Early Karma Police (Premiere 1996-08-14)

Great Woods, Massachusetts

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Music

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• radiohead

[victoryrose7]

The people at this show got to hear early versions of Climbing Up the Walls AND Karma Police? How is that fair? :)

[SaladStapler]

AND Paranoid Android. :o

[yovallch]

probobly the first and last time this song is being preformed without the crowd screaming along...

[shlomr]

it's amazing, back then this song was nothing, the crowd didnt know what it was, and barely made a holler when they said the name, now people would die to hear it live.

[rollyncoally]

The chorus definately sounds better down the octave, as much as I love Thom singing at the top of his range

[4mayZing]

karma police arrest this girl she stares at me as if she owns the world and we've crashed her party

i love that line

[skyeborg427]

No thank YOU, Thom Yorke

[ardbucho1]

love 4:10 Jonnys hair blowing in the wind

[willynillyism]

I wonder what the text says on the back of Thom's shirt.

"Leisure is Pain".

[kwizzeh]

This is just one of the early versions they played, but probably the most known version. The first verse switched around a lot during the times they played it.

[LastFreeManStanding]

Shit, I'm singing The Hitler part here, and the World Ownage part here....-.-

[greyztone]

Always wondered what the line about crashing her party was about. Makes much more sense with the original lyrics.

[LastFreeManStanding]

Wow, I've been into Radiohead for a few months now and my, that verse part "she stares at me as if she owns the world" is the best line/part I heard by Radiohead. It's not a girl/boy scene (it doesn't suit Radiohead to write songs like those) it's obvious but it's so fucking awesome.

[agk971]

@MrWalterBritley i prefer "her hitler hairdo is making me feel ill" to be honest, but it would have been good if both were in the song...somehow