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Radiohead – The Bends (4:04)

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This track was intially introduced as being about “knowing who your real friends are and when they’re going to come to your gigs.” Thom soon simplified this to “knowing who your friends are.” The song reflects Radiohead sense of humor; it contains many ridiculous lines about the CIA and the Marines.

Of the opening, Thom says, “The sound at the beginning comes from this caterwauling mayhem outside this hotel in the States. There was this guy training these eight-year-old kids, who were parading up and down with all these differents instruments. The guy had this little microphone on his sweater and was going: ‘Yeah, keep it up, keep it up.’ So I ran out and taped it.”
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  • The Bends
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  • The Best Of
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  • Album Box Set
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  • The Bends (Collectors Edition)
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  • rebecaviana

    their best song

    Sunday evening

  • mattmacneil

    their best song

    last week

  • ColinCoitus

    Wow! the sound of that static is so beautiful!. Anything Radiohead can do no wrong!

    last month

  • mattmacneil

    fuck this song is so good

    last month

  • Agilipuppy

    Static..weird

    last month

  • WaySilentBob69

    Anyone else just get static when this comes up? Weird!

    last month

  • Stugard

    This was actually my least-favorite song on The Bends for the longest time, but now I love it. It took me far too much time to come around to this one.

    December 2011

  • biancabalmores

    we don't have any real friends

    November 2011

  • andymadden

    my first listen to radiohead on lastfm. Saw them at Glasto,got their albums,amazed at how long it took lastfm to dig these guys up! Cool

    October 2011

  • the_cwtimes

    simply better than whole tkol

    October 2011

  • chemicalinxs

    Easily my favorite Radiohead song.

    September 2011

  • prominence_la

    Excellent.

    September 2011

  • pratyush_ACDC

    Am I really sinkin' this low?

    September 2011

  • SupahShadow

    wtf is with it on the radio? it was just static and ended abruptly

    September 2011

  • itsrivland

    i wish i was myself again!

    August 2011

  • Zodiark111

    I wanna be a part of the human race. it kind of pisses me off that hangthatdj got here before i did because im not copying her, I actaully was going to say this

    August 2011

  • hangthatdj

    I wanna be a part of the human race

    August 2011

  • PHANATICZ

    My favorite on the album.

    August 2011

  • heyradiohead

    i fucking worship this song. [2]

    August 2011

  • ThaatsDerringer

    i wish, i wish, i wish ;_;

    July 2011
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