Upon my first listen to this album I considered it a lesser work, but then -and by pure chance- I heard this song yesterday while I was in a bar, that resulting in me checking the whole album today...and I'm just amazed that once again almost every Radiohead album could be in a (long) list of my all time favourite records...Hail to the Thief in particular not only includes one of my favourite songs (Sail to the Moon), but it has also turned out to be, as a whole, such a great album...
@JOLLYJOEY101 point "not taken". i expect an apology from Curb1109, his comment IS racist and if he is one he should just accept it no one cares anyway, what's the bloody point of this any way, let's just carry on mates
To me its about the social engineers and faceless multinational corporations that act as vampires in the global community, draining the world of its resources and sapping humanity of its spirit. Sort of keeping in line with the 1984 theme central to the album. If I didn't want to fight these things I would have ended myself long ago. "As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." - Voltaire
@idiotequeiceage i agree wholeheartedly with what youve said, im too hung over to elaborate on that, and i think if radiohead stopped making music i would end it XD
This song and picture makes you feel sick whilst and after working-out . . . I shortly, a moment ago, almost passed out and threw-up; so I had to lay down
That's not true. First of all, being from Peru is not a race. That makes my comment discriminatory, at most. And it is true that English teachers in foreign countries can be pretty bad at English, so being from Peru could explain his spelling errors.
Funny, you know Dutch as well? Better than I do? Impressive. And no, my comment was not racist as I've explained earlier, so you're not getting an apology.
If you guys like Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Muse...check my band White Note by clicking my channel whitenotetheband. Let us know if you like it :)
I am 26, i am an english teacher in peru for a foreign bussines...AND THE COMPANY HAS STARTER TO SUCK MY BLOOD....this song tells exactly my current situation....
(this song is not about "suchikg blood" this song is about how companies and bussines take advantage of new comer professionals, and even old proffesionals
this song is about the disgreaceful sense of humanity of companies that they have to theyr employees)
@encyde I am 27, i'm an english teacher in peru for a foreign bussines...AND THE COMPANY HAS STARTED TO SUCK MY BLOOD....this song exactly explains my current situation....
(this song is not about "sucking blood" this song is about how companies and bussines take advantage of young professionals , and even old professional
this song is about the disgraceful sense of humanity that companies have they for their employees)
@jepedo91 I am 27, i'm an english teacher in peru for a foreign bussines...AND THE COMPANY HAS STARTED TO SUCK MY BLOOD....this song exactly explains my current situation....
(this song is not about "sucking blood" this song is about how companies and bussines take advantage of young professionals , and even old professional
this song is about the disgraceful sense of humanity that companies have they for their employees)
@pajaritodelodio not just that, I would say... It's about how we dreamed with a great world and this is what we've got! and WE CAN'T MAKE ANy DIFFERENCE... that's why we suck...
@pajaritodelodio This song is not about companies. It's a sign that the member of radiohead put out in hollowood as a joke looking for actors. Hence "We want young blood". "Are you begging for a break?"
@pajaritodelodio Fun to see an english teacher spelling like shit haha.. It's like what the fuck are your students supposed to learn when you don't know english?
@pajaritodelodio why does your comment have so many thumbs up? it's rubbish..
as an english teacher you'd think you'd be able to speak english? ... anyway... thom has stated before that this song is about the home towns of young people sucking the life out of them and not letting them be who they are... that's what it's about...
he's also stated it's about the record industry and how labels just want to suck the life out their artists. throw in the shiniest new faces, churn them through the machine, make a bunch of money and start again with someone new.
@ariahimar Let them bleed, son. Maybe that'll improve your musical taste. This song was not meant to be easy to listen to, like the rest of the elevator muzak you listen to. This song was meant to cause shudders. To make you THINK.
One of the most underrated radiohead songs from one of the most underrated albums. You always hear people talk about Creep, P.A, Karma police, Reckoner, Idioteque etc. but this in my opinion might be the best radiohead song ever.
its how we operate, or can operate, we suck young blood, ill let you decide what young blood is, everything has young blood, track to me sounds like a reaction to seeing us drinking young blood.
@howie094 and you sound like a fuck wit trying to act more retarded than a real retard so fuck off you worthless retarded arsehole and dont give me your retarded opinion
@TheEvilstonedmonkey youre so fucked up and stupid to attemp to catch attention cause no one gives a fuck about you and when you get insulted by people you think they want you. truth hurts
@TheEvilstonedmonkey i hope you choke with a dick and then die. you sound like a kid of 12 , asshole . hope you know that we dont give a fuck about your opinion and then you can go buy a pogo and shove it in the ass. die
@ReyCarmesi97 go fuck your self cunt you think your tough behind a computer screen fuck off . if you have a daughter i would keep a eye on her all the time she might go missing soon
still trying to realize what he stole. come here, looking for a bit. chomp chomp. still trying to realize what he'd done. hail him up, for the one reason only and that is to smash him down. can't smash him down & done til i first lift him up. oh yes, hail him. please do. it's the worst crush he's ever known and the best blow i'll ever give him. can't wait. get to hailin'.
@sobeita I don't actually believe there's any *intended* connection to LotR. The questions about "sweet" and "fresh" just makes me think of that moment in the film when the orcs are discussing eating the hobbits. Or Gollum and his fish. There's another Radiohead song that reminds me of something Wormtongue says, but I can't think of it off the top of my head. "Black Star" maybe.... I don't have LotR on the brain, I swear. Only Radiohead has this effect on me.
Seems to be about all of the 'energy vampires,' sometimes also called 'psychic vampires', who swarm across America. People who feed on the life force or energy of other people - in this case children, 'young blood' - for the enrichment of themselves.
@kingoftheswing000 many think that because that metal soundheavy it agresive and hatefull and creepy but it all goes n the escence that the song gives
@deengew Oh wow !!!, another narrow minded elitist prick on youtube who feels the need to display how superior his point of view is.....how delightful !!! :)
I seriously love this band...specifically Thom. This song is so creepy. I feel as if I'm being slowly taken down into the depths of hell or something. And that fast bridge section makes me think of someone trying to escape but captured again. I don't know. I just love it. Thom is so friggin' phenomenal....just genious. I would give anything just to be in the same room with him and watch him work/compose. It'd be like watching Michelangelo sculpt.
@tlknott i like the comparison of the escaping and then being taken back again haha i can totally see that! i'm surpirsed they havent played this live in any recent years. the last time im seeing on youtube so far is like 2003
This song almost sounds a little like something off Tim Burton's films. not to say that it sounds like Danny Elfman, It just feels like something that would fit into one of his more creepy movies. Also, vampires FTW <3
@jirdimaster in the saddest way, I know exactly what you mean. Everything starts off somewhat mediocre with Sail to the Moon for me, and then it goes to Backdrifters...progresses angrily to Punchup at a Wedding, and then you are just dead with this song. :P weird, creepy but amazing.
I thought this song was about cults and stuff. because I thought it said 'are you stronger than the rest' rather than 'are you strung up by the wrists' but I still like to think of it like that. it seems to go with the slow clapping beat, like a rhythm or a mantra for brain washing.
Its a scary / disturbing video made to display my new prop that i made for halloween... This video contains disturbing imagery and is based off of tthe throbbing gristles song called hamburger lady
please check it out and let me know what you think <3
not sure at all but i think i heard somewhere that this is about... uh, music industries or model industries or whatever taking people with talent and turning them into something to make money... BUT I am not sure XD
I guess this song is about someone realizing that he has grown old. Having thrown his life/youth away. He does not really know what he wants but would like to. (and i love this song!)
I think this is about a man in a tight ass office job that is going mad in the forest and thom is talking to him and acting as a god. am I creative or what?
You stupid lefty tree huggers. Its about the struggle of modern man in todays society and how he struggles with them. Most of there songs are about God or love. Its way bigger then any vegan animal slaughter bullshit that you lemon sucking paranoid androids come up with. Its actually funny and ironic in a way that Radiohead could actually be considered a Christian rock band if you really study the lyrics. Remember, God and love.
@jvounn86@jvounn86 You absolute retard - Radiohead is by far the most postmodern band in the world, and in being so, is far and beyond such a petty religion like Christianity. The manner in which they transverse multiple genres of music from rock, folk, punk, blues, electro, etc (even dixieland jazz) proves this. Radiohead encapsulates postmodernism in the musical format, topped off with Thom's profound ability to write from varying perspectives. Remember 2+2=5. There is no objective truth.
@fran22cis people like you make me rage.what makes something "the most" postmodern? do you even know what postmodernism is? and where do you get the balls to call radiohead bigger than christianity? there's probably more churches out there than there are radiohead albums. like yorke needs another middleschooler who knows nothing about what they're talking about to suck his dick.
@colmoses1337 Do I know what postmodernism is? Well considering I'm one year into my doctorate thesis concerning postmodern thought, I can safely answer yes. Middleschooler? Someone from the states acting as if they were actually educated - how about you show me where your country is on a map. If you want a "philosophical" argument, I'll begin with Nietzsche and take you through to the post-structuralists you stupid cunt.
@jvounn86 Actually if you know anything about Thom Yorke he is a super activist when it comes to things like poverty and the problems created from it, conservation of the environment, among other things. I've never really seen a song by them that would be considered Christian. He focuses most of his songwriting on subjects like death, insanity, depression, domestic abuse, sometimes love, sometimes hatred, fear, but most of them don't even hint at a religious source.
I agree stoptalking1090, that is my favorite part of the song. I wish they had a whole song in that style! To me, this is like one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard. And it's beautiful.
Radiohead can be so beautifully sinister
RDawgsuperpro1996 1 month ago 3
muse sucks !
mishkacinco 1 month ago
Thumbs up if the grunt didn't send you, and you came of your own will via a thirst for amazing music
2plus2equ5 2 months ago 14
@2plus2equ5 always gotta 1up the top comments
animalolz 1 month ago
Upon my first listen to this album I considered it a lesser work, but then -and by pure chance- I heard this song yesterday while I was in a bar, that resulting in me checking the whole album today...and I'm just amazed that once again almost every Radiohead album could be in a (long) list of my all time favourite records...Hail to the Thief in particular not only includes one of my favourite songs (Sail to the Moon), but it has also turned out to be, as a whole, such a great album...
javialacarga 2 months ago 3
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javialacarga 2 months ago
ahh his voice makes me want to MELT~~♪
FullMetalHeart7 3 months ago
Thumbs up old high rated comments so I don't have to see that guys' butchered english comment no more.
dudewtfpasswind 3 months ago
everyone thinks that this song is about the media but it is obvious that its about vampires, you stupid!
Y0UfuckingSHEEP 3 months ago 2
THUMBS UP IF THE GRUNT DRAWING SENT YOU HERE :)
Amnesia for the win :D
DUSKvsDAWN 3 months ago 21
@DUSKvsDAWN HOW DID YOU KNOW. Amazing!
haganeNOmozzekun 3 months ago in playlist Liked
@haganeNOmozzekun why is it so amazing? O.o
DUSKvsDAWN 3 months ago
@DUSKvsDAWN ?
RobBrooksMusic 2 months ago
@JOLLYJOEY101 point "not taken". i expect an apology from Curb1109, his comment IS racist and if he is one he should just accept it no one cares anyway, what's the bloody point of this any way, let's just carry on mates
pajaritodelodio 3 months ago
Reminds me of Mingus - Freedom. Great tracks.
TheQwerty92x 4 months ago
8 years after first hearing this song i think it has just recently become my favourite radiohead song :S i just cant hear it enough
MCshlthead 4 months ago
i have no problems with this song, but i think if they leave this and the gloaming off HTTT, it would be a much more popular album.
hoofhearted1212 4 months ago
The tempo to this song is Larghissimo, (very, very slow) 20bpm or below, its like 19-20.
MrMarkwhitby 4 months ago
This would be the theme for Amnesia the dark decsent or Alien
AmazonRiderRX 4 months ago
i've got the best idea ever for a music video for this song, but i have no possible way to do it.
FullTonProductions 4 months ago in playlist More videos from geniusgza7
Smile and Die.
Manzeron 4 months ago
102 517 views? how is it even possible that masterpiece like this has such low view count??
KainDeadraiser 4 months ago
@KainDeadraiser I don't get these comments. Do you have any concept of numbers? That's a lot of views.
2:58 is still fucking immense years later.
DirEnRefused 4 months ago
get shivers everytime i listen to it. good shivers.
jackfreestone1 4 months ago
To me its about the social engineers and faceless multinational corporations that act as vampires in the global community, draining the world of its resources and sapping humanity of its spirit. Sort of keeping in line with the 1984 theme central to the album. If I didn't want to fight these things I would have ended myself long ago. "As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." - Voltaire
idiotequeiceage 5 months ago
@idiotequeiceage i agree wholeheartedly with what youve said, im too hung over to elaborate on that, and i think if radiohead stopped making music i would end it XD
MCshlthead 4 months ago
that album cover is so fantastic!
julijalia 5 months ago
Whenever somebody asks me why I'm a vegan, Í show him this song...
MenschMeier75 5 months ago
WE SUCK YOUN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
DON'T FORGET IT...
ArameoDios 5 months ago in playlist Radiohead · Heil to the thief album
To me this song is about old people, they have society under their hand, like the clapping noise...gives me shivers.
I live in central Europe and the old are so mean, calculating and just...slimy..ugh I love this song for it
sorryibrokethetrees 5 months ago 2
during this song we kissed...i never forget u my star. never!
Qenner 6 months ago
It also describes my situation very accurately . . . during the first few verses
Begging for a break . . .
JosiahSCooper 6 months ago
This song and picture makes you feel sick whilst and after working-out . . . I shortly, a moment ago, almost passed out and threw-up; so I had to lay down
Good song, though . .
JosiahSCooper 6 months ago
there is no way that pajaritodelodio is an english teacher
TheGozzler1 6 months ago 2
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Radiohead can lick my butthole clean. I ate gumbo last night.
ariahimar 7 months ago
@JOLLYJOEY101
That's not true. First of all, being from Peru is not a race. That makes my comment discriminatory, at most. And it is true that English teachers in foreign countries can be pretty bad at English, so being from Peru could explain his spelling errors.
Curb1109 7 months ago 3
@Curb1109 i'm sorry i was drunk when i wrote that comment but believe me, i think i know more about your native language than you do
pajaritodelodio 3 months ago
@pajaritodelodio
Funny, you know Dutch as well? Better than I do? Impressive. And no, my comment was not racist as I've explained earlier, so you're not getting an apology.
Curb1109 3 months ago
If you guys like Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Muse...check my band White Note by clicking my channel whitenotetheband. Let us know if you like it :)
whitenotetheband 8 months ago
WHOAA!!!!! i played this... and went on some other tabs and then 2:59 HAPPENED.
I'd had thought this song was about to be over. but WHOA!!!
shouldve expected no less frm a radiohead song.
pupucower 8 months ago
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pupucower 8 months ago
Are you strung up by the wrists?
KevinMichaelPrier 8 months ago
I accidentally flagged this video!! Fuck my life :(
But anyway this song is just as creepy as climbing up the walls, i love it
b3ttyHen94 8 months ago
I am 26, i am an english teacher in peru for a foreign bussines...AND THE COMPANY HAS STARTER TO SUCK MY BLOOD....this song tells exactly my current situation....
(this song is not about "suchikg blood" this song is about how companies and bussines take advantage of new comer professionals, and even old proffesionals
this song is about the disgreaceful sense of humanity of companies that they have to theyr employees)
pajaritodelodio 8 months ago 28
@pajaritodelodio You're an English teacher?
encyde 8 months ago 5
@encyde
In Peru, explains a lot ;).
Curb1109 7 months ago
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@encyde I am 27, i'm an english teacher in peru for a foreign bussines...AND THE COMPANY HAS STARTED TO SUCK MY BLOOD....this song exactly explains my current situation....
(this song is not about "sucking blood" this song is about how companies and bussines take advantage of young professionals , and even old professional
this song is about the disgraceful sense of humanity that companies have they for their employees)
pajaritodelodio 3 months ago
@pajaritodelodio for an english teacher, you have some rough spelling
jepedo91 7 months ago 5
@jepedo91 Dude, that's called "typo", and, regarding that, I've seen English native that spell worse.
GlaceDuFraise 6 months ago
@jepedo91 I am 27, i'm an english teacher in peru for a foreign bussines...AND THE COMPANY HAS STARTED TO SUCK MY BLOOD....this song exactly explains my current situation....
(this song is not about "sucking blood" this song is about how companies and bussines take advantage of young professionals , and even old professional
this song is about the disgraceful sense of humanity that companies have they for their employees)
pajaritodelodio 3 months ago
@pajaritodelodio not just that, I would say... It's about how we dreamed with a great world and this is what we've got! and WE CAN'T MAKE ANy DIFFERENCE... that's why we suck...
my humble opinion...
ArameoDios 5 months ago in playlist Radiohead · Heil to the thief album
@pajaritodelodio This song is not about companies. It's a sign that the member of radiohead put out in hollowood as a joke looking for actors. Hence "We want young blood". "Are you begging for a break?"
LookItsColette 5 months ago
@pajaritodelodio and that's why I am disappearing into music and ignoring the illusion of 'growing up'.
Dolphidood 4 months ago
@pajaritodelodio i wish english was my second language so i could put english words together as well as you did
bukk3t 3 months ago
@pajaritodelodio
You're an english teacher? You can't even spell!
RazorsharpLT 3 months ago
@pajaritodelodio Fun to see an english teacher spelling like shit haha.. It's like what the fuck are your students supposed to learn when you don't know english?
Islandlonelythe 3 months ago 7
@pajaritodelodio why does your comment have so many thumbs up? it's rubbish..
as an english teacher you'd think you'd be able to speak english? ... anyway... thom has stated before that this song is about the home towns of young people sucking the life out of them and not letting them be who they are... that's what it's about...
transatIanticdrawl 3 months ago 7
@transatIanticdrawl
he's also stated it's about the record industry and how labels just want to suck the life out their artists. throw in the shiniest new faces, churn them through the machine, make a bunch of money and start again with someone new.
lewismentalmusic 2 months ago
@pajaritodelodio For an English teacher, you sure speak a lot of bollocks. Try teaching that..
Drenex00 1 month ago 6
@pajaritodelodio Please learn English before you teach it.
ebbtides 9 hours ago
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This is the WORST song i have ever heard. My ears are LITERALLY BLEEDING.
ariahimar 9 months ago
@ariahimar Let them bleed, son. Maybe that'll improve your musical taste. This song was not meant to be easy to listen to, like the rest of the elevator muzak you listen to. This song was meant to cause shudders. To make you THINK.
afeine1 9 months ago
@ariahimar What did you expected, disco? GTFO
ReyCarmesi97 4 months ago
@ariahimar What did you expected, disco? GTFO
ReyCarmesi97 4 months ago
One of the most underrated radiohead songs from one of the most underrated albums. You always hear people talk about Creep, P.A, Karma police, Reckoner, Idioteque etc. but this in my opinion might be the best radiohead song ever.
waaromzomoeilijk 9 months ago 5
@waaromzomoeilijk my favorite is between kid A, airbag .... (lists all of radiohead's songs).
strwbrryfldsfrvr0 7 months ago
its how we operate, or can operate, we suck young blood, ill let you decide what young blood is, everything has young blood, track to me sounds like a reaction to seeing us drinking young blood.
quodin 9 months ago
@howie094 and you sound like a fuck wit trying to act more retarded than a real retard so fuck off you worthless retarded arsehole and dont give me your retarded opinion
TheEvilstonedmonkey 9 months ago
this song is so fu*ked up its stupid it sounds like he is dieing
TheEvilstonedmonkey 10 months ago
@TheEvilstonedmonkey youre so fucked up and stupid to attemp to catch attention cause no one gives a fuck about you and when you get insulted by people you think they want you. truth hurts
ReyCarmesi97 4 months ago
@ReyCarmesi97 go fuck your self you cunt i really dont give a flying fuck what people think of me so you lose cunt hole
TheEvilstonedmonkey 3 months ago
@TheEvilstonedmonkey i hope you choke with a dick and then die. you sound like a kid of 12 , asshole . hope you know that we dont give a fuck about your opinion and then you can go buy a pogo and shove it in the ass. die
ReyCarmesi97 3 months ago
@ReyCarmesi97 go fuck your self cunt you think your tough behind a computer screen fuck off . if you have a daughter i would keep a eye on her all the time she might go missing soon
TheEvilstonedmonkey 3 months ago
@TheEvilstonedmonkey probably. how bad you are , damn u scare me
ReyCarmesi97 3 months ago
i see drug reference here...
davemorphine 10 months ago
No, this isn't about vampires, stop taking literal interpretations of songs. If you want literal songs listen to Miley Cyrus.
bp56789 10 months ago 6
Obviously Radiohead's a big inspiration for Miley Cyrus.
diln5 10 months ago 2
@diln5 BAHAHAHA, pure genius!
bp56789 10 months ago
Mon dieu c'est tellement intense !
popsita 10 months ago
still trying to realize what he stole. come here, looking for a bit. chomp chomp. still trying to realize what he'd done. hail him up, for the one reason only and that is to smash him down. can't smash him down & done til i first lift him up. oh yes, hail him. please do. it's the worst crush he's ever known and the best blow i'll ever give him. can't wait. get to hailin'.
mindnumber9 10 months ago
this is fucking doom.
TP2010 10 months ago
Probably the creepiest Radiohead song in existence. Love it.
Arthurius707 11 months ago 8
@Arthurius707 nuh-uh, that would definitely be pulk/pull revolving doors or fitter happier o_O
CactusInButt 9 months ago
this whole record is just as good as ok computer and kid a, some days i prefer it
dominickknowles 11 months ago
myley cyrus wanted to meet radiohead?......seriously.
paddymourinho 11 months ago
would you do anything?.... i love how he sing it
Stillillgal 11 months ago
scary song by radiohead...
TheHairy0ne 1 year ago
The older we get the more we crave the young blood.
GoogleVideoMan 1 year ago
haahha my bio teachers name is mr youngblood
Dnangelrocksify 1 year ago 5
The views are 66,969. I the only one who trips out at that?
hchn333 1 year ago
The vampires must be proud for listenin this song
1000701119 1 year ago 4
Hail to the Thief is an underrated album period. You can easily compare it to Kid A.
Ocarinakid23 1 year ago 2
This gives me the same chill that Tom Waits' "Bone Machine" album does. Evil, creepy, morbid... yet beautiful.
MegaCrasher2000 1 year ago 2
For some reason, this reminds me of Lord of the Rings ... orcs, specifically.
phantasmbunny 1 year ago
@phantasmbunny This song is describing a power that preys on people. If it's anything to do with Lord of the Rings, I would say it's simply the Ring.
sobeita 1 year ago
@sobeita I don't actually believe there's any *intended* connection to LotR. The questions about "sweet" and "fresh" just makes me think of that moment in the film when the orcs are discussing eating the hobbits. Or Gollum and his fish. There's another Radiohead song that reminds me of something Wormtongue says, but I can't think of it off the top of my head. "Black Star" maybe.... I don't have LotR on the brain, I swear. Only Radiohead has this effect on me.
phantasmbunny 1 year ago
Gothic!
pythonbyte 1 year ago
happiest song ever
agustinkpo97 1 year ago 4
Seems to be about all of the 'energy vampires,' sometimes also called 'psychic vampires', who swarm across America. People who feed on the life force or energy of other people - in this case children, 'young blood' - for the enrichment of themselves.
cazimi360 1 year ago
I'm a big metal head but i've gotta say this is more sinister than the vast majority of metal i've ever heard !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kingoftheswing000 1 year ago 110
@kingoftheswing000 many think that because that metal soundheavy it agresive and hatefull and creepy but it all goes n the escence that the song gives
pingui0987 1 year ago
@kingoftheswing000 I love Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Decapitated, Machine Head and all them lot, but Radiohead are in my top 3 bands of all time :)
b4con94 1 year ago
@
No one cares that you took a break from listening to awful music to listen to actual music.
deengew 11 months ago
@deengew Oh wow !!!, another narrow minded elitist prick on youtube who feels the need to display how superior his point of view is.....how delightful !!! :)
kingoftheswing000 11 months ago
@kingoftheswing000
Looks like your coming down with something, sir. Yep, looks to me like a classic case of 'being mad'
deengew 11 months ago
@deengew Please learn the difference between "your" and "you're", on the basis that it's not very fucking hard.
Saltistic 11 months ago
@Saltistic
aspergers rage, confirmed mad
deengew 11 months ago
@deengew True I'm nervous, but why do you think I'm mad?
Saltistic 11 months ago
@Saltistic E.A. Poe. Sweet.
GraceMccThe1st 11 months ago 2
@kingoftheswing000 im a metalhead too , man you got to check portishead , its darker than black metal
firedeathterror999 6 months ago
@kingoftheswing000 yeah, nothing else is like this and nothing can sound like this
aa428507 5 months ago
They got the clapping from Charles Mingus' "Freedom"
alsa005 1 year ago
my blood is sour...(doctor told me) :p
thesuthix 1 year ago
I seriously love this band...specifically Thom. This song is so creepy. I feel as if I'm being slowly taken down into the depths of hell or something. And that fast bridge section makes me think of someone trying to escape but captured again. I don't know. I just love it. Thom is so friggin' phenomenal....just genious. I would give anything just to be in the same room with him and watch him work/compose. It'd be like watching Michelangelo sculpt.
tlknott 1 year ago 5
@tlknott 10-4 mate
you just took my thoughts and put them in words
yeahyeahyaha2 1 year ago
@tlknott i like the comparison of the escaping and then being taken back again haha i can totally see that! i'm surpirsed they havent played this live in any recent years. the last time im seeing on youtube so far is like 2003
Francois1000 10 months ago
This song almost sounds a little like something off Tim Burton's films. not to say that it sounds like Danny Elfman, It just feels like something that would fit into one of his more creepy movies. Also, vampires FTW <3
verzeda 1 year ago
2:59 = blood spills all over the place
MrMucas 1 year ago
My blood type is B-posotive :D
TheHail777 1 year ago
@TheHail777 No, it's B-quiet. At least until you learn to say something interesting, and spell it correctly.
YouthComplex 1 year ago
@YouthComplex sorry i was donating blood...so i was feeling a little light headed and i ate like 4 bags of cheeze-its :D
TheHail777 1 year ago
This song is haunting, its so fantastic !
luno94k 1 year ago
love this song.. in a world that sucks your blood
marioua18 1 year ago 2
Very Vampire! Very Dracula!
trabvo 1 year ago
OMG, I forgot this album lol.... feels like I have a NEW Radiohead album now! ;)
gonna check it out again !!!!
sp4eva1 1 year ago
this song scary me :/
GissiiRD 1 year ago
radiohead! no hay otros!!!
herberportillo09 1 year ago
LSD song¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
marceworld 1 year ago 2
I've got no words to explain what i feel. No tengo palabras. I love radiohead. Is... i haven't words..... thanks radiohead
zahoryclub 1 year ago
I love how brooding, angry, and morbid Hail the Thief is, definitely my favorite Radiohead album, so beautifully depressing.
jirdimaster 1 year ago 2
@jirdimaster in the saddest way, I know exactly what you mean. Everything starts off somewhat mediocre with Sail to the Moon for me, and then it goes to Backdrifters...progresses angrily to Punchup at a Wedding, and then you are just dead with this song. :P weird, creepy but amazing.
RealMadrid560 1 year ago
beautiful song really. So emotional from the very subtle beginning, great dynamics in vocals. A real soul opener. Great for solo sunset sessions.
ChocolateAndCheese1 1 year ago
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whateverhte 1 year ago
I thought this song was about cults and stuff. because I thought it said 'are you stronger than the rest' rather than 'are you strung up by the wrists' but I still like to think of it like that. it seems to go with the slow clapping beat, like a rhythm or a mantra for brain washing.
qpwo6 1 year ago
@qpwo6 Asking if someone is stronger than the rest does not have to do anything with being in a cult does it?
ChocolateAndCheese1 1 year ago
@ChocolateAndCheese1 well I heard that cults look for people who think they're surperior to others sometimes.
qpwo6 1 year ago
@qpwo6 That can describe the entire human race.
ladypyramidhead 1 year ago
This song is so wonderfully creepy. I love that radiohead creates songs about so many different topics.
wurzelchan 1 year ago
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this whole album is complete dog shit. i cant beleive i used to listen to this bollocks
choclatesaltyballz 1 year ago
charles mingus "freedom" inspired this one..
one of my favorite mingus' songs
LamVamRamYamHamOm 1 year ago
I think the paraphrase question one could make from these lyrics would be: Would you sell your soul to us just to have the basic means to survive?
lamentofhorde 1 year ago
Whoever "they" may be.
lamentofhorde 1 year ago
our veins are thin
our rivers poisoned...
pure genious!
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blondiebabee022008 1 year ago
great song...I just wish that the piano fast part was longer you know?
radiocoldheadplay 1 year ago 2
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the song reminds me twilight
gogolplex74 1 year ago
Please don't talk about retarded,gay, fan-grily movies In the presence of such music, Would you kindly? *Bioshock reference. :3*
doomedtodead64 1 year ago 18
@doomedtodead64 A man chooses... a slave obeys.
A radiohead and Bishock combination would be wonderful.
MIKEDURSTEWITZ 1 year ago
@doomedtodead64 Bioshock and Radiohead!
Thats my jam
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MrCowoflove 8 months ago
not sure at all but i think i heard somewhere that this is about... uh, music industries or model industries or whatever taking people with talent and turning them into something to make money... BUT I am not sure XD
pesuhiir 1 year ago
@pesuhiir You're absolutely right. I watched an interview with Thom on The Culture Show (i think) and that's exactly what he wrote it about.
edobriensgrin 1 year ago
a perfect song to die with!
T pio teleio na se 8pso0on m'ayto
to songaki .... teleio
bo0oblegum 1 year ago
@bo0oblegum 6983456245 se periptwsh pou autoktwnhseis mhn pas makria
grafeio teletwn exw.
socialwasteR 1 year ago
I guess this song is about someone realizing that he has grown old. Having thrown his life/youth away. He does not really know what he wants but would like to. (and i love this song!)
z3r0u 1 year ago
Thom Yorke, will you marry me??
(this is amazing)
x333ximonlyhalfevilx 1 year ago
this is a beutiful song...
saxengee 1 year ago 2
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BOOORING omG...3:00 ist not bad but the Rest -.-''
xMrClarkx 1 year ago
I think this is about a man in a tight ass office job that is going mad in the forest and thom is talking to him and acting as a god. am I creative or what?
tuvalwolf 1 year ago 3
You stupid lefty tree huggers. Its about the struggle of modern man in todays society and how he struggles with them. Most of there songs are about God or love. Its way bigger then any vegan animal slaughter bullshit that you lemon sucking paranoid androids come up with. Its actually funny and ironic in a way that Radiohead could actually be considered a Christian rock band if you really study the lyrics. Remember, God and love.
jvounn86 1 year ago
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fran22cis 1 year ago
@jvounn86 @jvounn86 You absolute retard - Radiohead is by far the most postmodern band in the world, and in being so, is far and beyond such a petty religion like Christianity. The manner in which they transverse multiple genres of music from rock, folk, punk, blues, electro, etc (even dixieland jazz) proves this. Radiohead encapsulates postmodernism in the musical format, topped off with Thom's profound ability to write from varying perspectives. Remember 2+2=5. There is no objective truth.
fran22cis 1 year ago
@fran22cis people like you make me rage.what makes something "the most" postmodern? do you even know what postmodernism is? and where do you get the balls to call radiohead bigger than christianity? there's probably more churches out there than there are radiohead albums. like yorke needs another middleschooler who knows nothing about what they're talking about to suck his dick.
colmoses1337 1 year ago
@colmoses1337 Radiohead IS GOD! What christianity puts faith in, is what Radiohead bestowed onto their "god".
xjuankingx 1 year ago
@colmoses1337 Do I know what postmodernism is? Well considering I'm one year into my doctorate thesis concerning postmodern thought, I can safely answer yes. Middleschooler? Someone from the states acting as if they were actually educated - how about you show me where your country is on a map. If you want a "philosophical" argument, I'll begin with Nietzsche and take you through to the post-structuralists you stupid cunt.
fran22cis 1 year ago
@jvounn86 Actually if you know anything about Thom Yorke he is a super activist when it comes to things like poverty and the problems created from it, conservation of the environment, among other things. I've never really seen a song by them that would be considered Christian. He focuses most of his songwriting on subjects like death, insanity, depression, domestic abuse, sometimes love, sometimes hatred, fear, but most of them don't even hint at a religious source.
lamentofhorde 1 year ago
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whateverhte 1 year ago
I hat radiohead fans. they always say "RADIOHEAD IS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD"
Well most of them, except for me.
carnesaur 1 year ago
they may not be the best band in all eternity but they are the best band in the world today.
bubblepopelictric 1 year ago
Because that's often what fans do.
Nogli 1 year ago
TUNE. Radiohead are the best band in the world. They truly are.
DigitalLoveDaftPunk 1 year ago
This song is eerily beautiful.
biskitismydoggie 2 years ago
Best Song In Album.
tuvalwolf 2 years ago 3
my favorite off the album is probably "Wolf At The Door"
it's funny , creepy and depressing all at the same time.
I've never heard a song quite like it.
CanadianChronic2121 1 year ago
I agree stoptalking1090, that is my favorite part of the song. I wish they had a whole song in that style! To me, this is like one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard. And it's beautiful.
JetpackShoes 2 years ago
sweet decay
TOPHERHARPER 2 years ago
what's this song about?I don't get it?
iopih 2 years ago