Radiohead's "No Surprises" retuned to 440hz

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This video is a reupload of Lukas Hagman's video on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/281711289). This is a mirror, thank the original creator Radiohead as well if you'd like

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Excerpt:
If you've ever tried to play along to Radiohead's "No surprises", you will likely have noticed something odd about it. Turns out the song is in between keys E and F. The reason for this is a fascinating one; producer Nigel Godrich alegedly had the band play the song at a faster tempo.

"For the song No Surprises, about the malaise of modern life, Radiohead wanted a tempo that was too slow to be played well on their instruments. Godrich solved the problem by borrowing a trick from George Martin's beloved production of the Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever. He had the band play the song at a faster, more feasible pace, and then — odd pitch be damned — slowed playback to a crawl for Yorke to sing his vocals overtop. The sum is ethereal and haunting: the guitars sound like harps; each pound of Phil Selway's drums sticks in the ear a micro-second longer than expected." - Matthew McKinnon, CBC

Back in the day, slowing things down was quite easy. Just play the tape back more slowly. Doing this however lowers pitch, which at the time was a hassle to compensate for. Therefore, the song which was most likely played and recorded in the key of F, came out about maybe 12 Hz lower. This becomes extremely apparent when one tries to play along with the song on instruments which are tuned to A440 standard tuning.

This is my attempt at adjusting the pitch to more closely resemble the original key of F recording. Tempo has not been altered. Audacity was used in order to raise the pitch about 1.85%, taking the flat first note (which according to my estimations is ~864 Hz) and the whole song in turn to a proper A5 (880 Hz). Hope you enjoy!