Thinking About You is one of Radiohead's first songs. Unplayed live by them since early 1998, Radiohead often used TAY to open or (as here) close shows. We can surmise that Thom Yorke believes he's grown out of the emotional context of the song that gave it its original power. TAY remains, however, a fan and amateur guitarist fave. At any rate, this is a widely circulated bootleg mp3 of a performance of TAY that isn't anywhere up on youtube, and I hereby fill that gap. Radiohead recorded two versions of TAY, but neither has the power of this roughly recorded, slightly pitchy, low res. live version. Yorke sounds like his guts and his guitar are going to explode as he hits the penultimate killer line: 'I've bled and I'll bleed to please you'. TAY is about being with someone who's passing you by, growing beyond you. For some reason, this made me think of the haunted looks of the relatively obscure model and actress Karen Blanguernon (she's the dancehall gal in the strange coda to Chabrol's early masterpiece Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)).
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