BONUS 18. Idioteque - The Mood Swing (mp3)

poor chris. queens guy goes to brooklyn looking for a fun party & winds up watching fearless freaks with bryan, some chatty girl & her quiet boyfriend until 4AM instead. & getting an email afterwards from that same chatty girl asking him to take part in a covers mix for the quiet guy, just for, you know, the hell of it. he said yes, & the mood swing was born!

idioteque is one of my favorite radiohead songs by virtue of being so completely SLAMMING live when I saw them do it in liberty park however many years ago that was. I had no idea what chris was going to do with it, the original is so technotronic that it's hard to imagine it any other way. of course, he gets closer to the meaning of the song, in all its paranoid portentiousness, here in this jittery, skeletal take. fantastic! thank you chris for throwing down yet again!