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Song : Morning Bell
Band : Radiohead
Album : Kid A
Main riff
G------------------------|
D------------------------|
A-------------4----------|
E---5--5-5------5--5-5---|
Chorus
G-----------------------|
D--------7----4---------|
A-----5----------7--5---|
E--3--------------------|
Bridge
G-------------------------------------------------------------|
D-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
E---0---4----0---4----0---4--/--10--10--10-10----5--5--5-5---|
Outro
G------------------------------------|
D-777777-11111111-8888888-1313131313-|
A------------------------------------|
E------------------------------------|
Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
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Julian Wanna Be |
#1 by Julian Gleneske at Feb 25, 1981 at 5:03 PM EST |
| Anyone feel a comedown coming on? (drug culture)? I allways scenced this song was the morning after, much like Velvets "sunday morning" but with Radioheads intention more to further the forms of escapism and the pain of reality and estrangemnet, that Kid A empowers. | |
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Jesse Average |
#2 by Jesse Neafsey at Jul 26, 1988 at 11:27 AM EST |
| does anyone else think it sonds like "not another camera!" instead of "light another candle"? | |
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Jaakko Wanna Be |
#3 by Jaakko Nyman at Feb 1, 1991 at 5:25 PM EST |
| Divorce was the first thing I thought of while listening to the song. Especially the "cut the kids..." business. But what the shit does "Sleepy-jack the fire drill" mean? There-in lies the enigma. An angry song set to an almost quiescent musical backround. Radiohead at their best! | |
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jon Wanna Be |
#4 by jon jeffreys at Aug 10, 1991 at 8:02 AM EST |
| I heard the song was about a haunted house Thom was staying in, but with Thom you never know what it could be. Anywho.....I love the chords. They are so very simple (A - C#m) and so haunting. Kid A is just so interesting to listen to, because it sounds like it was fookin' recorded on Mars. Just when you thought every experimental idea in music has been done, Radiohead then comes along and makes something so original. Now all they need to do is record an album in Area 51. | |
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Daniel Wanna Be |
#5 by Daniel Kreuzer at Oct 9, 1993 at 1:34 AM EST |
| Morning Bell is a painting by Winslow Homer of 1872.http://crh.choate.edu/english/salot/Art--%20Winslow%20Homer.htm | |
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Batmanuel Badass |
#6 by Batmanuel at Dec 28, 1999 at 2:09 AM EST |
| cut the kids in half.... divorce | |
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Adam Average |
#7 by Adam Favro at Apr 4, 2000 at 3:39 AM EST |
| Does anyone think The Morning Bell might be the name of a newspaper? I dunno it just sounds like the name of a paper. Maybe if we take the usual Kid A story about the human clone, this maybe the media is after him. I would then go on to say that the person he was cloned from worked for The Morning Bell. Kid A then kills the jounalist and walks away. (Walking, walking, walking etc.) After MPS he gets his memories changed by the scientists and forgets he is a clone. Then in Amnesiac (years later) it is repeated as his subconcious has been triggered by something (kind of like when Thom forgot the song for years) and he remembers it. Partially. The last movement is erased. Some of the words aren't quite the same (sleepy jack/sleazy jack) and it fades out as if blurring back to modern day. I'm probably very wrong. This is just one of my theories about this song. Anyhoo if you're gonna ignore the rest of it please note the fact that the Morning Bell could be a newspaper. Thank you. | |
