In Rainbows – Radiohead

**Adam Maness** (0:21)
I'm Adam Maness.

**Peter Martin** (0:22)
And I'm Peter Martin.

**Adam Maness** (0:23)
And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

**Peter Martin** (0:25)
Music explored.

**Adam Maness** (0:26)
Explored. Brought to you today by Open Studio. Go to openstudiojazz.com for, oh, your jazz lesson needs Peter. We're back. It feels like we're back. We're back.

**Peter Martin** (0:33)
I mean, we weren't away.

**Adam Maness** (0:35)
I don't know. We were here, but we weren't doing anything. I'm feeling, I'm feeling in the groove.

**Peter Martin** (0:39)
Good. Yeah. About time.

**Adam Maness** (0:40)
I know.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:41)
My friend.

**Adam Maness** (0:41)
I haven't been in the groove. I'm locked in right now. Yeah. Hey, we are, speaking of back, we're bringing something back.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:47)
I know.

**Peter Martin** (0:47)
I'm so excited about this.

**Adam Maness** (0:48)
It's called the Speak Pipe. Many people have never heard of it.

**Peter Martin** (0:50)
No.

**Adam Maness** (0:51)
So we want to do a mailbag episode where we hear from you. If you go to youllhearit.com, if you go to youllhearit.com, you could leave us a message. So go to youllhearit.com, you could leave us a voicemail. We can't promise that you'll get your voicemail read on the air, but we are going to take some questions for the audience. It could be about anything. Could be about these albums, about the show, about music, whatever, Open Studio, you name it. I got a question. Yeah.

**Peter Martin** (1:14)
How come y'all so dope? That's something someone could ask us.

**Adam Maness** (1:16)
Is how come y'all so dope?

**Peter Martin** (1:18)
Yes.

**Adam Maness** (1:18)
Please ask us that.

**Peter Martin** (1:19)
That's just an example. Feel free to say whatever you want.

**Adam Maness** (1:22)
Peter's got ideas. Peter, today, this is a continuation. This is an evolution. So last season, as a crazy experiment, we put on the docket Radiohead's 2000, in my opinion, masterpiece, Kid A. You had never really heard the album. We listened to it. You gave it a try.
You seemed to like it.

**Peter Martin** (1:43)
Yeah.

**Adam Maness** (1:44)
Yeah, you seemed to really like it.

**Peter Martin** (1:45)
I was curious and then I was enraptured somewhat.

**Adam Maness** (1:48)
It's a fantastic album.

**Peter Martin** (1:49)
And I got sold over pretty quickly, as I recall.

**Adam Maness** (1:52)
So I'm hoping that energy continues. Because during that time, we also did a bunch of polls on our Instagram. I did one on my personal Instagram about what is your all-time favorite Radiohead album. Now, being a Xenial as I am, I assumed it was gonna be Kid A.

**Peter Martin** (2:06)
Not a thing.

**Adam Maness** (2:07)
Not even close. It was the album that we're listening to today. It was In Rainbows.

**Peter Martin** (2:12)
Wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought we were listening to Robert Glasper and Brad Meldahl play. See, this is how he gets me in here.
Adam's like, we're gonna check out.

**Adam Maness** (2:23)
We totally could listen to an whole album of Robert Glasper and Brad Meldahl play Radiohead.

**Peter Martin** (2:29)
But I joke. That would be fun.

**Adam Maness** (2:31)
The next one, whenever we listen to OK Computer, I'm gonna tell you that it's all-

**Peter Martin** (2:35)
And Adam Maness trio plays.

**Adam Maness** (2:36)
Oh yeah, no, we do a version of Weird Fishes here, which we're gonna talk about a little bit. But no, we're doing In Rainbows. This was released in 2007 It has such an interesting release story, Peter, but before we get that release story going, let's listen to the first track, 15 Step. And again, we're kind of looking for Peter's reaction during the, can Radiohead keep Peter's attention past Kid A?
So we're in five, four here.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:50)
Yeah.

**Adam Maness** (3:51)
Starting off this album with an odd time signature.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:53)
It's a great program.

**Adam Maness** (3:54)
An album that sold three million copies.

**Peter Martin** (3:59)
That's a great, really great program drum sound.

**Adam Maness** (4:02)
It sounds amazing.

**Peter Martin** (4:03)
And then combined with the, that's Thom Yorke, right?

**SPEAKER_3** (4:06)
Yeah, I know.

**Adam Maness** (4:07)
That's the thing. That's the thing.

**Peter Martin** (4:08)
See, I'm, I'm, I know. I knew it wasn't Rabble Glasper, at least.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:12)
I think it's not.

**Peter Martin** (4:13)
No, I...
But we talked about this last time. He has such a unique voice, but the way they have it placed here, very difficult to... With the guitar is sort of the bridge between the humanity of the voice and the potential automation. They're actually using the automation of the drums. They're not hiding from that. That's part of the shtick on this, and I love it.