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Biography
biography, how radiohead formed and other stories behind the making of their albums, Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to

Members
Profiles of Radiohead members; Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway.

Songs

Discography. All of the Radiohead songs from their studio albums Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief. Ideal link for those only getting into Radiohead for the first time.

Gear
Music equipment / gear used by Radiohead, guitars effects pedals used by Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Thom Yorke, the drums used by Phil Selway and the bass guitar and pedals used by Colin Greenwood.

Tabs
The best Radiohead guitar tablature on the internet.

Ed's Diary
The diary written by Ed O'Brien during the recording sessions of 'Kid A' and 'Amneiac' keeping fans sup to date with the album's progress. A fascinating read.

Links
Links to download the radiohead 1997 Glastonbury concert as well as links to other Radiohead sites amongst others.

Contact

me.Contact me if you want to ask me a question, i would also appreciate some feedback.

Ed O'Brien's Diary

2007-06-28T07:10:00.000-07:00

22 July 1999

thom arrives & plays a new song on the acoustic. sounds great but has no name, so now on referred to as the song with no name. we move on to "lost at sea/in limbo" after only nine months work its starting to sound like its getting somewhere. good in fact. The others sound ok too.( everything, everyone/the national anthem). highlight of the day is attempting 3 part harmonies on "neil young *9"- not the harmonies themselves, but phil cracking up because he feels a bit like that drummer from the eagles. a fucking brilliant rehearsal. its great to be in our band.

23 July 1999

start by working on 'optimistic'. i really love the words, especially the line "this one just crawled out the swamp" reminds me a bit of PJ Harvey's blues stuff. cool. a couple of interesting jams. one of them is jonny's who bemoans the fact that his stuff never turns into proper songs. its good but he doesnt realise it, as hes already bored of it by the time he plays it to us. finished by playing 'neil young *9' or as cozzie calls it the 'phil is don henley' song. It sounds even better today. don't go on too long as its warm and unusually summery today so drive home and get caught in the inevitable friday traffic jams.

27 July 1999

a pretty frustrating day, but now we've been doing this for so long, you realise it can't all be like last week. it starts well with a different version of 'how to dissapear' and 'everything in its right place'. we then get sidetracked by a couple of loose ideas for songs (one is very like the Fall). However we have definitely lost our way with ' you and whose army'- it was sounding great last week, so what happened today? time to go home.

28 July 1999

it may well be that because we are working on completely new material it seems that we have not moved much today, like yesterday. but we discussed ' follow me around' and how we would like to approach it, rather than just start playing and thereby fall into old habits. plank says he likes the 'remain in light' style jam we had which is good because we were pretty nonchalant about it. 'de la soul'esque jam at end.

29 July 1999

warts and all, warts and all......... the last two days were brewing up to this.....working on 'up the ladder'. 30 seconds into it & it sounds utter shite. thom stops it. lack of energy. phil gets pissed off. we talk a bit. start up again with a dose of the 'fuck you's. sounds better almost immediately. funny that. oh and the new song from 22nd is called 'move along' for the moment. also played the cminor. lovely sunny day.

30 July 1999

spend the first 3hrs on 'up the ladder'. things are happening; jonny brings in the 'missy eliot' chord??!! thom starts singing lyrics from another song, cozzie comes with a catchy riff for the chorus and phil is ..funking. with that going on its very easy for me. working through something is such a cliche but if youre in the right frame of mind its so true. finish by playing "lost at sea/in limbo" , "optimistic", "c-minor song". it would be great to have another look at "you and whose army?" next week, and rescue it for the 'lets leave it for a while' pile. plank's not here today as he's in Lobo, Norway with Mike Scott- they have no nights in summer.

3 August 1999

start by working on 'lost at sea'. thom thinks weve already recorded the definitive version whilst in paris. not sure about that, mind you he admits that thats because of the way hes singing it (which hes only done with a tape alone whilst driving). i really like this new version, as much as anything for its relentlessness and energy. anyhow move onto a new song 'cuttooth' - its got a 'neu' thing about it - long and hypnotic.... finish with attempting to rescue 'you and whose army'...

4 August 1999

first time since starting this that i have had absolutely no desire to write anything about today. 24 hours and a good rehearsal (thursday) later things are a little clearer. yesterday or rather today (the 4th) there was very little played but a lot of talk. the problem we have found is that we are essentially in limbo - for the first time in our time we have nothing to get ready for, except 'an album', but weve been working on that since january and nothing substantial has come of it, except maybe a few harsh lessons in how not to do things*. its like how do we start this - when we made our last three albums, there were time restrictions - we no longer have these. are we going down 'stone roses' territory? the result of this somewhat frank discussion is that we need a plan and something to aim for... *not quite true in hindsight - we have recorded some good stuff (not much, though).

5 August 1999

much better today... the sun shines in and out of our rehearsal room and we get a lot done... start with 'optimistic' (still sounding great - jonny tries some cool ondes martenot on it - the high stuff is good, not however when he follows the main riff). move on to 'up the ladder' - sounds better with more space. segway into 'follow me around' and a reworking of the 'cminor song' (in a stax stylee). jonny meanwhile is attempting to put the vocal mic through his analogue filters - which looks like a remake of an old telephone exchange. "hello vicar, yes ill put you through to mr kipling"... so the last two songs are punctuated by sudden bursts of unearthly noises, both extremely good and extremely bad.

6 August 1999

last day of the week and last rehearsal for a couple of weeks as the eclipse takes place next wednesday. so we run through most of the songs. i think that these rehearsals will be viewed in hindsight as where we turned a corner (or hope so). obviously working on the songs and playing again has helped, but just as importantly we have been forced to confront certain things - like what the fuck are we doing exactly - how do we set up the next bit of recording so that we dont start 20-odd songs and not finish one of them. its taken us seven years to get this sort of freedom, and its what we always wanted, but it could be so easy to fuck it all up.

31 August 1999

kick off with 'cuttooth', the song with little structure and the only certainty is a bass riff. it makes you wonder how 'neu' did their thing - it always sounds spontaneous on those 12 minute epics, but did they have to rehearse intensely? did it require a degree of editing? then move on to the 'c minor song' - jonny thinks that maybe it's getting a little too tasteful and nice and he's right. it sounds too slick. finish with 'optimistic'.

1 September 1999

i read a rumour from the internet [never believe a single nuance - sd] that we are supposed to be collaborating with 'godspeed you black emperor' on 'how to disappear' - this person cited a number of chance occurences, including such impossible coincidences as 'they came to see us at a gig'. if that were sufficient corroborating evidence then, judging on the bands i've seen recently, you can hear us with 'the divine comedy' and the mighty 'asian dub foundation'. twice around 'follow me around' - mmm. not great, but salvaged by 'you and whose army' - jonny thinks that voice and guitar are all that's needed until the end part; and it sounds right; or at least it's definitely a place to start. run through 'optimistic', cuttooth', and 'up on the ladder' for nige, who's down for the day to do some wiring and 'studio arranging'.

2 September 1999

i have, up until now, never written a diary about what we've been doing; largely due to lethargy, but also because there are times when you have no desire whatsoever to document a particular occasion. and anyway i've always been suspicious of those who, like bill wyman, record such daily details. great bass player, though. but what has been interesting about this is that for me this is first time i am aware of the cyclical nature of our behaviour; patterns emerge. today was much like a day four weeks ago. things came to a head. and although you wish that there weren't days like this, it actually probably aids the creative process. so maybe the next few rehearsals will be great. time to swig back a bottle of wine and contemplate the frail nature of it all.

3 September 1999

after only 2 months rehearsal and 3 months recording, it's been concluded that what we should be doing now is trying to get basic arrangements. we're like fucking lasers, us. we spend almost the entire rehearsal working on 'cuttooth' (the song with no arrangements up until now) and surprise, surprise, it already sounds a lot better. when you have a song that does not have the usual distinction between verse/chorus/middle eight, there need to be other markers that define the way the song progresses. and we're getting there.

7 September 1999

there seemed to be a lot of breaks today, which often means that we're worrying about something. recording worries over whether the 'canned applause' mobile setup will be ready. management swing by to answer fraught questions and generally alleviate anxieties. oh yes, music is what we're about (easily forgotten sometimes) and 'everything in its right place' sounds good.

6 September 1999

a good and long rehearsal. pick up where we left off on 'everything' and move swiftly on to 'optimistic' - it's blinding - definitely the most formed of the songs to put to tape - it comes from the swamp. the music is interrupted by the new bulletin board on our all-new singing and dancing website. v. exciting. and of course most of the messages posted are concerned with the atrocities in east timor. what's the betting that international forces fail to enter east timor before mass genocide is once again committed. if this sounds flippant - it's not meant to - sorry. back to the music - return to 'up on the ladder' -thom has a new arrangement - start stripping the song apart - already sounding better.

9 September 1999

'knives out' sounding quite 'smiths-esque'. especially phil who has got that mike joyce thing down to a tee. on to 'optimistic' -must record that soon before we lose it (remember 'lift'?). 'up on the ladder' sounds pretty grim. 'say the word' (or c-minor song); great drum, bass and vocals - personally getting a bit anxious over it, as i can't find anything that works with it, or rather i have an idea but can't get the sound right. makes me a bit neurotic. finish on what i used to call the 'jonny scott walker song' - very short and sweet. last diary piece for a couple of weeks. how was it for you? i'm finding it a little difficult to set the right tone, but as i'm not a journo i guess that's fair enough. hopefully this is going to be an ongoing thing throughout recording and maybe even touring, so it will get better.

27 September - 2 October 1999

The day to-day journal / diary seems inappropriate for us last week. After having reviewed it, it reads as if I’ve become a kind of unofficial spokesman for the band – which is bollocks quite frankly, as that is certainly not the purpose. That may be the knock-on effect of having select magazine print some of it up. You know you can get a bit self-conscious and in this business and forget why you initially shared something. And what were those reasons? A mixed bag really, a bit of an attempt to de-mythologise this whole process of making a new record. It might be of interest to some to hear from one of the horses' mouths (or arses) what is going on. And it’s actually pretty interesting for us if only to reassure me/ourselves that there are patterns which emerge, only when documented in the way we work that ensures that you don’t get too down when things aren’t going to plan.

A lot of this week was spent setting up. The right environment to work is crucial if your going to attempt to do anything vaguely different, then your surroundings have to reflect that. Equally so, what has become increasingly evident is the need to change our approach to recording on a lot of the songs. The approach or setup is crucial. For instance the way we worked the on the last record was to rehearse everything to such a standard, where most of the parts have been so finely tuned, that recording was largely a matter of capturing the best performance. And that’s fine, but recording in this way tends to mean that the songs have a certain way of sounding. i.e. – Pretty good in a live/band context.

Well that’s not enough now, and I think there is a feeling that unless we change our approach often were just going to become (?) of ourselves and even dull. There was a wonderful moment this week when we were all crowded around the TV watching this programme documenting the story of hip hop and it was the classic years from ’88 until ’92 with RUN DMC, Public Enemy and NWA – etc. Some of the greatest records ever made, and they interviewed Hank Shoucler – he was the fella who produced Public Enemy in the early days – and made the great "it takes a nation of millions…" album. And he was explaining their methodology – the way they recorded. Basically they all set up with samplers, Devo, drum machines. In the same room and recorded. Now most of it we said sounded like a mess, but apparently there were great moments, that were then cut up and from that the basic track was constructed. The effect of hearing this was like "well why the fuck can’t we do this" – it could be so exciting. We have the means to make a communal racket so why not harness some of this technology and use it within our own sphere. I mean we’re not going to make a hip-hop record, much as we’d like to, but what was exciting was the idea that kind of approach, or something similar offered us a necessary alternative to the way that we have largely worked until now.

Once we have done this then we might really get somewhere.

4 October 1999

Start working on ‘knives out’ and ironically after Fridays night's talk of new ways and approaches, we set up as a 5 piece and play it live. Not really happening & it feels as though we’re heading down ‘say the word’ territory like last week. Thom wants more energy in this version in contrast to the Copenhagen version which ‘floats’ along. It's decided that Thom and Phil should play it together. The energy levels are noticeably higher. They bang out seven takes & Nigel does his thing editing together the best bits from different versions. Bangin!

5 October 1999

Pick up from where we left off on ‘knives out’. It is felt that we should try and finish it or at least something. C's overdub bass, the Johnny follows on guitar. It doesn’t seem to be happening. Then someone puts the Copenhagen on. It sounds better in terms of actually puts the song across – Nigel loves the feel of this version, but doesn’t think it’s quite good enough. The prospect of restarting and & attempting the song is quite daunting and also adds the anxieties of not completing stuff – Nigel says we should be. It feels like we need a break. (not the holiday type – we’ve had enough of those) no, the watershed type.

6 October 1999

Start working on a band loop called ‘fast track’ - Thom had a rough arrangement on cubase last night. Nige and I then do some guitar sounds using my new toy. The first Roland guitar synth, which sounds pretty different. Jonny does a couple of background radio tracks. We then do a bit of editing and pruning. Nige is really into this thing of throwing down random shit and then simply keeping the really good stuff. It’s a cool way of writing if only because you end up with that you couldn’t possibly contrive to do. Set up sounds/studio for optimistic – to be played tomorrow. Phil is playing this old jazz kit which used to belong to plank's great uncle, but it’s ended up here via coz’a double bass teacher.

7 October 1999

‘Optimistic’ is possibly my favourite ‘band’ song that is played together live in a room. Sounds fucking great. We do about 9 versions. In most there are some amazing moments. The penultimate take would seem to be the one. As its Thom’s birthday today at recording, takes a backseat in the evening – but we do manage to have a small reunion of the conga’s on percussion. It isn't for midnight - they do add their customary sound to ‘Optimistic’. Their last gig was on ‘paranoid android’ at St. Catherine’s. Brilliant day.

8 October 1999

A slack day. Nursing hangovers & generally tired from the previous nights celebrations. Nigel wants to do a bit of editing on ‘Optimistic’ – thinks we have a better ending on one of the other versions. Do a 'head count’ on songs in their current status. It’s pretty encouraging as there are about 5 or 6 which could be finished fairly quickly. But of course we don’t want to do that yet – that would be far too pragmatic. Thom and Nigel download a loop of Thom’s onto tape to be added to it. As I write he is attempting some vocals. A weekend is nearly here – good timing. Completely knackered.

12 October - 15 October 1999

"we’re smashing our heads against the wall"

"this week we have been mostly working on optimistic"

"it would be ideal to finish optimistic"

"lets just do the end and edit onto the original take"

"the drums for Rachael’s songs sound like nothing else"

"Jonny, how the fuck did you manage to get them sounding like that?"

"oh yeah"

"I’ve been doing this all afternoon and need to get out"

"I can’t play that on this guitar"

"gorgeous smell in here, Nigel"

"Eddy and I like the mach 3"

"I really like the late roll, the long one"

"It’s not as sleazy as the one before"

It’s Friday yet Tuesday feels like yesterday – have we finished optimistic? No. And it could be tempting to abandon it in favour of starting something new. But then we know we aren’t to far away. We must see this thing through if for no other reason that it’s needed confidence.

23 November 1999

not such a great start to the week. of those six songs that nigel mixed only one is right - kid a. but nigel is pretty optimistic about the others, he knows what he wants to do with them. so we draw up another list of songs to be worked on in the next three weeks.next a meeting with chris, bryce and brian (the management). they've left us alone up until now, realising that we needed time - time basically to sort our shit out. i think their aim was to refamiliarise us with the workings of the this industry that we operate in. for instance nowadays if we want to tour, about five months notice is required, for booking the venues, notifying our crew, etc. it seems like a long time for just some gigs. part of the problem is we've really given it no thought at all - and suddenly you're presented with these facts of life. we want to do gigs,but we have to make this record - and then we don't even know whether they'll work as a live entity. sometimes it seems like it's so fucking complicated.

1 December 1999

phil is presently putting down drums on 'how to disappear' - we're doing a demo of the song to present the song to an 'orchestral fella'. we've kind of shirked away from strings in the past as they seem to have been recorded in the same manner for the last 30 years (ever since the beatles). jonny is particularly keen to use an orchestra but not in the standard cliched way........more like the end of 'climbing up the walls'. thom's vocal on it was jaw-dropping. it's very strange to be playing that song again as we played it frequently on the ok computer tour.......................... suddenly you're back there.

i've also included a couple of bits from the last six weeks.

if you haven't heard 'hunky dory' in a while i suggest you give it a spin - sounds pure genius to me in the bath.

-i've tried to write something about what we've been doing in the last five weeks - there have been the day-by-day accounts which have been of the 'we did this and then we did that' variety..........all incredibly boring to read. then there have been a couple of 'essays' written whilst stoned late at night, only to be re-read the next morning. pretensious old tosh. all have been discarded. it's easy to get extremely self-conscious doing this. we're in london at present and nigel is mixing; he has been for three days. which means that we have actually finished six or so tracks. this has been our life for the last five weeks - we had a list of about ten songs which was then further narrowed down to six. they are definitely different....................there's an eight piece brass ensemble in a charles mingus style on one - eight 'jazzers' came down for the day and blew their stuff all over 'everyone - the national anthem'. they were fantastic............thom and jonny conducted. what a day. there's 'optimistic', there's another which started off as a thom doodle on the 505........there's also the paris version of 'lost at sea'.........the batsford 'morning bell'.it is different. but that's what we do. what has also become evident is that the summer panic that led to two months rehearsal may have been a little premature.....or at the very least a little on the hysterical side.there was some good stuff recorded in paris, copenhagen and batsford. i've been listening to alot of the copenhagen tracks and out-takes and the overall sound is great. pretty dark but then that session was hardly a chuckle-trousered affair.

2 December 1999

more work on 'how to disappear'... after phil did his drums last night, jonny came up with an outrageous martenot part - multitracked it sounds like the string section from mars. jonny has this uncanny ability to bring in weird chords, that at first distract you but after a couple of listens completely make sense...it's just a matter of getting on his planet. brilliant. coz and i tied up our respective bits and it's sounding fairly complete. not bad for a demo. thom was immersed in protools/cubase land in the other studio. the song now has a really strong arrangement and the rhythm track is pumping...........onwards to friday.

this diary is long overdue - sorry - i'm not sure why it's been so hard to post something. alot of it probably has something to do with the way that we have been working over the last six or so weeks.tracks have had to be completed and approached in new ways so that up until last week we hadn't actually played together in a room since thom's b/day in early october. so at times the process has felt quite disparate but then that's part of being in the studio.

so hopefully this is now going to be a daily update.

3 December 1999

spend a good hour remodelling the live room for that authentic olympic studios circa '66 vibe(....!??). not really..... simply tidied it up. played 'i will' live but decided at the end that the copenhagen version had something to it. it's incredibly evocative of that whole time out there minus all the baggage.so that's good. redid the loop on it, thom even played some great drums and proceeded to do the vocals. he hasn't sung like this for a while.............not bad for a friday night when things tend to slow down in anticipation of the w/end. time to go home.

6 December 1999

it was my dear uncles's funeral today, so i didn't make it to the studio until late.........too tired and depressed so went home. there was some good stuff done - cozzie put down his funky bass part on a track. and apparently there was a bit of a playing session in the evening.

7 December 1999

spent an hour playing around with cuttooth. came in and heard phil on drums and thom on rhodes going through it. it's one of those moments when you hear something being played and all you want to do is pick up a guitar and join in. so i did......it's only three chords so not too taxing even on my very limited music theory. looked at 'you and whose army' again from two weeks ago. tried this 'different' vocal idea that thom and jonny had been going on about.....three part but with a very low bass harmony, kind of inkspots-esque. this is always dangerous territory ie there would be nothing more fucking sad than this slick sophisticated 40's vocal group sound... mind you there's not much chance it could be slick....but you know what i mean. anyway sounds alright and the rest sounds better. thom is now doing a vocal comp of 'i will'........it's 2am and this is his idea of fun and relaxation..........strange

8 December 1999

started by playing 'cuttooth' again - the song needs stamina - sounding better than yesterday....just have to keep playing it. one of those days when it doesn't feel as though we've done much. maybe it's because everyone's tired. there was some protool arranging on 'follow me around' and an attempt to do vocal, piano and drums on 'egyptian song'. was sounding ok. tried playing 'keep the wolf from the door but it's too late and needs thom's rant on it. a bitty day. time to go home. saw only four hours of daylight - how do they cope in scandinavia during these months?

9 December 1999

first 'live' performance in front of an audience for exactly (and strangely) a year........it was early morning so it was the 10th. it started with jonny (aka DJ REQUIRED) and thom's dj set and then a last minute executive decision was made to play 'knives out' around the xmas tree. 'amateur hour' will hopefully become a regular night for us - but will be different each time - there will however be ongoing items like phil's puppet show. for those who don't know what i'm going on about - we did a live web broadcast to about 250 people - courtesy of tim bran and those lovely people at the ninja tunes label.

10 December 1999

still high from the night before. you have no idea how excited we are about this. it's a bit like having our own tv station for three or so hours. there was little/virtually no planning for it, so everything was done on the hoof. so refreshing to do as it seems to take an eternity to get anything done quickly in this business.....and yes it was completely shambolic at times but surely there's nothing wrong with that. i'd love to see more people doing this - can you imagine tony blair and his boys and girls doing a similar thing..........prescott on the wheels of steel: "this one goes out to ken, this is 'going underground'........". 'egyptian song' sounds even better today.

13 December 1999

last day and like school we didn't do any work.....had a chat about what we wanted to do next year, vis-a-vis gigs and recording. finished off the day with xmas dinner, completely ruined by the fact that there were only four crackers to go around the eight of us.

hope you have a relaxing xmas and new year.........and if it is bollocks, be assured that you are not the only one having a shitty time. it's the time when most families break up...........xmas after all is for the high street................if it was to celebrate the birth of christ they got it wrong. xmas was an old pagan festival and christ was supposed to have been born around september time. here endeth the lesson. bah humbug.

i have just had a thought........still excited by last thursdays live webcast .and thinking about ways it could be developed......i think it could be very cool to play new stuff by unsigned bands, musicians, collectives (ie bands not on major labels - small indie is fine).if any of you are making music, have mates that are or you just think that this music that you are in to deserves to be heard then send it into me at our po box address, which is po box 322, oxford, ox4 1ey. i like all kinds of shit so please don't just send in guitar band stuff. anything. spread the word. alright that's enough for now. happy xmas... and a very merry millenium.....

10January - 19 January 2000

happy new year and many many thanks to all you lovely cardsenders.

i think we all arrived at the studio with that same dread of starting where we left off.to plough back into the old tracks seemed like a daunting task. nigel suggested a different plan of action to ease us back into it over the next couple of weeks. the idea was to spend this time working in a completely different way; no acoustic instruments ie any guitars,drums or vocals......everything has to be electronically generated. it means that we can't fall back on what we've done before and forces us to work this equipment. it's actually an incredible amount of fun - which is not something we've had in abundance over the last year or in studios in general. we've been working on four 'bits' and because they are fairly abstract it will be interesting to review it in a few weeks. the important thing is that you are constantly learning even if something doesn't necessarily work out. and actually it's something we've been meaning to do for a while. again it's the need to change the methodology in how you actually make the music - only by doing this will we actually produce stuff that sounds any different. and conversely by finding another approach to recording, it enthuses us in the way that we've worked together as a 'live' band. the rehearsals last week were fantastic precisely because we had not picked up those instruments and recorded them.

this week we have cast the experimental net further afield to include material like 'true love waits' and 'feeling pulled apart by horses'. the former has been kicking around for about four years now and each time we approached it we seemed to be going down the same old paths.........it actually sounds like the start of something exciting now.

did an interesting band version of 'bombers' which thom has attached to what i used to call 'the neil young' song...we may play it some time later this evening.

thankyou to everyone who sent in their demos......maybe i was a little naive to assume that a handful of people would send in theirs' or others' offerings......what i realise has happened is that various publications and radio stations have visited this diary and announced that radiohead are embarking on a fucking talent search or something. bastards. it's probably pay-back time for being miserable and contrary on our last round of interviews.....anyway i've started going through it and will listen to it all, eventually. it's actually very interesting as it strikes me from what i've listened to so far that there are alot of really good musicians out there, but what distinguishes the good from the not so good is having taste. ie for instance you could be simply red (apologies for the easy target) and send in a demo and i'm always going to think it's totally shit in spite of its technical 'proficiency'. having said that there's little that sounds like that. but what i'm saying in an around-about way is that it doesn't matter if i don't think something's that good; if you really love what you're doing then that is all that matters........there is absolutely no point in making music that you think will help you to get signed..........second-guessing what people want to hear is a completely fruitless exercise as it is almost completely impossible to predict what people want to hear; by the time people actually get to hear that music it's more than likely that it's old-hat and most importantly you will never stumble upon something that is truly fresh and exciting.

24 January - 25 January 2000

want to try and finish the bulk of what we've started, which may sound obvious but there you go.......so had what seemed like a pretty unfruitful day on 'how to disappear'.......try and get it away from that band thing with an acoustic guitar, which may have been alright when we were making the bends, but let's face it has been done to death by both us and every tom, dick and harry guitar band. went down a few cul-de-sacs.........all part of the process.

today however has been a quite different affair. still on the same song. jonny found the one chord thing; it's to be played by the strings(to be recorded soon).....in fact jonny has spent much of the last two weeks scoring and arranging strings in his room; which is a huge undertaking as 24 string players are going to be playing precisely what he has scored and these people are professionals....thom has this evening just done a wonderful vocal and the song is beginning to go another way. bad day, good day, good cop, bad cop.

27 January - 28 January 2000

'dollars and cents' is a track that originated out of a 'jam' from copenhagen - it's good but because there was no arrangement, no musical decisions could be made on it.........well now it has an arrangement.....thom did some backing vocals and a bit of guitar, jonny put his string arrangement on, i did a little moog and the song is really going somewhere. will write something more substantial over the w/end.

31 January 2000

slow day as it often is on mondays. tape machine broke-down in the main room. thom and jonny did some drum programming.....more work in the other studio on 'dollars and cents' -- percussion and a guitar. not that interesting but the following might be....michael eavis knows how to throw the grandest and greatest party in the world.....glastonbury is the don of all festivals..........but alas we are not playing this year. there have been a few rumours flying around that we are, so we thought we'd better say something sooner rather than later. it would however be great to play it another year.................

1 February 2000

"shit happens" as keef once famously said. and so it does. well it did today...........it's difficult to say whether we've been here before, possibly not. and of course i m being deliberately vague about the whole thing ......but sometimes you have to be. anyway before one kneejerks and starts saying all manner of things you have to let the proverbial dust settle. sorry but you can only be so open.

2 February 2000

sore heads all round, but things are being sorted out, i think. while we 'negotiate' nigel has taken the opportunity to set the studio upstairs for mixing. 'you and whose army' is put up and he starts to mix. sounds good. have to redo my guitar which is fun as it feels a little like playing live. thom continues work on going through and sampling sections from this dat of sounds that we made last night......nothing too strenuous as i think we are tiring a little. it always happens like this. some weeks seem way more productive than others and probably are but the secret is not to get freaked out.....just keep going and it will return. meanwhile jonny 'haydn' greenwood continues to arrange his strings.........

3 February 2000

bits and pieces are added to 'kinetic' - phil sets up his electric kit triggering samples, it works well and could be the basis of an interesting backing track. most of the day is spent preparing for tomorrow's string day.

4 February 2000

what an amazing day. fantastic string arrangements by jonny and what players. many many thanks are due to john lubbock(who conducted and organised) and the string players from the orchestra of st. john's, smith square. the whole session was the complete antithesis to the ok computer experience; firstly rather than de-camping to some london studio we used an old abbey near us with the most fantastic acoustics to record in. i think nigel was totally blown away by the whole sound of it. but most importantly john and the players were so enthusiastic about it all.....jonny has certain things that he wants/wanted to try out that aren't your usual string arrangaments. and rather than dismiss his ideas ( which is what happened on the ok computer session) they were open-minded enough to try them. john lubbock even handed over the conducting reins right at the end for jonny to try out an idea of his. there is no way that he would have been allowed to have done that at the abbey road session. brilliant players and people.

we needed this session after what has seemed an incredibly draining week.

7 February 2000

monday morning and everyone arrives looking completely fucked. got one more week before we take a week off to recharge. nigel wants to mix 'dollars and cents' now that there are strings on it. he goes upstairs to work on it. downstairs work continues on thom and jonny's drum thing from last week. late night worries and weird symbiosis going on. go on message board and someone asks us about 'innocents civilian'. so once we get off the web we decide to put up the master tape of it. can't find it anywhere which is incredibly strange. it's got to turn up.

8 February 2000

nigel got what seems like a good mix of 'dollars and cents'. more work on t+j's drum thing. did some playing this afternoon. upstairs at the moment nigel and thom are doing 'something' to kinetic. still can't find the master tapes to 'innocents civilian' and beginning to worry. worst case scenarios even being aired ie the u2 case when some of their rehearsal tapes went missing and ended up being sold as bootlegs.cozzie continues editing drums.

9 February 2000

put 'true love waits' up again....this is a song which has been kicking around for four years or so, in fact we recorded a version of it when we were making the last album and this is something like approach number 561. but it is a great song.....it's simply trying to find a way of doing it which excites us. and we may have found a way, at the very least we've found a new approach ........ basically the track has the same vocal melody but the chords have changed underneath it. so we'll come back to it and see how it sounds. it may of course be utter crap and we have so lost the plot on this song...............please don't let that be the case........

10 February 2000

WEBCAST DAY......................these days are a bit like being a child again...just throw it all in and see what comes out. 'amateur hour' got extended to four hours ....and dare i say it but i think we're getting ever so sophisticated........the campfire, the 'nice' logfire, the upside down table football, the zx spectrum programmers. yes tonight all our two hours of preparation came to fruition in this glorious mess of a web broadcast. we had a few more cameras at our disposal and our technical team has expanded from one to two, so things were naturally going to be a step up from the last time. we only wish that a few more of you had been able to witness us getting wasted and making complete and utter fools of ourselves........maybe next time.....the great thing about these evenings for us is that they are the antithesis of how i think we're perceived ie angry, angsty young men....that's fine, but you can't possibly be like that all the time (as we've found out) because you'll be dead by the time you reach your mid-30s which used to be a long way away and is now still quite a way but certainly not unreachable. about the demo thing as well .....i still haven't been able to listen to everything sent............but there is another idea, which is way more exciting, but i'm not going to say what it is as i don't want the idea nicked.

we've got a week off next week and who knows maybe in the next few weeks we may even finish off the recording of the songs we've been working on?.............

21 February 2000

all back together again, a week off and our studio tans have faded nicely. everybody seems rested and refreshed for the next five weeks..........nigel wants to get his teeth stuck into mixing, so we decided to set up and record 'cuttooth'. this at eight and a half minutes (by the end) is the long one - did five or six takes of which a couple are pretty good. will review further tomorrow. nigel and jonny are at present getting stuck into going through the various string parts on 'egyptian song'. good to be back.

23 February 2000

listen to 'cuttooth' and it sounds fucking great. graham, our new engineer, earns his spurs by doing some great tape editing......which involves cutting the master tape at a particular place in the song and attaching another piece of tape from another version of the song. a bit more complicated from the days when your tape recorder chewed up your favourite 'madness' tape and you had to get out the old tape splicing kit and when finally fixed there was a section missing in the second chorus of 'embarassment' ......no very different from those days.

anyway coz fixed up his fantastic driving bass thing....thom did a cool synth pass...and it's quite fast for us.

24 February 2000

more work on 'cuttooth'...........jonny did his guitar thing...feedback,backwards guitar.......it was good to hear. it sometimes seems as though not much guitar has been played so far, which is probably bollocks. there has been a fair amount, but in the quest for different sounds we haven't first turned to the trusted and tried six-string. thom did some work on a track upstairs, which sounded great. lots of editing on the computer to make the track in question more coherent. am i sounding boring?....apologies, just tired that's all....on to thursday...

25 February 2000

more good things added to 'cuttooth'........sounds. its one of those classic situations where the temptation is to continually embellish whats on there and it's one of those songs that you could get away with it. but in doing that, you often lose the essence of what was great about it in the first place. i guess the trick is to be absolutely ruthless on what is added................so at five in the morning having not savagely edited some of these overdubs the track sounded too overcooked.............. please read "NO LOGO" by Naomi Klein

28 February 2000

had a funny old meeting last friday..............definitely nursing a hangover from it today.................

nigel was sidetracked last week by 'cuttooth' so he really really wants to do some mixing this week. 'egyptian song' then..........thom plays bass and it sounds pretty much finished. i haven't really been involved in this song so when i hear it i think i'm able to be fairly objective about it.........it has the feel of one of the tracks on the last mark hollis album and it is definitely one of the highlights so far. meanwhile downstairs...................jonny and i are let loose on fucking up phil's drum sound. hours of fun as coz might say. starts off by phil doing some drums on 'kinetic'...................keep getting that ground hogday sensation writing this diary. can't help feeling that this must be an exceptionally boring read except to maybe the diehard muso............

29 February 2000

I froze up upstairs after Nigel has done a good mix of 'Egyptian song'. pick up on 'i will' downstairs.......jonny plays some cool organ on it. trying to do some rhythm stuff on it.

1 March 2000

thom and nige arrange some drums on 'morning bell' ...........downstairs we continue trying to get rhythm stuff on 'i will'. arranging it on the computer....taking a while to do, but these things do.....

6 March 2000

we spent alot of time last week 'throwing shit' (jonny specifically said he was sick of hearing these very words today) at 'i will'. minor panics all round about completing things.....our perennial fear/problem....'morning bell-copenhagen', nigel did some very nice pro-tooling on some complete gibberish that i played. phil did some drums downstairs on the track that has no name.

7 March 2000

heard a great story on the six o'clock news on R4. great in the sense that it reveals the true madness of one of our former prime ministers......the pm in question is of course maggie thatcher. ok.............so the spanish foreign minister was reported as saying today that 'lady' thatcher should undergo the same senility tests that senator 'butcher' pinochet underwent a couple of weeks ago. this was triggered by a particular event from last week; the aforementioned butcher of chile was being wisked away by a chilean airforce 707........the plane was apparently taxiing down the runway preparing to take-off when with great ceremony it was stopped in its tracks by a bearer of gifts from thatch herself. she wanted to give a 'leaving' present to the ex-dictator.......the gift in question was a plate commemorating sir francis drake and the english fleets' defeat of the spanish armada.........unbelievable.............or maybe not so, as it's entirely consistent with the train of thought that she's a pathetic anglophile, who never gave a fuck about the rights of individual human beings. and don't believe that bullshit that during the falklands war she went to the aid of the islanders..........nothing like a war to get a country behind you should you be faltering in opinion polls and likely to lose the next election.

apologies for the invective...it slips out occasionally, but when you read books like naomi klein's 'no logo' you can't help but feel that much of the mess we're in now is part of the leagacy of the thatcher-reagan years.

good work on 'up on the ladder' today...good drums and a much better arrangement. will return tomorrow to things i am 'qualified' to write about.

8 March 2000

left early......mixture of the lurgee doing the rounds at the moment....but also one of those days when the winter seems to have been too long and you just feel like a bag of shit. probably something to do with smoking more fags...gave up for almost a year and am gradually being wheened back on them. bollocks. this summer i'll cut down. the thing is it's true what they say about giving up ....you do feel so much better it's just that i have no will power......better to mope around at home than around here where good things are going on.

March 9, 2000

arrived at the studio and some brilliant stuff had been done last night. cozzie finished off his amazing bass thing on the song with no name......bass musos won't believe it. jonny did some cool guitar on 'up on the ladder'. after yesterday it was nice to do some playing ...the sun shone and it feels like spring is on its way. more things on 'up...'

12-16 March 2000

what a fucking week........sometimes i feel like the nature of this band is that we have to do things the hard way......to use a terrible football cliche......snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat................fucking hell ron, thank god all weeks aren't like this, otherwise it would be early baths.......not that i'm going to elaborate any further...........the only thing that need concern anyone is that the songs sound fucking ace on the whole......nicely diverse.

i'll write much more next week and apologies for the excessive use of the word fuck.

20 March 2000

there's a line drawn.....above which are the names of tracks finished bar mixing.....and below, those nearly completed. for the first time the tracks below and above the line are equal in number. that was the state of play at 5am friday morning. 'knives up' was complete. i was telling a mate over the w/end about 'knives out' and how it was started in copenhagen on 10/3/99.......some 373 days later we finally finished it.............a ridiculously long gestation period for any song..........naturally my mate thought that having taken so long on a piece of music it would be some sort of magnum opus, a kind of paranoid android to the power of ten..................... the song is probably the most straight ahead thing that we've done in years......and that might explain why we took so long on it. i'm a real believer that bands as they become more successful often lose the ability to do straight ahead stuff well...... the need to embellish tracks with melodies and sounds becomes imperative. and often in doing so the song loses its essence especially if it was written on acoustic guitar. but i think we've done alright on 'knives out'.........

thom's got a busy old week this week........most of the finishing touches are vocal things. i'm trying to get my head around some new software called logic which seems to be what all the right programmers are using...........the manual is about the thickness of a hardback edition of 'war and peace'.........he's singing along to 'fastrack'. he's hyperactive as well....it's 1.30am..fantastic..

16 April 2000

never again............that's it, no more..............not another drop of alcohol, in this case vintage cava, is going to pass my lips until next time............... i'm in the epicentre of one mutha of a hangover................ in fact the last time i felt like this i never drank gin again and that was 14 years ago.............it's evil stuff. my father rang to tell me i reminded him of himself when he used to drink a bit.........maybe hangovers are hereditary..........alcoholism probably is...........it was my birthday, we took the evening off and drank....and drank. i did a run down to majestic got the booze and issued strict instructions that no one was to leave until everything was finished.................and so it was......anyway enough of the fug.

we've been back a week after a two week layoff. finishing the large number of songs off is the priority.......and would you adam 'n eve it but we're so nearly there. nigel is booked into the studio on wednesday to mix and we start playing together/ rehearsing on wednesday week for the live shows, not knowing how the fuck we're going to put most of these songs over live.

so what i'm actually saying is that the recording part of this record will be finished in a couple of days......but you know if we're consistent in our behavioural patterns, then you might finally hear something in the autumn of '01............after arguments over track-listing, running orders, etc.........who'll be the first to suggest the quadruple album mixed in surroud sound? ....................might throw it in there myself to stir things up a bit.....the running order for an album is so important...... i don't think you have any idea how vital it is until you actually fuck it up which we did big time on the first record.....for 'ok computer' it was a nightmare, agendas had been set and at one time it was like bloody horse-trading............. "if you want 'let down' on the record then it only makes sense if 'electioneering' is on there too"......maybe it won't be such a torrid experience this time........somehow i don't think so and that's probably right anyway.

there's been a couple of articles recently in the press speculating what's up with us....the one in melody maker sent a journo down to oxford to snoop around......he or she was apparently outside each of our houses on a kind of indie 'stakeout'.... and the piece ultimately was very flattering, but you know this is a non-story............yes we go food shopping and fucking hell would you believe it we actually walk down the street in broad daylight........and what's more we've been known to sometimes break into a smile......the other was in the grauniad on friday, entitled 'why are we waiting?' again very nice and for the record, you won't have to wait too long now. but please don't waste column inches on mere speculation about when and what the album will be like.........all we've ever claimed is that the records will be different...... anyway if the truth be told we don't actually know. i've gone on way too long in this stream of alcohol induced consciousness and i must end before i write something even more stupid like offering that melody maker journo a handbags at dawn duel - see you at shotover a week on monday with your best louis vuitton..6am be there.

viva la lucha and good luck and respect to all the anti-imf and world bank protesters in washington this w/end, in fact go to thom's page and there are a couple of links to some relevant sites about what's going down.

8 June 2000

well, well, well....it's been a while .......so here's a short one to ease us all back into it....i've written quite a bit but never sent anything...........................it feels a bit like that letter you never dared send ....the one you've just written but you don't entirely trust it's very words......so no point inflicting those words on anyone else.......i'm sure we've all been there......of course i realise that that conflicts with the very nature of this 'diary', but it's all about confidence...some days are better than others. actually the truth is that at such a crucial time of the album........tracklisting, rehearsals, titles, arguments and full on fist fights......i probably haven't been at my most objective........there is however one cert in my mind....i fucking love this record now........and that's not me attempting to whip others into a kind of mass marketing aren't we great type frenzy...........it's the god's honest truth, governor..........but before i can write anymore i'm going to conflab with the others so that we can get our story straight.........here's an idea............... it looks as though alastair campbell has made a few errors in judgement over the handling of his pm's media engagements recently and might want to seek further employment elsewhere in an effort to save some of his rapidly dwindling credibilty......and maybe, just maybe he could add some 'spin' to us radiohead fellas...........that would be ace to see 'al' doing interviews for us............tight-lipped, stern and fending off the press .............."listen sonny if you ask this lot another question about why they always seem such a miserable bunch of bastards i will personally make sure you never hear another record of theirs again...........and for the record meeting people IS easy.................." .................... ah yes that would be just fine..........no more questions as to how you got the name of the band, or what you thought of creep now some 7 years after its release....actually to be honest the interviews done so far seem to be of a different calibre compared to last time round........so consequently they're not or at least have not been so far too much of an effort ...........but that might also have something to do with us and our new-found spirit of glasnost.prost.

will write something more at the w/end. we're off on tour on monday...................

11 June 2000

apologies for the last entry and the half-arsed attempt at some humour.......very embarassed re-reading it. that's what comes from having listened to the album twice in succession at half three in the morning....... and deciding to post something up...............so we leave tomorrow for france and the first show in arles on tuesday........very nice....will write some more from a tour bus in europe.

14 June 2000

we had to cancel the vaison show............so firstly apologies to everyone who had tickets and were looking forward to the gig......we'd even got the set list done with different new songs from last night and soundchecked them..........and what an amazing place.....a roman theatre like last night in arles. the freak rain was of course to blame.......the stage had a good three inches of the stuff from a twenty minute downpour and with another storm forecast for 9.30pm and alot of the equipment still damaged from last night's storm in arles the decision was made to pull the show.........somehow we got away with it last night but today just seemed as if it wasn't meant to be.......sorry again to those in vaison ..... so we're now en route to barcelona for the first show with a roof which may prove to be a fortunate thing judging by the lightning storms we're presently driving through....in spite of all this strange weather i have to say that it is so good to be on tour in southern europe.....quote of the tour so far from coz who said yesterday whilst dining amongst the roman ruins........"this is the best holiday i've ever been on!".......which may not sound very unusual... but within the context of radiohead touring again is something close to extraordinary.....see you in barcelona.

18 June 2000

it's sunday so it must be milan and the royal palace - the king of italy once lived here in this monza palace........... in fact we've just been shown the theatre where he reputedly threw huge orgies. it's quite a place. barcelona and last night's show in frejus were immense......barca started a little weirdly with us and the audience getting used to the teatro tivoli, the most un-rock'n roll of venues(extremely ornate however).......eveyone stayed pinned to their seats until we returned for an encore. our day off in barca consisted of eating and drinking vast amounts, broken up by a two hour siesta...ideal.....the only downer to the frejus gig was when i announced on stage that england had beaten germany in the football through a shearer goal.....bad move this was zidane country and very partisan to boot.....nevertheless a great audience. i picked italy in our euro 2000 sweepstake so as far as i'm concerned we're playing on home turf tonight....it's very warm.

26 June 2000

athens, greece arrived this morning to play the first of two gigs in the lycabetus theatre, which is apparently near the parthenon. no site of any greek antiquities as of yet, even from the top floor of the hotel.........this city seems huge and apparently we're situated in what a local described as a kind of no-man's land......lots of traffic outside the window......and parked cars everywhere which is explained by the fact that they operate a system here whereby car licences are issued for different days of the week in order to alleviate the serious traffic congestion ie you have a car and you're only allowed to drive that car on mondays, wednesdays, fridays and sundays...........what happens of course is that if you've got the dosh you then buy another car that you can drive on tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays...................mmmm.............we had an amazing time in florence..........played open-air, right in the heart of the old town at the piazza san croce..........it doesn't get better than this....went on and played in thessaloniki last night at the earth theatre..... a beautiful modern amphitheatre which had actually been dug out of the hill that overlooks that city.....a brilliant audience who exhibited great patience at hearing a set with nine new songs and a band which ignored repeated requets for creep(....understandable on their part, the requests that is, as this was our first visit) and pop is dead (..... cheeky bastards....)

getting a little worried about how easy it is to drink vast amounts of alcohol on tour...kick-started by the lovely laika people who apart from playing some great shows with us also happen to make the greatest margaritas outside of mexico itself......they are dangerous touring partners..

the new songs are working pretty well now in the set....'in limbo's still a little tricky but it's more than made up by the way 'the national anthem' and 'everything in its right place' is going ..........our crew by the way are doing an immense job working outside in incredible heats while we swan around like popstars..........

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2007-06-25T11:38:00.000-07:00

ED O'BRIENS BLOG

22 July 1999

23 July 1999

27 July 1999

28 July 1999

29 July 1999

30 July 1999

3 August 1999

4 August 1999

5 August 1999

6 August 1999

31 August 1999

1 September 1999

2 September 1999

3 September 1999

7 September 1999

8 September 1999

9 September 1999

27 September - 2 October 1999

Once we have done this then we might really get somewhere.

4 October 1999

5 October 1999

6 October 1999

7 October 1999

8 October 1999

12 October - 15 October 1999

"we’re smashing our heads against the wall"

"this week we have been mostly working on optimistic"

"it would be ideal to finish optimistic"

"lets just do the end and edit onto the original take"

"the drums for Rachael’s songs sound like nothing else"

"Jonny, how the fuck did you manage to get them sounding like that?"

"oh yeah"

"I’ve been doing this all afternoon and need to get out"

"I can’t play that on this guitar"

"gorgeous smell in here, Nigel"

"Eddy and I like the mach 3"

"I really like the late roll, the long one"

"It’s not as sleazy as the one before"

23 November 1999

1 December 1999

i've also included a couple of bits from the last six weeks.

if you haven't heard 'hunky dory' in a while i suggest you give it a spin - sounds pure genius to me in the bath.

2 December 1999

so hopefully this is now going to be a daily update.

3 December 1999

6 December 1999

7 December 1999

8 December 1999

9 December 1999

10 December 1999

13 December 1999

10 January - 19 January 2000

happy new year and many many thanks to all you lovely cardsenders.

did an interesting band version of 'bombers' which thom has attached to what i used to call 'the neil young' song...we may play it some time later this evening.

24 January - 25 January 2000

27 January - 28 January 2000

31 January 2000

1 February 2000

2 February 2000

3 February 2000

4 February 2000

7 February 2000

8 February 2000

9 February 2000

10 February 2000

21 February 2000

23 February 2000

24 February 2000

25 February 2000

28 February 2000

had a funny old meeting last friday..............definitely nursing a hangover from it today.................

29 February 2000

I froze up upstairs after Nigel has done a good mix of 'Egyptian song'. pick up on 'i will' downstairs.......jonny plays some cool organ on it. trying to do some rhythm stuff on it.

1 March 2000

6 March 2000

7 March 2000

8 March 2000

9 March 2000

12 - 16 March 2000

20 March 2000

16 April 2000

8 June 2000

11 June 2000

14 June 2000

18 June 2000

26 June 2000

2007-06-25T10:59:00.000-07:00

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2007-06-23T05:45:00.000-07:00

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2007-06-22T08:24:00.002-07:00

ED O'BRIEN

Music Gear/Equipment used

Guitars

Fender Stratocaster
Ed plays with an all-black electric Eric Clapton signature Fender Stratocaster Guitar. A Fernandez sustainer kit has been added to the guitars, It can be seen on tracks such as 'My Iron Lung' where he uses an Ebow as well as a wammy bar to create the unique sounds at the beginning of the song. It can also be seen during live performances of 'Lucky' amongst others. He uses silver and gold lace sensor pickups.

Rickenbacker 360
Ed can be seen using a rickenbacker 360, the fireglo colour, during live performances of songs such as 'no surprises' and 'Karma Police'. Ed also has a 12 string rickenback 360, distinguishable from the 6-string because of it's black colour. The 12 string can be seen during 'Airbag'.

Gibson ES
In the picture, Ed is using a red '67 Gibson ES 335 electric guitar, and can be seen on alot of the songs from 'Hail To The Thief'. Ed also uses a Gibson ES 330 during some of the bands earlier songs, such as 'Fake Plastic Trees'.

Fender Telecaster
A Fender Telecaster is another favourite of Ed's these days. It is a craem-ish coloured guitar with a white pickguard and can be seen during live performances of '2+2=5' and 'I Might Be Wrong'.

Homemade Guitar
One of Ed's favourite guitars is a guitar made by the bands technician Plank. It is a semi hollow body which resembles the rickenbacker shape, and has two dual red lace sensor pickups. It has a volume and a tone knob, a pickup selector, and a whammy bar. This guitar is used by Ed for alot of the older songs from 'The Bends' and 'OK Computer'.

2007-06-22T08:24:00.001-07:00

PHIL SELWAY

Music Gear/Equipment used

Drums

Premier Drums
Phil user Premier 'Signia' Drums with Zildjigan cymbals, as well as 5a zildjigan drum sticks.

2007-06-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

THOM YORKE
Music Equipment/Gear Used

Guitars

Fender Telecaster
Prior to the robbery of the bands equipment in Denver, Thom used a fender telecaster with a white pichguard. Nowadays, Thom uses all-black fender telecasters for most of the live songs (e.g. 'Just' and 'My Iron Lung'). They include a two-humbucker vintage '72 custom deluxe telecaster.

Thom's guitars have been highly modified by the bands technician Plank and have been rewired to keep eerything as direct as possible. The tone knob was remoed and replaced by a jack, to prevent the lead from falling out

Gibson SG
A firm favourite of Thom's, the Gibson SG was used in the Pablo Honey era, however these days its not seen at live concerts, but still seems to be used while in the studio

Fender Jazzmaster
Thom uses a black eletric Fender guitar with a white pickguard which can be seen on live performances of songs such as 'Street Spirit' and 'Airbag'

Rickenback 330
Thom can be seen using a standard Rickenback 330, the fireglo model, during live performances of songs including 'The Bends' and 'Lucky'.

Gibson ES-125T
Thom has recently started using this electris guitar, a Gibson ES-125T for live performance of songs containing light distortion. It can be seen during renditions of 'There There' while a slightly different model seems to be used for 'Go To Sleep'. Thom has also started using this guitar live for 'Street Spirit' instead of the Jazzmaster

2007-06-22T08:22:00.000-07:00

COLIN GREENWOOD
Music Gear/Equipment used

Guitar

Music Man Stingray

In the early days of the bands, Colin can be seen using a Music Man Stingray Bass Guitar.

Fender Precision bass
Colin uses a sunburst '72 Fender Precision bass guitar with a black pickguard, and a white '77 Fender Precision bass guitar with a black pickguard.

He plays using the guitars standard pickups, and Stadium Elite 45, 65, 85 and 105 strings.

2007-06-22T07:50:00.000-07:00

JONNY GREENWOOD

Music Gear/equipment used

GUITAR

Fender Telecaster

In the early days of Radiohead, Jonny used a telecaster plus. It had a dual red lace sensor pickup at the bridge, which acted like a humbucker, and a blue lace sensor pickup in the neck. A cut-off switch had been installed by the bands technician, Plank. However, the bands eqiupment was stolen in Denver in 1995, including Jonnys guitars, which were no longer produced. Jonny then started playing a standard telecaster from that moment on, which had been converted into a plus, using the same lace sensor pickups as well as the custom cut-off switch. Several other unknown modifications have also been made to jonnys telecaster by Plank.

Fender Starcaster

Jonny can also be seen using a Fender Starcaster live on such songs as 'Let Down', 'The Tourit', 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' but was predominantly used in the 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' recordings. The guitar consists of a two wide range double humbuckers and was in production from the late 70s until the early 80s. Its unknown whether any modifications were made to this guitar.

Guitar Effects/Pedals

Marshall Shredmaster

ProRo Cat

Digitech Whammy Wh-1

Demeter Tremelo

DOD 440 Envelope filter

Boss RV3 Digital reverb/delay

Electro Harmonix Small Stone

Boss LS2 line selector

Boss FV300H Volume control pedal

Boss SD-1 superdrive

Boss TU-12H Chromatic Tuner

Akai El Headrush

Mutronics Mutator

Space Echo RE-201

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Gear

Jonny Greenwood

Thom Yorke

Ed O'Brien

Colin Greenwood

Phil Selway

CONTACT

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Please contact me with feedback. Im the biggest fan out there, but Im only an amateur at this and the site has only been created recently, and most of it is still under construction. I have tried not to include any copyrighted information, ie I tried not to put up any live performances that are available for money elsewhere eg on dvd. All of the videos are embeded links to youtube where they are available for free, i have not uploaded any of them and so they are not my responsibility. If the copyrightowner of any of these videos or pictures are against them appearing on this blog, contact me and i will be happy to take them down.

I appreciate any feedback, if you could tell me what youd like to see different it would be great?! Or if theres anything in particular that you like?? Thanks

radioheadsite@hotmail.com

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BIOGRAPHY

It was in the early eighties when a young Thom Yorke joined Abington college schoolmates, Ed O Brien and Colin Greenwood in a punk band called 'TNT'. However, unhappy with this band, Thom left, soon to be followed by Ed and Colin. The trio formed a new band in 1987 with their friend Phil Selway, who was the year above them in school. They called the band On A Friday, referring to the day of the week when the band would practice.

Colin's younger brother, Jonny, really wanted to join the band. At first he was put on harmonica, and then keyboard. Eventually it became talented how talented a guitarist he was, and he soon became the bands lead guitarist.

In 1998, the band had their first gig in an Oxford pub called The Tavern. From 1988, the band took a back seat while all the members undertook university degrees. The band resrufaced in 1991 after Thom, Phil, Ed and Colin graduated from their respective courses. Since Jonny was two years younger than the others, he decided to quit university to put all his time into the band. The band presented a tape of their songs to Byrce Edge and Chris Hufford at courtyard studios. After a couple of tapes had been presented, they recorded their first demo, Manic Hedgehog. The band got another gig in the Tavern, and also appeared on the cover of the Oxford-based 'Curfew' magazine. The band were building up a reputation for themselves, and after a lot of interest from various record companies, they signed with EMI in 1992.

However, one thing had to be settled first.. the band name. 'On A Friday' was widely criticised by many, so the band decided to rename themselves after a song from the album 'True Stories' by Talking heads... 'Radio Head'

The band released the Drill EP in 1992, with the main song being 'Prove Yourself', however the EP failed to make an impression on the UK singles chart.. it only reached 101.

PABLO HONEY

While jamming in the studio one day, the band came up with a song which was described as being their "Scott Walker Song". While at first it was thought by others that this was a cover, it soon emerged that it was in fact their own composition... 'Creep'.

Creep was immensely popular with everyone who heard it, and this song gave them the opportunity to record their first album, Pablo Honey. 'Creep' was released in September 1992 but only reached #78 in the UK chart. 'Pablo Honey' was released the following February, along with the single 'Anyone Can Play Guitar'.

The band weren't being well received by the British public, however unbeknown to the band, their work was causing ripples on the other side of the Atlantic. 'Live 105' made Pablo Honey their album of the year, and news began to spread around America. Despite Creep not doing noticeabely well in the US charts, the album went gold. Creep was re-released in the UK charts exactly a year later, and reached #7. Radiohead, and in particular 'Creep' had just become a worldwide hit.

THE BENDS

In 1994 the band returned to the studio to record The Bends, their second album. Relatively unhappy wit their first album, they decided to hire John Leckie in order to escape from the 'one record wonder' label that Creep had given them. However, when recording the bends, the band felt smothered by the success of Creep and the weight of expectation to produce another such hit. According to Leckie, either 'Sulk', 'The Bends', 'Nice Dream' or 'Just' was going to be the song chosen to be the long awaited follow up of Creep, a single which would hopefully be a hit both sides of the Atlantic.

The band released My Iron Lung EP, which served as a transitional song between the simple Pablo Honey and the more complex The Bends, an album in which a lot of the nirvana-inspired, raucous rock riffs were ditched, being replaced with acoustic guitars overlaid by electric guitar effects. The single only reached a disappointing number 23 in the charts. Frustrated with the recording sessions, the band decided to take to the road yet again. They toured Australia and the Far East, where they arranged and experimented with the new songs in front of a live audience. When the band returned to the UK, the Bends was completed within a fortnight.

OK COMPUTER

Next up for Radiohead was their third album. They had liked the way in which Black Star and Lucky (a song recorded for the charity album Help) had been recorded, they asked sound Engineer Nigel Godrich to build them a portable studio. They converted an old apple shed near their Oxford homes, Canned Applause, into a recording studio. They began recording in the studio in July 1996. Despite the experimental, unconventional surroundings, four of the tracks recorded there made it onto the bands third album. After the lessons learned from the recording of The Bends, the band decided to try out their new material on the road. That autumn, they played a 13-date tour with Alanis Morissette.

They eventually left their Canned Applause studio to move to St. Catherine's Court, a mansion owned by actress Jane Seymour, and finish OK Computer. The album was recorded without any real deadlines, they were given complete freedom. They made use of the different atmospheres throughout the house. Their alienation from the outside enabled them to record spontaneously, a number of the songs were recorded live, and Let Down was recorded at 3am in the morning. The following Christmas, the record was completed. OK Computer was released in June 1997, The songs 'Airbag', 'Paranoid Android', 'Karma Police' and 'No Surprises' were released as singles. However, the album reached #1 in the charts and was met with rave reviews and it is a critically acclaimed piece of work, unlike anything most people have heard before.

The album constantly finished top of 'top 100 best albums ever' lists etc. That summer of 1997, they played Glastonbury, which many believe is the greatest performance/concert by an act ever. OK Computer had made Radiohead the greatest and the biggest band in the world.

After the release of OK Computer, The band went on their "Against Demons World Tour". Director Grant Lee followed the band during this hectic time and recorded the documentary 'Meeting New People Is Easy'.

KID A

The OK Computer tour ended mid 1998. The band members were exhausted and were on the verge of splitting up. They spent most of the next year away from the public eye, in need of a break from Radiohead. In that time Thom Yorke battled depression, citing Michael Stipe as a force who enabled him to come through this bad time of his life. Thom suffered severe writers block and every time he took up his guitar, he is quoted as saying that "I just got the horrors!". The band hit the studio yet again in mid 1999 to record their fifth album, Kid A. At first there were disagreements about what musical direction the band should head in, but eventually they all became to an agreement. In the new album, guitars would be replaced by synthesizers and other electronic effects.

No singles were released from the album, and it was practically not promoted at all. They only did a handful of concerts on the run up to its release. Songs from the whole album were released onto the file sharing website 'Napster' three months before the release. The record company were furious that this would destroy record sales. However, begged the question whether file sharing programs such of Napster increase record sales... because the album reached #1 in America, the bands highest ever chart enrty position. The record was released in October 2000 and was met with mixed reviews. Even though it was a success in the charts, many accused it of deliberately not being radio-friendly. It divided Radiohead's fan base. Many were disappointed about the lack of guitars, while many see it as being their best album to date.

AMNESIAC

The sixth studio album, Amnesiac, consisted of many of the songs that didn't make it onto Kid A. It was recorded with the bands long time producer Nigel Godrich and was released in June 2001. The two albums are similar in style, and the song Morning Bell appears on both album, albeit different versions. While Amnesiac was received very well and outsold Kid A, it is not considered by fans as being as good as Kid A. 'Pyramid song' and 'Knives Out' were released as singles.

Initially the band wanted to release 'I Might Be Wrong' as a single, however they decided to release an 8 song live album, 'I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings' which included the new song 'True Love Waits'.

HAIL TO THE THIEF

Prior to recording their sixth studio album, Hail To Te Thief, the band decided to experiment their new material on the road, akin to the The Bends era. They toured around Portugal and Spain in summer 2002. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, and while it didnt contain as much as guitars as their first albums, there was less experimentation. Many believe that the title is a reference to the 2000 U.S. presidential election, something which the band denies.

A copy of the album was stolen a couple of months before its release date and leaked onto the internet. However, it was released on June 7th 2004, and the album still went on to outsell both Amnesiac and Kid A, and was followed by a year long world tour. Hail To The Thief was met with great reviews from both the fans and the critics. The album was the Radiohead's most guitar driven composition in a long time, and the band seemed at peace with themselves, proud of their record. This self-contentedness was evident at their live concerts, where the band would be jumping around onstage, smiling, interacting with the crowd, talking to the crowd. And for the first time in a long time, they were playing their 'hits' live.

Links

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Official Radiohead website

Click on the following link to the official Radiohead website to get news on the latest 7th Radiohead album as well as news and dates of upcoming Radiohead tours

Live Radiohead mp3's
Click on the following link to a non profit organisation, where visitors can download and exchange live radiohead mp3s. Includes the infamous glastonbury 97 radiohead performance download

Green Plastic
Click on this link to one of the best unofficial Radiohead websites on the internet

At Ease Web
Click on this link to go to another of the great unofficial Radiohead websites on the internet

Radiohead Korea
Radiohead Korea Fansite

Idioteque
Radiohead Korea Fansite

Band Members

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Thom Yorke

Jonny Greenwood

Ed O'Brien

Colin Greenwood

Phil Selway

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PHIL SELWAY

Phil's Gear

Phil was born in Abington, England on the 23rd of May, 1967. Phil is the eldest member of Radiohead, and was a year ahead of his fellow bandmates in school.

Phil studied English & History in Liverpool Polytechnic.

Phil is married to Cait and has three kids, Leo, Jamie and patrick to whom 'Kid A', 'Amnesiac' and 'Hail To The Thief' are dedicated respectively.

Outside of Radiohead, Phil has appeared in the 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' film, appearing in the band 'The Weird Sisters' along with bandmate Jonny Greenwood and pulp's Jarvis Cocker

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ED O'BRIEN

Ed's Gear

Ed was born in Oxford, England on the 15th of April, 1968. Ed attended Abington Boys School with fellow bandmates.

Ed was asked to join 'On A Friday' by Thom because of his resemblance of Morrissey.

Ed is the 'rythem' guitarist, but is an integral part in creating Radioheads unique sound. He is infamous for his guitar effect pedals. He fills in as the bands lead guitarist when Jonny is playing some other instrument.

He made an online diary during the 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' recordings, keeping fans up to date with the bands progress.

Ed stands at a large 6'5. He is in a long term relationship, and believes that cannabis should be legalised.

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COLIN GREENWOOD

Colin's Gear

Colin Charles Greenwood was born in Oxford, England on the 26th June, 1969. Colin is the bass player in Radiohead, who's knickname is 'Coz'.

Colin is the older brother of Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood. He is married to Molly McGrann, and has two children.

Colin Greenwood attended Abington Boys School, and started a band there with fellow pupil Thom Yorke. Phil Selway and Ed O'Brien were then also recruited. They were initially called 'On A Friday'.

Colin attended Cambridge University, where he studied English Literature. After graduating, he devoted all his time to Radiohead.

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THOM YORKE

Thom's Gear

Thomas Edward Yorke was born on the 7th of October, 1968 in Wellingborough, England.

Thom lives with his long term girlfriend Rachel, and has two children, Noah and Agnes. The albm 'Amnesiac' was dedicated to Noah, while Thoms solo ablum, 'The Eraser' was dedicated to Agnes.

Thom was born with his left eye paralysed and underwent several operations to fix it, the last of which left him with the permanently drooping eyelid.

Thom received his first guitar aged seven, and was in a band, 'TNT' when attending Abington boys school. He formed the band 'On a Friday' with fellow pupils Colin Greenwood and Ed O'Brien. They were later joined by Phil Selway and Colin's younger brother, Jonny.

Thom studied English & Art in Exter University before pursueing a career with Radiohead.

Thom is a multi-instrumentalist, he plays the guitar, Keyboard and is also able to play the drums and the bass.

Many believe that Thom is one of the best singer around, his distinctive falsetto and his abitity to hit ans sustain high notes sets him apart from the rest.

Thom is mainly responsible for all the Radiohead songs, he creates the bones of the song. He writes (most of) the lyrics and the melodies, and the others then arrange the song.

In recent years, Thom has become more interested in computer generated electronic music, and in 2006 released his debut solo album, 'The Eraser'.

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JONNY GREENWOOD

Jonny's Gear

Jonathan 'Jonny' Richard Guy Greenwood was born in Oxford, England on the 5th of November, 1971.

He is married to Sharona, and has two kids, Tamir and Omri.

He attended Abington Boys School, where he joined the band 'On a Friday' with his elder brother Colin Greenwood. At first his role was to play harmonica, then he moved to the band's keyboardist and eventually the lead guitarist.

He went to Oxford Polytechnic to study Psychology. However, since he was the youngest in the band, the others all graduated two yeard before him, meaning he had to drop out of university mid-degree to persue a career in music.

Jonny is a very aggressive guitar player, and as a result of this he had to visit a doctor after 'The Bends' because of pains in his arm. He was diagnosed with repetitive strain injury and was told to wear a brace on his arm. The arm brace became a trade mark of his, although he doesnt seem to wear it anymore.

Many credit Jonny as being one of the most original and inspirational musicians around, usually Thom will come up with the bones of a song, and Jonny then arranges it, giving it its distinct sound.

Jonny is a multi-instrumentalist - he plays guitar, keyboard, harmonica, organ, synthesizer and the xylophone amongt many, many others. He dislikes the reverence given to guitars, and is just as happy to play another instrument.

Songs & Lyrics

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Select an album:

Pablo Honey

The Bends

OK Computer

Kid A

Amnesiac

Hail To The Thief

Hail To The Thief

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2 + 2 = 5
Sit Down, Stand Up
Sail To The Moon
Backdrifts
Go To Sleep
Where I End And You Begin
We Suck Young Blood
The Gloaming
There There
I Will
A Punchup At A Wedding
Myxomatosis
Scatterbrain
Wolf At The Door

WOLF AT THE DOOR

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'Wolf at The Door' live on MTV in Japan

drag him out the window
dragging out your dead
singing i miss you
snakes and ladders
flip the lid
out pops the cracker
smacks you in the head
knifes you in the neck
kicks you in the teeth
steel toe caps
takes all your credit cards
step up get the gunge
get the eggs
get the flan in the face
the flan in the face
the flan in the face
dance you fucker dance you fucker
don't you dare
don't you dare
don't you flan in the face
take it with the love its given
take it with a pinch of salt
take it to the taxman
let me back let me back
i promise to be good
don't look in the mirror
at the face you don't recognize
help me call the doctor
put me inside
put me inside
put me inside
put me inside
put me inside

i keep the wolf from the door
but he calls me up
calls me on the phone
tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
steal all my children
if i don't pay the ransom
but i'll never see him again
if i squeal to the cops

walking like a giant crane and
with my x ray eyes i strip you naked
in a tight little world and are you on the list?
stepford wives who are we to complain?
investments and dealers investments and dealers
cold wives and mistresses.
cold wives and sunday papers.
city boys in 1st class
don't know we're born
just know someone else is gonna come and clean it up
born and raised for the job
oh I wish you'd get up
go over get up go over and turn this tape off.

i keep the wolf from the door
but he calls me up
calls me on the phone
tells me all the ways that hes gonna mess me up
steal all my children
if i don't pay the ransom
but i'll never see him again
if i squeal to the cops

SCATTERBRAIN

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Scatterbrain Tab

I'm walking out in a force ten gale.
birds thrown around, bullets for hail.
the roof is pulling off by its fingernails.
your voice is rapping on my window sill

yesterday's headlines blown by the wind.
yesterday's people end up scatterbrain.
then any fool can easy pick a hole. (I only wish I could fall in)
a moving target in a firing range.

somewhere I'm not
scatterbrain.
somewhere I'm not
scatterbrain.
lightning fuse
powercut.
scatterbrain

MYXOMATOSIS

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the mongrel cat came home
holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
to all his new found friends
he said "i been where i liked
i slept with who i liked
she ate me up for breakfast
and screwed me in a vice

and now i don't know why
i feel so tongue-tied

i sat in the cupboard
and wrote it down in neat
they were cheering and waving
cheering and waving
twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis
but it got edited fucked up
strangled, beaten up
used as a photo in Time magazine
buried in a burning black hole in Devon

i don’t know why
i feel so tongue-tied

don’t know why
i feel so skinned alive.

My thoughts are misguided and a little naive
I twitch and i salivate like with myxomatosis
you should put me in a home or you should put me down
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis

now no one likes a smart arse but we all like stars
that wasn't my intention, I did it for a reason
it must have got mixed up
strangled, beaten up
i got myxomatosis
i got myxomatosis

i don’t know why
i feel so tongue-tied

A PUNCHUP AT A WEDDING

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'A Punchup at a Wedding' Live Arte's Music Planet 2nite

A Punchup at a Wedding Tab

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
i don't know why you bother
nothing's ever good enough for you
i was there and it wasn't like that
you came here just to start a fight

you had to piss on our parade
you had to shred our big day
you had to ruin it for all concerned
in a drunken punchup at a wedding.

hypocrite opportunist
don't infect me with your poison
a bully in a china shop
when i turn round stay frozen to the spot.

you had to piss on our parade
you had to shred our big day
you had to ruin it for all concerned
in a drunken punchup at a wedding.

the pointless snide remarks
of hammerheaded sharks
the pot will call the kettle black

in a drunken punchup at a wedding.
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

I WILL

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'I Will' live

I Will Tab

I will
lay me down
in a bunker
underground

I won't let this happen to my children
meet the real world coming out of your shell
With white elephants
sitting ducks
I will
rise up

Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes

THERE THERE

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Great performance of 'There There' live at Glastonbury 2003

There There Tab

In pitch dark i go walking in your landscape.
broken branches trip me as i speak.
just because you feel it doesnt mean it's there.
just because you feel it doesnt mean it's there.

there's always a siren
singing you to shipwreck.
(don't reach out, don't reach out)
steer away from these rocks
we'd be a walking disaster.
(don't reach out, don't reach out)

just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there.
(there's someone on your shoulder)
just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there.
(there's someone on your shoulder)

there there

why so green and lonely?
heaven sent you to me.

we are accidents
waiting waiting to happen.

we are accidents
waiting waiting to happen.

THE GLOAMING

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'The Gloaming' live in Japan

The Gloaming Tab

Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour

Murderers you're murderers
We are not the same as you

Genie let out the bottle
Funny haha funny how

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
With your breathing

They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside

To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells

Should be ringing

This is the gloaming

WE SUCK YOUNG BLOOD

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'We Suck Young Blood'

We Suck Young Blood Tab

are you hungry?
are you sick?
are you begging for a break?

are you sweet?
are you fresh?
are you strung up by the wrists?

we want the young blood

are you fracturing?
are you torn at the seams?
would you do anything?
flea-bitten? motheaten?

we suck young blood
we suck young blood

won't let the creeping ivy
won't let the nervous bury me
our veins are thin
our rivers poisoned

we want the sweet meats
we want the young blood

WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN

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'Where I End and You Begin' live at Eurokennes

Where I End and You Begin Tab

There's a gap in between
There's a gap where we meet
where i end and you begin

and i'm sorry for us
the dinosaurs roam the earth
the sky turns green
where i end and you begin

I am up in the clouds
I am up in the clouds
and i can't and i can't come down

I can watch but not take part
where i end and where you start
where you, you left me alone
you left me alone.

X' will mark the place
like parting the waves
like a house falling in the sea.

I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive

There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies

GO TO SLEEP

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'Go To Sleep' live

Go To Sleep Tab

Something for the rag and bone man
"Over my dead body"
Something big is gonna happen
"Over my dead body"

Someone's son or someone's daughter
"Over my dead body"
This is how I end up getting sucked in
"Over my dead body"

I'm gonna go to sleep
Let this wash all over me

We don't wanna wake monster taking over
"Tiptoe round tie him down"
We don't want the loonies taking over
"Tiptoe round tie them down"

May pretty horses
Come to you
As you sleep
I'm gonna go to sleep
Let this wash
All over me

BACKDRIFTS

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'Backdrifts' live at Camden

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell, we've got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on the brink
Oh honey sweet
So full of sleep
I'm backsliding

You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do

All evidence has been buried
All tapes have been erased
But your footsteps give you away
So you're backtracking

Ah ah ah
You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
You fell into our, ah
You fell into a

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell, we've got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

SAIL TO THE MOON

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'Sail To The Moon' live in Japan

Sail To The Moon Tab

I sucked the moon
I spoke too soon
And how much did it cost?
I was dropped from moonbeams
And sailed on shooting stars

Maybe you'll
Be president
But know right from wrong
Or in the flood
You'll build an Ark
And sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail to the moon

SIT DOWN, STAND UP

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'Sit Down, Stand Up' live

Sit Down, Stand Up Tab

Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up

Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Anytime (sit down)
Anytime (stand up)

Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up

We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)
We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)
Anytime
Anytime

Stand up, sit down

The rain drops (repeated)

2 + 2 = 5

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'2 + 2 = 5' live at Glastonbury '03

2+2=5 Tab

Are you such a dreamer?
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two & two always
makes up five

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag & hide
January has April's showers
And two & two always
makes up five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream & you
can shout
It is too late now
Because

You have not been
paying attention

I try to sing along
I get it all wrong
Ezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee
NOT
I swat em like flies but
Like flies the burgers
Keep coming back
NOT
Maybe not
"All hail to the thief"
"But I am not!"
"Don't question my authority
or put me in the dock"
Cozimnot!
Go & tell the king that
The sky is falling in
When it's not
Maybe not.

(ahh diddums.)

Amnesiac

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Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box
Pyramid Song
Pull / Pulk Revolving Doors
You And Whose Army?
I Might Be Wrong
Knives Out
Amnesiac / Morning Bell
Dollars And Cents
Hunting Bears
Like Spinnign Plates
Life In A Glass House

LIFE IN A GLASS HOUSE

2007-06-16T09:08:00.001-07:00

'Life in a Glasshouse' live on the bbc

Once again, I'm in trouble with my only friend
She is papering the window panes
She is putting on a smile
Living in a glass house

Once again, packed like frozen food and battery hens
Think of all the starving millions
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones
Your royal highnesses

Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat
Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
But someone's listening in.

Once again, we are hungry for a lynching
That's a strange mistake to make
You should turn the other cheek
Living in a glass house

Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat
Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
But someone's listening in.

LIKE SPINNING PLATES

2007-06-16T09:07:00.000-07:00

'Like Spinning Plates' live on Musique Plus Montreal

Like Spinning Plates Tab

While you make pretty speeches,
I'm being cut to shreds.
You feed me to the lions,
a delicate balance

When this just feels like spinning plates.
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land.
And this just feels like spinning plates
Our bodies floating down the muddy river.

HUNTING BEARS

2007-06-16T09:06:00.002-07:00

Hunting Bears Tab

DOLLARS AND CENTS

2007-06-16T09:06:00.001-07:00

'Dollars and Cents' live at Pinkpop 2001

Dollars and Cents Tab

There are better things to talk about
Be constructive
Bear witness
We can use
Be constructive
With yer blues
Even he turn the water blues
Even you turn the water green

Why don't you quiet down
Why don't you quiet down
Why don't you quiet down
Why don't you quiet down

????
he never gos and he never stays
????
Better in times when I could stand back

All over the neighbors
Maybe if I can see out here
All over the clovers
All over the clovers
Let me out of here
Alloverallovelloverallover

(Why don't you quiet down)
(Why don't you quiet down)
(Why don't you quiet down)
(Why don't you quiet down)
we are the DOLLARS & CENTS
and the PoUNDS and Pence
the MARK and the YEN
We are going to crack your little souls
We are going to crack your little souls

we are the DOLLARS & CENTS
and the PoUNDS and Pence
and the PoUNDS and Pence
We are going to crack your little souls
We are going to crack your little souls

AMNESIAC / MORNING BELL

2007-06-16T09:05:00.001-07:00

The morning bell
The morning bell
Light another candle and
Release me
Release me

You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Howling down the chimney
Release me
Release me
Please
Release me
Release me

Where'd you park the car
Where'd you park the car
Clothes are on the lawn with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill
Round and round and round

Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half

KNIVES OUT

2007-06-16T09:04:00.002-07:00

'Knives Out' performed live at Le Reservoir

Knives Out Tab

I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look into my eyes
I'm not coming back

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth

If you'd been a dog
They would have drowned you at birth

Look into my eyes
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth

So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

I want you to know
He's not coming back
He's bloated and frozen
Still there's no point in letting it go to waste

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

I MIGHT BE WRONG

2007-06-16T09:04:00.001-07:00

'I Might be Wrong' live at Le Reservoir

I Might Be Wrong Tab

I might be wrong
I might be wrong
I could have sworn
I saw a light coming home

I used to think
I used to think
There is no future left at all
I used to think

Open up, begin again
Let's go down the waterfall
Think about the good times and
Never look back
Never look back

What would I do?
What would I do?
If I did not have you?

Open up and let me in
Let's go down the waterfall
Have ourselves a good time
It's nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all

YOU AND WHOSE ARMY?

2007-06-16T09:03:00.000-07:00

'You and Whose Army?' live

You And Whose Army? Tab

Come on, come on
You think you drive me crazy
Come on, come on
You and whose army?
You and your cronies
Come on, come on
Holy Roman empire
Come on if you think
Come on if you think
You can take us on
You can take us on

You and whose army?
You and your cronies

You forget so easy
We ride tonight
Ghost Horses

PULL/PULK REVOLVING DOORS

2007-06-16T09:02:00.002-07:00

There are barn doors
And there are revolving doors
Doors in the rudders of big ships
And there are revolving doors
There are doors that open by themselves
There are sliding doors
And there are secret doors
There are doors that lock
And doors that don't
There are doors that let you in and out
But never open
And there are trapdoors
That you can't come back from

PYRAMID SONG

2007-06-16T09:02:00.001-07:00

'Pyramid song' live at Rockpalast

Pyramid Song Tab

I jumped in the river and what did I see?
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

i jumped in the river
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

PACKT LIKE SARDINES IN A CRUSHED TIN BOX

2007-06-16T09:01:00.001-07:00

'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box'

After years of waiting
Nothing came
As your life flashed before your eyes
You realize

I'm a reasonable man
get off, get off, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case

After years of waiting

After years of waiting
Nothing came
And you realize your looking, looking in the wrong place

I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

After years of waiting

I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

Kid A

2007-06-16T08:44:00.000-07:00

Everything In Its Right Place

Kid A
The National Anthem
How To Disappear Completely

Treefingers

Optimistic

In Limbo
Idioteque
Morning Bell
Motion Picture Soundtrack

MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

2007-06-16T08:43:00.001-07:00

'Motion Picture Soundtrack' live

Motion Picture Soundtrack Tab

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get back where I belong

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

I will see you in the next life

MORNING BELL

2007-06-16T08:42:00.001-07:00

'Morning Bell' live performance

Morning Bell Tab

The morning bell
The morning bell
Light another candle and
Release me
Release me

You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Howling down the chimney
Release me
Release me
Please
Release me
Release me

Where'd you park the car
Where'd you park the car
Clothes are on the lawn with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill
Round and round and round

Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half

I wanted to tell you but you never listened
You never understand
I wanted to tell you but you never listened
You never understand
Cos I'm walking walking walking...

The lights are on but nobody's home
Everybody wants to be a
The lights are on but nobody's home
Everybody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking...

The lights are on but nobody's at home
Everybody wants to be a
Everyone wants to be a friend
Nobody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking...

IDIOTEQUE

2007-06-16T08:41:00.000-07:00

'Idioteque' live

Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who's in a bunker?
Who's in a bunker?
I have seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen it
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I'm alllowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the fire
Throw it on the

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles skwrking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money run
Take the money run
Take the money

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed
Everything all of the time

The first of the children

IN LIMBO

2007-06-16T08:40:00.002-07:00

'In Limbo' live at Pinkpop 2001

In Limbo Tab

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read

Being the first in the Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read

I'm on your side
Nowhere to hide
Trapdoors that open
I spiral down

You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world

I'm lost at sea
Don't bother me
I've lost my way
I've lost my way

You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
You're living in a fantasy world
This beautiful world

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read

OPTIMISTIC

2007-06-16T08:40:00.001-07:00

Optimistic Tab

Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

I'd really like to help you, man
I'd really like to help you, man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Floating around on a prison ship

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth
Dinosaurs roaming the Earth

TREEFINGERS

2007-06-16T08:39:00.003-07:00

HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY

2007-06-16T08:39:00.001-07:00

'How To Disappear Completely'

How To Disappear Completely Tab

That there
That's not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah it's gone
And I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

2007-06-16T08:38:00.002-07:00

'The National Anthem' live at V festival

Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
It's holding on
It's holding on

Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on

It's holding on
It's holding on
It's holding on

KID A

2007-06-16T08:38:00.001-07:00

'Kid A' live in France

I slip away
I slipped on a little white lie

We've got heads on sticks
You've got ventriloquists
We've got heads on sticks
You've got ventriloquists

Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed

The rats and children follow me out of town
The rats and children follow me out of their homes
Come on Kids

EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE

2007-06-16T08:36:00.000-07:00

'Everything in it's Right place' live

Everything In Its Right Place Tab

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you tried to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say

Everything in its right place...

OK Computer

2007-06-16T07:41:00.002-07:00

Airbag
Paranoid Android
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Exit Music (For a Film)
Let Down
Karma Police
Fitter Happier
Electioneering
Climbing Up The Walls
No Surprises
Lucky
The Tourist

THE TOURIST

2007-06-16T07:41:00.001-07:00

Live performance of 'The Tourist'

The Tourist Tab

It barks at no-one else but me,
like it's seen a ghost.
I guess it's seen the sparks a-flowin,
no-one else would know.

Hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.

Sometimes I get overcharged,
that's when you see sparks.
They ask me where the hell I'm going?
At a 1000 feet per second,

hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.

Hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.

LUCKY

2007-06-16T07:40:00.003-07:00

'Lucky' live at Glastonbury '03

Lucky Tab

I'm on a roll,
I'm on a roll this time
I feel my luck could change.

Kill me Sarah,
kill me again with love,
it's gonna be a glorious day.

Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
I'm your superhero,
we are standing on the edge.

The head of state has called for me by name
but I don't have time for him.
It's gonna be a glorious day!
I feel my luck could change.

Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
I'm your superhero,
we are standing on the edge.
We are standing on the edge.

NO SURPRISES

2007-06-16T07:40:00.001-07:00

'No Surprises' live at V festival '06

No Surprises Tab

A heart that's full up like a landfill,
a job that slowly kills you,
bruises that won't heal.
You look so tired-unhappy,
bring down the government,
they don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take a quiet life,
a handshake of carbon monoxide,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
Silent silence.

This is my final fit,
my final bellyache,

with no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

Such a pretty house
and such a pretty garden.

No alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises,
no alarms and no surprises please.

CLIMBING UP THE WALLS

2007-06-16T07:39:00.002-07:00

Fantastic performance of 'Climbing Up The Walls' at Glastonbury '03

Climbing Up The Walls Tab

I am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside
You'll only see my reflection

It's always best when the light is off
I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
You know we're friends till we die

And either way you turn
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

It's always best when the light is off
It's always better on the outside
Fifteen blows to the back of your head
Fifteen blows to your mind

So lock the kids up safe tonight
Put the eyes in the cupboard
I've got the smell of a local man
Who's got the loneliest feeling

That either way he turns
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there

Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls

ELECTIONEERING

2007-06-16T07:39:00.001-07:00

'Electioneering' live at pinkpop '96 (not the best version)

Electioneering Tab

I will stop, I will stop at nothing.
Say the right things when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote.

When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
Ha ha ha

Riot shields, voodoo economics,
it's just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F.
I trust I can rely on your vote.

When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.

FITTER HAPPIER

2007-06-16T07:38:00.004-07:00

Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that's driven into frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

KARMA POLICE

2007-06-16T07:38:00.003-07:00

'Karma Police' live at Glastonbury

Karma Police Tab

Karma police
arrest this man,
he talks in maths,
he buzzes like a fridge,
he's like a detuned radio.

Karma police
arrest this girl,
her Hitler hairdo
is making me feel ill
and we have crashed her party.

This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.

Karma police
I've given all I can,
it's not enough,
I've given all I can
but we're still on the payroll.

This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.

For a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself.
Phew, for a minute there,
I lost myself, I lost myself.

For a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself.
Phew, for a minute there,
I lost myself, I lost myself.

LET DOWN

2007-06-16T07:38:00.001-07:00

'Let Down' performed at the Hammertein Ballroom '97

Let Down Tab

Transport, motorways and tramlines,
starting and then stopping,
taking off and landing,
the emptiest of feelings,
disappointed people, clinging on to bottles,
and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing.

Let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going,
don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel.
One day, I'm gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical and

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Let down,
Let down,
Let down.

You know, you know where you are with,
you know where you are with,
floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
and one day, I'm gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction, [You know where you are,]
hysterical and useless [you know where you are,]
hysterical and [you know where you are,]

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

EXIT MUSIC (FOR A FILM)

2007-06-16T07:37:00.000-07:00

'Exit Music' live at Belfort '97

Exit Music Tab

Wake from your sleep,
the drying of your tears,
Today we escape, we escape.

Pack and get dressed
before your father hears us,
before all hell breaks loose.

Breathe, keep breathing,
don't lose your nerve.
Breathe, keep breathing,
I can't do this alone.

Sing us a song,
a song to keep us warm,
there's such a chill, such a chill.

And you can laugh a spineless laugh,
we hope your rules and wisdom choke you.

And now we are one
in everlasting peace,

we hope that you choke, that you choke,
we hope that you choke, that you choke,
we hope that you choke, that you choke.

SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK ALIEN

2007-06-16T07:36:00.002-07:00

Rare live performance of 'Subterranean Homesick Alien'

Subterranean Homesick Alien Tab

The breath of the morning
I keep forgetting.
The smell of the warm summer air.

I live in a town
where you can't smell a thing,
you watch your feet
for cracks in the pavement.

Up above
aliens hover
making home movies
for the folks back home,

of all these weird creatures
who lock up their spirits,
drill holes in themselves
and live for their secrets.

They're all uptight, uptight,
uptight, uptight,
uptight, uptight.

I wish that they'd sweep down in a country lane,
late at night when I'm driving.
Take me on board their beautiful ship,
show me the world as I'd love to see it.

I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me,
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely.
I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life.
They'd shut me away.
But I'd be alright, alright,
I'd be alright,
I'm alright.

I'm just uptight, uptight,
uptight, uptight,
uptight, uptight,
uptight, uptight,
uptight.

PARANOID ANDROID

2007-06-16T07:36:00.001-07:00

'Paranoid Android' performed at Glastonbury '03

Paranoid Android Tab

Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember
You don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don't you remember my name?
I guess he does....

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height... height...
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height... height...
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

That's it, sir
You're leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children, God loves his children, yeah!

AIRBAG

2007-06-16T07:35:00.000-07:00

'Airbag' live at Eurockennes '97

Airbag Tab

In the next world war
in a jack knifed juggernaut,
I am born again.

In the neon sign,
scrolling up and down,
I am born again.

In an interstellar burst,
I am back to save the universe.

In a deep deep sleep,
of the innocent,
I am born again.

In a fast German car,
I'm amazed that I survived,
an airbag saved my life.

In an interstellar burst,
I am back to save the universe.

In an interstellar burst,
I am back to save the universe.

In an interstellar burst,
I am back to save the universe.

The Bends

2007-06-16T07:21:00.001-07:00

Planet Telex

The Bends
High And Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Bones
Nice Dream
Just
My Iron Lung
Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
Black Star
Sulk
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

STREET SPIRIT (FADE OUT)

2007-06-16T07:20:00.003-07:00

Amazing version of 'Street Spirit' at Glastonbury '97

Street Spirit Tab

Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out

This machine will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love.

SULK

2007-06-16T07:20:00.001-07:00

Sulk Tab

You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back
You just sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl
You are so pretty when you're on your knees
Disinfected, eager to please

Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn
God rest your soul
When the loving comes and we've already gone
Just like your dad, you'll never change

Each time it comes it eats me alive
I try to behave but it eats me alive
So I declare a holiday
Fall asleep, Drift away

Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn
God rest your soul
When the loving comes and we've already gone
Just like your dad, you'll never change

Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn
God rest your soul
When the loving comes and we've already gone
Just like your dad, You'll never change

BLACK STAR

2007-06-16T07:19:00.000-07:00

'Black Star' Live at the Astoria '94

Black Star Tab

i get home from work and you're still standing in your dressing gown
well what am i to do?
i know all the things around your head and what they do to you.
what are we coming to?
what are we gonna do?

blame it on the black star
blame it on the falling sky
blame it on the satellite that beams me home.

the troubled words of a troubled mind i try to understand what is eating you.
i try to stay awake but its 58hours since that i last slept with you.
what are we coming to?
i just don't know anymore.

i get on the train and i just stand about now that i don't think of you.
i keep falling over i keep passing out when i see a face like you.
what am i coming to?
i'm gonna melt down

BULLETPROOF... I WISH I WAS

2007-06-16T07:18:00.004-07:00

Live performance of 'Bulletproof... I wish I was'

Bulletproof... I wish I was Tab

Limb by limb, tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Every day, every hour
I wish that I was bullet proof

Wax me, mould me
Heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this
Just wish that it was bullet proof,
was bullet proof

So pay the money and take a shot
Lead-fill the hole in me
I could burst a million bubbles
All surrogate and bullet proof
And bullet proof
And bullet proof
And bullet proof

MY IRON LUNG

2007-06-16T07:18:00.003-07:00

'My Iron lung' performed at Reading '94

My Iron Lung Tab

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 recieving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung

We're too young to fall asleep
To 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

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 OK
And if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be, it's OK

The head shrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My Belisha beacon

JUST

2007-06-16T07:18:00.001-07:00

Great 'just' performance at Glastonbury '03

Just Tab

Can't get the stink off
He's been hanging round for days
Comes like a comet
Suckered you but not your friends
One day he'll get to you
And teach you how to be a holy cow

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself
Just you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

Don't get my sympathy
Hanging out the 15th floor
You've changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
One day I'll get you
And teach you how to get to purest hell

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, yourself, yourself.

NICE DREAM

2007-06-16T07:17:00.002-07:00

Radiohead play 'Nice Dream' at Pinkpop '96

Nice Dream Tab

They love me like I was a brother
They protect me, listen to me
They dug me my very own garden
Gave me sunshine, made me happy

Nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream

I call up my friend, the good angel
But she's out with her answerphone
She says she would love to come help but
The sea would electrocute us all

Nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream

If you think that you're strong enough
If you think you belong enough
If you think that you're strong enough
If you think you belong enough

[Just as well Just as well Just as well]

Nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream, nice dream

BONES

2007-06-16T07:17:00.001-07:00

Radiohead play 'Bones' at Summer Sonic '03

Bones Tab

I don't want to be crippled and cracked
Shoulders, wrists, knees and back
Ground to dust and ash
Crawling on all fours

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones

Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozac painkillers

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones

And I used to fly like Peter Pan
All the children flew when I touched their hands

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones

FAKE PLASTIC TREES

2007-06-16T07:16:00.002-07:00

'Fake Plastic Trees' at Glastonbury '03

Fake Plastic Trees Tab

A green plastic watering can
For a fake chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth

That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns

He used to do surgery
On girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love

But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time

HIGH AND DRY

2007-06-16T07:16:00.001-07:00

Radiohead at Pinkpop - 'High And Dry'

High And Dry Tab

Two jumps in a week,
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy?
Flying on your motorcycle,
watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition,
kill yourself to never, ever stop
You broke another mirror,
you're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation,
you'll be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces,
you just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you
when you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit on you,
you'll be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Oh, it's the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing that you ever, ever had.
It's the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing you have had has gone away.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high,
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

THE BENDS

2007-06-16T07:15:00.002-07:00

Radiohead play 'The Bends' at the Ten Spot

The Bends Tab

Where do we go from here
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now, when I need you
Alone on an aeroplane
Fall asleep on against the window pane
My blood will thicken

I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
Cos I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath
But who are my real friends
Have they all got the bends
Am I really sinking this low

My baby's got the bends, oh no
We don't have any real friends, no, no, no

Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

Where do we go from here
The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
And where are you
They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines,
To blow me away, to blow me sky high

My baby's got the bends
We don't have any real friends

Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

I wanna live, breathe
I wanna be part of the human race
I wanna live, breathe
I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race

Where do we go from here
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now when I need you

PLANET TELEX

2007-06-16T07:15:00.001-07:00

Radiohead with a great performance of 'Planet Telex' at Coachella '04

Planet Telex Tab

You can force it but it will not come
You can taste it but it will not form
You can crush it but it's always here
You can crush it but it's always near
Chasing you home saying
Everything is broken
Everyone is broken

You can force it but it will stay stung
You can crush it as dry as a bone
You can walk it home straight from school
You can kiss it, you can break all the rules
But still
Everything is broken
Everyone is broken

Everyone is, everyone is broken
Everyone is, everything is broken

Why can't you forget?
Why can't you forget?
Why can't you forget?

Pablo Honey

2007-06-16T07:02:00.001-07:00

You
Creep
How Do You?
Stop Whispering
Thinking About You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Ripcord
Vegetable
Prove Yourself
I Can't
Lurgee
Blow Out

BLOW OUT

2007-06-16T06:32:00.001-07:00

Blow Out Tab

In my mind and nailed into my heels.
All the time killing what I feel.

And everything I touch
[All wrapped up in cotton wool]
[All wrapped up and sugar coated]
turns to stone.

And everything I touch
[All wrapped up in cotton wool]
[All wrapped up and sugar coated]
turns stone.

I am fused just in case I blow out.
I am glued just because I crack out.

Everything I touch turns to stone.
Everything I touch
[All wrapped up in cotton wool]
[All wrapped up and sugar coated]

LURGEE

2007-06-16T06:28:00.003-07:00

Live performance of Lurgee

Lurgee Tab

I feel better, I feel better now you've gone.
I got better, I got better, I got strong.

I feel better, I feel better now there's nothing wrong.
I got better, I got better, I got strong.

Tell me something, tell me something I don't know.
Tell me one thing, tell me one thing, and let it go.

I got something, I got something, heaven knows.
I got something, I got something, I don't know.

I CAN'T

2007-06-16T06:28:00.001-07:00

I Can't Tab

Please forget the words that I just blurted out,
it wasn't me, it was my strange and creeping doubt,
it keeps rattling my cage.
And there's nothing in this world will keep it down,

and even though I might, even though I try, I can't.
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't.

Soon your things that keep, that keep me underground,
so many words that I, that I can never find.
If you give up on me now,
I'll be gutted like I've never been before.

And even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't

If you give up on me now,
I'll be gutted like I've never been before.

And even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't,
even though I might, even though I try, I can't.
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't.

PROVE YOURSELF

2007-06-16T06:27:00.000-07:00

Live performance of 'prove yourself''

Prove Yourself Tab

I can't afford to breathe in this town,
nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand.
Hooked back up to the cathode ray,
I'm better off dead,
I'm better off dead,
I'm better off.

Prove yourself,
prove yourself,
prove yourself.

I want to breathe, I want to grow,
I'd say I want it but I don't know how.
I work, I bleed, I beg, I pray,
but I'm better off dead,
I'm better off dead,
I'm better off.

Prove yourself,
prove yourself,
prove yourself.

I'm better off dead,
I'm better off dead,
I'm better off.

Prove yourself,
prove yourself,
prove yourself,
prove yourself.

VEGETABLE

2007-06-16T06:26:00.004-07:00

Live performance of 'vegetable'

Vegetable Tab

I never wanted anything but this,
I worked hard, tried hard.
I ran around in domestic bliss,
I fought hard, died hard.

Everytime you're running out of here,
everytime you're running I get the fear.

I never wanted any broken bones,
scarred face, no home.
Your words surround me and I asphyxiate,
and I burn all hate.

Everytime you're running out on me
everytime you're running I can see.

I'm not a veg'table,
I will not control myself.
I spit on the hand that feeds me,
I will not control myself.

The waters break, the waters run all over me.
The waters break, the waters run
and this time you're gonna pay.

I'm not a veg'table,
I will not control myself.
I spit on the hand that feeds me,
I will not control myself.

RIPCORD

2007-06-16T06:26:00.003-07:00

Live performance of 'Ripcord' @ Reading '94

Ripcord Tab

Soul destroyed with clever toys for little boys.
It's inevitable, inevitable, it's a soul destroyed.
You're free until you drop,
you're free until you've had enough
and you don't understand.
No ripcord, no ripcord,
no ripcord, no ripcord.

Aeroplane do I mean what I mean?
Oh it's inevitable, inevitable, oh aeroplane.
A thousand miles an hour
on politics and power
that she don't understand.
No ripcord, no ripcord,
no ripcord, no ripcord.

The answer to your prayers,
we'll drop you anywhere.

No ripcord, no ripcord,
no ripcord, no no no no ripcord,
oh yeah.

ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR

2007-06-16T06:26:00.001-07:00

Live performance of 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' at Glastonbury 1994

Destiny, destiny protect me from the world.
Destiny, hold my hand, protect me from the world.
Here we are with our running and confusion,
and I don't see no confusion anywhere.

And if the world does turn and if London burns,
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar.
I want to be in a band when I get to heaven,
anyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing any more.

Grow my hair, grow my hair, I am Jim Morrison,
grow my hair, I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morrison.
Here we are with our running and confusion,
and I don't see no confusion anywhere.

And if the world does turn and if London burns,
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar.
I want to be in a band when I get to heaven,
anyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing any more.

THINKING ABOUT YOU

2007-06-16T06:25:00.001-07:00

Thinking about you Tab

Been thinking about you, your records are here,
your eyes are on my wall, your teeth are over there.
But I'm still no-one, and you're now a star,
what do you care?

Been thinking about you, and there's no rest,
shit I still love you, still see you in bed.
But I'm playing with myself, and what do you care
when the other men are far, far better.

All the things you've got,
all the things you need,
who bought you cigarettes,
Who bribed the company to come and see you honey?

I've been thinking about you, so how can you sleep?
These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet.
They don't know what I know and why should you care
when I'm not there.

Been thinking about you, and there's no rest,
should I still love you, still see you in bed.
But I'm playing with myself, what do you care,
when I'm not there.

All the things you've got,
she'll never need,
all the things you've got.
I've bled and I bleed to please you.

Been thinking about you.

STOP WHISPERING

2007-06-16T06:24:00.002-07:00

Stop Whispering Tab

And the wise men say "I don't want to hear your voice."
And the thin men say "I don't want to hear your voice."
And they're cursing me, and they won't let me be.
And there's nothing to say, and there's nothing to do.

Stop whispering, start shouting,
stop whispering, start shouting.

And my mother say "We spit on your son some more."
And the buildings say "We spit on your face some more."
And the feeling is that there's something wrong,
'cause I can't find the words, and I can't find the songs.

Stop whispering, start shouting,
stop whispering, start shouting.

Dear Sir, I have a complaint.
Dear Sir, I have a complaint,
can't remember what it is,
doesn't matter anyway.
Doesn't matter anyway.

HOW DO YOU?

2007-06-16T06:24:00.001-07:00

How Do You? Tab

He's bitter and twisted, he knows what he wants.
He wants to be loved and he wants to belong.
He wants you to listen, he wants us to weep.
And he was a stupid baby who turned into a powerful freak.

But how do you?
How do you?
How do you?

He lives with his mother, but we show him respect.
He's a dangerous bigot, but we always forget.
And he's just like his daddy, 'cause he cheats on his friends.
And he steals and he bullies, any way that he can.

But how do you?
How do you?
How do you?

YOU

2007-06-16T06:22:00.001-07:00

Radiohead play 'you' live. For another great performance of 'you', check out live at the astoria 94.

You Tab

You are the sun and moon and stars are you,
and I could never run away from you.
You try at working out chaotic things,
and why should I believe myself not you?
It's like the world is going to end so soon,
and why should I believe myself?

You me and everything caught in the fire,
I can see me drowning, caught in the fire.
You me and everything caught in the fire,
and I can see me drowning, caught in the fire.