@darnok0611 You bring up a good point about the out of tune thing. That could (?) be where a hidden harmonic comes out (possible ghost note?). I'm sure certain fans would call it more of a quirk/style/lilt, though, as you mention. You may want to look up "sycophantic," as well. Slight distinction.
Does anyone else hear the weird harmonic thom's voice sometimes hits (induces)? Not trying to sound like a dbag, just never noticed until hearing it stripped down.
You mean when he goes out of tune? Yeah, all the time. His voice is terrible for doing that and it would be notorious if he wasn't so worshipped by his sychophantic fans. Personally, I like it because it adds to the fragility which exudes frm him but it he definitely goes out of tune a lot.
@antigrav118 It is possible to keep an open mind and appreciate all genres of music, y'know. If you can't at least see the merit in each basic genre of music, even things like techno, then you've just got an ignorant ear, my friend.
And for the record, how are you gonna' say "when they made music like this?" Radiohead's one of a kind, even for their day.
@TehDauvs You're right. I just feel the need to vent because I have to say even though the new album is a well made album that deserves some respect I am dissapointed that my favorite musical sound isnt being experimented with some more. In the same way that it was. The awesome guitar licks by jonny on songs like palo alto or my iron lung or palo alto, maquiladora, etc are simply to wonderful to transition away from.
I love this version but I think he had to change it to fit in with Kid A, I'm thankful this wasnt changed to fit the theme of Pablo Honey, The Bends or Ok Computer, he made it in to something really special by keeping it to close radioheads masterpiece with it. Miss the last verse though :(
his voice is much more emotional than in the final track. thom hadn't sung it much times before he recorded this version. so it's more direct and personal, sadder than the kid a version, which seems to be somehow alien, far away. not tangible. fainted somehow. not breaking your heart like the demo, but like a cosy blanket of sadness.
It's really cool that an organ and strings changed the sound of this song from something that would have fit Pablo Honey to something really larger than life.
Few years ago, I believe I haven't dreamed: in a music store for collectors in Iceland I've seen an album or EP by Radiohead, called "Experiments with Electronic Music" or something similar. I checked it out but I did not buy it; it was around the Amnesiac era. I do not find anything remotely similary in the internet. Is anyone aware of such album or collection of demos, or whatever it was? I would kill a rooster to have it. If not, any link to early radiohead experiments with electronica wba.
MY Beatles. When a member has died, or by some hypothetically tragic brake-up. Radiohead for me will always be the most inspirational band to me personally.
I've always preferred this angst-filled, guitar-driven version vs. the slow, melodramatic album version. I was actually disappointed when I bought the album because I love this track but the album version just sounds like a funeral procession.
Apparently Thom Yorke has recently recorded a track for the "New Moon" soundtrack and Grizzly Bear has apparently as well. I fuckin' hate the epidemic infactuation people have of the "Twilight" series. >: /
Im personally not a fan, but I don't see whats wrong with it... Its just a story that got popular. You cant hate things because their popular... its just stupid. I mean hey, if the films cost the lives of many, it would be shitty. If the book was about women improving their lives with starvation, it would be shitty.
@TToxicunderground cmon now my friend...it is typical for him to do some "bullshit"before the new radiohead record......he has 2 do some press correct?.....i think the next record is going to be even better than "in rainbows"........dont lose power my friend...im sure radiohead will always please us....until we die or they die......just like zeppelin....
@dust2sday Even though I do really like Yorke's song off New Moon, the whole "well you can't write a better song so screw you!" argument is ridiculous. If that was the case, every non-musician could never judge any band ever. Just because you can't write something better doesn't mean you can't have an opinion or call shit when you see it.
I thought so at first too, but if you listen to the new stuff Thom Yorke debuted for his new band with Flea, i.e. "Skirting on the Surface" and "Open the Floodgates" I think you'll find that he's still got it.
@Arakon1 - You misread my comment, I was referring to the overall archetypical, cliche' - ideal 13 -year old audiences of the "Twilight" series, and their obsession with everything about the overtly shallow, one-dimesnional, cutout Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner characters and so on and so forth. Not the musicians who are given excessively large sums of money to record for the soundtracks of the films in the series.
I'm somewhat suprised that this version of the track wasn't included upon the recent 'Deluxe Version' of the album. I quite certain that Radiohead has more unreleased tracks/recordings to release for us devotees. ; )
heellll no, this song BELONGS on Kid A. even if thom first wanted it on OK Computer, it just fit so beautifully onto Kid A... i dont think theres anything else to explain it.
i also like the studio version better.
here, you can really hear that Thom was younger, even if it was only a few years before recording, he had improved by so much.. and you can call -any- acoustic+vocal solo as more 'personal' but the studio version, i still think, is lightyears better
if it was before radiohead, it was while they were 'On a Friday'. They've been together as a band, under different names though, since they were in school.
No, it was before On a Friday even before thom was in that techno headless chicken band in new york in the 80's. I read he wrote this around 15... same with the bassline in national anthem. He wote creep hes first year of college, where he met everyone besides colin. He and colin have alway been tight then after radiohead they decided to let colins dorky brother in the band. Its in this radiohead book i have that gives your tons of info on everysong and album prior to Hail to the Theif.
? They all attended the same public school and had met each other before forming On a Friday in the mid-80s while they were all still at school.
Thom DID write the song while he was at Exeter Uni (his college), but that is obviously, after he had went to Abingdon public school and after On a Friday was formed.
There's never been an officially released biography book about Radiohead so it might explain wonky dates. Plus, Headless Chickens were from and played in Exeter since he was in uni then.
Only Colin and Thom went to public school together I thought they They met eveyone else at Oxford, then decided it'd be alrigth to let Colins dork brother play harmonica for them. There were also two chicks who played sax originally. and It is a offical release called The Stories Behind Every Song: Radiohead- Karma Police, by James Doheny, it was everything til Amnesiac
All 5 members attended Abingdon Public School, which IS in Oxford. Thom and Colin in the same year, Ed and Phil a year above, and Jonny 2 years below. There were 3 saxophone players, by the way. There is a photo floating around somewhere on google or something.
And there is NO official released biography or book that has been approved either by Radiohead's record company or even Radiohead themselves. If it was never sold on Waste or thru their company, well, then...
this version is amazing. i prefer the other version in context of the album, and i think the 2nd verse is fitting to end an album with. the cut out verse is pretty good though
This versions far more vivid and clear vocally, it's undeniably one of the most gloomy, bleek, dark and depressing yet beautiful tracks they've recorded to date. I Can't wait for the upcoming album.
This is a great version, but I think the warm tone of an organ completes this song. The album version just seems like a further developed version of this one. Still awesome, though.
I much prefer the album version, but I think this version is nice as well. It's interesting to see two different perspectives on the song. It's like the neverending debate between Trent Renzor and Johnny Cash's versions of "Hurt"... In the end, neither is better, but you might like one better.
Who cares, anyways? This is Radiohead, afterall. Everything they touch turns to gold.
I think I prefer the vocals in this version and if they took the organ from the Kid A version then introduced those guitars at the end it would be even better. But overall I prefer the album version
I dislike it when people deny someone else's OPINION like that.
I also think that this version is much better and more emotional.. The organ just wipes out the simplicity and therefore it also wipes out the immensely sad atmosphere that only appears on this demo. (in my opinion)
extra verse! still i find the kid a version more affecting. It's amazing to hear those harps and orchestral swells at the end of an album full of electronic beats. who's with me?
this is so much better than the album version. It makes me sad that they nearly ruined it with that electronic background sound. It's actually the simplicity and the power of the vocals/lyrics that makes the song so great.
"motion picture soundtrack" is one of the radiohead songs which are exist since the late 80s. Its not a new song. thom wanted to pick the kid a version from MPS on OK computer as the closer but the other band members dont want to. so it appears first on kid a.
I am still a Kid A purist, I think the album version is one of the most globally-depressing songs ever written, as it was intended to be. It's beautiful, and sticking. This one almost seems too upbeat for the lyrics.
Am I strange in finding the album version incredibly uplifting? I know its very sad but its uplifting - I'm guessing its guitar or the ondes martenot - but the bit in the 2nd chorus which sounds like a distorted choir. That bit chills me and puts a smile on my face at the same time. Are there any live versions from the OKC tour, apparently it was often an encore?
While I was looking at the Kid A cover and listening Thom singing I was like okay if someone says the famous comment ''Better than the album version'' I'm gonna jump off a cliff, then what do I see??? I'm still alive though...
This song is just beyond description in words, it is ecstasy to the ears. Thom Yorke is an absolute genius who has truly brought out the power and beauty of music.
I thought these lines were added because Thom got a letter saying "Its a shame Jeff Buckley died and not you", which would mean it was 1997. Think that quote came out of a Q interview so might be wrong.
This version is fake. A fan got Thom's voice from the studio version and added his own guitar.
soundsower1 3 weeks ago
@soundsower1 I don´t think so, because the studio version doesn't have the extra lyrics..beautiful angel pulled apart at birth...
rafigno23 2 weeks ago
@soundsower1 This is an early demo, tard, his voice doesn't even sound like this in the studio version.
omgitsjk101 1 week ago
Beauty is this song.
Drenex00 1 month ago
this version is so raw and achingly beautiful... i love it
drummer4916 2 months ago
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I miss this heartfelt stuff. Their new stuff is great... but it's so political. It weighs you down.
bbrriiaann9922 4 months ago
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bbrriiaann9922 4 months ago
@darnok0611 You bring up a good point about the out of tune thing. That could (?) be where a hidden harmonic comes out (possible ghost note?). I'm sure certain fans would call it more of a quirk/style/lilt, though, as you mention. You may want to look up "sycophantic," as well. Slight distinction.
popsaver 4 months ago
Wow. This is...a lot better than the album version, actually.
AnimeGuy9 4 months ago
holy cow, never knew there was an accoustic version
wakkawakkautoo9195 6 months ago
for godsake youtube, this video has a dislike button, it's wrong
ThIsystem 6 months ago
he changed the first lyrics from "Red wine" to "white wine" lol
DEEECKED 6 months ago
I think I like this version better.
Unnamed0909 6 months ago
Does anyone else hear the weird harmonic thom's voice sometimes hits (induces)? Not trying to sound like a dbag, just never noticed until hearing it stripped down.
popsaver 6 months ago
@popsaver
You mean when he goes out of tune? Yeah, all the time. His voice is terrible for doing that and it would be notorious if he wasn't so worshipped by his sychophantic fans. Personally, I like it because it adds to the fragility which exudes frm him but it he definitely goes out of tune a lot.
darnok0611 4 months ago
Remember when they made music like this?....music without techno "bumps". bum chica bum chica bum chica bum chica omg please shut up
antigrav118 7 months ago
@antigrav118 It is possible to keep an open mind and appreciate all genres of music, y'know. If you can't at least see the merit in each basic genre of music, even things like techno, then you've just got an ignorant ear, my friend.
And for the record, how are you gonna' say "when they made music like this?" Radiohead's one of a kind, even for their day.
TehDauvs 7 months ago
@TehDauvs You're right. I just feel the need to vent because I have to say even though the new album is a well made album that deserves some respect I am dissapointed that my favorite musical sound isnt being experimented with some more. In the same way that it was. The awesome guitar licks by jonny on songs like palo alto or my iron lung or palo alto, maquiladora, etc are simply to wonderful to transition away from.
antigrav118 6 months ago
@antigrav118 music is still made like this, all the fucking time.
Rockwood19 5 months ago
@Rockwood19 good to know. But like I said...Remember when THEY made music like this?
antigrav118 5 months ago
Ever since I heard it a couple months ago i always sing the song with the beautiful angel part,I like it
MrFreedomGotAnAK 7 months ago
the way he says "I think you're crazy" in this version feels far more meaningful than the Kid A version
danielodwyer1 7 months ago
a cosy blanket of sorrow
maaaauuuuuuuuu 7 months ago
trop fun
lolita68410 9 months ago
This song was written for Pablo Honey.
Not a huge fan of the Kid A version.
joshwhalen17 9 months ago
Fuck this song brings back memories...
Memories of a happier time.
molagg 11 months ago
It's not a demo, it's from a radio show in 1996
lasrarities 1 year ago
is this thom's voice?
takovarra 1 year ago
@takovarra no its Admiral Akbar's
fruitypeebils 11 months ago
I love this version but I think he had to change it to fit in with Kid A, I'm thankful this wasnt changed to fit the theme of Pablo Honey, The Bends or Ok Computer, he made it in to something really special by keeping it to close radioheads masterpiece with it. Miss the last verse though :(
justger 1 year ago
4 people wish the audio could be a little better...make that 5. Best version of this song though.
JonKiddthe3rd 1 year ago
his voice is much more emotional than in the final track. thom hadn't sung it much times before he recorded this version. so it's more direct and personal, sadder than the kid a version, which seems to be somehow alien, far away. not tangible. fainted somehow. not breaking your heart like the demo, but like a cosy blanket of sadness.
gibbleralsocorri 1 year ago
4 people are crazy... maybe
gisforgillett 1 year ago 15
It's really cool that an organ and strings changed the sound of this song from something that would have fit Pablo Honey to something really larger than life.
platinumdynamite 1 year ago
@platinumdynamite lyrically that never could've come from Pablo Honey. Cop on
joydivided23 1 year ago
I think the song should have remained like this. Fuck all that glittery sparkly bullshit. Totally ruins the song for me.
zurx93 1 year ago
help me get where i belong
TheHoboPants 1 year ago
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help me get back where i belong
TheHoboPants 1 year ago
I think you're crazy...maybe!
ThomComputer 1 year ago 3
thom... my god you are incredible.
SuperiFox 1 year ago
wonder what made them change from white wine to red wine?
liam710 1 year ago
I really wish they'd included the extra verse in the studio version.
boabibingo 1 year ago
Few years ago, I believe I haven't dreamed: in a music store for collectors in Iceland I've seen an album or EP by Radiohead, called "Experiments with Electronic Music" or something similar. I checked it out but I did not buy it; it was around the Amnesiac era. I do not find anything remotely similary in the internet. Is anyone aware of such album or collection of demos, or whatever it was? I would kill a rooster to have it. If not, any link to early radiohead experiments with electronica wba.
duckotaco 1 year ago
*wba: would be appreciated.
duckotaco 1 year ago
way better than the album version. why the hell didn't they put it on pablo honey, bends or ok computer ..
hellyfornication 1 year ago
MY Beatles. When a member has died, or by some hypothetically tragic brake-up. Radiohead for me will always be the most inspirational band to me personally.
JesusCristo2002 1 year ago
wow that was cool...
bensley56 1 year ago
Thank you Thom for cutting the third verse about that angel and stuff in the final KID A version. That bit really fucks up the whole song.
cfhyde 1 year ago
I like it. Not to mention, it makes this great song even longer, which is about my only complaint abut the Kid A version. That it's too short.
MandoLA323 1 year ago 5
Thom has the most beautiful voice. Such a great song!
welchs9580 2 years ago
beautiful angel pulled apart at birth
limbless and helpless
i can't even recognize you
wow. thank you
tiedyedress94 2 years ago 24
yeah, but no its rare it's a acoustic version anymore... really this song is all !!! =)
jhonatan008 2 years ago
Do you realise this could have been on Pablo Honey ? Weird.
Scott17quebec 2 years ago 5
jesus this was my favorite song of all time anyway, this version with extra lyrics is awesome.
yakattack320 2 years ago 4
You can share this song with me? Please upload on RS or something please...
LennyValentino9191 2 years ago
Para mi peya.
Androhead 2 years ago
Sounds likes a The Bends era song.
FJuarez777 2 years ago 3
it was written when Creep was
ed1art54 2 years ago
I've always preferred this angst-filled, guitar-driven version vs. the slow, melodramatic album version. I was actually disappointed when I bought the album because I love this track but the album version just sounds like a funeral procession.
daysleeper236 2 years ago
You clearly didn't get the song on the Album. It was meant to be satirical of the grandiose musical arrangements in Hollywood movies.
km1735 2 years ago
Regardless, I still prefer this version.
daysleeper236 2 years ago
I don't know if it was satirical...there is an transcendence reached, but it's not really making fun of it.
It reminds me most of Isolde's Liebestod.
If the scene weren't grandiose, then it might be satire. But I think it's more homage than mockery--it doesn't sound half bad.
audiouroboros 2 years ago
The perfect song.
ErKenta 2 years ago 3
So the lyrics are an apostrophe to 'love' right?
dasklavierleben 2 years ago
Wonderful version, makes me cry, thanks for sharing!
Also thanks Thom for inspiration!
balimena 2 years ago 25
Beautiful song...just perfec... makes me cry... thanx for sharing!
Great Thom...
YouCoriTube 2 years ago 3
great version... makes me cry
I think you're crazy....
abadir90 2 years ago
"Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can't even recognize you"
thom just knows how to hit all the right notes without even singing
i'm in awe
EVERYTIME
thatkidnamedjimi 2 years ago 6
Apparently Thom Yorke has recently recorded a track for the "New Moon" soundtrack and Grizzly Bear has apparently as well. I fuckin' hate the epidemic infactuation people have of the "Twilight" series. >: /
JesusCristo2002 2 years ago 8
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you can actually find it on youtube, and i agree
its not even a very good song...im disappointed in thom...
TToxicunderground 2 years ago
aww, everyones to tight on the series.
Im personally not a fan, but I don't see whats wrong with it... Its just a story that got popular. You cant hate things because their popular... its just stupid. I mean hey, if the films cost the lives of many, it would be shitty. If the book was about women improving their lives with starvation, it would be shitty.
but its about vampires.
And I loved the song thom did for it ^_^
blackblackgrey 2 years ago
@blackblackgrey people don't hate it because it's popular. they hate it because it sucks and it's still popular.
roejogan8 1 year ago 5
@TToxicunderground cmon now my friend...it is typical for him to do some "bullshit"before the new radiohead record......he has 2 do some press correct?.....i think the next record is going to be even better than "in rainbows"........dont lose power my friend...im sure radiohead will always please us....until we die or they die......just like zeppelin....
servo1056 1 year ago 3
@TToxicunderground i love hearing damage! dont care for twilight i'm afraid lol
darkhorizon088 1 year ago
@TToxicunderground What, I like "Hearing Damage"... Still hate Twilight. Wish he had released that song instead of giving it to Twilight.
ParadiseDestroyedTV 1 year ago
@TToxicunderground lets see you make a better song, Twilight sucks yes.
dust2sday 1 year ago
@dust2sday Even though I do really like Yorke's song off New Moon, the whole "well you can't write a better song so screw you!" argument is ridiculous. If that was the case, every non-musician could never judge any band ever. Just because you can't write something better doesn't mean you can't have an opinion or call shit when you see it.
StereotypicalGeek129 1 year ago
@dust2sday You're an absolute spanner. Learn to speak.
justger 1 year ago
@TToxicunderground You sounded stupid in so many ways....
MoNoHeAd5 11 months ago
@TToxicunderground Seems as if he had to do it, so just gave them an unused, underdeveloped offcut.
SemiKnockedOut 11 months ago
@SemiKnockedOut who's that?
takovarra 11 months ago
@TToxicunderground woah woah woah, you've gone to wrong. Thom can't go wrong
bassxhippiexlife 6 months ago
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PatrolTard 6 months ago
@TToxicunderground Eh, I'd have to disagree with you. It's a beautiful song in my opinion.
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is In Rainbows getting to them? that is what I've been thinking but I don't want to think of such a thing
93steven 2 years ago
I thought so at first too, but if you listen to the new stuff Thom Yorke debuted for his new band with Flea, i.e. "Skirting on the Surface" and "Open the Floodgates" I think you'll find that he's still got it.
HoppingMadMedia 2 years ago
Yorke didn't record it specifically for New Moon.
Synxernal 2 years ago
@JesusCristo2002 I cannot believe this. Is Thom adapting to society?!?!? The last singer on earth is adapting to crappy mainstream society?
duckotaco 1 year ago
@JesusCristo2002 Well if Twilight makes Thom Yorke write new songs then its not so bad
Cestpasmarrant 1 year ago
@Cestpasmarrant well they let twilight use 15 step. that pissed me hella off.
SuperiFox 1 year ago 3
@JesusCristo2002 They're getting paid to write songs for a film, where's the 'infactutation'?
Arakon1 11 months ago
@Arakon1 - You misread my comment, I was referring to the overall archetypical, cliche' - ideal 13 -year old audiences of the "Twilight" series, and their obsession with everything about the overtly shallow, one-dimesnional, cutout Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner characters and so on and so forth. Not the musicians who are given excessively large sums of money to record for the soundtracks of the films in the series.
JesusCristo2002 11 months ago
@JesusCristo2002 Honestly, it was mostly a comment on your spelling. Which was a bit dickish of me, sorry.
Arakon1 11 months ago
nope! it's very noticeable if your a big fan of the song.
Supaduck0 2 years ago
you are not the only person that noticed that
incubus022 2 years ago 2
I'm somewhat suprised that this version of the track wasn't included upon the recent 'Deluxe Version' of the album. I quite certain that Radiohead has more unreleased tracks/recordings to release for us devotees. ; )
JesusCristo2002 2 years ago
I really like the third verse in this version
Davepumpkinhead 2 years ago 2
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corgan59 2 years ago
TOSS MY SALAD
ubicuoubicuo 2 years ago
not unless you're actually thom yorke
Supaduck0 2 years ago
heellll no, this song BELONGS on Kid A. even if thom first wanted it on OK Computer, it just fit so beautifully onto Kid A... i dont think theres anything else to explain it.
i also like the studio version better.
here, you can really hear that Thom was younger, even if it was only a few years before recording, he had improved by so much.. and you can call -any- acoustic+vocal solo as more 'personal' but the studio version, i still think, is lightyears better
reCupcake 2 years ago 3
I read that thom wrote this song, along with creep before radiohead was even a band.
micravin 2 years ago
if it was before radiohead, it was while they were 'On a Friday'. They've been together as a band, under different names though, since they were in school.
reCupcake 2 years ago
No, it was before On a Friday even before thom was in that techno headless chicken band in new york in the 80's. I read he wrote this around 15... same with the bassline in national anthem. He wote creep hes first year of college, where he met everyone besides colin. He and colin have alway been tight then after radiohead they decided to let colins dorky brother in the band. Its in this radiohead book i have that gives your tons of info on everysong and album prior to Hail to the Theif.
micravin 2 years ago
? They all attended the same public school and had met each other before forming On a Friday in the mid-80s while they were all still at school.
Thom DID write the song while he was at Exeter Uni (his college), but that is obviously, after he had went to Abingdon public school and after On a Friday was formed.
There's never been an officially released biography book about Radiohead so it might explain wonky dates. Plus, Headless Chickens were from and played in Exeter since he was in uni then.
reCupcake 2 years ago
Only Colin and Thom went to public school together I thought they They met eveyone else at Oxford, then decided it'd be alrigth to let Colins dork brother play harmonica for them. There were also two chicks who played sax originally. and It is a offical release called The Stories Behind Every Song: Radiohead- Karma Police, by James Doheny, it was everything til Amnesiac
micravin 2 years ago
The problem is:
All 5 members attended Abingdon Public School, which IS in Oxford. Thom and Colin in the same year, Ed and Phil a year above, and Jonny 2 years below. There were 3 saxophone players, by the way. There is a photo floating around somewhere on google or something.
And there is NO official released biography or book that has been approved either by Radiohead's record company or even Radiohead themselves. If it was never sold on Waste or thru their company, well, then...
reCupcake 2 years ago
That's not right. both Thom, Colin, Ed, and Phil, went to the same school, but Ed and Phil is 2-3 years older so they was in a higher grade.
JohannesMarslew95 2 years ago
what book is that??
EgoTrippin311 2 years ago
What is this book called? I would love to read that!
mindonmusic 2 years ago
book name?
ONE1ONEONEONEONE1ONE 2 years ago
This version spruced up a bit could've probably fit nicely into OK Comptuer.
amnesia3kr 2 years ago
theyre demo's ...b sides, cut songs are better then songs other bands put out on theyre frontline albums
tyranitar4ever 2 years ago
Love this song, love this version. Playing it infront of my school in three weeks.
razzamattazz 2 years ago 14
good luck
TToxicunderground 2 years ago 11
Thanks, I might need it.
razzamattazz 2 years ago
Good luck, and have fun :)
You'll feel unstoppable afterwords :)
blackblackgrey 2 years ago
Haha yeah, I sure hope so!
razzamattazz 2 years ago
howd it go?
Supaduck0 2 years ago
@razzamattazz I'm playing it at our Fall Fair! In like an hour!
kumochu 1 year ago
@razzamattazz how did the performance go? :D
deandave24 8 months ago
@deandave24 Oh um.. It didn't xD turns out I ended up getting rejected after my audition. Yup xD
razzamattazz 7 months ago
@razzamattazz oh ok, no worries dude! :)
deandave24 7 months ago
Awesome. But can't go past the album version.
homelessblueless 2 years ago 2
this version is amazing. i prefer the other version in context of the album, and i think the 2nd verse is fitting to end an album with. the cut out verse is pretty good though
gooseohio 2 years ago 2
This versions far more vivid and clear vocally, it's undeniably one of the most gloomy, bleek, dark and depressing yet beautiful tracks they've recorded to date. I Can't wait for the upcoming album.
JesusCristo2002 2 years ago
this is the version i listened to and fell in love with first so i cant help but favour this version more
101chocolate 2 years ago 2
i wish they would have included the last verse on the album
dowhat93 2 years ago
This is a great version, but I think the warm tone of an organ completes this song. The album version just seems like a further developed version of this one. Still awesome, though.
TheActualActuals 2 years ago
I much prefer the album version, but I think this version is nice as well. It's interesting to see two different perspectives on the song. It's like the neverending debate between Trent Renzor and Johnny Cash's versions of "Hurt"... In the end, neither is better, but you might like one better.
Who cares, anyways? This is Radiohead, afterall. Everything they touch turns to gold.
MusicalMinority 2 years ago 7
I think I prefer the vocals in this version and if they took the organ from the Kid A version then introduced those guitars at the end it would be even better. But overall I prefer the album version
mag666gam 2 years ago
way better then the studio shit un hooked is the way to go..... such a good song
cunniff33 2 years ago
WRONG.
CptWang 2 years ago
I dislike it when people deny someone else's OPINION like that.
I also think that this version is much better and more emotional.. The organ just wipes out the simplicity and therefore it also wipes out the immensely sad atmosphere that only appears on this demo. (in my opinion)
tutani 2 years ago 5
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WRONG.
CptWang 2 years ago
CptWang is an apt name I must say.
SupaPsyche 2 years ago 8
leave him alone, jesus. You think youre so original making fun of people's usernames=P Gonna insult where he's from now?
He's right, too.
decko87 2 years ago
I agree with you decko87, forget the name it's unimportant. Focus on this great music.
yeahsee33 2 years ago
speechless
mikemty 2 years ago 2
extra verse! still i find the kid a version more affecting. It's amazing to hear those harps and orchestral swells at the end of an album full of electronic beats. who's with me?
franksvenatra 2 years ago 8
moi.
VerilyMusic 2 years ago
i think you're crazy.
but im with you
willfulviolation 2 years ago 2
BEST VERSION EVER!!!
grubmustang87 2 years ago 3
Are you crazy? I mean the album version has such a powerfull and sad feeling of isolation and of a certain end
Mygalej 2 years ago 18
so beautiful, much better than the origin
yahavofir 2 years ago
this is so much better than the album version. It makes me sad that they nearly ruined it with that electronic background sound. It's actually the simplicity and the power of the vocals/lyrics that makes the song so great.
tutani 2 years ago
That wasn't electronics at all. That's a pedal organ on the album.
ultraviolet99 2 years ago 4
oh yeah you're right, thanks. Doesn't change my opinion that this demo version is better though.
tutani 2 years ago
The song itself is on Kid A - I know that. It was going to be included on OKC but got left off.
robertoshorto 2 years ago
The Christopher O'Reilly version is phenomenal. I'm about to try and learn this song my melodica :)
nicofitz 2 years ago 2
this is alot better i wish he would of suck with this to bad.
wwk14 2 years ago
"motion picture soundtrack" is one of the radiohead songs which are exist since the late 80s. Its not a new song. thom wanted to pick the kid a version from MPS on OK computer as the closer but the other band members dont want to. so it appears first on kid a.
WhaleRider86 2 years ago
beautiful and flawless
rockyracoon87 2 years ago
This version gets his point down alot better. It's far more personal
rinstad2 3 years ago
I agree
sINA6785 2 years ago
Gorgeous, but I'm with the Kid A purists on this one. It doesn't get much better than the album version.
victoryrose7 3 years ago 2
The String quartet cover of this song is incredible, as is the original song of course. Amazing band.
gavinplaysbass 3 years ago
I am still a Kid A purist, I think the album version is one of the most globally-depressing songs ever written, as it was intended to be. It's beautiful, and sticking. This one almost seems too upbeat for the lyrics.
SpOoOokyGhost 3 years ago
Indeed, but a lot of the time when you're trying to get a quick demo done it's easier to just play it in a fast upbeat way to get something down.
jameshighmore 3 years ago
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9KarmaIngram3 2 years ago
Am I strange in finding the album version incredibly uplifting? I know its very sad but its uplifting - I'm guessing its guitar or the ondes martenot - but the bit in the 2nd chorus which sounds like a distorted choir. That bit chills me and puts a smile on my face at the same time. Are there any live versions from the OKC tour, apparently it was often an encore?
robertoshorto 2 years ago
i like the extra verse
feisal70 3 years ago
sounds much better than the Kid A version
SimMaster 3 years ago
I prefer this to the one on Kid A. That one just seems too slow and quiet.
SimMaster 3 years ago
Absolutely beautiful.
evanraufbold 3 years ago
While I was looking at the Kid A cover and listening Thom singing I was like okay if someone says the famous comment ''Better than the album version'' I'm gonna jump off a cliff, then what do I see??? I'm still alive though...
Mygalej 3 years ago
probably the most beautiful song ever... I'll see you in a next life...
vonbutcher 3 years ago 2
This song is just beyond description in words, it is ecstasy to the ears. Thom Yorke is an absolute genius who has truly brought out the power and beauty of music.
Bpro64 3 years ago
Stop sending letters
aarghapanda 3 years ago
Letters always get burned
Bpro64 3 years ago
Is not like, the movies
todolodemas123 3 years ago 2
They fed us on little white lies
Bpro64 3 years ago 2
I think you're crazy.
czyz57 2 years ago
Maybe.
Joellllllll 2 years ago
I thought these lines were added because Thom got a letter saying "Its a shame Jeff Buckley died and not you", which would mean it was 1997. Think that quote came out of a Q interview so might be wrong.
robertoshorto 2 years ago
this sounds like early Radiohead!
I think they've changed from kid a but now they haven't changed I notice! and still the best band in the world!
15amnesiac 3 years ago
enjoy the silence, in the version on kid A
progreadicto 3 years ago
i wish they kept the last verse on kid a
Hutch211 3 years ago 4
this version makes me cry everytime
thetruancybot 3 years ago 4