Bodysnatchers (song)
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| "Bodysnatchers" | |
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| Promotional single by Radiohead | |
| from the album In Rainbows | |
| B-side | "House of Cards" |
| Released | 1 May 2008 |
| Recorded | 2005–2007 |
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| Length | 4:02 |
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| Songwriters | |
| Producer | Nigel Godrich |
"Bodysnatchers" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, from their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007). The lyrics were inspired by Victorian ghost stories and the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives.
In May 2008, "Bodysnatchers" was released with "House of Cards" as a promotional single in the UK, and ATO Records then serviced it to modern rock radio in the US. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, Radiohead's highest placement since "Creep" in 1993.
The Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, and the lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, debuted "Bodysnatchers" in May 2006 at their performance for the Big Ask at Koko in London.[2] For their album In Rainbows, Radiohead recorded "Bodysnatchers" with producer Nigel Godrich at Tottenham House, a dilapidated country house in Marlborough, Wiltshire.[3] Yorke said the house's atmosphere influenced the recording.[3] According to Yorke, "Bodysnatchers" is the only track on the album that was recorded as a live take with the band members playing together.[3]
Composition
Yorke described "Bodysnatchers" as a combination of the German band Neu! and "dodgy hippy rock", likening it to the Australian band Wolfmother.[4] He said it was inspired by Victorian ghost stories, the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives and the feeling of "your physical consciousness trapped without being able to connect fully with anything else".[5]
