Radiohead - The Tourist - Berkeley 6/24/06

"The Tourist" performed live at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley, June 24, 2006.

"The Tourist" was written by Jonny Greenwood, who, explains Thom Yorke, was "in a beautiful square in France on a sunny day, and watching all these American tourists being wheeled around, frantically trying to see everything in ten minutes." Jonny was shocked at how these people could be in a place so beautiful and so special and not realize it because they weren't taking the time to just stop and look around.

Lyrics:
It barks at no one else but me
Like it's seen a ghost
I guess it's seen the sparks a-flowin
No one else would know

Hey man, slow down, slow down
Idiot, slow down, slow down

Sometimes I get overcharged
That's when you see sparks
They ask me where the hell I'm going
At a thousand feet per second

Hey man, slow down, slow down
Idiot, slow down, slow down
Hey man, slow down, slow down
Idiot, slow down, slow down


Video by formengr and KevinEverywhere

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[angkatanudara]

radiohead is more important than beatles

[icantfindanamethis]

yes

their stuff is so epic it feel almost religious doesn't it?

Especially here

and it all ends where it began:

An airbag

:p

[etejuanete3]

@broadpath yeah peace.

[broadpath]

@angkatanudara If you are old enough to remember where music was when the Beatles arrived then I'll grant you credence to say what you said. However, if you were not at least 10 years old in 1964 then you have no way to gauge the impact of Beatles. RH are far better musicians than Beatles but consider that Beatles changed western society.

RH has not yet had that impact on the world. Perhaps they have changed your world, but not the world as a whole.

[broadpath]

@etejuanete3 I don't really have as strong an opinion as seems from my posts. I was just having fun with it. And since you like RH then I'd probably like you too. Peace.

[etejuanete3]

@broadpath well not really. I just said random influences but Thom said once "when I was young, ( or something along those lines) the Pixies and REM changed my life". he's good friend with stipe and has sung with him on stage, of course that was like 15 years ago. before their carreer went in a different way.I DO know several musicians like Cage and beatles influenced them too. about muse... they're sons of The Beands, not even of Radiohead's complete context

[broadpath]

@etejuanete3 REM and Queen? You are thinking of Muse. RH are on a whole higher plane. That is why I mentioned luminaries in my post - Trane, Cage, etc. These are musicians who expanded the foundation of what we recognize as music. Perhaps you see REM and Queen in that light, but I see them as used toilet paper from Thom's arse.

[etejuanete3]

@broadpath Radiohead is more son of REM and Queen than of Pink Floyd. People used to say they were infuenced by U2, and they denied so. they've never hidden their influences, yet they hardly ever say anything about pink floyd

[broadpath]

@angkatanudara That may be true today, but a very strong argument could be made that Radiohead could not exist today if Beatles had not come before. We had to have Beatles and Pink Floyd to create a context for Radiohead. That does not make Radiohead less than Beatles. The Beatles - at least their later work - would not have existed without John Cage coming before. And we had to have Beethoven for John Cage. And it goes on and on. Radiohead stand on the shoulders of giants.

[WillOwnForFood]

2 people couldn't get into this show, or their fingers slipped and hit the wrong thumb. 

[lakers1508]

This was one of the sickest shows I have ever seen... Crushing!