Radiohead Minidiscs Let Down 9.1

Amazing early version of my favorite Radiohead song
uploads of minidisc content frequently get taken down so this might not last

[Naomiarchive]

my best guess at the lyrics at 4:16 from hearing the song a ton

waiting
waiting drives you crazy
waiting drives you crazy
endless repetition
endless come and leaving
hear it come again
do not bother coming
endlessly to heaven
why not stay there

[OkRiver]

it's like i just listened to it for the first time again.
thank you so much.

[jl]

waiting,
waiting drives you crazy,
waiting drives you crazy,
endless repetition,
I am not scared of nothing,
till they come in heaven,
do not bother coming,
endlessly to heaven,
and i'm staying down,
let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground,
let down and hanging around

[pot-ay-topot-ah-to]

i love this so much! especially his voice crack at the end, and then his little 'ahem' because of it 😂 thank you for sharing!

[quinnnewman]

I love how this version feels more personal and the organ adds a certain hazy quality to it

[willemdafriend]

Feels like listening to Let Down for the first time again. Magical.

[diegoisaac]

The song's version and especially that lyric's fragment about 'waiting' really touched my heart in a bad day. Thank you for both

[walt]

waiting, waiting drives you crazy
waiting drives you crazy
endless repetition
and now its coming
the day i hear them call me in heaven
do not bother coming
endless sleep to heaven
and i'm singing

let down and hanging around...

[NicholasOsella]

I remember listening to this song when I was a kid. Radiohead made me feel strangely limitless. As if, the world outside didn't actually exist. Solely responsible for the universe inside myself, and nothing more. Today is my thirtieth birthday, October 1st! Growing up is a very strange realization. We don't have to alter our entire consciousness, just parts of it that don't serve ourselves. That, and not severing the parts of our youth that make us humane. Hearing this demo is incredibly beautiful...

[mclainadams]

Oh the organ of early radiohead demos. Love it and also love how thom’s voice so often became the avenue for expressing those parts of the song before they came to be releassd

[Aindatasedo]

Spent a year waiting to see the love of my life, she died from a car accident last month, waiting really drives you crazy

[someone_]

this feels like thinking of time spent with friends that you aren’t as close to as you once were

[BurningCreeper]

the voice crack at the end is the cutest damn thing

[NickyWaters]

such a solid radiohead demo, the acoustic feel of it gives it such a sentimental feel

[jimbo]

The underrated version of the already underrated let down

[dannygoth]

this is a song that i would be hearing while i am being born

[julianholland]

This version has a real “Duster” vibe to it

[yawmiyu]

the underrated most underrated of radiohead songs

[stefanobaratto]

I have heard the album version in After Life and It was love at the first note. This version Is oriented to music, trying to find out sounds. Radiohead are probably one of the last bands doing music and not noise