“Bad Sisters” but make it Radiohead
September 3, 2022 3:46 PM   Subscribe

I can’t believe I’m not able to answer this on my own, but what Radiohead / Thom Yorke / Atoms for Peace song is the opening guitar riff of the Bad Sisters theme song (Leonard Cohen by way of PJ Harvey) reminding me of?

Good theme, great show, really just bugging me that I can’t transition my recollection of the familiar guitar riff into anything else about the song, except that it might be in a funky time signature like 7/8 (though on that I might be conflating it with “2+2=5” in my head which I’m pretty sure is not it, less bright guitar tone and no percussion behind it IIRC)

Entirely possible that it’s just a recollection of “2+2=5” with a guitar tone from other tracks
posted by supercres to Media & Arts (5 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
The very opening riff, before any vocals, reminded me of "Everything in its Right Place".
posted by LionIndex at 4:17 PM on September 3, 2022 [4 favorites]


I agree with both of you, it sounds like the pre-vocal riff from “2+2=5” with the synth present of “Everything in its Right Place” applied to it.
posted by ejs at 7:08 PM on September 3, 2022 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: Possibly. EIRP always strikes me as distinctly Rhodes-ish (electric piano), and the triggered memory is more clean but lowpass-filter guitar. The recollection is so specific that every time the cold open ends and it goes into the theme I expect it to be Radiohead in the soundtrack. Recollection is faulty though!

Maybe a different mix of 2+2=5; somehow I’ve lost track of most of the alternate versions I’ve collected over the years.
posted by supercres at 8:51 PM on September 3, 2022


It reminded me of "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi" from In Rainbows.
posted by cogat at 8:33 AM on September 4, 2022


The melody makes me think of "2+2=5", but the tone and feel reminds me of the intro to "Like Spinning Plates".
posted by cathodeheart at 11:39 AM on September 6, 2022


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