A Poetic Inquiry into The Smile: "A Light for Attracting Attention" Review

23:54 If you want to skip the poetry part...
What do Ted Hughes and T.S. Elliot have to do with this Radiohead trio project? A lot, it turns out.
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“Reading a book with a pen is in my top 5 favorite activities” might be the nerdiest line ever said. I love it!

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i'm obsessed with a moon shaped pool... that record gets better the more you listen to it

[@Princeps32]

I definitely took that first song different, the intensity of “please” and the overwhelming synth buildup made it feel more like pleading against inevitable decay instead of a hopeful “we’re all the same brother”.

[@JoshBurcham104]

Free in the knowledge is one of my favorite songs this year, really happy with this album as a whole it's a really nice addition to the universe

[@xendlies]

Huh, I was at they're show a couple days ago and before they start playing music they play a recording on "The Smile" by William Blake as read by Cillian Murphy. Thought they got the name from that poem.

[@chrislaurentmusic]

Very refreshing to find someone not only talking about the album, but also focusing particularly on the poetry aspect and tugging on the connective tissue throughout this project. I really appreciate your insight. Thank you

[@smokyblue17]

Hurt my feelings a bit when you talked about Free in The Knowledge. That's by far my favorite song. Reminds me a bit of How to Disappear Completely.

[@stevebrougham3930]

Great review, Ted Hughes btw was the poet laureate of England (kind of a big deal) and wrote also a lot of children’s poetry, which led to a vet famous work entitled “The Iron Man” which was made into a film as well as influencing, of all bands, Black Sabbath, on their song “Iron Man” which is on their classic album “Paranoid” from 1970.

[@braelen9]

Loved this video and the appeal to poetry. I think poetry has a tendency of repelling people because it can be over academia'ed, and since that's where we get most of our exposure to it early on, it has the tendency to remind you of homework. I've dived into classical literature recently and it's a treasure trove of experience, it's so much more enjoyable when you don't have to write a paper on it. Getting out of the "the curtains were blue, thus sad" mentality is what has made poetry fun. Cool analysis of The Smile!

[@tsfolk4416]

The crow on the finger. Lol, my man.

[@reaganwiles_art]

Ted Hughes was the poet laureate of England until he died a few years ago. I should say that Hughes wrote the preface to the recentest edition of Plath's Collected Poems.

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being a 30 something academic Radiohead fan and also a huge hip-hop enthusiast kanye fan finding professor Skye makes me feel more represented, awesome beautiful poetic review! Thanks!

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I loved the poetry part thank you skye

[@kidamnesiac1724]

I’m completely in love with this album. In every way. The more I listen, the more I love it

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[@jameshannagan4256]

I agtee about KOL but it is awesome from the basement and that tour was some of their best live shows.

[@sydney3363]

Very excited to watch the review, saw the smile in london back in march and it was fantastic and ive really enjoyed my listens to this album

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Great video I am going to go through your back catalog and hopefully there will be Radiohead reviews.

[@Torthrodhel]

I really love We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings. It's cliché. So is the situation it's describing. It fits so perfectly. It's less hackneyed than it is just straightforward. As someone struggling to move house and worrying about the relative danger coming back as my floor falls out from beneath me and demands I find another (so-to-speak), it really speaks to me. I guess cliché just doesn't bother me very much. The sheer feeling of something often overwhelms what is, honestly, only a slight bother on its own merit. I've heard it before lots? Eh, so I've heard it before lots. So what? What does it say here, what does it add to this thing? Y'know.