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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Idioteque (page 5/ 8) ------ performed by Radiohead Beautiful song | Reviewer: Jack | 7/12/08 This song is beautiful and possibly my favourite radiohead song out there. The song for me is about how with our current lifestyle we will be left with nothing except greed, which will overwhelm us. I came to this conclusion through the line "here im allowed everything all the time" which i feel is saying that in first world countries people have everythign they want whenever they want it at the cost of the environment and human kindness. Whos in bunker - women and children first is more of a question than a statement. Thom using irony to point out that when we reach a point where we have to chose who lives and dies it will not be the innocent at all (the women and children) it will actually be the greedy, regardless of whether they deserve it. Keep in mind this is just my interpretation, you can believe whatever you want. idioteque | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/31/08 We take for granted really important things from life with the current lifestyle we have, especially if we are from America or any first world country. When the time comes for our lifestyle to end we'll be deaf and lost, but still greedy. Will women and children really go in the bunker? only those of a rich and powerful man, some of us will be thrown into the fire to keep others warm. Everyday will be a struggle to survive. If we get to the state of nature is all against all and anything is allowed anytime, all the time. "Jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature, that is to say, of his own life, and consequently of doing anything which in his own judgment and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto." -Hobbes, Leviathan Ch.14 of course there are other interpretations, that is why this song and Radiohead are the best!! and why we have hears...for Radiohead and some other bands that really make good music(art). Idioteque | Reviewer: 4EC | 3/21/08 For me this song doesn't need any explanation at all.You just have too listen it, take a visual picture which is close only for yourself.It make no sense political it is or something esle, it's all about your personal imagination, fantasy and brainwash. Agreement | Reviewer: ayatollah | 2/26/08 Lysadwas Great review. I think Yorke writes a lot of songs that "paint" ideas. It's often not necessary to understand every line (but great when you do!). The line "Here you're allowed...... gives huge meaning to the song. Is it heaven? - could be. But it could also be in the bunker where parental protection goes too far and becomes boundaryless. Children (and adults) need to understand the thing before they can make decisions ("...haven't heard enough" - "...let me hear both sides"). And of course it could be our attitudes on earth -take everything you can. A picture of a mindscape is a great way to describe it. RE: No. | Reviewer: Aaronb | 2/10/2008 | Reviewer: L05t | 2/20/08 No. | Reviewer: Aaronb | 2/10/2008 Hey mate, Radiohead aren't ones to be jumping on bandwagons like 'inconvenient truth' and people did realize that pollution was bad for the earth before that lousy film came out. The song to me is simply about how horrible most societies have become on earth. Mass consumerism - i'm allowed everything... swallow til I burst... take the money and run... and the other bits have been summed up well already. ------------------------ Who is to say society has become horrible? The way things are doesn't tell us how things are supposed to be...ever. Soon, this society you call horrible may be accepted by the generations who lives in it. Remember when slavery was okay? At the time no one thought it was bad..it was an okay society. So who is to say non-slavery is good now? By the way...I'm black, and I hate Slavery. lol Lysadwas | Reviewer: Apoco | 2/15/08 To me, this is not a political song. It uses political references, apocalyptic references, meanings and vocab to paint a picture of the artist's (Thom Yorke's, and the rest of the band's) mindscape. Like in There There (The boney king of nowhere) when he starts along the lines of 'I Was Walking In Your Landscape'... the band is all about things that aren't how most people would view them. walking in your landscape to me meant thinking about you, thinking about who you are, how to be with you (interpreting this girl of interest's mindscape) and this song is about his own mindscape. Ice age coming, Ice age coming. He does care a lot about global warming, but I think that he just uses that (like high school english teachers always said "Use What You Know!") to paint a picture of what goes on in your mind. His mind, rather. That's what Kid A is. An audio painting of his mindscape. That's why its so atmospheric. I don't need to use examples. Just, after you read what I have typed, read the lyrics again with the music going, and think AWAY from the political meanings, the direct interpretations. See things differently...deep... think in terms of the artist's landscape. Just try thinking about it this way. Tequey, Teque, Teque. | Reviewer: Ignus | 2/10/08 My personal opinion is that it's down to personal interpretation. I'm sure Thom said in an interview somewhere that he doesn't know what half the lyrics he writes mean. Brilliant song though, I never used to like Kid A, but it's growing on me. No. | Reviewer: Aaronb | 2/10/08 Hey mate, Radiohead aren't ones to be jumping on bandwagons like 'inconvenient truth' and people did realize that pollution was bad for the earth before that lousy film came out. The song to me is simply about how horrible most societies have become on earth. Mass consumerism - i'm allowed everything... swallow til I burst... take the money and run... and the other bits have been summed up well already. Alcohol? | Reviewer: Lynn | 2/2/08 I read someone mentioned "Swallow 'til I burst" as perhaps something pretaining to alcohol consumption. Lol. Materialism, yes, I can agree with. But alcoholism? Thom Yorke hasn't been known to be the most conservative person, especially with the partying aspect. In fact, I just recently read somewhere that one song (I can't for the life of me remember which one) was recorded when he was so drunk that he couldn't get up off the floor. One of his mates had to hold the microphone up for him he was so wasted. I think it's about social materialism and refering to the modern world sinking like the Titanic. But that's just me. You can't look at this song through present day lenses | Reviewer: Mike | 1/31/08 To people writing reviews regarding Idioteque's relation to "the war" and global warming: You do realize Kid A came out in 2000? That's three years before the Iraq War began and 6 years before An Inconvenient Truth and the modern global warming hysteria. I doubt they had either in mind when writing this song, especially events that hadn't transpired yet. Still, that aside, it really shows a key to great music: the ability to transcend time. It doesn't matter when or where you listen to it. Meaning springs forth no matter what, as opposed to event based songs that lose importance and meaning a few years after they are released. Anyway, I'm listening to Idioteque right now. And it is wonderful. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8