Video From Radiohead's Santa Barbara Webcast
Although the overlap between Barack Obama's DNC address and Radiohead's webcast of their final North American show this tour wasn't total and complete, from your Santa Barbara liveblogging, it seems more than a few of you devoted your night to Obama's Denver address. I think you guys chose wisely, both for the sake of Observing Significant Moments In American History, and for the sake of knowing that the Internet captures every move Radiohead makes in perpetuity anyway. What I saw of the concert was a nice reminder of my nights with them this summer, and a necessary chaser to hearing Chris Matthews yell at me about how essential Barack's speech was. We've rounded up what we could of the high-quality YouTubes out there from the Santa Barbara set, along with a setlist, for your pleasure.
SETLIST (via atease)
01. "Reckoner"
02. "Optimistic"
03. "There There"
04. "15 Step"
05. "All I Need"
06. "Nude"
07. "Talk Show Host"
08. "Arpeggi"
09. "The Gloaming"
10. "Morning Bell"
11. "The National Anthem"
12. "Faust Arp"
13. "No Surprises"
14. "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
15. "The Bends"
16. "Karma Police"
17. "Bodysnatchers"
Encore 1
18. "Cymbal Rush" (Thom, "This one's off the Eraser, its called Cymbal Rush.")
19. "House of Cards"
20. "Paranoid Android" (Thom. "So this is for anyone who's had surgery. You're gonna be dead soon. Its all going south Brotha.")
21. "Go Slowly" (Thom, "I didn't mean it about the surgery you know. Whatever u wanna do.")
22. "Everything In Its Right Place" [some people in the front chant "TRUE LOVE WAITS!" repeatedly. Thom, "Just cuz your down in front mate. Nice idea."]
Encore 2:
23. "Videotape"
24. "Lucky" [Thom, "Thank you. Thanks a lot. Thank you everybody. Everybody who has come to every show on this tour. We've had a blast generally. We also very much like to thank Liars for playing tonight. Ok I'll shut up."]
25. "Idioteque"
Here are the high quality vids:
"House Of Cards"
"Cymbal Rush"
"Idioteque"
The others that YouTube's hosting at high quality -- which unfortunately are not embeddable -- can be found here. I imagine Radiohead will up them soon, so we'll update when that happens.
Posted at 3:38 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Radiohead
That version of Idioteque was kind of weak.
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That last link doesn't work.
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Fixed.
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They were a little exausted through the end. But it's still a nice performance from a classic band. I can understand that, this tour was not that short.
The opening was the best with 'Reckoner'.
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Radio-WHO? The Beatles couldn't have peeled me away from that Obama speech. Bands will come and go, but people of real substance and character only come by once in a lifetime politically.
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I watched maybe two minutes of Obama's speech. While he's got a loud (very loud..) and dynamic voice, he just comes across as an idiot-- as arrogant and close minded as your average liberal arts professor with classroom walls that grow larger by the day. This rhetoric about change is maddening-- it begs the question, what's wrong with the way things are now? How can America want change, how can "America" want anything? Individuals want to change themselves-- we want to work harder, be more compassionate, and think more clearly. We need someone who inspires these qualities, rather than someone who fights against them. And that goes for Radiohead too.
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chase: "I watched maybe two minutes of Obama's speech."
Way to have an attention span.
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ok so you don't like obama and you don't radiohead....then go away. keep yr thoughts to yrself and just go away. Talk about "maddening rhetoric", jesus christ you just epitomized it.
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For you to suggest that there is nothing wrong in this country is more "arrogant and close minded" than anything Obama has ever said. The fact that you openly admit to only watching two minutes of one speech is a clear indicator of how much authority you have on the subject.
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A particularly haunting version of cymbal rush. A little known, morbid, but affecting song this fan forgot existed. No-one does Thom Yorke quite like Radiohead.
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It's got nothing to do with an attention span-- everything he says is an insult to the intelligence of Americans; "Don't think about things, they're awful, let me solve all your problems!" Listening to that kind of stuff infuriates anyone who thinks for himself.
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if you're gonna hate on obama, at least have good reasons, not just the fact that he wants change. maybe you dont want change for yourself, but not everyone is fortunate enough to be spending their day surfing music blogs
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people's fortunes aren't the problem of government. okay?
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They were a little exausted through the end. But it's still a nice performance from a classic band. I can understand that, this tour was not that short.
The opening was the best with 'Reckoner'.
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this is about radiohead not some tar baby....keep your elitist presidential hopeful talk to your fag forums.
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