Almost makes me want to learn cello...
March 20, 2018 1:03 PM Subscribe
I ... feel weirdly cheated.
"One cello! Wow! How is that even possible?"
*clicks*
"Oh ... It's one cello, but not, like ... all at once."
posted by kyrademon at 2:09 PM on March 20, 2018 [13 favorites]
"One cello! Wow! How is that even possible?"
*clicks*
"Oh ... It's one cello, but not, like ... all at once."
posted by kyrademon at 2:09 PM on March 20, 2018 [13 favorites]
I love how this version teases out and highlights each layer of the composition
Yeah but they didn't include Ed O'Brien's three little "LALALALALA's" that happen at the very end of the song, which would have been a nice touch.
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 2:39 PM on March 20, 2018 [3 favorites]
Yeah but they didn't include Ed O'Brien's three little "LALALALALA's" that happen at the very end of the song, which would have been a nice touch.
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 2:39 PM on March 20, 2018 [3 favorites]
That was awesome! I love cellos, Radiohead, and that song.
posted by Celsius1414 at 2:46 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Celsius1414 at 2:46 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
This post was my 10,000th favorite! AMA!
posted by Celsius1414 at 2:53 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Celsius1414 at 2:53 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
ah, i thought this was going to be "one cello" live, with a sampler, the way helen gillet performs and composes.
Still, neat what sounds you can get from one instrument
posted by eustatic at 3:33 PM on March 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
Still, neat what sounds you can get from one instrument
posted by eustatic at 3:33 PM on March 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
Ooh. I saw helen gillet live last Saturday. She's extraordinary.
posted by umbú at 6:35 PM on March 20, 2018
posted by umbú at 6:35 PM on March 20, 2018
Well, if we are talking about solo musicians multi-tracking themselves, I nominate Petra Haden to record this song. She's done this quite a bit.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 7:00 PM on March 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 7:00 PM on March 20, 2018 [2 favorites]
My life would have been very different if my schoolmates had thought cello was as sexy and cool as adults seem to find it.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 7:33 PM on March 20, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 7:33 PM on March 20, 2018 [4 favorites]
Sheku Kanneh-Mason's solo cello cover of Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry' is beautiful.
posted by h00py at 8:10 PM on March 20, 2018
posted by h00py at 8:10 PM on March 20, 2018
Lovely.
On a side note, this is truly the weirdest timeline when we build bicycles out of wood and cellos out of carbon fibre.
posted by Sutekh at 9:23 PM on March 20, 2018 [3 favorites]
On a side note, this is truly the weirdest timeline when we build bicycles out of wood and cellos out of carbon fibre.
posted by Sutekh at 9:23 PM on March 20, 2018 [3 favorites]
I have yet to find a satisfactory answer to the question that now floats in my brain like a koan: Why do I like Radiohead covers so much, when I have such apathy to Radiohead songs done by Radiohead themselves?
posted by 1f2frfbf at 9:45 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by 1f2frfbf at 9:45 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
I think it's awesome. Very very awesome. Thanks for sharing!
posted by Athanassiel at 11:35 PM on March 20, 2018
posted by Athanassiel at 11:35 PM on March 20, 2018
So I got sucked into the world of Radiohead covers and have to share this series, which are recordings of "a tribute night to Radiohead at the Old Melbourne Gaol in Australia. The event featured a seven-piece band, string quartet and thirteen-piece choir performing on three stages simultaneously". I haven't listened to all of it yet but so far it is pretty awesome.
posted by Athanassiel at 11:50 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Athanassiel at 11:50 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Why do I like Radiohead covers so much,
good songs. I mean, structurally, these are good songs. In the 'Killers' thread there was a link to them doing a cover of 'I think we're alone now' live and I had a similar, twofold reaction - 1) this is a good song 2) this band is full of good musicians.
Yet, for me, a big part of Radiohead's songs is the production, so my appreciation of 'Paranoid Android' is based largely on all the weird, secondary sounds. Trying to replicate the effect they have (not the sounds themselves but the role they fill in the song) is kind of the task of any one doing a cover - like there was a thing (here, also) about Beck covering "Sound and Vision" and the thing I missed most was the rhythm of the original which - for me - is the frame on which the whole song is built. Of course if you're just going to take the song, the rhythm and melody of it that can work too but ... I liked the sound of the strings and the bow and... I wanted more from this...
posted by From Bklyn at 3:33 AM on March 21, 2018
good songs. I mean, structurally, these are good songs. In the 'Killers' thread there was a link to them doing a cover of 'I think we're alone now' live and I had a similar, twofold reaction - 1) this is a good song 2) this band is full of good musicians.
Yet, for me, a big part of Radiohead's songs is the production, so my appreciation of 'Paranoid Android' is based largely on all the weird, secondary sounds. Trying to replicate the effect they have (not the sounds themselves but the role they fill in the song) is kind of the task of any one doing a cover - like there was a thing (here, also) about Beck covering "Sound and Vision" and the thing I missed most was the rhythm of the original which - for me - is the frame on which the whole song is built. Of course if you're just going to take the song, the rhythm and melody of it that can work too but ... I liked the sound of the strings and the bow and... I wanted more from this...
posted by From Bklyn at 3:33 AM on March 21, 2018
Another cover. This one is by the Israeli jazz orchestra
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 9:56 AM on March 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 9:56 AM on March 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
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Also, that's one sexy cello.
posted by merriment at 1:20 PM on March 20, 2018 [1 favorite]