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i agree, but i am sorry to inform you that they failed to capture the simple beauty of this song in the studio version.

@@orrihrafnsson471 the studio version is a masterpiece

​@@orrihrafnsson471sorry to inform you, they absolutely did

the studio version butchered the beautiful harmony of the climax.

And we're still coming back to this performance.. It's that good.

Vincecouk nah I just come back to jerk off to Thom Yorke's haircut here

+royhatts1 Me too

Well it's good if you like this performance better?

It took True Love Waits twenty years, so 7 isn't much in comparison

86Rikki yep. I have been coming back to this video for years. I like it so much better than the album version.

Same. And you're absolutely right about "down a mine." Bang on.

Right? And the way he goes seamlessly into falsetto after that powerhouse delivery. I really prefer his vocals here. Straight from the heart.

The Breakfast Menu yeah his singing here is effortless and beautiful. The singing on the studio version is, according to me, really unconvincing, as if Thom were bored singing it. And he’s struggling reaching the same notes.

Saw this live. He wasn't even on the bill for the festival, the whole set was a surprise performance. We were so lucky. The definitive version, to me.

me too

me too

Sing sing sing

Me too :D

Ashley Kendall And this is my fave song despite the album

and "immerse your soul in love"

It is....isn’t it? 3:11 on is gold

Murrrrrrrrrr

No

No

+t4exanadu soon to be a radiohead track!

How do you know that? I hope so, it's one of my favorites.

+t4exanadu So what do you think about the stuido version of it? / The new album?

+Aqua Azumarill It's still growing on me! It's one of my favorite songs on the album, but I am still getting into it. I listened to this version (live at Latitude 2009) probably 60 times or more, so it's going to take many listen of the album version before I'm completely used to it. The choral stuff (or is that just Thom + effects? It's hard to tell!) in the latter half of the song is fantastic, though! I try to reserve my judgements about new Radiohead albums, because they often take me months to fully appreciate. I don't understand how reviewers can listen to it once or twice and come to some grand conclusion. Although the album isn't as lively as KoL (I really liked most of KoL, a lot of people didn't...), the overall sound and vibe is exactly what I like. Favorite songs so far: Ful Stop, Indentikit, Present Tense, The Numbers. What are your thoughts?

decks dark is really nice too I like studio version of this song more though cause I listened to it before I checked out this one I guess it depends on which one u listen to first maybe wat do u say

thats pretty good to know, ty man

thats pretty good to know, ty man

Thom said it was actually influenced by a portishead song- the rip.

And definitely there's influences from Bossa Nova

The chords of this song is a sample of a Greenwood's song to the film Norwegian Wood

The last 30 seconds too it seems like he's holding back so much just to keep the performance going.

Honestly, if I were to make a tatoo, it would have to be that as well

+Thayslan Costa I was expecting it on lp8.. hard to believe that was 5 years ago.

+Stitch Grimly this x2

You're happy? ;)

+chrisjhart221138 I had the same first reaction, but in the end it adds a kind of humor and intimacy, the samba vibe. I like both versions. This one's darkly beautiful, and the other one has this little smile cracked behind it.

+Ordinary Boys I wondered about that! Bossa Nova.

+Ordinary Boys the fuck man.. everyone's entitled to their opinion but identikit's album version is otherworldly :O

See, that is wrong! you have to embrace other styles of music! Im not saying all the genres or that you are a "limited person" for not like that thing that they add to the song at your very first listen(besides anyone that listen radiohead is a genius, so good for you hah). Radiohead is a band that it's always bringing something new and pretty to listen for the listener. We have to be more open to the things that music offers to us, because, if you think like I do, part of doing music is for the people, to keep moving (like thom says) and get over all the shitty things that can happen to you. I hope do not take my opinion as a critisize to your thougths, I respect them!. Like we said in my country: Abrazo! (hug :) )

Matias Bianco And after all, which Radio album you liked just as the first listen (except In Rainbow haha, that damned masterpiece) , right?

still not known "This dance" or "distance"

Actually says “Past tense"

distance

It's "this dance". It's in the lyric sheets included with the special edition of AMSP.

Wait you guys thought it was distance? It’s obviously dance

I'm here for the 10th birthday too!

Adrian Santana good eye my bad

Because he touches certain part of the souls that common people don't have.

​@@georgebalza yes...

and I can't understand why that didn't get to the album version!

Haven't heard it yet but they said he changed it.

you can barely hear it. don't know why they downplayed it so much

stcrude they certainly did, hearing from the album there's not one bit of the emotion shown here

@@twod0ves I may be kinda late ;) But for me, it’s explained by the sound of an album version, it’s very quiet and flowing Like it wouldn’t fit, if he sang it loud on album version

+Ilaria exactly! It's an amazing version and I'm glad they chose that one to put on a moon shaped pool

I like the new one more but wtf simply incredible. . May be their greatest song ever .

I think they both have their merits. I prefer this one for its raw emotion (plus I've been listening to it since 09 thanks to this upload) but as the song is about someone putting on a brave face as their world falls apart, the other is more tonally appropriate.

Lol why choosing one or other when you can enjoy both?

most emotional i've ever seen him was OK Computer tour playing The Tourist Dec 19, 1997 in NYC. he is crying by the end of the performance

That's geh.

@@NostalgiaforInfinity exactly