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  • awesome song for the times radiohead ftw

  • I had to watch an ad for The King of Limbs to watch this video. That's the first time I didn't mind watching a youtube ad.

  • the best part is when thom's backing vocals come in

  • "I'm gonna go to sleep, and let this wash all over me!!!"

  • i remember watching this video every morning before school

  • stupid vevo, stop making me look at lady gag.

  • Hail to the Thief... the summer of 2003 ... after "mission accomplished"

  • I feel as if the same person who wrote "Inception" watched this video

  • higher rez for #$@#$ sake

  • This song is about watching people who are not aware they are being analysed.

  • @Etatdesiege1979

    I disagree. Maybe they had listened to Bill Hicks, but I don't see his personality or point of view in this song, and I'm a Bill Hicks addict.

    I'm actually pretty sick of people comparing any song like this (conspiracy related) to the comedic work of Bill Hicks, unless you're talking about Tool specifically.

    Thom is subtle about his political leanings in music, and downright silent when confronted in public. He's playing Apple's game: secrecy (and a little mystery too).

  • fuck you flow

  • Their best song

  • freaking LOVE this song...probably my favourite from Hail to the Thief.

  • These lyrics aren't political? Sure they aren't, Thom.

  • I fucking hate advertisements

  • @MarginalLiaison

    your welcome haha

  • this song reminds me of when i shaved my penis and it bled. then i went to the hospital and they said go to sleep.

  • @lovethemusic109 haha?

  • @lovethemusic109 yeah i think thats the type of memory they were trying to provoke...

  • This song reminds me of Spyro the Dragon.

    =3

  • @ArcherG I get this...sort of grey, rocky English coast during a galestorm under overcast skies in the evening with waves crashing upon the rocks feeling for some reason.

  • Amo la parte entre 0:00 y 3:29

  • This song's time signature is 10/4

  • see? radiohead is amazing enough to make an entire city collapse, then rebuild itself!

  • they really are something different from anything ever, even today.

  • the infrastructure is collapsing. and no one cares.

  • Out of all of Radiohead's videos this is my favourite

    0:00 to skip ads

  • Out of all of Radiohead's videos this is my favourite

  • just came across this song today...a gem i say, A GEM

  • GODDAMN YOUTUBE ADS!

  • pretty sweet video as well as song :D

  • I will sing and play this song when we'll be in 2012.

  • i listen to this song far too much

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  • I must play this song on top of a mountain.

  • I like this video because it really shows that people have no clue that their world is being destroyed around them as they go out and do their daily routines. Sad really. Radiohead is a fav of Southpark.

  • 8 people... (dare I say it)... can't go asleep

  • Love it. This band make everytime an anreal sound!

  • what album is this on?

  • One of my favorites from Hail to the Thief but I really don't care for this video.

  • Funny, I always imagined a dusty city that then became lit up at night :P now i see a black and white city being destroyed.

  • Cool video..but hard to decipher the meaning. Guess it's just whatever it means to you at the time

  • @barrycw1 Hail to the thief's main concept is more against corrupt governments. Go to sleep is talking about how the government tries to shut up all the revolutionist and people who question/criticizes the government, they want them to stop asking questions and be ignorant about whats happening and hence go to sleep. Thats why people use the term "wake up people"

  • @antisadism Good explanation

  • I think we can assume that Radiohead was listening to Neil Young.

  • For me, this is the song that stands out the most from Hail to the Thief. It has the most upbeat melody, compared to a lot of dark songs on the album. And yet, I find the lyrics to this song absolutely terrifying.

  • Good song, video is pretty terrible. Models are annoying, animation is not smooth.

  • @CoozyMcMillan I think that's the point.

  • @shaynescope I doubt they were making a terrible video on purpose. They did the models like that on purpose, but they thought it would look good as opposed to terrible.

  • @CoozyMcMillan I think it illustrates the point well, but i guess it's a difference of opinion. XD

  • @shaynescope XD

  • 00:01 thumbs up to skip add

  • I love the flower at the beginning :D

  • How the fuck can 8 ppl thum this down honestly... :I

  • @GeeJayProductions

    Eight people missed the 'like' button ;D

  • @MagdalenaPanic Maybe they should stop being asian, lol jks

  • Gee I wonder why we never got to see these videos on American TV when they first came out.....hmmmmm.

  • @JJPoytress America fucking sucks, MTV is trash as shit.

  • @JJPoytress um, this video was on MTV alot when it was released...

  • i liked old radiohead but how to disappear completely changed my view on music. radiohead just gets better and better its unbelievable.

  • @elmoekardt

    Absolutely, The Bends and their other early stuff will always be treasured, but how to disappear completely blew me away completely.

  • @elmoekardt i like the new RH better

  • I've never seen Thom Yorke like that before...I love this song, I never imagined it like this!  ha!wieeerd! Go RAdiohead!!!!!!

  • Interesting video. This was the same guy who did the video to Gantz Graf by Autechre- look it up. Amazing vid.

  • im looking for a relationship with a girl who is as passionate about radiohead as i am. i live in kelowna bc canada.

  • @kelownadude hahaha thats so sad. try eharmony. i'm sure they have a box to check for "i would let thom yorke touch my penis and/or vajayjay" .

  • @kelownadude I loveee radiohead <3 I can't function without listening to them.

  • radiohead songs are so subliminal and they put pictures in my head!! love it

  • If they don't make the best vids, then who does?

  • I love the song, but I'm not quite satisfied with the lyrics, Maybe I'm just not 'in sync' with it, but it doesn't strike me as poëtic.

    Great sound noentheless, must've played it hundreds of times by now =)

  • Otimo esse clipe Radiohead é 10000 vezes melhor que essa porcaria de Cold Play, o Radiohead é minha banda favorita e não tróco.

  • best song ever

  • I wish this song was longer

  • wow, after years of knowing the name radiohead, and never actually listening to their music, i've discovered that i really love their music. sweeeet :D

  • @rockingrobot, that's how it happened for me too, one day i just realised how brilliant they are, and haven't looked back since !!

  • i love this BAND,is the top of the top,EVER

    mi emozionano tantissimo..trasformano la realtà.ascolto la loro musica e ho i

    brividi .non mi stancano mai,ne avrò bisogno sempre

  • Aaarggh this song drives me crazy (in a good way - talk about foot-tapping). No matter where I stray, I ALWAYS come back to Radiohead...

  • @trilbyluv yeah this tune kicks in when " we dont really want the loonies takin over "

  • This video really makes you realise how unique Thom Yorke is compared to the average jackoff citizen.

  • Realmente no queremos que un monstruo tome el control

    ”Camina de puntillas, átalo”

    No queremos que los lunáticos tomen el control

    ”Camina de puntillas, átalos a nuestros brazos”

    Puede que caballos hermosos vengan a ti mientras duermes

    No voy a dormir y me dejare llevar por todo esto.

    wooooooow!! excelente!

  • @1512KaRo si ..thom yorke es lo MAXIMO

  • Amazing video Amazing song Amazing band

    **best** band

  • This song directly relates to the 9/11 conspiracy and society's habit of moving along when something "big" is "happening." The many buildings collapsing and the reverse spells this out, as well as the title of the song. Society should "go to sleep," while the government keeps "the loonies from takin' over."

    The building reconstruction animation might have been accomplished by rendering the people walking backwards and the building demolishing, then reversing that video.

  • @erikglimpse I thought that it was more about stealing elections! :) if you see what I mean. After that happened anything could happen.

    Radiohead dedicated "The Bends" in part to Bill Hicks. Now if you go listen to Hicks you will understand every word of this song and what the band tried to convey with "Hail to the Thief". As much as I like this song... when I feel that the world is coming to an end I can listen to "THERE, THERE and for some reason everything is back in its place.

  • Words cannot describe how much I love this band.

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  • @mercer83 more like 0:42 I guess.

  • All of their music videos are awesome.

  • 2:58-3:07 fucking love that!

  • doesn't anybody hear Jim Morrison in his singing? Especially, when he says "we dont really want a monsta takin ova!!"  It's apparent that Thom is influenced by Jim bc he also refers to him in... I think it's "Anyone Can Play Guitar". "I wanna be wanna wanna be Jim Morrison"

  • Best song on that album. And the miniwords that go with the song was pretty cool. "Go to sleep (Little man being erased)"

  • This song, along with "Creep", are in my opinion Radiohead's best. I never tire of them.

  • this brilliant tune has LED III written all over it.

  • this brilliant tune has LED III written all over it.

  • for some reason i get an Elton john vibe from this song haha sort of tiny dancer-ish. ILY RADIOHEAD!

  • they crept up and found their way to my heart.

     18 months ago i couldn't stand this band, i don't know how they did it but they are one of only 5 bands i can listen too and feel pure joy.

  • The intro sounds just like Alice in Chains or some other Grunge tunes that I have heard.

  • I was more thinking The Beatles... only realised when I started singing "Hey, you've got to hide your love away"...

  • @inubisdrone It sounds very Soundgarden-ish to me.

  • @inubisdrone I know EXACTLY what you mean, it sounds so so similar to something i have heard before on the radio, i know it, i've just never been able to figure out the name of the song.

  • This song is amazing! I just wish the solo at the end was longer!

  • There most underated song.

  • Not a great song. Good. Amazing vid though.

  • for some reason the copy I have doesn't have these drums in it, anyone know about this?

  • eve

    trulobgüeyts

  • what is that supposed to mean

  • Underrated song. This is on my top five from HTTT. Love the video.

  • radiohead are one of the few bands who can make use odd time signatures and still make a catchy song

  • Tool does the same for a lot of their songs.

    But I know I'm definatly going to get bad ratings just for throwing Tool out there on a Radiohead video.

    Not trying to compare them guys, they're way different. Just that they both use wierd time signatures and make them work.

    I just happen to love them both XD

  • I love both too but most radiohead fans hate tool and vice versa I know what you mean.

  • @Ambulanceo LOL tool is actually pretty good!

  • Agreed. 10/4 is quite interesting, but (relatively) basic enough that still makes it easily listenable.

  • @Zolxen ye good point.

    if you want a song in a weird time signature that's hard to listen to listen to 'Eleven' by Primus, the song grew on me and it's one of my favorite songs by them

  • xDD

  • Godddd ze blijven mijn favoriet! (L)

  • i almost can understand the song because the video is so friggin distracting

  • girl at 1:20 is not wearing a shirt

    very nice song though

  • @Invisodude - Congratulations, you just perverted an animation.

  • Radiohead Rocks :D

    Nice song!

  • That girl leaning on the lampost looks like a girl I used to go out with, only a lot shorter and had blonde hair, oh and she was fat, nice girl, dirty cow.

  • 10/4 time in the beginning. What a bunch of wierdos :P

  • excellent video. Probably the best video clip i've ever seen, cos of how it ends

  • Wederom een prachtige song !

  • waaaauuw this song is just GREAAT and the video is also nice ;p radiohead is great

  • went to No.12 in the charts

  • this one of my fav radiohead songs :D

    and also one of my fav videos. it kinda has the same meaning as the lyrics lol.

  • Cool video....

  • I love how this video looks pixelated, or like everything was carved from wood. This is one of my favorite videos of theirs

  • I would actually love to see an entire movie done in this style. Where the actors are very real-seeming but all entirely artificial cg models that don't hide that they are cg models. Periodically their faces will begin to look more polygonal for artistic and character-psychological reasons.

    The world around the characters can also alter itself drastically to reflect the character's psychology - such as buildings coming down here. Even if the film might be a 'serious' psychological drama.

  • @nepatsfan61590

    FAIL, troll, FAIL

  • I wonder what it is about this song that sounds a little Led Zeppelinesque. Nice song regardless.

  • this is a very awesome song

  • Dont' Hate!! Don't Discriminate!

    ...And if you don't like the artists style or understand it then if it were me then move on to something else.

  • Well said, thats my point.

  • But now that I'm done bashing on that fool I ask you who uses such a fucking loser/virigin ive never been laid term like noob? Pathetic kid needs to go throw on some fucking hanson albums and have his mom teach him how to wipe his fucking ass, it's a shame such retards are able to have access to computers. Spewing their simple minded thoughts on here, desperate to try and connect with others....pathetic. That being said now that Im done with that kids meaningless existence.

  • What did he say? By the way your hilarious

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  • Hahaha and youre an ignorant drooling fool who will forever spend the rest of their days walking around in an ignorant drooling daze. Wondering why everyone else in life is developing and growing and fitting right in to the maturing stage of adulthood while youre still just a fucking fool. Go listen to your generic fucking music singing about idiotic shit thats plastered over mtv and magazines that are aimed at weak minded fools such as yourself, the rest of us originals listen to real music.

  • Hahaha liamhansen55 definition of small minded child who wears protective helmets and drools while coloring in coloring books. Jesus youre dumber then I thought with your pathetic attempts at a comeback, should have known nothing besides simple generic comebacks would come to your fucking simple mind..And by the way real cool rating my comment yourself.. not only are you a fool, but pathetic ontop. Really sucks being you, such a fool and doesnt even realize it.

  • "you're an ignorant drooling fool who will forever spend the rest of their days walking around in an ignorant drooling daze"

    lol well said :p

  • Not sure how you worked that out liamhansen. None of the band are gay and none of my gay friends like Radiohead. They are really more of a heterosexual band in my opinion.

  • We don't want the looneys taking over...

  • Great song, great video!

    Official video promo, is the clip made by the band or a fan?

    A reference with the dark tower with the flower?

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  • No dumbass, there are very different to eachother.

  • uuuuhhhh we dont want the

    loserssss

    taaking over

    Tip toe around,

    Tie em' DOWN.

    long live the RH Conglomerate.

  • Radiohead isn't a band. it's a lifestyle.

  • Good ol' Radiohead. One band I can always rely upon to make consistently decent albums. Gotta love 'em.

  • Not their best video tbh

  • thom yorke bizarre lol great song!

  • You are absolutely right, you have no f*cking clue! What is certain is that you know less about music than a tree. You can dislike anything but there's no need for insults, nothing you say can make up for how insecure and ignorant you are. So, don't take it on them, it's you who needs to be punished with an insult. "Birdbrained Music-Critic Wannabe!"

  • how can u not like this? i agree u with u...fck off Loonies! and leave us be to our music

  • You think this is the mainstream? My friend, you are mistaken. You know nothing of Radiohead. ^^ However, under your circumstances, I would suggest merely Google-Searching the lyrics (this is what individuals in 21st century society tend to do when they need quick info.) Hope this helps "clue you in" a little. PM me if you have any questions regarding Thom York's enunciation, and the intended effect of his deliberate slurring of speech (It's an effect, which adds to the meaning). Alcoholic? Wow.

  • W T F ! you faved 'True love waits'! Radio head have been around for 15y dont know were uv been, prob under a rock you narrow minded wanker

  • radiohead is one of the few remaining bands that have meaningful lyrics and that always make a statement through their song...you really a have issues..

    Instead of rejecting everything you don't like you should try and understand it and accept it...especially because radiohead is awsome..i`m not saying you should go accepting things that are obviously stupid and irrelevant in any society..but before you start typing stupid stuff that might offend other people. try and think. Use your brain

  • that was @ksdmd14

  • I think you are too old to be alive...

  • the lil animated thom is cute just like the real thom :) lmao.

  • Top 5 Radiohead songs confirmed!

  • i just wish that radiohead didnt have a song in new moon...now were gonna get abunch of twilight faggits liking radiohead and what not

  • so what? it's ok if other people get into this kind of music through watching movies. as long as they like the song and the artist. it doesn't matter of how or why, just that they do.

  • Id like to wake up, actually. like kevin Shields said in "Soon".

  • They had two songs in the Romeo and Juliette movie ten years ago. Same with Clueless, a few years before, and both were big hits like New Moon.

    Nothing changed. Some movie fans turned into harcore fans, some forgot about it... life goes on.

  • Is this song played in a movie or something?

  • You shouldnt base something on weather its "cool" or not but by if the music is good. cool has nothing to do with the quality of anything, Its people like that who keeps MTV going..i mean whats cool Justin Timberale..or Britney Spears if that untalented bullshit is "cool" then im happy im not...............DIE MTV!

  • if only i knew what he was saying