I think Thom is an underrated guitarist. To play that constant picking pattern on a 12 string while singing this like he does is harder than he makes it look. IMO
Same! I don't recognize the show or venue they were on. I've seen Thom & Jonny do acoustic together before but not this song. Stripped down and gorgeous
Love that you’re going back for more Radiohead! Super impressive for how close you got to the arpeggiation on the first few go-arounds with the descending melody around A minor. You’re spot on that they don’t do E7 until the very end too. It’s the closing track on “The Bends” and gives a strong resolution after floating with A minor and E minor for the rest of the time.
@@effjay8970-I get what you're saying. I liked the first album a lot. Then when I was hearing the new stuff off second album the first few times I was thinking like "it's okay, nothing too crazy special", but then something happened and it started to click. I just let it play through a couple times while I was working and now I've almost completely worn it out. I had to stop listening to it for a couple weeks because I didn't want to completely ruin it for myself. There's only one song I might sometimes skip and that's the last song "You know me", which has actually grown on me a bit as well. I wouldn't give up on it, unless you've given it a fair shake and it's just not your thing.
We got him hooked! Radiohead are and will always be my all time favourite band, just because of the variety of everything over their musical career. Check out Pyramid Song - it's not guitar-based, but it has one HELL of a time signature and a wonderful drifting ethereal sound that you'd dig.
Yes. It’s on purpose. And they know what they’re doing. They’re from another planet and I’m so glad you are experiencing some of it for the first time. I wish I could!
There is a lot of flotsam and jetsam on the net, but when you see someone articulate, approachable, modest, talented and humourous it is a breath of freah air. Thank you Michael
Radiohead is my favorite band. They are prog-rockers like Primus, King Crimson, Yes, and Rush with the emotional accessibility of The Smashing Pumpkins and The Smiths. And they touch on ethereal unexamined feelings like The Cranberries and Sigur Ros.
Thom York is a friggin god of music.... I'm 43 now and I was listening to his brilliance when I was 15 yrs old... Radiohead put me to sleep every night. All time fave band 🎶💜🎶💜 7:28
Yes it’s on the album. Thom’s vocal leading is the greatest thing about Radiohead in my opinion. And honestly why I listen to all things Thom Yorke more than just Radiohead
I'm not a reaction guy normally but stumbled on a couple of in rainbows and Lisa hanniigan/rice reactions and really loving your work. I don't play but you explain what I love so specifically and accurately on a different level to anyone else in this genre, you teach people why the love what they love. To boot with genuine enthusiasm love and very good recording quality. Genuine love for music, love you man, make me wanna learn
So glad you did this one! I agree that the studio version is far more complex, but this version really hits home how insanely hard it is to play and sing at the same time, especially notes that long. The more Radiohead from you, the better. And yes, it is pronounced that way ;)
hey could you name some of those eastern sounds in his songs? I'm eastern so they've never really stood up to me up until now and I wanna investigate further
i believe ed, the other guitarist came up with the riff for this song, but hes not there for this one also you should do bodysnatchers from the basement if you do any more
Thom wrote the riff. Ed said in his Guitar World interview for his solo album Earth: "Those [folky] parts were the kind of thing that Thom would come up with - he’ll have written the song on his guitar so the rhythmic or plucky bits he would play. Street Spirit is the only thing I can think of that he wrote but I played." I'm surprised that's the only thing though! Although just after that he said he didn't know how he ended up playing it because Thom usually plays those kinds of parts, so perhaps it is the only thing Ed plays that Thom wrote.
I don’t play any musical instruments but I love your reactions to Radiohead, I know it’s magic but seeing you explain their spells as a fellow guitar wizard is all the confirmation I need, keep up the great work
Always love to see your excitement at the nuances musicians use! Appreciate your work and your sharing it with us. Looking forward to more Radiohead down the road.
Just perfect performance for the situation , great insights , stuff I’ve been listening to for decades without realising how the simple is made captivating ❤
You would have fun breaking down "just" by radiohead. Thom was convinced Johnny was trying to throw as many chords as possible. One of their heavier songs as well and i think you'd enjoy it. It's a polar opposite to street spirit and from the same album.
One of my favourite songs, off of one if my all time top5 albums. The Bends is amazing from start to finish but this is one epic track to finish on! Thanks Michael... Love seeing people discover this stuff☺️
Radioheads use of half steps, especially the bass line in nude, but with his vocals here and numerous others songs always give me such a vibe. Idk if they just do it better or why no one can figure it out but it’s so tasty every time Radiohead does that. Thanks for saying so mike! Love to feel vindicated 😂
Man I invite you to look up Thom Yorke's live performance of The Clock. He never struck me as a great guitar player but that performance.. he's just fully committed, it's magical.
The full band versions are even better. There's some cool backing vocals, the drumming sounds like a ticking clock and Jonny also plays the synth with the end of the guitar (while playing the riff).
Their best 2 puncher is Exit music for a film followed by Let down on OK Computer. Those 2 songs perfectly resolve each other. Gotta check out that song combo bros !!!!
love this particular performance . was lucky enough to see it when it first came out. this is the version that I share with people that havent heard it
Thank you for this. I always think of Street Spirit as Radiohead’s ‘Echoes’. Like that Floyd album, great album, but that last track paves the way for what’s to come. Interestingly, Thom says this is the most hopeless of Radiohead songs lyrically. He’s right, all doom and gloom and all too real. Ironically it adds to its ‘harsh’ beauty.
You know, I highly, highly recommend, maybe not for a reaction video because those two pieces are mainly made up of orchestral music and the latter is super long, a personal back-to-back listen to Burn The Witch, from their latest album A Moon Shaped Pool, and then to Jonny Greenwood's own Popcorn Superhet Receiver (where he originally came up with the idea for the percussive pizzicato on the strings that later made said song so punchy and contrasting with the rest of the otherwise mellow and borderline depressive - albeit extremely beautiful and touching - album, even by Radiohead standards, which is already saying something). I know this might sound a bit pedantic, but it is what it is: the main thing to bear in mind about Radiohead, especially their latest stuff, is that, sure, there's a lot of Thom Yorke's own lyrical, melodic and harmonic genius in the mix that makes them sound like, well, Radiohead, but the “brains” of the operation, likely the one who made many of their songs into the kind of reaaaaally complex, interweaving deal you've recognised in your first two react videos is actually Greenwood, a certified orchestral composer (mostly for soundtracks, but also standalone pieces like the one I mentioned). Case in point: I recall you saying that you likely had to process each instrument separately, as the “groove” wasn't exactly in sync, and that's no accident; their songs are constructed more like orchestral scores, and I'm pretty sure that if you looked at any of them in full score versions, you'd quickly and visually *see* the patterns and, to quote the Tool song, figure how the pieces fit right away. ;) Also, regarding your curiosity about how they went and still go about composing their stuff, you can compare and contrast their last couple of albums including and since OK Computer (their magnum opus, only equalled or bested by In Rainbows, and it's no accident that the first suggestions you got were from the latter) with their *massive* 18 MiniDisc archive leak, which they promptly edited to avoid copyright infringement (there were quite a few samples of material like snippets of soundtracks and whatnot) and put on sale, because that's how they roll. 😂 In those, it's extremely interesting to listen to Thom just fooling around with the guitar, while singing some ersatz, incomplete or otherwise deprecated lyrics, thus witnessing popular and beloved songs being born in real time, and also to piece together how some core ideas were eventually split into several different songs, reused, renamed, repurposed, flipped backwards, rearranged, etc. Only a band with such musical chops could so blatantly reuse material and, yet, turn it all into a certain “sound” and “feel”, without ever devolving into outright self-plagiarism. It boggles the mind, really. Anyway, because I couldn't finish this comment without a couple of actual reaction suggestions, I would go next with a few songs that go quite heavy and interesting on the guitar and which I greatly appreciate: Just, also from The Bends just like this one, and Electioneering, Paranoid Android (frequently compared, and rightly so, to Bohemian Rhapsody), Lucky (sounds a lot like something out of a Pink Floyd album) and The Tourist (with probably the most beautiful Picardy-like cadence I've ever heard in any piece of music, Classical or Rock, ever, repeated twice for good measure and closing the album in a completely obvious but still chilling note), from the unavoidable OK Computer.
Please do the Studio album version of this beautiful song next, and compare the two, you’re missing so much from the full album version, the piano, the backing vocals, please! 🙏💚
This was one of the first songs I ever learned, even before I really got okay at chord changes because the chord shape is the same, but just down a string. I loved this song from the moment I heard it. Not the most complicated song to play, but still beautiful after all these years.
I like how the requester said this was not a good performance from Thom... if this is his B tier, we've been spoilt by greatness for too long. Mesmerizing
They said this wasn't one of Thom's best? Then they just didn't know what they were talking about at all, it's one of his best performances of this song, to ever exist
Hallelujah! ❤ Wait.... Why this version?? You can hear the guitars too on the record version...Also the third guitar is missing here, cause Ed is not here. And the bass... And the beautiful drums... Sigh...And yepp, trust me, they know what they are doing. Really really missing the third guitar though!! Please please please do the original.
@@kevinhuizenga6793 There must be a billion live clips of this song. I know of a few very good ones that are not acoustic, but has the whole band. It's like listening to 40 prosent of the song and 60% prosent of the guitar riff
I have been saying for years that, for my money, tracks 9 through 12 on "The Bends" (Bullet Proof - Black Star - Sulk - Street Spirit) form the best 4-song-finale of any studio album I've listened to - which probably has something to with why that album is in my top 20 ...I would, however, love to ponder any arguments...
How was this not a great vocal performance?? Anyway... thanks for this loving your reactions! You should check out Thom and Johnny's other band "The Smile - Bending Hectic" definitely not for everyone but very interesting! ☺️💕
I don’t believe they use E7 until that one time in the outro Michael… they certainly don’t on the studio recording. That E7 is specifically used only that one time in the outro (or should I call it “fade out”? 🤔😜). This has always been one of my favourite Radiohead songs. Ironically the guitarist who was the one who actually wrote that arpeggiated chordal riff is the only one of the three not on stage for this performance 🤔😉
Loved this performance. Would love to see a Let Down breakdown before too long; Ive loved that song for decades now and would love to understand more about why musically the dual guitar lines are so affecting
I'll just pop this hear for you. Thom Yorke and Radiohead were hugely inspired by seeing this man live. I believe Thom said something about him giving them confidence in their sound on The Bends "Its okay to do that" (be vulnerable). Jeff Buckley, an underrated guitarist, because that voice is so much. But always blows peoples minds in him technical complexities: ua-cam.com/video/KOjP1d8WzIg/v-deo.htmlsi=L3dFZr65e9xF5hrI
Thom Yorke is an untrained but extremely instinctive composer. Jonny Greenwood *is* a classically trained composer who just happens to be an amazing guitarist. The great thing about Thom Yorke is that he uses his voice as an instrument instead of just a vehicle for lyrics. This performance is perfection - and proof that talented musicians do NOT need autotune and 100 takes and quantization.
I think Thom is an underrated guitarist. To play that constant picking pattern on a 12 string while singing this like he does is harder than he makes it look. IMO
I can’t believe he says the vocal performance isn’t his best! Are you kidding me! He is absolutely incredible in this
Yeah, I was waiting for the bad bit!
The crazy thing is, I've seen him do it better.
A lot of people believe Yorke isnt a great singer? (Perhaps Eloise is in that camp?) This version is epic.
Said the same thing... insanely great vocal control, breath control, pitch, tone and emotion... what more could you want ??
My first thoughts, lol
This performance misses a lot of the wonderful layers present in the studio recording, but Thom's vocal performance really is stunning.
I also prefer it with the full band, but this was a crazy great vocal from Thom. Being stripped down like this helps show it off.
agreed, the way the harmonies come in at the bridge in the studio version is so good.
A lot of chefs in the kitchen to be sure, some help if you will.
Agreed. Not hearing the drums and bass come in is a bit disappointing lol
More Radiohead, they’re such amazing musicians!
Faster Johnny!
I keep coming back here to watch the Radiohead reactions.
When it comes to Radiohead, everything is intential Michael. Incredibly talented musicians.
You are also missing out on Jonny playing keyboard with the end of his guitar at the same time as he plays the riff. That man...
probably the most 90s performance. the hair, mellow song, japan tour, clothes....
woohoo! Been waiting for more Radiohead.
Never saw THAT performance before, my God how iconic... Thom was in another dimension. Beyond perfection 👏
Same! I don't recognize the show or venue they were on. I've seen Thom & Jonny do acoustic together before but not this song. Stripped down and gorgeous
Love that you’re going back for more Radiohead! Super impressive for how close you got to the arpeggiation on the first few go-arounds with the descending melody around A minor. You’re spot on that they don’t do E7 until the very end too. It’s the closing track on “The Bends” and gives a strong resolution after floating with A minor and E minor for the rest of the time.
Love it!
These two are doing a live with The Smile today in just a few minutes. It's free for everyone on the BBC website!
We went to the 6music festival last night to see them with a sixteen piece orchestra, hypnotising and spellbinding!
I want to like the smile so bad, but it’s not doing it for me 😪
@@effjay8970-I get what you're saying.
I liked the first album a lot. Then when I was hearing the new stuff off second album the first few times I was thinking like "it's okay, nothing too crazy special", but then something happened and it started to click. I just let it play through a couple times while I was working and now I've almost completely worn it out. I had to stop listening to it for a couple weeks because I didn't want to completely ruin it for myself. There's only one song I might sometimes skip and that's the last song "You know me", which has actually grown on me a bit as well.
I wouldn't give up on it, unless you've given it a fair shake and it's just not your thing.
@@SR91313 I’ll try again - I have 32 hours of travel time ahead of me, why not lol
@@effjay8970have you seen them live? Really, really good
We got him hooked!
Radiohead are and will always be my all time favourite band, just because of the variety of everything over their musical career.
Check out Pyramid Song - it's not guitar-based, but it has one HELL of a time signature and a wonderful drifting ethereal sound that you'd dig.
"but it has one HELL of a time signature" - you mean 4/4? ;)
@@krnkrp shush, I wanted to see how Michael worked it out!
Johnny Greenwood (left) is also a film composer. Ever seen There Will Be Blood?
Yes. It’s on purpose. And they know what they’re doing. They’re from another planet and I’m so glad you are experiencing some of it for the first time. I wish I could!
This is my favorite Radiohead song. You absolutely broke this down wonderfully.
Thanks my friend!!!
same here! I taught myself how to play this on guitar, and it's the very first Radiohead song I learned how to play on guitar!
There is a lot of flotsam and jetsam on the net, but when you see someone articulate, approachable, modest, talented and humourous it is a breath of freah air. Thank you Michael
Radiohead is my favorite band. They are prog-rockers like Primus, King Crimson, Yes, and Rush with the emotional accessibility of The Smashing Pumpkins and The Smiths. And they touch on ethereal unexamined feelings like The Cranberries and Sigur Ros.
Thom York is a friggin god of music.... I'm 43 now and I was listening to his brilliance when I was 15 yrs old... Radiohead put me to sleep every night. All time fave band 🎶💜🎶💜 7:28
Omg! 😃 I’m 41 and been a fan since 13! ☺️ same, every night with headphones for years 🥰
Same. 45
Yes it’s on the album. Thom’s vocal leading is the greatest thing about Radiohead in my opinion. And honestly why I listen to all things Thom Yorke more than just Radiohead
Wolf at the door, wolf at the door, wolf at the door!!!!!!? It deserves a break down lol the one at super sonic in Japan, is the best
the "set the control for the heart of the sun" reference is class Mike! love ya keep it up
Yes sir!!
I'm not a reaction guy normally but stumbled on a couple of in rainbows and Lisa hanniigan/rice reactions and really loving your work. I don't play but you explain what I love so specifically and accurately on a different level to anyone else in this genre, you teach people why the love what they love. To boot with genuine enthusiasm love and very good recording quality. Genuine love for music, love you man, make me wanna learn
Thank you so much Eloise!! This was such a pleasure to watch, brought happy tears to my eyes 🥹
So glad you did this one! I agree that the studio version is far more complex, but this version really hits home how insanely hard it is to play and sing at the same time, especially notes that long. The more Radiohead from you, the better.
And yes, it is pronounced that way ;)
Why did you think that was not a great performance ?
@@TJ-vt6rt I did, Michael just read it out a bit wrong. My caption said “Not only is this Thom’s best vocal performance” :)
@@eloisewalker9632 Ah ok. For a live performance in what looks like some kind of record store or radio station building that was pretty stellar.
There are so many great Radiohead songs i would love for you to breakdown.
Climbing Up the Walls, Wolf at the Door, Jigsaw Falling into Place
“I love me some Radiohead”
I admit, I giggled.
Greetings from Germany - I grew up with Radiohead, so thank you so much for this! Keep up your good work!
The vocals is what makes this song outstanding. 👏
Tom dips in an out of those eastern sounds all the time before wrecking you with beauty and power
hey could you name some of those eastern sounds in his songs? I'm eastern so they've never really stood up to me up until now and I wanna investigate further
Finally more Radiohead, anything from the basement sessions is perfect, or just anything from these guys is perfect.
Thom Yorke playing The Clock live on the Henry Rollins show is a truly mindblowing performance, I'd love to see a reaction to that
Time to flood Mike with more Live from the Basement
i believe ed, the other guitarist came up with the riff for this song, but hes not there for this one
also you should do bodysnatchers from the basement if you do any more
Thom wrote the riff. Ed said in his Guitar World interview for his solo album Earth: "Those [folky] parts were the kind of thing that Thom would come up with - he’ll have written the song on his guitar so the rhythmic or plucky bits he would play. Street Spirit is the only thing I can think of that he wrote but I played." I'm surprised that's the only thing though! Although just after that he said he didn't know how he ended up playing it because Thom usually plays those kinds of parts, so perhaps it is the only thing Ed plays that Thom wrote.
@@lk-musicalr ye, thom usually plays rhythm guitar so this would make more sense
@@Drixittyit would also make more sense, BC Thom's brother was in a Brit folk rock band
Such a great album, and so evocative of my late-teenage years, easily up there with the best albums of the decade.
Radiohead is one of the best bands to have ever graced the planet. Also, you HAVE to do the studio version! It is so so good.
I don’t play any musical instruments but I love your reactions to Radiohead, I know it’s magic but seeing you explain their spells as a fellow guitar wizard is all the confirmation I need, keep up the great work
Always love to see your excitement at the nuances musicians use! Appreciate your work and your sharing it with us. Looking forward to more Radiohead down the road.
Just perfect performance for the situation , great insights , stuff I’ve been listening to for decades without realising how the simple is made captivating ❤
"Just" is a wonderful guitar Radiohead song to react!
You would have fun breaking down "just" by radiohead. Thom was convinced Johnny was trying to throw as many chords as possible. One of their heavier songs as well and i think you'd enjoy it. It's a polar opposite to street spirit and from the same album.
When playing live, full band, Jonny plays that riff on the guitar, while he plays synth keys with the tip of his guitar, during the chorus
Daily mail from radiohead is awesome as well in terms of composition
Yeah that would be fun to watch him pick it apart
One of my favourite songs, off of one if my all time top5 albums. The Bends is amazing from start to finish but this is one epic track to finish on! Thanks Michael... Love seeing people discover this stuff☺️
I love how technical you go in the music theory 💫🔥 pls. More from Radiohead 🙏🏻
@michael palmisano keep up the good work! Radiohead are some of the most talented musicians ever!
Radioheads use of half steps, especially the bass line in nude, but with his vocals here and numerous others songs always give me such a vibe. Idk if they just do it better or why no one can figure it out but it’s so tasty every time Radiohead does that. Thanks for saying so mike! Love to feel vindicated 😂
Man I invite you to look up Thom Yorke's live performance of The Clock. He never struck me as a great guitar player but that performance.. he's just fully committed, it's magical.
The full band versions are even better. There's some cool backing vocals, the drumming sounds like a ticking clock and Jonny also plays the synth with the end of the guitar (while playing the riff).
The backing vocals! The drumming! Sometimes live is better but the studio recording is stunning
It’s on the record. This is brilliance.
Their best 2 puncher is Exit music for a film followed by Let down on OK Computer. Those 2 songs perfectly resolve each other. Gotta check out that song combo bros !!!!
I love Climbing Up The Walls into No Surprises it's perfect.
Such a beautiful song
good stuff as always Michael!
That lick he plays in the beginning reminds me of the guitar lick in the song “the smoke” by Thom and Jonny’s band “the smile” check it out!
love this particular performance . was lucky enough to see it when it first came out. this is the version that I share with people that havent heard it
Oh my second favorite Radiohead song. I'm glad you are converting.
Thank you for this. I always think of Street Spirit as Radiohead’s ‘Echoes’. Like that Floyd album, great album, but that last track paves the way for what’s to come.
Interestingly, Thom says this is the most hopeless of Radiohead songs lyrically. He’s right, all doom and gloom and all too real. Ironically it adds to its ‘harsh’ beauty.
You know, I highly, highly recommend, maybe not for a reaction video because those two pieces are mainly made up of orchestral music and the latter is super long, a personal back-to-back listen to Burn The Witch, from their latest album A Moon Shaped Pool, and then to Jonny Greenwood's own Popcorn Superhet Receiver (where he originally came up with the idea for the percussive pizzicato on the strings that later made said song so punchy and contrasting with the rest of the otherwise mellow and borderline depressive - albeit extremely beautiful and touching - album, even by Radiohead standards, which is already saying something).
I know this might sound a bit pedantic, but it is what it is: the main thing to bear in mind about Radiohead, especially their latest stuff, is that, sure, there's a lot of Thom Yorke's own lyrical, melodic and harmonic genius in the mix that makes them sound like, well, Radiohead, but the “brains” of the operation, likely the one who made many of their songs into the kind of reaaaaally complex, interweaving deal you've recognised in your first two react videos is actually Greenwood, a certified orchestral composer (mostly for soundtracks, but also standalone pieces like the one I mentioned).
Case in point: I recall you saying that you likely had to process each instrument separately, as the “groove” wasn't exactly in sync, and that's no accident; their songs are constructed more like orchestral scores, and I'm pretty sure that if you looked at any of them in full score versions, you'd quickly and visually *see* the patterns and, to quote the Tool song, figure how the pieces fit right away. ;)
Also, regarding your curiosity about how they went and still go about composing their stuff, you can compare and contrast their last couple of albums including and since OK Computer (their magnum opus, only equalled or bested by In Rainbows, and it's no accident that the first suggestions you got were from the latter) with their *massive* 18 MiniDisc archive leak, which they promptly edited to avoid copyright infringement (there were quite a few samples of material like snippets of soundtracks and whatnot) and put on sale, because that's how they roll. 😂
In those, it's extremely interesting to listen to Thom just fooling around with the guitar, while singing some ersatz, incomplete or otherwise deprecated lyrics, thus witnessing popular and beloved songs being born in real time, and also to piece together how some core ideas were eventually split into several different songs, reused, renamed, repurposed, flipped backwards, rearranged, etc. Only a band with such musical chops could so blatantly reuse material and, yet, turn it all into a certain “sound” and “feel”, without ever devolving into outright self-plagiarism. It boggles the mind, really.
Anyway, because I couldn't finish this comment without a couple of actual reaction suggestions, I would go next with a few songs that go quite heavy and interesting on the guitar and which I greatly appreciate: Just, also from The Bends just like this one, and Electioneering, Paranoid Android (frequently compared, and rightly so, to Bohemian Rhapsody), Lucky (sounds a lot like something out of a Pink Floyd album) and The Tourist (with probably the most beautiful Picardy-like cadence I've ever heard in any piece of music, Classical or Rock, ever, repeated twice for good measure and closing the album in a completely obvious but still chilling note), from the unavoidable OK Computer.
Please do the Studio album version of this beautiful song next, and compare the two, you’re missing so much from the full album version, the piano, the backing vocals, please! 🙏💚
Such an underrated song - he really needs to listen to the whole band play the studio or live version.
I love how Michael breaks those vocal melodies down on guitar. So helpful.
Yes this is the best version amazing performance. First view on this channel 👍
loved playing this cover in the band i was in back in college.
It's my favorite song... not just from Radiohead.
That flat 6 in the melody you talk about at 3:30 was Beethoven’s jam.
And that's before diving to the lyrics, one of the strongest songs lyrics-wise
Love it when you check out Radiohead, all anyone can do is shake their head in frustration/admiration and enjoy them for what they are.
This was one of the first songs I ever learned, even before I really got okay at chord changes because the chord shape is the same, but just down a string. I loved this song from the moment I heard it. Not the most complicated song to play, but still beautiful after all these years.
I think you would enjoy the video of them playing The Present Tense with just their guitar and a drum machine.
I fkn love this song
Just love that E7 at the end.
It's an underappreciated song but Scatterbrain is one of their best examples of intertwined guitar arpeggios imo
Love that song.
I like how the requester said this was not a good performance from Thom... if this is his B tier, we've been spoilt by greatness for too long. Mesmerizing
They said this wasn't one of Thom's best? Then they just didn't know what they were talking about at all, it's one of his best performances of this song, to ever exist
Haha I said it was his best, Michael just read it out a bit wrong :)
@@eloisewalker9632 haha you should demand an official apology vid
Going to become a member and put in the request for their two man set in France. It's sooooooo good
Love his dancing
If you enjoy these two together, without the band, check out out ‘The Numbers’ live, Jonny, Thom and a CR78 - just beautiful
More Radiohead!
Hallelujah! ❤ Wait.... Why this version?? You can hear the guitars too on the record version...Also the third guitar is missing here, cause Ed is not here. And the bass... And the beautiful drums... Sigh...And yepp, trust me, they know what they are doing. Really really missing the third guitar though!! Please please please do the original.
Agreed...as good as this is, the full band version is just sublime.
I think he tries to only do live versions when possible.
@@kevinhuizenga6793 There must be a billion live clips of this song. I know of a few very good ones that are not acoustic, but has the whole band. It's like listening to 40 prosent of the song and 60% prosent of the guitar riff
its been too long without radiohead
I have been saying for years that, for my money, tracks 9 through 12 on "The Bends" (Bullet Proof - Black Star - Sulk - Street Spirit) form the best 4-song-finale of any studio album I've listened to - which probably has something to with why that album is in my top 20
...I would, however, love to ponder any arguments...
They know exactly what they’re doing. Nothing is an accident with this band.
love the radiohead vids, need a KOTL in the basement selection next!
Love me some radiohead.
Awesome!
Been obsessing over this song lately. Somethings in the air
Love it ❤
What a great version of that song!
How was this not a great vocal performance??
Anyway... thanks for this loving your reactions!
You should check out Thom and Johnny's other band "The Smile - Bending Hectic" definitely not for everyone but very interesting! ☺️💕
This one is definitely worth a listen to the Studio version, the percussion adds a whole new dimension to it. Very good song.
I don’t believe they use E7 until that one time in the outro Michael… they certainly don’t on the studio recording. That E7 is specifically used only that one time in the outro (or should I call it “fade out”? 🤔😜).
This has always been one of my favourite Radiohead songs. Ironically the guitarist who was the one who actually wrote that arpeggiated chordal riff is the only one of the three not on stage for this performance 🤔😉
Loved this performance. Would love to see a Let Down breakdown before too long; Ive loved that song for decades now and would love to understand more about why musically the dual guitar lines are so affecting
You said 'the yang-yin of major & minor' and my mind took flight...Thinking of my finger-picking grandpa who loved a minor 7th xx
Great vid, thx!
Yeah that e major at the end was in the original recording, just used once, what a perfect twist of an ending
Nice! I was going to suggest Eric Steckel, there are some requests in there already. Thanks for your content!
I'll just pop this hear for you. Thom Yorke and Radiohead were hugely inspired by seeing this man live. I believe Thom said something about him giving them confidence in their sound on The Bends "Its okay to do that" (be vulnerable).
Jeff Buckley, an underrated guitarist, because that voice is so much. But always blows peoples minds in him technical complexities:
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Amazing
I've left the video on for an hour after it finished, waiting for the substandard vocals.
Merci !
Thom Yorke is an untrained but extremely instinctive composer. Jonny Greenwood *is* a classically trained composer who just happens to be an amazing guitarist. The great thing about Thom Yorke is that he uses his voice as an instrument instead of just a vehicle for lyrics. This performance is perfection - and proof that talented musicians do NOT need autotune and 100 takes and quantization.