Say the Word (C-minor song)

[...] also played the cminor. lovely sunny day.

journal, thursday july 29 1999
Ed
[...] finish by playing "lost at sea/in limbo" , "optimistic", "c-minor song". [...]
journal, friday july 30 1999
Ed
[...] segway into 'follow me around' and a reworking of the 'cminor song' (in a stax stylee). jonny meanwhile is attempting to put the vocal mic through his analogue filters - which looks like a remake of an old telephone exchange. "hello vicar, yes ill put you through to mr kipling"... so the last two songs are punctuated by sudden bursts of unearthly noises, both extremely good and extremely bad.
journal, thursday august5 1999
Ed
[...] then move on to the 'c minor song' - jonny thinks that maybe it's getting a little too tasteful and nice and he's right. it sounds too slick. [...]
journal, tuesday august31 1999

Ed
[...] 'say the word' (or c-minor song); great drum, bass and vocals - personally getting a bit anxious over it, as i can't find anything that works with it, or rather i have an idea but can't get the sound right. makes me a bit neurotic. [...]

journal, jeudi 9 septembre 1999

Lift

Not dead yet.

--Thom Yorke | 1999

Innocents Civilian

Innocents Civilian
la Blague. La chanson-qui-n'existe-pas, celle-pour-faire-parler-les-curieux, l'Opération Karma Police. Toutefois...

Nigel Godrich
ps. great new song 'Innocents civilian' (ask thom)
message board, 19 janvier 2000
Ed
[...] go on message board and someone asks us about 'innocents civilian'. so once we get off the web we decide to put up the master tape of it. can't find it anywhere which is incredibly strange. it's got to turn up.
journal, 7/2/00
Nigel
Its a secret new song that isn't quite finished, but it sounds like one of those huge hits ...you know like, classic rock sort of ballad. He gets a bit squiffy when I tell people about it just cos it's probably our strongest song at the moment.
message board, 8 février 2000
Ed
innocence, civilian is a fucking masterpiece the likes of which we have never up till now committed to celluloid
message board, 8 février 2000
Ed
[...] still can't find the master tapes to 'innocents civilian' and beginning to worry. worst case scenarios even being aired ie the u2 case when some of their rehearsal tapes went missing and ended up being sold as bootlegs. [...]
journal, 8/2/00
Thom
kkeep it. its yours we dont want it. i never did like the marching gunfire thing. a bit heavy handed.
message board, 17 février 2000
Ed said in a press conference in late May that this track was a hoax. It was actually one of their worst songs but as a joke Ed decided to write in his diary that it was one of the best songs they had ever done and that the master tapes were stolen. This was done to fool the press because they were following his diary closely.

stand up.
sit down.
we can
wipe you out
anytime . gentleman's agreement
among civilised men innocent civilians



a terrible shame
walk into the jaws of hell walk into the jaws of hell walk into the jaws of hell






anytime

Follow Me Around

there is a version running around. it is long. there is a cool drum machine on it. some piano. err. ed on bass. i need to take a break from it now. it has taken me months to write the words properly

--Thom Yorke

Ed
it may well be that because we are working on completely new material it seems that we have not moved much today, like yesterday. but we discussed ' follow me around' and how we would like to approach it, rather than just start playing and thereby fall into old habits. plank says he likes the 'remain in light' style jam we had which is good because we were pretty nonchalant about it. 'de la soul'esque jam at end.
journal, wednesday july28 1999

Ed
[...] segway into 'follow me around' and a reworking of the 'cminor song' (in a stax stylee). jonny meanwhile is attempting to put the vocal mic through his analogue filters - which looks like a remake of an old telephone exchange. "hello vicar, yes ill put you through to mr kipling"... so the last two songs are punctuated by sudden bursts of unearthly noises, both extremely good and extremely bad.
journal, thursday august5 1999
Ed
[...] twice around 'follow me around' - mmm. not great, but salvaged by 'you and whose army' [...]
journal, wednesday sept1 1999
Ed
[...] there was some protool arranging on 'follow me around' and an attempt to do vocal, piano and drums on 'egyptian song'. was sounding ok. [...]
journal, 8/12/99
Thom
there is a version running around. it is long. there is a cool drum machine on it. some piano. err. ed on bass. i need to take a break from it now. it has taken me months to write the words properly.
message board, 19 décembre 1999
even when you're coming down
you are standing for the world
and i can see you
and i'm bringing there
to coming down
Follow Me Around sera sur l'album ?

Nigel Godrich
dont know yet. there is A version. very different now to MPIE.
message board, 25 février 2000
what happened to Follow Me Around?

Stanley Donwood
been put in a cupboard wrapped in newspaper to see what happens to it. it was good though. i think. i dunno. im not very musical.
message board, 6 juillet 2000