Ambition makes you look pretty ugly-Kicking, squealing, gucci little piggy
by: Robert Bruns 02.19.2010 No Comments »Today we begin the process of taking the tabs of Paranoid Android off the sheet music and into the strings of the guitar. If cohesion is reached, its certainly a feat that rivals, let say, a hard certification test.
As explained in the transcription:
OKÂ lets begin with Guitar 1 which is Thom Yorke. This part was played with a pick and it is quite complex looking because of the loose picking pattern. It is best not to try to hit every note exactly, just try to get the vibe of the song. Any part that guitar 1 repeats is played similarly on repeats.
Guitar 2 is Jonny Greenwood, his insane playing style is so distinctive it is impossible for it to be anyone else. For this part you’re going to need a delay pedal, flanger, and a pitch shifter. Johnny plays some crazy harmonics like 2.5 which is halfway between the second and third fret. I suggest you read the attached legend in order to decipher the method I used to arrange his bends and pre-bends.
The sweet smelling soap of the wash, rinse, repeat cycle of life now is the 8:30 to 10:pm guitar sessions on Monday and Thursday nights.
From Wiki, some insight to the song –
“Paranoid Android” is categorised by three distinct moods written in what Yorke referred to as three different states of mind. Â The song’s lyrics tie in with a number of themes common in OK Computer, including insanity, violence, slogans, and political objection to capitalism. Yorke’s lyrics were based on an unpleasant experience at a Los Angeles bar during which he was surrounded by strangers high on cocaine. In particular, Yorke was frightened by a woman who became violent after someone spilled a drink on her. Yorke characterised the woman as “inhuman”, and said “There was a look in this woman’s eyes that I’d never seen before anywhere. … Couldn’t sleep that night because of it.” The woman inspired the line “kicking squealing Gucci little piggy” in the song’s second section. Yorke, referring to the line “With your opinions, which are of no consequence at all”, said that “Again, that’s just a joke. It’s actually the other way around — it’s actually my opinion that is of no consequence at all.”
