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  • My fovorite song!!!!

  • I thought it was "Here I'm allowed" not "Here I'm alive"

  • @DMoneys36 some say its allowed, it can be both things. you chose whats best for you

  • dude, wow, a lot of you people have responded to my comment, more so than on any other video i've ever commented on. when people are adamant about something, they don't accept other people not liking it. dude, i don't like this, and i appreciate everyone's feedback. but, i will never like this electronica crap. as a drummer, i find programmed drums insulting. they are for no talent hip hop artists, and this is NOT real music to me. not organic in the least.

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion i understand what you mean. im kind of with you but i still like some electronica

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion I know programed drums are crap, I mean who is supposed to carry all the gear?

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion I agree with you...even though I like this song, there is nothing like those songs from Ok Computer or The Bends. The songs with the electronic sound all sound the same to me. I recently went to a Radiohead concert and it kink of fell like I was at a techno concert...its sad

  • I was at the Miami show and they whopped this baby out!

  • I love Radiohead, but not really keen on this track. It's ok, but where's the 'skip'...

  • I so want to hear the full 50-minute DAT.

  • omg so amazing! i love the lyrics, it brings up so much imagery in my mind, i think of the titanic, smoking meth, wars, and the terror and stress of being alive! argh amazing, i wanna see them in melbourne november, hope i get tickets!!!!!!

  • i saw this last night! so good.

  • Warning: Hearing this song performed live WILL TAKE YOU AWAY

  • @PinedaJeans Oh, you were at Miami? If so, how good were they?

  • @Oudaen

    They were great, the only thing is they didn't play much of OK Computer or The Bends

  • dude, from a very objective point of view, not a strong radiohead fan, but a pretty big fan of ok computer, i simply don't see what is good about this song. i don't like electronica very much, i don't feel his voice is very good, the lyrics are nonsense, and i just don't get what message this song is trying to get across.

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion confusion

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion

    Yeah, I agree. I am a Radiohead fan, but this definitely isn't one of my favs.

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion lyrics are nonsense, I lol at you sir.

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion It's about nuclear warfare. And besides, it's art rock, not electronica. It's supposed to be surreal and different. If you don't like that, than that's your preferrence. Personally, this song makes me feel.

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion How can you say the lyrics are nonsense? The the song is about anxiety and anticipation of something traumatic happening. Something rapidly approaching that you can't do anything about. Many people say it is about nuclear war but that's the beauty of the lyrics of not only this song but much of Radiohead's work. The themes are explicit and the imagery is vivid but the meaning is vague and elusive. As a listener you have to bring something to it to get something out of it.

  • @ARTIFICIALillusion To comment on the stylistic shift of Kid A, while OK Computer is about social alienation in the modern world Kid A is a contemplation on chronic anxiety itself. Anxiety is a paralyzing feeling of anticipation. Forward looking but incredibly vague and unsettling. The source is often unclear. It manifests in certain people when they face personal freedom but obsess over what they foresee as inevitable. Kid A dropped in 2000, the eve of the new millenium. The future was looming.

  • Faster Johnny, faster!

  • *commenting so that the number is no longer 666* O_o

    Anyhow, eerie song. Absolutely love it.

  • The lyrics in Kid A are just all over the place. Their crazy; surreal almost. I have no idea what most of them are about, but I still appreciate it. Sort of like a stream of conscious poem.

  • @Bob12345678910423 this song is about the con men who made alot of money by scamming people to belive the world was going to end in the year 2000.

  • @groar92skatrdinasour Alrighty. You can correct me if you want in two weeks, but I don't think Radiohead will respect you very much for labeling an entire genre of electronic music as "not music". They've changed their sound a lot, I'm sure they're open-minded enough to appreciate a variety of different kinds of music, and not judge it based on maybe 3 or 4 songs they've heard.

  • This is why everyone hates Radiohead fans.

  • @MrFlubbermonkey ...why? Turning jealousy to anger? Very unhealthy, you know.

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  • 22 people were thrown in the fire

  • lol people in these comments have never heard of Burial. Not all dubstep is wubwub.

  • this would be good for a car commercial

  • Fuck stupid adds before this incredible song, youtube will not kill this vibe!

  • The most meaningful song from Radiohead, one of my favourites.

  • This is incredible

  • BOOM PAT BOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PATBOOM PAT

  • @keroric1819

    You're one hip grandad...

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  • i love radiohead but never met a radiohead fan who's as awful as the ones described here.. i just wouldn't talk to them if i were you, seeing as they're giving a good band a bad name.

  • Amazing more ppl shld listen to radiohead not tht teen crap on the radio

  • GAHHHHHHH~~~~~~~~~~ amazing

    

  • @zachweidenbach nice imagery.

  • with all the billboard-topping songs about partying and dancing, the infectious rhythm and lyrics of this song characterize the current state of affairs more than ever. Dancing as the world falls apart. And this was written over 10 years ago. You'd think as shitty as everything is getting, pop music might give way to more intense and serious subject matters. Alas.

  • Single Greatest Chord Progression EVER

  • @LiverAcid if youve suffered a lobotomy and genuine music upsets you, then perhaps. coldplay are a cancer that needs to be gotten rid of.

  • @aboxxinc Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb Gm Eb and so on. Yep... great chord progression

  • @aboxxinc ....and it's a sample.

  • * looks at the fight between twits* O.O * walks away*

  • you might like the slender uniform if you like radiohead..

  • This song reminds me of the ending of Requiem for a Dream, when everything spirals into hell, Marlon Wayons and Jared Leto screaming behind a jail-cell and the camera shaking.

  • @lucidnightmare969 lol just watched that for the first time the other day, was expecting marlon wayons to end up like jennifer connely

  • Radiohead did dubstep ten years before it got cool.

  • @starofcctv94 The electronica stuff in this song is actually sampled from Paul Lansky.

  • @badtzmarufanatic 20 mins of random synth noodeling with the greast chord proggression ever hidden in the middle. Paul Lansky also got it from Bach.

  • @starofcctv94 Correction. Wagner.

  • @starofcctv94 kill yourself, regards the management

  • @LiverAcid Bit harsh don't you think?

  • @starofcctv94 dubstep never will be cool.

  • @starofcctv94 how the fuck do you get dubstep out of.... oh I give up.

  • @theastralproject well its a 138 bpm very similar to the 140 bpm of dubstep, you can't deny how similar the drumbeat is to beats used in dubstep and I can't be the only one thinking of a wobble bass with the chords. Kid A was applauded for taking inspiration from the underground electronic music scenes at the time and around 2000 the very first dubstep songs were coming about. I get frustrated when people think all dubstep is like skrillex.

  • @starofcctv94 fair enough

  • @starofcctv94 When did it get cool..?

  • @starofcctv94 this is no dubstep

  • @starofcctv94 NEVER mention the greatest band ever in the same sentence as that trash. It's an insult to the band and the fans, whether you mean it to be or not.

  • @starofcctv94 blur came closer, listen to their song "Battle"

  • @starofcctv94 The only kind of good dubstep at that. :P

  • @DrummerDudeLex this isn't even remotely like dubstep in any fashion

  • @MrMustacheEater W/e, dubstep shouldn't even be considered a genre anyway. It sucks shit.

  • @DrummerDudeLex There are some good dubstep songs, just like there are some bad alternative songs. Speaking in absolutes like that just makes you sound uninformed as to what's out there.

  • @MrMustacheEater Okay then let me re-phrase that. 80% + of dubstep songs show quite a lack in musicality and creativity, theoretically it's at the bottom of the charts with modern pop.

  • @DrummerDudeLex More like 95%. But at least it requires a decent understanding of music theory, unlike everything they play on the radio.

  • @michaelhays92 True but it's really bland dynamically.

  • @starofcctv94 And XTC did dubstep 20 years before Radiohead got cool. Such is the history of music.

  • I adore the concept behind this album, really makes you think

  • when I heard the song I didn't here the word Idiotique in there at all.

  • @ShakeItUpDanceTVC He never says it

  • @ShakeItUpDanceTVC

    Fucking hell, In how many songs do they say the word in the title?

    A few perhaps, But stop bitching.

  • I would not exaggerate, but I think it's one of the best song of all time

  • @Progressive70s

    Agreed. Its the song that got me into radiohead.

  • When I Listen To This, I am Thom Yorke.

  • @IrantOverRapBeats WOW. I used to say the same thing about my favorite song from my favorite band. Every time I got high and listened to it I would tell my friends. "I'm Abel. I AM Abel. When I listen to this song I become him." Lmao, good memories.

  • Reminds me faintly of Joy Division.

    *stamp of approval*

  • They were dubstep before dubstep was dubstep, before dubstep became post-dubstep and before "dubstep" became bro-step.

  • I listened to this 4 times on an airplane cant listen to this without imagining fucking rice fields in thailand

  • @AwesomeCoasters I just can't remember a time that I decided I didn't like a part of a song because a particular lyric. " Ahhh fuck that I hate mountains!" I seriously doubt thom put that much thought into it. And if he did, it's ok to express different perspectives in ART. It's like every movie that involves rape at some point automatically makes the director a pervert? Go ahead and break down the chorus for all of us and express how much you hate that it's grammatically incorrect.

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  • @AwesomeCoasters

    It's a song. It's art. Sufjan Stevens sings from the perspective of John Wayne Gacy Jr., but that doesn't mean that expresses his views on whether or not he agrees with mass murderers .Alot of the stuff i write is based on melody then words come out, and i somehow try to make them all relevant, but it doesn't mean i'm expressing an opinion or stance on the subject. It's just suppose to make you think about it. Everyone sees something different in a painting.

  • Radiohead becomes TRULY appreciable after an individual listener has acquired a significant amount of pain in life. only this person understands.

  • Reminds me of my first orgasm... I was so awkward back then.

  • @pulszer really? thats so strange? Kinda feel like you are a bit insecure

  • How is this song not in the top ten best songs of the past decade?

  • @SoulSurvivor3989 too much of a work of art to be acknowledged as such.

  • 2012 THEME SONG

  • I remember them playing this live when I went to see them at Glasgow Green a few years back. It was pissing down with rain and this drunk guy was dancing to this. He must have fallen down at least 10 times during this song and was covered in mud from head to toe by the end of the song. Gave us all a laugh.

  • @Brigster I totally agree. It's not Radiohead's fault - in all honesty I'm a fan of their stuff. It's just that they seem to attract a certain sort of person who prefers to use the arse for talking.

  • ive always thought it was "here im allowed, everything all of the time" but who knows which is right, theres so much shit on the internet thats inaccurate, id have to talk to thom himself for the right answer.

  • This is really a deep song if you listen to it. Radiohead is waaay too undercredited.

  • @BrelaDTheGoddess they're really not hey..

  • @BrelaDTheGoddess watch?v=yFosRTubEGU check my comment there if you want to know what this song means :P

  • Why is the view counter only showing my views? For some reason, it says 8 views.

  • @50Dashes

    that was really not funny

  • @aboxxinc Neither are the people who say that they've watched it 220,597 times or whatever.

  • @50Dashes

    I know

    If you're trying to be funny rather than listening to Idioteque, go fuck yourself. Not everyone gets to hear this song and the fact that your wasting this privileged time trying to be funny is just stupid

  • @aboxxinc What? I listen to this song almost every day actually. Sorry if I wasted your time.

  • @50Dashes

    Me too but what about the people that never do?

    I feel so sorry for them

  • 277,597 views? are you serious? that might be the times that I heard this song.

  • Wow!!! I wish more bands were like you guys.

  • its my stuff, its my stuff... my, my own

    2:27

  • let me hear both sides.

  • I fucking hate you radiohead fanboys, just let us enjoy the music, holy shit, and for the people that don't enjoy it, that's their own opinion, they're not inferior to us just because they don't like the music we do. Hipsters

  • @Kriskazam so mad

  • @JeremyLovesTyler Fuck yeah I'm angry. I can't talk to a radiohead fanboy about anything else other than fucking government, and how other music is shit.

  • As much as I like Radiohead, people don't seem to be capable of not turning onto pretentious twats when talking about them, can they?

  • @deanster2009 I kind of agree. Problem is not radiohead though: basically people talking about music always tend to turn into pretentious twats, because few understand that music is not really about talking about it, it's just listening to it and feel it inside your heart and just shut the fuck up. The only sound that should come out of people's mouths when there's music it's just their voice singing along the song.

  • @deanster2009 Thank you haha Radiohead's probably my favorite band but i don't think they're gods or that they transcend reality....just enjoy the music folks

  • @deanster2009 into* Turning 'INTO' pretentious twats

  • @deanster2009 Maybe they're just actually pretentious twats masking themselves as Radiohead fans?

  • I've got a riddle for you: How are Radiohead songs like any other experience in the totality of existence?

    ..I haven't an idea either.

  • this song makes a knot at my throat... i love it

  • this songs makes a knot at my throat

  • at last the top comment is a response to a comment i CAN see

  • It's "allowed", actually.

  • Here I'm alive, anything all of the time.

  • This track reminds me of normalcy bias.

  • I just find anyone who doesn't like radiohead repulsive

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  • asombroso, espectacular

  • @Sage80 hence why youre here

  • @Sage80 I wonder if you have any idea what this song it about?

  • @Sage80 lol 

  • I'm a DJ (Remembrandt/DJ Cavy R) so thanks for the advice. I will totally remix this one at my next rave. I hope you are there to lose your shit to it:) I love people who love radiohead

  • I wish they'd release a live version of this song. This song is just BONKERS live.

  • @LemonCake07 they already have! it's on the I Might Be Wrong EP

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  • @prisionnerofsociety

    They're both awesome songs!

  • @prisionnerofsociety The other 863 probably do too.

  • @prisionnerofsociety lool so ironic

  • @prisionnerofsociety What the hell dude? I love Creep and the whole Kid A album. Quit being a fanboy

  • @prisionnerofsociety I like creep...I also like this...what's your point?

  • @OpinionatedAussie It was a fuckin' joke. Nobody got it... I'm erasing it. Merry Xmas

  • @prisionnerofsociety There's a subtle difference between nobody getting a joke, and a joke not being funny...

  • only song by radio head i like. it reminds me of when i tried acid

  • @mrdrprof the only song by radiohead you like? did you even listen to this album in it's entirety? Kid A is one of the best albums of the past 20 years without argument. drop some more acid bro it obviously didnt work the first time.

  • Chords are G-7 and EbMaj7

    Enjoy

  • idiot+discoteque

  • Love this song and have loved the album since it dropped in 2000! This and many other Radiohead tunes have moved me in ways that no artist could have.

    Click my username and check out my cover to this song-

    I promise you all won't be let down. :]

  • @Kimosabe08 but do you also that we won't be hanging around?

  • Fat dude in Varsity Blues says

    "I give it a 10!"

  • This song is becoming more and more important in today's society. Pretty scary.

  • "Mobiles skwrking"?

  • @tes4o Mobiles working

  • hahaha my jazz band played this last night. we are so cool

  • @HomieTheHomelessHero WHERE DID YOU GET THE ARRANGEMENT?!?!?!?!?!?! Man I wanna do this for my jazz band :D

  • @6KingCooper6 idk, my jazz teacher is just cool like that

  • @6KingCooper6

    From sierra music publications you can find it and buy it online

    we are actually doing paranoid android and you can get it from the same company

  • @HomieTheHomelessHero your not cool if you think you're cool, that's the rule in Iceland

  • this song gives me chills.... and reminds me of mowing the yard...

  • There's just something about Radiohead that I don't get. I dunno, just not my type. This isn't bad, interesting song, but I just can't get into them no matter how hard I try.

  • @DQ441 I was like that before, then I listened to The Bends. The Bends is the best entry album for Radiohead. More typical rock sound on it. After that, their other albums can be appreciated much more. As strange as it sounds, once you start to get a feel for Radiohead as whole, their music becomes much better. Like, once you realize that Radiohead does weird and strange stuff because they can, and because they're genuinely interested in the result, it becomes easier to see its artistic value.

  • @CoastersForever And yet they still surprise me with stuff like TKOL. They never get boring because none of their albums sound alike. I'm glad I can never "get used" to Radiohead to the point where all their material becomes predictable.

  • @ArmyOfWalrus Yeah, The King of Limbs is awesome. I hate how people keep comparing it and being so critical of it. The electronic rock of "The King of Limbs" is different than "Kid A" or "Amnesiac". It's influenced by sampling, repetition, cut and paste. Different concepts from different electronic music. And they put a lot of work into that album. You can hear it in the music. Just goes over most people's heads....

  • @TheOneartist Rule 1 when listening to a new Radiohead album you haven't heard before. Don't expect it to sound much like their previous work, because for them, what ain't broke is put on the shelf like a piece of art, never touched again.