Big Ideas: Don't get any - Radiohead cover by James Houston

Video by James Houston
jim@1030.co.uk

Digg this at:
http://digg.com/music/Radiohead_s_Nude_played_by_old_computer_parts
Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.

This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.

Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.

I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

Thanks to Afrotech and Dr Roland Shregle (ganjatron)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• radiohead
• nude
• in
• rainbows
• dot
• matrix
• recycle
• vintage
• computing
• thom
• yorke
• retro
• technology

[koooolalala]

Bass scanner, best instrument ever.

[TinySpark37]

Love the "look around you" style video

[harrizonn]

Better than the album version.

[crox981]

Absolutely excellent !! Can't stop listening to it. Such a nostalgia ;)

Put it all together - that's fu*in' big idea ;)

L.

[KatTheAudick]

You're a fucking genius.

[Zapak1]

Well, that was fucking amazing. Would totally buy this on iTunes.

[andyprotech]

OMG zx spectrum - my first computer :) nostalgy tears

[Ytbehandling11]

First song i heard of Radiohead.

[OnlyVideoGuyOnEarth]

@djslurch I think it's just a sped up version of the original. It is, after all, a response to the remix competition.

[NoNameNerds]

would've been faster with TurboTape...

[Crisp13]

Let the bass scanner kick it!

[djslurch]

You captured Thom's voice almost perfectly. This is ace.