its like thom went back in time to 2005 from 2016 to perform it with an orchestra, causing the real 2005 thom to hear it and use it for in rainbows, creating a time paradox.
Every time I hear Radiohead early versions I think, Imagine having the amount of talent and beautiful songwriting abilities to abandon these early works as unfinished... I think 99% of people, if capable of making something like this, would be immensely proud
@@sean1445 that's true, they did a killer version of where bluebirds fly there too. but it's still pretty impressive they wrote a full orchestral arrangement for a song that was probably just written as a few arpeggiated guitar chords, and only had that arrangement performed once. it's not even like it's just the standard "strings playing sustained chords, a view pizzicatos for flavour" kind of arrangement, because this clearly had a lot of thought put into it for a one-time deal
@@pimposki6232 Yeah so much effort would've been put into it and yet it was for barely anything. There's a few Radiohead orchestral arrangements that didn't get put to record or performed much.
I could listen to this in the background for the rest of my measly little life and not get sick of it, I think. Because it is that organic. The perfect fix. It covers the all the bases of emotions that I think I care to indulge in anymore for this go 'round. Not up enough to make me jump up and boogie, but not down enough to trigger a teardrop. He keeps the ball safely within the boundaries of joy and agony for a safe run to the endzone, but still flirting with the boundaries to the left and the right. For a minute there you forget about the line of scrimmage. It's got just enough of the "Goldilocks Zone" as far as sound driven emotion for me. Not too little and not too much. Thanks for sharing.
This is astonishing. It's little glimpses behind the curtain such as this, that affirm to me how Radiohead are in a league of their own. ...astonishing 🙏
I have been hoping to hear this version again for over a decade! Someone on Reddit found a comment of mine in a r/Radiohead post from three years ago asking for this version. They linked me to here today and I am over the moon! Thank you for posting this!!!
I remember when the original live version of this was posted. I watched it so many times. Glad to find such a perfect version of the recording 16 years later
Living at the bottom, looking up at the sky through water, and trying to leave... but caught and killed by the weird fishes. Being trapped in a life you never asked for but don't want to give away.
Radiohead is a landmark in music history. In a time of commercial music they spend decades perfecting songs instead of just using their names to throw shit out. This song was already good, but overtime it became something just unbelievable
I knew this version first (because Limewire), so when I heard the full band version on In Rainbows, I was originally taken aback that they make it fast and guitar based
@@soundstation8343 el primero, en el desierto de Atacama, en el norte de Chile. El segundo en el sur del país...un lugar lleno de lagos, ríos y montañas...el Lago Ranco es mi favorito! Saludos!
This is pretty amazing but I personally prefer the energy of the original. Would be great to just amass an entire album's worth of this material for In Rainbows - like for every track.
Interesting, agreed the strings give it an interesting vibe, not sure about the programmed synth goes with the strings 100%, but still get to hear all the lyrics which are even better than I originally thought. Thanks for the upload, great tune.
hearing this version so long before In Rainbows came out really spoilt the studio version for me. As much as I love the one on In Rainbows, this one just hits different. So special.
Johnny Greenwood composed this piece as a piece of concert piece for the London Sinfonietta. It clearly became Weird Fishes. And the recording has been slowly surfacing across the internet.
I wonder if that's what Thom meant when he defined music as life affirming. He formulates a more melancholic version of a song and then, by trying to encounter patterns to form a resolution, to get to the next day, he elaborates a more accessible and alive version of the same piece, as if it was an antithesis to suffering, finding meaning in life itself. Just thinking about it.
@@alex11v3 Yeah but the again almost all of their songs has it and even more complex.. the version plus the song in itself is the just heartbreaking but so beautiful. This has the guitar in it ;)
can anybody name the main electronic instrument it starts out on that continues the whole time in the background? or what kind of instrument it generally is?
In the deepest ocean The bottom of the sea Your eyes They turn me Why should I stay here? Why should I stay? I'd be crazy not to follow Follow where you lead Your eyes They turn me Sunk without a trace The bottom of the deep Your eyes They turn me Turn me on to phantoms I follow to the edge of the Earth And fall off Everybody leaves If they get the chance And this is my chance I get eaten by the worms And weird fishes Picked over by the worms And weird fishes Weird fishes Weird fishes I'll hit the bottom Hit the bottom to escape Escape I'll hit the bottom Hit the bottom to escape Escape
