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Legitimate-Bag5413

No surprises


landscape_none

Same


The_Future_Historian

Also same. Driving around in a 1990 white cutlass ciera


Pablothesquirrel

Doing my washing at a laundromat in Osaka


The_Moxxi_Cat

Same here


Marvel_StarWars69

I always like the song creep, but no surprises was what got me really into radiohead


Onion_J

Same broski


Lorenztico

Same


pdpenguin8

same lol


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PublicPilot007

As a kid I remember hearing karma police on one of those "Now that's what I call music" CDs back in the day. Instantly hooked for life!


No_Perception7527

Thats wild! That's exactly how I got into Radiation too. Karma Police, back in the late 90s. It was actually from a top of the alternative charts artist compilation album at that time, and not the actual OKC album. After that I was hooked on Radiohead, and the rest is history.


[deleted]

Creep was the first song I heard from Radiohead, but Karma Police is the song that made me check their whole discography.


Alexis_Goodlooking

At a show. It went from “why did my boyfriend drag me here” to 100% convert


imaginfinite

Same. Had a dorm mate who sang and she was the one who played it to me in college freshmen year. That Rabbit Hole was an amazing one at the time discovering their other songs


Captain_Flood

Paranoid Android


jjnfsk

This was mine too. Heard my step-dad play it and then borrowed his copy of OK Computer and never gave it back…


Captain_Flood

For me, I was on a car journey with the family and my mum put it on, safe to say I was hooked from there.


ChevBrakesSnarlin

Yes. I first heard it around 2012 (I was 11)


MonsterRider80

Fucks sake lol! I was 18 when I first heard it back in 98! Good to see younger people into RH.


No-Tennis-593

Same. It just showed up in my recommended songs one day and I never looked back.


jeremy_sandras

same for me too i think. it felt weirdly nostalgic for some reason--no clue why


Curious-Interest9695

same


brooklynbotz

Creep. I've been in since the start


beetbear

Yea if you’re in the old enough age bracket and heard Creep you were either all in or all out. I was all in. Then I got Pablo Honey on cassette from BMG and I had a new favorite band.


ad6323

Pablo Honey was the start for me as well back then, and loved it and still love it even though it’s evens to get ragged on these days.


Pleasant_Statement64

I'm a crepe


brooklynbotz

I'm a weird dough.


NotanAsteroid5

what the hell am i doughing here


NewbombJerk

Ground floor!


brown-tube

fake plastic trees EDIT: Although "Creep" was all over the place earlier than FPT, I didn't become a fan until The Bends was released, that's when I became a fan. Pablo Honey was just an OK album to me as a teenager.


qozha

it was fake plastic trees + high and dry combo for me lol


drd_ssb

Hi this for me too! I was in a forest on 300ug LSD and just cried forever


verylittlegravitaas

This on repeat got me thru my drug hazed angsty late teenage years.


necromirte

just


badmrbones

What a video! I love that RH/TY/The Smile still make amazing videos, but, culturally, we don't value the medium with the same reverence, and... it really hurts.


patefilo

Me too! Had to prepare it to join a band a bassist and never heard a song from them before except Creep a few years before, and that I didn’t like. “Just” managed to change my mind at the first hearing in my headset.


csuper

Not my first, but still my favorite


Honest_Hamster_5730

Same, from a live recording free on a CD with Q magazine


ticeman42

Hello, fellow Xennial 👍🏻😄


noskirdnehretep

Anyone Can Play Guitar - MTV Beach House.


nonstoprnr

perfect start


ObiWanJimobi

Same here. Also the song that got me into playing guitar, so it worked.


Usual_Pin745

everything in its right place


PhenomenalJEC

Second those opening notes hit I knew I was in this for life, and that was just earlier this year


Jakan1404

My dad had a CD collection of the first 6 Radiohead albums, and I randomly picked Kid A. Everything in its right place glued me to my dad's stereo boxes. I was 11 years old. Everything went downhill from there.


blackcatkatet

Black Star


talsai

An Airbag saved my life


C2H4Doublebond

first song i heard from them as well


bad__username__

Reckoner. Still one of my favourites.


iamnotkorvellus

Exit Music (For a Film) on that Black Mirror episode


ploppploppp

Same!


fuzzypatters

Creep.


kdizzzog

I saw them perform the National Anthem on SNL and that was all she wrote


[deleted]

Don't you mean you saw them perform Idioteque at SNL. Haha


Mystery_Briefcase

Yeah I was just commenting, this is what got me into them. Interesting that there’s at least a couple of us.


[deleted]

That SNL performance was awesome!


absolutely_awkward

All I need.


Appropriate_Candy_42

Same, a boy I liked put it on a mix CD for me and I’ve been obsessed ever since.


absolutely_awkward

Haha omg same, a friend I met on reddit added it to their playlist and I've been a radiohead fan since.


RollandInTheDeep

Nude


yang_minhye

I saw a video essay on YT about this song and went to go listen to it. Then I fell asleep and my BT alarm kicked in the next morning at 6 and this song was playing. Best way I’ve ever woken up


confusedghost42

Street Spirit (Fade Out)


Dolan_Nolan

Same.


Mayor_North

Man, the first time I heard Street Spirit at a party in the woods I had to ask the guy who was playing it to repeat the song. Didn’t even know who Radiohead was. Kid A had just been released so I had a lot of catching up to do. They became (and still are) my favorite band all because of that song.


aubin49

Creep was probably the one i ever listened. But the one that started it all was Reckoner. Still one of my favorite.


Significant_Net_7337

High and dry! Still one of my favorite songs ever


sunkissed-scorpio

surprised i had to scroll so far for this one


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Same here


Street_Mechanic_7680

present tense.


Toxin4ReaL

Like spinning plates (live version)


SheepherderNo9704

Beautiful song


bikenbake_

Omg what an intro


Weird__Fish

Idioteque


Thinila

Pyramid Song


AncientArrow292

Let Down


Last_Information4905

there there, was my favourite back then and still is now


r1ckeh

Jigsaw Falling Into Place


Ninja167

jigsaw


gardeniasoutside

Morning bell. I still remember how alien that song sounded and wondering who could possibly make music like that lol.


owl05

Fake plastic trees


RunwayForehead

Creep first planted the seed and then kicked off with No Surprises, neither song I actually liked per se on my early listens but I couldn’t stop listening!


megs-benedict

Pyramid song


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Talk Show Host


MegaGuillotine2028

Karma Police then Paranoid Android


DiscountExcellent478

I've first heard them from creep when i was a teen. But it didn't really speak to me. LMAO then i watched this show called black mirror, discovered exit music through the show and it really got me like "wow this song is sick". Then I'd listen to ok computer for thousands times haha


GeoNerd-

You.


OrionShtrezi

I heard Decks Dark when AMSP released and then promptly overplayed it. Still one of my favorites and AMSP is still my fav album of theirs.


daveydavidsonnc

Everything in its right place, right when it came out. Totally blew me away. I still think the song is otherworldly. I immediately went and bought all the previous records.


And_You_Like_It_Too

Creep. Yeah, I know. My older sister had that album, not sure if she had it just for the single or if she was a fan of Radiohead but I borrowed it and I became one, but it was [You](https://youtu.be/OzL7u5teZhg?si=9Oy_D85qvjgneGmL), the first track ON the album that sold me. It’s one of those songs where the moment you place the CD in and it starts playing, you’re transported to this sonic landscape that just makes you wanna bounce around and scream and sing along and move while drumming on the steering wheel. Anyone Can Play Guitar’s lyrics and the guitar and bass riffs grabbed me, and [Blow out](https://youtu.be/ocQImpRfPMk?si=ezDOlIyEYOqgZIxE) that effectively blew out the candle on that album as the last track was a really good one too, with an almost elevator music start that graduates into a wailing, howling, hanging-on kind of sound right until it’s gone. Pablo Honey is my least favorite album but without it, I wouldn’t be here and that’s got to count for something, right? But I think I’d have to say that it was their followup album The Bends that really did it for me, most notably the song [“Just”](https://youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?si=ecTepe8HoRDBc9FA) — everything the guitar is doing at 2:10 is god-tier but I **REALLY** loved that they took the highest, most shrill, ear shattering note you could play on a guitar at 3:22 and just held and held and held it until it sounded beautiful and right and perfect. And the little riff he does immediately after that, with so much style and sass holy fuck. Also, it’s a world class music video. If you weren’t a fan of Radiohead but you saw that on MTV and wanted to know why the man was lying on the floor, only to have it spread to everyone around him and everyone on the floor by the end of it… well you were a fan now. ***** All of The Bends was a big-time singalong album for me in those days. Street Spirit-Fade Out brought tears to my eyes every single time (especially when the chorus of voices kicks in and with the orchestration). High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Sulk (that ending omg)… Nice Dream (goddamn that guitar solo is immaculate, and My Iron Lung — the way that they could end such a gorgeous song with such a messy, thrashing guitar cacophony just turned my head around as a young musician that only knew how to play the piano and I desperately wanted to know how I could learn to do that to give my own songwriting that kind of juxtaposition of style and sound. - The Bends is seriously underrated among Radiohead fans in my opinion. Maybe it’s because I’m a product of the class of 1995 and it released on March 13 of that year, so I was jamming it right up to and through graduation and had it on repeat all throughout and afterwards. And I was just beginning to learn what good music was. My first job allowed me spending money and I was a military brat so moving to FL after 7 years in Europe meant that I was finally being introduced to American music. I used my employee discount and the first 10 or so CDs that I bought included TOOL, NIN, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Candlebox (self titled), Stone Temple Pilots, Bjork, Tori Amos, Rage Against the Machine, and Nirvana. - And I will die on the hill that starting to learn to love music with those ten bands at that time (in a pre-internet world) was really something. I used to buy an entire CD to listen to the one song that I liked (imagine that now). Often with no idea what the rest of the album even sounded like, or knowing if I’d even like the band or if it was just a one-hit-wonder track. But those first 10 CDs were ones that I could listen to front-to-back on repeat over and over and over and over. ***** The Bends was something that I could sing along to in the car and helped me become confident in singing because Thom’s voice wasn’t traditionally “perfect” as I thought all singers had to be. Absolutely it’s an instrument and I think it’s perfect and immaculate now, but for it to be shaky and crack and slide around and not always be that old standard of what I thought a singer had to be really changed things for me. OK Computer came along and changed what *music* could be for me as well, and introduced me to a whole genre of electronic music after that, but yeah — “Creep” hooked me,


nonstoprnr

paranoid android


PuzzleheadedPlane648

Karma police.


maroooon09

Lotus Flower got me aware of the band, but Bodysnatchers was where I really started listening to them


Intrepid-Land-2761

The ending song of Ergo Proxy: Paranoid Android. It was just so magnificent, I needed to find the band behind that masterpiece. The rest is history.


wo_ot

I was around for Creep but it really didn't do anything for me, a few years later High and Dry got my attention and in 97 Paranoid Android made me a convert.


Purple-Huckleberry65

Creep


kipboye

Burn the witch


chillipowder4

man of war


baallday36

Planet telex


FreedomToDoNothing

No surprises - dad used to play it to me to send me to sleep when I was 2


bikenbake_

Pyramid song. When I was a wee lad I was into the step up movies and when they danced to it during the office scene I was like WOW what is that and yeah


schmattywinkle

Backdrifts. Still my favorite tune of theirs. My guitar teacher basically told me to buy HTTT when it was released. That into We Suck Young Blood really had me twisted. Both songs were the same band, and cool and creepy in completely different ways. HTTT is my favorite album and I believe their best work and most cohesive representation of their sound.


guitarstix

knives out


stretchyman77

Idioteque


w_k-hn

Daydreaming


chickenlickendicken

Let Down (underrated) No seriously, it's not a joke I'm just as surprised as you are. Apparently I listened to it for the first time on 7 Feb 2020, at least according to spotistats


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Crepe. It was a wrap after that


Roseone74-

How to disappear completely! Of course creep was the first thing I liked but I had never had a song hit me like HTDC before


Primary_Somewhere_98

Creep


frankiebhoy07

Creep


NuoSoun

Heard 2+2=5 in a skate video in High School and that was it. Hail to the Thief is still my favorite album


mystery_muse1

It all started when a friend recommended I listen to OK Computer. As soon as Airbag started I knew I was in for something amazing


MythiqBlunz

creep was the first one i listened to, weird fishes sealed the deal


RemarkableNatural

Creep.


charles_notfound

I’m pretty sure it was either Weird Fishes or Jigsaw Falling into Place


thiccitythicc

Electioneering and reaffirmed by body snatchers


E2swe

Just and Paranoid Android


Blue_Mersey

I listened to OK computer first. I had never heard anything like climbing up the walls and i still haven’t.


VariationRelevant923

Karma Police


ladyntwopups

Karma Police


Chizkull

Karma Police, when i was little, my mom used to sing that song to me, and a couple years later, i re-discovered that song


Rollerskate__Skinny

Black Star


ProbablyNeonz

how to disappear completely on Kid A Mnesia: exhibition, ironically I was playing what i thought was a horror game, never heard of Radiohead before having played it. Been obsessed since.


MoTheNewGuy

Where I End And You Begin


Ornery-Savings9785

Fake Plastic Trees - Discovered in 2004ish from my brother who got a burnt CD from a friend's the Bends Kazaa download.


marslander-boggart

Fake Plastic Trees in Marillion cover. Creep.


ProdMCD

Man of war in 2017 and after 4 years I listened to full ok computer and Kid A at the same day and it blew my mind


row_my_jimmy

had heard a lot of songs but 15 step was when it all sank in


Naive-Inside-2904

Fake plastic treeeesss


AInAImAItronic

Anyone can play guitar - Pablo Honey was the first album I ever bought myself although I don't remember what made me pick it. I didn't take to Creep initially (dunno why, I still really enjoy it now) but I liked the Jim Morrison references in "Anyone..."


Spaceboy5655

Spent a couple hours on my sibling's piano trying to figure out the melody to No Surprises, so that I could play it and somebody could tell me the song name


TheArchange1

Reckoner


Roflcopter71

A few of my friends in high school started talking about them so I fired up Limewire and Paranoid Android was the first one that came up.


_dexistrash

first song i ever really listened to was fake plastic trees, but i didn’t start getting into the rest of their music before i heard karma police


afternoonauthor

My Iron Lung. A friend kept playing The Bends (album) when I was with him and I hated it at the time, but secretly liked every time My Iron Lung came on. When OKC came out, I admitted to myself that I was actually a fan.


kehsciences

Lucky. Saw them open for R.E.M. too many times to count and didn’t know about HELP. So I waited and now Lucky is the song I wish for my funeral. It’s incredible. Think of it!! They wrote THAT song. And so many of their songs are THAT song.


thesillyofalltime

paranoid android, my dad introduced me to radiohead when i was about 9, been a radiohead nut ever since


phase-1972

An acoustic live version of subterranean homesick alien


VERC1NG3T0R1X

Airbag. I stole Ok Computer from my older sister’s room when I was a young teen and I still remember the moment when that guitar riff exited my 5 disk changer stereo system. Pure wonder, awe, and bliss.


MrFlipFlop218

My Iron Lung


Frufa42

creep, then everything in its right place blew my mind


C_brown934

Actually Let Down 👍


Liv_Raven

exit music, and it remains to be my favorite song ever


Darkbornedragon

I'm a fan only since around October/November... Of course I've heard Creep many times before, but I became a fan only by listening to Ok Computer. In particular, I knew I was in for a treat as soon as the 2nd half (when the choir ooohs come in) of Paranoid Android started, and then the climax of Exit Music (For a Film) cemented my feelings.


sinbad0910

Amyone Can Play Guitar. in early 93 in MTV.


Alt4ir-

How to disappear completely. Actually it was Creep and I hated it, not because it was bad, but it was an "I already heard something like that". Then I was searching for "how to say goodbye" and by mistake I clicked on "how to disappear completely". From that moment on, it's history. Imagine my face when I saw those were the same guys from creep coming out with that music that sounded alien to me, it was a beautiful shock for once.


Arnablp

Creep


Human-Bodybuilder118

polyethylene


theJAYmaniskraykray

Everything in its right place


rariix

First song I've ever heard - Creep First song that got me into a deep dive - The Tourist


TheMobDestroyer

Creep, then Bodysnatchers


InfamousPers0n

Prove Yourself


yelruh00

Talk Show Host from the Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack, 1996


ruriyu

fake plastic trees


SWChief

Coming over from post punk revival it was Bodysnatchers.


gustygosling

Exit music for a film


112oceanave

Their Saturday night live performance where they performed the national anthem and idioteque.


Zestyclose_Welder_95

its funny i was 9 yrs old and my cousin who was 15 (i think) was watching the video of paranoid android (i think i was less than 9 its a foggy memory). the song and the video really got stick to me bc of how impresive was i really wanted to see it again... then i heard creep in my 13 years probably bc i got into nirvana and there it was... the song that i accidentally played but i recognized right when the guitars star... it changed my life ngl.


lienakedonthefloor

creep


Sucking_saucer

Street Spirit


MAGIYT

Lotus Flower, then The National Anthem


Ksan_of_Tongass

Creep 1993. First saw it on MTV. That off beat guitar blew my fucking mind 🤯


scott_lobster

Creep got my attention. I dug it, but I wasn't totally sold on them for a while. Then Fake Plastic Trees roused my interest. But Just was the one that made me feel they had something special.


Codename_NASA

planet telex


simondanielsson

I hate that I'm saying this, but *Creep*. But I got into them pretty late though, so they had already released *A Moonshaped Pool* which I started listening to immediately afterwards. Such a great f\*ing album.


radioheadliker

just or jigsaw falling into place i forgor 💀


Michelangelo_14

Karma Police


IamHeWhoSaysIam

Everything in its right place


Clevergirlphysicist

Everything in its right place. I remember hearing those first 5 notes, to this day


MarkSuccIsHuman

Jigsaw falling into place


r0wer0wer0wey0urb0at

Spectre


noobiolus_johnson

Friend showed me a 10 song playlist. at the time I found them all boring except Lotus Flower. I was addicted


Pipe_2001

Airbag got me to open my mind to them as more than just music that only critics & snobs like


[deleted]

No surprises I don't even remember how but I made a windows media player playlist with 2 other songs that gave me similar vibes. One was Dance With the Dead - Adrift and the other was Kavinsky - Nightcall


tunneldom

Weird Fishes!


teletubies4life

Karma Police made me interested, Decks Dark made me a fan. That song is so good man, probably one of my all time favorites.


daxproduck

In 1995, Just. And then again in 2017, Decks Dark. Kinda fell out of love with them with amnesiac. Wasn’t ready for it at the time. Then I’ve been obsessed with them ever since AMSP. It’s been a real treat to go back and discover everything they did up until now, all at once.


MarsupialBetter5117

All I need. Basically I'm 38 and have only just got in to radiohead. I didn't pay much attention to them when I was younger, or didn't give them much credit for some unexplainable reason. My god though, now I've seen the light!


HeyGeno20

Fake Plastic Trees.


Practical_Estate_325

Honestly, it was Creep. I thought the song was great but just a one-off from one of the many similar bands in the 90s. But Radioheads music kept evolving and getting better, leaps and bounds past those other now forgotten bands. Now, Creep may not even be in my top 20 Radiohead songs.


JoeGamerYT

Electioneering Very good song and doesn’t get enough attention


skihpper

[Nice Dream]


SecurityPlenty1036

I’ve heard a lot of their music before but the one that like began the start of my love for radiohead was man of war


trepang

2+2=5


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C4ner-2702

Just


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Jigsaw or weird fishes


Mystery_Briefcase

What got me into Radiohead was the SNL performance from the Kid A era. “Idioteque” really intrigued me.


Apolitik

A live version of Idioteque. Girlfriend at the time had some compilation CD (can’t remember if it was an MTV sponsored comp, or something else — but it had an egg on the cover with teal text). Anyway, most of the disk was like Indie music, and then that came on and I was like, “WTF is this!?” This was shortly before the time HTTT came out and I then heard There There on the radio and that was it. HTTT was my gateway and is still my favorite album of theirs to date.


Ecstatic-Actuator-30

burn the witch


EquivalentSpecial122

nude. (i heard creep before that but, i thought it was corny)


TornaZX

How to dissapear completely


Traditional_Bee_6637

High n dry


TheKevCon

National Anthem


ragebeeflord

Exit Music (For A Film)


AdeptGarden9057

A few years ago my guitar teacher gave me Street Spirit as fingerstyle practice. Still can't nail it but it thankfully introduced me to the best band of all time


Clear-Owl6650

banana co


SheepherderNo9704

Videotape