Radiohead: ‘House Of Cards’ on Conan O’Brien

by on April 24, 2008 with 32 Comments in Radiohead News

For those who missed it, couldn’t see it or want to see it again… here’s Radiohead performing ‘House Of Cards’ on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ broadcast last night.

Radiohead recorded the song in their London studio and not in the New York studio. Thom Yorke: “The reason we’re not there is because we’re here. Because it’s a bloody long way. And every time you fly to New York it’s the equivalent of driving your car for a whole year in CO2 emissions. Thom Yorke dedicated the song to “that ****** who walked away from Kyoto agreement”.


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  • KidKharma

    Certainly have come a long way sense last time they were on Conan

  • KidKharma

    certainly have come a long way sense last time they8 were on Conan

  • Paul

    Thom looks even twitchier than ever…Are his ticks degenerative?

  • computer talk

    thanks for posting my youtube upload ade!

  • Karen

    Can anyone else tell me the last time Radiohead flew all the way to the U.S. to make ONE TV appearance? Their support of the green issue is fantastic, but flogging it with this performance just seems a little opportunistic.

  • Julien

    Hi Karen,

    Just read (or hear) it again :

    Radiohead recorded the song in their London studio and not in the New York studio.

    They were not in NY at all ;)

  • Julien

    Hi Karen,

    Just read it (or hear it) again :

    Radiohead recorded the song in their London studio and not in the New York studio.

    They were not in NY at all ;)

  • schnarkle

    arrghhhh! the narcissism is blinding!

  • ben

    anyone notice that both performances involved mr. greenwood spanking his guitar?

  • Rich

    yawn..not worth seeing a second time or first

  • Flacuchka

    It’s a good performance and a beautiful song, still don’t understand how come most ateasers still fail to acknowledge its beauty.

  • Ben

    Its funny watching pretty much half the band twiddling their thumbs without anything to do for the first part of the song! It seems Thom Yorke plays the guitar part with his fingers? That would make sense..

  • trojanpony

    Flacuchka, it’s a nice enough song, I think it has it’s place on IR. I just find the instrumentation to be a little boring and the lyrics are nothing special by Radiohead standards. It certainly wouldn’t be my first pick for a one song television performance. But like I said in the other thread, any Radiohead is better than no Radiohead.

  • frightening

    The most boring, geriatric performance of the boys’ career.

  • Andrew

    They were also on Conan in 1995 playing Fake Plastic Trees. Thom said in an interview somewhere that he thought the song sounded really good for a TV performance. (Something about the loud parts being loud and the soft parts being soft.) Apparently not enough to get him over his general aversion to doing American TV.

    I think last night’s performance was recorded at the Hospital Club in London. (They were mentioned in the credits.)

    Have to agree about the narcissism thing. I thought they came off kind of badly.

  • danny

    thought it was played well, and while it is probably one of my least favorite songs on the album, it is still quite beautiful and i think more user-friendly than perhaps some of the other available songs (though nude or reckoner would have been great in my opinion), and i hope it turns some people onto them a little bit. don’t quite understand all the hate on a website dedicated to the band. anyways, eccentric folk, yes, but they didn’t come off as terribly narcissistic in my eyes.

  • bingobongo

    yer the hospital is a studio in london

  • Peter

    Looks like it was filmed same day as this: http://pitchfork.tv/videos/radiohead-bangers-mash

  • http://www.MySpace.com/Moonlight_0 Kemoushi

    I can’t see it…but I really appreciate the efforts towards honesty…Thank You…

  • Jaco

    this song’s better the more I listen to it… strange case. It’s so… peaceful and relaxed. Great performance and very very good sound!

  • isaac

    that talking at the start is damn near unintelligible, fucking wierdo

    the performance is pretty flawless though

  • Lodi

    I watched it last night! It was so funny :P

  • tHEY

    Ah man… I hate saying it… This is the downward slope. I’m just smelling hack more and more… They hae never flown to the states for a television gig. Don;t know what bands do… This is from the same day as the pitchfork Bangers and Mash clip. They just come in, play buisness man and fuck off. Pop stars. Poof. Gone.

  • Evens

    Poor Conan, seemed sad that Radiohead wasn’t there…he even had the LP from the diskbox, he’s a fanboy.

  • mark

    what an unbelievably good performance
    spectacular

  • funksoulbrother

    what a perfect song to play and radiohead really perform as if they are a million miles away from the buzz and hooplah of all the overinflated ego’s of this late great planet’s population.. god bless em!

  • The

    If you guys had seen this song played at Bonnaroo in ’06, you would understand how truly effective the song is. Every time I hear this tune outside, or while driving, I feel the same magical feeling I did a couple of years ago at ‘Roo.

    Talk about narcissism!

    The chord progression will shake you to the bone when you finally see it played live. It is a truly beautiful song.

  • Raymond Swartz

    I love Radiohead and they ROCk… But they complain about the CO2 being so high but never come up with any solution except whinning… Really… Start a Solar panel business, electric car company… I’m poor and working my way to making that happen… Please use your money to get electric on the market and affordable for us to BUY. Mars ice caps as well as Jupiters moons are melting. Global warming is apparently Solar system warming. The cars we drive are not causing Global warming. No cars on mars… But my lungs don’t want to breathe this poison either.

  • dc

    they do all this talk…meanwhile they are playing all these shows in the suburbs. the “dc” show is an hour drive outside of it.

  • Arie

    The reality of climate change, alas, is that there is no quick, easy, simple solution.

    Sure, hybrid/electric cars/ethanol & such seem like a step in the right direction, but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t consume much less fossil fuel, if any.

    Where is the energy that powers the electric cars coming from? When these electric/hybrid cars start needing $7500 battery replacements, how will we dispose of them all in an environmentally sound manner?

    Sure, Ethanol comes from a renewable resource and is very clean, it also takes a hell of a lot of energy to produce it.

  • Arie

    I’d like to dedicate a quote from “Faust Arp” to Thom: “I love you, but enough is enough.”

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