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  • amazing song <3

  • Wow why does the ending remind me of Jacob's Ladder.

    I was in that too.

  • Maybe because it has dialogue from the movie in it and you read it on Wikipedia and thought you would come in here and act like ooo I have seen the movie im a pretentious twat.

  • @romantotalwarrior well said.

  • I've been there. Wish I would've just strayed too far into the wrong lane walking to the mall across the interstate looking and being exactly like this guy. Sometimes I obviously feel like being hit in the streets, any street by a fast moving car that doesn't give a shit I'm going out of my mind. And then when I saw a homeless dude not far from there I gave him my $300 parka when I saw him sleeping under a bridge in the winter and walked home freezing lookin like this dude, minus the parka.

  • it shows to me... those who think a thoughtless man walking down the street.... i have no clue of the world about me.. when the truth is this man contains the beauty of the world about us

    +.

  • this is amazing!!!

    ...btw its THom! :P

  • k , so the car doesnt even look like it hits him the frst ime

  • woah! its a super saiyan!

  • Way to misspell Thom Yorke

  • lovely

  • Very stimulating!

  • I love this video. I feel like a weirdo. And just like this guy, when the world wants to clash against me, i want it to hurt

  • Absolutely Brilliant, when there are only two men standing, you will be by my side.

  • ends te best prt

  • Awesome song.

  • i will probly nvr know what this means

  • I don´t know about U.N.K.L.E. but it was always been common knowledge that Thom Yorke was afraid of cars. ´They´ say that´s why he wrote Killer Cars for example well... what the reason is for this song... It´s better then great none the less...

  • and Airbag.... airbag is about his fear of cars.....

  • don't forget Stupid Car

  • Is that from Pablo Honey?

  • It's one of their b-sides. I think it's early but I'm not sure

  • "How I'm I driving?"

  • that was a title of an EP right? Airbag/How am I Driving?

  • yeah, from "OK computer".

    when they mentioned about Thom's fear to cars, I remembered this EP, which by the way, is one of my favorites.

  • Wow I never saw this before, it's great. I do remember hearing this won music video of the year when it came out (or at least was nominated for video of the year) here in the U.S.

  • beautiful

  • Is this a metafor for life?

  • the music of Radiohead can help people with depression?

  • any thing could help a person with depression it just depends on the person... who cares about cliches

  • radioheads music certainly doesnt help people with depression! i think its the opposite actually...

  • helped me

  • some of it is beautiful but depressing. it's the genius of thom yorke, and this song sounds very much like both, but the video is inspiring and at least encourages me.

  • helped me.

  • wow. just... wow.

  • Don't try what that man did! I went out into the highway bare chested. The results weren't nearly so poetic. Just messy.

  • perfect ending,

    only crazy people see's the truth of life.

    420

  • Please have some respect for what makes up the bulk of this song... *Thom Yorke's* stunning and instantly recognizable vocal range.

  • I used to get goosebumps when the guy stops the car with his body xD

  • This took my breath away ..........

  • *THOM YORKE

  • i don't know how to handle the awesomeness that is the ending of this film

  • vote ronnie corbett

  • What the fuck?why are you talking about the fucking U.S.A.?Listen to the music and be quiet you fools!!!

  • Does anyone know what he's saying?

    The last part of the vid is awesome

  • then hes a soul less wanker.

  • Beep! Beep! Humanity's the Rabbit, Robots' are the Headlights? Beep! Beep!

  • sort out your spellings.

  • Excellent song, Radiohead is incredible, Thom Yorke is a genius of the music

  • why was this video band in America lol please America is the most violent fucking place in the world more people die from gun violence there on west then in all the small wars goin on the planet America the blood hungry thas what .more then a million gun related death in america a year does sick shit not even that many died in vietnam then they do a year on our own american shooting each other sick fuck nation!!!

  • Don't generalise, friend. It's not like everybody over here is walkin around in the streets with machetes and AK's. It sickens me, all of the violence over here, not being able to walk out late at night for fear of mugging or some other ill fate.

  • yeah not everyone here is a murderer. there are a lot more good people than bad

  • "Banned" in America?  What the hell are you talking about? Million gun related deaths per year? Try 30,000. That includes all deaths: Suicide, accidents, self defense, etc.

    Moron.

  • sarah palin and McCain take over the end is near they will atack Russi and Iran then the whole shit will hit the fan for america the end is near the republicans will steal the election once again stupid american people will allways be looser in my eyes all you people do is ruin lives .America should stop policing the whole world.leave the world alone America the wicked bitch of all country worse then the Nazi when they where in power!

  • Obama will by the largest margin in history.

  • even if my numbers where you still have a fucked country why the fuck you call me names cant you write to me with out insulting me you ignorant americans are all alike give them a gun argue with them they shoot first ask question later.your nation is a pile of shit hope it goes down the toilet.with the way your markets have crashed lately the end is soon when McCain and sarah psycho palin winn the end will be even faster for you America soon soon the end will be with you once mccain and palin

  • i just got a huge fucking head ache reading what you wrote. Go back to school

  • good I hope your fucking head blows up you damn infidel.wicked human you should pay for the horrible thing you country America has done to the world.your corrupted America mind fueling hatred across the world damn you America Dam you..

  • cool...

  • it's hard being american. so many of us try so frickin hard to change stuff, but the country's huge and our culture is sometimes pretty sick. Guaranteed depression. So it sucks that we both have so many problems and are (probably justifiably) so hated elsewhere. We're trying. Ignorance really isn't a choice when so many of us have no idea we're even ignorant. Like, the first symptom some americans see of how screwed up we are is people hating us. Which is hard to respond positively to.

  • @Amnesiacmidnitetoker stfu ... go out have a few pints ..... and enjoy your day ... why are people soo fucking angry all the time ? !

  • cara o video nao eh do radiohead, o tHom yorke so faz uma participacao, a musika eh o UNKLE ;] conserta ae dps a descriçao x]

  • Hey mate where are ya going ?.

  • i just started the video so i wont comment on the song

    but

    tom york? ahahaha, thom yorke.

  • hahahahahahaha

  • that's sad how they try to help him and then just drive away.

  • This video is fucking crazy

  • I love this song!!!!!

  • they mix very well

  • I took my life to this song once.

  • You many lives do you have exactly? You say it on every single Radiohead video.

  • ok for me this video and the song resume all the life.

  • This is one of those great videos where its open to interpretation and there could be several right answers and there are only a few things that are definite like the cross at the end.

  • it's just a crazy guy who walks in the middle of the road

  • what does this one word mean?

    he is repeating one word all the time...

    at about 30 seconds......

    i want to know what it means in GERMAN....=)

  • thom yorkE

    please...

  • increible video.

  • It seems to me that the video could be about how people try to run over people who want to make their own path and find their own understanding.

    When you finally find that understanding, nothing can overcome that realization. No one can destroy it. He casts off his afflictions and becomes mighty.

    He become invincible in the end, and those who try to run him over find a wall they cannot take down.

  • great interpretation man =)

  • Society doesn't care? All the man did was ignore the people who actually tried to help him. Include in your analysis: When people finally do try to lend a helping hand, oftentimes the person is so calloused and cynical he ignores or misinterprets the offer.

  • The video is about how society doesn't care and all it ever does is push you around.

    The last scene is symbolic of the crucifix and accepting your fate just as jesus did.

    Analysed this video in english class =P, not sure if that's correct though...

  • maybe it's about being alone and stubborn

    he's walking along and getting knocked back, he could've gone with those guys and it would've been faster and safer

    my opinion anyways

  • That last scene is fucking awesome

  • that is such a crazy good vid i dont know if it was radiohead or unkles idea

  • What do people think about what the video's trying to say?

  • best video ever.

  • I havent seen this vid in forever. haha I remember when I first saw this video and I was like "Wow the the singer sounds just like the lead singer from Radiohead"

    *doy*

  • que de lujo con estos genios,

  • AGRESIIIIVOOOOOOO!!!

  • exelente video...una chimba...!!!

  • fuck, i always think it Nelly's "hot in here" when i hear those first 2 piano chords.

  • Absolutely a fucking amazing Video and song I wish Thom and Unkle would produce more music together.

  • I'm a huge fan of Radiohead... Heard this great song so many times, but never seen the video b4, how did I ever missed it??? It's just brilliant!!

  • gran video gran voz de Thom el siempre es genial es lo mejor de lo mejor

  • does anyone know if this video, in any way, is in reference to the video karma police? you know, vehicle and man on foot...

  • Don't think so, but they are related in the sense that they are both brilliant!

  • i dont think it does

  • Sorry but this really drags on!!

  • hey thom in the car ^^

  • This is me in the morning...

  • fantastic

  • Read my first posts right below this one first

    Notice how the muttering intensifies after he is hit by a car by the fifth time(03:35) it is like as if he was sure that the humanity was lost and was praying even harder. He then gets rid of the cross and gets ready for the crucifixion.

  • I am not a very Christian person, but i think this is sort of a modern version of Jesus' way to the mount calvary(the place of his crucifixion), the tunnel represents this path.

    The whips of the roman soldiers are the cars that hit him.

    His jacket might be the cross

    And notice how it ends: he is in the same position of jesus during the crucifixion.

  • I think he may be muttering because of the pain he feels carrying the "cross" and that this muttering may be a pray.

    The people are not being able to help even though they try to. The guy that appears in 01:43 and the black guy in 01:17 are people that feel his pain but are either afraid to help pr not whilling to.

  • that's what you get for not stopping

  • I don´t get it, the clip scares me, of it´s weirdness and brilliantness

  • One of my few truly favorites..Dig the ending.. hear Dj Shadow half part of Unkle at 3:20 then at 4:22 remindes me of his track Midnight in a perfect world on the cd Entroducing. On 12" vinyl remixes sounds familiar. thnx for posting !

  • very dark and bizarre. i like it... good lirics good band RADIOHEAD.

  • ouch

  • one of my favorites...if you all get a chance come check out the few radiohead videos i made...jam on friends...jam on...

  • briliant

  • One of my favourite ever tracks, one of the best videos ever made

  • simplemente , el mejor!!! GENIO

  • cool

  • sorry for the almost completely unrelated question but does anyone remember a clip where theres this african dude thats made of porcelain or something, and he keeps breaking of limbs and all...

    no racism intended offcourse xD

    again sorry for the unrelated question but ive really been looking for the song for a while now and its making me nuts...

  • You're thinking of the video for "Afrika Shox" by Leftfield & Afrika Bambaataa.

  • holy crap your rght xD

    thx a lot man you made my day

  • It's on Chris Cunningham's collection DVD. This is Jonathan Glazer.

  • life on its own feels the same way than the clip...the end pays of after suffering...

  • ekaf

  • I have a question...and I dont want to do not have respect to the subject (sorry for my terrible english) but the men in the video, when he talks, he make me remember one of the characters of southpar Timmy, that characters says all the time "Timmy!" and if you watch second 30'' you will see that this men says something like that, is not like an illnes or something???

    sorry for the ignorance I just have that doubt

  • thats amazing

  • It´s a great video and the song gives me goose

    I love it!!!!

    Greetings from Germany

  • what album is this on? or is it not on one? I have the massive attack instrumental remix but not this version.

    I love this video by the way, every time I see it.

  • Way to misspell Thom Yorke.

  • he obviously spelled it good enough for you to understand it, so why do you give a fuck?

  • rabit in your headlights christian suburbanites. i think hes talking abou t a general lack of respect and humanity among the righteous elite for people they deem uncouth or dirty or homeless or crazy or "on drugs" lets just punish people instead of trying to help them, right america?

  • Actually "Christian suburbanite" refers to the rabbit in the headlights..it's the same person. "washed down the toilet money to burn" - I think what the lyrics are saying here is how mundane and pointless one's life can be, when it's all about making and spending money. I could be totally off on this though, I don't know.

  • what does the guy say before he drives off..? the guy saying mate.. mate..

  • "nice coat pal"

  • I think he said something like "nice jacket" but i didnt catch the last word

  • I love this video. It's been driving me mad for ages trying to workout what song it is and now I know I love the song as well.

    Thanks Pacora81, you've saved what little sanity I have left.

  • have you watched .come to daddy.aphex txin crazy video

  • You know what I think is were all small in our own way stuck in this world and the headlights would be living (in its entirety) and this song is to encourage ourselves to greater things. To (literaly) Break Free from this world. To repent what holds us back and eventually well......be like this guy. fearless. Because fear holds us back from our imaginations. reality maybe. you get where im getting at guys?

  • you know what I think is that

  • read what you want into it. it looks like a typical day for me.

  • I think he was just trying to get to Blackpool tower

  • theres a meaning but it cant be described, you just get it but you cant understand, dont try to, just take it in.

  • I don't know if there's a conection between the lyrics and the video, I think there's a not so hidden message on it. For me at least it's like no matter how many times you fall, one day after all that you'll be unbreakable.

    I dont know what you think...

  • some people are telling me to check for the lyrics online. I do that sometimes. When there is like ONE WORD or LINE i dont understand but not for the whole damn song. Whats the connection to the lyrics and the video? Anyone know?

  • how does that guy not die from the hits

  • because he's a rabbit-man in the headlights

  • NICE COAT MAN!!!!

  • "invironments?? spell correctly u thick fuck"

    If there's one thing I really hate,

    it's assholes like you 'trying' to better

    another person while sucking even worse

    at that same thing.

    'u' ? Since when is that a word ?

  • I bet you double checked every word to make sure that you spelled it right, when you wrote this, didn't you?

  • as did you

  • no, i use firefox.

  • Well said :P

  • hey hiltonboy101 is that not the mark of a truely good music video, after all we see what we think is the meaning of a video and even if it is not what was meant by the group it does not matter because the meaning is what you think is applicable to your life or principles. I am sure there are people who think that there are meaningful meanings to a "Bangles" video, good luck to them I say ...

  • I get: a person trying to find The Way(or so he seems) and this is put in contrast with people driving (they know where they are and where they're going) as this man he's on the right path, he's on his way, but he is in a way in a more direct path than all the rest. he's fighting to find out the answer, to what? i dont know

    but he realizes it at 4:13

    and discovers that its not about being on the path but after all is given up that we can be free of our own mind

  • He is on LSD25...damn i wonder who his dealer is.

  • Sample from movie Jacob's Ladder :

    If you're frightened of dyin' and you're holding on...

    You'll see devils tearing your life away.

    But...if you've made your peace,

    Then the devila are really angels

    Freeing you from the earth.....from the earth....from the earth

  • when does he say this?

  • I don't hear it in this video, but it's there in the version of the song I have on mp3. Excellent song... this one always hits me hard.

  • The meaning of the song is: if you get hit by a car several times,you become immune.End of story.

  • lol true

  • maybe there is no "message" that most people posting on this vid want to know so badly and maybe the point of the video was to make people search for a meaning even though there isn't one

  • lol people posting on this vid trying to understand it trying to be arty or intelligent....such generic responses

  • 1:12 to 1:26 you can understand him. you just have to listen closely and he speaks in english.

  • dies

  • ı love this song and klip.

  • art is meant to disturb. - Georges Braque

  • So what the message? I didnt get it.

  • most people posting for this vid are fuckheads. thats all

  • Yea cause i do not get the message? I mean nice music Truth but I can barley hear what he is saying. I mean getting hit by a car is beautiful? I just want to know the message and not what you think it is but like what the real message is.

  • the good thing about music is it means different meanings for different people. you might be like me and dont understand songs until you read the lyrics. try to look them up and you might be able to understand this song.

  • No the video. I mean whats the meaning of the video?

  • first try to understand the song and after that you will see the hidden message. even for videos it has different meanings.

  • eh fuck it. I cant find the lyrics.

  • Who said anything about a message?

  • So there is NO MEANING or CONNECTION to the video and the lyrics of the song? People are saying OMG so beautiful. Yea the INSTRUMENTS are but lyrically I dont know what he is saying and therefore I have no idea what the video means.

  • Why are you so hung up on "meaning" and "connection"? You do understand what art is, right?

  • No. I guess i dont. I thought art had a meaning. Also I would think the video and the lyrics would have some sort of connection. So art has no meaning?

  • Art doesn't have to have meaning, no. Certainly not in the directly literal way you seem to be demanding.

  • I am not really asking for a MEANING I am asking for a connection. I guess i got to look up the lyrics because i can barely hear what he says. But its cool.

  • Art is in all in the Eye of the behoulder.