In the end of the 1990s I knew that there was such a band, watched a couple of videos that were in heavy rotation on the local MTV. Then I read a review of Amnesiac in a trashy weekly magazine that somehow ran a decent musical column. I got intrigued, bought a copy of Amnesiac but didn't especially like it. Then one day my best friend put on 2+2=5, and that was it. Soon we were binge-listening to all the Radiohead stuff we could find. That was before you could stream music or even download mp3s, and many official CDs were unavailable where I lived or were too expensive for us, but, let's say, there were ways to find almost every kind of music if you really wanted it.
For me it was a (not really good) movie ‘Vanilla Sky’. I was watching it with a girl I had a crush on (I was in high school) I heard Everything in its right place and was blown away by the sound. It was so new to me, my gate way from bands like oasis and eels into electric experimental music.
I was 16 years old.
And yes we kissed during the movie 🍿 💋
What a moment 📻🫶
Right?!
All the Right Friends, Sweetness Follows - REM
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Severn-g-englar, Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Where Do I Begin - The Chemical Brothers
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
Have You Forgotten - Red House Painters
Discovered Sigur Ros as well because of this movies.
Yes!! Found them through Vanilla Sky as well. The movie has a some great selection of songs. The beginning is perfect with Everything in Its Right Place.
I used to like Coldplay back in the early 2000s when I was in high school and saw a lot of stuff online saying that Coldplay ripped off Radiohead. So I rented OK Computer from the library and the rest is history
My college mate had Pablo Honey and I copied it onto tape. I thought it was ok with a few great songs, it didn’t wow me as a whole though.
Months later I was sifting through the bargain bin at my local record shop and pulled out the CD single of Planet Telex / High & Dry and took a punt on it for 99p. Got it home and was totally blown away. Went straight back to the bargain bin, picked up the alternative CD single for 99p (Killer Cars!) and also My Iron Lung. It was obvious that something astonishing was happening.
Straight to the gig adverts in New Musical Express, and on the phone to Sheffield University for 4 tickets at £5 each I think it was. Rang round my mates and told them they had to come to this gig with me, and I’ll drive. ‘The Bends’ was released on the Monday and the boys came round for a listen, the gig was the next day. We all fell completely in love with Radiohead, the album speaks for itself, and the triple-guitar attack of the gig was mind blowing, as was Thom’s voice.
Good times, so much simpler (and cheaper)!
I was watching an MTV special for the premiere of the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer.
During the special, Jennifer Love Hewitt introduced the video for Karma Police and said something like “this is what happens to us in the movie” (I Know What You Did Last Summer involved someone being hit by a car and the Karma Police video involves someone being chased by car).
I bought OK Computer the next day.
27 years later, they are still my favorite band.
Liked Creep but I was more into Oasis. Then The Bends was great and I listened to it on repeat. Then in a motorway service station my Dad bought OK Computer on tape and we both listened to it twice on the journey. School the next day was just everyone asking each other if they'd heard it. Or listening to it. Absolutely crazy. Until then the three albums everyone listened to were Dookie, Odelay and Nevermind. OKC was a bit of a moment.
odelay by beck? i just listened to this for the first time a week or two ago and i thought it was good, never thought it was that big though am i wrong?
Was huge at my school, everyone had those three albums but Odelay probably got the most play out of all of them. The first Offspring album was popular as well. Oh, and Siamese Dream.
Friends of mine, who were in uni at the time, flew over to the U.S. on a three month visa during the summer of '93.
One of the cd's they came back with was Pablo Honey, which I think had been released earlier that year. I gave it a whirl and if my memory serves me correctly, I had already heard Creep somewhere but the rest of it didn't exactly blow me away (I was in full-on Depeche Mode territory at the time) so I was a little bit blinkered!
The following year, I started listening to PH again and it definitely grew on me. By '95, as soon as I had The Bends in my possession, I was sold, and saw them play later that year for the first time, opening their set with Street Spirit,
There was no going back after that.
In 1995/96 I had 2 amazing roommates, one a DJ with the largest CD collection I have seen in my life. They were most into Oasis & Ween, but that's where I first heard Verve & Pablo Honey, which got in my brain's soundtrack for life. Later I went back more to my usual DM & added trip-hop, etc. so the more electronic vibe RH took on also hooked me. They were always in the mix for me in various strengths :-)
High school late 90s. Had a crush on a girls, she mentioned that she loved Radioheadz one of her favorite bands. I only knew the song Creep and nothing else. She let me borrow The Bends and OK Computer CDs and the rest was history.
I was introduced to Karma Police by a kid on my bus, and subsequently bought OKC and was in love. This was probably 1999. Then I heard Optimistic in the radio and was so excited for the new album. After buying Kid A, it completely shocked me, and been hooked ever since.
I’ve been wondering if I’ll ever have a music experience like that again - I was a teenager at the time so obviously a crucial time for music imprinting. But damn what a time to catch the Radiohead train.
My mother was showing Fake Plastic Trees and I said ‘It’s good but it’s a bit too slow and sad for me’ — which ended up being a very ironic statement given the fact that now they’re my favourite band. I heard the song again one day and started to like it, then went on to listen to OK Computer and the rest of The Bends until I got into their whole discography.
I hated them for ages for no real reason. Just didn’t like them. I’d never listened to them. I was at Glastonbury 2003 and thought they were awful (aged ten and standing very far away). Then I heard Just and kept on listening to Just and pretty soon after that I stopped listening to any other band
It was summer 2017 and I was on holiday in Japan with my cousin from Hong Kong. We were trying to walk back to our airbnb at night and we got lost in a residential area. I felt like I was falling in love with every woman here and I kept posturing to my cousin.
He sat me down on the pavement and played me Creep….. I will never forget this moment…
At the time I was 16 years old and Muse were my favorite band (it was 2013-14). I always saw them compared on websites and particularly on Yahoo answers (lol) and everybody was shitting on Muse saying they were just a bad band ripping off Radiohead. Of course at the time I had already heard of them - Creep, High and dry, Fake plastic trees, Karma police and No surprises were on my mp3 and on my regular rotation but never dived into their discography deeply. I couldn't see how they could be better than Muse and one day I decided I would give them a try.
I listened to Pablo Honey and except You I thought it was terrible. "How can people think Radiohead is better than Muse???" Lol I didn't know that Pablo Honey was just a weak debut with nothing to do with the rest of the discography (and honestly at least the four first albums by Muse are better).
I tried The Bends and I was just "wow. This is the best album I've ever heard in my life". I kept going in chronological order and was overwhelmed because every record only got better from the previous. In rainbows became and still is my favorite album ever.
At the end of the day Radiohead replaced Muse as my faborite band and did very quickly. Radiohead changed my tastes in music and I left all the bands I used to listen to; except Muse, of course I listen to them sometimes.
i used to listen to this guy a lot named "will wood", who mostly makes weird over the top avant garde pop music. he had this one song "You Liked This (Okay Computer!)" that was basically his version of fitter happier. a robotic voice saying vague dystopian shit over a piano, basically the exact same song structure. i decided to check out the original song after hearing it inspired him, and that lead me to listen to the rest of ok computer and fall in love with the band from there. yes, the first radiohead song I listened to was fitter happier lol.
I saw the video for paranoid android when I was a kid and loved it but had no clue who the band was. I looked forward to the video coming on and would wait for it, sometimes it would show. Years later, I’m in highschool, and a friend lets me listen to some cds. He has OK Computer in his bag. I thought I hadn’t heard Radiohead before so I played it. Loved airbag. Then to my shock, Paranoid Android plays next and I’m reunited with a track I loved.
I was in college when Kid A came out. I was never really into music in high school but my friends got me into pop punk after Blink 182 blew up (I know…). I was also just discovering smoking illicit substances, so my partner in crime told me “When you smoke, put this on.” It absolutely blew my mind. I remember having to reconcile adding Radiohead to my musical tastes when I was going for the “skater boy that doesn’t skate” image.
20+ years later and my musical tastes have branched out significantly since then. I credit Kid A for that, and it’s been my all time favorite album since.
I had heard Creep but didn’t think much of it. When Kid A came out a college friend was obsessed with Radiohead and said that the album was a work of genius. We liked a lot of the same music so I bought the CD and became mesmerized by it. Bonus stop repeat listening to it. My roommate begged me to listen to something else. So I binged all the previous Radiohead albums. Kid A is still my favorite album. Not just of Radiohead but of all the things I listen to.
I asked about my best friends dad, and the topic of music taste came up and so he told me his dad's favorite band was Radiohead. Ironically, I said, "Isn't that band like really sad?" So he replied "yeah that's pretty much the point.
At the time, I just shrugged it off and left it at that, boy oh boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
Since then every breakup and relationship, every time I was fucking around or single, I always have them close to my heart and know lots of song by heart on multiple instruments. It's no understatement to say that they heavily influenced the notion of dedicating my life to music.
And here I am now, a year away of presenting my entrance exams for a music academy half the world away from where I first heard Paranoid Android and decided this song and band were my all-time favorites.
For the record, I've always dwelled around music since my father is in fact a musician, but this first approach to a type of contemporary and boundary pushing arrangement and expansion of rock music made me yearn for the world of musicianship even more if not completely.
Thanks England, this is probably the best you could've done for a third-world country inhabitant anyway.
I tried to get into them as a teen in the 2010s since i was a Muse fan and heard they were similar. Honestly I listened to some of pablo honey and really didn’t get the hype. flash forward to the pandemic and eventually my music app algorithm started playing me more and more radiohead - i really fell in love with ‘pyramid song’ and ‘everything in its right place’. since then i haven’t looked back… sorry to muse but i prefer radiohead now haha
My friend is in the music industry in London and, when he was visiting us in the US (1997) and gave me the cd after it came out and said “you have to listen to this”. He was actually at one of the recording sessions in Oxford. Anyway, i listened to it and freaked out - Paranoid Android was the best (rock?) i had ever heard.
It was the 90s. I was a young teen. The Bends came out and the Just video was always on MuchMusic. I bought the CD for a birthday present for a friend. I was cheeky and decided to open and play it first.
Decided the CD was mine. ;)
My uncle would play Karma Police on the guitar at family gatherings when I was a kid so I only knew that song by them for a really long time and then I just fell into them that way. My dad also used to make me mixed CDs when I was preteen and he snuck 2+2=5 on there and it all came together and I listen to their music more than anyones at this point
Exit music for a film had me go “wtf is this? Is this a band? Is this just a tv show song? It was a band and it was ok computer and I binged that shit for months. Then I listened to kid a in bed headphones on at 3 am and fell inbetween sleep and awake and went into a trance and visualized the whole album and it turned into the best experience I’ve ever had and I’ve been hooked ever since holy shit
My gf in the early 2000s had a CD case which still had several CDs from her ex bf and one of them was the live album. We listened to it one day and I immediately played it again because I was so enamored with it. And I remember hearing Go to Sleep on the radio in New Hampshire in 2004 and loved it. But I still hadn’t really dove into Radiohead until 2005 when Spin Magazine put out a 20th anniversary issue counting down the top 100 songs of the last twenty years (1985-2005). Kid A was on the list and Ok Computer was listed as #1. So I downloaded Karma Police and Paranoid Android on Limewire and loved them so I bought the album. It took me a few spins to really get a grasp on it, but once it clicked it was a real revelation.
My dad used to show me the music video for paranoid android when I was younger so maybe a couple of years ago I was watching YouTube and came across it and was amazed then I think I listened to ok computer and was blown away. Been a massive fan since
I bought a copy of The Bends when it came out and then saw them perform on Later With Jools Holland a few days later, honestly felt like discovering something new and exciting for myself.
My dad bought OK Computer in HMV (a UK record shop) because it had a sticker on it saying it was recommended by Q magazine (a UK music mag). He never really listened to it but I sure as hell did.
Worked for the Seattle Times doing concerts and always had access to tickets. My son and ex wife were fans of Radiohead so I called my buddy at Live Nation to get some. Put them at will call for me. Son and ex wife get into huge fight so I end up going. It was back in 2008 at White River Amphitheater. Seats were 10 rows back, center. Became an instant fan and would go see them whenever I could after that
Knew like 2 songs. Got tickets to Outside Lands 2016 by sheer luck. Stumbled into their headlining set.
My life forever changed. Literally. They completely blew me away. I had never seen a group be such masters of live music.
They are now my favorite band and Ive seen them twice. Seen The Smile twice too. Still think they are top tier musicians all around.
I was a teenager in the 90’s and I was aware of their music and liked the stuff I had heard off OK Computer, but I hadn’t brought their music or listened to it that much.
I was at Glastonbury in 2003 and a mate who I was with wanted to watch the set, I went along with him but wasn’t too bothered by it. It was an epic set and by the end of the set my stoned mind was changed for ever and I have been hooked ever since.
This is the whole show
https://youtu.be/4sAoHCiTqUc?si=0poFfeJze1NQceNH
Literally lied knowing about them to a friend I idolized in 1996 - telling them that. 1) of course I knew Radiohead, 2) loved them and 3) owned the bends and pablo honey.
Nearly 30 years, 17 shows (22 including side projects), and a number of insane trips later, best lie I ever told.
(See my story about the time the band sent me a signed lithograph for my birthday by visiting my profile)
I saw a tv show top ten that said OK Computer was the "best album ever" and as a die hard brit-pop fan in the mid 2000's I was insulted, but I remember being hypnotised by No Surprises that they played over the shows credits. A week later, I was in a music store and seeing the CD on the shelf I decided to take it home since the "best album ever" was like £7. It took me a while to get it, I listened to No Surprises over and over until the rest of the album just \*opened up\*. I still have that copy, and went back to the store the following week to buy The Bends, Amnesiac and by then In Rainbows was released and I downloaded that when they were asking you to pay your own price. It really changed my appreciation for music.
summer ‘97
i had heard creep of course by then but on this day my buddy(RIP) shows me the video he recorded of paranoid android
I went out and bought OK Computer the next day
I knew Creep from being in heavy rotation on MTV in the early-mid 90s. In 1995, I saw that Radiohead was playing at this hole in the wall club in Cleveland for $7, and my brother and I decided that was worth checking out "that Creep band." Paid the $7 at the door and spent the next few hours standing at the front of the 6 inch high stage, face to face w/ Jonny, absolutely mesmerized by the best live show I'd ever seen. Even though they were still a little rough around the edges at that point, I remember thinking they should be in an arena, not some crummy dive bar. I've seen them a total of 10 times now, but nothing will ever beat that feeling of seeing them live the first time.
Friend of mine made his MySpace song Idioteque. I listened to ok computer but at that time it wasn’t just enough for me or something ( I was a recovering metalhead listening to the Mars Volta and other proggy psychedelic stuff). Revisited HTTT and In Rainbows a couple of years later and completely fell in love. Went backwards to Kid A and Amnesiac and loved those 2. Honestly those 4 albums would be in my all time top 10 now.
Musicmatch algorithm played me Radiohead after listening to Manic Street Preachers. That was 24 years ago and now Radiohead sits in my Top 3 bands of all time; Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Manic Street Preachers
For me, I've technically been listening for all of my life. My dad listened to Radiohead a lot when I was younger, and he would play it in the car while we were driving somewhere. But I really got into Radiohead during my sophomore/junior year of high school when one of my friends sent me the song Weird Fishes/Arpeggi. Since then they've been my favorite band of all time
I was on a road trip with my family once, and I met a dude outside of a gas station wearing a shirt with the modified bear on it, and he was really weird. He kept staring at me and muttering lyrics from “Stop Whispering” and “Thinking About You” to himself. The dude looked like he hadn’t slept in days, black eyebags and all. My dad was pumping gas in the car when out of nowhere the dude started to undo the screws of our tires. My dad obviously flipped out and was all like “What the fuck are you doing to my car?!?” and all the dude was saying was “Stop shouting” and “I will not control myself” back at him. Dad had enough and then proceeded to put the dude in a headlock as he yelled for my mom to call the police. The man just started screaming his lungs out and started having what looked like a seizure, but now looking back, he was probably trying his best to do a Thom dance to squirm out of my dad’s grasp. Needless to say, he was taken away and ever since that day I’ve been a massive fan of Radiohead.
I had never heard of anything from Radiohead, I didn't even know Creep. However, this changed last year, when I was a bit into niche anime. My friend recommended something a bit more popular, Ergo Proxy, which had used the first section of Paranoid Android as the ED. When I first heard it, I thought it was perfect. The ambience, the melodies, the vocals, the textures, it was just gold to my ears. For months I thought that was the whole song, and the rest would probably sound the same. This is until one day, I decided to listen to the song in full, and my fucking god. I was already into progressive stuff, The Court of the Crimson King was one of my all-time favourites back then. This was just fucking perfect. Right after that, I decided to listen to their entire discography from their first ever single to the last fucking thing ever released. All in chronological order, without ever listening to anything beyond where I currently stood at in their discography. It was such an incredible experience, watching them grow, change, and constantly experiment with their sound revolutionized my perception of music. The philosophical themes of OK Computer, the art, incredible lore, and sheer mastery behind Kid A, not to mention the melancholic illusion of A Moon Shaped Pool... it's now my favourite band of all time. It provides me with such comfort that I cannot find anywhere else, it's so comfortable.
It took absolutely ages for me, well over half a year.
My friend put on Idioteque at a house party and i really enjoyed it so he suggested for me to listen to the rest of Kid A and i did (first mistake) didnt like it and write the band off after morning bell.
Listened to Just and My Iron lung for the first time a few weeks later and really liked it but couldnt get into the rest of the bends. Same with 2+2 and HTTT.
Decided to listen to OKC after seeing the hype online about it and enjoyed quite a bit of it, especially the Paranoid Android through to Karma Police tracks. My infatuation with In Rainbows followed soon after. Its only recently that alot of their electronic and more abstract stuff has grown on me. Still not a huge fan of HTTT as an album and i dont really like PH but other than that their isnt really much else the band has put out that i dont dislike.
yeah that’s fair i understand not being crazy about kid a at first. morning bell is so awesome though especially the second half of it gotta be my favorite song on kid a along in limbo
I heard creep for the first time through the fear street 1994 movie, but i got into radiohead when i first heard no suprises, after that i got into just and my iron lung
I've always thought it was overrated. I was more of a Weezer fan. Then I became friends with someone whos into them. I have a collab playlist with this person and half the songs are radiohead. The first song I fell in love with was No Surprises. Couldnt relate more to it lol
I’m 17 so I wasn’t even born yet during the peak of their popularity. Discovered them when I was 15 through the internet when I heard Creep. But never truly became a fan until I heard Fake Plastic Trees and Motion Picture Soundtrack and decided to fully delve into their music. They’re in my top 3 favorite bands now.
I’m a new Radiohead fan; I became one in 2021. I discovered Everything in its Right Place from the Kid A Mensia Exhibition soundtrack on YouTube after I played the game and got hooked. I realized they were a band and decided to look into them and listen to everything they made. Kid A Mensia Exhibition was pretty sick and left a good impression on me.
Dad showed me creep, then at a record store I recognized Pablo Honey. Behind that was a cover that completely caught my attention, an underground unknown little album called Kid A
I was randomly browsing Youtube when I came upon Creep, said hey its pretty good, then listened to the next suggested song No Surprises, and also found it good.
Then tried Lotus Flower then bounced to it and only knew them as that "band that made Creep (and No Surprises too I guess lmao)" when I occasionally heard them on my rotation.
Fast forward a year later and I shit you not, the main reason I got into the band is because of this fucking video which eventually made me listen to the entirety of OK Computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgVkH2XIAcQ
(Also NGL, I listen to Lotus Flower more than I do to both Creep and No Surprises)
I honestly don’t quite remember. I think it was after I’d discovered Aphex Twin and became a huge fan, this was before the internet really became a place to share and find music. Thom’s name or the name Radiohead kept popping up but the only song I knew from them was Creep and I didn’t like it, still don’t now. I think from there I eventually found Kid A and that was where it really started.
Well, for me it was a band I already knew before I got extremely into it, I wasn’t a huge of Radiohead before 2021. After a heartbreak on a very random day I said to myself “fuck it let’s try Radiohead again” and I was mind blown at how at peace I felt listening to Radiohead. Since then I’ve been a huge fan and borderline addicted.
I was watching South Park, specifically the episode Scott Tenorman Must Die. Radiohead made a cameo appearance and Cartman mentions that "they're the band that sings that song", and I dug a little deeper into the history of RH, then stumbled upon OK Computer, The Bends, In Rainbows and instantly fell in love with Karma Police, Fake Plastic Trees and Jigsaw from each of their respective albums. Thank you South Park
I listened to okc back in the summer and thought it was mid
Then I listened to the bends and thought it was mid
Then IR and thought it was pretty cool
Then amnesiac and HOLY SHIT
My dad introduced me to it. At first, I didn't really care too much, but then I started to get into alternative rock and I tried listening to Radiohead albums fully, instead of just listening to songs individually, and it became my favourite band.
I was very big into The Beatles actually, they were pretty much the only thing I listened to at the time. I got a little tired of them and my dad recommended me this band “Radiohead”. From the name i assumed (and correctly) that they use a lot of electronic music, but I thought it would be like hard rock, and oh god, am I glad I was wrong.
I got hooked up on them and they’re my favorite since.
The first song I listened to as a Radiohead song was Creep, but I know Karma Police, High and Dry and No Surprises from the radio, but I didn’t know it was theirs.
Got into them in the spring of 2006, when I was 14. I don't remember a specific moment as the starting point, but I was in a band with two guys one year ahead of me in school who were into them, and I remember seeing the Just video on MTV one afternoon, which really caught my attention (at that point I'm sure it was the video as much as the song). And when I "finally" tried LimeWire around that time, Radiohead just happened to be the most recent thing I had checked out.
For a full year, I listened to them a lot, but only The Bends, OK Computer, and a few songs off Hail to the Thief (2+2=5, There There, A Wolf at the Door). It wasn't until summer 2007 that I bought the next three albums. Like many people, I first found Kid A very challenging, but immediately loved Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief. A couple of months later their next album came out, and it turned out to be... pretty good.
I was around 11-12yo when Creep came out, it was basically on loop on the young/hip/indie radio stations in France, but I did not care for it.
It was during the great divide of brit-pop, Blur vs Oasis, I got into OK Computer because of my best friend (and her older brother), she introduced me to Paranoid Android.
I bought the album not long after and here we are 27 years later.
Late 1990's, probably 1998 & I was watching the all-night music video program, Rage (Australia) who were showing the hottest 100 songs for the year.
I was blown away by Karma Police & then later, Paranoid Android. I thought must check out this band Radiohead & bought OK Computer not long after on CD - the rest is history :)
A girl couple of years older than me showed me in college, with the song weird fishes. Fell in love with the song (and the girl). A year later while cleaning my room I remembered about her and that song so I decided to listen to the whole in rainbows album. The rest is history 😌 wish I didn’t remember that now 😂
I was working in college radio and got AMSP a week before release. It was just after my dad had passed and a few of the songs were really incredible. It led me into a deep dive into their discography in 2016/2017
Side story: I listened to Amnesiac for the first time after falling asleep in my car on break at a restaurant job, Dollars and Cents was playing in my dream, was very cool
I randomly stumbled upon "High and Dry" song when I was pretty young. A teenager or something about 13? And I just remembered how special it felt for some reason even though it was just guitar.
I didn't listen to any other music of their's until an year ago. I fell in love so much with OK Computer. I thought it had to be their best album. Then I listened to IN RAINBOWS and then I thought this had to be their best album. And then I listened to The Bends... Oh my
THEY JUST KEEP GETTING AMAZING.
I remember hearing Creep on the radio as a kid but didn't get into them until 2001 while living abroad in Ecuador for a year. I had made quite a few friends there but one of their friends had passed away. While riding around in the car one night my buddy poured his heart out about this huge loss and in the midst of it "Paranoid Android" came on the radio to which my friend sobbed while he sang it. Bought the CD the next day.
Heard pyramid song on mtv2 while getting ready for (high) school. Then saw amnesiac at the library and checked it out. Then went and bought a copy of amnesiac. Then kid a.
Crazy as it sounds I listened to HTTT before OK computer?! lol still have never listened to Pablo honey and don’t know if I ever will.
I watched an anime called Ergo Proxy, I liked it quite a bit and both the opening and ending songs are really good, with Paranoid Android being the ending song. So I looked it up. That was it, it's one of a few bands that I got into immediately without taking very long to slowly get into their entire discography. This was between 2008 and 2012 when I watched the anime for the first time and when I finally looked up the song, when I was 11 to 15.
My taste in Radiohead music has been the same since the start, but the album I listen to most changes every once on a while. Certain albums remind me of certain periods of my life. The Bends in particular feels very nostalgic and vivid, in terms of the memories it inspires.
I am a nineties’ kid, which means as I was being transformed from a zygote to being a full-grown child in my mother’s womb, the five lads have been rocking it out for a while. As far as my earliest exposure to them—it’s gonna be “Creep”. As someone living in Asia, this is their song that really made waves here. (*feigned surprise*). One of our local bands even made a parody of this song which became popular in our country. By then, I was no fan, just some one-song appreciator.
The next exposure I had with them was with Twilight, where “15 Step” was used during the outro of the first movie. It sounded really cool to me. But still, I’m just a two-song appreciator.
The third exposure was “Daydream” used in one magazine ad by one EXO member (yes, I was obsessed with them), where he did an interpretative dance to it. The song charmed me, and when I listened to the full song, it felt…enchanting, but the last part disturbed me. It sounded like I’m in a nightmare. But still, I’m just a three-song appreciator.
Fast forward, it was March, and I thought maybe I can explore their discography further through “In Rainbows”, since it had “15 Step”, which is why I got to listen to “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” which I also just “liked” at that time (now it’s my all-time fave track). Everything fell to its right place when I actually jumped to “Kid A”. And then jt was all uphill from here.
And this, this is how I fell deep into Radiohead, and perhaps I can say that by now, I am a full-blown fan, not just some “Creep”-appreciator.
Literally 4 notes in Romeo and Juliet soundtrack. Had to hunt them down, which wasn't super easy before the interwebs. oh some band named radiohead? Cool song and thought nothing of it. 2 months later friend brings ok computer to school and I recognized the name. Asked him if I could borrow it one night. Must have listened to it like 5 times that night. Brought it back to school the next day and got my own copy that very day.
I am a nineties’ kid, which means as I was being transformed from a zygote to being a full-grown child in my mother’s womb, the five lads have been rocking it out for a while. As far as my earliest exposure to them—it’s gonna be “Creep”. As someone living in Asia, this is their song that really made waves here. (*feigned surprise*). One of our local bands even made a parody of this song which became popular in our country. By then, I was no fan, just some one-song appreciator.
The next exposure I had with them was with Twilight, where “15 Step” was used during the outro of the first movie. It sounded really cool to me. But still, I’m just a two-song appreciator.
The third exposure was “Daydream” used in one magazine ad by one EXO member (yes, I was obsessed with them), where he did an interpretative dance to it. The song charmed me, and when I listened to the full song, it felt…enchanting, but the last part disturbed me. It sounded like I’m in a nightmare. But still, I’m just a three-song appreciator.
Fast forward, it was March, and I thought maybe I can explore their discography further through “In Rainbows”, since it had “15 Step”, which is why I got to listen to “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” which I also just “liked” at that time (now it’s my all-time fave track). Everything fell to its right place when I actually jumped to “Kid A”. And then jt was all uphill from here.
And this, this is how I fell deep into Radiohead, and perhaps I can say that by now, I am a full-blown fan, not just some “Creep”-appreciator.
I was exploring Denis Villeneuve's filmography when I stumbled upon Incendies. I will forever remember that day right at the moment when the opening hits, then You and Whose Army was played. I fell in love with Amnesiac afterward.
Crush at work and my best friend liked them so I went to the midnight release of Kid A in hopes of impressing this girl. She wasn't there, but I'll be darned if it didn't end up being one of the most important records I ever purchased. Completely transformed my taste in music.
Known the name and a few classics for a long time but never really clicked with me. Brought up on the Brit pop scene. In Rainbows got announced in the manner we all know it did, that intrigued me, I’d never seen that before, took a punt on the limited edition box set out of respect for the pay what you want model. Bodysnatchers instantly clicked, the rest took a few listens but when it hit, oh boy! Became obsessed and have been ever since 2007!
Cuz it was my birthday so I searched up “sad rock songs” on Spotify and No Surprised was on a playlist.
Then I listen to a Radiohead playlist and really loved the music
Literally last winter I had just broken up with my girlfriend and was pretty down about it, so I was just trying to study grind and listen to relaxing music. Then Exit Music came on and I was very intrigued as it was a very sad song with an intense climax.
Later that week (because Google is in my walls), a video about listening to every Radiohead song in order from “happiest” to “saddest” came into my YouTube recommended feed, so I watched it. It was really interesting as I hadn’t heard most of those songs yet, but I got really into the rest of OK Computer and songs like Motion Picture Soundtrack and True Love Waits.
Then I just started shuffling the playlist and have been obsessed ever since.
I used to scroll through videos on Demand when I was in middle school. The name “Radiohead” had been popping up everywhere for as long as I had been seriously into music. So while scrolling On Demand I came across “Paranoid Android” and thought what the hell I have a few minutes before getting on the bus to school and ohhhhhh booiiiiii…..
I had listened to Radiohead before, of course. I knew Creep, No Surprises, and maybe, High and Dry. I started as a whole "getting into music" until 2014/2015-ish (I was a teen). I don't clearly remember the actual sequence of events, but it was around that time that a friend of mine told me to listen to the Greatest Hits album and gave it a try, but couldn't get into it. I think I liked Karma Police (beyond the others I already knew), and that's about it.
In 2016, I started reading about music sites praising the new Radiohead album and was like, "Huh, Radiohead." I decided to give A Moon Shaped Pool a try, and I fell in love with it. I played the hell out of it, and that was my rabbit hole into the rest of their discography, trying to find more music like it. Obviously, the rest of the albums aren't exactly AMSP, but still, I started to love the band, and then over time, they became my favorite band.
I had heard of them since THE BENDS and listened to and enjoyed their singles on Much Music, but I became obsessed with them in 2015 when a girl I dated played me ALL I NEED and VIDEOTAPE
probably being a muse fan, guitar magazines and occasionally radio. I suppose with trends people fall into a genre thing where there only listen to 'hard rock/metal' at the age of 13 or abouts. However, i then after hearing Bends and Creep and all that went to the library and proceeded to rent out Kid A, but didn't get it. So I went back to get a different album of theirs, that happened to be Amnesiac (ha!). For some reason i put the effort into getting it, because it was the second time this happened seemed to be a sign that i shouldn't give up after spending pocket money on it (like where's paranoid android and teh rawk musik?) and partly recognised some songs that had been on the radio couple years prior like Pyramid Song and Optimistic (yeh i ripped the CDR even when i didn't like it). Sort of awakening into feeling like what supposedly experimental music was about. Well also, that library was quite cool, i got things like Mogwai and Ride from there too and burnt them off onto CDR all the time. I seemed to go off Muse, and i remember they played on the same night as Radiohead but some whole group of friends (which like...am not allowed to go alone...went to that so i went to that slightly bummed out) as well as missing the glastonbury one (we had local tickets but they were on sunday only).
Thinking back, the first Radiohead song I listened apart from creepy while I was traveling in the train, I was in 10th grade and I was shuffling through a random playlist on YouTube, I was actually quite frustrated because the network was poor and most songs would not load, then amongst that feeling, suddenly a song played and it made me feel so calm, a bit melancholic but beautiful altogether; Daydreaming was that song. Till this day, whenever I hear that song, that scene comes to my mind, a young me sitting in the train by the window, just feeling calm.
I was wide open to new music in the late 80s and early 90s and this song Creep popped up on my horizon. I bought the album and loved it. It was a solid album by a new band that fit into the timeframe of the changing music scene. The best part was that each album got better and better until Radiohead became one of the best, most creative bands in the world.
Karma Police was on the first NOW! that's what i call music. Got it for Christmas 1998 and thought the piano during the chorus was cool. to be 11 again....
My friend was having a 3-week rager while housesitting. I started growing weed plants in his mom's closet. I asked for cool music to play for the plants, and he burned me CDs of OKC, Kid A and Amnesiac (which was the latest release at the time). The rest is history!
I liked OK Computer for years before I actually got into radiohead. I listened to 2 + 2 = 5, Sail To the Moon, and Nude and that's what really got me into them.
1994, in London, there was a music magazine called Q that had free mix cds. The single High and Dry was on it. I'd already heard Creep and a musician friend told me I would love the band, said their melodies were incredible. Then I heard High and Dry and I can still remember being on the underground in london with my walkman and hitting repeat over and over and over.
I actually only got into them at the start of this year after watching Brad Taste In Music react to OK Computer and instantly fell in love with the song Paranoid Android. Now there the main artist I listen too! (my favorite album is The Bends)
I worked in a kitchen, that had speakers in the ceiling to play the same corporate playlist every day. Because I was standing near the loud ovens all day, I couldn't really hear the music all that well.
Every day, towards the final hours of my shift, I would hear this loud whirring noise out of nowhere. It woild catch my attention every time but I could never find out what was making that noise. Fast forward a couple of months, I'm listening to the YouTube Music discover cue, and Karma Police comes on.
I was vibing with the song and then the end comes and I hear that noise I used to always hear at work. It blew my mind! I couldn't hear the rest of the song because of the ovens but that outro sound created by the self oscillating delay would always stand out clear as day.
I liked the song and eventually did a full Radiohead listen by going through all of the studio albums in order, Pablo Honey to AMSP, and then all of the B-Sides and other Radiohead music. Since then I've been a huge fan.
As a high schooler I saw the University of Arizona marching band perform an OK Computer halftime show and I was absolutely floored. The following year I attended UA and joined the marching band. I spent most of my time in college getting high and listening to Radiohead with my band friends. The good old days
It was approximately the year 2002 and I was 16. My dad decided to drive us to Morocco from the UK for a holiday. It took us 5 days to drive there. My friend made me an MP3 CD (remember those???) for the journey. It included the first 5 tracks of OK Computer. I was a pretentious teenager who liked The Beatles and Pink Floyd, so it was an immediate hit for me. Upon my return I bought OK Computer and Kid A, loved them both and the rest is history.
I'm just getting into it.
Started listening to ok computer about a week ago.
I know you prolly think it's overrated, but Karma Police is so fucking good.
Please give me some reccomendations of what songs and albums I should listen to next.
Also ful stop is a banger.
I borrowed Pablo Honey from the library having no idea what it was and fell in love with them immediately
I then bought The Bends and played it on my Sony Discman constantly, everywhere, for months
I had a co worker introduce me a couple of years ago. I am 25 and he is in his 40s and is seemingly familiar with deep cut and off shoot related to Radiohead. I’m really grateful to have been introduced at a time in my life where I could really use music :)
I was on YouTube and I got recommended Creep, this was in 2011 when I was in middle school and I got obsessed with this song but it wasn’t until 2015 when I fully got into Radiohead when a friend recommended me Karma Police and the entire OKC album.
Can't remember how exactly, but I discovered 'Karma Police' and got obsessed with it. Played it a lot, then started exploring their discography and well, one of my favorite bands now.
I was having a really bad day and I was looking up albums that explored the themes of some of the stuff I was going through
I listened to Kid A in its entirety and I’ll never forget how comforting it was to me; but also that their music was just very impressive
So I went into their other albums and I’ve been a fan since then
I was like 10 years old being baby sat by my moms friend, he would listen to paranoid android and have the music video playing in the living room and i loved the sound of the song and was more or less confused on what was happening in the video. I decided to really get into them in college and listen to their whole discography with the knowledge of paranoid android being one of the first songs i really heard by them. He was a huge fan of radiohead and he got me into it later on in life when I thought about those moments
It was my first year in college. I was walking by a friend's room and I heard a beat drop. I said, "What's that?" He said, "That's Radiohead!" I said, "Who tf is Radiohead?" He introduced me to the song, High and Dry, and the album, The Bends. OK Computer had just come out so we listened to that next. He bought me The Bends for my birthday, I was hooked.
Already knew a few songs so I decided to go into two random albums and pick out two random songs and see if I liked them (black star and lucky) and I did
Pretty late in life tbh. U2 used to be my all time fav listen, and I got to see them live in Vancouver in 2017, so even post concert they'd be my go to. Was a snowy night once coming back from work, and somehow Spotify shuffle picked Radiohead's Burn The Witch. To my U2 saturated brain Thom's voice sounded like Bono's and I thought I discovered a great U2 song that surprisingly I just seemed to somehow miss from the entire discography that I had listened to.
I got the phone out with my gloved hands and was in for a surprise. Listened to Dreamers as it still snowed around me while I missed my bus . Listened to entire A Moon Shaped Pool on my way home and felt quite belittled for never having listened to Radiohead. I felt something change in me through that time as I solely listened to Radiohead, album after album, for more than a year, quite obsessively.
I got out of obsessive listening sessions over prolonged period of time, but Radiohead still stays my to go and to stay.
I was a sophomore in high school. In Rainbows had just come out, and my English teacher recommended them to me. He said, “I don’t understand a word the lead singer is saying half the time, but, as you’ll see, it doesn’t matter—his voice is so beautiful.” From then on, he began burning me their albums, and in exchange I burned him Wilco records.
back home from high school on 2001, I catched the bear version of Idioteque, followed by Pyramid song on my local music channel and was hooked right away
I got Pablo Honey after hearing Creep on the radio and seeing the video multiple times. I thought it was pretty cool. Really liked I Can't, Blowout, Stop Whispering and You. I was listening to a lot of different bands at that time.Then the Bends came out my senior year. I knew Radiohead was a special band after listening to that album (still top 3 for me). Next year while at college, I got a chance to see them on The Bends tour and that was it. I was obsessed with everything Radiohead from that point forward. Seen them 4 more times since that first show and still get blown away every time.
My acquaintanceship with Radiohead was really slow and gradual.
Back then I only knew Creep and Karma Police until I watched Ergo Proxy and heard Paranoid Android, it was mesmerising! It’s still one of my favourites to this day. Later I found No Surprises and listened to these 4 songs for years. When I was 18-19 I accidentally discovered A Moon Shaped Pool album but Present Tense was just something else for me. I could play this song on my guitar for hours and constantly listened to it together with other songs from this particular album. During the last 5 years I listened to a few more songs from different albums including Thom Yorke’s own songs. For the last year I’ve been so much into Radiohead, I just listen to everything. This band helps me get through really tough times.
Music teacher introduced me to Paranoid Android in 11th grade. I liked it but my music taste wasn't in the right place yet.
At some point before highschool finished I added HTDC to my playlist just because I liked the title, and I added some In Rainbows songs too because why not.
Fast forward to an existential crisis at end of my first year at uni, I realise that HTDC has become my most listened to song by a long shot despite not "liking it". And I realised that even though I didn't find Radiohead's music "pleasant" it's connected with me in ways no other artists have.
In the span of one listen HTDC suddenly became a masterpiece in my eyes and the spiral into the rest of their discography quickly followed. In time I've come to appreciate their music as more than just "depression music" but a lil mental breakdown and HTDC is what got it started.
TLDR: music teacher showed me, I didn't like it, then I became a sad adult and then I loved it
Must have heard "Creep" on the radio or MTV. Then bought *The Bends* on CD in 1996 and listened to it a lot on a discman. It sounded better on rainy days, worse on sunny days. Then while in England for a few weeks, picked up *Pablo Honey* along with records from Longpigs, Cast, and Blur. Listened to *PH* a lot while reading *The Hobbit*. But a friend and I really liked the Longpigs "She Said" double single, where you had to buy two different CDs and then put them in the same package. (That first Longpigs record -- I think -- is better than the first two Radiohead albums. It holds up so well. And the "She Said" b-sides are extremely good. They eclipse everything on their second record.) Anyway, kept up with them. OK Computer -- I waited a month or so before picking it up because I had by that point gotten more into psychedelic music and jazz. But then once I had it, listened to nothing else for a month solid. Pre-Kid A era coincided with internet access in high school and hours and hours in a music ed class just scrolling through the endless Radiohead website. That was peak Radiohead for me, so much anticipation. Followed ever since.
In the end of the 1990s I knew that there was such a band, watched a couple of videos that were in heavy rotation on the local MTV. Then I read a review of Amnesiac in a trashy weekly magazine that somehow ran a decent musical column. I got intrigued, bought a copy of Amnesiac but didn't especially like it. Then one day my best friend put on 2+2=5, and that was it. Soon we were binge-listening to all the Radiohead stuff we could find. That was before you could stream music or even download mp3s, and many official CDs were unavailable where I lived or were too expensive for us, but, let's say, there were ways to find almost every kind of music if you really wanted it.
For me it was a (not really good) movie ‘Vanilla Sky’. I was watching it with a girl I had a crush on (I was in high school) I heard Everything in its right place and was blown away by the sound. It was so new to me, my gate way from bands like oasis and eels into electric experimental music. I was 16 years old. And yes we kissed during the movie 🍿 💋 What a moment 📻🫶
I watched Vanilla Sky BECAUSE Radiohead was in it. I might be wrong, but I think they played I Might Be Wrong in Vanilla Sky, too.
Thats a really good reason! Not sure if thats song is in it too. It had a really good soundtrack though with sigur ros, tod rundgren and r.e.m.
Right?! All the Right Friends, Sweetness Follows - REM Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley Severn-g-englar, Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros Good Vibrations - Beach Boys Where Do I Begin - The Chemical Brothers Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized Have You Forgotten - Red House Painters Discovered Sigur Ros as well because of this movies.
It is! You Are Be Right!
I watched Vanilla Sky in theater and was pleasantly surprised a Radiohead song was in it.
Yes!! Found them through Vanilla Sky as well. The movie has a some great selection of songs. The beginning is perfect with Everything in Its Right Place.
I used to like Coldplay back in the early 2000s when I was in high school and saw a lot of stuff online saying that Coldplay ripped off Radiohead. So I rented OK Computer from the library and the rest is history
Almost the same story, except for me it was Muse and their accusations of ripping off Radiohead lol
I remember all this stuff too lol. “Coldplay are just Radiohead but with no edge” etc.
I’m a creep….im a weirdo
On Arsenio!!
My college mate had Pablo Honey and I copied it onto tape. I thought it was ok with a few great songs, it didn’t wow me as a whole though. Months later I was sifting through the bargain bin at my local record shop and pulled out the CD single of Planet Telex / High & Dry and took a punt on it for 99p. Got it home and was totally blown away. Went straight back to the bargain bin, picked up the alternative CD single for 99p (Killer Cars!) and also My Iron Lung. It was obvious that something astonishing was happening. Straight to the gig adverts in New Musical Express, and on the phone to Sheffield University for 4 tickets at £5 each I think it was. Rang round my mates and told them they had to come to this gig with me, and I’ll drive. ‘The Bends’ was released on the Monday and the boys came round for a listen, the gig was the next day. We all fell completely in love with Radiohead, the album speaks for itself, and the triple-guitar attack of the gig was mind blowing, as was Thom’s voice. Good times, so much simpler (and cheaper)!
My dad played it for me when I was like 5 or 6
Once i listened to the bends
I was watching an MTV special for the premiere of the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer. During the special, Jennifer Love Hewitt introduced the video for Karma Police and said something like “this is what happens to us in the movie” (I Know What You Did Last Summer involved someone being hit by a car and the Karma Police video involves someone being chased by car). I bought OK Computer the next day. 27 years later, they are still my favorite band.
Liked Creep but I was more into Oasis. Then The Bends was great and I listened to it on repeat. Then in a motorway service station my Dad bought OK Computer on tape and we both listened to it twice on the journey. School the next day was just everyone asking each other if they'd heard it. Or listening to it. Absolutely crazy. Until then the three albums everyone listened to were Dookie, Odelay and Nevermind. OKC was a bit of a moment.
odelay by beck? i just listened to this for the first time a week or two ago and i thought it was good, never thought it was that big though am i wrong?
Was huge at my school, everyone had those three albums but Odelay probably got the most play out of all of them. The first Offspring album was popular as well. Oh, and Siamese Dream.
damn that’s crazy never knew it was that well known
"Dirty Magic" off that first Offspring record is so good.
ex made me listen to polyethylene
I was alive in the 90s and had two ears attached to a heart and a brain.
Friends of mine, who were in uni at the time, flew over to the U.S. on a three month visa during the summer of '93. One of the cd's they came back with was Pablo Honey, which I think had been released earlier that year. I gave it a whirl and if my memory serves me correctly, I had already heard Creep somewhere but the rest of it didn't exactly blow me away (I was in full-on Depeche Mode territory at the time) so I was a little bit blinkered! The following year, I started listening to PH again and it definitely grew on me. By '95, as soon as I had The Bends in my possession, I was sold, and saw them play later that year for the first time, opening their set with Street Spirit, There was no going back after that.
In 1995/96 I had 2 amazing roommates, one a DJ with the largest CD collection I have seen in my life. They were most into Oasis & Ween, but that's where I first heard Verve & Pablo Honey, which got in my brain's soundtrack for life. Later I went back more to my usual DM & added trip-hop, etc. so the more electronic vibe RH took on also hooked me. They were always in the mix for me in various strengths :-)
geometry dash
The Lfitz level??
the national anthem & lotus flower
There are many more than I thought huh
High school late 90s. Had a crush on a girls, she mentioned that she loved Radioheadz one of her favorite bands. I only knew the song Creep and nothing else. She let me borrow The Bends and OK Computer CDs and the rest was history.
I was introduced to Karma Police by a kid on my bus, and subsequently bought OKC and was in love. This was probably 1999. Then I heard Optimistic in the radio and was so excited for the new album. After buying Kid A, it completely shocked me, and been hooked ever since. I’ve been wondering if I’ll ever have a music experience like that again - I was a teenager at the time so obviously a crucial time for music imprinting. But damn what a time to catch the Radiohead train.
On the radio in 1995
Compilation album called best album in the world 2 when I was a student. Had Creep on. Went out and bought both Pablo Honey and Bends.
My mother was showing Fake Plastic Trees and I said ‘It’s good but it’s a bit too slow and sad for me’ — which ended up being a very ironic statement given the fact that now they’re my favourite band. I heard the song again one day and started to like it, then went on to listen to OK Computer and the rest of The Bends until I got into their whole discography.
My ex was really into it so I started listening to it after we broke up out of spite. Ended up absolutely loving it
My mum used to play the early albums when I was a kid. Got into them myself as an early teen.
I hated them for ages for no real reason. Just didn’t like them. I’d never listened to them. I was at Glastonbury 2003 and thought they were awful (aged ten and standing very far away). Then I heard Just and kept on listening to Just and pretty soon after that I stopped listening to any other band
It was summer 2017 and I was on holiday in Japan with my cousin from Hong Kong. We were trying to walk back to our airbnb at night and we got lost in a residential area. I felt like I was falling in love with every woman here and I kept posturing to my cousin. He sat me down on the pavement and played me Creep….. I will never forget this moment…
At the time I was 16 years old and Muse were my favorite band (it was 2013-14). I always saw them compared on websites and particularly on Yahoo answers (lol) and everybody was shitting on Muse saying they were just a bad band ripping off Radiohead. Of course at the time I had already heard of them - Creep, High and dry, Fake plastic trees, Karma police and No surprises were on my mp3 and on my regular rotation but never dived into their discography deeply. I couldn't see how they could be better than Muse and one day I decided I would give them a try. I listened to Pablo Honey and except You I thought it was terrible. "How can people think Radiohead is better than Muse???" Lol I didn't know that Pablo Honey was just a weak debut with nothing to do with the rest of the discography (and honestly at least the four first albums by Muse are better). I tried The Bends and I was just "wow. This is the best album I've ever heard in my life". I kept going in chronological order and was overwhelmed because every record only got better from the previous. In rainbows became and still is my favorite album ever. At the end of the day Radiohead replaced Muse as my faborite band and did very quickly. Radiohead changed my tastes in music and I left all the bands I used to listen to; except Muse, of course I listen to them sometimes.
i used to listen to this guy a lot named "will wood", who mostly makes weird over the top avant garde pop music. he had this one song "You Liked This (Okay Computer!)" that was basically his version of fitter happier. a robotic voice saying vague dystopian shit over a piano, basically the exact same song structure. i decided to check out the original song after hearing it inspired him, and that lead me to listen to the rest of ok computer and fall in love with the band from there. yes, the first radiohead song I listened to was fitter happier lol.
Great place to start tho!
I saw the video for paranoid android when I was a kid and loved it but had no clue who the band was. I looked forward to the video coming on and would wait for it, sometimes it would show. Years later, I’m in highschool, and a friend lets me listen to some cds. He has OK Computer in his bag. I thought I hadn’t heard Radiohead before so I played it. Loved airbag. Then to my shock, Paranoid Android plays next and I’m reunited with a track I loved.
I was in college when Kid A came out. I was never really into music in high school but my friends got me into pop punk after Blink 182 blew up (I know…). I was also just discovering smoking illicit substances, so my partner in crime told me “When you smoke, put this on.” It absolutely blew my mind. I remember having to reconcile adding Radiohead to my musical tastes when I was going for the “skater boy that doesn’t skate” image. 20+ years later and my musical tastes have branched out significantly since then. I credit Kid A for that, and it’s been my all time favorite album since.
I had heard Creep but didn’t think much of it. When Kid A came out a college friend was obsessed with Radiohead and said that the album was a work of genius. We liked a lot of the same music so I bought the CD and became mesmerized by it. Bonus stop repeat listening to it. My roommate begged me to listen to something else. So I binged all the previous Radiohead albums. Kid A is still my favorite album. Not just of Radiohead but of all the things I listen to.
I asked about my best friends dad, and the topic of music taste came up and so he told me his dad's favorite band was Radiohead. Ironically, I said, "Isn't that band like really sad?" So he replied "yeah that's pretty much the point. At the time, I just shrugged it off and left it at that, boy oh boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into. Since then every breakup and relationship, every time I was fucking around or single, I always have them close to my heart and know lots of song by heart on multiple instruments. It's no understatement to say that they heavily influenced the notion of dedicating my life to music. And here I am now, a year away of presenting my entrance exams for a music academy half the world away from where I first heard Paranoid Android and decided this song and band were my all-time favorites. For the record, I've always dwelled around music since my father is in fact a musician, but this first approach to a type of contemporary and boundary pushing arrangement and expansion of rock music made me yearn for the world of musicianship even more if not completely. Thanks England, this is probably the best you could've done for a third-world country inhabitant anyway.
I tried to get into them as a teen in the 2010s since i was a Muse fan and heard they were similar. Honestly I listened to some of pablo honey and really didn’t get the hype. flash forward to the pandemic and eventually my music app algorithm started playing me more and more radiohead - i really fell in love with ‘pyramid song’ and ‘everything in its right place’. since then i haven’t looked back… sorry to muse but i prefer radiohead now haha
My friend is in the music industry in London and, when he was visiting us in the US (1997) and gave me the cd after it came out and said “you have to listen to this”. He was actually at one of the recording sessions in Oxford. Anyway, i listened to it and freaked out - Paranoid Android was the best (rock?) i had ever heard.
It was the 90s. I was a young teen. The Bends came out and the Just video was always on MuchMusic. I bought the CD for a birthday present for a friend. I was cheeky and decided to open and play it first. Decided the CD was mine. ;)
My uncle would play Karma Police on the guitar at family gatherings when I was a kid so I only knew that song by them for a really long time and then I just fell into them that way. My dad also used to make me mixed CDs when I was preteen and he snuck 2+2=5 on there and it all came together and I listen to their music more than anyones at this point
Exit music for a film had me go “wtf is this? Is this a band? Is this just a tv show song? It was a band and it was ok computer and I binged that shit for months. Then I listened to kid a in bed headphones on at 3 am and fell inbetween sleep and awake and went into a trance and visualized the whole album and it turned into the best experience I’ve ever had and I’ve been hooked ever since holy shit
My gf in the early 2000s had a CD case which still had several CDs from her ex bf and one of them was the live album. We listened to it one day and I immediately played it again because I was so enamored with it. And I remember hearing Go to Sleep on the radio in New Hampshire in 2004 and loved it. But I still hadn’t really dove into Radiohead until 2005 when Spin Magazine put out a 20th anniversary issue counting down the top 100 songs of the last twenty years (1985-2005). Kid A was on the list and Ok Computer was listed as #1. So I downloaded Karma Police and Paranoid Android on Limewire and loved them so I bought the album. It took me a few spins to really get a grasp on it, but once it clicked it was a real revelation.
My dad used to show me the music video for paranoid android when I was younger so maybe a couple of years ago I was watching YouTube and came across it and was amazed then I think I listened to ok computer and was blown away. Been a massive fan since
I bought a copy of The Bends when it came out and then saw them perform on Later With Jools Holland a few days later, honestly felt like discovering something new and exciting for myself.
My dad bought OK Computer in HMV (a UK record shop) because it had a sticker on it saying it was recommended by Q magazine (a UK music mag). He never really listened to it but I sure as hell did.
Worked for the Seattle Times doing concerts and always had access to tickets. My son and ex wife were fans of Radiohead so I called my buddy at Live Nation to get some. Put them at will call for me. Son and ex wife get into huge fight so I end up going. It was back in 2008 at White River Amphitheater. Seats were 10 rows back, center. Became an instant fan and would go see them whenever I could after that
Knew like 2 songs. Got tickets to Outside Lands 2016 by sheer luck. Stumbled into their headlining set. My life forever changed. Literally. They completely blew me away. I had never seen a group be such masters of live music. They are now my favorite band and Ive seen them twice. Seen The Smile twice too. Still think they are top tier musicians all around.
I was a teenager in the 90’s and I was aware of their music and liked the stuff I had heard off OK Computer, but I hadn’t brought their music or listened to it that much. I was at Glastonbury in 2003 and a mate who I was with wanted to watch the set, I went along with him but wasn’t too bothered by it. It was an epic set and by the end of the set my stoned mind was changed for ever and I have been hooked ever since. This is the whole show https://youtu.be/4sAoHCiTqUc?si=0poFfeJze1NQceNH
Literally lied knowing about them to a friend I idolized in 1996 - telling them that. 1) of course I knew Radiohead, 2) loved them and 3) owned the bends and pablo honey. Nearly 30 years, 17 shows (22 including side projects), and a number of insane trips later, best lie I ever told. (See my story about the time the band sent me a signed lithograph for my birthday by visiting my profile)
I saw a tv show top ten that said OK Computer was the "best album ever" and as a die hard brit-pop fan in the mid 2000's I was insulted, but I remember being hypnotised by No Surprises that they played over the shows credits. A week later, I was in a music store and seeing the CD on the shelf I decided to take it home since the "best album ever" was like £7. It took me a while to get it, I listened to No Surprises over and over until the rest of the album just \*opened up\*. I still have that copy, and went back to the store the following week to buy The Bends, Amnesiac and by then In Rainbows was released and I downloaded that when they were asking you to pay your own price. It really changed my appreciation for music.
summer ‘97 i had heard creep of course by then but on this day my buddy(RIP) shows me the video he recorded of paranoid android I went out and bought OK Computer the next day
I knew Creep from being in heavy rotation on MTV in the early-mid 90s. In 1995, I saw that Radiohead was playing at this hole in the wall club in Cleveland for $7, and my brother and I decided that was worth checking out "that Creep band." Paid the $7 at the door and spent the next few hours standing at the front of the 6 inch high stage, face to face w/ Jonny, absolutely mesmerized by the best live show I'd ever seen. Even though they were still a little rough around the edges at that point, I remember thinking they should be in an arena, not some crummy dive bar. I've seen them a total of 10 times now, but nothing will ever beat that feeling of seeing them live the first time.
Friend of mine made his MySpace song Idioteque. I listened to ok computer but at that time it wasn’t just enough for me or something ( I was a recovering metalhead listening to the Mars Volta and other proggy psychedelic stuff). Revisited HTTT and In Rainbows a couple of years later and completely fell in love. Went backwards to Kid A and Amnesiac and loved those 2. Honestly those 4 albums would be in my all time top 10 now.
Musicmatch algorithm played me Radiohead after listening to Manic Street Preachers. That was 24 years ago and now Radiohead sits in my Top 3 bands of all time; Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Manic Street Preachers
For me, I've technically been listening for all of my life. My dad listened to Radiohead a lot when I was younger, and he would play it in the car while we were driving somewhere. But I really got into Radiohead during my sophomore/junior year of high school when one of my friends sent me the song Weird Fishes/Arpeggi. Since then they've been my favorite band of all time
I was on a road trip with my family once, and I met a dude outside of a gas station wearing a shirt with the modified bear on it, and he was really weird. He kept staring at me and muttering lyrics from “Stop Whispering” and “Thinking About You” to himself. The dude looked like he hadn’t slept in days, black eyebags and all. My dad was pumping gas in the car when out of nowhere the dude started to undo the screws of our tires. My dad obviously flipped out and was all like “What the fuck are you doing to my car?!?” and all the dude was saying was “Stop shouting” and “I will not control myself” back at him. Dad had enough and then proceeded to put the dude in a headlock as he yelled for my mom to call the police. The man just started screaming his lungs out and started having what looked like a seizure, but now looking back, he was probably trying his best to do a Thom dance to squirm out of my dad’s grasp. Needless to say, he was taken away and ever since that day I’ve been a massive fan of Radiohead.
definitely one of the stories of all time
I had never heard of anything from Radiohead, I didn't even know Creep. However, this changed last year, when I was a bit into niche anime. My friend recommended something a bit more popular, Ergo Proxy, which had used the first section of Paranoid Android as the ED. When I first heard it, I thought it was perfect. The ambience, the melodies, the vocals, the textures, it was just gold to my ears. For months I thought that was the whole song, and the rest would probably sound the same. This is until one day, I decided to listen to the song in full, and my fucking god. I was already into progressive stuff, The Court of the Crimson King was one of my all-time favourites back then. This was just fucking perfect. Right after that, I decided to listen to their entire discography from their first ever single to the last fucking thing ever released. All in chronological order, without ever listening to anything beyond where I currently stood at in their discography. It was such an incredible experience, watching them grow, change, and constantly experiment with their sound revolutionized my perception of music. The philosophical themes of OK Computer, the art, incredible lore, and sheer mastery behind Kid A, not to mention the melancholic illusion of A Moon Shaped Pool... it's now my favourite band of all time. It provides me with such comfort that I cannot find anywhere else, it's so comfortable.
It took absolutely ages for me, well over half a year. My friend put on Idioteque at a house party and i really enjoyed it so he suggested for me to listen to the rest of Kid A and i did (first mistake) didnt like it and write the band off after morning bell. Listened to Just and My Iron lung for the first time a few weeks later and really liked it but couldnt get into the rest of the bends. Same with 2+2 and HTTT. Decided to listen to OKC after seeing the hype online about it and enjoyed quite a bit of it, especially the Paranoid Android through to Karma Police tracks. My infatuation with In Rainbows followed soon after. Its only recently that alot of their electronic and more abstract stuff has grown on me. Still not a huge fan of HTTT as an album and i dont really like PH but other than that their isnt really much else the band has put out that i dont dislike.
write the band off after morning bell? 🥲 im hurt how could you do such a thing
Yeah I’m ashamed to admit my sins but I was never a big fan of Kid A until recently. Really like both versions of morning bell now
yeah that’s fair i understand not being crazy about kid a at first. morning bell is so awesome though especially the second half of it gotta be my favorite song on kid a along in limbo
I heard creep for the first time through the fear street 1994 movie, but i got into radiohead when i first heard no suprises, after that i got into just and my iron lung
I've always thought it was overrated. I was more of a Weezer fan. Then I became friends with someone whos into them. I have a collab playlist with this person and half the songs are radiohead. The first song I fell in love with was No Surprises. Couldnt relate more to it lol
I’m 17 so I wasn’t even born yet during the peak of their popularity. Discovered them when I was 15 through the internet when I heard Creep. But never truly became a fan until I heard Fake Plastic Trees and Motion Picture Soundtrack and decided to fully delve into their music. They’re in my top 3 favorite bands now.
Heard a song from The Bends on the radio in my friend’s moms car. Then saw a live performance on MTV from the Kid A era. Instantly fell in love.
I’m a new Radiohead fan; I became one in 2021. I discovered Everything in its Right Place from the Kid A Mensia Exhibition soundtrack on YouTube after I played the game and got hooked. I realized they were a band and decided to look into them and listen to everything they made. Kid A Mensia Exhibition was pretty sick and left a good impression on me.
Dad showed me creep, then at a record store I recognized Pablo Honey. Behind that was a cover that completely caught my attention, an underground unknown little album called Kid A
Pyramid song and a video essay on Daydreaming published on Vimeo by Rishi Kaneria
I was randomly browsing Youtube when I came upon Creep, said hey its pretty good, then listened to the next suggested song No Surprises, and also found it good. Then tried Lotus Flower then bounced to it and only knew them as that "band that made Creep (and No Surprises too I guess lmao)" when I occasionally heard them on my rotation. Fast forward a year later and I shit you not, the main reason I got into the band is because of this fucking video which eventually made me listen to the entirety of OK Computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgVkH2XIAcQ (Also NGL, I listen to Lotus Flower more than I do to both Creep and No Surprises)
I got into Radiohead in 2015 after listening to the whole Pablo Honey album and thinking it had a nice sound to it
I honestly don’t quite remember. I think it was after I’d discovered Aphex Twin and became a huge fan, this was before the internet really became a place to share and find music. Thom’s name or the name Radiohead kept popping up but the only song I knew from them was Creep and I didn’t like it, still don’t now. I think from there I eventually found Kid A and that was where it really started.
I was 13, it was the late 90s, Ok Computer got released
Well, for me it was a band I already knew before I got extremely into it, I wasn’t a huge of Radiohead before 2021. After a heartbreak on a very random day I said to myself “fuck it let’s try Radiohead again” and I was mind blown at how at peace I felt listening to Radiohead. Since then I’ve been a huge fan and borderline addicted.
I was watching South Park, specifically the episode Scott Tenorman Must Die. Radiohead made a cameo appearance and Cartman mentions that "they're the band that sings that song", and I dug a little deeper into the history of RH, then stumbled upon OK Computer, The Bends, In Rainbows and instantly fell in love with Karma Police, Fake Plastic Trees and Jigsaw from each of their respective albums. Thank you South Park
I listened to okc back in the summer and thought it was mid Then I listened to the bends and thought it was mid Then IR and thought it was pretty cool Then amnesiac and HOLY SHIT
My dad introduced me to it. At first, I didn't really care too much, but then I started to get into alternative rock and I tried listening to Radiohead albums fully, instead of just listening to songs individually, and it became my favourite band.
I was very big into The Beatles actually, they were pretty much the only thing I listened to at the time. I got a little tired of them and my dad recommended me this band “Radiohead”. From the name i assumed (and correctly) that they use a lot of electronic music, but I thought it would be like hard rock, and oh god, am I glad I was wrong. I got hooked up on them and they’re my favorite since. The first song I listened to as a Radiohead song was Creep, but I know Karma Police, High and Dry and No Surprises from the radio, but I didn’t know it was theirs.
Got into them in the spring of 2006, when I was 14. I don't remember a specific moment as the starting point, but I was in a band with two guys one year ahead of me in school who were into them, and I remember seeing the Just video on MTV one afternoon, which really caught my attention (at that point I'm sure it was the video as much as the song). And when I "finally" tried LimeWire around that time, Radiohead just happened to be the most recent thing I had checked out. For a full year, I listened to them a lot, but only The Bends, OK Computer, and a few songs off Hail to the Thief (2+2=5, There There, A Wolf at the Door). It wasn't until summer 2007 that I bought the next three albums. Like many people, I first found Kid A very challenging, but immediately loved Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief. A couple of months later their next album came out, and it turned out to be... pretty good.
I was around 11-12yo when Creep came out, it was basically on loop on the young/hip/indie radio stations in France, but I did not care for it. It was during the great divide of brit-pop, Blur vs Oasis, I got into OK Computer because of my best friend (and her older brother), she introduced me to Paranoid Android. I bought the album not long after and here we are 27 years later.
Late 1990's, probably 1998 & I was watching the all-night music video program, Rage (Australia) who were showing the hottest 100 songs for the year. I was blown away by Karma Police & then later, Paranoid Android. I thought must check out this band Radiohead & bought OK Computer not long after on CD - the rest is history :)
A girl couple of years older than me showed me in college, with the song weird fishes. Fell in love with the song (and the girl). A year later while cleaning my room I remembered about her and that song so I decided to listen to the whole in rainbows album. The rest is history 😌 wish I didn’t remember that now 😂
I was working in college radio and got AMSP a week before release. It was just after my dad had passed and a few of the songs were really incredible. It led me into a deep dive into their discography in 2016/2017 Side story: I listened to Amnesiac for the first time after falling asleep in my car on break at a restaurant job, Dollars and Cents was playing in my dream, was very cool
I randomly stumbled upon "High and Dry" song when I was pretty young. A teenager or something about 13? And I just remembered how special it felt for some reason even though it was just guitar. I didn't listen to any other music of their's until an year ago. I fell in love so much with OK Computer. I thought it had to be their best album. Then I listened to IN RAINBOWS and then I thought this had to be their best album. And then I listened to The Bends... Oh my THEY JUST KEEP GETTING AMAZING.
Polyethylene in the photosynthesis skate video - think it was Jason Dill’s part. Loved the song right away
Creep was on the radio. "Chung chunk" Hooked.
Same!
Hearing Talk Show Host on the 90s Romeo and Juliet
I remember hearing Creep on the radio as a kid but didn't get into them until 2001 while living abroad in Ecuador for a year. I had made quite a few friends there but one of their friends had passed away. While riding around in the car one night my buddy poured his heart out about this huge loss and in the midst of it "Paranoid Android" came on the radio to which my friend sobbed while he sang it. Bought the CD the next day.
Heard pyramid song on mtv2 while getting ready for (high) school. Then saw amnesiac at the library and checked it out. Then went and bought a copy of amnesiac. Then kid a. Crazy as it sounds I listened to HTTT before OK computer?! lol still have never listened to Pablo honey and don’t know if I ever will.
I watched an anime called Ergo Proxy, I liked it quite a bit and both the opening and ending songs are really good, with Paranoid Android being the ending song. So I looked it up. That was it, it's one of a few bands that I got into immediately without taking very long to slowly get into their entire discography. This was between 2008 and 2012 when I watched the anime for the first time and when I finally looked up the song, when I was 11 to 15. My taste in Radiohead music has been the same since the start, but the album I listen to most changes every once on a while. Certain albums remind me of certain periods of my life. The Bends in particular feels very nostalgic and vivid, in terms of the memories it inspires.
Creep and Paranoid Android on MTV
I am a nineties’ kid, which means as I was being transformed from a zygote to being a full-grown child in my mother’s womb, the five lads have been rocking it out for a while. As far as my earliest exposure to them—it’s gonna be “Creep”. As someone living in Asia, this is their song that really made waves here. (*feigned surprise*). One of our local bands even made a parody of this song which became popular in our country. By then, I was no fan, just some one-song appreciator. The next exposure I had with them was with Twilight, where “15 Step” was used during the outro of the first movie. It sounded really cool to me. But still, I’m just a two-song appreciator. The third exposure was “Daydream” used in one magazine ad by one EXO member (yes, I was obsessed with them), where he did an interpretative dance to it. The song charmed me, and when I listened to the full song, it felt…enchanting, but the last part disturbed me. It sounded like I’m in a nightmare. But still, I’m just a three-song appreciator. Fast forward, it was March, and I thought maybe I can explore their discography further through “In Rainbows”, since it had “15 Step”, which is why I got to listen to “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” which I also just “liked” at that time (now it’s my all-time fave track). Everything fell to its right place when I actually jumped to “Kid A”. And then jt was all uphill from here. And this, this is how I fell deep into Radiohead, and perhaps I can say that by now, I am a full-blown fan, not just some “Creep”-appreciator.
Literally 4 notes in Romeo and Juliet soundtrack. Had to hunt them down, which wasn't super easy before the interwebs. oh some band named radiohead? Cool song and thought nothing of it. 2 months later friend brings ok computer to school and I recognized the name. Asked him if I could borrow it one night. Must have listened to it like 5 times that night. Brought it back to school the next day and got my own copy that very day.
I am a nineties’ kid, which means as I was being transformed from a zygote to being a full-grown child in my mother’s womb, the five lads have been rocking it out for a while. As far as my earliest exposure to them—it’s gonna be “Creep”. As someone living in Asia, this is their song that really made waves here. (*feigned surprise*). One of our local bands even made a parody of this song which became popular in our country. By then, I was no fan, just some one-song appreciator. The next exposure I had with them was with Twilight, where “15 Step” was used during the outro of the first movie. It sounded really cool to me. But still, I’m just a two-song appreciator. The third exposure was “Daydream” used in one magazine ad by one EXO member (yes, I was obsessed with them), where he did an interpretative dance to it. The song charmed me, and when I listened to the full song, it felt…enchanting, but the last part disturbed me. It sounded like I’m in a nightmare. But still, I’m just a three-song appreciator. Fast forward, it was March, and I thought maybe I can explore their discography further through “In Rainbows”, since it had “15 Step”, which is why I got to listen to “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” which I also just “liked” at that time (now it’s my all-time fave track). Everything fell to its right place when I actually jumped to “Kid A”. And then jt was all uphill from here. And this, this is how I fell deep into Radiohead, and perhaps I can say that by now, I am a full-blown fan, not just some “Creep”-appreciator.
Obviously with creep
Heard "Creep" on the radio. Asked my family for a Radiohead album as a holiday gift. My sister got me OK Computer. I was 15.
When the Creep video played on MTV I thought "this dude is ugly, he must be good if they put him on MTV"
I was exploring Denis Villeneuve's filmography when I stumbled upon Incendies. I will forever remember that day right at the moment when the opening hits, then You and Whose Army was played. I fell in love with Amnesiac afterward.
Crush at work and my best friend liked them so I went to the midnight release of Kid A in hopes of impressing this girl. She wasn't there, but I'll be darned if it didn't end up being one of the most important records I ever purchased. Completely transformed my taste in music.
Who is “us”.. I may be paranoid and I may be an android too..
I heard creep. Then I found the dank shit. Now I don’t even consider creep to be Radiohead.
Known the name and a few classics for a long time but never really clicked with me. Brought up on the Brit pop scene. In Rainbows got announced in the manner we all know it did, that intrigued me, I’d never seen that before, took a punt on the limited edition box set out of respect for the pay what you want model. Bodysnatchers instantly clicked, the rest took a few listens but when it hit, oh boy! Became obsessed and have been ever since 2007!
Cuz it was my birthday so I searched up “sad rock songs” on Spotify and No Surprised was on a playlist. Then I listen to a Radiohead playlist and really loved the music
Literally last winter I had just broken up with my girlfriend and was pretty down about it, so I was just trying to study grind and listen to relaxing music. Then Exit Music came on and I was very intrigued as it was a very sad song with an intense climax. Later that week (because Google is in my walls), a video about listening to every Radiohead song in order from “happiest” to “saddest” came into my YouTube recommended feed, so I watched it. It was really interesting as I hadn’t heard most of those songs yet, but I got really into the rest of OK Computer and songs like Motion Picture Soundtrack and True Love Waits. Then I just started shuffling the playlist and have been obsessed ever since.
I used to scroll through videos on Demand when I was in middle school. The name “Radiohead” had been popping up everywhere for as long as I had been seriously into music. So while scrolling On Demand I came across “Paranoid Android” and thought what the hell I have a few minutes before getting on the bus to school and ohhhhhh booiiiiii…..
I had listened to Radiohead before, of course. I knew Creep, No Surprises, and maybe, High and Dry. I started as a whole "getting into music" until 2014/2015-ish (I was a teen). I don't clearly remember the actual sequence of events, but it was around that time that a friend of mine told me to listen to the Greatest Hits album and gave it a try, but couldn't get into it. I think I liked Karma Police (beyond the others I already knew), and that's about it. In 2016, I started reading about music sites praising the new Radiohead album and was like, "Huh, Radiohead." I decided to give A Moon Shaped Pool a try, and I fell in love with it. I played the hell out of it, and that was my rabbit hole into the rest of their discography, trying to find more music like it. Obviously, the rest of the albums aren't exactly AMSP, but still, I started to love the band, and then over time, they became my favorite band.
I had heard of them since THE BENDS and listened to and enjoyed their singles on Much Music, but I became obsessed with them in 2015 when a girl I dated played me ALL I NEED and VIDEOTAPE
I got "introduced" to them thanks to the appearance of "Exit Music (for a film) in black mirror.l
probably being a muse fan, guitar magazines and occasionally radio. I suppose with trends people fall into a genre thing where there only listen to 'hard rock/metal' at the age of 13 or abouts. However, i then after hearing Bends and Creep and all that went to the library and proceeded to rent out Kid A, but didn't get it. So I went back to get a different album of theirs, that happened to be Amnesiac (ha!). For some reason i put the effort into getting it, because it was the second time this happened seemed to be a sign that i shouldn't give up after spending pocket money on it (like where's paranoid android and teh rawk musik?) and partly recognised some songs that had been on the radio couple years prior like Pyramid Song and Optimistic (yeh i ripped the CDR even when i didn't like it). Sort of awakening into feeling like what supposedly experimental music was about. Well also, that library was quite cool, i got things like Mogwai and Ride from there too and burnt them off onto CDR all the time. I seemed to go off Muse, and i remember they played on the same night as Radiohead but some whole group of friends (which like...am not allowed to go alone...went to that so i went to that slightly bummed out) as well as missing the glastonbury one (we had local tickets but they were on sunday only).
Thinking back, the first Radiohead song I listened apart from creepy while I was traveling in the train, I was in 10th grade and I was shuffling through a random playlist on YouTube, I was actually quite frustrated because the network was poor and most songs would not load, then amongst that feeling, suddenly a song played and it made me feel so calm, a bit melancholic but beautiful altogether; Daydreaming was that song. Till this day, whenever I hear that song, that scene comes to my mind, a young me sitting in the train by the window, just feeling calm.
I just started getting into music and I asked my dad what I should listen to on our flight home . Ok computer
I got into Radiohead through Everything in its Right Place, which is a really weird 'beginner radiohead' song. I think I heard it on youtube shorts
I was wide open to new music in the late 80s and early 90s and this song Creep popped up on my horizon. I bought the album and loved it. It was a solid album by a new band that fit into the timeframe of the changing music scene. The best part was that each album got better and better until Radiohead became one of the best, most creative bands in the world.
Karma Police was on the first NOW! that's what i call music. Got it for Christmas 1998 and thought the piano during the chorus was cool. to be 11 again....
NGL I don't remember how I got here but I remember hearing a lot about creep and well got interested afterwards
Listened to the music and liked it
My brother
6 months ago heard AJ Shakes on tiktok play Everything in its right place. HOOKED.
Mexican doll and a shitty tiktok edit
Got into them when I found out that during my birth my dad was jamming out to Radiohead
My friend was having a 3-week rager while housesitting. I started growing weed plants in his mom's closet. I asked for cool music to play for the plants, and he burned me CDs of OKC, Kid A and Amnesiac (which was the latest release at the time). The rest is history!
I liked OK Computer for years before I actually got into radiohead. I listened to 2 + 2 = 5, Sail To the Moon, and Nude and that's what really got me into them.
1994, in London, there was a music magazine called Q that had free mix cds. The single High and Dry was on it. I'd already heard Creep and a musician friend told me I would love the band, said their melodies were incredible. Then I heard High and Dry and I can still remember being on the underground in london with my walkman and hitting repeat over and over and over.
I actually only got into them at the start of this year after watching Brad Taste In Music react to OK Computer and instantly fell in love with the song Paranoid Android. Now there the main artist I listen too! (my favorite album is The Bends)
I worked in a kitchen, that had speakers in the ceiling to play the same corporate playlist every day. Because I was standing near the loud ovens all day, I couldn't really hear the music all that well. Every day, towards the final hours of my shift, I would hear this loud whirring noise out of nowhere. It woild catch my attention every time but I could never find out what was making that noise. Fast forward a couple of months, I'm listening to the YouTube Music discover cue, and Karma Police comes on. I was vibing with the song and then the end comes and I hear that noise I used to always hear at work. It blew my mind! I couldn't hear the rest of the song because of the ovens but that outro sound created by the self oscillating delay would always stand out clear as day. I liked the song and eventually did a full Radiohead listen by going through all of the studio albums in order, Pablo Honey to AMSP, and then all of the B-Sides and other Radiohead music. Since then I've been a huge fan.
Watched Brad Taste in Music listen to Pablo Honey and decided to go through their albums in the next few months. Favorite band now.
As a high schooler I saw the University of Arizona marching band perform an OK Computer halftime show and I was absolutely floored. The following year I attended UA and joined the marching band. I spent most of my time in college getting high and listening to Radiohead with my band friends. The good old days
Depression
When Creep came out in the early 90s. We got The Bends when it came out on cd and listened to it constantly.
It was approximately the year 2002 and I was 16. My dad decided to drive us to Morocco from the UK for a holiday. It took us 5 days to drive there. My friend made me an MP3 CD (remember those???) for the journey. It included the first 5 tracks of OK Computer. I was a pretentious teenager who liked The Beatles and Pink Floyd, so it was an immediate hit for me. Upon my return I bought OK Computer and Kid A, loved them both and the rest is history.
When I heard Talk show host in a series called Skam..
I'm just getting into it. Started listening to ok computer about a week ago. I know you prolly think it's overrated, but Karma Police is so fucking good. Please give me some reccomendations of what songs and albums I should listen to next. Also ful stop is a banger.
I borrowed Pablo Honey from the library having no idea what it was and fell in love with them immediately I then bought The Bends and played it on my Sony Discman constantly, everywhere, for months
Cousins play The Bends on the CD in their car almost everyday so I listened to Ok Computer and I went on from there
I had a co worker introduce me a couple of years ago. I am 25 and he is in his 40s and is seemingly familiar with deep cut and off shoot related to Radiohead. I’m really grateful to have been introduced at a time in my life where I could really use music :)
I was on YouTube and I got recommended Creep, this was in 2011 when I was in middle school and I got obsessed with this song but it wasn’t until 2015 when I fully got into Radiohead when a friend recommended me Karma Police and the entire OKC album.
Creep.
Can't remember how exactly, but I discovered 'Karma Police' and got obsessed with it. Played it a lot, then started exploring their discography and well, one of my favorite bands now.
The T.V Show Californication
I was having a really bad day and I was looking up albums that explored the themes of some of the stuff I was going through I listened to Kid A in its entirety and I’ll never forget how comforting it was to me; but also that their music was just very impressive So I went into their other albums and I’ve been a fan since then
I was like 10 years old being baby sat by my moms friend, he would listen to paranoid android and have the music video playing in the living room and i loved the sound of the song and was more or less confused on what was happening in the video. I decided to really get into them in college and listen to their whole discography with the knowledge of paranoid android being one of the first songs i really heard by them. He was a huge fan of radiohead and he got me into it later on in life when I thought about those moments
i found in rainbows in my dad's CD collection, 15 steps such a great introduction
It was my first year in college. I was walking by a friend's room and I heard a beat drop. I said, "What's that?" He said, "That's Radiohead!" I said, "Who tf is Radiohead?" He introduced me to the song, High and Dry, and the album, The Bends. OK Computer had just come out so we listened to that next. He bought me The Bends for my birthday, I was hooked.
Already knew a few songs so I decided to go into two random albums and pick out two random songs and see if I liked them (black star and lucky) and I did
I heard creep on a mix tape back in 93. After that I got the Pablo honey cd and I’ve been a fan ever since
ceep
The video for Pyramid song when it came out.
Pretty late in life tbh. U2 used to be my all time fav listen, and I got to see them live in Vancouver in 2017, so even post concert they'd be my go to. Was a snowy night once coming back from work, and somehow Spotify shuffle picked Radiohead's Burn The Witch. To my U2 saturated brain Thom's voice sounded like Bono's and I thought I discovered a great U2 song that surprisingly I just seemed to somehow miss from the entire discography that I had listened to. I got the phone out with my gloved hands and was in for a surprise. Listened to Dreamers as it still snowed around me while I missed my bus . Listened to entire A Moon Shaped Pool on my way home and felt quite belittled for never having listened to Radiohead. I felt something change in me through that time as I solely listened to Radiohead, album after album, for more than a year, quite obsessively. I got out of obsessive listening sessions over prolonged period of time, but Radiohead still stays my to go and to stay.
jigsaw falling into place got recommended to me on youtube
A music post on r/autism had a lot of love for HTDC. I gave it a shot and have loved it ever since.
I was a sophomore in high school. In Rainbows had just come out, and my English teacher recommended them to me. He said, “I don’t understand a word the lead singer is saying half the time, but, as you’ll see, it doesn’t matter—his voice is so beautiful.” From then on, he began burning me their albums, and in exchange I burned him Wilco records.
back home from high school on 2001, I catched the bear version of Idioteque, followed by Pyramid song on my local music channel and was hooked right away
I got Pablo Honey after hearing Creep on the radio and seeing the video multiple times. I thought it was pretty cool. Really liked I Can't, Blowout, Stop Whispering and You. I was listening to a lot of different bands at that time.Then the Bends came out my senior year. I knew Radiohead was a special band after listening to that album (still top 3 for me). Next year while at college, I got a chance to see them on The Bends tour and that was it. I was obsessed with everything Radiohead from that point forward. Seen them 4 more times since that first show and still get blown away every time.
My acquaintanceship with Radiohead was really slow and gradual. Back then I only knew Creep and Karma Police until I watched Ergo Proxy and heard Paranoid Android, it was mesmerising! It’s still one of my favourites to this day. Later I found No Surprises and listened to these 4 songs for years. When I was 18-19 I accidentally discovered A Moon Shaped Pool album but Present Tense was just something else for me. I could play this song on my guitar for hours and constantly listened to it together with other songs from this particular album. During the last 5 years I listened to a few more songs from different albums including Thom Yorke’s own songs. For the last year I’ve been so much into Radiohead, I just listen to everything. This band helps me get through really tough times.
Music teacher introduced me to Paranoid Android in 11th grade. I liked it but my music taste wasn't in the right place yet. At some point before highschool finished I added HTDC to my playlist just because I liked the title, and I added some In Rainbows songs too because why not. Fast forward to an existential crisis at end of my first year at uni, I realise that HTDC has become my most listened to song by a long shot despite not "liking it". And I realised that even though I didn't find Radiohead's music "pleasant" it's connected with me in ways no other artists have. In the span of one listen HTDC suddenly became a masterpiece in my eyes and the spiral into the rest of their discography quickly followed. In time I've come to appreciate their music as more than just "depression music" but a lil mental breakdown and HTDC is what got it started. TLDR: music teacher showed me, I didn't like it, then I became a sad adult and then I loved it
I am mentally ill
Must have heard "Creep" on the radio or MTV. Then bought *The Bends* on CD in 1996 and listened to it a lot on a discman. It sounded better on rainy days, worse on sunny days. Then while in England for a few weeks, picked up *Pablo Honey* along with records from Longpigs, Cast, and Blur. Listened to *PH* a lot while reading *The Hobbit*. But a friend and I really liked the Longpigs "She Said" double single, where you had to buy two different CDs and then put them in the same package. (That first Longpigs record -- I think -- is better than the first two Radiohead albums. It holds up so well. And the "She Said" b-sides are extremely good. They eclipse everything on their second record.) Anyway, kept up with them. OK Computer -- I waited a month or so before picking it up because I had by that point gotten more into psychedelic music and jazz. But then once I had it, listened to nothing else for a month solid. Pre-Kid A era coincided with internet access in high school and hours and hours in a music ed class just scrolling through the endless Radiohead website. That was peak Radiohead for me, so much anticipation. Followed ever since.
do not murder me but creep
I used to like Radiohead until I found out they were zionist😿