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Radiohead — Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Album: In Rainbows
Avg rating:
7.6

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Total ratings: 4497









Released: 2007
Length: 4:01
Plays (last 30 days): 3
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Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favorite song

As your bad day disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back in focus again

The walls are bending shape
They got a cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission

Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you're comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes 'round and 'round
The beat goes 'round and 'round

I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
Words are blunt instruments
Words are sawed off shotguns

Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

A jigsaw falling into place
So there is nothing to explain
You eye each other as you pass
She looks back and you look back
Not just once
And not just twice

Wish away your nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You got a light you can feel it on your back
A light and you can feel it on your back
Your jigsaw falling into place
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I just changed my rating from 8 to 10.  Every time I hear this I just feel so damn good, such energy!.  I love Radiohead!
Posted 1 month ago by AhhtheMusic    [ Reply ]
this sounds amazing on a good system
Posted 2 months ago by salice    [ Reply ]
reminiscent of Love. 
Posted 8 months ago by GeorgeMWoods    [ Reply ]
im partial to a driving beat, so I'm biased.
this is the best of this great band.
Posted 10 months ago by lotus_65    [ Reply ]
 planet_lizard wrote:

YES! That's how I like to start my day. What a feckin choon.



i had to google that. now i know what choon means. thank you!
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
It has taken years, but Radiohead has grown on me, like a slow growing moss.
Posted 1 year ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 Ando wrote:
 
Your rating may be accurate, but your math skills are lacking.  



Don’t be a pedant. It just means they moved their rating from a 7 to an 8. 
Posted 1 year ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
 libertinesupreme wrote:


I was literally bobbing my head when I read this. You're so right. 


I myself don't bob, I sway like a pendulum, kinda like the lyrics that slither into my head.
Posted 1 year ago by rezadent    [ Reply ]
Album cover is someone failing to explain Burrows-Wheeler transforms..
Posted 1 year ago by snowcone    [ Reply ]
One of may fav melody from Radiohead - TY RP !
Posted 1 year ago by brebenelu    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:

For years I savaged Radiohead on these pages and in print, and one day I finally figured out that if you took Yorke's voice with a very large grain of salt, the band was incredible. Ditto the lyrics. Sigh. Unlike other bands, who will go unnamed, I think you have to take the wonderful with the not-so-wonderful. Still, Radiohead is pretty much everything touted about them. One hell of a band.


I'm getting there too, WonderLizard! And maybe I haven't been as savage against RH, though it's taken till recently to listen to this and 3 other RH albums in full, and yes, great stuff....this one's going +1 to 9...Long Live RP!!
Posted 1 year ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Dave Fanning, a DJ on 2FM here in Ireland, summed up In Rainbows as 'beautiful' when it was released. It's a word that pops into my head every time this song starts. It invariably bouys me up in this mad human world.
Posted 1 year ago by jkforde    [ Reply ]
 bforr wrote:

Impossible to listen to this song without bobbing my head like a fool watching Wayne's World.



I was literally bobbing my head when I read this. You're so right. 
Posted 2 years ago by libertinesupreme    [ Reply ]
One of the best Gigs ever when they played at Manchester Old Trafford Cricket ground in 2017. Literally one of the best times of my life....an amazing, unique band....and an amazing night 
Posted 2 years ago by finlaygrace    [ Reply ]
11
Posted 2 years ago by fortheloveofpete    [ Reply ]
This song starts off with driving intensity but when Thom hits the second "The beat goes 'round and 'round",  the band presses the hyperspace button.  Just love the energy of this song.
Posted 2 years ago by Jayesea    [ Reply ]
 planet_lizard wrote:

YES! That's how I like to start my day. What a feckin choon.



Come on and let it out!
Posted 2 years ago by TheKing2    [ Reply ]
 eileenomurphy wrote:

RH is hit or miss for me, This is a hit!



SAME HERE! I agree!
Posted 3 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Just watched a documentary that made mention of the fact that Radiohead were the openers for Alanis Morrisette during a portion of her Jagged Little Pill tour (her backing band featured Taylor Hawkins (man, RIP dude!) of the Foo's as her drummer!)...that is a strange collision of ascendancy and popularity if you ask me.  She said they were very aloof and didn't much care for them...lol...can't imagine why... 
Posted 3 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
RH is hit or miss for me, This is a hit!
Posted 3 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
This is some fantastic RnR...take a moment and listen to the band, rather than Thom.  Those guys are killing it...driving, intense, passionate...you can feel the frantic energy...wow...
Posted 3 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:

For years I savaged Radiohead on these pages and in print, and one day I finally figured out that if you took Yorke's voice with a very large grain of salt, the band was incredible. Ditto the lyrics. Sigh. Unlike other bands, who will go unnamed, I think you have to take the wonderful with the not-so-wonderful. Still, Radiohead is pretty much everything touted about them. One hell of a band.




Early Radiohead sounds a lot like Kino, a Russian group popular in the eighties. although  Kino's singer/songwriter was a baritone.
Posted 3 years ago by itsme_bygolly    [ Reply ]
not a big RH fan ,
but this , 
this is exeptional.
strong 9 .
Posted 3 years ago by Arrr    [ Reply ]
A Radiohead song I like!
Posted 3 years ago by Greyerwrit    [ Reply ]
Impossible to listen to this song without bobbing my head like a fool watching Wayne's World.
Posted 3 years ago by bforr    [ Reply ]
For a song to be really great, it has to sound unforced and like it arrived unmolested from the tablets on the mount. This checks all the boxes.
Posted 3 years ago by bforr    [ Reply ]
 paloeguevo wrote:
no.  they are not.
 

Posted 3 years ago by Greenman    [ Reply ]
Radiohead after Pink Floyd.  Makes sense. Radiohead is my generation's Pink Floyd
Posted 3 years ago by paloeguevo    [ Reply ]
 kbs wrote:

Wouldn't sound of much if it wasn't rotating. Just sayin'


You might try Googling the meaning of heavy rotation.
Posted 3 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
 Ando wrote:
 
Your rating may be accurate, but your math skills are lacking.  




Not in negativeland
Posted 3 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
nice rocker

excellent drummer
Posted 3 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
"Creep" is in my top 3. I love Radiohead.
Posted 3 years ago by meleager    [ Reply ]
 Jelani wrote:
8>9.
Your rating may be accurate, but your math skills are lacking.  


Posted 3 years ago by Ando    [ Reply ]
8>9.
Posted 3 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Before you run away from me
Before you're lost in my petty voice
My whining goes 'round and 'round
My whining goes 'round and 'round
Posted 3 years ago by maboleth    [ Reply ]
 eveliko wrote:
OK one has to admit on this track, dude is whining with slightly more energy than the usual.
But that's still whining.
 

Lol
He is.
I just red the lyrics - I'm thinking dude might be better off talking to girls in church  sundays
Posted 4 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
Radiohead just continues to astound. 
Posted 4 years ago by bforr    [ Reply ]
 Laptopdog wrote:
This CD is still in heavy rotation in my car. Such a great album.
 
Wouldn't sound of much if it wasn't rotating. Just sayin'
Posted 4 years ago by kbs    [ Reply ]
Some songs deserve any 11
Posted 4 years ago by fortheloveofpete    [ Reply ]
 planet_lizard wrote:
YES! That's how I like to start my day. What a feckin choon.
 
Hey now - who you calling a choon?
Posted 4 years ago by sjccroquet    [ Reply ]
7.7 rating? For me it's beyond godlike! :)
Posted 4 years ago by bhanci    [ Reply ]
Like the tune.  Like the band name.
Posted 4 years ago by bruceandjenna    [ Reply ]
 HectorPascal wrote:
I understand all the RadioHaters out there. It's natural with anything that elevates an art form to another level.

Mahler had a similar problem - if problem is the correct word.

RP knows what's what though.
 
This type of pretentiousness pretty much epitomizes RH fans.
Posted 4 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
This whole album is "most excellent",,,,give it  a "8"...
Posted 4 years ago by neptunejeff    [ Reply ]
I understand all the RadioHaters out there. It's natural with anything that elevates an art form to another level.

Mahler had a similar problem - if problem is the correct word.

RP knows what's what though.
Posted 4 years ago by HectorPascal    [ Reply ]
 hempmandan wrote:
They do nothing wrong. They make other bands wonder why they try...I need a song or two to recover after that....

 

take your meds
Posted 4 years ago by Wonderloaf    [ Reply ]
For years I savaged Radiohead on these pages and in print, and one day I finally figured out that if you took Yorke's voice with a very large grain of salt, the band was incredible. Ditto the lyrics. Sigh. Unlike other bands, who will go unnamed, I think you have to take the wonderful with the not-so-wonderful. Still, Radiohead is pretty much everything touted about them. One hell of a band.
Posted 5 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
i guess Radio Head is very polirizing band just like Rush ,you eithr hate them or dig them
Posted 5 years ago by Pilsenaaa    [ Reply ]
A good example of, 'just because it's Radiohead, doesn't mean it's good'.
Posted 5 years ago by MrStatenIsle    [ Reply ]
There is a LOT of Radiohead on RP I note. Jolly good thing too.
Posted 5 years ago by HectorPascal    [ Reply ]
soundtrack for a busy dream
Posted 5 years ago by OggieDogness    [ Reply ]
This sucks cherry balls. Tasty
Posted 6 years ago by Shaggy27    [ Reply ]
OK one has to admit on this track, dude is whining with slightly more energy than the usual.
But that's still whining.
Posted 6 years ago by eveliko    [ Reply ]
Sucks.
Posted 6 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
“You took too much man, too much, too much.”
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Awesomest!!!! Love Radiohead!
Posted 6 years ago by cavemanleong    [ Reply ]
This CD is still in heavy rotation in my car. Such a great album.
Posted 6 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
YES! That's how I like to start my day. What a feckin choon.
Posted 6 years ago by planet_lizard    [ Reply ]
love the Radioheads!
Posted 6 years ago by walk    [ Reply ]
Love this song.
Posted 7 years ago by Shmelo    [ Reply ]
MUTE
Posted 7 years ago by CCinSB    [ Reply ]
Their last masterpiece album....
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]

Love the song, love the video clip!

https://youtu.be/GoLJJRIWCLU


Posted 8 years ago by Gijåm    [ Reply ]
Allright! Turn volume UP and sing with me!!! {#Bananapiano}
Posted 8 years ago by CHuLoYo    [ Reply ]
 FatPants wrote:
Perhaps their best song, along with Everything in Its Right Place, Idioteque, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Street Spirit, You and Whose Army?, A Punchup at a Wedding, Codex, and Decks Dark.


Kaw wrote:

And a few dozen others {#Cheesygrin} Knives out for example is excelent.

 
'Paranoid Android', 'There, There', 'House Of Cards', lots of 'em
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 FatPants wrote:
Perhaps their best song, along with Everything in Its Right Place, Idioteque, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Street Spirit, You and Whose Army?, A Punchup at a Wedding, Codex, and Decks Dark.

 
And a few dozen others {#Cheesygrin} Knives out for example is excelent.
Posted 8 years ago by Kaw    [ Reply ]
8
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
Perhaps their best song, along with Everything in Its Right Place, Idioteque, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Street Spirit, You and Whose Army?, A Punchup at a Wedding, Codex, and Decks Dark.
Posted 8 years ago by FatPants    [ Reply ]
Beautiful song from a beautiful album.{#Sunny}
Posted 8 years ago by FrnaZ    [ Reply ]
Yeeeeaahhhhhh  {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 8 years ago by planet_lizard    [ Reply ]
Doesn't get much better than this!!  {#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 8 years ago by Big_Daddy    [ Reply ]
 aspicer wrote:
Wow - how do you not play the new tune Bill?!  "Burn the Witch" - it's right down the middle for RP.   And I would say this one is better. {#Guitarist}

 
We're playing that one too.
Posted 8 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
Wow - how do you not play the new tune Bill?!  "Burn the Witch" - it's right down the middle for RP.   And I would say this one is better. {#Guitarist}
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
 eroz wrote:

Time to boost the volume!



 
Zactly - just did {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 8 years ago by Neil66    [ Reply ]
Never noticed before but he sounds like Pete Yorn, or rather Pete Yorn sounds like him?  Makes sense why I like them both.{#Clap}
Posted 8 years ago by AhhtheMusic    [ Reply ]
 LawrenceSheppard wrote:
I don't get it. Is he on serious drugs? Is he recovering from a stroke? It all sounds slurred and sloppy to me. Oh well, to each his own, huh?

 
Now, that's art. It's not for everyone, just as any other ;)
Posted 8 years ago by Reckoner978    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}{#Drummer}{#Guitarist}{#Bananajam}
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
I don't get it. Is he on serious drugs? Is he recovering from a stroke? It all sounds slurred and sloppy to me. Oh well, to each his own, huh?
Posted 8 years ago by LawrenceSheppard    [ Reply ]
 8 < 7. Sorry. Its effect decreases with repeats. Does this guy write any upbeat or affirmative material? So much f'in angst. That aside, his vocals, as usual, grate my ears like a roll up gate that needs some lube. 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 Best radiohead song! The unique godlike for me of radiohead.
Posted 8 years ago by CHuLoYo    [ Reply ]
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
{#Bananajam}{#Drummer}
Posted 9 years ago by niccca    [ Reply ]
A perfectly crafted and executed song.
Posted 9 years ago by galste    [ Reply ]
Perfect!
Posted 9 years ago by csutto    [ Reply ]
 hempmandan wrote:
 They make other bands wonder why they try...I need a song or two to recover after that....
 
I sometimes wonder why they bother as well. At least it stops him whining in another band.
Posted 9 years ago by exurbia    [ Reply ]
Uh oh! Crossfire!
Beguiling!
Droning!
Well, at least we're not listening to Quadrophenia!
"Love, Feign o'er Me"
Posted 9 years ago by colt4x5    [ Reply ]
Always beguiling, never fails to draw me in. Thanks Bill.
Posted 9 years ago by k1j2cat    [ Reply ]
It would be great if it wasn't for the awful vocal. 
Posted 9 years ago by trevc    [ Reply ]
Ugh.  Yet another droning-turned-to-whining contribution from Radiohead.  How it is that the emo sheeple have caused this to linger is one of life's great sad moments.
Posted 9 years ago by How    [ Reply ]
This is growing on me hugely, as their stuff usually does.  Eventually.  ↑8
Posted 9 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Sometimes Yorke's voice works, sometimes it doesn't... This is a case of the latter.
Posted 9 years ago by testpilot    [ Reply ]
They do nothing wrong. They make other bands wonder why they try...I need a song or two to recover after that....

Posted 9 years ago by hempmandan    [ Reply ]

Time to boost the volume!


Posted 9 years ago by eroz    [ Reply ]
amazing sequence:
 porcupine tree, then a day in the life, roundabout (yes), and finally this..
 
Posted 9 years ago by framana    [ Reply ]
One of my rare 10s.  This song is brilliant.
Posted 9 years ago by Pristina    [ Reply ]
the musical "feng shui" of this against Zep is why I dig on RP
Posted 9 years ago by billk    [ Reply ]
I just lowered my rating to 'sucko barfo'. I had to, for the sake of reexperiencing the satisfaction of rating it 'godlike' again.
Posted 10 years ago by slippery    [ Reply ]
 Relayer wrote:
This song ends a great RP prog rock set:
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Beatles
Yes
Radiohead

 

Great set!!!
Posted 10 years ago by camilacollato    [ Reply ]
Wow.....A Radiohead "dance track".....woke me up.
Posted 10 years ago by dsd    [ Reply ]
 Steely_D wrote:
Reminds me of the Sea and Cake.

 
Sounds like a good single malt!
Posted 10 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of the Sea and Cake.
Posted 10 years ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
This song ends a great RP prog rock set:
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Beatles
Yes
Radiohead
Posted 10 years ago by Relayer    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}{#Guitarist}{#Drummer}
Posted 10 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Not many tracks stop me dead in my tracks when I'm busy at work ... but this one does. Always has. Can't explain coherently here as to why, other than it's wonderfully complex and "edgy" and so brilliantly crafted. In Rainbows is an album that I just couldn't get my head around when it was first released. Maybe they were just way ahead of the curve back then when it was released (2007), but now - it's probably my most played RH album. As from their Wiki page "On 12 July (2014), Jonny Greenwood stated that Radiohead would "start up in September, playing, rehearsing and recording and see how it's sounding" ... Salivating here at the thought of what's to come!
Posted 10 years ago by ncarus    [ Reply ]

I don't mute RP very often but this made me do it, dreadful.


Posted 10 years ago by gedhickman    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
BEST BAND ON THE PLANET

 
Which planet?
Posted 10 years ago by Imkirok    [ Reply ]
The opening riff of this song owes an awful love to Arthurly and Love.
Posted 10 years ago by GeorgeMWoods    [ Reply ]
 Stratocaster wrote:
To me, this is almost mindless drivel. Not bad enough for PSD but not even remotely great. I realize that the fanboys will explain how Thom Yorke is singlehandedly saving music as an art form, but it is COMPLETELY lost on me.

That said, to me "Knives Out" is a great tune and arrangement, and RH do have other occasional flashes of brilliance. But the sun doesn't shine out of their collective arse.

Out of respect to said fanboys, I won't rate the song.

 
Well, I will.  6. I admire RH and there is smth like here...just not much.  lots of better RH played on RP, but nice to have a spectrum played. Thanks BillG.
Posted 10 years ago by ScottN    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
BEST BAND ON THE PLANET

 
Agreed.
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
{#Guitarist} {#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 10 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
Volume up up up!!! I love mornings with RH (and days and nights)
{#Motor} 
Posted 10 years ago by niccca    [ Reply ]
TERRIBLE!!!!
Posted 10 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
To me, this is almost mindless drivel. Not bad enough for PSD but not even remotely great. I realize that the fanboys will explain how Thom Yorke is singlehandedly saving music as an art form, but it is COMPLETELY lost on me.

That said, to me "Knives Out" is a great tune and arrangement, and RH do have other occasional flashes of brilliance. But the sun doesn't shine out of their collective arse.

Out of respect to said fanboys, I won't rate the song.
Posted 10 years ago by Stratocaster    [ Reply ]
 LaurieinTucson wrote:
They just can't write a bad song.

 
{#Yes}
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
this song deserves the little guitar jamming {#Guitarist} icon
Posted 10 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
They just can't write a bad song.
Posted 10 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
 Kaisersosay wrote:
getting a headache

 
You are obviously not a Radiohead-head.
Posted 10 years ago by Tana    [ Reply ]
 helgigermany wrote:
Very nice!

 
exactly
Posted 10 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
so annoying...why oh why.
Posted 10 years ago by CCinSB    [ Reply ]
getting a headache
Posted 11 years ago by Kaisersosay    [ Reply ]
 MassivRuss wrote:

What planet? Where does this insufferable worship of RadioHead come from?

Really trying to get it. This one got a 3 from me, it takes nearly a whole minute for Thom Yorke to turn his weak voice into true rectal itch and hearty PSD. As for the composition, it's no different from dozens of other of their songs. There's minimalism, then there's mindlessly arranged noodling in a single register.

 
Please excuse Jimmy's negative comment about your intellect in his response.

But to answer your question - the planet is earth (in my opinion of course - although I'm joined by many - it doesn't make it fact)

I couldn't disagree more with some of your opinions (weak voice?, rectal itch?, mindlessly arranged noodling?, no different fom dozens of RH songs??)

I'm thinking Thom's voice is a powerful 5th or 6th instrument - used in a wide variety of ways - in RH's catalog.
I believe the arrangements are precisely and splendidly arranged and the playing powerful, fluid and unique in rock.

My opinion is this album overall and this song in particular are more accessible to the average listener than many of their prior 2 or 3 efforts, very different from the vibe of Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief.  I think that's why many folks on this board who are not big RH fans still express admiration for this tune/album.

Won't address your feelings in your rear quarters.  These guys have a major affect on my mind, heart and soul.




Posted 11 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]