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  • i wish they released an album version of THIS VERSION of videotape. with guitar, bass, drums.. the whole band playing. this is sweet.

  • I am so grateful that I was able to be there for this. Even after all these years, I still meet people who were there that night and it's agreed upon...it was one of the most amazing experiences we had ever been a part of. We all have special moments that come around every once in a while, sometimes were not even looking when it happens. Radiohead at Bonnaroo was one of those moments for me...

  • the best version!!!

  • I love the scales on the piano on the guitar at 2:00

  • I f****g love this version, thank you for uploading it.

  • -faints-

  • best song ever written by man kind...love radiohead so much!

  • when the last i had a song give me the the freeking chills!!!!

  • this is my favorite one. I just miss Jonny's guitar in the studio version.

  • I freaking love this version of Videotape. Best version IMO.

  • Let's bash Coldplay because it makes me feel better.

  • Coldplay owe there career to Radiohead.

    -Chris Martin

  • what is coldplay?

  • wat so good about thissong

  • @sarahx87 It's indescribable. Especialy to someone who doesn't understand it.

  • sick version!

  • there was a hole in my soul that was made just for this song, that I never knew I had until today

  • by far the best version. i was disappointed with the studio version because i wanted this haha

  • Woah. Unexpected version. Really good.

  • Only Radiohead could a make a song that orginally was deeply sad & beautiful & then complete turn it upside down & make it so deeply euthoric & beautiful...

  • @bingstar316 You should note that this concert was way before In Rainbows album was even released. Perhaps they weren't sure yet whether this song should be more depressing, or more energetic. I like the sad version better, it is more fitting to the lyrics.

  • Best version of Videotape I've listened so far.

  • So much more powerful than the album version

  • this song just strikes such a nerve in me. It's almost unbearable

  • SILENCE and EXPLOSION

    that's their style.

  • I think this is quite a good song. maybe better than the album version.

  • awesome band...

    if u like Radiohead, u might wanna try : Watermind - "Not Again"

    P.S: Thom Yorke is a freakin´genius!!!

  • @sahsahsah you did a really bad job at hiding spam.

  • @SuperiFox I´m not hiding it, asshole. If u think it´s hidden, it´s your problem. c ya

  • @sahsahsah lol.....

  • I used to be into this coldplay sucks radiohead rocks etc bullshit - but then i relistened to Parachutes and Rush of Blood to the Head and realised I was being shallow and that there's room enough for both. After all, no Coldplay means no Spies and that's a top quality song.

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  • @ChrisPeel2k Those are the only 2 good albums Coldplay has. They don't sound like Radiohead's High And Dry, they sound like Jeff Buckley and they sound like britpop. Anyways, yeah. There's room for both.

  • @ChrisPeel2k I couldn't agree more. I just saw Coldplay live last weekend, best fucking concert ever! I've love them since Parachutes, and I was only 3 haha So 13 years later, I finally saw them. And hearing the 55,000 person crowd sing every lyric to every song, was perfect! But I still love Radiohead. They're both very different bands. They're similar, but in the way Kings of Leon and My Morning Jacket are.

  • This is my favorite version. The intensity at the end is so amazing!

  • myvideostand, many good songs can be performed differently. The problem for most bands is that they just can't balance the bare bones of the tune! Radiohead are masters of production and use all their expertise with various instruments to create something unique and original. If you isolate the vocal in this tune and changed the tempo you could create a Coldplay esque no. It's the music which makes it special. Agree with me or not but I can perform this song a thousand different ways in my mind

  • if this was the version that they put on in rainbows i would have no issues making the following statement... in rainbows > okcomputer

  • @MG53895 I 100% agree

  • thank u for sharing this !!! I was there too much love...

  • Coldplay is cheap sentimental bullshit, it has no core, no guts, no soul. Radiohead provokes emotions through intelligent and conceptually beautiful, soulful music. I'll leave Coldplay for the emotionally underdeveloped 16 year olds.

  • @fums03 I'll leave you to ignorance.

  • wow. hadn't heard this version and it is indeed amazing!

  • i get what you're saying about the "feel", correctly stated, coldplay is the band that has the radiohead feel, that being said, doesn't that make them both great?! lmao

  • @bsquared4444 I think radiohead has more musicality than coldplay. Radiohead just has the staying power of stanely kubrick and gordon parks. Neither musicians but i think you follow me. Masters of their craft. Coldplay is fading while radiohead stays relevent.

    By the way I was at this concert! I came!

  • @lanser87 not by any means is coldplay fading... both are still on the map all throughout

  • just beautiful

  • This song is nothing short but perfection -- too beautiful for words.

  • ordinary people don't realize how good this is.

  • @optimisticcosmic what a stupid thing to say...youre an elitist, arent you? tsk tsk tsk.

  • Oh my god, did you see the way Thom got up and moved his arms and it stopped and went black?.. god damn, that was beast.

  • 25 people don't have a video player

    This song is so heartrenchingly sad - I love it

  • @myvideostand.... could not agree more. musical god!

  • Por q ..... cambiaron de version , esta es mil veces mejor q la de ahora , le falta el sonido q le da Jonny :( .... Si alguien de la Banda lee esto (no creo) vuelvan a esta version porfa :(

  • This version kinda reminds me of halo

  • GREAT!!!! 

  • I miss my hometown Nashville...sooo much...can't wait to come back...I miss Bonnaroo Festival the most.....God and radiohead man....their just epic.....

  • Jonny Greenwood with his guitar : The heroic in Man . . .

  • I was there... 20 feet from the stage... this was EPIC.

  • this sorta reminds me of the music from halo

  • why is a guy shaking his head

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  • favorite song by favorite band

  • As much I love the album version, I really really wish there was a properly recorded track of the version they play here. It's just incredible

  • I cried.

  • @PJKstudios I didn't...but still a great song ! =)

  • "Mephistopholes is just beneath and is reaching up to touch me"- sounds like many of my nightmares and fears.

  • This version is FUCKING AMAZING!!!!

  • I've got a freaking boner for Radiohead, they can do no wrong in my eyes.

  • I said it earlier and, now 8 months later I will say it again. This version far exceeds the one on the album. I miss this last part a lot.

  • will someone listen to my cover of this song?

  • acojonante....

  • increíble...adoro esta canción inmesamente

  • I have to say i love this one, but considering the meaning i took from the song. I prefer the studio version. I love this song with all my heart.

  • The album version is great and all.....but I love what Ed's doing with his pedals and guitar...it gives the song a whole new vibe

  • the album version is worse, but thats just the recording. the song evolved excellently after this.

    listen to the version from the santa barbara webcast.

  • the album version is quite good. remember they wrote the song and recorded it that way for a reason.

  • i felt the same way. radiohead has a tendency to post-modernize the rock song as we know it. to me, this version, while rock-ier, is already unconventional and brilliant. when i listen to the album version, i feel i'm listening to a song that is unsure of itself and is safely experimental. i saw this version live at auditorium theatre in chicago in '06. was heartbroken when i heard the ablum version.

  • I hate all the clicks and grates on the album version.

  • I love the minimal version on the album

    but this is so powerful

    the guitar adds a whole new element to it

  • Its almost two different songs - the original, I think, captures the melancholy and the sort off "sweet bitternes" in the lyrics - albeit this one, with its loud and more grandiose soundscape, gives a more urgent and commanding sensation. If I had to choose - I would stick with the original - it's just more composed and "finished" - naturally.

  • i think the reason they cut out this whole dramatic ending from the album version is cuz they wanted a more soothing, emotional version, but i think this one here absolutely blows it away!

  • @fallensniper15

    They actually tried to have it similar to this, with all kinds of layered instruments, vocals etc., but they weren't having any luck. Everyone got pissed off and Thom left the studio, and when he came back a few hours later Jonny and Nigel Godrich had cut it all down to what you hear on the album, and they thought it was beautiful like that.

  • that is interesting- I really appreciate bands that kind of interpret their own songs in different ways- In Rainbows has many songs that evolved over the years into what they are now. I gotta say that this version is amazing and powerful but I am sure I would love any version of this song from the boys cuz I love them to death.

  • @ ellogoods - The only 'good' artists are the ones who are constantly evolving. Check out Radiohead's ''Towering Above The Rest"

  • @DeadontheThrone is towering above rest any good? i only have one song, eds scary song, and it's kinda weird...

  • @bensley56 T.A.T.R. is a collection of live shows, unreleased music, remixes, and older, alternate versions of songs such as 'Nude,' 'Up On the Ladder,' and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack.' So, to answer your question, yes; it's definitly worth checking out.

  • i wish they released an album version of THIS VERSION of videotape. with guitar, bass, drums.. the whole band playing. this is sweet.

  • I am so grateful that I was able to be there for this. Even after all these years, I still meet people who were there that night and it's agreed upon...it was one of the most amazing experiences we had ever been a part of. We all have special moments that come around every once in a while, sometimes were not even looking when it happens.  Radiohead at Bonnaroo was one of those moments for me...

  • the best version!!!

    

  • I love the scales on the piano on the guitar at 2:00

  • I f****g love this version, thank you for uploading it.

  • -faints-

  • best song ever written by man kind...love radiohead so much!

  • when the last i had a song give me the the freeking chills!!!!

  • this is my favorite one. I just miss Jonny's guitar in the studio version.

  • I freaking love this version of Videotape. Best version IMO.

  • Let's bash Coldplay because it makes me feel better.

  • Coldplay owe there career to Radiohead.

    -Chris Martin

  • what is coldplay?

  • wat so good about thissong

  • @sarahx87 It's indescribable. Especialy to someone who doesn't understand it.

  • sick version!

  • there was a hole in my soul that was made just for this song, that I never knew I had until today

  • by far the best version. i was disappointed with the studio version because i wanted this haha

  • Woah. Unexpected version. Really good.

  • Only Radiohead could a make a song that orginally was deeply sad & beautiful & then complete turn it upside down & make it so deeply euthoric & beautiful...

  • @bingstar316 You should note that this concert was way before In Rainbows album was even released. Perhaps they weren't sure yet whether this song should be more depressing, or more energetic. I like the sad version better, it is more fitting to the lyrics.

  • Best version of Videotape I've listened so far.

  • So much more powerful than the album version

  • this song just strikes such a nerve in me. It's almost unbearable 

  • SILENCE and EXPLOSION

    that's their style.

  • I think this is quite a good song. maybe better than the album version.

  • awesome band...

    if u like Radiohead, u might wanna try : Watermind - "Not Again"

    P.S: Thom Yorke is a freakin´genius!!!

  • @sahsahsah you did a really bad job at hiding spam.

  • @SuperiFox I´m not hiding it, asshole. If u think it´s hidden, it´s your problem. c ya

  • @sahsahsah lol.....

  • I used to be into this coldplay sucks radiohead rocks etc bullshit - but then i relistened to Parachutes and Rush of Blood to the Head and realised I was being shallow and that there's room enough for both. After all, no Coldplay means no Spies and that's a top quality song.

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  • @ChrisPeel2k Those are the only 2 good albums Coldplay has. They don't sound like Radiohead's High And Dry, they sound like Jeff Buckley and they sound like britpop. Anyways, yeah. There's room for both.

  • @ChrisPeel2k I couldn't agree more. I just saw Coldplay live last weekend, best fucking concert ever! I've love them since Parachutes, and I was only 3 haha So 13 years later, I finally saw them. And hearing the 55,000 person crowd sing every lyric to every song, was perfect! But I still love Radiohead. They're both very different bands. They're similar, but in the way Kings of Leon and My Morning Jacket are.

  • This is my favorite version. The intensity at the end is so amazing!

  • myvideostand, many good songs can be performed differently. The problem for most bands is that they just can't balance the bare bones of the tune! Radiohead are masters of production and use all their expertise with various instruments to create something unique and original. If you isolate the vocal in this tune and changed the tempo you could create a Coldplay esque no. It's the music which makes it special. Agree with me or not but I can perform this song a thousand different ways in my mind

  • if this was the version that they put on in rainbows i would have no issues making the following statement... in rainbows > okcomputer

  • @MG53895 I 100% agree

  • thank u for sharing this !!! I was there too much love...

  • Coldplay is cheap sentimental bullshit, it has no core, no guts, no soul. Radiohead provokes emotions through intelligent and conceptually beautiful, soulful music. I'll leave Coldplay for the emotionally underdeveloped 16 year olds.

  • @fums03 I'll leave you to ignorance.

  • wow. hadn't heard this version and it is indeed amazing!

  • i get what you're saying about the "feel", correctly stated, coldplay is the band that has the radiohead feel, that being said, doesn't that make them both great?! lmao

  • @bsquared4444 I think radiohead has more musicality than coldplay. Radiohead just has the staying power of stanely kubrick and gordon parks. Neither musicians but i think you follow me. Masters of their craft. Coldplay is fading while radiohead stays relevent.

    By the way I was at this concert! I came!

  • @lanser87 not by any means is coldplay fading... both are still on the map all throughout

  • just beautiful

  • This song is nothing short but perfection -- too beautiful for words.

  • ordinary people don't realize how good this is.

  • @optimisticcosmic what a stupid thing to say...youre an elitist, arent you? tsk tsk tsk.

  • Oh my god, did you see the way Thom got up and moved his arms and it stopped and went black?.. god damn, that was beast.

  • 25 people don't have a video player

    This song is so heartrenchingly sad - I love it

  • @myvideostand.... could not agree more. musical god!

  • Por q ..... cambiaron de version , esta es mil veces mejor q la de ahora , le falta el sonido q le da Jonny :( .... Si alguien de la Banda lee esto (no creo) vuelvan a esta version porfa :(

  • This version kinda reminds me of halo

  • GREAT!!!! 

  • I miss my hometown Nashville...sooo much...can't wait to come back...I miss Bonnaroo Festival the most.....God and radiohead man....their just epic.....

  • Jonny Greenwood with his guitar : The heroic in Man . . .

  • I was there... 20 feet from the stage... this was EPIC.

  • this sorta reminds me of the music from halo

  • why is a guy shaking his head

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  • favorite song by favorite band

  • As much I love the album version, I really really wish there was a properly recorded track of the version they play here. It's just incredible

  • I cried.

  • @PJKstudios I didn't...but still a great song ! =)

  • "Mephistopholes is just beneath and is reaching up to touch me"- sounds like many of my nightmares and fears.

  • This version is FUCKING AMAZING!!!!

  • I've got a freaking boner for Radiohead, they can do no wrong in my eyes.

  • I said it earlier and, now 8 months later I will say it again. This version far exceeds the one on the album. I miss this last part a lot.

  • will someone listen to my cover of this song?

  • acojonante....

  • increíble...adoro esta canción inmesamente

  • I have to say i love this one, but considering the meaning i took from the song. I prefer the studio version. I love this song with all my heart.

  • The album version is great and all.....but I love what Ed's doing with his pedals and guitar...it gives the song a whole new vibe

  • the album version is worse, but thats just the recording. the song evolved excellently after this.

    listen to the version from the santa barbara webcast.

  • the album version is quite good. remember they wrote the song and recorded it that way for a reason.

  • i felt the same way. radiohead has a tendency to post-modernize the rock song as we know it. to me, this version, while rock-ier, is already unconventional and brilliant. when i listen to the album version, i feel i'm listening to a song that is unsure of itself and is safely experimental. i saw this version live at auditorium theatre in chicago in '06. was heartbroken when i heard the ablum version.

  • I hate all the clicks and grates on the album version.

  • I love the minimal version on the album

    but this is so powerful

    the guitar adds a whole new element to it

  • Its almost two different songs - the original, I think, captures the melancholy and the sort off "sweet bitternes" in the lyrics - albeit this one, with its loud and more grandiose soundscape, gives a more urgent and commanding sensation. If I had to choose - I would stick with the original - it's just more composed and "finished" - naturally.

  • i think the reason they cut out this whole dramatic ending from the album version is cuz they wanted a more soothing, emotional version, but i think this one here absolutely blows it away!

  • @fallensniper15

    They actually tried to have it similar to this, with all kinds of layered instruments, vocals etc., but they weren't having any luck. Everyone got pissed off and Thom left the studio, and when he came back a few hours later Jonny and Nigel Godrich had cut it all down to what you hear on the album, and they thought it was beautiful like that.

  • that is interesting- I really appreciate bands that kind of interpret their own songs in different ways- In Rainbows has many songs that evolved over the years into what they are now. I gotta say that this version is amazing and powerful but I am sure I would love any version of this song from the boys cuz I love them to death.

  • @ ellogoods - The only 'good' artists are the ones who are constantly evolving. Check out Radiohead's ''Towering Above The Rest"

  • @DeadontheThrone is towering above rest any good? i only have one song, eds scary song, and it's kinda weird...

  • @bensley56 T.A.T.R. is a collection of live shows, unreleased music, remixes, and older, alternate versions of songs such as 'Nude,' 'Up On the Ladder,' and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack.' So, to answer your question, yes; it's definitly worth checking out.

  • I just love it when Jonny goes nuts with the guitar like here and in the studio version of fog and all that energy is transmitted through my ears and transformed into an unbearable desire of tearing the skin off. Damn, sometimes that makes me stop the music!

  • the drums are so much better in the live performances + added guitar is ridiculous! Need a studio version of this... The one on in rainbows lacks. Great song none the less.

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  • @TheRishiGirl thx for this, the tempo is much faster live I believe but still a great kit for the drums matches perfect. Is there a soundboard version of this available?

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  • @TheRishiGirl sorry I ment a soundboard of videotape with the full band not the recreated studio version. Only thing I could find was the one from 2008 and of course they are playing the dumbed down eerie version. That recreated studio version is growing on me though. So the vocals and piano he used were from 'Live in the Basement'? pretty good.