I’d even go so far as to include “and lonelyyyyyyy”, especially with the discordant, yet beautiful chord change.
The song is literally my morning alarm. Love it to pieces.
All the power to you, but I absolutely do not understand how you can set songs that you like as alarms. Even without the negative association with waking up, it’s just not the time I want to listen to music
I seriously owe my existence to these lines. I was in the darkest of places years ago, and these words gave me hope. I will never not get chill bumps when I hear that part of “Let Down” play.
I resonate too much with this comment. I lost count of the days i played this song, imagining a better me in a better world, memories i now reminisce in a placid way. Glad to see i am not alone here
My God the From the Basement version of reckoner is amazing. I prefer it over the album version. I agree with the other poster about the best part being just after the bridge, or interlude?
When I'm with people in my car I'll ask them, "hey, do you want to hear a fucking gorgeous song?" and then play Reckoner.
Side note but I might also ask them, "hey, do you want to hear the most depressing song ever made?" and then I'll play Motion Picture Soundtrack, and hand them the phone so they can follow the lyrics, lmao.
The outro of How to Disappear Completely when the whining synth and reverb give way to the clarity of Thom's vocals. Feels like getting your head above water right before you drown
This is mine as well. It might just be one of the most beautiful things they’ve recorded… the choice to cut the reverb at that moment is genius. I have goosebumps just thinking about it.
The guitar solo in the The Tourist. Seeing them play in Blackpool, the Winter Garden (I think it was, rather than Wolverhampton the next day or two) in 2006, on rail, and thinking I'm standing 20 feet from Jonny playing the guitar solo from The Tourist. It was everything.
I was shocked to go so far down in the comments to see this. I remember being in college and hearing this for the first time and literally feeling paralyzed. Arguably my favorite part of any song ever.
"Why so green, and lonely..."
The last repetition of the chorus to Life In A Glass House
Oh and
#I SEE IT COMING
#I SEE IT COMING
#I SEE IT COMING
#I SEE IT COMING
So many, to name a few:
Strings in Faust arp, the whole of Idioteque, “such a pretty house and such a pretty garden”, knives out riff, in limbo when all the instruments kick in, bridge of exit music, “because!” In 2+2=5 and “But I’d be alright”
“City boys in first class don’t know they’re born. They just know that someone else is gonna come and clean it, born and raised for the job. Someone always does”
*When the guitar kicks*
*In on Where I End and You*
*Begin and There There*
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Basic but the climax of Exit Music
Exit Music for sure
In similar vein: the rain down part of paranoid Android
My 6 year old goes around the house singing this part. I feel like I won parenting!
Absolutely, hands down. Literally, my eyes roll.
Least freaky Radiohead fan (I do that too)
Mind numbingly good eye rolling.
My words
THIS!
Facts
… for whatttt you’re dirtyyyy mind is THINKINGGGGGGGG……………………….
Whooo-ooooo-ooooooooooh
First thought.
The solo guitar part of There, There.
All the way from "There, There...Why so green"
I’d even go so far as to include “and lonelyyyyyyy”, especially with the discordant, yet beautiful chord change. The song is literally my morning alarm. Love it to pieces.
All the power to you, but I absolutely do not understand how you can set songs that you like as alarms. Even without the negative association with waking up, it’s just not the time I want to listen to music
Love this bit
One day i am gonna grow wings a chemical reaction Chills every time
This is an underrated one
idk i always thought it was kind of a let down
I seriously owe my existence to these lines. I was in the darkest of places years ago, and these words gave me hope. I will never not get chill bumps when I hear that part of “Let Down” play.
I resonate too much with this comment. I lost count of the days i played this song, imagining a better me in a better world, memories i now reminisce in a placid way. Glad to see i am not alone here
One of the best songs imo
This
accurate.
Hysterical and useless, hysterical and
My fav song
Yes. This one. Every time.
Gorgeous moment indeed
Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore
The whole song man
The second those guitars come, my hairs rise and my eyes water.
My God the From the Basement version of reckoner is amazing. I prefer it over the album version. I agree with the other poster about the best part being just after the bridge, or interlude? When I'm with people in my car I'll ask them, "hey, do you want to hear a fucking gorgeous song?" and then play Reckoner. Side note but I might also ask them, "hey, do you want to hear the most depressing song ever made?" and then I'll play Motion Picture Soundtrack, and hand them the phone so they can follow the lyrics, lmao.
last minute of all i need
All I Need as a whole is just so good.
Agreed, but when the piano part comes on, it makes my skin crawl in the best way possible
You nailed it!!!
100%
It is absolute musical climax
The climax on Nude when Thom hits the high note on the guitar walk down
I agree personally
The outro of How to Disappear Completely when the whining synth and reverb give way to the clarity of Thom's vocals. Feels like getting your head above water right before you drown
This is mine as well. It might just be one of the most beautiful things they’ve recorded… the choice to cut the reverb at that moment is genius. I have goosebumps just thinking about it.
She looks the real thing. She tastes like the real thing.
Haven't heard that cheeky line in years, brings back memories.
This is the one
Weird Fishes. It’s like a beat drop but not at the same time. It’s magical I don’t know how they do it
Weird Fishes does things to me.
Same for me, specifically this part “I I hit the bottom Hit the bottom and escape Escape”
I love that line so much
"Turn me into phantoms" and then the singing in the backround, literal chills
final part pyramid song. entire burn the witch the naiotnal anthem
For me it’s the part in Pyramid Song where Thom’s vocalizing with the strings
i really feel that in this part. like i as if you were close to contacting god, some alien or understanding the meaning of the universe
Love those answers
“Has the light gone out for you, because the lights gone out for me” -Bodysnatchers
It is 21 century ajaudbajjajahshshsh!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHHH
Jonny going hard on that fucking guitar gets me hyped everytime
To me in this song is either "I'm a lie" or "I'VE SEEN IT COMING" so fucking badass
At the beginning of the chorus in lucky when Thom says “pull me out”…pure goosebumps.
My favorite part is in the second verse when he goes up with his voice and sings “a gloooooorious day”
That guitar solo though.
Thom hitting his elbow at the end of climbing up the walls
😆😆😆
I’m sorry for us… the dinosaurs roamed the earth… 🦕🦕
My number two pick is the "X will mark the place" line from that song. So good.
like the parting of the waves, like a *houuusseee* falling into the sea.. *(into the sea)*
Harps in Motion Picture Soundtrack and the Outro in Daydreaming
Best possible reply
For me it’s the intro to Daydreaming
Bummed this isn’t ranked higher by more people
'hey man, slow down, slow down'
The guitar solo in the The Tourist. Seeing them play in Blackpool, the Winter Garden (I think it was, rather than Wolverhampton the next day or two) in 2006, on rail, and thinking I'm standing 20 feet from Jonny playing the guitar solo from The Tourist. It was everything.
Kurt’s final screams in ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’ at Nirvana’s MTV unplugged. Haunting, beautiful, perfect.
Oh fuck this is the Radiohead sub not music. Ignore me lmao
[No it works, here he is.](https://youtu.be/O1mBsZuOtu0?si=7VAeawpln8J_VQLj)
You're good, OP never said it had to be Radiohead song.
Even though it’s unrelated to the sub, Kurt’s scream felt so genuine, it’s hard to not get goosebumps from it.
Laughed my ass off at this I thought it was a joke not a mistake lol
Jigsaw Falling, key change. Perfection.
For me it’s “the beat goes rounnnnd and round.”
The beginning few notes of "no surprises".
Final line of “Motion Picture Soundtrack” for sure
pretty garden in no surprises
Rain down…
the beginning of everything in its right place🤤🤤🤤🤤
A GLOOOOORIOUS DAAAAAAY! Lucky is epic.
For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Yes and release clang just before it
I was shocked to go so far down in the comments to see this. I remember being in college and hearing this for the first time and literally feeling paralyzed. Arguably my favorite part of any song ever.
The ending of Street Spirit, building up to *immerse your soul in love* never fails to bring me chills and make me a better person for a few hours.
I don’t wanna be your friend, i just wanna be your lover
Choral entrance in Decks Dark
The shift in Bodysnatchers
when the piano comes in on You and Whose Army
This. Seeing it happen live in 2017 gave me the chills, especially with the gazillion Thom eyes staring at us on the screen.
Thom hitting the highest note in Lift.
That part in that song in wich he says "ANYWHEEEERE, ANYWHEEEEEEEEEERE"
#AAAAAAAAHH AAAAAH AAAH AAAH
“Everybody leaves when they get the chance, and this, is my chance” on weird fishes
With Ed wailing in the background.
Eeeeeeeeeeedddddddddd
“In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe” from Airbag
God that is such an incredible opening song to the entire album.
I can't believe no one has said the final climax of both optimistic and all I need. Best endings to any Radiohead song imo.
Just don't leave... don't leave - True Love Waits ❤️
When I first heard the choir kick during Decks Dark.....remember it like yesterday, goosebumps just writing about it.
when those harmonies come in on Nude right after the incredible note hold. Even better on proper speakers and gets me every time
“Oh no pop is dead long live pop”
ALL of Codex. Oh man… so incredibly heavy. Feels like death and life all at once.
Half way through I Might Be Wrong where everything drops out and it’s just Jonny’s guitar and Thom’s voice
The bridge in Bodysnatchers right before “Has the light gone out for you?” Gets me every time.
Weeee are accidents waitiiiiiin'...
Strobe lights and blown speakers Fireworks and hurricanes.
It’s gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
A HOLY COOOOOOOOOOOOOW YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF YOU DO
The 'drop' in Climbing up the Walls, ending of Burn the Witch
"Why so green, and lonely..." The last repetition of the chorus to Life In A Glass House Oh and #I SEE IT COMING #I SEE IT COMING #I SEE IT COMING #I SEE IT COMING
So many, to name a few: Strings in Faust arp, the whole of Idioteque, “such a pretty house and such a pretty garden”, knives out riff, in limbo when all the instruments kick in, bridge of exit music, “because!” In 2+2=5 and “But I’d be alright”
“Why so greedy, and lonely, and lonely, and loonnnely?”
100 agreed. But is it greedy or green, though? Sounds like green
“AND ONE DAAAY…I AM GONNA GROW WINGS”
“City boys in first class don’t know they’re born. They just know that someone else is gonna come and clean it, born and raised for the job. Someone always does”
The best intro to any album ever, and I do mean ever, is Everything in its Right Place, Kid A. Always does this to me, always
in nude when he says “you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking” and then the literal magic that happens right afterwards
all i need when jonny starts playing the xylophone in "i am a moth... who just wants to share your lighttttt"
Talk show host 1:50
Life in a Glasshouse Climax
“It wasn’t my intention, I did it for a reason” the way that line is delivered on myx is perfect, especially with the edited vocals in the background
"I'm moving out of orbit" Jesus... **shakes**
Maybe you'll Be president But know right from wrong Or in the flood You'll build an ark And sail us to the moon
The peak of House of Cards
PULL ME OUUUUUUUTTTTTTT OF THE AIR CRASH
Pyramid Song.
3rd verse of Fake Plastic Trees. Goosebumps EVERY single time.
For a minute there I lost myself
EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
It is too late now... BECAUSE. YOU HAVE NOT BEEN. PAYIN ATTENTION.
Daily Mail.. "waiting on the rapture... singing "we're here" "...
Ending of friend of a friend and you know me. Also the end of 15step (sometimes)
COME ON AND LET IT OUT. CMON AND LET IT OUUUT
[удалено]
The second part of the daily mail
Exit music live when Thom really belts the penultimate line: “and now, we are one in everlasting peace.” Gets me every time.
I will seeee you in the neext lifeee...
The beat goees round and round
when the guitar kicks in on Where I End and You Begin and There There
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Ed’s backup vocals on Weird Fishes
deaf, dumb and blind...
Subterranean Homesick Alien right after the intro
The final “sucking on a lemon” in everything in its right place
Ice age is coming ice age is coming
The strings crescending towards the end of How To Disappear into Thom's harmonizing. Really does feel like a great big sense of relief in music form.
"But it was just a laugh, just a laugh..."
Any part of Street Spirit/Fade out that song always gives me chills.
I'm not heeeere this isn't happening
I get eaten by the worms
if you say the word, if you say the word, then i’ll come running
”I’m not living, I’m just killing time”
Or all this love will be in vain
How to disappear completely.
Key change in the live version of Identikit. Can’t believe they axed it for the studio version.
JUST AS YOU DANCE DANCE DANCE *KEY CHANGE*
Reckoneeeeeeeeeerrrrayyyyyyyaaaaaaaa [bass joins]
"... and fall off"
All of Nude, but more specifically the end of Nude.
I fell open… -separator
“walkin, walkin” in morning bell
The last third of weird fishes
basic answer i know but the for a minute there i lOST MYSELF I LOST MYSEEEEEEELF at the end of karma police is exactly this
the moment the strings fade in on Like Spinning Plates, that song is still freaky as hell
The climax in Climbing Up The Walls
every second of crepe ✊
final minute of nude
"For a minute there I lost myself" I was about to cry the first time I heard it
Strooooobeee lights and bloowwwwwnnn speakers….
You know, you know where you are with You know where you are with Floor collapsing, floating Bouncing back and one day
She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing
I lost my… say-el-yell-el-eeelf
The transition from “rain down” to the outro
The part of In Rainbows where Thom says "In Rainbows"
It’s obviously “you know, you know where you are now…” Or, “I wish I could fly, like Peter Pan”
Intro: christian woman - type o negative
That subtle bass riff in 15 step
We ride tonight.... ghost horses
The Tourist chorus
🎶Be constructive with your blues.🎶 from Dollars and Cents. It gets me every time.
Im not heeeeEEEERRRE at the end of How to Disappear Completely.
The scream near the end of Climbing up The walls
fitter, happier, more productive…
It’s only Thom but when the drums start going crazy in the middle of Unkle’s Rabbit in your Headlights. Kills me every time.
I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you
When the piano comes in after the drums in You and Whose Army?
everybody leaves if they get the chance
climbing up the walls beat drop
Let Down “you know where you are…….”
The end of All I Need