The Smile - Skrting On The Surface
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2025
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I'm starting to think that Thom was sent here with the sole purpose of creating this beautiful, enlightened, soulful music. I'm just greatful that I am here and its in my life.
And to be alive at the same time as the greatest musical genius ever, in my opinion. It's awe inspiring to be in this world during the same lifetime as him.
And to be alive at the same time as the greatest musical genius ever, in my opinion. It's awe inspiring to be in this world during the same lifetime as him.
Fun Fact: This song was written during the In Rainbows sessions. Can't imagine why this was cut.
Can't put all your eggs in one basket
I think they did the right thing. The early version wasn't anything close to this. The chord progression was completely different. Thom was still letting it cook I think.
Didn’t know that, do you know where I can find recordings of that
@@THEEvanWolford you can find they playing it live on youtube.
This and pretty much everything from The Smile would be perfectly placed on In Rainbows! This and "Friend of a Friend" especially.
I’ve heard this song about 150 times. I can now say that it’s absolutely perfect: everything from the speed to the sax to the way Thom songs these very good lyrics. Everything is just perfect. 10/10.
who plays the soprano sax?
10/10? I think you mean 11/8 😂
mano es el medio tema ctmreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I think it's perfecter than just 10/10.
Agreed
his voice aged like a fine wine. soothing and relaxing
Thom, please please PLEASE never stop singing. Your voice is ethereal and one of my most favorite sounds in the world. ❤️🔥
This.
exactly. I really wish they didn't use this heavy autotune on his voice here. it sounded great live.
he is getting a little too close to sounding like the pervert in family guy.
Really...
@@raoulduke-k9d the old creep in the show. it's one of the funniest musical realization i've ever had. he's still the GOAT, but that reckoner falsetto stuff is rough.
Jonny's beautiful, masterful guitar playing in all its glory.
I thought he was playing bass :O
Pretty sure he plays bass in The Smile
@@kida4313 From what I've seen of them playing live they swap whos playing guitar/bass song by song
@@TeddymanYT Good to know, thank you. I remember when I first saw the rehearsal and .. I dunno, Jonny on bass looked so alien to me :D
@@TeddymanYT yeah they swap up everything from what I've noticed. Even the keyboard.
Thom just quietly mining his own business.
It's funny cause I noticed that he's just doing it his own way. Moving rocks of coal from here and then putting them over there in the shape of a face...then just leaves. Now that's art. ☮️
The coal should be putting back into place, based on Jigsaw falling into place - as we're skirting on the surface.
A.k.a Thom somewhere in Yorkshire
@@Jeremy-iz6xs Wow I have most likely watched his this video 35 to 40 times and never noticed that he forms the shape of a face with the coal! Duh Jessica, like get it together...(spoken in the voice of a valley girl from California). Thank you for the insight, you succeeded in making my day brighter 🌞🌠.
Oof! Had to dig deep for that one!
FTW! 😂
The look on Thom's face at the end. Not angry, not sarcastic young Thom, just tired and disappointed.. That broke my heart
This band is so good, I hope one day they can become as famous as big bands like Radiohead.
Funny how similar they sound.
technically, they are part of radioheed :D
Maybe that's not their purpose.
Someone doesn't understand sarcasm @@sauquan7836
@@mallory3215 what do you mean?
“Music is the souls celebration of life”
This song is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. And I’ve wanted it for a very long time. I’m so happy.
this song is 10 years old and we're finally getting it holy shit
Slightly older, actually: premiered by Thom solo, October 2nd 2009 during the first Atoms For Peace concert before they even had a name and were listed as "??????"
@@italorossid i had no idea!! damn im glad we're finally getting it!!
They should have saved it for the next Radiohead album instead!
@@samirar1990 thing is, this is sort of the Radiohead album, just without half the band, due to lockdown
@@BandCalledTheSleep Is that the actual official reason (why it's not a Radiohead album)?
Thom and Johnny always hitting us up with new meters, like 11/8
Yorke’s a celestial being at this point. Nothing comes even close.
Such a great way to put it
I always thought some musicians and important figures are angels who had a time on earth to live like us and hurt like us and after god calls them back home. I always felt that way about Martin Luther king 2pac Freddie Mercury Bob Marley Nelson Mandela Chris Cornell biggie so many more. They were here and lived here suffered here and they were tired and in pain and god said come back home and rest now
It's remarkable. I've been through a very long musical journey and deep dived into almost every genre over my 38 years on Earth. Everything from Jazz, to Japanese Noise, Black Metal, gangster rap, IDM, funk, soul, classical. Name a genre and one of my favorite musicians is part of it. Radiohead (and Thom Yorke) is one constant that never seems to get old for me. I'm not someone who sticks to my golden oldies either... I'm the sort of person always looking for fresh new music. So many old favorites have been left by the wayside, or at least hardly played now but Thom is not one of them. He has such a knack for making interesting music with that effortless vibe. Almost like his body creates it naturally. It's hard to name musicians who maintain artistic integrity throughout a long career. Maybe Tom Waits (if you're into that kind of stuff). Michael Gira's Swans is another (much too abrasive and scary for some but if you're a fan of that, the artistic integrity stayed alive and well even into his 60's). Aphex Twin is possibly another. Anyway... point is these people are bloody rare. I'd call them visionaries. Paul McCartney has contributed a shit load of amazing music but is pretty scattershot after the 70's. Still... peak Beatles is hard to beat.
I couldn't think about something better to say..
Whatever. This meandering song is boring.
There are very few artists who speak to the human condition quite like Thom Yorke. Thank you Thom
I just realised that this clip was directed by Mark Jenkin, one of the greatest auteurs in modern cinema. What a collision of greatness, between a master musician and a master filmmaker.
sometimes i ponder on how i'm going to miss out on unforeseen events in the future (when space exploration, possible teleportation, etc) and my head hangs low but i remember that i exist just in the right time to witness the creations of thom yorke. everything is in its right place.
I had this thought too lol 😂
Teleportation, eh? Ha! When space exploration? Right.
Ha ha, space exploration, we live on a prison planet we can't leave low earth orbit, , getting up high in the air isn't space but that's what they want us to believe
I don't think the human race will last long enough to reach that point. We can't coexist enough to cooperate as a whole. Humans are greedy, selfish, narcissistic and opportunistic. Eventually we'll wipe ourselves from existence and then the whole thing will start over again like it has already numerous times.
I feel the same. Where do you live on Earth?
Got a little teary eyed when I saw him slip that first stone into place. His suffering is not to take but to restore.
Almost a year later, I still cannot find the right words to explain how much this song moves me, every time I hear it again.
My great grandfather died in a coal mine in Thurber, Texas. But he learned to mine in Leigh. Imagine the man in the mine. Thanks Thom and The Smile. Memorial.
I’m thankful to my parents, who have allowed me to listen to this masterful artists in such a strange world
Those "Ahh ah aha's" send shivers down my spine. And the old film look compliments the sound of the song so well.
Vos Iterum!
@@robmaddison8645atque iterum xD
Yet again another example of a perfect song from Mr. Yoke and co. This song is just absolutely perfect to me.
Apparently this was shot on 16mm Black and White film and hand developed using water FROM THE MINE!! Really cool cinematography as well!
What?! That is amazing.
This song could last 15 minutes, or one hour, or more and I'd still keep listening in absolute wonder and pleasure ❤️
When the saxes come in at 2:18, it's just the most unexpeced and welcome gentleness...
This album will be legendary
But mate, where the fuck is it? This is a bit much now, release the thing.
@@DankYharnamNugs Good things come for those who wait. I'm sure it'll be an absolute banger of an album, we'll have to be patient and only grateful that we get to live in the same era as Radiohead/The Smile/Thom/etc
@@DankYharnamNugs meanwhile you can enjoy the Konklins Plesiosaur Album: the Colin Greenwod - Lima, Peru connection. GREAT record.
@@patriciomartinotti5694 what does this mean?
@@DankYharnamNugs not really. I mean… the first single came out barely three months back, and Johnny said at that point they were still working out the song order🤷🏻♂️. It will probably come out mid April or so since the second song from the Thom/Johnny peaky blinders 5.17 single comes out April 2nd.
Anticipation is a good thing. Immediacy takes away from the value of the product. I’m dying to hear it too, but they’ll release it when they release it. Should be grateful we’ve gotten the singles. It would suck if we were waiting without these amazing singles.
That was lovely, everything from the cries of Thom, to the saxophone part, to the drumming, to the bass was splendid! Now to see if it has been uploaded to Spotify…
It has for me
Simping for spotify smh
The sax is so David Bowie's Blackstar vibe, imo.
The haunting, surrounding sounds in the end... Gosh, this is just BRILLIANT!!!! Thom is just SO GOD-DAMNED BRILLIANT!!!!!
Review from Anthony ua-cam.com/video/s9Q6uNpdleY/v-deo.html
Lol. Fuck Spotify bro
I'm 4 listens in in 20 min and I can safely say this is one of the best aesthetic uses of odd time signatures. The way Thom's melody holds/pauses makes this an otherwordly track. The drumming is absolutely incredible and 3 tracks in I'm really appreciating Tom Skinner's contribution to this project. The horns, guitar timbres, magnificent. One of my favorite Thom/Jonny recordings since Daydreaming.
can't work it out: 10/4 into sth ??!!! weirdly they get tom skinner in and make him sound like the Radiohead drummer! wish it was bit less f&&king pro tooled and freer
@@3head103 i've been counting 1-2-3-4 then a single triplet... so 1-2-3-4-123 if that makes sense
@@3head103 Yea, that's a bit strange. But maybe they just wanted to get this song out and it predates the collab with Tom Skinner...
It's 11/8 fellas
Oh wait until you hear Thin thing
Don’t stop Thom, just don’t… i beg you. Your tunes are literally healing me and many around the world for decades now. You truly are a gem for humanity.
Thank you… THANK YOU!
It makes me cry, it's so beautiful
Thom’s leaving a great visual legacy as well as musical. In hundreds of years’ time, people will look back at his life and wonder “who was this strangely interesting man?”
Absolutely! Such a poignant commentary.
@@gtafilms1197 that will probably be a drunk guy having read shitty tabloids for all his life and getting pretty confused about chronology of events...
@@gtafilms1197 If want to make it a case you should give more details with sources. I'm always skeptic although i tend to see how fucked up we are and i am sure Thom is no exception. I appreciate a lot his work but I would definitely appreciate even more if he would try his best to be a decent person.
Wait until they discover Michael Gira.
@@gtafilms1197 Where the fuck did you get all this shit from?
"When we realize that we are broken, nothing mends" This is the reality we are facing now
This is fantastic. I feel sorry for people who don't follow Thom and his many projects.
Since its a Thom Yorke song, naturally it will be open to different interpretations but for me the message on this one is very clear. It's about the journey through life, with all the hardships and struggles a man/woman has to experience. We are fragile creatures destined to have an end, he just expresses this in a beautiful way. This song is an expression of how every human path is temporary. In the cosmic scale of things, we are just a blink.
We play our part. Then it's over.
Thom Yorke é um gênio... Mais um clássico
It's about **literally what every song is about**
Absolutely! My thoughts exactly. We're a blink in cosmic measures, but to us in our sometimes numbing existence, we're here in everlasting---------
self or Self. Skirt the surface body/mind ego style or dive to the depths and realize your true Self.
This is a gorgeous song. As beautiful as anything Thom and Jonny have released as Radiohead.
I can't stop listening to it. I can't remember the last time I listened to one song on repeat this many times.
Beyond melancholy. Haunting. Natural progression.
Thom cannot produce anything but Beautiful, ethereal and such soothing music. It touches my soul!!
I love it. Reminds me of Weird Fishes/Arpeggi. Getting some great vibes from these new songs! Thanks You guys for making amazing music!
It has a reckoner vibe too
Classic Thom sending me to a cloud full of angels singing to me… never fails
That “aaaahh” at 1:39 (and another spot in the song only comes after we “drop under the surface”… very beautiful detail 💙
3:25
Just amazing how Thom can keep a voice like that 👏👏👏👏👏
I love the way the guitars are miked on this. The engineering on all three songs so far has been superb. If ECM Records released rock records, they would sound like this.
The way the guitar tone blends with the kick drum is sublime. Also they made the fret squeaks part of the mix! Just beautiful engineering as always from Mr. Richgod.
@@stitchgrimly6167 This is breath of fresh air to hear the physical instrumentation being played. After In Rainbows, GodRich has overproduced Radiohead's songs in my opinion. Still bummed about Identikit (although the choir is pretty cool). The live versions of that song had much more energy.
So much beauty in six minutes. The voice, those arrangements, that bass, the deftness of the drumming, the incredible brass. They make it look easy. It's mastery. Majestic.
Combination of this haunting tune, lyrics and metaphorical performance of Thom, devised filmed and directed in deepest Cornwall by Mark Jenkin is sublime.
Probably the umpteenth time i've listened to this song. The saxophone part, especially at 4:04 grips me with motivation everytime.
Here we go
Was always hyped to hear this someday along with Cut a Hole
This is so melancholic and gorgeous.
His voice is so gorgeous in this
God, I love you. The video is dark and the twist of the film match perfectly with the wind instruments. It shown us the future: we, repairing our mistakes. It's beautiful. I can't wait for your album.
One of THE Smile songs for me. Properly mad.
The Smile has been quite the breath of fresh in regards to all things Radiohead. Cant wait for this album. Spectacular work guys! 👌
How beautiful this is. Pure bliss.
Love it feels a bit like Bowie’s Blackstar vibe
Это шедевр
Как же я счастлив, что ребята продолжают творить подобное
и это здорово!
У меня мысли, созвучные с вашими🌸
Ooh, the orchestral part really took my breath away. Beautiful work, altogether!
Struggling really bad with my mental health and this has come at just the right time as always. Radiohead and Thom Yorke has always been there for me. Long may Thom live 💛
Hang in there brother! Whatever darkness you're in right now just know that you will get through it :)
In a similar place myself, but i feel this is the final nail in the coffin for me. Fucking tripe
@@RossMcCarthy1990 Tomorrow is another day man. Just deal with one day at a time. That's what I am doing.
@@aaronpuckett2062 Cheers my man
This video was filmed 5 miles from my house! Wish I could have met thom when he was here. Its in Zennor mine in Cornwall btw 🙂
The subtle pulsating strings on 4:27 are absolutely perfect.
From that moment onward is perhaps my favorite stretch of music that they have done in all of their career, I can't tell you how many times I've repeated that sequence when listening to this song
This is a spiritual sequel of The Lighthouse.
Bait?
More like Ace in the Hole.
Jajaja 🤣 you nailed it
@@AndiCrane74 "" "" 9 a
Great film
Took one listen and I'm already in love with the song and the music video
first couple listens to this album and i added a few songs to my playlist, wasn’t obsessed with it and didn’t quite “get” it. never really went back to it, other than a select few songs, until today-i listened to the album with my full attention. the album has been on repeat now for 8 hours. it is so breathtaking; truly a masterpiece. cant wait to see you guys in december.
That's usually the case with Radiohead themselves and all of their side projects. Your first take is usually not accurate. Have to persevere and eventually you get rewarded with pure gold.
I've listened to this song a couple times already, but just tonight this song clicked on me and I can't stop listening to it, I always love it when that happens, the last time it happened to me was when I was listening to present tense and I noticed how good the bassline is and got obsessed with it
Haunting and beautiful
Nice 11/8 Thom. Took a second to count that out, seems like when the drums drop and it’s just the guitar it’s playing in 5/4. You and your tricky time signatures. Love it.
thanks! I was trying to figure out the time signature. I picked up 5/4 but only in segments
@@filipnilenius3654 yes you can count 4/4 + 3/8 :)
@@Randomaiz but that’s different from 5/4 + 6/5. I still don’t feel the rythm
I don’t know anything about time signatures in theory, but i can listen and count and I believe you are right! Thanks sir.
1-2-3-4-5 1-2-3 1-2-3 🔁
3:04 This part is so beautiful. Everything’s falling into place
Yeah. Jigsaw falling into place.
There is nothing to explain
@@whatrudoininmyswamp916 Or everything in its right place
Such a beautiful cadence
Jigsaw In Its Right Place
Thom Yorke, The Smile and Radiohead NEVER cease to amaze me!!!! It has been more than 20 years and they STILL produce new music!!!!! Unimaginable!!!!!!
For me, Radiohead or The Smile is the BEST rock band ever!!!!!!
Atoms For Peace
Sublime
Very very good.
I love how this song of Thom’s has developed since I heard him playing with it way back in 2009 live at Echo Park LA. Was wondering where/when it would show up.
Love what they’ve done with it. Has all the musical elements I love and it gets better as it progresses. It’s warm and comforting some how with that bass and Thom’s lovely voice. Great video too! So excited for The Smile album.
I love both versions. The original version was so simple and more conventional in song structure, but in a good way. This version has a billion details after having been tinkered around with for years.
Rubbish.
@@johnmurray8112 What’s rubbish?
@@4minutewarning John's comment
the song was released a week after my grandfather passed away and the lyrics still have me thinking about our whole experience on earth, we just have to spread love and spend time with the ones we truly love
Wow that brass or whatever it is really floats in there.
I love how they really go all in with wierd time signatures.
So, so fucking amazing. I feel blessed that I am alive when Thom and the boys are making this great, great sonic art.
I haven’t heard this live nor have I heard any unreleased version so I’m really excited to hear this! I’m not going to spoil this for myself, I want to experience this for the first time during the premiere. I’m so excited!
The first version of it... thom solo piano is the best version so far. We'll hear soon tho.
@@SoundsVinyl nah 2012 full band version was better
This is insane - music, production, soul. OMG
Dear God. It's beautiful.
Man, this really gets the old Radiohead/Thom Yorke cycle going. First listen: hmm yeah cool but not as good as what we're used to. Second/third/fourth/fifth listen: hmm yeah no it's interesting idk. Tenth listen: wow i just realized i've been unable to turn this song off all day, I think I've fallen in love with it.
Yep, you nailed it...my experience exactly with all of my favorites of Thom and the boys. It's a true gift to repeatedly make insanely incredible music that (I feel) is made purposefully to be only appreciated fully, on repeat-just the way I like my Radiohead and The Smile.
This is a true modern contemporary masterpiece and the only one in too long, cheers and thanks to all.
One of the best videos I've seen in years. This is how it's done!
The vocals in this are something else. So so so beautiful
I'm so happy to hear this song again with such a beautiful arrangement and beautiful video as well, thank you The Smile
i loved the brass section
🌺
First time hearing this artist. The music, the sounds, the visual. I have my headphones on and I was instantly taken in my the music
The visuals are a story from my dreams
I'm staring to expect an In Rainbows level album. This song is the best one so far, and that's saying a lot
Dudeee im so hyped
Amen brother!
I would expect the quality of In Rainbows but the atmosphere of A Moon Shaped Pool, that's what I'm getting so far
Smile songs are already better than these from Moon shaped pool
@@Watcher4111 skrting is better than a lot of AMSP, I agree. Daydreaming is near. I wish Present tense had been produced and sung with the same spirit and attention to details as Skrting.
This has to be the most beutiful sounding song on the Album. i love the album, but this song....i really LOVE it.
Thank you The Smile.
Do yall all tear up when you hear his voice or is it just me??
My best friend died three days ago, at the age of 26. This song repeatedly plays in my head now, reminding me of him.
"When we realize that we are broken, nothing mends
We can drop under the surface".
And so he did...
Yaaaaaas! Been waiting so long for this song to get a release.
Amazing song, amazing video.
I can't wait for this album!!!
Hopefully it comes soon!!🙏
Me neither
Yeah
Same!!!
At this rate we'll hear most of it before it releases
absolutely gorgeous
It fits spring mood perfectly, the melody sounds like melting snow, Mother nature wakes up. can't wait for the whole album
the more grizzled he gets the more sweet and soft the music becomes. thom yorke understands beauty in music is the tension between contrasts softly and artfully held.
Simplemente magistral . Esto es la máxima cercanía con el arte , con la vanguardia, con la sutileza con que Thom nos tiene acostumbrados.
Wow..why is this so underrated? This song deserves more views and likes
So Thom Yorke is inventing his own time signatures now. Amazing.
I feel like this is Thom and Jonny's ultimate masterpiece, or perhaps I should say penultimate until he tops it..... because the greatest musical genius of all time will inevitably do so. It will ooze out of his mind like no other in history. Thom's works of musical art set my soul ablaze and enrapture my mind all the way around every song he/they have ever written. I am fully in awe and absolute wonder of your masterpieces, listening over and over, since I was 16 years old. My roommates swore I was going to wear out my copy of "OK Computer" on CD, and it was available on tape at the time as well, to give you a reference point of where we were in musical technology at the time 🤣🤣🤣🤣, 1997. My copies of Pablo Honey as well as The Bends were on cassette tapes, you know the archaic pieces of plastic with a thin film inside with the music on it......and they would always meet their demise when my car's tape deck would eat the flimsy film. The way you knew this was happening was the music would slowly become very creepy......slowed down music and a voice sounding like ever so creepy and mechanical like when a serial killer speaks in a movie 😆 that purposefully distorted voice that sends chills up the spine. Anyways, Cheers Mates, until we perhaps meet one day, though I feel as if I've known you for 26+ years now through your heart wreching, agonizingly gorgeous, funny at times, and often blatantly satirical lyrics. There are not enough adjectives in this language to describe your songs. And in the words of the late, great 70's band Abba..... Thank You For The Music. You have changed my life for the much better and I can't imagine my life without Radiohead and bonus band The Smile. Some of the greatest moments of my life were set to a Radiohead song.....picking up the pieces of an eviscerated heart after my Dad passed to his permanent home with God, receiving my college degree with honors, my niece and nephew coming into this existence, and many more moments....from perfect and wonderful all the way down to terrifying and disgusting, even unbearable. So again, I thank you Thom, Jonny, all members of Radiohead and The Smile drummer (also Tom but minus the "h"). I love and adore you. You are all treasures and inspirations to sooooooo many.....past, present and to come. A true gift from God your music is and continues to be.
When we realise we have only to dive and we're out of here
We're just skirting on the surface
We have only to click our fingers and we’ll disappear
We're just skirting on the surface
Dull eyes trying to pull you through the ice
Being drawn to the ledge
When we realise that we are broken and nothing mends
We can drop under the surface
When we realise we are merely held in suspension
Till someone comes along and shakes us
And as the pattern lines cross their fingers like a web
Do we die upon the surface?
Dull eyes trying to pull you through the ice
Being drawn to the ledge
When we realise that we are broken and nothing mends
We can drop under the surface
Radiofork coming in clutch as always
Hi Radiofork
@@emma-xt5iy hi Emma
@@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy6 hey cj!!
I thought he said, Drop under the surface
this is just art at it's max.
Love the textures. A real treat. Ending sounds a lot like Bowie's Blackstar album.
This song is a new classic