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Dissect

S11E3 - Bodysnatchers by Radiohead

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Our season-long dissection of Radiohead's In Rainbows continues with its second track, Bodysnatchers - an adrenaline-fueled romp that explores the phenonemon of feeling disconnected from your own body. Support Dissect by leaving a review or sharing on social media. It really helps. Follow @dissectpodcast on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Host/Writer/EP: Cole Cuchna Additional Analysis: Dr. Brad Osborn Audio Editing: Kevin Pooler Song Recreations: Andrew Atwood Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Spotify and the Ringer, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:07.5

This is episode 3 of our season-long dissection of radio heads and rainbows.

0:11.5

I'm your host Cole Kushna. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

0:27.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Everyone loves a great Christmas movie and nobody does Christmas better than Disney Plus.

0:42.0

That was epic.

0:44.0

Stream Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,

0:46.0

straight from the cinema.

0:47.0

I've been looking for this all my life.

0:50.0

Alongside festive favorites like Muppets Christmas Carol.

0:54.0

Merry Christmas everyone. Home alone and die hard.

0:58.0

Yippecai.

0:59.0

Streaming this season from 499 a month on Disney Plus.

1:03.2

Auto renews and less cancelled, 18 Plus subscription required.

1:07.3

On our last episode, we dissected in Rainbow's opening track 15 Step,

1:11.0

an energetic blast of intricate, relentless rhythms over which Tom explores themes of

1:15.4

disconnection and death. The energy and themes of 15-step spill over into Inremo's next

1:20.8

track, the subject of our episode today body snatchers. Of all the songs on In Rainbows, the backstory of recording body snatchers might be the most fascinating. As we detailed last episode, when Radiohead failed to successfully record the album after trying their touring trick,

1:54.0

they reunited with longtime producer Nigel Godridge, who suggested that the band take a recording excursion,

1:59.3

another trick they used in the past when struggling in the studio.

2:02.8

And so in October of 2006, Nigel and the band packed up their gear and for three weeks stayed in a

2:07.6

100-plus room dilapidated mansion in Wiltshire named Totentom House, which was built in the 1720s and was being prepared for demolition.

2:16.2

As Johnny Greenwood recalled, quote, it had been a prep school up until the early 80s, and then it was

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