Windows 95 unveiling video with Gates and Ballmer "dancing around like savages" during the Windows 95 unveiling while they were recording the song.
Think it reads both ways
9-5 cubicle mind rot
Windows 95 talks to our mechanised digitised world and the big overlords like Gates etc
And Thom’s paranoid mind
38:38 Radiohead - Backdrifts (Honeymoon is Over)
They goofed a bit by calling it Cutouts imo. Or maybe they really don't give a shit anymore and just do whatever they want lol. But yeah it makes it sound like a B-sides album when it really isn't. It's totally normal for Thom and Jonny to have a million unfinished songs floating around, every album they've ever made since Pablo Honey or at least The Bends probably more or less started in part from pre-existing unfinished material. By that logic everything from OKC onward would have been at least in part a B-sides album.
Cutouts is like a spy term. They’re being cheeky. I can appreciate them not being too serious, a barrier of entry for new Radiohead listeners sometimes imo
AV AA So much more than just a review. I enjoyed and learned from you analysis.
yo happy Sunday prof
I'm 50. Read The Room is my favorite song from the entire Smile/Radiohead catalogue. Instant Psalm might just be the #2 spot.
AVAA. The Creatures, formed by Budgie and Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, are a good example of a successful duo project
I’m not sure if the joke just went over my head buuuuuut Colour is spelled with a ‘U’ in British english. The same spelling is used in Canada. AVAA
AVAA. Watched the premier instead of working on my thesis 🤣. This one is great.
Nice video
Avaa! You gonna talk about the new Godspeed album? I think it would be interesting hearing your perspective on something without lyrics yet still is a pretty large statement.
Agreed!
was anybody else bored and disappointed by it? I loved the last couple albums, but this one felt like it was buried under statement without enough musical heft to make it work.
@@pantalaemon it seems like there are some long time Godspeed fans who are a bit disappointed which I can understand, but for me, as a new listener, I found it to be pretty incredible.
@@ellby4533 Oh, in that case im super happy for you, they are an epochal band and even their most underwhelming output has enormous power compared to basically any other drone/postrock band imo. we are blessed to have a band that so eloquently manages to put sound to the despair and resilience of the crises of our time. they are the only band that can express the horror of genocide and climate change in a way that feels commensurate to the scale of the catastrophe imo. Enjoy your journey with them!
Exuberance is beauty. AVAA.
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Bro really knows how to yap !
AVAA! Anyways, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEE review Love the (Ominous) World by Blu & Exile :)
I'm stocked that these guys brough my attention to Tom Skinner. What a phenomenal musician. Also it is only Americans that spell colours 'colors'.
These days, since touring is so important, it puts a lot of pressure on bands and compels being together in oftentimes trying circumstances. The Beatles would have broke up well before Abbey Road if they were compelled to tour like they would be now.
I saw a great point that bands didn’t go away - they just got separated.
Kanye is a band, Beyoncé is a band, beabadoobee is a band, etc.
the focus is on the leader such to a point that they represent the band as an individual or even (with Beyoncé, for example) the bands themselves are unformed groups of session musicians.
Think John Lennon & the plastic Ono band being a solo band and the smile counting as a duo to you
kendrick Lamar is a band, clairo is a band, Geordie greep is a band, jonah yano is a band
love this idea, ACAA
Shout out to Fairport NY!
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what did you put in your coffee this am? lol Great LP love it!
good puppets. i like the album
i also hope we get another smile album before another radiohead album
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I liked it
Just let it be known that Phil is one the greatest drummers of all time. Just a pure master.
Also, these Smile albums are incredible
Laughed out loud (literally) at "Not you Oasis, you don't count". LOLZ
Covid and the various timing of Radiohead bandmembers' individual projects are what precipitated the formation of The Smile.
I turn 50 this year so an old head that watches your videos. 😅
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AVAA - what do you think of this, as far as Radiohead takes go?
Re: Thom Yorke's cold war PTSD, I think you're right, but I also think the concrete fear of nuclear war has translated into a more general fear of any global system that keeps growing uncontrollably towards its own destruction. You know, like the one we're living in today. Where everything seems connected, nothing seems to be able to stop the entropy of the whole thing, and nobody can be trusted to have real integrity because of that. (Notably: Thom has been a climate activist on the side since forever.) IMO Thom's obsession with spycraft makes sense if you see how it's combined with his general awareness that (in a world where there is no integrity because the system pervades everything and everyone) he himself is always the doer as much as the victim, the subject as much as the object of whatever dodginess he's diagnosing in society.
This style of (self-)critique is best understood as Pynchonian imo; it comes out of this tension between paranoia (everything's connected) and scepticism (nothing is certain, your own perception can't be trusted). (Coincidentally -- or rather not! -- Radiohead's mailing list is called W.A.S.T.E.) Hence, everyone's the spy, everyone's being spied on. This maps neatly onto a bunch of themes that pervade much of Radiohead's work, all of which are so global and pervade the individual's relationship with herself to such a degree that you can't see yourself as separate from them: our relationship to media, rampant capitalism, government surveillance, climate catastrophe, etc.
do you still offer to review albums your patreons recommend you?
Bodies laughing video with the zombie suits on a desert island is fitting. Reminds me of the Covid parties the government threw while we let our old and sick die alone during lockdown
never thought id wish for Radiohead to not get back together cause I love the smile
Tom Skinner went from being a neat change of pace in their sound to easily being my favorite part of The Smile albums. His drums are infections and nasty in the best way. Hope that influence touches Radiohead whenever they come back.
ok it's been a month since it dropped, so this is my last time asking you to please review Phiik & Lungs' Carrot Season, I think you'll have interesting things to say about their rapping styles. (I will still ask when the end of the year comes)
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5 minute warning
and i think to myself, what a beautiful world
homie loves songs and forgets the most memorable lyrics
i do the same shit
AVAA. Keep the puppets.
I greatly appreciate their continued musical contributions, but the reluctance on Yorke and Greenwood's part to acknowledge the ongoing horror in Gaza, and their hostility towards BDS, makes listening to the Smile a double-edged sword for me. It's difficult to listen to their music without thinking about it, especially right now.
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Shout out for Tom Skinner
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AVAA Bodies Laughing was on a chalkboard of unfinished songs all the way back during the in rainbows sessions
Free Palestine
I hate to be this guy (oh my God maybe I AM this guy), but it was Christopher Walken, not Will Ferrell.
Zero Sum
Red Hots much?!
AVAA, heading on my radio til i smile
cutouts is like an odd mutemath album, there's a couple of exceptional songs imo, but the rest is lacking (for me)
Try listening to it 10 more times...
@@louiesimon5292 hmm, challenge maybe accepted
You should draw more cartoons AVAA
"Creative dissonance"
AVAA! please check out the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor!!!!! It’s so amazing, and if you do make sure to read the Bandcamp description.
Cedric and Omar leaving ATDI to start The Mars Volta is an example another duo that left to start seperate band.
If only we could not inject political views into a musical comprehension/breakdown
this video is 55 minutes and 9 seconds long
"Hip-hop is the most important artistic movement in human history" - Professor Skye
you know there's a Rome Streetz and Daringer album out right now?
Patience! Can't record three videos at once. :)
@@professorskyecool, just glad it's coming. I personally only watch your hip-hop reviews. greatest artistic movement and all
It's just the most uncopable boring stuff of already not super interesting Radiohead
"Despite my positivity, I'm fascinated by negative narratives," he began. This guy's pretentiousness is outlandish.
And that's a bad thing?
Every once in a while I forget how much I dislike this guy’s professorial affectations.. then I make it about 20 seconds into a video and bounce.
bro why the fuck are you leaving a comment then. be nice
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