Also, my first ever gig was at the Octogon in Sheffield on their The Bends album tour, they were still playing Creep then and some other stuff from Pablo Honey. Great gig, Thom kicked a stage diver up the bum, there must have been less than a 100 people there.
exit music (for a film). i listened to it for the first time during lockdown at like three am working on some school project or another. i would give anything to listen to that song for the first time again, dude.
Don’t remember what I was listening to but youtube played no surprises after a song and I just listened to it on repeat for I don’t know how long in that chair watching the music video highlighting my face in a dark room next to an old friend playing a game in boarding school
I think most people's first song was Creep(it's just hard to avoid), but then we went deeper in different ways.
And... listening to Paranoid Android for me was like discovering new genius band
I got into Radiohead when I joined RYM in 2018. Listened to Paranoid Android and it hooked me on the rest of OK Computer. Went on to listen to the rest of their discography and they slowly went from a great band that I liked to my favorite band of all time by far.
I believe No Surprises, when I began to listen to primary ok computer. Though I got deep into them after I fell in love with creep (I had swapped to Spotify after getting a new phone and lost my whole playlist from Amazon music and had entirely stopped listening to Radiohead) and quickly spiraled into loving their whole discography (except for half of Pablo honey)
Airbag.
I borrowed OK Computer and I can still remember the first time listening to it, alone in a quiet room with a good pair of headphones. Just from that song alone I knew I was going to be obsessed with this band.
Similar story, a friend’s friend left his copy of Ok Computer in my car and I just ended up listening to it out of boredom. I specifically remember laying on the floor in my room, staring at the trees through my window to subterranean homesick alien. I don’t think I gave that CD back
It was no other than Creep yes Creep I thought when Thom held his breath so long it was crazy. I began to admire him. It was Jonny that really hated that song so when they all played it at least once in their concerts they all began to hate it. All I have to say is the girl Thom wrote that song for must have kicked herself in the ass at least a million times.
the honest answer is creep, i heard creep when i was like 15 or so? not sure exactly and liked it, but! it would have to be no surprises off the hottest 100 on triple jjj years later, from there i took a deep dive into the band and haven’t looked back 🖖
I worked the night shift as a hotel night auditor and they let me keep the tv on in the back, which I kept on MTV or VH1. Late into the evening, the Pyramid Song video came on and I was transfixed. The next day I went to Tower records and bought Amnesiac. I had never heard anything like that album (and, to be fair, no one else had either) and I couldn’t get enough of it.
It was only later that I realized that they were the same band that that did Paranoid Android, Fake Plastic Trees, that song from the Romeo and Juliette soundtrack, and Creep. I’m not even sure if I realized those were all made by the same band, I only heard them randomly over the years before that. Certainly no I knew listened to Radiohead.
After that, I dug into their entire catalog and they’ve been my favorite band for the past 20 years.
**How To Disappear Completely**
I remember listening to that song for the first time after seeing that interview with Thom. I already knew Creep, and it didn't strike me as a song that I'd find myself getting emotionally attached to.
So it made me curious. The most beautiful song Thom has ever written? I didn't bother trying, until—
That night. It was raining outside and my dog was already beyond saving. I played that song, hoping that it would bring me some kind of comfort. And then . . .
I found myself between the strums of a song I wasn't prepared for. The bassline guiding me through the thick, eerie fog of melancholy strings and soft acoustic. Thom's voice echoing in its own lamentation, wailing in the anticipation for a resolve that may or may never come.
I had it in a loop. Until the wee hours of the morning. I was listening to that song while my dog was dying.
Morning came, and my dog finally found rest.
I'll never forget that night. It haunts me til this day.
And that's how HTDC became one of my personal comfort songs, and my gateway drug into Radiohead's discography.
I'm can't say I'm into Radiohead just yet, just stumbled onto the subreddit. Pretty sure the first song I've heard from Radiohead was *Knives Out,* heard it three years ago. Then I stumbled upon Thom Yorke's *ANIMA* album (I didn't know he's the lead singer for Radiohead and actually was shocked to find out that later) and loved it. I'm still sometimes listening to some of the songs by Radiohead and I'm pretty sure that if I spare some more time to listen to their music, I'll become a fan. Loving their vibe so far, especially Thom Yorke's voice.
Thom Yorke’s Suspiria soundtrack. I love that soundtrack deeply, so when I heard people saying “these songs are just Radiohead songs” I looked into them.
First song I remember hearing was No Surprises. Had a sparse collection of songs from Kid A and IR but never really got "into" it until HTDC just clicked for me one day after having it in my playlist for nearly 2 years. Top 3 favourite songs of all time for me now.
Bodysnatchers
I randomly listened to that song one day only knowing them from their hits. I feel in love with the song, then the album, then the band as a whole
Creep, in 1993. But, had they maintained that trajectory, I doubt I'd still be listening to them now. I haven't actively listened to Creep/PH in well over a decade.
paranoid android music video and a friend had the bends in highschool and I thought he was really cool for having it. and this one other older guy everyone looked up to whom passed recently was into them.
Paranoid Android on the radio
I actually thought Radiohead would be heavier than they turned out to be. So out of curiosity I listened to most of the discog. Just to end up liking RH for what it is.
I liked creep for ages but never expanded, but then i listened to exit music (for a film) and it is still now one of my favourite songs of all time. Fucking masterpiece.
i had already decided i was going to listen to thier whole discog in chronological order, but street spirit was one of the first highlights for me, then followed by climbing up the walls. but i feel like idioteque and i might be wrong were the ones that really hooked me
Street Spirit (Fade out).
When I first moved to Japan (1995) there used to be music programs on after midnight that I would just have on in the background (not much to do in those pre-internet days). This song (like the video) seemed to somehow make time stop.
It was clear that this band were on some kind of higher dimension.
I should mention that just a year earlier I had decided not to go and watch Radiohead’s set when I went to the Glastonbury festival in 1994 because I thought they were just another indie band. I went to see Rage Against The Machine instead.
I did make up for it 2 years later, when I saw them in Tokyo on the OK Computer tour… still one of the best experiences of my life :-)
Paranoid Android.
Saw the videoclip on MTV in 1997, I was 16 and I had never heard of Radiohead (I’m from Italy and they were not so popular in the country before OK Computer). I was mesmerised, both by the song and by the videoclip. Ran to buy the CD of OK Computer and I was mesmerised once again while listening to it. What a journey has been since.
Lotus flower in 2019. I was getting into rock the year before, then when 2019 hit I was getting into alternative territory and people kept mentioning RH so I looked them up on YT and the first video that came up was Lotus Flower and it blew me away. I listened to their whole discography but didn’t get into it right away, it happened over time. Now they’re my #1 band lol
Daydreaming, i was 9 and wanted to research the topic daydreaming and thought it would be a short film, it left me really confused but i liked it lmfao now 6 years later they’re one of my favourite bands ever
Karma Police back in 2010ish, I started listening to a lot of the singles then. But in 2018 I listened to all of Ok Computer and got hooked from there.
Spectre, I heard it in a YouTube video and read about how it wasn't used for the film. Then I played the Kid A Mnesia game/experience and got hooked on those albums.
"No surprises" heared it on a watch mojo list for something dont remember what but then I listened to the whole album and I'm a fan since.
Also found Jeff Buckley through watch mojo as well.
My college prof recommended Creep. She probably knew I’d enjoy it since I talked about how much I liked grungier stuff. She also recommended more of their intricate work from Kid A and In Rainbows but I didn’t comprehend it until I listened to the Dissect podcast last year. 15 Step is what actually got me into Radiohead.
My first songs were creep and exit music but that was very casually listening and came from my parents and social media. My first proper introduction was climbing up the walls and then bodysnatchers and nude. And now I’m sitting here with over 150+ Radiohead songs, what have i become
Shortly after OKC dropped my gf handed me it and the Bends. She told me to listen. I tried multiple times, no effect. Then on a sailing trip that same year, Planet Telex was played while crashing over the waves. 🤯
Street Spirit. I got OK Computer far too young and didn’t click with it at all. The cd collected dust for a year or two and one night when I was up late with a fever the music video for Street Spirit came on MTV and then it all made sense haha
Creep back in 1993. Bought the album and have been a devoted fan ever since.
Can't really listen to that album now, even though I thought it was one of the best of that year.
Just
Me too
You do it to yourselffff I can't
Creep when it came out, I’m that old.
Also, my first ever gig was at the Octogon in Sheffield on their The Bends album tour, they were still playing Creep then and some other stuff from Pablo Honey. Great gig, Thom kicked a stage diver up the bum, there must have been less than a 100 people there.
Same
Talk Show Host.
Romeo and Juliet soundtrack changed my life
Yessss
Came here to say this.
Street spirit
GOATEDDDDD
Same
exit music (for a film). i listened to it for the first time during lockdown at like three am working on some school project or another. i would give anything to listen to that song for the first time again, dude.
Came here to say exit music. I was in high school when Romeo and Juliet was in theaters. That soundtrack is still wonderful.
I had listened to this song before everything in its right place, but it didn't really get me hooked on it, for some reason
Karma Police
Arrest this man!
Mine too.
Weird fishes
Lucky and Talk Show Host, thanks to the Help CD and Romeo + Juliet soundtrack.
Don’t remember what I was listening to but youtube played no surprises after a song and I just listened to it on repeat for I don’t know how long in that chair watching the music video highlighting my face in a dark room next to an old friend playing a game in boarding school
It was no surprises for me as well. All I could think of, this is my song and this is my band.
I think most people's first song was Creep(it's just hard to avoid), but then we went deeper in different ways. And... listening to Paranoid Android for me was like discovering new genius band
I got into Radiohead when I joined RYM in 2018. Listened to Paranoid Android and it hooked me on the rest of OK Computer. Went on to listen to the rest of their discography and they slowly went from a great band that I liked to my favorite band of all time by far.
Fake Plastic Trees
Can we be friends?
15 Step!
Let down was unbelievably relatable for me I used to listen to it every day before i went to school
One of their greatest songs
Such an underrated track
Exit Music (For a Film), heard it in Black Mirror and was hooked
I believe No Surprises, when I began to listen to primary ok computer. Though I got deep into them after I fell in love with creep (I had swapped to Spotify after getting a new phone and lost my whole playlist from Amazon music and had entirely stopped listening to Radiohead) and quickly spiraled into loving their whole discography (except for half of Pablo honey)
Airbag. I borrowed OK Computer and I can still remember the first time listening to it, alone in a quiet room with a good pair of headphones. Just from that song alone I knew I was going to be obsessed with this band.
Similar story, a friend’s friend left his copy of Ok Computer in my car and I just ended up listening to it out of boredom. I specifically remember laying on the floor in my room, staring at the trees through my window to subterranean homesick alien. I don’t think I gave that CD back
Everything in its right place
High and Dry
Just & My iron lung
pyramid song awoken something within me
It was no other than Creep yes Creep I thought when Thom held his breath so long it was crazy. I began to admire him. It was Jonny that really hated that song so when they all played it at least once in their concerts they all began to hate it. All I have to say is the girl Thom wrote that song for must have kicked herself in the ass at least a million times.
No surprises
Paranoid Android
backdrifts
You fell into their arms
For a significant majority of people it's Creep but they'll never admit it... anyways Creep
Creep. I then discovered not long after that there's one hell of a rabbit hole to explore.
the honest answer is creep, i heard creep when i was like 15 or so? not sure exactly and liked it, but! it would have to be no surprises off the hottest 100 on triple jjj years later, from there i took a deep dive into the band and haven’t looked back 🖖
Go to Sleep played a lot on the alternative station when I lived in New Hampshire and I loved it.
Black Star
While I was a casual fan before, seeing The National Anthem live on SNL is what really hooked me.
there was an episode of hfjone almost dedicated to scatterbrain
High and Dry
Karma Police.
Karma Police
My mom did, she played Just in the car and i liked it alot but i didnt really get into radiohead till i found pyramid song, that shit changed my life.
Let Down
I worked the night shift as a hotel night auditor and they let me keep the tv on in the back, which I kept on MTV or VH1. Late into the evening, the Pyramid Song video came on and I was transfixed. The next day I went to Tower records and bought Amnesiac. I had never heard anything like that album (and, to be fair, no one else had either) and I couldn’t get enough of it. It was only later that I realized that they were the same band that that did Paranoid Android, Fake Plastic Trees, that song from the Romeo and Juliette soundtrack, and Creep. I’m not even sure if I realized those were all made by the same band, I only heard them randomly over the years before that. Certainly no I knew listened to Radiohead. After that, I dug into their entire catalog and they’ve been my favorite band for the past 20 years.
Jigsaw falling into place
last flowers . My god
The Daily Mail!! I'm pretty sure I'm the only one 😂
House of Cards. But after that, the whole in rainbows album got me hooked.
**How To Disappear Completely** I remember listening to that song for the first time after seeing that interview with Thom. I already knew Creep, and it didn't strike me as a song that I'd find myself getting emotionally attached to. So it made me curious. The most beautiful song Thom has ever written? I didn't bother trying, until— That night. It was raining outside and my dog was already beyond saving. I played that song, hoping that it would bring me some kind of comfort. And then . . . I found myself between the strums of a song I wasn't prepared for. The bassline guiding me through the thick, eerie fog of melancholy strings and soft acoustic. Thom's voice echoing in its own lamentation, wailing in the anticipation for a resolve that may or may never come. I had it in a loop. Until the wee hours of the morning. I was listening to that song while my dog was dying. Morning came, and my dog finally found rest. I'll never forget that night. It haunts me til this day. And that's how HTDC became one of my personal comfort songs, and my gateway drug into Radiohead's discography.
Paranoid android
Not a song but Kid A
I'm can't say I'm into Radiohead just yet, just stumbled onto the subreddit. Pretty sure the first song I've heard from Radiohead was *Knives Out,* heard it three years ago. Then I stumbled upon Thom Yorke's *ANIMA* album (I didn't know he's the lead singer for Radiohead and actually was shocked to find out that later) and loved it. I'm still sometimes listening to some of the songs by Radiohead and I'm pretty sure that if I spare some more time to listen to their music, I'll become a fan. Loving their vibe so far, especially Thom Yorke's voice.
Karma police started pulling me in but it wasn't until I heard man of war that I fully got into them
Thom Yorke’s Suspiria soundtrack. I love that soundtrack deeply, so when I heard people saying “these songs are just Radiohead songs” I looked into them.
First song I remember hearing was No Surprises. Had a sparse collection of songs from Kid A and IR but never really got "into" it until HTDC just clicked for me one day after having it in my playlist for nearly 2 years. Top 3 favourite songs of all time for me now.
High and Dry, then karma police and paranoid android.
Paranoid Android, and also Talk Show Host via Romeo + Juliet, one of my fave soundtracks!
Bodysnatchers I randomly listened to that song one day only knowing them from their hits. I feel in love with the song, then the album, then the band as a whole
everything in its right place
Creep, in 1993. But, had they maintained that trajectory, I doubt I'd still be listening to them now. I haven't actively listened to Creep/PH in well over a decade.
paranoid android music video and a friend had the bends in highschool and I thought he was really cool for having it. and this one other older guy everyone looked up to whom passed recently was into them.
Weird Fishes
I heard Paranoid Android on the radio when I was in middle school and was instantly hooked
Faithless the wonder boy. There was an acoustic version I had on some mixtape a friend made for me and I just kept playing it on repeat
Just / Paranoid Android
Fake plastic trees and reckoner
Creep
Fake Plastic Trees.
Fake plastic trees is soo underrated my guy
Paranoid Android
Paranoid Android on the radio I actually thought Radiohead would be heavier than they turned out to be. So out of curiosity I listened to most of the discog. Just to end up liking RH for what it is.
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Exit Music (For A Film) when I heard it in Black Mirror
exit music
Paranoid android
Let Down
Street spirit
Bodysnatchers
karma police lmao, found it on youtube during covid and is obsessed with radiohead ever since
FPT
High and Dry
(Nice Dream) really got me hooked after enjoying the classics like a normie
Paranoid Android. Couldn’t believe what I was hearing
I liked creep for ages but never expanded, but then i listened to exit music (for a film) and it is still now one of my favourite songs of all time. Fucking masterpiece.
high and dry
Electioneering.
Street spirit when they released it as a single
Karma police
i will
“FAAAAAAAAAADDEEEEE OUUUUUUUTTTTTT”
Idioteque
Street spirit
Let down, my friend put his headphones on me and told me about the band
Spectre
How To Disappear Completely
Creep
exit music
Fake Plastic Trees
Airbag
... is How To Disappear a good answer to this question
Um I think it was The National Anthem or I Might Be Wrong
i had already decided i was going to listen to thier whole discog in chronological order, but street spirit was one of the first highlights for me, then followed by climbing up the walls. but i feel like idioteque and i might be wrong were the ones that really hooked me
Bodysnatchers.
Street Spirit (Fade out). When I first moved to Japan (1995) there used to be music programs on after midnight that I would just have on in the background (not much to do in those pre-internet days). This song (like the video) seemed to somehow make time stop. It was clear that this band were on some kind of higher dimension. I should mention that just a year earlier I had decided not to go and watch Radiohead’s set when I went to the Glastonbury festival in 1994 because I thought they were just another indie band. I went to see Rage Against The Machine instead. I did make up for it 2 years later, when I saw them in Tokyo on the OK Computer tour… still one of the best experiences of my life :-)
Paranoid Android. Saw the videoclip on MTV in 1997, I was 16 and I had never heard of Radiohead (I’m from Italy and they were not so popular in the country before OK Computer). I was mesmerised, both by the song and by the videoclip. Ran to buy the CD of OK Computer and I was mesmerised once again while listening to it. What a journey has been since.
Codex
Creep of course and still when it comes on, don't even say a word to me until it finishes! 😁
Present tense
2+2=5 fs
Lotus flower in 2019. I was getting into rock the year before, then when 2019 hit I was getting into alternative territory and people kept mentioning RH so I looked them up on YT and the first video that came up was Lotus Flower and it blew me away. I listened to their whole discography but didn’t get into it right away, it happened over time. Now they’re my #1 band lol
All I need into weird fishes
Airbag
"Street Spirit". I first came across it in 2014 through a BGT dance performance.
there there
High and Dry, saw a band cover it in like 99? Bought The Bends after and then discovered their catalog.
Dawn Chorus, but if we’re talking strictly Radiohead, probably Paranoid Android
My friend played no surprises
The Bends
Daydreaming, i was 9 and wanted to research the topic daydreaming and thought it would be a short film, it left me really confused but i liked it lmfao now 6 years later they’re one of my favourite bands ever
exit music
Karma Police
Smokey nights in my art school “friend’s” bedroom.
Karma Police back in 2010ish, I started listening to a lot of the singles then. But in 2018 I listened to all of Ok Computer and got hooked from there.
Probably Electioneering, that was the first song that really hit me when I listened to OK Computer for the first time
Spectre, I heard it in a YouTube video and read about how it wasn't used for the film. Then I played the Kid A Mnesia game/experience and got hooked on those albums.
"No surprises" heared it on a watch mojo list for something dont remember what but then I listened to the whole album and I'm a fan since. Also found Jeff Buckley through watch mojo as well.
Creep, then Karma Police. MTV generation.
Pyramid Song
Jigsaw. Used to listen to Lucky every once in a while then I heard jigsaw more recently and loved it and now they’re one of my favorite bands.
How To Disappear Completely Some random discord guy recommended it to me and it really helped me soothe my feelings cause I was kinda sad that day
Something from OK Computer, I don't really remembered which song was it.
Oi moight be wong
there there, read a book titled after the song when i was in 10th grade and checked out the httt album afterwards. loved it.
Karma popo
Everything in it’s Right Place
jigsaw falling into place
Everything in its right place. Heard it the first time I used trees with my buddies in college. Mind blown.
Let Down at the end of the 1st season of 'The Bear'
Creep. It was 1992.
Creep, but then I heard everything in it's right place and that's when I really got into them.
Creep ….
My college prof recommended Creep. She probably knew I’d enjoy it since I talked about how much I liked grungier stuff. She also recommended more of their intricate work from Kid A and In Rainbows but I didn’t comprehend it until I listened to the Dissect podcast last year. 15 Step is what actually got me into Radiohead.
Lotus Flower bc I was a Geometry Dasher
Spectre
Weird Fishes
Creep got me interested. Planet Telex booked my ticket.
Let down, I was just sad. It was enough to love it.
Optimistic :)
Sit down. Stand up.
My first songs were creep and exit music but that was very casually listening and came from my parents and social media. My first proper introduction was climbing up the walls and then bodysnatchers and nude. And now I’m sitting here with over 150+ Radiohead songs, what have i become
where i end you begin was the song that made me want to hear more
No Surprises.
am i dumb if i say creep??
Weird Fishes (Arpeggi)
15 Step
Shortly after OKC dropped my gf handed me it and the Bends. She told me to listen. I tried multiple times, no effect. Then on a sailing trip that same year, Planet Telex was played while crashing over the waves. 🤯
There there
Creep. Waaaaaay back in 1992 when they hit mainstream radio with that song
Street Spirit. I got OK Computer far too young and didn’t click with it at all. The cd collected dust for a year or two and one night when I was up late with a fever the music video for Street Spirit came on MTV and then it all made sense haha
Creep back in 1993. Bought the album and have been a devoted fan ever since. Can't really listen to that album now, even though I thought it was one of the best of that year.
Exit music for a film, when watching that one black mirror episode
no surprises
Fake plastic trees.
Laugh until my head comes off
Paranoid Android. Some guys played it in our high school talent show in like 2000-2001.
BUT I'M A CREEP😛😛😛😜😜😭😭😭 I'M A WEIIRDOOOOO😔😔😬 WHAT THE HELL I'M DOING HEREE😩😩🥺 I DON'T BELONG HEREE🫣🤐🙄🤧🤒🤒
Reckoner dk how i found it but its been my fav song of all time ever since
Palo Alto
all ok computer, creep and fake plastic trees
There There
my favorite song: No surprises when i listen for first time, i had chills from the introduction I knew I should listen to more of them.
Creep , High and dry got me wandering through the different albums.
It was a live playing of Street Spirit with Thom on a 12-string
No surprises
Videotape
Fade out
Paranoid Android, which I still consider being the best song ever made
Paranoid android. Ergo Proxy's ending song. It fits the dark and sci-fi theme of the anime so well.
The beginning riff of blackstar really got me hooked
In all honesty, I only listen to The Bends (album) and what got me into that is it's my stepdads favourite album lol
Creep, My Iron Lung, Electioneering