This song saved my life while I was in middle and high school, not even joking. I was being mentally and physically ab*sed by my adoptive parents and I was very seriously contemplating ending my life after my parents abandoned me and being left with monsters. Radioheads music made me feel seen and that I wasn't alone. Their music kept me holding on and this song in particular, allowed me to escape to an okay place in my head. Thank you Radiohead, you helped me stay and I am doing well today at age 30. Radiohead rules forever
I'm so sorry and saddened you experienced that. Absolutely heartbreaking. Yet I'm equally grateful you found a respite, and what a refuge you found here! These guys among with a few other bands keep me going too. Live well friend, sending love 🙏
hey random guy on the internet who I've never met and probably will never talk to again, you're awesome, thanks for sticking to... life... As someone who was also saved by Radiohead in the middle of a depression spiral, thanks for sharing that story, Ig I'm not alone on this front either teehee
this music stopped me from killing myself as a child being extremely abused...this song was my saving grace and safe place I could always rely and escape in
OMFG !! when i was a teen i videotape this show from tv it was my treasure tape , i saw the show everyday when i come back from school but one day my older sister toke the tape and she used to record some f...king yoga tv show!!! i almost kill her , i was so mad i cry alot , that was in 1997, now i found it on youtube so awesome thanks for upload this show its just wonderful.
this is song is a unique masterpiece, possibly my favourite and also extremely rare at radiohead concerts i remember seeing thom yorke in person running at the beach in RIO - such a coincidende, a i was with some friends and then we just saw him!!! - i was there for the concert in 2009 - and i shouted "please thom, play let down" ok, I know that was impossible, but it was still a remarkable concert
to be honest, that was gorgeous. i would've killed to be there. all it really needed was Ed singing backup and the electronic bit at the end and it would've been perfect. beautiful singing from Thom.
This was actually the first song that hooked me on Radiohead, and it took a few headphone sessions to hear all of the texture off OK Computer -- this is a great live version!!
I like this version so much because the main melody (which is played by a guitar in the studio version) is played by another instrument that makes it sound so sweet and cute, like a music box!
I discovered this song when I watched the last episode of The Bear from S1. The best needle drop moment in my life. Been listening to this track every single day
My brother took his own life in 1991. Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer sound tracked my grief. I would play this CD every night as I went to sleep and often would wake up crying. But it gave me hope. let down is possibly the song that showed me that there was light in darkness. It still has the power to make me cry to this day.
Transport Motorways and tramlines Starting and then stopping Taking off and landing The emptiest of feelings Disappointed people Clinging onto bottles And when it comes it's so so disappointing Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around Shell smashed, juices flowing Wings twitch legs are going Don't get sentimental It always ends up drivel One day I am gonna grow wings A chemical reaction Hysterical and useless Hysterical and Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around Let down and hanging Let down Let down You know, you know where you are with You know where you are with Floor collapsing, floating Bouncing back and One day I am gonna grow wings A chemical reaction (You know where you are) Hysterical and useless (You know where you are) Hysterical and (You know where you are) Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around
Punk rockers in the late 80's were dismissive of so-called "EMO-UK-jangle-Pop" But here we see the perfect fruition of the "genre" One of my fav songs, ever.
Yeah, that's bloody brilliant. Probably my favourite part in any Radiohead song, bar the 'I am up in the clouds' bit in WIEAYB and the ending bit of Pyramid Song.
@sara17ification Absolutely agree....their music saved me from drowning, and this song is simply beyond words, i cannot survive a day without Radiohead.s music!
really wish they would play this song live, I've had the privilege to see them 5 times (3 pit) and there was once a hint that they would play it and ended up playing something else as if to tease everyone. Hope I am able to see the performance of this song and Subterranean Home Sick Alien live.
I will check if I managed to get this track also from the earlier generation tape.... I have three versions of this gig now... only uploaded some bits.
@feedtherich Well not everyone has to like this song.... Just tell me why you dont like it, when i wasnt a RH fanboy i bought Ok computer and i thought, damm this is boring, but then one day i was very sad cause an uncle died and i was hearing music from my celphone laying on the bed and then this song played and i found it very beautiful, since that day this is my favorite RH song. Every Radiohead song has its moment to be heard.
I was about to say the same thing. In studio version when the chorus kicks in it gives me the feeling that is hard to describe, like the whole song is full of Thoms voice. It makes me shiver too. And the live version is great but just not that great. plus I really miss the last verse and chorus that Thom skips.
The Tourist from the same gig (I'd posted it a month or so ago...) is another one that just knocks you off your feet. I'll try to up some more, time permitting...
Absolutely the best medicine: When she left me: Lurgee (I feel better I got strong) When I left her: Motion Picture Soundtrack (I will see you in the next life) When I feel love will touch me again soemday: True love waits (on haunted attics) When I feel I can leave my fears: Let down (one day, I'm going to grow wings, a chemical reaction !!) THANKS GOD, THANKS THOM, THANKS RADIOHEAD
¿Qué significa "bien chingon"? porque siempre lo veo escrito y no entiendo lo que significa, no estoy jodiendo pasa que soy de sudamérica y aca no se usa esa palabra.
when you are a 14 years old lil brat, and you are suffering for that damn girl....the can listen the "The Bends" and formerly adopt Radiohead as your favorite band. Once you get over that depressing time, you can listen to "OK Computer" and say"all this things that i´ve been hearing and i thought was "music"was not, and Radiohead was probably the best gift ou can get after all that pains, AND THEN you listen to "Let Down"..and realize that happines was always there, in your playlist. My history
@feedtherich this is one of their only songs where perhaps the live performance is not as good as the recording. still, if you listen to that and you can not follow the beautiful overlapping syncopated rhythms flowing into thoms falsetto over top of another recording of his voice singing the chorus, well then maybe you are just bad at listening to music
Live "Let Down" never quite impresses me as much as the studio version. I'm not sure why... Don't get me wrong, this is a good performance, but it doesn't bowl me over emotionally the way the version on OK Computer does.
@@papermatefulthat for sure but there's also something about the production, I guess it's that reverbered sound that is on the entire album but it gives to this song something special, makes it perfect, I don't know..
Possibly the best song ever written
Agreed. Ridiculously complex music that somehow flows perfectly. Great lyrics. Radiohead at their absolute best.
Could not agree more. Def in the top 5. Brilliant
I agree
I also have a few others that qualify
How about 'paranoid android' for the first place?
This song saved my life while I was in middle and high school, not even joking. I was being mentally and physically ab*sed by my adoptive parents and I was very seriously contemplating ending my life after my parents abandoned me and being left with monsters. Radioheads music made me feel seen and that I wasn't alone. Their music kept me holding on and this song in particular, allowed me to escape to an okay place in my head. Thank you Radiohead, you helped me stay and I am doing well today at age 30. Radiohead rules forever
I'm so sorry and saddened you experienced that. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Yet I'm equally grateful you found a respite, and what a refuge you found here! These guys among with a few other bands keep me going too.
Live well friend, sending love 🙏
hey random guy on the internet who I've never met and probably will never talk to again, you're awesome, thanks for sticking to... life...
As someone who was also saved by Radiohead in the middle of a depression spiral, thanks for sharing that story, Ig I'm not alone on this front either teehee
Glad you stuck around
seriously, i honestly think this may be the best song ever written.
Also probably the best live performance of it too
this music stopped me from killing myself as a child being extremely abused...this song was my saving grace and safe place I could always rely and escape in
Powerful testimonial ...👏👏💪
@ Thank you very much, that means a lot to me.
@@sarasparks1992 🤗🌹💜
Espero que ahora mismo te encuentres mejor que nunca
Brilliant.
I deeply regret never seeing Radiohead live.
We'll see them one day!!!
One day, i'm gonna grow wings... to travel some capital where they use to make concerts 😢
@@Zorriloteuna reacción química
OMFG !! when i was a teen i videotape this show from tv it was my treasure tape , i saw the show everyday when i come back from school but one day my older sister toke the tape and she used to record some f...king yoga tv show!!! i almost kill her , i was so mad i cry alot , that was in 1997, now i found it on youtube so awesome thanks for upload this show its just wonderful.
this song means the world to me
this is song is a unique masterpiece, possibly my favourite
and also extremely rare at radiohead concerts
i remember seeing thom yorke in person running at the beach in RIO - such a coincidende, a i was with some friends and then we just saw him!!! - i was there for the concert in 2009 - and i shouted "please thom, play let down"
ok, I know that was impossible, but it was still a remarkable concert
to be honest, that was gorgeous. i would've killed to be there. all it really needed was Ed singing backup and the electronic bit at the end and it would've been perfect. beautiful singing from Thom.
Man, I wish Ed would have done the backing vocals on this one..
I wonder why he didn't in this perfomance
they are both from thom the vocals
My favorite song to listen to while hammered and crying 😂😭
Probably the most emotional song ever written
I associate this song with really sad parts of my life, I then look back and relieve through the music but it always makes me feel better
This was actually the first song that hooked me on Radiohead, and it took a few headphone sessions to hear all of the texture off OK Computer -- this is a great live version!!
Wish I wasn't born in 91 so I witness this in person...
+Dominick U I feel the same :(
25 years later, I saw them live for the first time and they played Let down. MAGICAL
I wish I wasn't born in 98 so I could even remeber that.
Their brilliance never fails to amaze me. This song just sends my emotions into overdrive
I like this version so much because the main melody (which is played by a guitar in the studio version) is played by another instrument that makes it sound so sweet and cute, like a music box!
I discovered this song when I watched the last episode of The Bear from S1. The best needle drop moment in my life. Been listening to this track every single day
same :(
One of the greatest songs ever written. The lyrics, the complexity of the rhythm, the bridge. Flawless, the emotions this song makes me feel ❤️
They should play Let Down live more often.
The Bear, 1x08, beautyful
Yes, indeed this is a real MASTERPIECE!!! This song is simply perfect... Just as OKC!
This song is very very beautiful！！！
Always was my all-time favourite Radiohead song ♥
Wonderful live performance, thanks..
Is it sad that this song means more to me than anybody who has ever been in my life? Just let down after Let Down.
So glad we can watch this live live music is the best its heading ❤❤
Love this song Love the performances
absolutely stunning
Best song of all time, maybe??..
Music like this is Magic.
My brother took his own life in 1991. Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer sound tracked my grief.
I would play this CD every night as I went to sleep and often would wake up crying. But it gave me hope.
let down is possibly the song that showed me that there was light in darkness. It still has the power to make me cry to this day.
what a classic, havent listened to this in years.
Transport
Motorways and tramlines
Starting and then stopping
Taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
Disappointed people
Clinging onto bottles
And when it comes it's so so disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing
Wings twitch legs are going
Don't get sentimental
It always ends up drivel
One day I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Let down and hanging
Let down
Let down
You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
Floor collapsing, floating
Bouncing back and
One day I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction
(You know where you are)
Hysterical and useless
(You know where you are)
Hysterical and
(You know where you are)
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
The best song ever!
Thank you for taking out the time and uploading this higher quality version of this video, so much appreciated! Amazing Radiohead!
THE BEST OF THE BEST
Heaven will have something like this
This is therapy.
This song is so beautiful, if I could cry i would.... so deep
Punk rockers in the late 80's were dismissive of so-called "EMO-UK-jangle-Pop"
But here we see the perfect fruition of the "genre"
One of my fav songs, ever.
Since when do fucking punk rockers have a say in anything
One of the best Radiohead Songs.
😊❤
Yeah, that's bloody brilliant. Probably my favourite part in any Radiohead song, bar the 'I am up in the clouds' bit in WIEAYB and the ending bit of Pyramid Song.
@sara17ification Absolutely agree....their music saved me from drowning, and this song is simply beyond words, i cannot survive a day without Radiohead.s music!
This is my favorite song! Radiohead just don't leave
This Masterpiece by radiohead
finally!! a GOOD version of this song. thanks mate, really appreciate it! one of the best songs I've ever heard.
2024 and it continues to make my skin crawl
그 시절 라디오헤드를 유튜브로 볼 수 있다는 것에 대해 감사함을...🥺
my #1 song of the best band in the known universe!!
Thank you so much for posting this. :0)
dear lord...the melody starting at 4:20 is pure eargasm!
Amo a Radiohead espero algun dia verlos en vivo
Se cumplió?
@@ginareyes8258yo los vere, lo cumplire
Amazing
Que gran versión!!! Sublime!
Thanks.
Please don't take this down!!
really wish they would play this song live, I've had the privilege to see them 5 times (3 pit) and there was once a hint that they would play it and ended up playing something else as if to tease everyone. Hope I am able to see the performance of this song and Subterranean Home Sick Alien live.
o meu som favorito de toda minha vida!!!!
This song literally touches my soul every time I listen to it, It needs a great feeling of frustration to feel this song
where i shouldve been in 1997 instead of being non existent sperm cells
so fucking beatiful
YOU'LL KNOW WHERE YOU ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEE!!!!!
I will check if I managed to get this track also from the earlier generation tape.... I have three versions of this gig now... only uploaded some bits.
UNREAL
@feedtherich Well not everyone has to like this song.... Just tell me why you dont like it, when i wasnt a RH fanboy i bought Ok computer and i thought, damm this is boring, but then one day i was very sad cause an uncle died and i was hearing music from my celphone laying on the bed and then this song played and i found it very beautiful, since that day this is my favorite RH song. Every Radiohead song has its moment to be heard.
Take this at least two times a day for happiness. :)
0:06 hysterical and useless (crying)
I was about to say the same thing. In studio version when the chorus kicks in it gives me the feeling that is hard to describe, like the whole song is full of Thoms voice. It makes me shiver too. And the live version is great but just not that great. plus I really miss the last verse and chorus that Thom skips.
un temon.....
oh, it stays ;-)
I got my hands on the rest of this gig... I'll try upping some more...
I'm gonna grow wings :'(
Thanks!
I was asked to put Electioneering up - freaking UA-cam is a NIGHTMARE..... but I'm working on it ;-)
@AustinBrock Gracias gracias gracias!!!
4:11 !!!
@docnom entiendo, gracias!
totally agree...
The Tourist from the same gig (I'd posted it a month or so ago...) is another one that just knocks you off your feet. I'll try to up some more, time permitting...
jangly heaven
At least a handful of times in the 2006 tour.
Wtf 2 dislikes? how dare they!
Wow, they don't play this anymore!!
anyone know where to get a HQ mp3 of this?
recuerdos
@elrenes You're welcome :D.
For me, this one is up there with Stairway to Heaven. I don't know why but it just sounds so magical and amazing.
Absolutely the best medicine:
When she left me: Lurgee (I feel better I got strong)
When I left her: Motion Picture Soundtrack (I will see you in the next life)
When I feel love will touch me again soemday: True love waits (on haunted attics)
When I feel I can leave my fears: Let down (one day, I'm going to grow wings, a chemical reaction !!)
THANKS GOD, THANKS THOM, THANKS RADIOHEAD
@pboyrules
it's inspiring in a very depressing way
Two people think the dislike button means download....
¿Qué significa "bien chingon"? porque siempre lo veo escrito y no entiendo lo que significa, no estoy jodiendo pasa que soy de sudamérica y aca no se usa esa palabra.
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Qual: Hi Title!
@AustinBrock oh yeah, hi there! you reminded me... actually let me PM that :-)
when you are a 14 years old lil brat, and you are suffering for that damn girl....the can listen the "The Bends" and formerly adopt Radiohead as your favorite band. Once you get over that depressing time, you can listen to "OK Computer" and say"all this things that i´ve been hearing and i thought was "music"was not, and Radiohead was probably the best gift ou can get after all that pains, AND THEN you listen to "Let Down"..and realize that happines was always there, in your playlist. My history
@feedtherich this is one of their only songs where perhaps the live performance is not as good as the recording. still, if you listen to that and you can not follow the beautiful overlapping syncopated rhythms flowing into thoms falsetto over top of another recording of his voice singing the chorus, well then maybe you are just bad at listening to music
@feedtherich dude youre so hip and different
Search: mA1tiOrv4Rc
It's the whole gig in one concert :).
@MaghoxFr chingon significa algo asi como grandioso pero esta es la forma vulgar de decirlo xD Radiohead es CHINGON
Beautiful.
who says Radiohead is depressing?
@feedtherich: so? why are you here? go and listen Justin Bieber
I wish Radiohead was still emo. You heard me.
Just needed to wait 2 more years for A Moon Shaped Pool
🦝
Live "Let Down" never quite impresses me as much as the studio version. I'm not sure why... Don't get me wrong, this is a good performance, but it doesn't bowl me over emotionally the way the version on OK Computer does.
it doesn't have Ed's background vocals
@@papermatefulthat for sure but there's also something about the production, I guess it's that reverbered sound that is on the entire album but it gives to this song something special, makes it perfect, I don't know..