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Radiohead Time Signatures.md

Radiohead Time Signatures

This was originally authored by joelalcock1@gmail.com. Please e-mail him any corrections.

If you see a translation error from the original please let me know in the comment section below.

Albums

Pablo Honey (1993)

  1. You
Verse (0:00): 3x 6/8, 1x 5/8
Chorus (0:38): 6x 6/8, 3x 6/8, 1x 5/8, 3x 6/8, 1x 5/8
(1:47): 1x 5/8, 2x 6/8, 1x 5/8

  1. Creep 4/4

  2. How Do You? 4/4

  3. Stop Whispering 4/4

  4. Thinking About You 4/4

  5. Anyone Can Play Guitar 4/4

  6. Ripcord

Verse (0:00): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 2x 4/4
Chorus (0:31): 4/4
  1. Vegetable
Verse (0:00): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4
Chorus (0:34): 4/4
(0:48): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 2x 4/4

  1. Prove Yourself 4/4

  2. I Can't 4/4

  3. Lurgee 4/4

  4. Blow Out 4/4

The Bends (1995)

  1. Planet Telex 4/4

  2. The Bends 4/4

  3. High And Dry 4/4

  4. Fake Plastic Trees 4/4

  5. Bones

1x 6/4, 2x 4/4

  1. (Nice Dream) 1/8

  2. Just 4/4

  3. My Iron Lung 4/4

  4. Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was 4/4

  5. Black Star

Intro (0:00): 6/4 (could be counted 1x 8/8, 1x 4/8)
Verse (0:19): 4/4

  1. Sulk 1/8

  2. Street Spirit (Fade Out) 4/4

OK Computer (1997)

  1. Airbag 4/4

  2. Paranoid Android

(0:00): 4/4
(2:09): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(2:19): 4/4
(2:31): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(2:42): 4/4
(2:54): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(3:04): 4/4
(3:16): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(3:27): 4/4
(5:47): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(5:58): 4/4
(6:09): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8

  1. Subterranean Homesick Alien 1/8

  2. Exit Music (For A Film) 4/4

  3. Let Down

Intro (0:00): 5/8 (continues as polyrhythm)
(0:12): 4/4

  1. Karma Police 4/4

  2. Fitter Happier

Free time.
When the piano is at it's most discernible it appears to be in 6/4.

  1. Electioneering 4/4

  2. Climbing Up The Walls 4/4

  3. No Surprises 4/4

  4. Lucky 4/4

  5. The Tourist 1/8

(0:19): 1x 12/8

Kid A (2000)

  1. Everything In Its Right Place 10/4

  2. Kid A 4/4

  3. The National Anthem 4/4

  4. How To Disappear Completely 1/8

  5. Treefingers Free time

  6. Optimstic 4/4

(5:03): 1x 2/4
  1. In Limbo
Verse (0:00): 6/4 (Drums 4/4 polyrhythm)
Chorus (0:31): 4/4

  1. Idioteque 4/4

  2. Morning Bell 4/4

  3. Motion Picture Soundtrack 4/4

(4:18): Free time

Amnesiac (2001)

  1. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box 4/4

  2. Pyramid Song 4/4

  3. Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors 4/4

  4. You And Whose Army? 4/4

  5. I Might Be Wrong 4/4

  6. Knives Out 4/4

  7. Morning Bell/Amnesiac 4/4

  8. Dollars And Cents 4/4

  9. Hunting Bears Free time

  10. Like Spinning Plates 4/4

  11. Life In A Glass House 4/4

Hail To The Thief (2003)

  1. 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm)
(0:00): 7/4
(1:18): 8/4
(1:21): 4/4

  1. Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders) 4/4

  2. Sail To The Moon (Brush The Cobwebs Out Of The Sky)

(0:00): 1x 5/4, 2x 4/4, 1x 3/4
(0:17): 2x 4/4
(0:25): 3x 3/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(0:45): 4/4
(1:16): 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 3x 4/4
(1:34): 4/4
(1:47): 1x 2/4, 3x 3/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(2:06): 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(2:17): 4/4
(2:30): 1x 2/4, 1x 3x4, 2x 4/4, 1x 3/4
(2:47): 1x 4/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(3:08): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(3:22): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(3:34): 1x 5/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 5/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(3:56): 3/4

  1. Backdrifts (Honeymoon Is Over) 4/4

  2. Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)

(0:00): 1x 4/4, 1x 6/4 (Could be counted 10/4)
(1:22): 4/4

  1. Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In) 4/4

  2. We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up) 4/4

  3. The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold) 4/4

  4. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere) 4/4

  5. I Will (No Man's Land) 4/4

  6. A Punchup At A Wedding (No No No No No No No No) 4/4

  7. Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner) 4/4

  8. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves) 4/4

  9. A Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) 1/8

In Rainbows (2007)

  1. 15 Step 4/4

  2. Bodysnatchers 4/4

  3. Nude 1/8

  4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi 4/4

  5. All I Need 4/4

  6. Faust Arp

(0:00): 2/2
(0:08): 3x 3/4
(0:10): 4/4
(0:17): 3x 3/4
(0:20): 4/4
(0:42): 3x 3/4
(0:45): 4/4
(0:51): 3x 3/4
(0:54): 4/4

  1. Reckoner 4/4

  2. House Of Cards 4/4

  3. Jigsaw Falling Into Place 4/4

  4. Videotape 4/4

The King Of Limbs (2011)

  1. Bloom 4/4

  2. Morning Mr. Magpie 4/4

  3. Little By Little 4/4

  4. Feral 4/4

  5. Lotus Flower 4/4

  6. Codex 4/4

(3:34): 1x 5/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 5/4, 1x 4/4

  1. Give Up The Ghost 4/4

  2. Separator 4/4

A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

  1. Burn the Wich 4/4

  2. Daydreaming 12/8

  3. Decks Dark

(0:00): 4/4
(0:19): 2x (1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4)
(0:36): 4/4
(0:42): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4
(0:51): 4/4
(0:57): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4
(1:06): 4/4
(2:26): 2x (1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4)
(2:43): 4/4
(2:50): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4
(2:58): 4/4

  1. Desert Island Disk 4/4

  2. Ful Stop 4/4

  3. Glass Eyes 4/4

  4. Identikit 4/4

  5. The Numbers 4/4

  6. Present Tense

(0:00) 5/4
(0:03) 4/4

  1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief 4/4

  2. True Love Waits 4/4

Pablo Honey (B-Sides)

  1. Stupid Car 4/4

  2. Inside My Head 4/4

  3. Million Dollar Question 4/4

  4. Faithless, The Wonder Boy 4/4

(1:31): 1x 2/4`4/4`
(2:09): 1x 2/4
  1. Coke Babies
(0:00): 6/8
(0:38): 4/4

  1. Yes I Am 4/4

  2. Pop Is Dead

(0:00): 4/4
(0:32): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4
(0:42): 4/4
(1:12): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4
(1:31): 4/4
(1:49): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4

The Bends (B-Sides)

  1. The Trickster
Verse (0:00): 4/4
Chorus (0:53): 2x 4/4, 1x 3/4, 4x 4/4

  1. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong 4/4

  2. Lozenge Of Love 4/4

  3. Lewis (Mistreated) 4/4

  4. Permanent Daylight

Verse (0:00): 2x 4/4, 3x 6/4
Chorus (0:38): 4/4

  1. You Never Wash Up After Yourself 1/8

  2. Maquilado 4/4

  3. Killer Cars 4/4

  4. India Rubber 4/4

(0:14): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4`4/4`
(0:27): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4`4/4`
(1:08): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4`4/4`
(1:21): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4`4/4`

  1. How Can You Be Sure? 4/4

  2. Talk Show Host 4/4

  3. Bishop's Robes 4/4

  4. Banana Co. 4/4

  5. Molasses 4/4

  6. True Love Waits (Live) 4/4

OK Computer (B-Sides)

  1. Polyethylene Pts. 1 & 2
(0:00) 4/4
(0:45) 1x 9/8, 1x 4/4
(1:12) 1x 10/4, 1x 4/4
(1:35) 1x 4/4, 2x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(1:58) 1x 9/8, 1x 4/4
(2:12) 1x 4/4
(2:15) 1x 10/4, 1x 4/4
(2:37) 1x 4/4, 2x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(3:00) 1x 9/8, 1x 4/4

  1. Pearly 4/4

  2. A Reminder 4/4

  3. Melatonin 4/4

  4. Meeting In The Aisle 4/4

  5. Lull 4/4

  6. Palo Alto 4/4

  7. How I Made My Millions 4/4

Amnesiac (B-Sides)

  1. Cuttooth 4/4

  2. The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy 4/4

  3. Trans-Atlantic Drawl 4/4

  4. Fast-Track 4/4

  5. Kinetic 4/4

  6. Worrywort 4/4

  7. Fog 4/4

Hail To The Thief (B-Sides)

  1. Paperbag Writer 4/4

  2. Where Bluebirds Fly 4/4

  3. I Am Citizen Insane 10/4

  4. Gagging Order 4/4

  5. I Am A Wicked Child 4/4

  6. Fog (Again) 4/4

In Rainbows (B-Sides)

  1. Mk 1 Free time

  2. Down Is The New Up 4/4

  3. Go Slowly 4/4

  4. Mk 2 Free time

  5. Last Flowers 4/4

  6. Up On The Ladder 4/4

  7. Bangers And Mash 4/4

  8. 4 Minute Warning

(0:00): 6/4
(2:35): 4/4
(2:47): 1x 5/4
(2:52): 6/4
(3:38): 4/4
(3:50): 1x 5/4
  1. I Want None Of This 4/4

The King Of Limbs (B-Sides)

  1. Harry Patch (In Memory Of) 4/4

  2. These Are My Twisted Words 4/4 (Drums 4/4 polymeter)

  3. Supercollider 4/4

  4. The Butcher 4/4

  5. The Daily Mail

(0:00): 4/4
(1:38): 1x 2/4 2x 4/4
(2:00): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4
(2:06): 4/4
  1. Staircase 4/4

Other

  1. Spectre 4/4
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Why are all 6/8 written as 1/8?
Idioteque starts with a 6/4 beat
15 Step is 5/4
Weird Fishes is some 3/8 polyrythm
A Reminder isn't 4/4 but 6/8
These Are My Twisted Words has a 5/4 guitar pattern
And Spectre is definitely not 4/4 it has a whole 3/4 part

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