Reminder Guitar Tab

Paranoid Android [Single #2] Tabs:

Paranoid Android
A Reminder »

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* RADIOHEAD - A Reminder
 * Paranoid Android CD2, Airbag EP
 * Guitar tab by Owen Marriott ,
                 Adrian Morse

INTRO:
Strum E repeatedly

CHORDS:

E        C   G        Gmaj7         E
And if I get old,     I'll not give in
And if I do, remind me to pray
Remind me that I was always free
The spiders crawl all over me
And if I sat down and crossed my arms
Help me to this song

D        A    C            E
Knock me out, smash out my brains
   C         E
If I take my chance
B            Am     Am  E
Stop to talk ***

If I get old, remind me of this
And I'll be cursed, all I remember
And what I think of wasted speaking
But not before...play me this song.

*Gmaj7 = [320002]


STRUMMING PATTERNS USED:
The strumming is a very important part to this song.. The following
is how it's done on the CD. If you're going to improvise something more
interesting on top of it, then stick to this pattern:

INTRO:
|. 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - .|
|. /   /  /  /   /  /  .|

 = upstroke   : eadgbe
                  THIS WAY

Occasionally, a heavy, 'deliberate' upstroke is used on the first beat
of a new bar in the intro.

The verse chords change as follows:

   E       C   G           Gmaj7       E           E
|. 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - .|
|. /   /  /  /   /  /  /   /  /  /   /  /  /   /  /  .|

The chorus chords change as follows:

   D           A           C           E
|. 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - .|
|. /   /  /  /   /  /  /   /  /  /   /  /  .|

   C           E           B           Am          Am            [back to E again..]
|. 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - .|
|. /   /  /  /   /  /  / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / .|


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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Alex Lead Player	#1 by Alex Russo at Aug 25, 1971 at 11:27 PM EST
	The opening sounds were recorded on a metro platform in Prague. You can hear the station announcer saying something over the tannoy.

No Picture ed Average	#2 by ed lubecki at Feb 26, 1972 at 11:58 AM EST
	i totally can relate to this song. I am a sophomore in high school currently and I always look at adults and hope I never am like that but I cant help thinking I will be. Cuz like I know that now I feel certain ways that a few years ago I probably said I never would. So I often wish for someone to be around and remind me of all the things I used to stand behind so adamantly. Thats why it's good to write down thoughts.

No Picture Alexxx <3 Lead Player	#3 by Alexxx <3 at Jan 28, 1973 at 7:13 PM EST
	Don't EVER expect Radiohead to be too shallow. I think this is more than him just not wanting to get old. At first it seems so, but then the last verse reveals that he is talking to a woman. He realizes that since he loves this woman, he is gonna become hardened and bitter since she is leaving him. He doesn't mean getting old in years, but rather, changing as he goes on into his future since he had to leave this woman behind. 'Getting old' means letting go of fanciful love and becoming hardened. That's why he wants to be reminded that he kissed her once and that he 'really meant it' when he did. Talking shit is saying that love isn't real, and/or that he never loved her (or anyone). He says that if he becomes THAT hardened that he wants someone to 'smash out his brains' So, if he gets old (hardened) he wants her to play this song to him so he can remember that he wasn't always like that. The fact that he wants her to play him the song over the phone might mean that he knows that she is going far, far away, never to return to him.

No Picture Goat Average	#4 by Goat Screwer at Dec 23, 1974 at 1:48 PM EST
	Weird noise in the backround; the old Pink Floyd trick. This song is so like classic DSOTM or Wish You Were Here era Floyd.

No Picture bethan Average	#5 by bethan jones at Nov 17, 1975 at 6:30 PM EST
	hi guy

No Picture Jp Wanna Be	#6 by Jp Collins at May 30, 1977 at 1:28 PM EST
	I sure do, bojangles, although posting twice was an accident.

No Picture LJ Average	#7 by LJ at Jun 16, 1979 at 10:14 PM EST
	Don't EVER expect Radiohead to be too shallow. I think this is more than him just not wanting to get old. At first it seems so, but then the last verse reveals that he is talking to a woman. He realizes that since he loves this woman, he is gonna become hardened and bitter since she is leaving him. He doesn't mean getting old in years, but rather, changing as he goes on into his future since he had to leave this woman behind. 'Getting old' means letting go of fanciful love and becoming hardened. That's why he wants to be reminded that he kissed her once and that he 'really meant it' when he did. Talking shit is saying that love isn't real, and/or that he never loved her (or anyone). He says that if he becomes THAT hardened that he wants someone to 'smash out his brains' So, if he gets old (hardened) he wants her to play this song to him so he can remember that he wasn't always like that. The fact that he wants her to play him the song over the phone might mean that he knows that she is going far, far away, never to return to him.

No Picture SLIPKNOT FUCING Rhythm Player	#8 by SLIPKNOT FUCING RULES!!!! v at Mar 1, 1980 at 7:01 AM EST
	Wow, you must really feel strongly about this, seeing as you posted it TWICE and all

No Picture Jer Average	#9 by Jer at May 6, 1983 at 7:43 PM EST
	reminds me of lost love...I remember a beach with the first girl I ever really loved and a full moon behind her everytime I hear this song... If I get old remind me of this The one night we kissed and I really meant it I really did...hope you think me and of that night sometimes...

No Picture Snap! Crackle! Average	#10 by Snap! Crackle! Josh!! waldenmaier at Dec 12, 1987 at 5:27 PM EST
	he doesn't want to forget being young. being young possesses a wider range of emotions due to naivety and being newly exposed to life's hardships. being young entails young love, which is quite possibly the most beautiful feeling ever. if he forgets, he wants her to remind him.

No Picture Abe Lead Player	#11 by Abe Watson at Jun 24, 1988 at 4:18 AM EST
	This song is cool and nice. It's pretty self explanitory.

No Picture michael Wanna Be	#12 by michael Dittrich at Mar 1, 1991 at 5:04 PM EST
	gefen

No Picture Jimmy "Hoffa" Average	#13 by Jimmy "Hoffa" at Sep 1, 1991 at 8:04 PM EST
	just discovering radiohead's b-sides and this is a fav my take, which is the totally obvious one, is this song is for himself and directed to his girl/lover at the time: sayin if he gets old and cynical ("talking shit") to remind him of this time when he was younger and feeling more open minded. i picture him when he was writin this, imagining himself when he was 70 listening to this song to bring himself back to grips with who he is or was, like he's writin a letter to himself for the future :)

No Picture James Wanna Be	#14 by James Makowiecki at Mar 6, 1992 at 9:54 PM EST
	One of Radiohead's best. To me this song is about warning to stay young forever, but hopelessly knowing that old age and bitterness will come. Thom tells his girl to remind of who he used to be.....I love it.

No Picture nick Wanna Be	#15 by nick at May 29, 1994 at 2:58 PM EST
	this song which was released on the greatest EP ever to be pressed, "Airbag/How's my Driving EP" I'm not gonna get into the meaning, cuz like the others said, it's self explanatory. But the song is beautiful though. Dismal but inspiring.

No Picture Spanky Lead Player	#16 by Spanky Man at Jul 10, 1994 at 3:23 AM EST
	"if i get old" i love that line as though it's not certain. you could either interpret it as statement that thom may die before hand or that he has not fully comprhended the certainty of age, it seems to be sung from the perspective of an iniave optomist trying to rekindle some passion for their life... i love it

No Picture The Four String Lead Player	#17 by The Four String Mother Fucker at Nov 15, 1994 at 12:24 AM EST
	The opening sounds were recorded on a metro platform in Prague. You can hear the station announcer saying something in Czech.

No Picture Ace Average	#18 by Ace Of Spades at Aug 4, 1998 at 10:03 PM EST
	I like this song, it is comforting when I am in a bad mood or something like that.

No Picture cody Wanna Be	#19 by cody westermier at May 11, 2007 at 4:15 AM EST
	this song is so pretty & so sad at the same time. i really like it a lot.