STOP WHISPERING
Released: April 1991
Length: 5:25
Disc: Pablo Honey
Tablature: Guitar
Stop Whispering Video

Other Versions:
Demo Version - On A Friday demo tape
US Version - Stop Whispering single | Itch EP
Live @ Melkweg - High And Dry Live Package
Cover by Dot Fash - Anyone Can Play Radiohead Tribute LP

Written as a tribute to the Pixies, an important influence on Radiohead at this time, "Stop Whispering" clinched the band's relationship with the management team of Hufford and Edge. After it appeared on their very first demo tape.

Chris Sheldon remixed it for a United States release; that version features strings and has a slower tempo. It's the one that features on the single, and video. The best version of this song, however, is the live one. Thom adds a few lyrics to the ending.

This wasn't a very successful single release, and the band has admitted they made mistakes when it came to their inexperience and the release of this track. Thom has introduced this track live as "a single that never was a single. As far as I can work out."

And the wise men say "I don't want to hear your voice."
And the thin men say "I don't want to hear your voice."
And they're cursing me, and they won't let me be
And there's nothing to say, and there's nothing to do

Stop whispering, start shouting
Stop whispering, start shouting

And my mother say "We spit on your son some more."
And the buildings say "We spit on your face some more."
And the feeling is that there's something wrong
'Cause I can't find the words, and I can't find the songs

Stop whispering, start shouting
Stop whispering, start shouting

Dear Sir, I have a complaint
Dear Sir, I have a complaint
Can't remember what it is
Doesn't matter anyway
Doesn't matter anyway

Stop whispering
Stop whispering
Stop whispering
Stop whispering, start shouting
Thom Yorke "[For the video, we were persuaded to] dress up in diver's clothes and dance around. It was all very embarrassing ." - Thom
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