"Climbing Up the Walls" is a song from the 1997 Radiohead album OK Computer. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... From left to right: Ed OBrien, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Phil Selway and Colin Greenwood Radiohead are a British alternative rock band from Oxford. ... OK Computer is the third album by British rock band Radiohead. ...

This is the first track in Radiohead's repertoire to be described as "scary." It appears as the ninth track on their third album, OK Computer. It relies heavily on strings, but not in the conventional way. The string section, covered by Jonny alone, features 16 different violins playing quarter tones apart from each other.

The audience's cue that the band is about to play this song live comes when Jonny pulls out a small radio and begins tuning it to different stations. During the band's sound checks, Jonny locates classical-music or news-oriented local radio stations, and uses these -never rock stations- to execute "Climbing Up the Walls."

Thom : "This is about the unspeakable. Literally skull-crushing. I used to work in a mental hospital around the time that Care in the Community started, and we all just knew what was going to happen. And it's one of the scariest things to happen in this country, because a lot of them weren't just harmless... It was hailing violently when we recorded this. It seemed to add to the mood. Some people can't sleep with the curtains open in case they see the eyes they imagine in their heads every night burning through the glass. Lots of people have panic buttons fitted in their bedrooms so they can reach over and set the alarm off without disturbing the intruder. This song is about the cupboard monster." Care in the Community was a policy of the Margaret Thatcher government in the 1980s. ...

The version on OK Computer was recorded in the ballroom of Jane Seymour's mansion. Seymour as Dr. Quinn Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg OBE (born February 15, 1951) is a British actress who took the stage name Jane Seymour at age 17. ...

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