Radiohead - My Iron Lung
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2008
- ‘My Iron Lung’ is taken from ‘The Bends’ out on XL Recordings. Buy & stream it here: radiohead.ffm.to/thebends
Directed by Brett Turnbull
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For those who don't know or are new to the band, If anyone wonders how it's that the video and song are so perfectly syncronized and with little editing is because the the audio for the album version was actually recorded from this live show, Astoria 94. If i'm correct only the vocals were re-recorded. Crazy!
The vocals and some overdubs, yes. But’s incredible that the rest was recorded right there!
Holy...
@SongWriterSaturdays you’re not the only one
@@xoxojesilynxoxo803 could also be said as you two are the only ones, lol
Edit: idk if you'll watch this edit but I've become a part of u two, and now I actually love Radiohead so much
@@xoxojesilynxoxo803 .
Words can't describe how much i love that intro's riff
brolindres agreed
It's kinda hard to do it tho
@@alexboyso3093it's easy, just loosen your picking hand
brolindres FUCKIN SAME
brolindres It uses an unusual scale, called the mixolydian flat 6 mode. It’s built around a major I chord and minor iv chord
The virgin creep and the chad iron lung
Creep is crap compared to this
Pentex Sucks indeed
@Pentex Sucks rei best grill
@@gaelm.2603 I think you missed the joke
@Pentex Sucks you say this just because it's sooo mainstream
It's just an absurd how perfectly imperfect this guitar tone is.
Paweł Skorupa that flanger♡
@@auxnull I thought it was a pitch pedal?
@@al3x877 a whammy pedal
which guitar the support or the lead
@@zon6158 The lead one
This song was made about Creep and how it is their ‘iron lung.’ Someone who has an iron lung has to stay lying down for the rest of their life unable to move because the iron lung is attached to them and keeping them alive.
Apply this to Creep, this song expresses how the band depended on Creep to become well known and for many people it is the only Radiohead song they recognized. Creep was keeping the band from reaching their full potential and that’s where they felt like they were under an iron lung unable to move. But they needed Creep because Creep was the only recognition they had at the time.
This kinda reminds me about how Nirvana was mostly only recognized for Smells Like Teen Spirit and they were requested to play it so much, they would just preform it badly or carelessly. But Nirvana still liked Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Thom hated Creep so much, he refused to even play it at all.
Brown Forest not quite sure about that part of Kurt liking Teen Spirit, he definitely did at the beginning before it blew up tho
Sienna Silvia I wish Kurt had been able to hear Radiohead. He would’ve loved them. I bet he would’ve carried on if he knew he could make cynical music and get rich and popular off of that.
Ironic since this song sounds so much like heart shaped box
@@severed_lips nirvana also hated smells like teen spirit
Why did he hate it???
Johnny's hair say: ⬅️➡️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️
Don't forget 🔄🔃
It's Jonny mate
anyone else attempted to do this😂
Cheat activated, you are now a crazy mop
@@MyLonelyBench yea my neck doesn't function right no more
Anyone else think that Johnny Greenwood is immortal? He hasn't changed in like 30 years.
Same
Cos you never see his face
Recently he's been starting to age
@@Bzorlan always the hair lmao
The hair tho is like a wig but it's not
Radiohead’s biggest middle finger to Radiohead
You can't say they didn't deserve it, especially considering what they did to radiohead
Wut
Wut thay do
@@valentinasanchez5757 They made this song so they can shift focus off Creep to their new albums.
@@melissajohnson5734 Basically Thom Yorke got tired of people recognizing the band only by Creep. He even grew to hate the song.
The guitar riff is so haunting, one of the best off the bends for sure
It scares me almost as much as No Surprises-
THATS FOR SURE
What is that "one of" doing there?
I love Thom’s face at 0:05 , THAT is THE face of satisfaction
WhatsHisFace86 haha agreed
Judging by your pfp you are a pretty cool dude
Hell yeah , finally not creep
Moody Sav pixies right? haven’t heard that album in forever
The face you do when you're about to destroy one of your most popular song
The Bends is a musical masterpiece
All Radiohead Albums, other then King of Limbs and Pablo Honey (which aren't even that bad) are.
@@redhippopotamus9144 tkol really sucked to me at first but once I could get it was really beautiful.
Give it another try In the right time and maybe it'll work to you.
@@thomasgrande201 will do
@@redhippopotamus9144 I hope you like it as much as I did!
@@redhippopotamus9144 did it work?
Today, we are here because Paul Alexander, the last patient of polio, who lived with an iron lung, has passed away.
Rest in peace
rest in peace paul…
I remember watching MTV back then when I was like 7 or 8. I saw this video, and I fell in love with it. it was probably the first time I literally liked a song obsessively. sadly I didn't get to see the name of the song or the band. my father always tells me I described them as "a very loud band playing live with a blonde girl singing" (yes, I thought Thom Yorke was a girl). years later I discovered Radiohead and their post Kid A era, and when I looked up at their old music, there it was. my iron lung. I was very happy, turns out I've been a Radiohead fan all this years.
LOL that’s awesome. Thom does look like a blonde girl
А very fascinating story )
Can’t rly blame ye for thinking Thom’s a girl here, kinda easy to mistake
kpop star
alright alright... 🙄
johnny greenwood looks like a lampshade.
Omg he does
goaway fuckk
lmao
Also a car wash
goaway this is my favorite comment on youtube
Radiohead basically made the best album ever four times. The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows.
replace the bends with a moon shaped pool
@@leonasty69 Better yet just add AMSP.
Hail to the thief would like to talk
Hay que sumarle a moon shaped pool
Guys, if we were to add AMSP it would have to mean that it is better than In Rainbows, think about that
1:31 i can't describe how much i love the guitar in this parts
Yeaaaa
Sounds deep and empty but it kind of sounds u would hear it again and again
Leave it to radiohead to write a song ironically about how much they hate another song of theirs
TheSquealingPig I don't like the circular reasoning regarding what this song means.
"What does this song mean?"
"It's about how Radiohead doesn't like creep"
"How do you know that they don't like creep?"
"Because they wrote a song about how they don't like creep"
And use another's song as a template. The irony!
@@michaelweiske702 "How do you know Radiohead doesn't like Creep?"
Well, I mean, they were very vocal about it...
The real irony is that, that said song, put them on the map to begin with 😂
Inpatientsnake that’s the reason they didn’t like it, because people only cared about that one song
0:06 when mom comes home with burgerking
oh my god yes
bro you made me laugh for 5 minutes straight)))
:))
i made a noise like a deflating balloon when i read this
Lol laughed 10 minutes straight
Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
[Verse 2]
We're too young to fall asleep
Too cynical to speak
We are losing it
Can't you tell?
We scratch our eternal itch
A twentieth century bitch
And we are grateful for
Our iron lung
[Chorus]
The headshrinkers, they want everything
My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
[Verse 3]
Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out
We'll just hum
This, this is our new song
Just like the last one
A total waste of time
My iron lung
[Bridge]
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's OK
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's OK
it's OK ...Computer
why can't you forget ...you forget so easy [Amnesiac]
There you are
3:43 - the alignment of the sudden red lighting and Thom’s wide eye makes me shiver.
this isnt lip synced. the album version you hear is the live version :)
wut
@@Renav21 this (album version) song is composed from live version of Astoria in 1994. The only slight difference is the vocal, everything you listen here is the live one.
The instrumental is from live verson ,which is crazy to believe that how good their are with playing and sound arrangement
@@BinhPham-yi7xc The recordings for this song sound a bit more muddy in comparison with the rest of the tracks in the album because it's directly recorded from a live show (rather than a studio), but that doesn't even matter 'cause it still sounds absolutely killer.
This is just insane
Thoms face at the start is all of us when this comes on.
Like the vibing cat
Radiohead is the best band to listen when you're not ok.
You are completely correct lol 😁😭
@@ual5720 I know. Radiohead is my one of the most favourite bands of all time. Radiohead hels my soul.
Ok
@@mwiz3526 Computer
They're the best band to listen to most of the time, IMO. Fantastic musicians, arrangers, and songwriters.
Thom looks like an anime character in this video with his hair covering his magical left eye.
yeah these 90s K-pop groups were prety different
Yelena aot
@@iamreiixo9126 From Yelena, to Levi Ackerman in 10 years.
@@zackzallie8735 20 years**
@@yunjins0124 oooo yeah he keep changing in every album lol
This performance must have been a traumatic experience for Jonny Greenwood's guitar. He really gets into it during the chorus.
That teles been through worse
Look at his arm brace. Guitars are cheap. Carpo is forever. Good eye playboy
he cant stop moving 😂😂
Have you seen the Creep video?
Ah the guitar will be fine, trust me aha
When my heart first got broken I cried myself to sleep listening to this on my Walkman.
It has nothing to do with a breakup
God this comment has brought back some extremely embarrassing memories for me.
@@thomasgrande201 Dunno if you've gotten the memo in the last 100 years but music is pretty subjective....
@@xmissviolencex no the song is literally written about how creep is there most famous song but they dont believe it should represent them as they have more to offer thoms words not mine
But why? Do you hate creep too? I think there are better songs to cry to by Radiohead.
'The Bends' and 'OK Computer' = two of the most outstanding albums of the 90s!
There’s no 90’s album better than OK Computer
@@madeline_from_celeste_real in uteri
I love how the song gets slightly more and more mad until it just snaps.
Hi I recommend a song and video called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
One of my favorite songs off of The Bends :)
Myotic TeSeract yeah, it's great!
Same :)
Myotic Tesseract My favorite song off of the bends
planet telex/the bends/fake plastic trees are GOAT
Who are The bends? I thought this was Radiohead?
My Teflon Testicle.
My Steel Sternum
My niobium nipple on my titanium titty
My Copper Uterus
My Brass Ass
My Zinc Sphincter
Thom: feeling it
Jonny: feeling it
Phil: feeling it
Ed: feeling it maybe a bit too much
Colin: dead inside
Ha silly Colin always like dat
He doesn't dislike creep
@@WomanRespecter6969 Nah, theres a lot of clips where Colin looks more into it then the rest of the band, especially during the OK Computer tour, bouncing, clapping, mouthing the lyrics, the works
@@selfperformedsparagmos he is baby
Why do radiohead members at times looked like anime characters😂
?
Phil with hair... the universe is out of balance.
Kid A wait what? I don’t get it please explain?
@@lyfitzgerald6466 Phil Selway, the drummer, has been bald through most of radiohead's existance. This is a very old video before he started shaving off everything. Just looks unusual seeing him look so differently.
Kid A ah I get it now thanks
@@lyfitzgerald6466 if you look at pics of him in college with them he has a full set of hair, strange
I think this song and video deserves more attention
Absoright!
google the activity of nonactivity
You got your wish, buddy
34103070674978532046 Kero kero
You know what deserves attention? Creep haha
0:05 the only reason that i see this video every single day in my entire life
me
I’m obsessed with this song, especially the last part of the verse with the low note. I listen to it at least 10 times a day lol. Truly a masterpiece.
Same but for 0:00 to 1:57
This has gotta be the most "90s sounding" song on the album. Gotta love it.
Where did Johnny get that shirt? Baby gap?
XD
iMaatiJPG this is an oldass comment but i can't stop laughing
@@malice4422 Do you think that they got the notification and remembered the good ol' days writing it?
thom hopefully
It’s Jonny
1:21 "We are losing it" when the note is dissonant, always loved this detail
RIP PAUL ALEXANDER
The World's strongest man 🥲
The bends is one of the best albums ever created
Agreed. That shit is the best
I personally found it kinda mid
It's not in radiohead top 3 albums
@@eneskeskin2445 you’re crazy
@@javonmccovery3081 your mum is mid
My cheap headphones don't do this song justice
Dude, same 😭
Oh, My brother, my dear brother, he left this world yesterday & this was his favourite song. Still remember when you were 14, I was 10 and you showed me this song. I was fascinated! You took me down the Rock N 'Roll path and thanks to you I developed my own musical tastes. Today, I discover that you left this world of your own free will, taking an overdose of pills until you were sound asleep. Dear brother, when I found out about that, coming to listen to this song was the only thing that occurred to me at the time, and here I am! listening to this song at 3 in the morning, while singing loudly and enjoying the music as if you are still with me to listen to it together. Brother, when you first showed me this song, you told me that we all had this song hidden within us, but we weren't brave enough to show them to everyone. Now I understand it and I am sorry I understood it too late. I love you, brother, and I will always love you. Thank you for showing me these musical wonders. I will miss you today, tomorrow and always.This song will always be a part of us, dear brother.
god bless
I love Thom's expression in the beginning
me too
that expression at 00:33, it definitely kills me ... I love you Thom
🥰🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤
he’s 50 years old
@@Sixtixx so?
Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it but it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen from my life support
My iron lung
We're too young to fall asleep
Too cynical to speak
We are loosing it, can't you tell?
We scratch our eternal itch
Our twentieth century bitch and we are grateful for our
Iron lung
Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out we'll just hum
This this is our new song
Just like the last one
A total waste of time
My iron lung
If you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's okay
If you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's okay
Faith, you're driving me away
You do it everyday
You don't mean it
But it hurts like hell
My brain says I'm receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung
We're too young to fall asleep
Too cynical to speak
We are losing it
Can't you tell
The scratch
Our eternal itch
A twentieth century bitch
And we are grateful for
Our iron lung
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Toilet-trained and dumb
When the power runs out
We'll just hum
This, this is our new song
Just like the last one
A total waste of time
My iron lung
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's okay
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's okay
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon
Thanks for that Dr. Finger
Wheres your pfp from
There is not one bad song on this whole album. Just a masterpiece.
The same can not be said to Pablo Honey...
@@NeuroGamerr i think the only song i don't really care too much about in ph is "stop whispering". all the other ones i enjoy.
I love listening to this while thinking about the movies for which Jonny Greenwood has written the entire scores. He's a musical genius.
Hi I recommend a song and video here on youtube called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
Which ones?
Like This Charming Man one of the most recognizable opening riffs ever
The lick is a xerox of beatles ' dear prudence'.
With a grunge break chorus that you may attribute to Nervyarn'tcha or similar.
Radiohead always has an extremely unique sound overall, back then to this day. Such a shame a lot of people only recognize them as the “Creep band” when they have done beautiful workings of art of the years that includes this song!
Thom looks cute in that hair
i feel like it fits him very well and yes hes hot as fuck with it
Thom Yorke 1998 - 2002 best Thom Yorke
he looks good with every hairstyle he has, what a versatile guy lol.
"Suck, suck your teenage thumb; Toilet trained and dumb" Paired with the theme of an iron lung, I think this is the first time I've been genuinely disturbed by a song's lyrics, even if not by a huge margin. The mental image of being confined to an iron lung, braindead, helpless, and blissfully numb, only living to survive has definitely keep me up at night, and the chords and falsetto defintitely help rub me the wrong way in the best way possible. Such a beautiful yet almost eerie piece. Definitely a new favorite.
They go through the years but the music sounds always new and freakishly . Probably the best band ever...?!
These are the kinds of songs that Radiohead needs to play live. I have no problem with "Kid A" and the rest of their later albums whatsoever. They are amazing records, but their gigs would be even better if they incorporated their older songs into the set, instead of turning their backs on their past.
Daniel I hope in the 11 years since this comment you've had some time to reflect and consider that you're wrong actually - though this song absolutely whips
Absolutely epic how Ed/Jonny made the guitar sound like brass in one point.
Saw them on this tour. God they were (and still are) something else.🖤
Heart Shaped Box + Lucy in the sky with Diamonds = My Iron Lung
Jagdnahabs yes it is
Heart shaped box 1993 is a rip off of “Butthole surfers Bar b q” 1983 LOL
@@user-hx4ez6tu6y thank you
@@user-hx4ez6tu6y I think "Foxy Lady" may have indirectly influenced.
@@0805eder smells like teen spirit is a rip off of “Godzilla the Smashing pumpkins 1990 BOC cover”
come as you are is a rip off “The damned life goes on” or “22 faces garden of delight. or “Killing joke - eightirs”
polly is a rip off of - “The 4 skins on the streets”
aneurysm - “fang and invitation”
about a girl - “hrast parni vajak”
been a son - zebra don’t walk away
breed - “wipers potential suicide”
big long now - sister europe psychodelic
0:05 when the charmin toilet paper is Xtra soft
Back when Colin had a pony tail and Phil had hair. Jonny looks exactly the same.
Hahahahahhh yeah,fuck yeah
Thom looks like a Korean "K-Pop" singer. He pioneered the look. They owe him royalties.
why did i see you writing the same thing in another comment
Long, blonde hair: Check
Facial features: Check
Slender appearance: Check...???
No
@mc'luvin 69 first of all, it's korean, second of all it´s incredibly racist to assume that asian characters (used in text) are always chinese
mc'luvin 69 still racist tho 🤷♂️
The guitar just does it for me at the beginning of the song
So, I had trouble placing it for a long time, but the rhythm guitar riff during the "you can be frightened" bit is actually a variation from one in Rape Me by Nirvana. Everyone always talks about how similar this song is to Heart Shaped Box but it's more than just that.
Always loved this one because of all that, and that it being another (actually the last) of their grungy tracks doesn't ruin it is kind of impressive. Instead of getting angry at all the "English Nirvana" comments in a really stupid, vocal way where they distanced their material as far away as possible from Pablo Honey, they hung around the same style, sharpened it to a fine point and used it to destroy their old self and their criticism. Really clever commentary, like _seriously_ "fighting fire with fire". It's not often you see people escape from where they were by sticking with it. It usually takes a complete shift that alienates half your audience.
Hilariously then, Radiohead finally did that huge shift when they were loved and didn't even need to, and they didn't care if they alienated anyone. I've always found it incredible that five people have been able to go through all this in a fairly democratic manner over 20+ years without hating each other.
Rod Jonse true buy you cannot deny that the beginning guitar solo sounds like heart shaped box and also the second guitar part which starts at about 1:58 sounds like the "Hey wait I got a real complain" part from Heart Shaped Box.
Rod Jonse we can't talk about rape me variation, cause rape me chords are probably the most used in much of rock music (even smells like teen spirit has the same progression just in f, not e)
lkjv3 That doesn't mean I can't employ common sense in regards to an uncannily similar part.
People would note how the chord progression in Creep is ages old. Sure, fine. It's still Hollies that they admittedly based it on though.
controlgames no, they are both different
With all you said
I think that is a fair statement
It's not the greatest radiohead song of all time, but it's 100% my favourite one, this is phenomenal.
Man with iron lung died...for 70 years he use that iron lung...
0:05 - 0:23 - 0:31 - 3:42 damn
I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ADDRESS THIS CAUSE DAMN
Honey ii
Honey What's up?
THAT FUCKING SMILE
yep we're friends now
Abolutely gorgeous bit of song writing, and just a generally insane song....dont know how i spent this long without getting into radiohead.
RIP Paul Alexander
Thom: “okay thank you that was ‘My Iron Lung’. Any Requests?”
Audience: “CREEP”
Thom: *shoots himself on stage*
if COPD doesn't get me to stop smoking then nothing will.
He’s got the right hair :)
Yep
you deserve a medal
me that one person: bodysnatchers!
absolutely loved this song the first time I heard it, always add whole albums to playlists, you will find hidden gems
finally got a like after 6 years, lol.
I am proud of the fact that Johnny Greenwood is my favourite guitarist!
My Favourite Nirvana Song
Lol same
Goosebumps still all these years later whenever I am fortunate to listen to this song… scratch an eternal itch. Brilliant 🤩
I can’t describe how much I love Radiohead ❤
You just did😊
Me too. My favorite band ❤
It doesn’t get any more perfect than this!
Just and my iron lung are my best fav songs from the bend album. The guitar sound is my mood booster
That's why I love radiohead
I wonder if Thom is going to hang out on the schoolhouse rooftop after this ?
with his nakama.
This song never grows old
Thom's face in the beginning is my face everytime this song starts playing.
0:05 when mom comes home with burger king
Fantastic song from one of the last great groups. Full of twists, turns and quirks. No doubt Simon Cowell will hate it.
Hahah Simon Cowell
The intro melody is superb and the transition to the aggressive riffs is simply mind-blowing. Among my favourite Radiohead tracks alongside Just and Creep.
*thom yorke would like to know your location
Great build up from delicate and melancholy to heavy and fast, then back again. Brilliant song!
I can't get over that grin at the start whilst nodding it's like fuck yeah bitches here's your response to you all wanting to hear creep
LMFAO
2:42 Janis Joplin Is Alive !
A perfect clone.
I don’t know whether to laugh or not. this comment is perfect.
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If only :(
For me this is hands down the best song on the album and definitely one of their best songs overall. I hope that if I ever get to see them live that they play this.
the jump from pablo honey to the bends is actually insane. i don’t know what the hell changed in those 2 years but im glad it did. ok computer was even better
The Bends is one of the best albums of the 90s, I don't know which could be chosen as the best song, all tracks are excellent: "just," "the bends", "high and dry", "sulk" etc :D
This song reminds me of like a vampire sitting off in the distance with his or her arm hanging down with long nails and kinda like preying on the victim but with like weird grace. 😂
crazy how this live show is literally the actual final version of my iron lung that appears on the beans just without the crowd noise
the beans
*"it hurts like hell" part hurts like hell*
Love this song and album.
0:05 that smirk will never fails to get me he’s hot wtf
he do be cute tho...
Blonde Thom is best Thom
ikr
@@thepinkphantom140 red hair-ginger hair thom is adorable
@@blubberfart facts
The Guitar at the start and near the middle and other parts it just sound really really good
thom is so pretty throughout this entire video. well actually, he’s just pretty in general
I've seen a million live shows..saw Radiohead around this time and they were the best live band I have ever seen..
AND IF YOU'RE FRIGHTENED.
YOU CAN BE, IT'S OK.
AND IF YOU'RE FRIGHTENED
cock
marius abel you can be frightened
prakhar pant ITS OKK
freaking amazing! One of my fav Radiohead songs!
This song. it’s just so beautiful.
The 'if you're frightened' break down gives me goosebumps