Speaking of music

[garran]

There's this point in Radiohead's Everything in its Right Place where Thom Yorke sings, "There are two colours in my head." (Twice.) I've been noticing that I've always had a really strong mental image of which two colours he means; in fact, it was only recently that I consciously recognised that the communication of those two specifically was not objectively there in the song. So now I'm curious: if you, reading this, are familiar with the song, or have just heard it via that youtube link, do you feel like you know which colours they are? If so, which ones do you imagine?

Comments

[carrawayeffect.livejournal.com]

I always got superimposed red and blue, like an anaglyph image, or something in the base RGB spectrum of light (typically red-blue or red-green). Partially because of the "digitized" themes that pervade a lot of Kid A songs. Partially because I listened to In Rainbows before Kid A, and the song hearkened mentally to Videotape for some reason. And partially because the songs on Kid A just sound like the artificial luminescence of digital information, broken into its base sonic/visual components.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Yellow and magenta. But I didn't think about it until you pointed it out.

How 'bout you?

[masamage.livejournal.com]

I read "two colours" and immediately thought of red and blue.

[haibane-rachan.livejournal.com]

Me being me, it never occured to me to even think about it. Even now, I just listened to it and no colors popped to mind. I find it interesting that colors would pop into someone's head at all. Cool. ^_^

[masamage.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I even get it from the song? Just now I thought, "okay, two colors" and got a green field with yellow flowers.

BRAINS! They're crazy.