Radiohead - The National Anthem (Live at 93 Feet East)

[ArseneWengerIsGod]

Another song that's recorded too quietly....dammit! Makes for shitty uploads when using a mp3 converters!

[flyvibe71]

yea, this stripped down version is soooo awesome, clear, simple, and fuckin bad-ass! 1 of the best vid's on here.

[KeanuAdams]

I could just listen to that drum + bass line OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND... *boom*

[ThelemicMagick]

Hauntingly brilliant....

[01sharpka]

More bass, i can't hear the bass.

[Lucas567]

CHRIS, MORE BASS! HELL YEAH!

[Mrlja5555]

Ok, the ability to make this particular song sound better live than studio recording is why I live and breathe Radiohead's music.

[HeyJaw]

Man - how did the sound come out so great. Was it recorded professionally?

[eiresmif35]

Well scratch that actually I just looked again and realized Jonny had his Tele :p

[eiresmif35]

I'm fairly sure Jonny uses the Ondes Martenot underneath Ed's guitar part.

[superstetle]

Man it would be cool to see Radiohead in a small venue like that, much more of an intimate performance.

[tellytubies123]

Jonny playing guitar on TNA? He usually plays the Ondes Martenot on this song. Hmmmm.

[KyostiG]

@tellytubies123 I don't think they could bring all their instruments there due to space issues hah they had to pick and choose

[tellytubies123]

Yeah I realised after posting my comment that that was the reason :D

[ernieballsting]

This version is so raw and powerful. I love how thom plays guitar on this one adding those muted scratches augh its too infectious

[bignube]

this is awesome

[maquiiladora]

hahaha continuing with the latinamerican excitement, RADIOHEAD IN CHILE!!! March 26 and 27, and i'll be theeere!! <3

[chemysoul]

RADIOHEAD EN MEXICO

este lunes 16 de marzo!!!

el primero en

latinoamerica!!!

[BORISVERO]

RADIOHEAD IN ARGENTINA!

Finally in South America!!!

March 24 in Buenos Aires....

I will....be there there...

[Sm3gH3adx]

you can tell Thom is having a blast

[RadioheadGuitar]

Yes, Jonny is playing the effects at the first part, he is doing the same kind of coin technique that he uses in "High and Dry"

and "House of Cards"

[drawingshadows]

What's that technique called?

[RadioheadGuitar]

coin technique

if you want to see this guy do it, look up "high and dry cover jonny's part" or "house of cards cover jonny's part"

[jflex]

What's he saying at the end? "..... rock the party/.... Bob Marley!"

[YanivSalman]

lollllll

[TrickundTronic]

funny guy love you

[TrickundTronic]

double lolllllll

[shasaki1]

EVERYONE IS SO.... NEAR!

[imita01]

ha, love how they say, "MORE BASS...."

TAHHHH, YOU GOTSTA LOVE RADIOHEAD

[crazymanolohead]

RADIOGODS

[keanesensational]

how many people fit in this venue?

[gpeddino]

This gig was cool because the small venue made them recreate many songs with less gear than usual... Jonny, for example had no Ondes Martenot and no radio. So he had to do everything he could with the guitar.

[guitarzpurenoise]

yes, it hasn't been a great performance but it was cool because of the unusual location and atmosphere!

[CaptainPengu]

@gpeddino At least the poor guy didn't have to lug around three hundred billion instruments as usual...

or however many that man is capable of playing.

[TheAudioFelonRegime]

I love how they really just play with the notes of the song...since the main bass riff is only made up of four notes, it's easy to bounce off of each other.

[orwin90]

watching this mad me get an ebow.. they kick fucking ass...

[PsychedelicWarrior]

lucky to get to see such an intimate gig in 2008!

[frostylasers]

jonny is amazing

[1111Sean1111]

One of the best songs ever written

[Parker731]

i wish they would release this on dvd

[jnadelman]

jonny uses the "ondes martenot" usually... guess there wasn't enough room for this gig

[cmcbride]

I love that they still managed to pull it off brilliantly without Jonny's proper equipment.

[binstig]

Johnny is my guitar god.

[neobob187]

Such an amazing song. I have to say I do wish they toured with an entire horn section so they could play this song and especially like on the album...and Especially Life in a Glass House!!!

But I still love them so much.

[Ramentastic]

Best song from Kid A

[iiswellconfused]

i dunno, i reckon idioteque is... id give this a close second along with optimistic and kid A

[happykebap]

How to disappear completely :)

[BamRyan]

Wrong. Idioteque, even if you've, like me, listened to it so many, many, many times that you hate it more than anything.

[radiohead00000]

Jonny is amazing. His whole effects rig is done on guitar. I'm speechless.

[perfectdrug39]

if ever have my own country this exact recordings going to its national anthem :)

[gringolazlo]

best radiohead song.

[alexfreddy]

HOLY SHIT...thats all i have to say

[marc230270]

rock is not dead!!! thanks guys...

[theboyandhiswand]

hahahha of course its not

what would make you think that???

i dont think its ever been more alive

^_^

[rafael28]

it has been dead, that is until radiohead resurrected it again last year

[theboyandhiswand]

ok... i dont agree.. but fine.

:p

[Staubdumm]

If I will become president, this will be the new national anthem! Yea baby.

[dalepeque45]

superb.

[orwin90]

ie.. effects...

[dieselander100]

Fuckin genius. Lucky buggers in the front row.

[theboyandhiswand]

agreed

[Zedetnik]

Each time they play THE NATIONAL ANTHEM is a different experience, always hypnotic, always chaotic...

THANK YOU FOR UPLOAD IT!!!

[orwin90]

omfg.. johnny is bloddy brilliant... like fuck... does anybody have or know were to find the guitar tabs for THIS version? ... like omg... jesus. this is so good. the guitar is great.. its strange to belive its a guitar

[floyd0murphy]

if you ever want to get better at guitar, play it by ear, dont take shortcuts, this song is all in one key, figure it out.

[orwin90]

thats for the wisdome (sarcasm).. and i do have a primative version of this.. but johny's shit is kinda hard.. its hard to belive hes even using a guitar the whole time.. but yeah i figured out yorks in a minute.. johnnys is out of my leauge.. i cant play with feed back that well yet

[floyd0murphy]

yeah sorry, i was being a dick. he and ed.... well at least one of them is using an e-bow, thats why it sounds so odd.... with delay, of course.

[Ashleyisuber]

14-11-15-12 on the igh E string for a start.

[gooflethegreat]

He gets that sound mainly by using an Ebow I believe, he uses it quite a lot a good investment for spacey guitar.

[cmcbride]

Ed uses an Ebow or sustain pickups depending on which guitar he's using (it's the pickups in this case) while Jonny get's that sound by playing with the side of a coin.

[0Dattebayo0]

sublime!!!

[WhiteSkin]

The finest band on the planet....PERIOD!

[TrickundTronic]

i like this version within colin's fine bass and thom's snarling guitar

[mrbling58]

I love Thoms 'aha, aha'

[TrickundTronic]

this is the national anthem of planet radiohead

[adamfizz]

christ, it's like fight club meets the matrix meets green day in here.

fight the power! or something! yeah!

[crowkangi]

...anyways, this is a great song by a savior of a band and it makes me wanna be part of the change. peace, love and evolution.

[TuMira85]

And how about giving some solutions instead of just pointing out problems.

[allenlud]

Radiohead live tomorrow (friday) on Jools Holland.

[juliaradzoe]

Is it my imagination, or is Thom superhuman at the end of that song?

[Doodlesby]

The members of radiohead are the greatest individuals of our generation.

[crowkangi]

This song makes me wanna take a dump on the face of George W. and shake everyone one around me out of their trance. Fuck all these consuming robots of America. Thank god for this band and thank you Radiohead for putting this idea in such a sublime way. The statements made through great art like this will save humanity from itself. Buy a Radiohead album and help save our souls. Fuck Bush forever.

I love this band

[freakcubus]

If you truly are ignorant enough to believe the people of America are nothing but sheep who follow Bush's lead than you don't deserve to listen to a band as open-minded as Radiohead. Consuming robots of America? One of the most oblivious posts I have ever read.

[KiandraLaike]

He didn't say that everyone in the US is a sheep following Bush's lead and a consuming robot. But let's face it, a quite large portion of the US population is precisely that. A newer car, a larger TV, a better computer...there's always more and better things to buy, to keep you in debts, to keep you occupied, to keep your mind off the things that really matter.

[Cronus611]

Fuck that, its not us. Its the corruptible gov.  And what does "really" matter? besides radiohead...

[KiandraLaike]

Besides Radiohead? Radiohead doesn't really matter, in the grand scheme of things.

Don't get me wrong, they're my favourite band, but...somewhere between 18000 and 25000 children die because of hunger EVERY DAY. That is about one child every 5 seconds. According to the UN 34000 children under 5 die every day from the poverty created by capitalism. This is just one of the things that "really" matter and that your government doesn't want you to think about.

[AITDS]

what a noob discussion

[kev22990]

give all these children a copy of ok computer and they'll be fine !

[ljm531]

but i think national anthem's in kid a xP

[kev22990]

I know it is lol, this was a response to another comment, just showed up here !

[ljm531]

oh sry! xD yee i hate when it happens in youtube T_T sry!

[kev22990]

no bother, cheers !

[kev22990]

this is meant to be a response to kiandralaike's comment, had to say this because it looks daft here lol, hate when this happens !

[TuMira85]

Wow. Just because it's called the national anthem. Jesus.

So everyone else is a consuming robot, but not you right? you grow your own food? you built the roof your under? didn't think so. grow up kid.

[crowkangi]

Actually TiMira85...i'm proud to say that I do. Come to our side, things are good. Listen to the lyrics and maybe you can pick up on what they're vibing. Maybe everyone isn't a consuming robot but a vast majority is unfortunately.

I'm a full-blooded native american and proud to say that I hate this fucking country and all of it's spawn. Keep fighting for the monster and go down with the sinking ship. What do I care? Plenty of us to carry on the torch.

[TuMira85]

LOL. Of course there's no way of ever proving it, but its always better to be right then wrong on the internet.

[Soul74]

"I hate this fucking country and all of it's spawn."

You're free to move to Canada.

[crowkangi]

Be very conscious on where ever you put your money. Radiohead is completing the circle and putting more back into the society. They inspire...I'd support that with all my dough.

[crowkangi]

As far as Canada goes. That was taken from the indigenous too. My tribe use to go there at times. Mostly we are from here in what's now known as the U.S. Probably on the land you live. Maybe you should leave and stop arguing over pointless shit. Obviously you fall under the mindless consuming robot category or your panties wouldn't got all scrunched up. Are you a spawn too?

[conchettas]

You mean like the movie Spawn?

[Soul74]

"Fuck all these consuming robots of America."

then,

"Buy a Radiohead album"

So don't buy anything, but go buy something?

[guitarzpurenoise]

oh my god guitars instead of trumpets and keys... amazing

[niceandeasygeorge01]

There are some people who would go nuts without musical expression; thom probably fits into that category.

[saramanic]

aaaaaaarrrrgh!!!!

ive gotten myself all hyper for the show(s)in June!!!

i fucking cant wait

[TheKnewPollution]

you might want to check up on that. The U.S. tour dates turned out to be fake and they havent released the real ones yet.

[saramanic]

riiiight... but they're playing in malahide castle, ireland, in june... i have tix... it's been all over the radio and on the RH website...im pretty sure its legit

XD

[tobiusfunke]

Great stuff. But they'll never be able to top their saturay night live version of this song.

[gamaboi]

do they have a video of that on Youtube here?

[dude1305]

They do, but it's cut too short at the end. Try to catch it on TV; it's much better. I think E! runs SNL still. It's the one with Kate Hudson.

[trickface]

"Chris! More bass" ----

[manfredini666]

The greatest band on the planet telex

[talkinglife]

Absolutely Amazing band!!!

[FanfarloK]

Idolos!!! Como Paulo Vicio!!!!

[niceandeasygeorge01]

From what I can gather thoms a pretty meek guy, showboat?

[carmelomeglio]

divine.

[siipris]

hey onlyyourmomsdeadshitflows,

yer a piece of shit... go and start over... never mind, just go away.... Yer favorte band is Matchbox 20! Yer a piece of shit!

[Jqoc]

just curious, how did u get to this video?

[nileppezdel10]

i sincerely hope you're joking..if not..go to hell

[kralle7611]

lol!

[patwow]

If you think Thom Yorke has no talent, you know nothing at all about music.

[galvers]

If you dont like it then why are you watching it enough to post a comment?

[ajax37]

the later concert (2001 jools holland) is the absolute best live version of the national anthem, i urge all fans to see it, can't wait for the summer shows !

[siperone]

i wish we´ll have radiohead for all eternity

[siperone]

this is very ¨****** good

[Coljj]

One of their best songs live imo. As good as this version was nothing beats the SNL performance of it.

[sprimusp]

yeah i was looking for the SNL version, do you have it?

[macbethscrazywife]

look on google video, there should be one on tudou

[starstorm2]

just remember dancing around the livingroom like an idiot to this when they webcast it. so amazing. I hope they play this at london in june.

[niceandeasygeorge01]

If the devil presented me with a deal: "two years off you life for front row", I would already have the pen out.

[grudebusch]

This recording makes the bass sound like a kazoo.

[DoctorTchock]

It's cool how they got great sounds out of their guitars to imitate the ondes martenot.

[einarstraymusic]

wow. that was amazing.

[Bimkovitz]

My god. Despite that little slip up at the beginning this version was amazing. Bass tone was out of this world. What I wouldn't give to go to a small Radiohead concert like that...

[letrasblues]

i love this theme

[bonovoxmofo]

A classic!

Somebody please bring Radiohead to Mexico.

[radioheadyorke]

yeah pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[raulBecker]

man this song gave me goosebumps..amazing

[vangel1s7idi0teQue]

great version!

[TheEqualiser00]

it's good but it's a nod to massive attack/dj shadow. radiohead were very influenced by them at the time.

[bassistju]

that sucked that colin was having lots of problems with his bass

[TraGung]

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!

AMAZING

[susanpatriciawalker]

surprised there wasn't mass shatting going on...

[TrickundTronic]

i agree..best version

[TheEqualiser00]

the clever thing about national anthem - which makes it different - is that the bass has swapped roles with the drummer. effectively the bass is driving the rythm so the drummer has been displaced.

[jamescartwright06]

This is the best version since 2003... this is wonderfull... fantastic.

[adamfizz]

more bass! what an absolute choon. interesting to hear it without the ondes as well, but jonny playing it on guitar is just as great. looking forward to this one in june.

[BebeTheGreat]

Oh my! Heaven to hear that song again live!

[deeniel]

this song is the best

[rabbitsandcarrots]

lucky bastards got national anthem.... ;)

[iddiols1]

i would have shat myself had i been there

[cinnamonkejaro]

heehee, I was thinking the same thing.