S11E9 - House of Cards by Radiohead

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Our season long dissection of Radiohead's In Rainbows continues with an analysis of "House of Cards" - an immersive, reverb-soaked musing on the nature of desire and escape. We'll also cover the musical oddities in the track, including Jonny Greenwood's infamous "coin trick" on guitar and even the rumored dog barks in the background of the verses. Shop Dissect Season 11 Merch. Follow @dissectpodcast on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Host/Writer/EP: Cole Cuchna Additional Analysis: Dr. Brad Osborn Song Recreations: Andrew Atwood Audio Editing: Kevin Pooler 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.
0:07.0	This is episode 9 of our season-long dissection of radio heads and rainbows.
0:11.0	I'm your host Cole Kishna. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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1:29.0	Last time I dissect, we discussed in Rainbow's seventh track Reckoner, a song dedicated to all human beings and described by Tom as the centerpiece of the album.
1:40.0	Over the course of the song, we experienced evolution of sorts as the narrator facing the idea of the
1:45.9	Reckoner came to accept death and celebrated the connection among all of us in this life
1:51.0	and perhaps hereafter.
1:53.0	We also observed how these sentiments marked a definitive change in tone and theme from the first
1:57.3	half of the album, which reflected Tom's view that there are two sides of in rainbows,
2:01.6	a more aggressive, panicked, anxious side one, and a more accepting, calm, sentimental, and elated side two.
3:05.0	As we continue our exploration of In Rainbows, this division will become even clearer with the album's next song, the subject of our episode today, House of Cards. And then. And the How's House of Cards dates back to at least spring 2005 as it was during this time Tom performed an early acoustic version of the song at Trade Justice Vigil in London. I don't want to be your friend
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