The vocal production on this song is incredible. He actually wrote the lyrics and then memorized how to sing them backwards. They recorded it with him singing the lyrics backward over I Will and then reversed it back. That is why the lyrics on the verse sound slurred.
@@allspice8769 Shit, yeah, it does give me vibes from the Tenet soundtrack. I wonder if that's just because of what reversing does to instrument sounds.
it’s because the song was written with the original melody, reversed, then the band learned how to play the music reversed, then reversed again. you are listening to the recorded version of most of the instruments
Thom Yorke is a genius this album with kid A is a total electro experience ...his voice is like music in the wind . Reverse is still fkn good ....amazing
@odysseysoccerO9 They recorded I Will, and they played it backwards for whatever reason. And then i think it was Johnny that came up with the idea of "Like Spinning Plates", so Thom learned all of the words to where they would sound forward if he reversed it. So they recorded the guitar, and everything else, then played it forwards, which Thom sung to backwards. so when they played it all together they then reversed it so the lyrics sounded forward and everything else sounded forward. Cool huh?
The original I Will sounds like this. The band wasn’t happy about it which is why they created Like Spinning Plates for Amnesiac. They redid I Will for Hail to the Thief.
Playing this song either forward or backward gives me a claustrophobic, deep-underwater feeling that I intensely dislike. But I've listened to the song more than once, so it can't be all bad. I find the normal (forward) version even more unsettling for some reason. Either way, it's a bit of a mind screw.
Why does everyone take Amnesiac as the B-sides of Kid A? It's an official album, and it's great. Similar tonKid A since the two albums were both made at the same time. Amnesiac is one of my top favorite albums from Radiohead, featuring songs like Pyramid Song, Knives Out, and Like Spinning Plates. Amnesiac and Kid A both had their own different versions of Morning Bell (Alternate name for version in Amnesiac is, Amnesiac).
To add to your comment, Kid A and Amnesiac were intended to be joined together as a double album, but they couldn't find a way to really compliment each other very well, so they just released them as separate albums
I did the reversion in 2003 when Hail to the Thief was released, and noticed it sounded like "I will"... Indeed Radohead has recorded it in that way --> so Thom Yorke sould have sung normally, then listened to it reversally, then reproduce what he heard to sound as it was reversed, and then reversed the record to produce Like spinning Plates we know ! Am i quite clear in my explanation ?? :p
Don't mind the comments. They wouldn't've been hearing anything had Thom not mentioned it. The bits at 0:52 and 1:21 sound like the he's singing "I will..."--and it sounds just like the Hail to the Thief song. Since Thom sang this song backwards for the recording, he would've sang exactly what we're hearing here. He probably just decided that the thing that sounds like "I will" is a nice way to start a song, so he kept that and started writing from there. Since the song I Will only has about three chords, for the most part, I think this is a good explanation for what happened. He was probably inspired only by those reversed vocal snips and not the instruments.
Disregard half of what I said. Turns out the earliest version of I Will was based on Like Spinning Plates played backwards. The version on HttT features an entirely different arrangement. That explains why this video sounds nothing like I Will--besides those vocal bits, I guess. I Will is basically just chords spawned from G sharp major and C minor played throughout. Won't hear that on this video.
+AmarilloStarshine It's the same chord progression if you listen. That's the main similarity I hear. It's similar even to the point where the progression changes at a similar time in this song to the time it should change in I Will for the baby's eyes part.
Mind blown... why did it take me so long to make the connection? It's "I Will" from Radiohead's Hail to the Thief album... dude... Also, is it just me, or would the track like this work perfectly on the original Mass Effect game?
Really, you can't hear it? it's not the exact same version, it's a version they tried recording with synth in 1999/2000 that didn't work. Just try singing I Will along to this and you'll get it
For those struggling to hear i will in this, listen to i will reversed, imo that sounds much more like like spinning plates than this sounds like i will
Does anyone know which sound they use to get the spinning plate sound effect that you hear right at the end? (Or right at the start, if you listen to the non-reversed version)
That's cause it's exactly what this is Once I read on the internet that they had recorded a first version of I Will that Thom didn't like and he was willing to redo it, so the where reversing the tape, something like that. But as the song played backwards he thought it sounded better that way. So they just added some effects and the voice and there you have spinning plates. (And they also made the other version that is the I Will we know)
Like Spinning Plates is the demo version of I Will reversed, with Thom singing new lyrics over it but backwards (hence why they sound weird when you listen to it forwards)
Person: Will you have a listen to Like Spinning Plates backwards? Me: I Will
@@chinito398 yes there is ...
@@chinito398 really? I need this for my soul
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@@TrailMix1066 I have no soul
lay me down in cloud cuckoo land..
I'm at that point where i've listened to every Radiohead song and now listening to everything again backwards.
wilfred lee same
Wait til you get to tracks slowed down by 400 or 800% . And then those...backwards. Where am i
Hahahaha
well that is step one, step two is listening to aphex twin while in a helium filled balloon while people study you. gl
I wrote them all backwards
Officially the only song I ever loved equally both directions xD
Wednesday Morning Killjoy listen to the videotape video..,it’ll then be two songs!
What about Nude?
Fuck yeah ! Try the whole album bavkwords .
There are tons of songs that are great reversed.
Staralfur
The vocal production on this song is incredible. He actually wrote the lyrics and then memorized how to sing them backwards. They recorded it with him singing the lyrics backward over I Will and then reversed it back. That is why the lyrics on the verse sound slurred.
They always sound slurred 😂
drewr729 I didn’t even know that.
i can’t believe i’m just now realizing that the lyrics are backwards too (besides the harmonies & the chorus). crazy lol
No the vocals in the song obviously aren't reversed.
edit: DAMN IT'S REALLY REVERSED
Should have been the main theme for Tenet
This actually sounds a lot like the tenet soundtrack, so much so that I would not be surprised if it was an inspiration
@@allspice8769 Shit, yeah, it does give me vibes from the Tenet soundtrack. I wonder if that's just because of what reversing does to instrument sounds.
@@HungryTacoBoy this is actually played straight forward, the song on the album is reversed so reversing it again makes it normal
It sounds like they’re making popcorn in the background
Maybe they did it and recorded it...i mean this is Radiohead,..
i won't let this happen to my children
I will
I heard it too
@@Feflori when?
Time stamp?
Is that what it says
I Will (I Won't Version)
For those who think it's I Will, it is. Like Spinning plates came from reversing I Will, which was initially recorded in the Kid A/Amnesiac sessions.
LentilsOverkill oh ok thanks that explains a lot!
Radiohead, the only band who can make a song sound great both forwards/normally and backwards.
Tool.
Boards of Canada
Stone roses
How about both in the same song?
Brian Eno
I kind of wish this version of I Will made it onto Kid A.
Maybe we’ll get it on the 20th anniversary edition
@@ghouldishanimal that's funny
honestly its better suited for amnesiac; i know many people see it as the b sides to "kid a" but amnesiac still has its own vibe
I’m confused- is Spinning Plates the product of I Will reversed or is I Will the product of Spinning plates reversed? I thought it was the former.
@@organize1979 it is the former
This actually sounds more forwards than the original.
it’s because the song was written with the original melody, reversed, then the band learned how to play the music reversed, then reversed again. you are listening to the recorded version of most of the instruments
@@darrrenmk only Thom learnt how to sing it backwards. the music was recorded exactly as you hear it here. forward.
I wonder why
White elephants, sitting ducks and cranberry sauce. But thaaaaaat's my life.
@.@
"If Sigur Ros made the next Tron soundtrack"
I almost forgot breathing the first time hearing this
Thom Yorke is a genius this album with kid A is a total electro experience ...his voice is like music in the wind . Reverse is still fkn good ....amazing
@odysseysoccerO9 They recorded I Will, and they played it backwards for whatever reason. And then i think it was Johnny that came up with the idea of "Like Spinning Plates", so Thom learned all of the words to where they would sound forward if he reversed it. So they recorded the guitar, and everything else, then played it forwards, which Thom sung to backwards. so when they played it all together they then reversed it so the lyrics sounded forward and everything else sounded forward. Cool huh?
The original I Will sounds like this. The band wasn’t happy about it which is why they created Like Spinning Plates for Amnesiac. They redid I Will for Hail to the Thief.
Thanks for explaining. I remembered there was a reason this came about.
Playing this song either forward or backward gives me a claustrophobic, deep-underwater feeling that I intensely dislike. But I've listened to the song more than once, so it can't be all bad. I find the normal (forward) version even more unsettling for some reason. Either way, it's a bit of a mind screw.
Like losing buoyancy while scuba diving.
Radiohead backwards = Sigur rós.
Daehoidar
no
Not so fast
Omg you’re right
Kind of. I've ever thought that the only comparison to Radiohead would be Sigur Rós... and viceversa.
Treat yourself and find the live version accompanied by piano. Stunning.
The "Why Us" version is wonderful, too.
If they couldn't impress me enough... I discover this shit... Radiohead will be talked about and studied for generations
Thom said of this version... "it sounded like bloody Ultravox!"
Amazing to consider the amazing live piano arrangement that came as a result of all this
Why does everyone take Amnesiac as the B-sides of Kid A? It's an official album, and it's great. Similar tonKid A since the two albums were both made at the same time. Amnesiac is one of my top favorite albums from Radiohead, featuring songs like Pyramid Song, Knives Out, and Like Spinning Plates. Amnesiac and Kid A both had their own different versions of Morning Bell (Alternate name for version in Amnesiac is, Amnesiac).
To add to your comment, Kid A and Amnesiac were intended to be joined together as a double album, but they couldn't find a way to really compliment each other very well, so they just released them as separate albums
+AlthoughNotAFollower Thom also said that How to Disappear Completely was the greatest thing they ever recorded. Hm.
+AlthoughNotAFollower Jonny said that Like Spinning Plates is his favorite song, by the way.
Yeah sorry for making assumptions everyone. xD
+DonutAssassin In my opinion Amnesiac is better!
like when i was lisening to this "i will" just kept creeping into my head
There is the soul of an Enya track in Plates Spinning Like.
Dude, you, and Radiohead, are an ingenious bastard.
I did the reversion in 2003 when Hail to the Thief was released, and noticed it sounded like "I will"...
Indeed Radohead has recorded it in that way --> so Thom Yorke sould have sung normally, then listened to it reversally, then reproduce what he heard to sound as it was reversed, and then reversed the record to produce Like spinning Plates we know ! Am i quite clear in my explanation ?? :p
Wow, this somehow sounds even better.
ah yes, my favorite song. Setalp Gninnips Ekil
emas
Pretty sure I'm the only one who doesn't hear I Will on this.
Don't mind the comments. They wouldn't've been hearing anything had Thom not mentioned it. The bits at 0:52 and 1:21 sound like the he's singing "I will..."--and it sounds just like the Hail to the Thief song. Since Thom sang this song backwards for the recording, he would've sang exactly what we're hearing here. He probably just decided that the thing that sounds like "I will" is a nice way to start a song, so he kept that and started writing from there. Since the song I Will only has about three chords, for the most part, I think this is a good explanation for what happened. He was probably inspired only by those reversed vocal snips and not the instruments.
Disregard half of what I said. Turns out the earliest version of I Will was based on Like Spinning Plates played backwards. The version on HttT features an entirely different arrangement. That explains why this video sounds nothing like I Will--besides those vocal bits, I guess.
I Will is basically just chords spawned from G sharp major and C minor played throughout. Won't hear that on this video.
Dean Dazzle Like Spinning Plates was based on I Will, not the other way around.
+AmarilloStarshine If you listen to the harmony you'll hear it, for example at the end of the song you can sing "little babies eyes..." along :)
+AmarilloStarshine It's the same chord progression if you listen. That's the main similarity I hear. It's similar even to the point where the progression changes at a similar time in this song to the time it should change in I Will for the baby's eyes part.
This song is just amazing.
Fuck its creepy played forward as well
Brilliantly done!! impressive.
plates spinning like :
This is my number one during this lockdown..
dodgy kraftwerk
Great composition Radiohead
Mind blown... why did it take me so long to make the connection? It's "I Will" from Radiohead's Hail to the Thief album... dude...
Also, is it just me, or would the track like this work perfectly on the original Mass Effect game?
ummm.. what? Can you explain how this is "I will", because I've just listened to them back to back, and I can't hear that at all!
ummm.. what? Can you explain how this is "I will", because I've just listened to them back to back, and I can't hear that at all!
+Mad Pistol Harder to tell in its original order...the song really sounds pretty wildly different backwards :-D
Really, you can't hear it? it's not the exact same version, it's a version they tried recording with synth in 1999/2000 that didn't work. Just try singing I Will along to this and you'll get it
OK, sort of....maybe?
AMAZING idea, AMAZING result
Incredible.
beautiful
the instrumental in reverse is much prettier than the original
Like ripples on a blank shore...
Now it makes sense 😊
This song played in reverse sounds very Legendary Pink Dots (the music, not the vocals).
Love Puppets comes to mind. Good call!
Touchin the divine...
Fun fact this songs opening is actually reversed so that's why this guy put the reversed version of anyone is wondering lol
so sad and so good !!
IT SOUNDS NORMAL WHY
+Jimbo Hardizzle (James) I know
siht gnivol ma i
This is south Oxfordshire talking to y'all ! Get on board peeps X
Play at 2x speed it feels like a different song entirely
Magnifica versión. (Reversed) OK.-
Ok now make it - 800%
back to the original
For those struggling to hear i will in this, listen to i will reversed, imo that sounds much more like like spinning plates than this sounds like i will
let's rock
other band's reversed songs: *satanic sounds*
Meanwhile Radiohead: B version of the album like cassettes
I heard the I Will melody! woah
I thougt he was singing in backwards in the studio and than revers it, you let me down Tom
"sderhs ot tuc gnieb m'I"
Does anyone know which sound they use to get the spinning plate sound effect that you hear right at the end?
(Or right at the start, if you listen to the non-reversed version)
I would love to know.
I think it's a synth being played by a drum machine / sequencer
it’s several high-hat hits that have been chopped up and edited together … then played in a loop .. fed through a filter with the resonance adjusted
they should have used this song in tenet
Little baby eyes 🎶eyes 🎶eyes
This is, THE 1000 IQ song, holy shit.
This sounds EPIC on 2 speed, found by accident
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no
Beautifully creepy
You can hear I Will which is what Radiohead intended I guess
This song sound better in reverse
I WROTE THIS SONG SWEAR TO GOD........IN 94' AT MAGICTICKET GAME
what?
Yes sir scary and true
ya sounds like i will
spooky
In 0:52 I hear: "HELP ME"
amazing
HEELLPPP MMMEEEYYY ... lips.
One word, Tenet
"Dodgy Kraftwerk"
Sounds like "I Will"... anyway beautiful song
That's cause it's exactly what this is
Once I read on the internet that they had recorded a first version of I Will that Thom didn't like and he was willing to redo it, so the where reversing the tape, something like that. But as the song played backwards he thought it sounded better that way. So they just added some effects and the voice and there you have spinning plates.
(And they also made the other version that is the I Will we know)
Vivi Magri I really want to hear that very first I will recording/arrangement...
Kevyn Miller Never heard the original without the effects, either. Only the inversion of the inversion :P
If you find it, post it!
Vivi Magri I will ;]
See what I did there?
Kevyn Miller hauahauaha
sounds like Christopher Nolan's movie soundtrack
I was mistresses not Ruby...get it
This is more like a demo
Anyway, sounds great
its i will
Little babies eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Omfg
Little baby eyes 🗣️🗣️
Where is my dark techno remix of this ….
way babanın kemii
a waaaaay waaaay babanın kemii
sounds more like I Will
Sounds like the fnaf 6 end music
So you are telling me that the record song has a backwards pizzicato track in it?
Yes it does
Wait...so I Will is Like Spinning Plates reversed?
other way round
@@ethandeister6567 not really, you can see thom playing it in the meeting people is easy film.
I will is a song from 1995.Thom wrote this after Amiriyah Shalter.
Like Spinning Plates is the demo version of I Will reversed, with Thom singing new lyrics over it but backwards (hence why they sound weird when you listen to it forwards)
I'm trying to fiigure out if this is for weed, shrooms or acid.
@jdubb242 Or is it 0_o
I wrote this song....its josh
.caisenmA
1:00 says praise satan. it is overlapped by thom saying other things, which is key to making it hidden. this seems intentional
How is this song I Will reversed? I don't hear it...
It's not a palindrome. LSP backwards has the same chord sequence than i will.
You'll hear it here:
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This song is a palindrome, isn't it?
+Parachute Jake Actually, no. It would have to sound the same played either way.
AlleyOkapi
Yes that’s what a palindrome is...
@Cristos Blanace lucky
Parachute Jake tool le contre something is more palindrome like from their new album. It’s a segue
sounds like a demonic enya track
It straight up sounds like Vsause music