Seeing all these 11-14 year old comments is really crazy to me, how long I’d been missing out on something so special. How we have all experienced this at totally different points in time, like a touchstone, and similarly felt how powerful it is.
Remember listening to this on repeat in the lead up to In Rainbows. There's also the alternative version of Reckoner out there when we all thought it was what eventually became Pulled Apart By Horses. They toured In Rainbows material before release much more than any recent albums from what I can tell. So long ago now... jees
@@ryanjosephlock the fans put wrong names on the songs, feeling pulled apart by horses is not reckoner, and wake me before they come is not dawn chorus
I remember when in rainbows came out and it didn't have this odnes sound that reminded me of modular synths and Suzanne Ciani. The disappointment was real, especially as everyone else seemed to love the album!
@@nombreapellido310apparently the reckoner we have now came from a coda to pulled apart by horses, but the first part was scrapped and we’re just left with the coda, makes sense when you listen to the drum groove at the end of PABH (the original with radiohead, the versions with AFP and the Smile are very different)
Funny to notice that in 2005 it already has the Ed's backing vocals (EEEEHHHH-EEEEEEHH, they start here in about 3:14), which in this version are being nailed by the cello. Amazing version.
Whatever it is that happens at 4:44 to 5:15 is jaw droppingly beautiful. I'm so happy we have this version and the album version and From the Basement version. Each are incredible for their own reasons.
What happens there is what some call "the reveal". In this case the 4/4 time signature is obscured by 7/4 by 3/4 polymeter, and then "revealed" in the end. In Bonnaroo's version of Videotape ua-cam.com/video/DTZt6Dzkq6w/v-deo.html the syncopation is obscured in the beginning, and "revealed" at 2:40 when the drums make a rhythmic displacement.
This is absolutely beautiful, brilliant, fantastic. Having said that, I think the drums are a very important part of this song. The studio version is still my favorite.
Basement is my fave. Absolutely phenomenal. I'd always not liked radiohead based on OK computer. Sorta liked the singles from amnesiac and hail to the thief, completely missed kid a and then heard the basement in rainbows. Completely converted me.
Thr Jools Hollland version for me. Incredible though that a band can have such a catalogue of amazing songs, each with many brilliant, varied and different versions. What a gift to humanity they are.
I saw this live. It was an avant garde gig. Thom did just this song. I was not into Radiohead until Thom came onstage - I was instantly converted. This song left me tearful. Thom has such integrity, emotionality and physicality as a musician.
i found this song before in rainbows came out and I thought "what is this mess?", it had something but I didn't understand it. It sounds completely different to me now. I can appreciate it now, but still I'm glad they arranged it for the album.
This video has 153,432 views. Pretty sure I'm 100,000 of those, at least. The best version of this song that has ever existed. I was familiar with this version before In Rainbows was released. I love that version, too, but this one. . . this one whispers to my soul. I just want to sail a boat into the middle of the ocean so I can stare at the stars, far away from everything, and listen to this song. Maybe also Goldfrapp's album, Felt Mountain (the only good album of theirs, so dreamy). I could swim inside this space for the rest of my life. Even if my ship capsized, what a lovely way to go.
this really makes me want to dive in the blue waters to its deepest end and watch in awe all the glowing sea creatures swim around me .. this is dreamy stuff and the orchestra add such drama to this song..its very beautiful very peaceful
It seems like it's weird for him to just sing...with out playing an instrument while doing it...and that makes me smile, I don't know why.But anyway, this performance is amazing, I love it! < 3
I wish this was this was actually realesed. It is my favorite song from Thome York. The best rendition. The best. The most beautiful. So beautiful, It breaks my heart.
@TheBrazenHell Arpeggi was the working title for the track, so called as it comprises mainly of arpeggios which is when each note in the chord is played one after another
I think the guitar parts on 'In rainbows' are in 3/8 timing (the same for what that girl must be playing here) That programmed loop, if it is programmed, I think it's 6/8. The drums on 'In rainbows' however, are 4/4. So for this song I think they've always wanted to mix two different timings to give it a sort of mesmerism. That aspect of it is just more subtle on the 'In Rainbows' version.
I agree with ChesterAtsuka. Very accurate way of putting it. How he does it is probably due to the fact that Radiohead is one of those bands who have spent more time singing live in concerts than they did in recording-studios.Infact their success is the result of their numerous and constant performing, unlike many other artists who begin to perform live concerts after they have already become established. This is a band that is unique not only the their style of music but in everything else.
Id only have added in the first verse (or between the first two ones) the line "can anybody make a difference between what they hear and what they say... weird fishes, weird fishes". if you get that right? sounds totally the song to fit with I think.
IMHO, He is a kind of "connection" between us and something great out there: something of such love, sense and Beauty we will never be able to imagine...or...maybe He is "it" himself...
You may wish to see their performance of this song in their 2008 concert in Tokyo. If one was to listen to it blinfolded you would think it is the studio-recoreded version from a cd. It's very hard for any singer to achieve such ability to perform live. And moreover, Radiohead do it constantly. Every performance I have seen of theirs has been outstanding.
I was going to say, sounds like the programed loop is wrong, it has an extra beat, but then i see this is from 05. probably before they perfected it for In Rainbows. Lovely preformance.
@WickedLiquid i can see why you might think its out of time but its just because its in an unconventional time signiture. even on the album version whilst the drums are standard 4/4 if you listen to the guitar, it's something different. I think its good they experiment with timing and rhythm. '15 step' is in 5/4 timing and most people won't notice while 'the pyramid song' sounds like an odd timing but actually its 4/4 with an irregular rhythm pattern.
Absoloutely Beautifull! First 4minutes i thought it was preatty decent.. at 4:45 i got blown away.... at 5:07 I will never fully understand how music can be so beautifull...
You know, as well-written and as nice a song this is, it's also exceptionally difficult to play as a musician, with all those polyrhythms, and whatnot.
So does anyone have the lyrics of this first version? I can tell there are changes w r t the album version. But I can never understand thom when he's singing. I bet if I ever met him I wouldn't get a word of what he mumbles.
@jibblychupos oh my god you're right! Muse used an orchestra too! The only rational explaination is that Radiohead heard that and time traveled to five years earlier when this was recorded
Weird Fishes if it were to be on A Moon Shaped Pool. This is absolutely brilliant, how am I only seeing this now?
You're right, came here to listen to it after hearing the bonus track, Ill Wind for the first time - the ending is very similar
i know
its only 12 years old now.....better late than never?
Wow terrific insight!
I believe this preceded the studio Radiohead version of it, aka, Wierd Fishes
Seeing all these 11-14 year old comments is really crazy to me, how long I’d been missing out on something so special. How we have all experienced this at totally different points in time, like a touchstone, and similarly felt how powerful it is.
"I got very excited at the prospect of doing string parts that didn't sound like 'Eleanor Rigby'"-Jonny Greenwood
He really said that? Now Jonny Greenwood is my hero
Ahahahah Greenwood is surely a hero, but why for this sentence?
This was 2 years before In Rainbows was actually released, so technically this would be the 'original'.
Remember listening to this on repeat in the lead up to In Rainbows. There's also the alternative version of Reckoner out there when we all thought it was what eventually became Pulled Apart By Horses. They toured In Rainbows material before release much more than any recent albums from what I can tell. So long ago now... jees
@@ryanjosephlock the fans put wrong names on the songs, feeling pulled apart by horses is not reckoner, and wake me before they come is not dawn chorus
@@nombreapellido310 that makes so much more sense than Radiohead changing the song completely, thanks for enlightening me
I remember when in rainbows came out and it didn't have this odnes sound that reminded me of modular synths and Suzanne Ciani. The disappointment was real, especially as everyone else seemed to love the album!
@@nombreapellido310apparently the reckoner we have now came from a coda to pulled apart by horses, but the first part was scrapped and we’re just left with the coda, makes sense when you listen to the drum groove at the end of PABH (the original with radiohead, the versions with AFP and the Smile are very different)
Props to Thom for keeping singing in time with all that.
Funny to notice that in 2005 it already has the Ed's backing vocals (EEEEHHHH-EEEEEEHH, they start here in about 3:14), which in this version are being nailed by the cello. Amazing version.
*EEEEEED
*waaaayyy ooouuutt
3:14 π?
@@god1770he’s not saying anything in the backing vocas
@@theus__ ❤Naturally Perfect!
Whatever it is that happens at 4:44 to 5:15 is jaw droppingly beautiful. I'm so happy we have this version and the album version and From the Basement version. Each are incredible for their own reasons.
What happens there is what some call "the reveal". In this case the 4/4 time signature is obscured by 7/4 by 3/4 polymeter, and then "revealed" in the end. In Bonnaroo's version of Videotape ua-cam.com/video/DTZt6Dzkq6w/v-deo.html the syncopation is obscured in the beginning, and "revealed" at 2:40 when the drums make a rhythmic displacement.
Interesting. How do you learn more about this stuff?
Look into music theory
n yea, music theory really explains much of all the interesting occurrences that happen in music.
How does Thom always manage to stare directly into cameras in the audience?
one of his many skills haha
I love the way this guy sings. He's free.. i Hope someday i could be like him in some aspects.
just listening to him makes me cry and I feel like I am free. its really comforting
This is absolutely beautiful, brilliant, fantastic. Having said that, I think the drums are a very important part of this song. The studio version is still my favorite.
the from the basement track
is equally beautiful
listen the bonnaroo 2006 version, is amazing!
Basement is my fave. Absolutely phenomenal. I'd always not liked radiohead based on OK computer. Sorta liked the singles from amnesiac and hail to the thief, completely missed kid a and then heard the basement in rainbows. Completely converted me.
This is better in my opinion, such an escape.
Thr Jools Hollland version for me. Incredible though that a band can have such a catalogue of amazing songs, each with many brilliant, varied and different versions. What a gift to humanity they are.
They replaced the orchestra with ed
If everybody uses orchestral instruments then who will go EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED?
Divine Kazoo the audience
Fair choice
Ed is precious...
some say that ed's mind, is like an orchestra
Man, I can see why In Rainbows is so good. I didn't realize they had been writing between all their time off.
This is early AMSP instrumentation right here, 11 years before it was released.
Oh Lord , I like both versions , and the song here got even more beautiful when it got closer to the end.
And it's wonderful to listen classical music fused with experimental rock. It's wonderful, really.
The influence of Steve Reich in this is striking.
is it the new york cadence?
@@CYTRIX-nd2zw what's that?
Okay I just stopped existing for like 6 minutes, I dissolved into the song.
I saw this live. It was an avant garde gig. Thom did just this song. I was not into Radiohead until Thom came onstage - I was instantly converted. This song left me tearful. Thom has such integrity, emotionality and physicality as a musician.
Lucky
i found this song before in rainbows came out and I thought "what is this mess?", it had something but I didn't understand it. It sounds completely different to me now. I can appreciate it now, but still I'm glad they arranged it for the album.
It's a bit Terry Riley
@@RayasNegroOvejas if only Terry Riley was as well known as Steve Reich. The guy was a genius.
The very first time people had the chance to experience this masterpiece. Magnificent
man this song is so hypnotising.
that piano line gets into parts of my brain that lyric cannot.
WHO SAW THE INVISIBLE THOM´S PIANO?
Jonathan Salinas Palavicino jajajajajajajaja eso pensé y justo veo tu comentario
everyone
and it was no laughing matter :D
god i really love this version. it captures a totally different mood than the studio version, and both versions are so good. god i love radiohead.
Real shame about the quality would kill to hear a proper mixed version of this, the strings are magnificent.
This video has 153,432 views. Pretty sure I'm 100,000 of those, at least. The best version of this song that has ever existed. I was familiar with this version before In Rainbows was released. I love that version, too, but this one. . . this one whispers to my soul. I just want to sail a boat into the middle of the ocean so I can stare at the stars, far away from everything, and listen to this song. Maybe also Goldfrapp's album, Felt Mountain (the only good album of theirs, so dreamy). I could swim inside this space for the rest of my life. Even if my ship capsized, what a lovely way to go.
I'm pretty sure you're not.
THIS version is striking in every conceivable nuance of that word .
Never have I agreed with a comment as much as this!
Best version ever.
E V E R
This version of this song is the most beautiful song I know.
poetic version... one of the most beautiful songs of this century
I love when Thom smiles as the strings kick in at 3:18 (where it's usually Ed beckoning). I wonder if this gave them the idea for that backup vocal?
this really makes me want to dive in the blue waters to its deepest end and watch in awe all the glowing sea creatures swim around me .. this is dreamy stuff and the orchestra add such drama to this song..its very beautiful very peaceful
It seems like it's weird for him to just sing...with out playing an instrument while doing it...and that makes me smile, I don't know why.But anyway, this performance is amazing, I love it! < 3
He was playing .......
@@barb2162 lol what was he playing
I wish this was this was actually realesed. It is my favorite song from Thome York. The best rendition. The best. The most beautiful. So beautiful, It breaks my heart.
Just beautiful.
sometimes i listen to songs and it sounds like how i imagine people imagined music of the future back when it wasnt the future yet.
this was the best version of this song.
this tickles as does He always and I did see the piano also
was jonny there?
A Dream came true for him 🖤 Symphonic act done ✅ very well done
the ending is so... wonderful...
@TheBrazenHell Arpeggi was the working title for the track, so called as it comprises mainly of arpeggios which is when each note in the chord is played one after another
Thom's voice is heavenly
that trumpet part from about 5:00 to the end is insanely technically difficult to pull off, massive props to the musicians and to the orchestration
wild intervals yeah
they should have launched it the in In Rainbows disc 2
Thanks for uploading! Always had the audio but never knew there was video of this. Amazing version.
I watched the whole video and heard it.
I mean just the audio by itself.
Thanks for the compliment!
This is so beautiful, thanks for sharing this!
I wish the video quality was better, still this is an awesome arrangement for this song, goosebumps awesome!!
I saw them in Houston Man! I sang this song with my heart.
I love this so much. Thank you for sharing
How did i end up in love with this hobo
QUE PERFORMANCE DO CARAALHOO!
Sem condições, sem condições.
I absolutley adore the Ondes...
thom looks like a crazy scientist here lol
man. this is truly awesome
I think the guitar parts on 'In rainbows' are in 3/8 timing (the same for what that girl must be playing here) That programmed loop, if it is programmed, I think it's 6/8. The drums on 'In rainbows' however, are 4/4. So for this song I think they've always wanted to mix two different timings to give it a sort of mesmerism. That aspect of it is just more subtle on the 'In Rainbows' version.
No, it is not polymeter, which is what you just described. I’m sure it’s just syncopation; polymeter is a bit more complex.
I agree with ChesterAtsuka. Very accurate way of putting it. How he does it is probably due to the fact that Radiohead is one of those bands who have spent more time singing live in concerts than they did in recording-studios.Infact their success is the result of their numerous and constant performing, unlike many other artists who begin to perform live concerts after they have already become established. This is a band that is unique not only the their style of music but in everything else.
I guess I should put my name somewhere here. This version of Arpeggi is my favourite.
PISCES
Id only have added in the first verse (or between the first two ones) the line "can anybody make a difference between what they hear and what they say... weird fishes, weird fishes". if you get that right? sounds totally the song to fit with I think.
13 fuckin years ago and only now am i hearing it, wtf.
Thankful to have been there.
this is so good oh my god how am i just finding out about this
This is gorgeous
This will always be the official version of this song, IMHO.
Wow, this is amazing.
soooooo goooooddd!!!
frikin amazing!
My favorite version
u little wonder. gracias, merci, thank you !!!!!
What on earth. This is magical.
SUBLIME!
I'm enchanted....
Hah the lighting on the stage really brings out thom's cheek bones, just like the creep video
Excelente video pufff que buena rola.
RADIOHEAD FOR EVER
IMHO, He is a kind of "connection" between us and something great out there: something of such love, sense and Beauty we will never be able to imagine...or...maybe He is "it" himself...
You may wish to see their performance of this song in their 2008 concert in Tokyo. If one was to listen to it blinfolded you would think it is the studio-recoreded version from a cd. It's very hard for any singer to achieve such ability to perform live. And moreover, Radiohead do it constantly. Every performance I have seen of theirs has been outstanding.
I was going to say, sounds like the programed loop is wrong, it has an extra beat, but then i see this is from 05. probably before they perfected it for In Rainbows. Lovely preformance.
This is arpeggi
Weird fishes is the studio version of that song
the most perfect cheekbones.x
wow that was lovely!
@WickedLiquid i can see why you might think its out of time but its just because its in an unconventional time signiture. even on the album version whilst the drums are standard 4/4 if you listen to the guitar, it's something different. I think its good they experiment with timing and rhythm. '15 step' is in 5/4 timing and most people won't notice while 'the pyramid song' sounds like an odd timing but actually its 4/4 with an irregular rhythm pattern.
Amazing... !!!
Es Simplemente Hermoso...
Great thanks for this video!
Absoloutely Beautifull!
First 4minutes i thought it was preatty decent..
at 4:45 i got blown away....
at 5:07 I will never fully understand how music can be so beautifull...
this is just beutifull !!!
great video!
i loveeeee this
beautiful!
what a trip dude!
nice job man, thanks
Just Amazing....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
that's awesome!
just great!
One of my favorite songs on In Ranibows :)
I love the synth in this! I prefer it to the acoustic version from the album
You know, as well-written and as nice a song this is, it's also exceptionally difficult to play as a musician, with all those polyrhythms, and whatnot.
Unbeleivable!
Magical.
yea id love the audio too please
So does anyone have the lyrics of this first version? I can tell there are changes w r t the album version. But I can never understand thom when he's singing. I bet if I ever met him I wouldn't get a word of what he mumbles.
@jibblychupos oh my god you're right! Muse used an orchestra too! The only rational explaination is that Radiohead heard that and time traveled to five years earlier when this was recorded
I saw them in Tampa, and I was the one guy who sang along from the heart
So moving...
This is with Orchestra and Ondes Martenot...