For a very intimate (and very chatty) audience and recorded on a handheld device, history was made when 25-year-old R&B sensation FRANK OCEAN covered RADIOHEAD.
In the comments on YouTube, the most likes belong to 'xelemeno89x'. The comment outlines the profound reality that a large proportion of the restless audience were probably oblivious to the special cover they were witnessing.
Released 13 years ago when FRANK OCEAN was just 12 years old and THOM YORKE and his band RADIOHEAD were gaining widespread critical acclaim and hitting their creative prime, 'Fake Plastic Trees' off The Bends is a classic 90s track.
Now we 90s tragics can also reap the rewards, thanks to those witnessing this live musical treat who had the presence of mind to whip out their iPhones, albeit while half-heartedly WOO-ing like tweens.
Watch it, and listen. No words can do it justice.
Also worth watching is OCEAN's Saturday Night Live performance below.
Words by Rebecca McCann.
