Premature Evaluation: The Smile Cutouts

“Hey man, slow down!” Thom Yorke exclaimed in the waning moments of arguably his greatest album. The music for “The Tourist,” which closes out Radiohead’s OK Computer at an appropriately unhurried pace, was composed by Yorke’s bandmate Jonny Greenwood after seeing out-of-towners obliviously blazing through a town in France. If the song begins as a friendly reminder, it quickly evolves into a pointed rebuke: “Idiot, slow down!” It is a tune about stopping to smell the roses rat...

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