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Videotape is the final track from Radiohead’s 2008 album In Rainbows. According to the Videotape Songfacts, the song about a dying man saying goodbye to loved ones on old-fashioned videotape.

Thom Yorke described the process of composing Videotape as “absolute agony”, stating that the song “went through every possible parameter”. One day, Yorke left the studio, returning to find that Godrich and Jonny Greenwood had stripped the song down to the version found on the album, a minimal piano ballad.
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  • Wommers_123

    just the most amazing album i've ever heard. I keep coming back to it and it keeps giving me goosebumps. It's amazing

    15 days ago

  • gammafar

    Amazing.

    23 days ago

  • dguzzo

    aside from being such an extremely and emotionally poignant song, especially from a vocal and lyrical point of view, there is some really next-level drum playing and mixing going on in the latter half of this track. these guys always know how to end their albums.

    25 days ago

  • erihuanna

    play it on my funeral

    last month

  • blakeandcamp

    Such a simple piano chord, yet so haunting and powerful. Radiohead is one of the most atmospheric bands of all time.

    last month

  • Dark99

    This is my way of saying goodbye... cause I can't do it face to face

    last month

  • jorjun

    beautiofil

    last month

  • S4EEDR3ZA

    This is one for the good days, And I have it all here on red, blue, green ....

    last month

  • EdgeLike

    grow some balls damn it. it's sad, but if you're crying then you have issues.

    last month

  • -Ohtar-

    this is so fucking sad

    last month

  • panuki

    Life is so, so short...

    last month

  • bflo621

    this song makes me cry pretty much every time...

    last month

  • ktboardhead

    whatever happens now, you shouldn't be afraid. because i know today has been the most perfect day i've ever seen.

    March 2012

  • maxlharris

    @shadwell: Really?????? I would think Thom has it made being in one of the greatest bands around. Great songwriter though............ yeah, really. If Thom had a better childhood, or less stressful teen years or college years, where he got lucky more often, I think he wouldn't write songs like this, that make him the great songwriter that he is, and Radiohead would be a lot more like Coldplay... look at Chris Martin and imagine how he had it in high school... If Thom Yorke had Chris Martin's life, Radiohead would be more like Coldplay, in the worst possible way.

    March 2012

  • Kramurz

    You are my center when I spin away...[3]

    March 2012

  • RonMacLennan

    neat sounds

    March 2012

  • Harry_01

    So hauntingly beautiful.

    March 2012

  • maxproxy

    Really haunting. It's a song that forces you into repeated listens.

    February 2012

  • CARARRII

    Captivating

    February 2012

  • shadwell420

    heartbreaking. Reminds me of something I said somewhere else. If Thom Yorke had a high winning percentage in life, he wouldn't have such a high winning percentage as a songwriter. Really?????? I would think Thom has it made being in one of the greatest bands around. Great songwriter though

    February 2012
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