What Do You Think Of Radioheads Song Inspired By Harry Patch?

Good old Thom...he even manages to make death seem more depressing than it actually is.

It's awfully decent of them to pay tribute to old Harry and raise money for such a good cause, but I would really far rather someone like Jarvis Cocker had had a crack at a tribute song instead.

Most of what Radiohead record these days sounds like cats being tortured, they haven't released a decent song since about 1992 I think.

Not much to be honest. The words are a bit lame, and the tune doesn't really inspire. The best writing on the horrors of the first world war were written by the people who actually went through it:

DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,

And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .

Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.

By Wilfred Owen

( 'Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori' means, how sweet it is to die for your country.)

The intro made it sound quite promising, the lyrics looked pretty good, the singing I'm afraid was awful.

My cat has sounded better than that.

I'm afraid that was a pretty poor tribute. His heart was in the right place but, unfortunately, his vocal talents or lack of let him down - badly.

Vaguely reminiscent of the shipping forecast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpJEtnpd2dM&feature...

I couldn't make out a word either. I'm sure it was something meaningful.

the musics good but if it wasn't for reading the lyrics at the bottom of the article i wouldn't have understood what Thom Yorke was singing about. having read them they are good and the sentiment is good.

Repetitive but it could be another Radiohead grower.

Too busy giggling at Skidoo's answer to come up with one of my own. Faint wailing? Pretty much sums up Radiohead really.

Not much,At least he tried.

I heard it earlier today and it's a bit wet isn't it? Are the lyrics good - all I could hear was faint wailing?