I Will by Radiohead (reversed audio)

The song Like Spinning Plates was made after listening to a Kid A session recording of I Will in reverse. You can definitely hear the similarities.
This is the Hail To The Thief recording of I Will.

[@64sons]

This just feels like spinning plates

[@ccsconnor7705]

64sons spinning plates sampled this hence the reason people post a reversed version of i will

[@beasterbunny4836]

CCSconnor it couldn’t have bc like spinning plates was made 2 or three years before

[@mees6642]

@@beasterbunny4836 I Will was made at that time as well, they just ended up releasing on Hail to the thief

[@natschaefer1044]

@@beasterbunny4836 I Will is older than Like Spinning Plates. They made LSP by playing a demo version of I Will in reverse

[@beasterbunny4836]

@@natschaefer1044 Ah ok, thats pretty cool. Is there a link to that other I will? I wanna see for myself.

[@jonasshort9549]

"Like Spinning Plates" was born out of frustration over an electronic version of "I Will" from the Kid A sessions… Not knowing what to do with [the "dodgy Kraftwerk version"], someone had the idea to reverse it and played it backwards… The reversed backing with its eerie pulse was apparently way more exciting than the ill-fated forward recording, and Thom was also hearing a melody in parts of his reversed vocal of "I Will", which inspired him to write something he could sing over this recording. He went to his notebooks, pieced a set of lyrics together (perhaps using the "cut up lines pulled out of a top hat" method again), thereby creating a new song, "Like Spinning Plates".
However, just singing the new melody and lyrics straight over the pulsing backing track was not good enough. Something different was needed. Perhaps someone had the idea to reflect the fact, that this song came out of turning something backwards, in the singing as well. How about having a backwards vocal track that sounds as if it was sung forwards?
So basically, the band flipped the electronic version of "I Will" backwards an found it to be more interesting, so Thom wrote new lyrics and learned to sing them backwards so that when the vocal track was also flipped, it would have an otherworldly, alien quality while still being sung in English.
Then the band rearranged "I Will" for Hail to the Thief.

[@eddyperezruiz]

Tenet. 😮

[@PinkyToeThief]

Everyone saying Like Spinning Plates is not I Will in reverse, it literally is. Obviously he didn't use the *exact* reversal but the song literally came from this, you can definitely hear the same melody.

[@KT4VT]

Oh yeah you can hear it

[@edkrang4491]

​@@KT4VTyeah you can hear it

[@Mercedes_Bouter_LL.M]

0:58 "This is some Fade-Out"
1:24 "I wish I was"

[@jhyoon9174]

You need to speed it up to hear Like Spinning Plates

[@MDE128]

Interesting fact: I Will was written during the Kid A/Amnesiac era. The band was unhappy about the original I Will and reversed it to create Like Spinning Plates. I Will was remade and made it to Hail to the Thief.

[@natschaefer1044]

The 'Why Us' version of Like Spinning Plates, which was released this week, sounds more similar to this than the Amnesiac album version does

[@kylefer]

This is my ringtone.

[@sawcrab2249]

Those notes are so chilling in reverse, Im getting goosebumps (and a way to try this my self)

[@abandonedmuse]

His songs sound good forward or reverse and that is insane

[@patrickcrawford6392]

I can hear it.

[@tes4o]

Jesus Christ. Gives me the chills...

[@laurinm2263]

Well, this 'feels like spinning plates' because Thom wouldn't get the right arrangement for I Will. He tried with synths, messed around with it and reversed it. That's how "Like Spinning Plates" was born.
The album arrangement for I Will feels still right, doesn't it? ;)

[@geriburrito]

There's this common joke/opinion that some Radiohead songs played backwards sound like Sigur Rós. Try Nude or Videotape.

[@The_Cognoscenti]

Lke Spinning Plates

[@Elvinasmrbetter]

Zazazazaza

[@hiddeninthesnowwe]

Christ on a stick this is creepy xD

[@Elvar360]

.....I don't get your joke.

[@aaronneumann7750]

Similar? slightly. not outright. they still both retain many unique characteristics. too many people overhype it and say 'omg its this song in reverse' when its not.

[@TheWizardYeof]

Aaron Neumann Exactly, I’ve never heard it very much, but I guess I sorta can

[@ieuanphillips4963]

Well it is due to that literally being what the band did

[@nombreapellido310]

Is a changed melody and was confirmed by radiohead

[@e418154]

no... no its not.

[@ieuanphillips4963]

Not exactly but they did reverse I will to get spinning plates but kinda changed the melody In places

[@nombreapellido310]

Yes but not, is a changed melody of like spinning plates and was confirmed by radiohead