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S11E4 - Nude by Radiohead

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Our season-long dissection of Radiohead's In Rainbows continues with its third track "Nude" - a song that took the band 10 years to get right. Listen to the Key Notes episode on the Minor 4 chord here. Support Dissect by leaving a review or sharing on social media. 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

0:06.5

digestible episodes. This is episode four of our season-long dissection of radio heads and rainbows.

0:11.9

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

0:27.0

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0:40.6

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0:44.1

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0:49.2

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0:55.6

Ready to spark something, download the Sims 4 and play for free.

1:00.0

On our last two episodes, we dissected In Rainbow's opening tracks 15 Step and

1:07.4

body Snatchers, two songs full of vigor that propel the album into motion.

1:11.3

This frenetic energy grinds to a halt within Rainbow's

1:14.4

third track, a moving storied ballad that took Radiohead over 10 years to get right.

1:19.1

It's a song that I believe is among the best in the band's entire catalog, a song that's in the running

1:24.4

for my personal favorite of all time.

1:26.8

Nude. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Nudes long history is the stuff of Radiohead Legend, first known as Big Ideas

1:51.1

don't get any. The song was written during the OK computer sessions but didn't make the album

1:55.4

after Radiohead struggled to arrange it to their satisfaction.

1:58.8

However, the band would play the song during sound checks on the OK computer tour and even performed it as part

2:03.6

of their set in March in April of 1998. Thus began the lore of big ideas with

2:08.4

fans wondering if and when the song would receive an official release and

2:11.6

enjoying bootleg live recordings of it in the meantime.

2:14.4

In the meantime, the title Big Ideas Don't Get Any was copyrighted with Warner publishing,

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