To add insult to injury, when Sam Smith was asked what he thought of Radiohead’s Spectre he pretended to not even know who Thom Yorke was, and when reminded and prompted he said, in an affected and scathing manner, “Well it’s irrelevant because I did the official song.” How it won an Oscar is beyond me. It’s utterly bland and forgettable.
Nope. It happened. I’ve been angry about it and carried animosity for ‘them’ ever since! I couldn’t care what they wants to identify as - but that was just so annoying and spiteful.
@@markabusireactionsmy dislike of Sam Smith has now morphed into hate. Purely hate him now. I love Radiohead. They’ve done more for music than Sam Smith has ever dreamed of putting forth.
His entire ouvre is bland and forgettable. His breakout song was just one note, and then same note for a while an octave higher. Literally, the absolute most boring selection of notes one could produce.
They wanted a radio friendly artist to get get airplay to promote the film - hence Sam Smith. But Radiohead’s Spectre is absolutely stunning and fits perfectly. It’s 100% pure and simple choosing commercialism over artistic quality and integrity - . And it’s wrong.
Completely agree to an extent, but… I could also make the argument that Radiohead are fairly commercial. And if they’re not, then neither are bloody Garbage 😂
Well they don’t get much airplay, if any, on the standard pop radio stations. They’re not that commercial and do choose art over sales. They purposely put out KidA when they were primed to become a U2 level band. Of course it was brilliant and so made them successful anyway!
They also left ‘Lift’ and ‘I Promise’ off OK Computer because they were genuinely freaked out by the worship and success. There’s a world where those 2 songs replace Fitter Happier and Electioneering on OKC and they sold 30 million instead of 3 million.
Don't forget Radiohead is an indie band without a major record label backing and I'm sure sweetening the deal with some compensation to the movie producers
I've heard the Sam Smith song many times having been forced to listen to it on the radio where I worked at the time. I can't remember a single note or lyric.
There's actually a really good video using the Spectre film Bond-y title sequence re-edited to this Radiohead track. It's on YT called "Spectre (2015) Opening Credits With Radiohead's "Spectre"" It fits so amazingly well I can't believe it's not the official song. Astonishing the best Bond song was never actually used in a film.
Ha - I felt the same way - taking out my proclivity to like Radiohead I legit felt like they absolutely nailed a perfect Bond song - super puzzling, as Radiohead music now shows up in SO MANY films and TV it is a dozen times per year or more (probably as the age range of a lot of film makers who are now in their prime coincides with familiarity with Radiohead growing up in part) - I have no opinion on Sam Smith, but his song wasn't even close IMO. But, weird decision. Radiohead, again is no stranger to popping up in shows and movies, increasingly every year it seems, aside from Jonny being one of the most sought out film composers in Hollywood and on the indie scene and the only composer master director Paul Thomas Anderson has ever used since he first did "There Will Be Blood" - with 2 Oscar nomination now (and even Thom doing the orchestral score for "Suspiria" a couple years ago) on top of the aforementioned usage in other works (the intro to "Vanilla Sky", the HBO show "Westworld" had several songs, a famous episode of the killer show "Black Mirror", on the other end of the spectrum the last Marvel movie opens with a super deep cut acoustic "Creep" off an import Single from "The Bends" era that I randomly had on a CD but you cannot find it on Spotify - well now I imagine you can being in "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" - but instrumental versions, the straight songs, covers/remixes...now that I think about it, when watching "Oppenheimer" in IMAX last month they had this INCREDIBLE preview for Joaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott's "Napolean" film coming out this winter and it had a cover of a RH song - an odd version of "The National Anthem" I think, playing through it) So its funny, they have become so ubiquitous over the last few years within Cinema, one of if not THE go to for music directors to add songs into their films and TV yet the one direct shot they took - "Spectre" - they crushed it and it got rejected! But that is a very Radiohead type of story so it tracks.
I remember watching Vanilla Sky in the theatre when it was released, and that opening scene, with that track, had my jaw on the floor. You’d be hard pressed to find a more cinematic band, I reckon.
Not sure if it's mentioned here, but they couldn't use 'Man Of War' because it had appeared in an official album before...some kind of compilation I think. So they came back later with Spectre, which the Bond team didn't expect. And by that time it was essentially too late. I believe Daniel Craig is an uber fan of t'Head, but it wasn't to be. Which is a shame, coz it's a f***ing fantastic Bond song.
Never heard this before. If you had just played this and hadn't told me this was a Bond theme I would have been like 'wow! interesting new direction here!' Doesn't need the movie at all.
Found this gem after finishing No Time to Die and looking into random Bond musings like ‘what is the best Bond theme of all time’… Good god! What an eerie quagmire! This song touches parts of the soul that fail to exist in harmony with a simplistic life. Something Bond could never have. It only ever grinds against the complexity of life itself in ways we ignore out of subconscious fear. It brings out ‘the Spectre of my mortal soul’ to put it plainly. The fact that this didn’t get used as intended is almost as haunting and twisted as the song itself… A true, true masterpiece of the arts much like Ian Fleming’s spy thriller writing. The melody is the vocals, the vocals are the bass, the drums the horns, the horns the guitar, the lyrics a metronome… it’s as uneasy as the relationship between Bond and his semi-nonexistent brother… The very existence of this rejected, near forgotten albeit doubtlessly iconic, tragic song in our lives is the parallel to the existence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Bond’s life. Radiohead tapped into a dark science with this piece, a wayward calling that never rests, ‘too dark’ was the best call in the worst way, unfortunately, but in defense of the rejection- any half decent producer, no, any sane man would obviously know not to allow such a maddening darkness to be put on mass display. I’m legitimately thankful for the wise decision to not allow this indecent, unbecoming hypnosis of sound to penetrate general audiences and our innocent youth. As such, Craig’s Bond series in its entirety lives and dies through this song in perpetuity.
Ha nice reaction! Still can not believe it was rejected. It’s Radiohead yes, but also soo James Bond right?! Also, honestly, I think it’s kind of insulting to ask Radiohead to contribute a song and not use it. This was an original song btw. They paused recording on A Moon Shaped Pool to record this song. So yeah.. I’m still offended on their behalf 😂😂
Radiohead took apart a Bond song and pierced it together, like the movie Bond was taken apart and had to become a whole ‘Bond.’ The orchestra is the ‘Bond’ orchestra but backwards coming up to a crescendo but it doesn’t hit its peak like this Bond, which makes this the perfect Bond song. Yet Sam Smith got it…
Ah thanks a chara (friend in Irish) - it was me suggested this to you a few weeks ago. Its a great song as you say and heres a few rabbit holes to follow: - Thom Yorke has a James Bond love going way back - they used to cover Nobody does it better ruclips.net/video/mfmQe_eBvrc/видео.html - They produced a homage to James Bond themes, which was the first song they submitted for Spectre called Man Of War also a great song with an amazing video ruclips.net/video/DXP1KdZX4io/видео.html - Finally someone produced a video where they put the Radiohead song Spectre onto the opening titles of the film - it fits perfectly ruclips.net/video/COP0XlYHvto/видео.html PS Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey is the best James Bond theme by the way
@@markabusireactions Aye thats fair - I just have an emotional softspot for Shirley since my old Da had. Honourable mention for A View to a Kill by Duran Duran too
@@cgallagher4501 YES, Duran Duran had a banger! And I know how you feel, I have that some kinda thing, but for fleetwood mac! I actually did a video about em where I talked about it a little lol
You're right about the drums, lol. But that's their favorite trick. Your impression is 100% backwards. The drums are the time for real. Everything was already "off" until the drums tell you what's up.
4:42 Bond doesn’t die in spectre, he does in No Time to Die. Both are below average bond flicks in my opinion, but Spectre is more deserving of a watch than No Time to Die. If that’s why you haven’t watched it, consider giving it a look and maybe doing a video on the horrendous Sam Smith title song?
My brother had great joy in pointing out to me that I have in fact watched Spectre 😂 at the bloody theatre as well. I just spent the entire time recording this thinking it was No Time to Die. Which, really, kinda backs up my point about it being a bit shit lol
@@markabusireactions lol! Absolutely agree. Totally forgettable shite. It’s a shame too, because Christoph Waltz is an absolutely perfect choice for a Bond villain, and there was so much potential after Skyfall. The Craig era of bond has been so disappointing as a whole…
I'm not even remotely a Sam Smith fan but I do enjoy his song and I don't think it's a bad Bond song at all. That said I easily enjoy this song 1000x more and think it'd have been a better fit.
I honestly think Radiohead dodged a bullet here. Yes it's *FAR* superior to the Sam Smith song - and undoubtedly would have bagged them an Oscar - but the film is a horrid mess of a movie, driven largely by Eon studios finally winning back the rights to 'Spectre' and 'Blofeld'. Skyfall was a wonderful reset: it ended with a brand new M, in a brand new office, saying "lots to be done". Quantum (the writers' attempt to do Sp.E.C.T.R.E. without using the name) had been and gone. The slate was wiped clean. And then they won the rights back off Kevin McClory and went "Oh here's another shadowy cabal _even shadowier_ than Quantum... oh and also here's a stupid soap-opera-esque long-lost adopted-brother storyline, with a love interest who's the daughter of the baddie from _three sodding films ago"_ Just go back to self-contained mission movies!!
Agreed. See if they had sat down and plotted out a five film arc, and tied Daniel Craig into doing it, and it all made sense? Fine. But they were clearly just making it up as they went along 😂
Radiohead’s song felt like it genuinely came from the heart. That’s why I like it so much.
Radiohead postponed production of a new album for Spectre.
Absolutely a considered piece. The alternative was pop , stamped out Katy Perry esq appeal to everyone briefly track.
To add insult to injury, when Sam Smith was asked what he thought of Radiohead’s Spectre he pretended to not even know who Thom Yorke was, and when reminded and prompted he said, in an affected and scathing manner, “Well it’s irrelevant because I did the official song.” How it won an Oscar is beyond me. It’s utterly bland and forgettable.
Are you serious? That’s a fucking joke, I’m actually annoyed now lol
Nope. It happened. I’ve been angry about it and carried animosity for ‘them’ ever since! I couldn’t care what they wants to identify as - but that was just so annoying and spiteful.
@@markabusireactionsmy dislike of Sam Smith has now morphed into hate. Purely hate him now. I love Radiohead. They’ve done more for music than Sam Smith has ever dreamed of putting forth.
You know it takes a great musician to know another great musician. Sam Smith isn't 😂😂
His entire ouvre is bland and forgettable. His breakout song was just one note, and then same note for a while an octave higher. Literally, the absolute most boring selection of notes one could produce.
They wanted a radio friendly artist to get get airplay to promote the film - hence Sam Smith. But Radiohead’s Spectre is absolutely stunning and fits perfectly. It’s 100% pure and simple choosing commercialism over artistic quality and integrity - . And it’s wrong.
Completely agree to an extent, but… I could also make the argument that Radiohead are fairly commercial. And if they’re not, then neither are bloody Garbage 😂
Well they don’t get much airplay, if any, on the standard pop radio stations. They’re not that commercial and do choose art over sales. They purposely put out KidA when they were primed to become a U2 level band. Of course it was brilliant and so made them successful anyway!
They also left ‘Lift’ and ‘I Promise’ off OK Computer because they were genuinely freaked out by the worship and success. There’s a world where those 2 songs replace Fitter Happier and Electioneering on OKC and they sold 30 million instead of 3 million.
@@kirkwarburton2277 I haven’t heard those songs… I know what Radiohead songs to do next now ☺️
Don't forget Radiohead is an indie band without a major record label backing and I'm sure sweetening the deal with some compensation to the movie producers
In addition to being a terrific stand-alone tune it's important to note how well this song works with visual images in the film's title sequence.
I've heard the Sam Smith song many times having been forced to listen to it on the radio where I worked at the time. I can't remember a single note or lyric.
Hahahahaha that’s incredible 😂 mate, I honestly have no clue. And it’s not like it’s the kinda song you’re not gonna notice, you know??
Yes, it is the best Bond song.
LIVE AND KET DIIEEEEE
@@markabusireactions A great one. I saw it done live.
@@RhettAnderson you lucky so and so!
but one of the worst bond movies so bad.
@@pinkbeatle2012 okay yeah true, but still 😂
There's actually a really good video using the Spectre film Bond-y title sequence re-edited to this Radiohead track. It's on YT called "Spectre (2015) Opening Credits With Radiohead's "Spectre""
It fits so amazingly well I can't believe it's not the official song. Astonishing the best Bond song was never actually used in a film.
I’ll need to watch that at some point!
It’s a 3/4 time, the drums are on beat but the piano is off kinda fighting the beat but that’s what gives this song the beauty in my opinion
Second chorus goes to major after a minor first chorus which lifts the second chorus higher. So smart.
Ha - I felt the same way - taking out my proclivity to like Radiohead I legit felt like they absolutely nailed a perfect Bond song - super puzzling, as Radiohead music now shows up in SO MANY films and TV it is a dozen times per year or more (probably as the age range of a lot of film makers who are now in their prime coincides with familiarity with Radiohead growing up in part) - I have no opinion on Sam Smith, but his song wasn't even close IMO. But, weird decision. Radiohead, again is no stranger to popping up in shows and movies, increasingly every year it seems, aside from Jonny being one of the most sought out film composers in Hollywood and on the indie scene and the only composer master director Paul Thomas Anderson has ever used since he first did "There Will Be Blood" - with 2 Oscar nomination now (and even Thom doing the orchestral score for "Suspiria" a couple years ago) on top of the aforementioned usage in other works (the intro to "Vanilla Sky", the HBO show "Westworld" had several songs, a famous episode of the killer show "Black Mirror", on the other end of the spectrum the last Marvel movie opens with a super deep cut acoustic "Creep" off an import Single from "The Bends" era that I randomly had on a CD but you cannot find it on Spotify - well now I imagine you can being in "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" - but instrumental versions, the straight songs, covers/remixes...now that I think about it, when watching "Oppenheimer" in IMAX last month they had this INCREDIBLE preview for Joaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott's "Napolean" film coming out this winter and it had a cover of a RH song - an odd version of "The National Anthem" I think, playing through it) So its funny, they have become so ubiquitous over the last few years within Cinema, one of if not THE go to for music directors to add songs into their films and TV yet the one direct shot they took - "Spectre" - they crushed it and it got rejected! But that is a very Radiohead type of story so it tracks.
I remember watching Vanilla Sky in the theatre when it was released, and that opening scene, with that track, had my jaw on the floor. You’d be hard pressed to find a more cinematic band, I reckon.
Not sure if it's mentioned here, but they couldn't use 'Man Of War' because it had appeared in an official album before...some kind of compilation I think. So they came back later with Spectre, which the Bond team didn't expect. And by that time it was essentially too late. I believe Daniel Craig is an uber fan of t'Head, but it wasn't to be. Which is a shame, coz it's a f***ing fantastic Bond song.
It’s definitely better than what we officially got! I actually have Man of War on my list lol, so… look out for that!
Never heard this before. If you had just played this and hadn't told me this was a Bond theme I would have been like 'wow! interesting new direction here!' Doesn't need the movie at all.
Found this gem after finishing No Time to Die and looking into random Bond musings like ‘what is the best Bond theme of all time’… Good god! What an eerie quagmire! This song touches parts of the soul that fail to exist in harmony with a simplistic life. Something Bond could never have. It only ever grinds against the complexity of life itself in ways we ignore out of subconscious fear. It brings out ‘the Spectre of my mortal soul’ to put it plainly.
The fact that this didn’t get used as intended is almost as haunting and twisted as the song itself…
A true, true masterpiece of the arts much like Ian Fleming’s spy thriller writing.
The melody is the vocals, the vocals are the bass, the drums the horns, the horns the guitar, the lyrics a metronome… it’s as uneasy as the relationship between Bond and his semi-nonexistent brother… The very existence of this rejected, near forgotten albeit doubtlessly iconic, tragic song in our lives is the parallel to the existence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Bond’s life.
Radiohead tapped into a dark science with this piece, a wayward calling that never rests, ‘too dark’ was the best call in the worst way, unfortunately, but in defense of the rejection- any half decent producer, no, any sane man would obviously know not to allow such a maddening darkness to be put on mass display. I’m legitimately thankful for the wise decision to not allow this indecent, unbecoming hypnosis of sound to penetrate general audiences and our innocent youth. As such, Craig’s Bond series in its entirety lives and dies through this song in perpetuity.
Ha nice reaction! Still can not believe it was rejected. It’s Radiohead yes, but also soo James Bond right?!
Also, honestly, I think it’s kind of insulting to ask Radiohead to contribute a song and not use it.
This was an original song btw. They paused recording on A Moon Shaped Pool to record this song. So yeah.. I’m still offended on their behalf 😂😂
As you should be!!
You know my name by Chris Cornell
You remind me of Thom himself somehow. You could be his brother or some cast away cousin 🙂❤
There is a you tube video that gives you the opening of film spectre with the radiohead song rather than the crap sam smith one.
That’s bloody amazing hahahha 😂 I love the internet sometimes
I thought Sam smiths bond song was excellent, I do prefer this one though.
@@pinkbeatle2012 I couldn’t even tell you what it sounds like tbh 😂
Radiohead took apart a Bond song and pierced it together, like the movie Bond was taken apart and had to become a whole ‘Bond.’ The orchestra is the ‘Bond’ orchestra but backwards coming up to a crescendo but it doesn’t hit its peak like this Bond, which makes this the perfect Bond song. Yet Sam Smith got it…
ruclips.net/video/tiesXqT1P3g/видео.htmlsi=QrtbGibOCfN9HiHS
Please watch the video and it shows Radiohead at their true genius!
Any John Barry song is worth a listen, any. The most famous being goldfinger ...my favorite is You Only Live Twice.
Ah thanks a chara (friend in Irish) - it was me suggested this to you a few weeks ago.
Its a great song as you say and heres a few rabbit holes to follow:
- Thom Yorke has a James Bond love going way back - they used to cover Nobody does it better
ruclips.net/video/mfmQe_eBvrc/видео.html
- They produced a homage to James Bond themes, which was the first song they submitted for Spectre called Man Of War also a great song with an amazing video ruclips.net/video/DXP1KdZX4io/видео.html
- Finally someone produced a video where they put the Radiohead song Spectre onto the opening titles of the film - it fits perfectly ruclips.net/video/COP0XlYHvto/видео.html
PS Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey is the best James Bond theme by the way
Goldfinger is a very good song, and I like you so I don’t wanna argue lol 😂 but you’re wrong, it’s live and let die hahaha
Also you timed this video to match my post work glass of wine and music hit :)
@@markabusireactions Aye thats fair - I just have an emotional softspot for Shirley since my old Da had. Honourable mention for A View to a Kill by Duran Duran too
@@cgallagher4501 YES, Duran Duran had a banger! And I know how you feel, I have that some kinda thing, but for fleetwood mac! I actually did a video about em where I talked about it a little lol
he done soundtrack for suspiria movie too.
I forgot about that one! I was just listing these off the top of my head and I am in no way an expert on anything haha
You're right about the drums, lol. But that's their favorite trick. Your impression is 100% backwards. The drums are the time for real. Everything was already "off" until the drums tell you what's up.
RADIOHEAD could sing the menu at Olive 🫒 Garden and it would be gr8 👍 😅
4:42 Bond doesn’t die in spectre, he does in No Time to Die. Both are below average bond flicks in my opinion, but Spectre is more deserving of a watch than No Time to Die. If that’s why you haven’t watched it, consider giving it a look and maybe doing a video on the horrendous Sam Smith title song?
My brother had great joy in pointing out to me that I have in fact watched Spectre 😂 at the bloody theatre as well. I just spent the entire time recording this thinking it was No Time to Die. Which, really, kinda backs up my point about it being a bit shit lol
@@markabusireactions lol! Absolutely agree. Totally forgettable shite. It’s a shame too, because Christoph Waltz is an absolutely perfect choice for a Bond villain, and there was so much potential after Skyfall. The Craig era of bond has been so disappointing as a whole…
@@TheSaladKing except Skyfall. Perfect film! 😂
No Time To Die was far too long. I haven't liked any of the Daniel Craig reboots other than Skyfall
I'm not even remotely a Sam Smith fan but I do enjoy his song and I don't think it's a bad Bond song at all. That said I easily enjoy this song 1000x more and think it'd have been a better fit.
I can see the bikini clad women diving up n down in my mind and Bond aiming his Walther PPK at me. Definitely top draw Bond theme tune.
I’d suggest listening to the song Sam Smith did for this film. I’m not a fan of his music in the slightest yet that song is actually very good
Hell no.
Sam Smith wailing banshee version is total pish.
I personally don’t like Sam Smith because of the story behind this song’s dismissal from Spectre the Bond soundtrack
Is he scottish? I love the accent
He is Scottish!
English is not my native leanuage and i really love your accent where is it from?
Scotland!!
Drums are swung that's all
I honestly think Radiohead dodged a bullet here. Yes it's *FAR* superior to the Sam Smith song - and undoubtedly would have bagged them an Oscar - but the film is a horrid mess of a movie, driven largely by Eon studios finally winning back the rights to 'Spectre' and 'Blofeld'. Skyfall was a wonderful reset: it ended with a brand new M, in a brand new office, saying "lots to be done". Quantum (the writers' attempt to do Sp.E.C.T.R.E. without using the name) had been and gone. The slate was wiped clean. And then they won the rights back off Kevin McClory and went "Oh here's another shadowy cabal _even shadowier_ than Quantum... oh and also here's a stupid soap-opera-esque long-lost adopted-brother storyline, with a love interest who's the daughter of the baddie from _three sodding films ago"_ Just go back to self-contained mission movies!!
Agreed. See if they had sat down and plotted out a five film arc, and tied Daniel Craig into doing it, and it all made sense? Fine. But they were clearly just making it up as they went along 😂
Jack White does a Bond Song with Alicia Keys. I think it's great. This song is great. More Radiohead than Bond.
What film was that for?? I didn’t know that was a thing!
I just came across it a couple years ago. I'm not really sure if it even was in a movie
@@reneelyons6836 I looked it up! I don’t think it was in a movie, but it certainly could have been ☺️
Oh ok, cool. 😎
@@markabusireactionsQuantum of Solace
The studio decided Radiohead's version being too dark, so they went with the gay version, SMH.
I’m not sure them being gay really effected the song tbh
Sir, please reaction to George Harrison - Let It Roll
Since you asked nicely, I shall!! ☺️
@@markabusireactions
You're not getting out of this, sir😁😁
@@thoru4367 it’s on my list, I promise!!
Its forgettable much like the film