Song · Live covers
I'm Set Free
A Velvet Underground song Thom Yorke sang with Beck at a Los Angeles benefit in 2002.
1969
the third album
Lou Reed wrote it for the Velvet Underground's third record, the quiet one made after John Cale left. It is a song about being released from something and immediately finding the next illusion to believe in.
26 feb 2002
the wiltern
Thom Yorke was not on the bill at the Wiltern Theatre on 26 February 2002. Beck, Eddie Vedder and Mike Ness were. It was one of four benefits across Los Angeles on the eve of the Grammys, all for the Recording Artists' Coalition, which wanted California to let recording artists walk out of a contract after seven years like any other worker. Yorke joined Beck on stage and the two of them sang this, a duet NME reported as impromptu.
The 2003 site filed it with Radiohead's cover songs.
the video
Their Velvet Underground cover.· take02watch on youtube →
sources3
- This site's own catalogue, which lists it as a cover of the Velvet Underground.
- NME, February 2002, for the Wiltern benefit and the Beck duet.
- This site's own preserved 2003 lyrics pages, for the bill, and its news story “Thom Yorke sings the Velvet Underground with Beck in Los Angeles”, for the four benefits and the law.