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Radiohead – No Surprises
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“No Surprises” is the fourth and final single from Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer. It was the first song to be recorded for the album, and the band actually stuck with the
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Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Originally written the same day as Creep, and in what could possibly be one of the most depressing and bittersweet songs of all time, Thom Yorke muses over lost love and deep
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Radiohead – Karma Police
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One of several stunning singles from Radiohead’s heavily influential masterpiece, OK Computer, “Karma Police” is a haunting and atmospheric track. Thom Yorke’s strained
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Radiohead – Creep
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According to Thom Yorke, “Creep” tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks
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Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
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A fine example of Radiohead’s “post-grunge” / “pre-electronic” phase on The Bends.
The song is supposed to be a call against consumerism. While recording the song, the band went
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Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
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“Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi” brandishes new drums behind its drain-circling arpeggios, but sounds every bit as massive in crescendoing as its live renditions suggested it might.
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Radiohead – Burn the Witch
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Radiohead has a long history with this song. Phrases related to “Burn the Witch” first appeared in the cover art to 2003’s Hail to the Thief. The lyrics were reportedly finished in
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Wesley Willis – Radiohead
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[Verse 1] / Once upon a time, there was a rock concert / This band played at the Metro / The concert was a jam / The music was awesome / [Chorus] / Radiohead / Radiohead
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Radiohead – Myxomatosis
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A song touching on Radiohead’s relationship with the media and their critics, and how fame affected what they set out to achieve.
It is permeated by a dirty, aggressive riff with
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Radiohead – Are You Someone?
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[Verse 1] / Are you lonely? / Are you living on the seat of your pants? / Are you happy? / Wipe that smile off your face / Are you someone? / Lose my pinball eyes / Are you lonely
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Radiohead – MK 1
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The title is a possible refence to MKUltra, a project directed by the CIA to study means of mind control. The track’s atmosphere aims to create the sense of discomfort that relates
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Nightly – radiohead
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[Verse 1] / And I'm on the ride home, some other time zone / You're in my head like a song / Stuck in the traffic, and all of the static / It's your voice that's playing along / [
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Radiohead – Spectre
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Released Christmas morning, Radiohead revealed the track that would have been their theme song for the 25th James Bond film, “Spectre”. For one reason or another, it didn’t quite
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Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place
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Thom Yorke (and his close friend Adam Buxton, who directed the video for this song) has stated in interviews that ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’ is based on the messy drunken nights
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Radiohead – House of Cards
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This song is certainly about a man that loves a girl that’s in a relationship. He wants to be her lover.
He talks about a “house of cards”, which means a “insubstantial or
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Radiohead – Just
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“Just” is a single from Radiohead’s second album, The Bends.
The song’s subject matter is traditional Radiohead fare: the depression, self-loathing, and alienation that modern
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Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)
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A song about the futility of life, the pointlessness of existence and the certainty of death.
The song is a fitting end to a quite depressing album in which Yorke ends with a
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Alix Page – Radiohead
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[Verse 1] / Last night I dreamt that we were older / Painting our living room white / You were dressed up for a funeral / And trying to start a fight / I put flowers in the doorway
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Radiohead – (Nice Dream)
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Originally considered as an option for the first single from Radiohead’s 1995 release The Bends, “(Nice Dream)” was never released as a single. It wound up as track 6 on the album.
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Radiohead – My Iron Lung
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The entire song is about Radiohead’s “Creep” from their first album Pablo Honey. An iron lung is a mechanical respirator that worked using negative pressure to assist breathing
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Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien
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In “Subterranean Homesick Alien,” Thom speaks of being isolated or different from the rest of his brethren. He wishes an alien colony can take him away just so he could be a silent
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Talking Heads – Radio Head
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“Radio Head” can be thought of as a companion piece to “Television Man” from the preceding album, Little Creatures. Where “Television Man” examined the relationship one has with TV
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Radiohead – Black Star
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The very lows of what it’s like to be romantically involved with someone suffering from mental illness – the one most sane is likely to use scapegoats and half-measures in whatever
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Radiohead – All I Need
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In the fall of 2005, Radiohead had already been working on new music for their 7th LP. On September 30th, they posted a photograph on their blog, Dead Air Space, revealing a black
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Radiohead – Follow Me Around
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After the release of some previously unreleased material in OKNOTOK, this is now probably the oldest and best known “lost song” by Radiohead.
It is known that the band attempted
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Radiohead – Wonderwall
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In 1996, Radiohead played a partial cover of Oasis massive hit Wonderwall once at a Radio Session for CBC, in Vancouver, Canada.
From Thom’s tone of voice and stumbling with the
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Radiohead – You
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“You” seems to be about people blindly following others (especially higher-ups) and how it may lead to society’s end. The song seems to be disguised as a simple love song in which
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Radiohead – There There
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Released on May 26, 2003 as the first single from Hail to the Thief, “There There” describes the human struggle against the evil forces of temptation that vie to lead us astray.
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Radiohead – Thinking About You
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There are two studio versions of this track. The first one, with a faster tempo and more guitars was released in the Manic Hedgehog demo, and later on the EPs Drill and Itch, with
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Cage – Radiohead
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Released as a B-Side to Cage’s Agent Orange in 1997, to success and acclaim. It has since been hailed as an underground classic
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Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely
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“How to Disappear Completely” was based on a dream Thom Yorke had in which he was floating around the city as if he were a ghost. The chorus also came from advice that Michael
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Radiohead – Airbag
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“Airbag” is the first song off OK Computer.
The song is somewhat autobiographical – Thom had been involved in a car accident roughly a decade before, his life saved by an airbag
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Radiohead – I Promise
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“I Promise” is a song is about being devoted to someone, almost to an idiosyncratic fault. It details a relationship in which someone makes declaration after declaration that no
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Radiohead – Daydreaming
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“Daydreaming” contains allusions to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. This is depicted in the music video, both at the beginning and end, just like the symmetry in the song. The video
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Radiohead – Attention
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One of the most exciting inclusions on Radiohead’s “white cassette” mixtape, “Attention” is a 4-track demo recorded by Thom Yorke himself.
In the first published review of OKNOTOK
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Radiohead – Paranoid Android
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“Paranoid Android,” the first single from OK Computer, is characterized by three distinct moods written in what Thom Yorke referred to as three different states of mind. The song’s
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Radiohead – Nude
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Originally written and recorded during the OK Computer era, this song was often played live and became a hardcore-fan favorite. It had the working title “Failure to Receive
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Radiohead – The Bends
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In scientific terms, the bends, also known as decompression sickness, occurs when dissolved gas comes out of solution forming bubbles in the blood. This condition demonstrates
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Radiohead – Let Down
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Featured on Radiohead’s 1997 alternative-rock classic OK Computer, “Let Down” was recorded at 3 AM in a ballroom at the historic St Catherine’s Court. The song structure features
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Radiohead – The Numbers
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This folksy, reverb-laden song has drawn comparisons to Neil Young. Originally performed in December 2015 by Thom Yorke at the Pathways to Paris concert as “Silent Spring.” The
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Radiohead – Poison MD111
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This demo appears to be an early version of both “Exit Music (For A Film)” and “Life in a Glasshouse” with alternative lyrics. Up to 2019, when this demo came out, the two songs
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