10 Perfect Rock Songs That Were Written By Accident

10. Like Spinning Plates - Radiohead

Any band of Radiohead's ilk is going to try to put some experimental stuff into every track they create. You can try adding some weird instruments or random time signature changes, but it's just as easy to find some cool sounds when you put a instrument on there played backwards. Then again, there are those few times when that approach works a little too well.

Around the time that the band were working in the sessions that would give birth to Kid A and Amnesiac, they had originally planned to include the song I Will before deciding that it needed some work. In an attempt to figure out what worked better, the band decided to play the whole track backwards, and they ended up absolutely loving what they heard. Instead of just going forward with that setup though, Thom Yorke thought it would be better to write an entire song in that format, coming up with a new lyric and vocal melody that turned into Like Spinning Plates.

So the reason why the whole song sounds like it's floating on air is because you're hearing the original Radiohead song that's been played entirely in reverse. You can still hear the original version of the song fully realized though, with I Will eventually turning up on their next record Hail to the Thief. Inspiration comes from all sorts of places, so you should never underestimate the power of putting things the wrong way around.