I've heard about a million songs. But I don't recall ever hearing this chord progression before. It's beautiful. Surreal. It hovers on the edge of beautiful grace and sinister violence in the most peculiar way.
Okay, it has now been over a year since A Light For Attracting Attention was released... this song, this fucking opening song for the album, remains, in my opinion, the single greatest piece of new music to be launched into this world in over a decade.. at least. Easily. (IMO!) It's still as mesmerizing to me as it was when I first listened to it. Still has a deep hold on my soul. Still leaves me floored and enchanted,.. after EVERY SINGLE LISTEN. Truly one of a kind. I feel so lucky to be alive during a time that this song exists, and can only hope that if there is a heaven, there is access to headphones and music like this. Thank you Thom, Jonny, Tom S.
i was genuinely shook when the album started with this, it's one of the most hauntingly atmospheric songs I've heard in a long time, the building synth, guitar, piano, layering is crazy, along with that weird vocal effect and the beautifully regretful lyrics to top it off
@@andzmilne8087 yes, I'm familiar and there's a whole treasure trove of haunting trippy recordings when you go deep searchingh into b-sides, remixes etc they (he) have out there. Ever seen him do his dj thing under the Atoms for Peace name with Nigel Godrich (I think?) fucking so amazing and fun
When you’re young, you think everyone’s just like you. When you get a little older, you realize everyone has different experiences and lives than you. At some point, you get old enough to finally understand despite everything, we are all the same.
We should all be the same but system and societies make life unfair for many of us in the basis of our differences. Our different identity is a necessary consequence of structural preexisting conflict. Sometimes i hear this song from from the pov of a liar politician trying to manipulate the masses, other times i hear it differently, depends on the mood
@@mathewmaccenzie5006 I didn’t mean the same politically rather the same existentially, everyone is everyone and we all are born, suffer, and die, and politicians always ignore that and divide us. Your perspective is really interesting
Wow. Love this. Great observation. The distraction theme is strong on this album, particularly on A Hairdryer, _"Look at all the pretty lights, look at all the pretty lies,"_ - by the _"blue-eyed fox"_ - the leaders of the free world. I guess _A light for attracting attention_ has many meanings. Such a masterpiece.
My personal favorite. I like how the lyrics express some hope while the tension-building music ultimately expresses hopelessness. Great contrast. Thanks for the video.
I was waiting for the drums to open up at some point. I LOVE it as it is, but imagine somewhere in this song cymbals hi hats and snares coming in. I would have completely lost it!!
@@el3xg373 I do think this song could've been longer to give it more satisfaction to the building synths, but I don't think crashing cymbals and snares would've suited it.
I can’t stop listening to this. I love the message that we are all the same. I don’t feel so much an outsider. It sounds like a dream. I love Thom Yorke’s voice and music. I’ve had this song in my head, on loop, for days. Music affects me in that I’ll feel like crying, I get the shakes, and hear it in dreams. I love and hate how music affects me.
Yep - I can relate - something very pure gets gradually ground down and lost in the fog- in a very seductive and dark way. It's actually pretty tragic - beautiful that someone can articulate it like this. It's genius really.
This is the first song on a great album. Some albums you listen to so many times, they become the soundtrack of your lives. This is one of them for me. Others include George Harrison, All Things Must Pass, Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks, Elton John Goodbye YellowBrick Road, Springsteen Born to Run, OK Computer and In Rainbows...and so many more.
Menacing and yet still enlivening and uplifting; relentless and ominous, but still gentle and reassuring. Unique and otherworldly. Simultaneously shrouded in darkness, and yet beaming with intense shining light. This song is everything.
This song feels like a benevolent interdimensional being is praying sonically to humankind. As if when we’re tuned to the right emotional frequency it’s powers can fully penetrate and heal all.
We don't need to fight Look towards the light Grab it in with both hands What you know is right Somebody's falling down Somebody's telling lies Simple ass motherfuckers Make one mistake after another People in the streets Please, people in the streets Somebody's hearing voices (Somebody's going down, down, down) You're going down You're going down You're going down People in the streets Please, we all want the same Please, we are all the same Please, we all want the same Please We are all the same We all want the same We all want the same
Since the day this album came out this has been my absolute favourite track out of them all. The slow, unnerving build up with the intense climax then finishing with the aftermath of it all. Fking superb. I can’t help but imagine my own little montage to this track. Please never stop making the most unsettling music
Brilliant song with a building tension. These lyrics are so relevant now. Thom has such a talent of putting himself in the centre of the collective unconscious. 🌊 This way he can express the emotions of himself & so many other people & reach out to more who need to here this great talent. ☯️ The Smile are brilliant.😻🏴
Thank Music and certain human beings, still willing putting blood, sweat, tears, time, heart,soul, money, nerves, drugs, insanity, EVERYTHING they have into a time frame of about 40mins to create an audio masterpiece for people feeling the same. Bless you.
What a song and album💚 I highly recommend to see them live..Will blow you up completely 🤩 Thanks The Smile to bring all of us deep DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE! Unforgettable concert! Still having the picture of the sunset kissing the beautiful face of Thom God Yorke
yes! ain't that the truth..saw them in Vienna. I was blown away when they started off with this song...it was absolutely brilliant. I hardly ever felt so elated after a concert.
It's fun getting to hear the song in two different ways depending on which downbeat you choose. For the first three listens, I had no idea that I was supposed to be following the bass drum! Even when you're on the right beat, Thom's vocals make you want to realign with the synth on one. Brilliantly done.
In case anyone's trying to readjust their ear, this is much easier to hear in the live version. I think because Jonny's strumming pattern is more affected, whereas on the album cut it's really just consistent and doesn't signal any stress on the downbeat at all.
I love that you guys have been doing visual works for all the tracks, & I've been waiting patiently for one on "The Same". Arguably (in my mind alone) my favorite track. And don't get me wrong - the whole project, music & visual art - has been absolutely fantastic, but when I heard this song open the album release time stood still for a moment in my little corner of the earth, & that's few & far-between for me. Thanks for everything!!! ❤️
Lucky enough to see them last night. The huge crowd at the Anthem in DC was absolutely transfixed the entire time. I think this The Same may be my favorite, but as always, they're all so good, it's hard to pick.
This song takes me to another planet. Genius. P. S. Pleeease play Teleharmonic/Europa in Paris! Been dreaming about it since I heard part of it in Peaky Blinders. What a masterpiece
Et c’est partis pour une nouvelle aventure ! Je me lance dans une écoute complète de cet album. Rien qu’a en voir sa direction artistique qui a l’air juste somptueuse et a ses créateurs, cela s’annonce déjà comme une réussite totale.
This whole album needs its own movie.
Play it with Wizard of oz double speed backwards
Paul Thomas Anderson, we're looking at you.
Super sí
The song really reminds me of Tenet
this whole album IS it's own movie 🤷♂️
I've heard about a million songs. But I don't recall ever hearing this chord progression before. It's beautiful. Surreal. It hovers on the edge of beautiful grace and sinister violence in the most peculiar way.
It’s very similar to Alpha and Omega by Boards of Canada.
im sure i've heard similar synths in Portal 2 (not that that's a bad thing)
I haven't listened to it yet, but your description gives me hope that I love it. 😂
@@tootruesheep872 That'd be a freakin' great thing
Well put, mate!
Thom & Jonny's music just scratches a specific itch for me that I can't get from anyone else. Fucking love this new album
Spot on
😂😂 your username tho. It’s beautiful
Okay, it has now been over a year since A Light For Attracting Attention was released... this song, this fucking opening song for the album, remains, in my opinion, the single greatest piece of new music to be launched into this world in over a decade.. at least. Easily. (IMO!) It's still as mesmerizing to me as it was when I first listened to it. Still has a deep hold on my soul. Still leaves me floored and enchanted,.. after EVERY SINGLE LISTEN. Truly one of a kind. I feel so lucky to be alive during a time that this song exists, and can only hope that if there is a heaven, there is access to headphones and music like this. Thank you Thom, Jonny, Tom S.
That heaven line is high praise haha!
SAME. Ha.
i was genuinely shook when the album started with this, it's one of the most hauntingly atmospheric songs I've heard in a long time, the building synth, guitar, piano, layering is crazy, along with that weird vocal effect and the beautifully regretful lyrics to top it off
This whole album is a treat and so happy that it has a lot of that hauntingly atmosphere to it.
@@reynross There is a few haunting building ones on all his solo albums, especially Eraser.
@@andzmilne8087 yes, I'm familiar and there's a whole treasure trove of haunting trippy recordings when you go deep searchingh into b-sides, remixes etc they (he) have out there. Ever seen him do his dj thing under the Atoms for Peace name with Nigel Godrich (I think?) fucking so amazing and fun
It doesn’t sound good live
Yeah it's really good
When you’re young, you think everyone’s just like you. When you get a little older, you realize everyone has different experiences and lives than you. At some point, you get old enough to finally understand despite everything, we are all the same.
We should all be the same but system and societies make life unfair for many of us in the basis of our differences. Our different identity is a necessary consequence of structural preexisting conflict. Sometimes i hear this song from from the pov of a liar politician trying to manipulate the masses, other times i hear it differently, depends on the mood
@@mathewmaccenzie5006 I didn’t mean the same politically rather the same existentially, everyone is everyone and we all are born, suffer, and die, and politicians always ignore that and divide us. Your perspective is really interesting
Signal vs Noise - A simple signal - "We are all the same" - drowned out and confused by all that seductive noise. Brilliant.
Wow. Love this. Great observation. The distraction theme is strong on this album, particularly on A Hairdryer, _"Look at all the pretty lights, look at all the pretty lies,"_ - by the _"blue-eyed fox"_ - the leaders of the free world. I guess _A light for attracting attention_ has many meanings. Such a masterpiece.
Every now and again, Thom touches something that holds my attention for MONTHS at a time. This is the latest.
Agreed - mental isn't it?
that key change at 2:15 is so beautiful i swear 😭💞
My personal favorite. I like how the lyrics express some hope while the tension-building music ultimately expresses hopelessness. Great contrast. Thanks for the video.
I was waiting for the drums to open up at some point. I LOVE it as it is, but imagine somewhere in this song cymbals hi hats and snares coming in. I would have completely lost it!!
@@el3xg373 I think the more contained drums are giving space to the wall of sound generated by the synths, piano and guitars
@@el3xg373 I do think this song could've been longer to give it more satisfaction to the building synths, but I don't think crashing cymbals and snares would've suited it.
whether it's Radiohead, just Thom Yorke or now The Smile you know it's gonna be a masterpiece 🤯🦝
not to forget Atoms for Peace 😍
@@Brettkatze Yesss! , Absolutely adore Dawn Chorus and Interference 2 of my favourites from Thom Yorke for sure 😍👍🏻
Well they are hit and miss tbh
@@brianlaudrupchannel Radiohead are much better 😌
@@spo0okyghost768 radiohead are quality and shit
They are all geniuses, including Nigel. The production on this track is immense. 🔥 9 Days til i get to see them live.....beyond excited!
Nice!
I feel you. Looking forward to seeing them in Edinburgh.
Never been so excited to see a band.
@@christopherhogg1221 Nice one. Enjoy it!
saw them last tuesday. you have something to look forward to. it was great. enjoy!
@@abs0lutelyn0t Nice! I'm trying to stop watching all the youtube videos, but it's really tough! Can't wait.
I can’t stop listening to this. I love the message that we are all the same. I don’t feel so much an outsider. It sounds like a dream. I love Thom Yorke’s voice and music. I’ve had this song in my head, on loop, for days. Music affects me in that I’ll feel like crying, I get the shakes, and hear it in dreams. I love and hate how music affects me.
The same
I feel the same, thanks. I hear it even in my dreams, obsessional...
Yep - I can relate - something very pure gets gradually ground down and lost in the fog- in a very seductive and dark way. It's actually pretty tragic - beautiful that someone can articulate it like this. It's genius really.
I just saw them live last night, and DEFINITELY almost cried - so hauntingly beautiful.
This is the first song on a great album. Some albums you listen to so many times, they become the soundtrack of your lives. This is one of them for me. Others include George Harrison, All Things Must Pass, Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks, Elton John Goodbye YellowBrick Road, Springsteen Born to Run, OK Computer and In Rainbows...and so many more.
Menacing and yet still enlivening and uplifting; relentless and ominous, but still gentle and reassuring. Unique and otherworldly. Simultaneously shrouded in darkness, and yet beaming with intense shining light. This song is everything.
This collection of songs by the smile is mesmerizing and beautiful. My ear immediately accepted these sounds.
🤣
The force of that synth that comes in at 3:19 is intense. It feels like it blows the walls off of the sounds surrounding it.
This song just builds into something I can’t stop listening to.
Absolutely peerless.....no one comes even close to this kind of work..or brilliance and its only 33 percent of radiohead ...
Thom actually is really a superhero, not a human!
Capolavoro assoluto. Picco concettuale e compositivo. Siamo nella stratosfera. Più avanti c'è solo il massimo della musica classica
Recommended this album to a good friend of mine. What a gift.
man the bass change at 3:23 always gets me, love this fucking song
The phrase "Hauntingly beautiful" comes to mind.
Best new music I've heard in years
This song feels like a benevolent interdimensional being is praying sonically to humankind. As if when we’re tuned to the right emotional frequency it’s powers can fully penetrate and heal all.
Perfect description
We don't need to fight
Look towards the light
Grab it in with both hands
What you know is right
Somebody's falling down
Somebody's telling lies
Simple ass motherfuckers
Make one mistake after another
People in the streets
Please, people in the streets
Somebody's hearing voices
(Somebody's going down, down, down)
You're going down
You're going down
You're going down
People in the streets
Please, we all want the same
Please, we are all the same
Please, we all want the same
Please
We are all the same
We all want the same
We all want the same
Thanks @Lellos 👍
These lyrics are so Relevant now.
The Smile are brilliant.😻🏴
I think he is talking about what society says about you or about the people they see, and false rumors spread
That's all i guess
@@flips300021 I think we can all figure out that you're a tube.
What a cinematic song. Incredible.
best album of the year
Since the day this album came out this has been my absolute favourite track out of them all. The slow, unnerving build up with the intense climax then finishing with the aftermath of it all. Fking superb. I can’t help but imagine my own little montage to this track. Please never stop making the most unsettling music
Brilliant song with a building tension.
These lyrics are so relevant now.
Thom has such a talent of putting himself in the centre of the collective unconscious. 🌊
This way he can express the emotions of himself & so many other people & reach out to more who need to here this great talent. ☯️
The Smile are brilliant.😻🏴
Purrfect 🏴👍
Thank you @@stephenreie9847I hope you are still here listening to this great music like miaow.🤗
Thom Yorke will always be that guy
This is the best song on the record, shockingly as there are so many other strong ones.
A Hairdryer appears
I agree - i just keep coming back to it
Le meilleur groupe du monde.
Only Thom can create a feel of warmth and safety. Then, completely flip it to pure tention. Fricking Amazjng.
The soundtrack to my anxieties
@@D23595 That's your opinion friend, but I hope you don't waste your life worrying too much about what some old religion taught you.
@@entertherealmofchaosholy moly
@@entertherealmofchaosi can't see the comment anymore lol
@@francescocerasuolo4064 ha ha, I think it was some religious nut saying we will all burn in hell
Thank Music and certain human beings, still willing putting blood, sweat, tears, time, heart,soul, money, nerves, drugs, insanity, EVERYTHING they have into a time frame of about 40mins to create an audio masterpiece for people feeling the same.
Bless you.
i LOVE this song. especially after seeing them live.
I just saw their performance of this song live and it was amazing, just as I imagined watching thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood perform. AMAZING!!
The perfect opening for this album. Can't stop listening
Sabrina Nichols, Stanley, and Thom y'all take a bow. As always, amazing art and animation that complements the music so very well.
+++. Sabrina Nichols deserves an award.
This song makes me cry and i know i should't
The Same is unreal
The music is absolutely insane.
Best opening song of an album, it was insanely great live as well.
Another marvelous song ✨
This is my favorite track on the record (so far)
with speech bubbles
'The Same' for me 😉!
Great! The CD came home today. Having full volume listening to it.
The Same is my favorite song!
this record is thom's best work and that makes me so fucking stoked.
We definitely are all the same. I understand this at a time when I can’t breathe through my nose and my sight is compromised.
Innovation sound for the future, another masterpiece like no other in the músic industry
Heard this live the other night. Absolutely amazing experience and energy!
This Album is a looong trip!
Thank you guys
this song is absolutely beautiful
It definitely could be a soundtrack to a movie. It certainly tells a story
Best song on the album for me. ❤️
I love ❤️ this song so much!
me too!
This has less views than the smoke but it's far more emotional imo.❤
What a song and album💚
I highly recommend to see them live..Will blow you up completely 🤩
Thanks The Smile to bring all of us deep DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE!
Unforgettable concert!
Still having the picture of the sunset kissing the beautiful face of Thom God Yorke
yes! ain't that the truth..saw them in Vienna. I was blown away when they started off with this song...it was absolutely brilliant. I hardly ever felt so elated after a concert.
Saw them live in Lisbon a month ago. I miss the concert, this song, in particular, has stayed with me.
this is actually my favorite one the instruments and the lyrics or message its really good id love to see them play this live
This song live completely blew me away.
Best song in the album
i saw them yesterday live in Madrid. It was great, pure magic. this track is awsome¡¡
I love that you are sharing so much of the visual art with the audible.
Its not fair that they literally cant fail at anything they do
I want this to play everywhere right now in everyones mind at the same time
Definitely my favourite track off this album.
It's fun getting to hear the song in two different ways depending on which downbeat you choose. For the first three listens, I had no idea that I was supposed to be following the bass drum! Even when you're on the right beat, Thom's vocals make you want to realign with the synth on one. Brilliantly done.
that's why there was such confusion when people tried to clap with the rhythm haha (I saw them live...clapping was irritating as hell)
@@abs0lutelyn0t omg thats gold hahahaha
@@abs0lutelyn0t in Prague they decided to start clapping before the audience could, to avoid any trouble 😂
In case anyone's trying to readjust their ear, this is much easier to hear in the live version. I think because Jonny's strumming pattern is more affected, whereas on the album cut it's really just consistent and doesn't signal any stress on the downbeat at all.
Yeah, well that's a typically radiohead thing...
Seems like the REALLY going to make music video for all the songs
Déjà entendu
They all deserve it.
Visualizers*
Visualizers
better
they really be having a video for the whole album
My favorite song of the album
Escucho está canción y es como una hermana perdida del Ánima de Thom. Es magnífica *.*
God, I love these analogue synths so much. This is how it's done.
Absolutely love this sound and animation.. 🖤
The whole album is a masterpiece!
I feel like this was created on another planet 🤍 So surreal and beautiful
Dang, I love this song. Bought my concert tickets for the Dallas show in December! I'm SOOO excited!
I love that you guys have been doing visual works for all the tracks, & I've been waiting patiently for one on "The Same". Arguably (in my mind alone) my favorite track. And don't get me wrong - the whole project, music & visual art - has been absolutely fantastic, but when I heard this song open the album release time stood still for a moment in my little corner of the earth, & that's few & far-between for me. Thanks for everything!!! ❤️
Lucky enough to see them last night. The huge crowd at the Anthem in DC was absolutely transfixed the entire time. I think this The Same may be my favorite, but as always, they're all so good, it's hard to pick.
This song takes me to another planet. Genius.
P. S. Pleeease play Teleharmonic/Europa in Paris! Been dreaming about it since I heard part of it in Peaky Blinders. What a masterpiece
This song changed my life.
thank you for this perfect song!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Et c’est partis pour une nouvelle aventure ! Je me lance dans une écoute complète de cet album. Rien qu’a en voir sa direction artistique qui a l’air juste somptueuse et a ses créateurs, cela s’annonce déjà comme une réussite totale.
Other people not just Thom need the recognition for this song wish people didn't just praise Thom he would be nothing without the others
Sublime. Says it all......💜
What a way to play with my brain. Thanks very much for your science and commitment.
Love all the new music🎵🎶❤️
wow how does Thom York do it so good so great just WOW!
I remember being at the show where this debut, and it absolutely blew my mind
Love this one, a great start in an album full of highlights
Thank you for everything, was worth a smile
listened to this on repeat while reading darkside spiderman. really added to the creeping tense atmosphere
Great song after another
Tripping music
breathtaking.
love this
My favorite song
such a great album.!
Impecable!
Al instante supe que seria mi canción favorita del Álbum , saludos desde México...
This is absolutely mind blowing 🤯