Radiohead Time Signatures
Pablo Honey (1993)
1. You
Verse (0:00): 3x 6/8, 1x 5/8
Chorus (0:38): 6x 6/8, 3x 6/8, 1x 5/8, 3x 6/8, 1x 5/8
(1:47): 1x 5/8, 2x 6/8, 1x 5/8
2. Creep
4/4
3. How Do You?
4/4
4. Stop Whispering
4/4
5. Thinking About You
4/4
6. Anyone Can Play Guitar
4/4
7. Ripcord
Verse (0:00): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 2x 4/4
Chorus (0:31): 4/4
8. Vegetable
Verse (0:00): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4
Chorus (0:34): 4/4
(0:48): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 2x 4/4
9. Prove Yourself
4/4
10. I Can't
4/4
11. Lurgee
4/4
12. Blow Out
4/4
The Bends (1995)
1. Planet Telex
4/4
2. The Bends
4/4
3. High And Dry
4/4
4. Fake Plastic Trees
4/4
5. Bones
1x 6/4, 2x 4/4
6. (Nice Dream)
6/8
7. Just
4/4
8. My Iron Lung
4/4
9. Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
4/4
10. Black Star
Intro (0:00): 6/4 (could be counted 1x 8/8, 1x 4/8)
Verse (0:19): 4/4
11. Sulk
6/8
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
4/4
OK Computer (1997)
1. Airbag
4/4
2. Paranoid Android
(0:00): 4/4
(2:09): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(2:19): 4/4
(2:31): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(2:42): 4/4
(2:54): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(3:04): 4/4
(3:16): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(3:27): 4/4
(5:47): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
(5:58): 4/4
(6:09): 3x 7/8, 1x 8/8
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
6/8
4. Exit Music (For A Film)
4/4
5. Let Down
Intro (0:00): 5/8 (continues as polyrhythm)
(0:12): 4/4
6. Karma Police
4/4
7. Fitter Happier
Free time. When the piano is at it's most discernible it appears to be in 6/4.
8. Electioneering
12/8
9. Climbing Up The Walls
4/4
10. No Surprises
4/4
11. Lucky
4/4
12. The Tourist
9/8
(0:19): 1x 12/8
Kid A (2000)
1. Everything In Its Right Place
10/4
2. Kid A
4/4
3. The National Anthem
4/4
4. How To Disappear Completely
6/8
5. Treefingers
Free time.
6. Optimstic
4/4
(5:03): 1x 2/4
7. In Limbo
Verse (0:00): 6/4 (Drums 4/4 polyrhythm)
Chorus (0:31): 4/4
8. Idioteque
4/4
9. Morning Bell
5/4
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack
4/4
(4:18): Free time
Amnesiac (2001)
1. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
4/4
2. Pyramid Song
4/4
3. Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
4/4
4. You And Whose Army?
4/4
5. I Might Be Wrong
4/4
6. Knives Out
4/4
7. Morning Bell/Amnesiac
4/4
8. Dollars And Cents
4/4
9. Hunting Bears
Free time.
10. Like Spinning Plates
4/4
11. Life In A Glass House
4/4
Hail To The Thief (2003)
1. 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm)
(0:00): 7/4
(1:18): 8/4
(1:21): 4/4
2. Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders)
4/4
3. Sail To The Moon (Brush The Cobwebs Out Of The Sky)
(0:00): 1x 5/4, 2x 4/4, 1x 3/4
(0:17): 2x 4/4
(0:25): 3x 3/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(0:45): 4/4
(1:16): 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 3x 4/4
(1:34): 4/4
(1:47): 1x 2/4, 3x 3/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(2:06): 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(2:17): 4/4
(2:30): 1x 2/4, 1x 3x4, 2x 4/4, 1x 3/4
(2:47): 1x 4/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(3:08): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(3:22): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(3:34): 1x 5/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4, 1x 5/4, 1x 3/4, 1x 2/4
(3:56): 3/4
4. Backdrifts (Honeymoon Is Over)
4/4
5. Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)
(0:00): 1x 4/4, 1x 6/4 (Could be counted 10/4)
(1:22): 4/4
6. Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)
4/4
7. We Suck Young Blood (Your Time Is Up)
4/4
8. The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths In The Cold)
4/4
9. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
4/4
10. I Will (No Man's Land)
4/4
11. A Punchup At A Wedding (No No No No No No No No)
4/4
12. Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)
4/4
13. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
4/4
12. A Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Rag Doll)
6/8
In Rainbows (2007)
1. 15 Step
5/4
2. Bodysnatchers
4/4
3. Nude
6/8
4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
4/4
5. All I Need
4/4
6. Faust Arp
(0:00): 2/2
(0:08): 3x 3/4
(0:10): 4/4
(0:17): 3x 3/4
(0:20): 4/4
(0:42): 3x 3/4
(0:45): 4/4
(0:51): 3x 3/4
(0:54): 4/4
7. Reckoner
4/4
8. House Of Cards
4/4
9. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
4/4
10. Videotape
4/4
The King Of Limbs (2011) (Polyrhythms everywhere!)
1. Bloom
(0:00) 4/4
(0:14) 3/4
2. Morning Mr. Magpie
4/4
3. Little By Little
4/4
4. Feral
4/4
5. Lotus Flower
4/4
6. Codex
4/4
(3:34): 1x 5/4, 1x 4/4, 1x 5/4, 1x 4/4
7. Give Up The Ghost
4/4
8. Separator
4/4
Pablo Honey (B-Sides)
1. Stupid Car
4/4
2. Inside My Head
4/4
3. Million Dollar Question
4/4
4. Faithless, The Wonder Boy
4/4
(1:31): 1x 2/4
4/4
(2:09): 1x 2/4
5. Coke Babies
(0:00): 6/8
(0:38): 4/4
6. Yes I Am
4/4
7. Pop Is Dead
(0:00): 4/4
(0:32): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4
(0:42): 4/4
(1:12): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4
(1:31): 4/4
(1:49): 2x 4/4, 1x 2/4
The Bends (B-Sides)
1. The Trickster
Verse (0:00): 4/4
Chorus (0:53): 2x 4/4, 1x 3/4, 4x 4/4
2. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
4/4
3. Lozenge Of Love
4/4
4. Lewis (Mistreated)
4/4
5. Permanent Daylight
Verse (0:00): 2x 4/4, 3x 6/4
Chorus (0:38): 4/4
6. You Never Wash Up After Yourself
6/8
7. Maquilado
4/4
8. Killer Cars
4/4
9. India Rubber
4/4
(0:14): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4
4/4
(0:27): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4
4/4
(1:08): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4
4/4
(1:21): 2x 4/4, 1x 6/4
4/4
10. How Can You Be Sure?
4/4
11. Talk Show Host
4/4
12. Bishop's Robes
4/4
13. Banana Co.
4/4
14. Molasses
3/4
15. True Love Waits (Live)
4/4
OK Computer (B-Sides)
1. Polyethylene Pts. 1 & 2
(0:00) 4/4
(0:45) 1x 9/8, 1x 4/4
(1:12) 1x 10/4, 1x 4/4
(1:35) 1x 4/4, 2x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(1:58) 1x 9/8, 1x 4/4
(2:12) 1x 4/4
(2:15) 1x 10/4, 1x 4/4
(2:37) 1x 4/4, 2x 3/4, 1x 4/4
(3:00) 1x 9/8, 1x 4/4
2. Pearly
4/4
3. A Reminder
3/4
4. Melatonin
4/4
5. Meeting In The Aisle
4/4
6. Lull
4/4
7. Palo Alto
4/4
8. How I Made My Millions
4/4
Amnesiac (B-Sides)
1. Cuttooth
4/4
2. The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy
4/4
3. Trans-Atlantic Drawl
4/4
4. Fast-Track
4/4
5. Kinetic
4/4
6. Worrywort
4/4
7. Fog
4/4
Hail To The Thief (B-Sides)
1. Paperbag Writer
4/4
2. Where Bluebirds Fly
4/4
3. I Am Citizen Insane
10/4
4. Gagging Order
4/4
5. I Am A Wicked Child
4/4
6. Fog (Again)
6/4
In Rainbows (B-Sides)
1. Mk 1
Free time.
2. Down Is The New Up
4/4
3. Go Slowly
4/4
4. Mk 2
Free time.
5. Last Flowers
4/4
6. Up On The Ladder
4/4
7. Bangers And Mash
4/4
8. 4 Minute Warning
(0:00): 6/4
(2:35): 4/4
(2:47): 1x 5/4
(2:52): 6/4
(3:38): 4/4
(3:50): 1x 5/4
9. I Want None Of This
3/4
The King Of Limbs (B-Sides)
1. Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
4/4
2. These Are My Twisted Words
5/4 (Drums 4/4 polyrhythm)
3. Supercollider
4/4
4. The Butcher
4/4
5. The Daily Mail
(0:00): 4/4
(1:38): 1x 2/4 2x 4/4
(2:00): 1x 4/4, 1x 2/4
(2:06): 4/4
6. Staircase
4/4 (Could be counted 3/4 by counting triplets)
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