Radiohead - True Love Waits - 12/5/95 - [2-Cam/Tweaks] - Song Debut - Luna Theatre, Belgium
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- Song debut of "True Love Waits" from December 5th, 1995.
Custom 2-Cam mix (deshaked/cleaned/50fps/etc). Luna Theatre, Brussels, Belgium.
This is the original version of "True Love Waits" played on guitar. The song was reworked as a piano song for "A Moon Shaped Pool" (2016) and Thom has played it on piano since that album's release. - Hudba
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This version is like an optimistic look into the future
The Moon Shaped Pool version is like a regretful look into the past
Adam Taylor damn
that's deep.
Holy Shit
you just killed me with this
Goddamn dude.
"this is a brand new song no one has heard before"
how pure.
Amazing Beauty
No joke, he says this everytime he makes up a new song. Like when he and Nigel were on radio and did a song called "Honey Pot".
that's a fallacy, Jonny has obviously heard it or he wouldn't've been able to play that sweet accomp.
@@Htheorphanarian to be fair to Johnny that could be total improvisation
*writes song that will only make sense decades later*
True meaning waits
Sometimes I seriously think that he has some kind of almost supernatural gift.
Removes the guitar to symbolise that the very same song now misses something that was there 22 years ago ( or so)
A lot of artists do that
It made sense before, It makes more sense now.
It is honestly a miracle that this footage exists. I'm so grateful.
Seaport just had that thought lol
Me too:)
I was just thinking that! People who catch live song debuts on video and share them here are the truest and greatest historians.
this footage has a great impact on my consciousness, I listen to it frequently
It encapsulates a feeling, so passionate so painful and so beautiful.
It will always remind me of her, my everlasting and all-powerful love for her.
I am confident that if I'll be alive 40 years from now, this song will still strike a chord. I will cherish our memories and grieve our loss, however wise, however experienced I might become.
No other version of this song is so powerful, so pure and raw and unearthly, heavenly.
Dude me too. It feels so weird to watch this. Like it's a vision or something idk
"Thom the crowd loved the song I think you should record it"
"Yeah man any day now"
That synth arpeggio is so fucking good
That crowd didn't know what had hit them
They very well know and people from that concert to the official release of AMSP waited for it
This is just my opinion but "I'm not living, I'm just killing time" is maybe the best lyric most people have never heard. This jumps out to anyone who has experienced major depression
I agree, it's easily one of my favorite Radiohead lyrics. It's also why I feel--and I know to most people this is probably negligible--but it's why I feel that verse absolutely needs to be the 3rd and final one, the emotional peak, whereas in all future versions he switched the 2nd and 3rd verses.
Every time that I listen to Thom Yorke singing this, I feel something physically in my heart. AMSP is the most beautiful album I ever heard. I can't explain with words. I don't feel sad, I don't feel happy, is something between it all.
Wait this is not how people should feel all the time? Damn
I listened to this song alot when I was off work taking care of my ill wife 4 years ago. It hit hard at that time.
100%. Thom wrote insanely powerful lyrics in the 90's. "I'll drown my beliefs, to have your babies"
0:59 I love how you can hear someone say "wtf" after the "I'll dress like your niece" line lol
I can't unhear it now 😂
me too man, me too
I grew up listening to this on an mp3 I found on Napster. Cried to it in my car more than a few times. Never imagined I would see a video. To me this is the real version of this song forever. That guy who just HOWLS the second it ends speaks for me.
Dude, same.
💕
Same here man. Floored when finally seeing this like 20 yrs later. Jonny phenomenal on the loop.
Same.
same here....this for me is the original...i heard this version first and it struck me.
i imagine that the reason jonny walks up to thom at the end is to ask if he's okay
Felt more like an apology for messing up. Seems like he almost ended the arpeggios forgetting Thom would repeat the chorus one more time.
Edit: plus, we know how anal Thom can be about that...
That arpeggi blows my mind. It sounds much better than the other versions, but they are awesome too
agree, this is THE version for this song
This is the BEST true love waits for me! I question me because them didn't polished this version ? And that arpeggi blows my mind, that arragement should stood in a final versión.
100% kills me in the best way
I have found my people!!
this song may never know its final form. all of them are great.
Yes it will because it already exists. It's called Live in Oslo
to me this has always been it
@@sonyabladesbooty3890 haha i agree with both of you
Same
@@anju2606 i have yet to hear a version that I like better
I can't imagine the contrast these people must have felt when after hearing music from Pablo Honey and The Bends this thing comes on. Absolutely beautiful song
Well, Fake Plastic Trees was on The Bends... so you know, it shouldn't have been too shocking.
RIP Rachel :(
Thom's ex-wife, she passed on not long ago. But Thom seems to be taking it quite strongly, and I hope that everything will be okay for him
Yeah I found out after I asked... You know I remember it was probably half a year ago I was on thoms wiki page I read they had separated but she was still alive. So I didn't expect that at all...what can I say...
Haidren T. Kyde
She wasnt his wife
*Andre * Yes she was.
@@NewName835 Tecnically not, they were a couple for 20 years, but they never married
This song is such a beautiful piece of music. The fact that he had it for 21 years before releasing it just embellishes how personal it is to him. What an amazing songwriter. I wish that synth line made it into AMSP as a string section tho.
it never got better than this...no version has ever topped it
I'm surprised that "FAT, UGLY, DEAD!" was only two years before this, they really turned around and started making great music real quick, even before OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows
i think they always had great music in mind, you could tell from blowout and you and even creep on teh first album that they had dreams they just didnt know how to reach them.
I would say that they discovered a crazy magic while writing the bends
Good lord, his voice back then was just perfect
Love the synth arpeggios on this version
that guitar sounds immensely beautiful
Best Radiohead song in my opinion.
Devon Bly agreed! It’s also my favorite Radiohead song. This version though, there’s no room for the other.
I consider this song a Thom Yorke song.
What about those quintessential Jonny Greenwood synth arpeggios from halfway in through the ending?? As far as I'm concerned, his contribution is one of, if not THE key reason they were never able to touch this version again. Ever.
mywhychromosome the synths are great
i agree.
“I’m not living. I’m just killing time.”
One of so many lyrics I’ve heard from this man that have resonated deeply within me from the second it landed, all the way back to my past and lived with me ever since. Thank you for uploading this.
It doesn’t matter if your favourite Radiohead song is Creep or Weird Fishes, I think we can all agree that this is the most IMPORTANT Radiohead song
*Cough* How To Disappear Completely, *cough*
Also, don’t diss Weird Fishes like that, it is genuinely one of their best songs much like some of the others from In Rainbows such as Nude, All I Need, 15 Step and Jigsaw Falling Into Place.
@@Zorro7269 What diss? Stop making stuff up. Important and best are not the same words you bafoon
@@Zorro7269how is that a diss
@@thedaimhin4535 Because he said “It doesn’t matter if your favorite Radiohead song is Creep or Weird Fishes” implying that Weird Fishes is overrated like Creep.
@@Zorro7269 creep isn't overated, it was overplayed and now lots of people hate it even though it's still a good song
This is the THE FUCKING VERSION OF THIS SONG fucking slays me
No you don’t know, no you don’t know. no you don’t know. I wrote a thousand songs to this version of deliberately misheard lyrics
I never even knew there was video. the archipelago arpeggio keys. nobody will ever know.
w-h-t-y-c,
you crazy kid inside. Your crazy kitten smile.
The perfect testament to the straight dedication this band has to perfecting an album. Such a perfect song left on the sidelines for almost 21 years until they knew it *worked* as part of the concept of a project. It isn't just whatever songs they've cobbled together recently, it's a full look back on the writers' lives so as to pluck only the rawest and most emblematic songs to the theme. It works perfectly. Dedication at its finest
The acoustic guitar and the absolute quality of Thoms voice back then makes this an amazing version of one of his best songs.
Makes me cry. Every single time.
What a goddamn lucky group of people. They probably experienced the best Radiohead song before anyone else; or at least the saddest and most meaningful Radiohead song. Eerily beautiful.
My God ! I was there that day in the Luna theater! My first concert of Radiohead, I was 17! And I have been hearing that song during so many concerts afterwards, looking for that song until 'A Moon Shaped Pool', i finally got a title to that fantastic song. Thank you so much for this sharing, it's just unbelievable that this video exists 😍😍😍
Wow, that is amazing. Did they use the synth like that in any of the other versions?
Best version of this song, and I’ve heard them all. Should’ve been included on some B-Side or on a bonus material album or whatever. Thom and Johnny were feeling this song that night.
Radiohead never fail to make me cry
Personally, I love the piano version from AMSP, but there's no doubt this is the true essence of the song, the original idea is always the best. You can really feel the emotions on Thom's voice, and Jonny's keyboard arpeggio is what made it sound so warm and lovely, such a shame they used it few times only.
@Ryan Smith: Ghostbusters?
Couldn't agree more. Enjoyed the album version but was more than a little disappointed that we weren't treated to a studio recording of the song's original incarnation.
Agreed , why in later versions they quitted it?? It's beautiful!
@Ryan Smith Actually that is very very true.
@@grandbluepianistofthesky9469 It can be true in some cases. In many cases. But most definitely not in all cases.
I can't believe this was 1995.
He's such a lovely vocalist. I love this band so much
An eternally beautiful song but this version always has been and always will be everything.
Thom Yorke, the man that feeds me hope and depression
They never bettered this version. In fact this is the only version for me.
Ane me. I'm one of the few who finds the album version perhaps a bit too personal. This one hits harder.
@@Muskateering yeah for me the album version is too polished. The Raw emotion in his voice and the loud guitar strumming just makes it perfect.
Agree totally. This first version will always be my favorite.
This has always been my favourite version, the first version I heard of it.
agree, this gives me goosebumps, didn't have that with the new version
this is so rare version and i think very important for Radiohead's fans, for me this is the best version
In whatever incarnation it's presented, this is one of the best songs Radiohead ever put out. This is absolutely stunning, the version on A Moon Shaped Pool is stunning.
I’m quite positive this is the most beautiful I’ve ever heard. Discovered this version a few months ago and haven’t stopped listening it takes my breath away
This song is heart breaking. "Just don't leave".
In the mid-90s, it's about a young man finding love and clinging to his own desire to trust it.
By 2018, it's the song of a heart-broken man who left the love of his life in her lowest hour, and couldn't summon the strength to be with her while she was dying. It was he who abandoned her in the end.
The young lover, who as a child was left routinely in an attic, only understanding love to be the lollipops and crisps that a negligent parent uses to balm the relationship with their child. He discovers real love - and impetuously is willing to abandon himself, and drown his beliefs, in order to feel like he deserves it. The song is as self-conscious as the young man - it's desperate. "Don't leave" is a cry to the parents abandoning him to his loneliness, but also becomes the cry to the new lover he can't trust to stay around. True Love Waits, not only for the parents to return, but for a young man to develop a more mature understanding of what love should be.
And she did wait for him. She waited for him to mature. She waited for him during countless world-wide tours. The mother of his children, and a formidable artist in her own right.
In 2016, Rachel Owen dies.
They agreed he couldn't be the supportive partner she needed and parted amicably just one year before she passed.
Now, the refrain "Don't Leave" takes on a double meaning.
A cry for the loved one lost forever.
But, also a cry from the grave to him
"Just don't leave"
- and yet he did.
Lament.
Now he waits, but for what?
mf you got me fucked up
damn
Where do you have that information from, that Thom left her wife shortly before her death due to him cowardly not being able to handle it. I can’t seem to find anything about that, also leaving your dying wife out of cowardness is something almost malevolent to do so I really need to get at least one source stating the facts before I can believe Thom to be that kind of a man. Hope you’re reading this.
@@terrormilk384 I just dont think he could bear it anymore to be honest. It was a mutual agreement, he didnt just abandon her. He didnt go out of cruelty, or cowardice, but because he knew if he stayed he could never let her go.
Interesting interpretation.
Imagine being there in the audience witnessing a miracle right in front of you but not knowing so
Thom's plaintive vocal and the minor chords during the chorus almost make this version as sad as the AMSP version, but then that playful, almost carnival date-esque keyboard arpeggio comes in. "True Love Waits" almost becomes a Magnetic Fields song, right then and there! I love this song.
ever notice how in the three most important songs in radiohead’s history have an very core hitting and feeling line that makes you think of your existence?
creep - “i want you to notice when i’m not around…”
fake plastic trees - “if i could be who you wanted…”
true love waits - “i’m not living, i’m just killing time…”
none of the other performances of this song even come close to this version. sometimes a performance is anointed by the moment for reasons we may never understand
i love how the crowd shuts up halfway through, they understood something
The dynamics in this version are awesome
I remember listening to this version on the original Napster, Thom's voice was unbelievable back then. I still think this song is better as an acoustic performance. So happy this exists
These guys are the level above the next level. It’s insane.
I've been listening to this recording for over twenty years and had no idea that video footage existed. Just a stunning gift.
I dont mean to echo what has been said already, but i agree fully - this is truly a miracle; a masterpiece in the history of modern music, a culmination of genius, loneliess, love and hope...it enriches my soul
You guys know the Luna Theatre still has the DAT recordings in full quality.. imagine releasing that shit ...
Can we ensure that this lasts? Who should we contact to make sure this is added to whatever special vault to ensure that it never dies? I would hope every future generation gets to hear this amazing work. 25 years later and still one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard. Bless.
In complete and total agreement with you johnnys arpeggi on this is breathtaking
I wonder what Jonny said to Thom at the end, I'm thinking somewhere in the region of, 'fuck me that was fookin awesome!'
Unlikely, considering how self-loathing they seem to be about their own work (this and "Lift" went unreleased for countless years, and when they finally did put this out they--I'm sorry to say as a diehard RH fan--neutered it. Didn't ruin it. Just cut the balls off. This has balls and soul and yearning. The studio version just kind of drifts...without the context of TY's wife and their situation, it's got nothin')
mywhychromosome I hate the amsp version. I absolutely agree
actually having looked again, if you look carefully, he does say 4 words, and it really does look like he says "that was really good" with Thom nodding.
so you dont believe they forgot about these tracks? youre pretty stupid bcuz its easy to forget and lose some tracks if you record like 15 songs a year
This rendition is easily my favourite Radiohead song, what I’d do to go back in time to go watch this happen.
this is my video. uploaded a decade ago.
Oh you filmed this? Can credit you if so - I actually used 2 video sources in here. Neither of the DVD NFOs have filmer info or I would have noted that :/
thank you < 3
Thank you very much❤️❤️
a decade? I've had this on a hard drive since 2001. when did you upload it?
Uh no actually this is my footage
they had no idea they were about to be subjected to the saddest Radiohead song
So beautiful when he’s lost in the music.
ive been sat in my studio since this song was released, thinking, is this my favourite balls out radiohead track?, to find out it was written obviously so long ago just confirms it. the piano version sonically is a work of art and blurs the line between digital and analogue..the track itself comes out of the speaker and goes directly to your soul, doesnt pass go or collect 200 quid. radiohead continue to blow my mind, 22years and counting....just dont leave
The early version of this song has a feeling to different. It's more optimistic, and show us how young Thom was.
Now, when he sings it, i can see how time has past for me and for him...
That is to rare, i've only 20 years old and i feel that i wasted the time.
Thom was around 27 here, so you still have time
Oh my god please practice releasing that feeling. You have so much opportunity left, I swear
Cero oh fuck off with your hipster arrogance .
Bless whoever recorded that and released it. I really love you
2019, 35 yrs old this was the first version I downloaded off of Napster
개쩔지 나는 18년됨
This is the greatest live performance ever in history and most precious video ever recorded
First MP3 i ever owned. 1997. It fit on a floppy disc. My buddy brought it over and we obsessed over it.
this song in that form is absolutely perfect in its compositional simplicity, this truly is special. the way he plays, the way he stands, the way he says just, its all so beautiful. one of my favorite songs, not only from Radiohead. its just something else. thank you so much for uploading this
Heaviest song on unrequited love......
I think it's from the perspective of his partner, as he goes off on tour for the millionth time.
It’s about lollipops and crisps
i think its about the dangers of premarital sex
I think if Thom watched this video today, I'm sure he would think this is one of his best performances in his entire career.
When a song is the final song a band released in their existence, 21 years after they played it for the first time, then it is a very important song. 1:08
never take this down I beg you
radiohead turn uplifting anthems into funeral marches like a sport, videotape, true love waits. etc.
i dont think this version is very uplifting either 😭
Johnny...I've commented on most of your (semi) recent videos--probably this one as well, at some point--but just in case, I feel the need to remark on this one particularly, just in case. All of your brilliant audio clean-up (et al) work on these RH songs has been amazing...in so many cases, you have a definitive, one-of-a-kind performance that, despite all the positives inherent in such a description, are also inevitably bound by whatever quality sound mix what was going on that night, the acoustics of the venue, et cetera...your videos overcome all that brilliantly. The reason this video in particular, though, is something TRULY special, is this: "True Love Waits" was performed this way--'this' way meaning with Jonny's awesome MOOG playing, Thom's particular 'naive' sounding vocal inflection, and the order of the verses with "I'm not living" being the final one, among many other, even more subtle differences. But long story short, if Johnny had not gone to the trouble to do all this mixing and adjustment, WHILE there is a half-decent copy still floating around ou there...this song, was it was anyway, would essentially have been lost...ESPECIALLY given that there is now an 'official', album version of the track, released as the closer to the last album. And even though they have the same title, and technically emerged from the same chord progression and basic lyrics, they have little else in common, if that makes any sense...but if you're looking for THIS (or the inferior, but still better 2003 solo cut), chances are you're going to most likely find that now. Maybe It's just because I've been living with and loving the original version for almost 20 years now, but...to me THIS is the definitive, and far superior version. Again, hats off to you, Johnny
Man I feel you --- this particular one is my absolute favourite Radiohead song of all time, but ONLY this version. Even the 2003 version is inferior, I can't listen to it - everything I love about the song isn't there -- the AMSP version is not even the same song. If it were titled something else, perhaps I could warm up to it but it absolutely hurts me to know this version exists and other fans don't even know it -- yes perhaps it's partially 20 years of living with the "Napster version" but Thom's vocal is fucking angelic here, I love how you called it 'naive' sounding -- that's perfect.
I'd go as far as to say even the reverb from the room/PA adds to the guitar, that bright shimmer with a 1/16 note delay sounds like an extra strum -- so much so that when I heard the later versions the strumming sounds conservative and almost lazy. There's so much energy and lift to the bright twang (and doubling from the echo) much like how a 'delay box' added a ghost note to the bass drum on "When the Levee Breaks"-- it sounds like Bonham hits the kick twice when really it was just once with an echo adding the second.
And of course Johnny's arpeggio is perfect -- it makes the song. I'm not arrogant enough to think I know better than the creators of this song -- but WHAT WERE THEY THINKING dropping the synth part? From everyone I know who cherishes this version, it's all. about. the. synth.
@@MIKEPORTOGHESE Wow, 6 months late, but I LOVE what you said about the guitar...the 'shimmer', and the way the shape of the room and the sound traveling etc adds what appears to be an extra strum, so the guitar almost floats off...that all got in subconsciously, but I hadn't consciously thought it out before...you're absolutely right, and that's a perfect description. I almost wasn't sure if later versions WERE being strummed in a different hand. There's a similar effect on the synth (is it a MOOG?? I think possibly?) where it's so warm, but the echo also sends its sound spiraling out over everything. Even the room was just right for this goddamn song that night. Wow
Jesus. So much time has passed. So many memories and heart breaks and loves and losses
Nobody feels the music more than thom
Gob-stopped this footage exists. Profoundly moved & honoured to have seen it. Thank you. Uploader.
This will always be to me the definitive version of this song. All the other ones are just overthinking it. It's a shame that there isn't an official release of this version. The closest I could get was the "I Might be Wrong" live album version (the one from Oslo), but it is definitely missing the synth arpeggio.
22 years today and still freakin awesome
mr airbag, you'r a legend
Even though the piano version adds more melancholy to the song as it supposed to, this original version gives you the vibe that you're going through your character arc.
One of my fave ever. Thank you!
thank you so much for this video, and for all your work uploading and finding these gems.
고맙습니다. I’ve been listening for you more than 20 years_ from korea😊
I have been listening to this version for over 20 years! Amazing to see video.
My favorite performance of this song.
thank you so much for this, I have been looking for this everywhere ❤
excellent post , the best song ever
'the' best performance of this already Masterpiece.
I wish i coud be there
Many thanks for uploading this!
IMO A band has reached a whole other level when they have many, many different live versions of their songs, often better than when they record it in the studio. Radiohead is most certainly one of those bands. The other two at the top of mind I can think of are Tool and The Grateful Dead.
21 years before the song makes it on a studio album
That voice... Amazing.
Love the fact they released this 1 million years later as True Love songs Wait. HAHA
wow. yeah. i think i first heard this in a .ra file. it’s great to see this video and hear it. it’s always been my favorite version of the song too. thanks so much for sharing.
If I could be anyone in the span of the entire world for just one day, I wouldn't be someone famous, or someone from a long time ago; I would be one of those lucky Belgians who got to witness the greatest moment in human history.
Amazing that this exists.
I think that was the best thing I’ve ever watched
i remember downloading this version as an "Real Player" -audio rip in like 1997/98 i guess... this was before mp3s were invented :). i still love Radiohead today!
That synth is just so beautiful
to think that this song was written for the girl he loved, long before they got married…
and it was finally released after they had separated… now we listen to it after she has gone…