10 Weirdest Songs By Legendary Artists

After Radiohead came off of Kid A, nothing was really off the table in terms of what they could do anymore. Having completely reinvented themselves from the ground up with synthetic effects, the future seemed much more wide open, with Amnesiac using everything from glitchy sound effects to a funeral band on the song Life in a Glasshouse. Radiohead had become children of the studio though, and Like Spinning Plates was the result of taking a completed song and warping it into something else.

While most Radiohead fans are familiar with the song I Will from Hail to the Thief, its origins actually started during the sessions for Amnesiac and Kid A, only for Thom Yorke to discard it after not liking the way it was shaping up. It would remain on the shelf for a few weeks, but Thom actually found some inspiration when he heard the initial demo of the song played backwards, being mesmerized by the inhuman sounds of the instruments going backwards.

What you're hearing on Like Spinning Plates is basically Thom writing a completely different song using the I Will backwards track, almost filling in the gaps of what the song was missing and creating a track that makes you feel even more uneasy based on its backwards pieces. For most fans, Radiohead could have done no wrong at this point, but it takes a special kind of genius to be able to make two spellbinding tunes out of the exact same track.