‘Fake Plastic Trees’ is from Radiohead’s second album
In an excerpt from the book Jason Thomas Gordon, The Singers Talk, Thom Yorke reveals that watching Jeff Buckley live made him more confident about his own voice, in 1995, when he recorded The Bends (via NME). The track “Fake Plastic Trees” was released on this album by Radiohead.
When we were making the second album, I went to watch Jeff Buckley, before he died. And it reminded me of the vulnerable part of me that I was choosing to hide. I remember recording ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ by myself to begin with. So when we got together to listen to it, the others said, ‘Well, use that one,’ and I thought, ‘No, no, we can’t use that, it’s too vulnerable. That’s very me.’
Thom He also confessed that, when he heard the song playing, he cried: “When you record, you are going through certain feelings, but the only thing you don’t notice is yourself. You have no idea of your own identity, so it’s like meditation.”
“Even when you play, if you perform something well, you have a kind of feeling that goes beyond that. You don’t even notice your own vulnerability, you’re just somewhere else, and then you come back. It’s like seeing yourself in the mirror for the first time, catching himself off guard”, added the artist.
Source: Rollingstone
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