Best Easter egg ever… At 00:59 is the ascending guitar line from “Just”. Yet another clever way that this is the ultimate cover.

@mrbungle3310

9 ай бұрын

Also in the bridge theres a bit of just

When you see The Darkness live you really appreciate what an amazing band and live act they are. One of the most thrilling, fun shows I've ever had the pleasure to see.

This is a masterclass in covering a song. Radiohead is in my top5 bands ever and Street Spirit is a song that makes me very emotional and vulnerable. When I saw Radiohead perform it live, I was very emotional and touched by the sheer genius of it. Really a masterpiece. And then, here we are with Justin Hawkins and Co. making a bold, risky move in covering such song with a balls to the wall approach, making it theirs and not holding anything. The Maiden-esque riffs, the absurdly high vocals and the whole glam rock energy, it seems like a recipe for disaster and yet it comes out amazingly, like a whole new experience compared to the Radiohead one. Kudos The Darkness, this is amazing.

@extremepietbh

Жыл бұрын

so well put, couldn't agree more.

Love radiohead. Love the darkness. Can't believe I'm just hearing this.

@hgill2964

Жыл бұрын

Me too. ✌️😂😂😂

@NovaAstoria

10 ай бұрын

​@@hgill2964and another one here!

@tjm8128

9 ай бұрын

Same.

This is how you do a cover. Respect the original, yet make it your own. Very well done.

I was in that crowd and I can remember going home being blown away by this cover not to mention the rest of the set still one of the best gigs that I have ever been to....and ive been to fucking hundreds!!!

@SpadaFer

2 жыл бұрын

I been in a few gigs in my life and these guys are awesome I came back to my house whit a big big fucking smile 🤣

Why aren’t The Darkness bigger? They’re such an excellent band with a unique frontman. People seemed to love them for 5 mins and that was that

@deadfool3344

10 ай бұрын

Their albums after the first weren't as good, was always going to be a hard follow up

@mrbungle3310

9 ай бұрын

People know them they had a big sucsess with their first album

@rainbowcrystaluk

7 ай бұрын

Publicity? Takes money to break into America

@bobbygee1771

4 ай бұрын

I think they were portrayed as a novelty at the time and just had a stigma that stopped them getting the sucess the deserved, very talented band

May the Darkness never fade out !!!

Justin Hawkins listening to I believe in a thing called love and octave higher brought me here

How in the world am I just hearing this for the first time?! Incredible!

I like both the Darkness and Radiohead, and this is a great cover, respectful of the original material. Good job.

OK so just watched Justin Rides Again on cover songs. He ref'd this. Love, love, love Radiohead and that album, but Justin killed it. It's just great in here. Live even better. Perhaps because I'm not from Britain, G'day Mate🐨🦘 I get The Darkness and how much they are flying the 🗺🇬🇧 right now. They are just refloating everyone post covid and like Foo Fighters do from USA side, they just spread joy and blow the doors off concerts. I just smile hearing their music. Like Pirates of the Caribbean, you love Jack Sparrow even though he's a bit naughty. That's Justin. Doing cover songs of Taylor's favourite bands and just wowing us, or doing covers of huge songs like this and making it better. If there was a Professor of the art of Stagecraft at a University Justin Hawkins would be shortlisted in the company of Michael Hutchence, David Bowie, Dave Grohl, Jimi Hendrix, Freddy Mercury, Joan Jett, Blondie. I'm sure there's a seat at a University for him. A cooler musical version of Professor Severous Snape if there ever was one. I digressed. Criminally underrated band and artist is Justin. The more I hear his podcasts, the more I see it's not blather, but substance. It's wowing me. I can only imagine what it inspires in 10 year olds learning guitar at school. Makes me 😊. Right, I'm off to put on the headphones, press replay and go into orange zone on volume! HMS Hawkins should be launched in your honour for "Services to the country" or some such. That's yr impact right now!

I'm a big Radiohead fan but this cover is raw radness!!! Really made me want to see The Darkness live (even more)!!!

Only 28 thousand views? Come on people! This is one of the best covers in history!

@Leonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

3 жыл бұрын

you’re joking right?

@funofboredom

3 жыл бұрын

@@Leonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn no, I really love it. It's peak The Darkness. Their signature so bad it's good style at it's best.

@Leonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

3 жыл бұрын

@@funofboredom no they’re just horrible, ruined a perfect song. singer is probably one of the worst ive ever heard

@thetravellershub

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn you have shit in your ears

@Leonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

2 жыл бұрын

@@thetravellershub no one asked for your input dickhead

Its impressive how he hits those notes live

The Darkness is a band best enjoyed live, this is a small sampling of that

This is the strangest thing i've ever seen and I like it

Biiiiiig RH fan here. This is amazingly hilariously excellent.

This band is so underrated. It's 2020 and I'm here giving my like.

@bashr52

Жыл бұрын

It's now 2022 and I just gave them mine

This was amazing live!!! you guys rocked!!!

just back again for my 10000th watch

this version is something special. I can hear Thom in the harmonics. Thetford. I'll go there one day for a live show.

Best cover ever

A great tribute cover to one band from another, if you like The Darkness great, if you like Radiohead great, if you like both you'll appreciate this cover.

@Nickbaldeagle02

5 ай бұрын

I'm still waiting for Radiohead to cover a Darkness song.

Met the band after wolverhampton gig !! Awesome blokes

BRILLIANT COVER!

@danhain5452

7 жыл бұрын

I love this one way more.

bravo!!! damn good cover wow!!!

Never have truer words been uttered.

Killing that half time, boys 🤘

Absolutely rated boys. That was rare good.

How about putting the whole show out on DVD? Please...

This is just fuckin' GREAT

This cover rules! Would RadioHead lend the cover rights if they didn't love it too?!?

@nicedream1990

3 жыл бұрын

7 years too late but any band can cover any other once it's released without permission. EMI own the rights to the song anyway.

@cbizzlenizzle

3 жыл бұрын

Live covers are part of the magic of attending live shows. Would the same rules apply to covering a song on an album? I'd guess royalties would be involved at that point?

they are incredible live, obviously. they just played the venue where i work in chicago. amazing show.

Fuckin' love the Just riff they threw in. Awesome cover.

This is how you cover a song.

Nice cover

Holy. Fucking. Shit 😮 these are God's amongst mere mortals 🤘🏻🎙🍯

cool live :D

im a huge fan of radiohead. but the vocals on this wins me over. go hair glama rock :) so ridiculous its actually good

Gives me chills EVERY time

I was waiting at a bus stop after a night out in Leeds in about 2003 and got talking to a bloke who said he was in The Darkness when they did ska covers of Radiohead songs. I thought he was full of shit but after I downloaded this mp3 off Kazaa I began to think that he might not have been lying

This is my favorite cover of radiohead song ever.

fk yeah

The riff sounds like something Iron Maiden would put out 🙏

I'd love to hear Justin cover some early Dragonforce, bringing some of that metal ballad timbre ZP Theart had going.

Generally I don't like bands doing covers, but at least these guys made it sound like themselves. Most covers are just stripped down, slow versions of the original (and the end result is always cringeworthy if you do that).

Radiohead meets Iron Maiden. Genius!

Fuck Yeahh!! \m/ >_< \m/

swaaggggg

i preferred the way he used to sing the chorus back in 04

Precka roll on December Wolverhampton

Metal as FUCK! \m/\m/

That live drum sound is 😘👌

huh they made Radiohead sound like Judas Priest, weirdly works.

Dare i say, better than the original? :| *ALL ABOARD THE RAGE TRAIN*

The backing to me sounds rather Manic Street Preachers-esque (namely MSP's Generation Terrorists album). Although I'm not a fan of the Darkness, I would say it's a good variation which distances itself from the original.

way better than the original, but also the only good track of the album

Que sacrilégio!!!!

……again

Thom Yorke Aprueba este Cover...

#yolo

Dodgy note on the 'faaaade', but I'll let him off, cos this works! 👍🤘

NO FUCKING WAY

I think a little bit of wee just came out.......

I like this more than Radiohead's

Boys I'm joking. The Darkness is my favorite band. P.S. - SwaGGGggGGg

What the fuck

But you do say T'Darkness so...

Er, no. They'd succeed fantastically by not remaking the song in hackneyed cock-rock lite. The best of the era that The Darkness pays homage to, I can appreciate. And this rendition gains from the pedigree of the writing behind it. However, it pales in comparison to the genuine article.

Do you realize Swag is an acronym for "Secretly We Are Gay"?

This is so much better then radio heads version

@amireisley7130

8 жыл бұрын

+Sean Bolden lol

@NotFoundead

8 жыл бұрын

+OuchThatHurt lol not even in your wettest dreams...

@Gondar4321

8 жыл бұрын

kek u can't be sirius

@ECCENTRICERIC69

Ай бұрын

Good one!

THIS IS NOT ONLY BETER, BUT IT KILLS THE BORING ORIGINAL TOO :P

So this is how they get me to watch a darkness video. and still i hate it.

This is musical blasphemy

Gtfo

It's like they murdered a unicorn

This is one of the worst things i've ever heard.

@user-ov2mx9rf9c

10 ай бұрын

Well you are a conservative radiohead fan

Just awful