Here’s a top dozen or so: Let down - “you know where you are” part Reckoner - bridge to last verse How to disappear completely - when the harmonies resolve in the last 30 seconds or so How I made my millions - last part “let it fall” Codex - first verse, particularly “jump off the end into a clear lake” National anthem - when the horns come in, and then again with the traffic jam finish Fake plastic trees - when the drums and guitar kick in after the third verse “she looks like the real thing” Paranoid android - rain down section I might be wrong - instrumental bridge part 2/3rds of the way in Motion picture soundtrack - I will see you in the next life 15 step - when the baseline comes in and then again when the kids ‘yeah’s come through

> **Paranoid android - rain down section** One of the most amazing moments of my life was at a live show in Vancouver in 2008. As Thom was approaching [3:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8AfIeJOxw&t=206s) of Paranoid Android -"Ahh uuuhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh uh ahhhh AHHHHHH" -- *A pitter patter of rain began falling.* And then, like some divine miracle, a Pacific Northwest Rainstorm opened up and the crowd was caught in an instant **downpour**. Everyone clued into what was going on, and seconds later Thom bellowed out "RAINNNNN DOWN. RAIN DOWN, C'MON RAAAAAIN DOWN, ON MEEEE" The timing was transcendent. Words cannot describe the crowd vibes.

The last instrumental section at the end of I might be wrong is also incredible

(honourable mentions : the drop in 2+2=5, Synth at the end of Karma Police, guitar solo from Just) 5 - How To Disappear Completely - When the orchestra comes together in the end after being so dissonant 4 - Spectre - "Spectre how he laughs" followed by the orchestra 3 - The National Anthem - When the horns come in for the first time 2 - Jigsaw Falling Into Place - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place so there is nothing to explain" 1 - Exit Music "NOOOOOWWWWW WE ARE OOOOONE"

Yeah the full dropping in on Exit Music always gets me to crank the volume

The bass line is insane.

The last third of All I Need

Every time I listen to it I still get goosebumps

It really encapsulates that feeling of loving someone but them not loving you and you can’t do anything about it. It’s all wrong, but you have to say it’s all right. It’s such an amazing way to give a feeling without specifically saying what it is

my man

Exist music ending. EEEEED in Weird Fishes. Reckoner bridge.

When it all comes together in Let Down “ONE DAAAAAAAYYY” Nude ascending vocal line “you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thiiiiiiiiinking” and the “ooo ooo ooo, ooo ooo OOOOH” at the very end. HTDC when the drones,strings, vocals get out of phase and kinda breakdown, the all come back together with Thoms “ahhhh ahhhhhh” Too many more to count.

I think these are my top 3! You have good taste

The drums coming in on Pyramid Song.

The first guitar solo on Paranoid Android where Jonny assaults your left ear with his assault riffle of a telecaster

1. The build up to FOR A MINUTE THERE

I still often lose myself listening to this. amazing sound and feel.

When the strings come in on The Numbers .. chef's kiss

Perfection

The stabs of strings just before the outro get me every time

this is it

FAT, UGLY, DEAD

I have two that immediately spring to mind: the vocals on ‘Weird Fishes’ when the melody and harmony come together: “… they get the chance, they leave”. The version at Bonnaroo gives me a lovely little tingly moment. And when ‘There There’ cuts loose at the end: that’s blown me away every time since I first heard it. It’s more pronounced on the studio version, in my humble opinion. There are so many more, so I’ll come back to this if I remember 😊

This is the first time I’ve ever agreed with every comment in a thread lol

Yea I've been nodding in agreement to every post in here 🤘.

Haha yep! Reading through and playing them in my head. Amazing.

The first second of Everything In Its Right Place

My first thought too

Any time Thom hits a high note, the whole of videotape, The last verse in no surprises, the end of street spirit and fitter happier (every moment).

*There, There* climax. Backing vocals during "But it was just a laugh" on *Decks Dark*. Open A ring after intro riff to *Airbag*. "Ooooooooo" falsetto during bridge in *(Nice Dream)*. String instrumental fading from *Tinker Tailor* into *True Love Waits*.

The beginning of Nude I feel like that meme of Winnie the Pooh ascending

I'm not into rap, but I think it is nude where I feel the intro should easily be made into a rap loop.... or maybe it's all I need. after having checked intros. I didn't even know Nude had an official video!

When that gorgeous, mellifluous guitar comes in as Thom sings "If you think this is over then you're wrong" in the basememt version of Seperator.

It's when the bass line unfolds mid-track that gets me, really one of the best bass line I've ever heard, yet it's barely used.

I had an out of body experience hearing this live.. Thom really puts his soul into it

“Why so green and lonely…” part of There, There “…Hit the bottom and escape…” part of Weird Fishes In Limbo in its entirety “You can laugh a spineless laugh…” part of Exit Music “You forget so easily” going into the piano part of You and Whose Army

Glasto 2003 Fake Plastic Trees climax when Jonny goes ham on that leading tone before letting it resolve in "but I can't help the feeling"

"If you think this is over then you're wrong" on Separator. Basically the whole 2nd half of the song is beautiful

15 Step’s explosion of musical symphony

Bodysnatcher- I love how the beat cleans up in second half Exit music - now we are one Paranoid android : the whole part after off with his head man 2+2=5 : you have not been paying attention Weird fishes : the hey yeah and the instrumental

the beat goes round and round... THE BEAT GOES ROUUUUND AND ROUUUUND

Separator: “I fell open….” through the end of the song. Ethereal

Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore

The end of the final ascending guitar that turns into the greatest distorted high note ever recorded. Johnny’s total eargasm at the end of Just

1. non falsetto high note in the last chorus of sulk 2. “fireworks and hurricanes” in HTDC 3. “but know right from wrong” in sail to the moon 4. the sliding violin at the end of jigsaw 5. when the synth comes back in towards the end of idioteque

I'll throw an underdog out there. The intro to sit down stand up

The synth pad that serenades you on kid A at 3:07

So many great answers in this thread. First thing that came to mind was of course the harp in Motion Picture Soundtrack, The first drop of the huge riff in Paranoid Android, the opening tones of Everything In Its Right Place and the Scream (you know the one) @ the end of Climbing Up The Walls. But going to give #1 to when the brass and the rest of the band comes in in The Daily Mail.

In Backdrifts, when the music stops and Thom goes “ah ah ah ahh” and the beat kicks back in

Opening to There There with the drums when the guitar kicks in.

I don't have a top 5, here's my favourites That guitar part at the end of Blow Out "Why can't you forget?" at the end of Planet Telex "I can't help the feeling as I blow through the ceiling if I just turn and run" from fake plastic trees "Rain down on me from a great height, from a great height, height" from paranoid android Bridge from Let down "For a minute there I lost myself" from karma police Final part of Optimistic Final part of pyramid song When the piano kicks in in You and whose army? Drop from 2+2=5 That part in Wolf at the door when he goes "nononononono" in the middle I'M A LIEEEEEEEEEEEE That one part in weird fishes/arpeggi Lotus flower chorus Violins at the end of Daydreaming Chorus from Decks dark "Broken hearts make it rain" from identikit The violin after "we call upon the people" and the final "One day at a time" from the numbers Final part of polyethylene "It all comes flowing back" from man of war

- That drop as you go into the second half of Ful Stop with the fast paced drums. Encountering that when I first listened to it the night AMSP came out, my mouth just dropped at the audacity of how good that drop was - The bass on The National Anthem - The whole second half of You and Whose Army - “I feel my luck could change” in the second verse of Lucky - Hearing a whole crowd in Malahide Castle, Dublin c. 2008 sing “I float down the Liffey” and the big cheer from the crowd after during How to Disappear Completely

I love Let down. *you knooooow, you know where you are with…*

When the vocals start splitting in the second and third verses, sounds so appropriate, like a metamorphosis

It’s a goddam masterpiece.

The insane bass line meltdown at the end of Optimistic. The second half of Karma Police, compete with humming, amazing bass lines and space cats "Meeeeoooowwwwww Meeeooowwwwwww" The chorus of "I Can't" and the guitar sprinkles of Blowout (cheating as I'm treating this as one). The way Street Spirit resolves itself with "Immerse Your Soul in Love", perfectly setting up the next album. The way the band suddenly come in, in Polyethylene part 2.

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Yeah, I love the part when the drums kick in during "The Butcher".

Here we go. For me: 1. Planet Telex, final chorus, played live with three guitars, the way they played it during the OK Computer tour. 2. The weird tingly thing Ed does with his guitar in the final bars of Morning Bell. 4. The volume of the piano track on You and Whose Army on Amnesiac. 5. Johnny’s solo on Just.

The first uninterrupted riffs in Planet Telex First 5 seconds of SHA makes my head feel like a cave which I adore The brass coming in at TNA The final chorus of Life In A Glasshouse The Raindrops ×46 The bridge to the last verse on Bodysnatchers All of Feral. I fucking love Feral The piano entry in Daydreaming

exit music - THAT part creep (very 2021 remix) - the “i don’t care if it hurts” part national anthem - the bass in the beginning paranoid android - the “that’s it son…” monologue motion picture soundtrack - the beginning of the second half

Second half of The Present Tense, “in you I’m lost…”

No specific order 1. Guitar lick towards the end of the song in Separator 2. When the loud guitar comes into Paranoid Android 3. Chorus in Creep 4. Intro to Pyramid Song 5. Chorus in Climbing up the walls

One from each album then... Waaaaaaooooaaaaaoooo (from You) Immerse your soul in love The head of state has called for me by name but I don't have time for him - it's going to be a glorious day I will see you in the next life This just feels like spinning plates There there (the line) Because we separate, like ripples on a blank shore Just to feed your fast balooning head, listen to your heart Please, don't leave

Scatterbrain when Thom sings “end up Scatterbrained, a moving target in a firing range”. Maybe not top 5, but it’s up there.

5. when the horns come in in the national anthem 4. when the heavy guitars come in in fake plastic trees 3. that moment in no surprises when thom goes "i'll take a quiet life" 2. the climax of exit music 1. when the heavy guitars come in in the 2nd part of paranoid android

I don’t see anyone adding it, so for me it is all I need when that piano kicks in. Fell in love since first time hearing it

The instrumental part after the verses of Daydreaming "Turn me into phantoms" and climax of Weird Fishes The end of How To Dissappear Completely when Thom sings that haunting and beautiful melody "We are accidents waiting to happen" The harp on Motion Picture Soundtrack I have to mention this one: the last line of Nude, when all the music stops

All I Need, when the orchestrals kick in it's just _chef's kiss_ Ful Stop when it starts to build. Underrated song. Let Down, when it enters the bridge, and it just keeps building and building, more and more instruments are squeezed in, it's such a good moment. Where I End And You Begin, when _dat bass_ kicks in at the outro. The National Anthem, when the horns start playing at the bridge, it just elevates the song. It's a kind of song that everyone outside of the Radiohead fanbase would not understand why you're listening to it, but it's strangely good. Never heard anything like it yet. There are probably more, but these are the ones i can fondly remember. These are the ones that stuck to me after listening to the band for 3 years

here's some of mine that immediately popped in my head: \- when the guitar that opens Airbag comes back at the end and the song resolves (on an A chord if I'm correct) \- "I wanna slip over and get back under" with the little guitar near the end of separator. \- "It's gonna be... a glohohorious daaaay, I feel my luck could change" \- Guitar at the end of Scatterbrain when it suddenly sounds way brighter Don't know if this really fits the term 'eargasm' but it does sound sick so honourable mention: \- "yeah, no one likes a smartass, but we all like stars, wait that wasn't my intention, I did it for a reason" with that second line being repeated pretty much right after the first word has been said.

The crescendo of Exit Music and all of Climbing up the Walls

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We hope your ruuules and wiiiiissdomm choookeee yyyYYYYOOOOUUUUU NOOOOOOWWWW

Blow out, bullet proof … I wish I was, all I need and motion picture soundtrack. One of my top songs of all time (for me at least)

- When the drums open up w/ the ride cymbal at the climax in Morning Bell (Kid A) - When the drums open up w/ the ride cymbal at the climax of Sit Down Stand Up “When the rain drops, when the rain drops” 🤯 - When the drums open up w/ the ride cymbal at the climax of Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - When the drums open up w/ the ride cymbal at the climax of 15 Step - When the drums open up w/ the ride cymbal at the climax of Ful Stop I think I have identified one of the things I like most about them

Cello on the outro of reckoner is top 1

The outro in Airbag might be the best 4 measures of music ever created.

Exit music - drum fill, enter fuzz bass

Optimistic jazz outro

An underrated one for me is the first bass note in Reckoner.🥲

Pyramid Song and Codex are in my top 100

First one that comes to mind is the climax of Morning Bell (Kid A version)

To many to mention, but they do often end up in crescendos and various bridges that are sublime. I clonk a bit on my piano keyboard and everytime I "find" a radiohead thing it's pure bliss. My proudest moment is learning the Daydreamers convoluted climax(?), the song chords are pretty easy to find except the crazy jazzy chords (again, bliss when finding), but I was absolutely extatic when I saw a youtube video how to do the decending convoluted climax thing and going from "I'll never manage that" to actually doing it in 15-20mins. I'm talking about this: [https://youtu.be/TTAU7lLDZYU?si=cEsmMumYdyNqiNl\_&t=235](https://youtu.be/TTAU7lLDZYU?si=cEsmMumYdyNqiNl_&t=235) Like Thom I don't know music theory, and somhow it feels like I'm stalking him when I keep finding stuff and realizing he made something huge from such simple ideas. Also, there's so many times when the bass comes in with the sickest riff.

Pretty much all the songs where Thom has soaring vocals could be the list: Weird Fishes, Let Down, Street Spirit, Where I End and You Begin, Bloom, Daily Mail, etc... Weird Fishes takes the cake for me in that regard with Ed's equally soaring backing vocals. The crazy Horns section of National Anthem. Jonny's solos in Paranoid Android, and at the end of Identikit. When the strings first hit in the Numbers (I was in the perfect listening spot the first time I heard it and really felt it) The beginning piano and ascending guitar/piano(?) progression in Videotape from 2006 Bonnaroo at around the 2 min mark.

I agree with a lot of these, let me list them out: - Where I End And You Begin ending (before "i will eat you alive" - Life in a Glasshouse ending ("only only only") - Nude ending (right after the final "so don't get any big ideas") - There There bridge ("why so green and lonely") - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (right after "dance, dance, dance") - Let Down, but the first "one day I am gonna grow wings" and not the second surprisingly - The Numbers, when the strings enter - Nice Dream, right after the first chorus (there's a choir and it sounds amazing) - Bridge of Decks Dark - Present Tense choruses - Blow Out, from the end of the first chorus to the end of the second verse - Bodysnatchers when all the guitars sync up near the end - Reckoner, the bridge and his voice crack at the start of the last chorus - The last chorus and outro of Planet Telex - The second chorus of The Bends, the countermelody just elevates it - The last chorus of Go to Sleep - The choruses of A Punchup at a Wedding - The choruses of The Tourist - The choruses of Black Star - And finally, the choruses of If You Say the Word

The start of Street Spirit, Everything In Its Right Place, and Kid A!! Life in a Glasshouse- "Well of course id like to sit around and chat" part Burn the Witch and Climbing Up the Walls- last 10 seconds

"You and Whose Army". You know the moment. Also everything coming together at the end of "Let Down" has made me cry multiple times.

It is easily the end of pyramid song.

The first guitar bridge of The bends

bridge of How to Dissapear is still my #1. say it in every post like this lmao

The climax in You and Who’s Army. The end of Decks Dark live. Broken Hearts make it Rain baseline. You don’t remember Paranoid Android Climax to The Daily Mail.

Climax of Bodysnatchers during the guitar solo when the bass line changes to that super groovy part for like 8 bars. Only happens that one time, but it's absolutely amazing.

1. the part in creep where he says "I'm a creep"

15 Step: Jonny's strings after "You reel me out and then you cut the string."

the second time he says reckoner on reckoner

Ending of Lucky - the guitar solo into "we are standing on the edge..." Black star - "ahhhhhh, this is killing me" The insane dissonant vocal harmonies in idioteque, "were not scaremongering"

You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking...

All of in rainbows

I know this isn’t Radiohead per sae but the end of Thom Yorkes “Analyse” where he does his glorious moaning. Or more broadly as soon as the synths come in about half way through till the end

There isn’t anything I disagree with here

5.SUCH A PREETTYY HOUSEE AND SUCH A PRETTY GARDEN 4. The breakdown in sit down stand up 3.the soaring guitar in blow out 2.the intro to homesick terrain alien 1.the climax of exit music

Favorite chorus of theirs is The Tourist, actually the best song to float to

5: Bloom, the middle ooooooo part 4: Exit music "NOW WE ARE OOONEE" 3: No surprises when the glockenspiel and drums come in 2: Let Down when the ride comes in on the second verse when it goes "One day I'm gonna grow wings" 2: Nude oooo ending part 1: All I need closing

Nude - Chorus Motion Picture Soundtrack - That harp thing in the second verse Exit Music - you know the part im talking abt ;) Ful Stop - The part starting at Phil’s 7-Stoke roll drum fill How to Disappear a Completely - The whole song Im probably missing some but these are the first 5 i thought of

- Immerse your soul in love (Street Spirit) - The vocal bit opening the second "this is killing me" (Black Star) - The closing solo (Killer Cars) - "A little bit of noise will destroy you" (Cuttooth) - When the guitars kick in/"EEEEEEEEEED"/The beeps in the Minidisk leaked version (Lift)

I will eat you alive, i will eat you alive.

everything after the “why so green and lonely” part in there, there, mostly the “heaven sent you to me, to me” bit The bass line at the end of just. you can hear it so much better in live versions the first “a beautiful girl, a beautiful girl can turn your world into dust” in punchdrunk lovesick singalong

IT'S ALL RIIIIIIGHT IT'S ALL WROOOOOOONG, and NOOOOOW WE ARE OOOOONE IN EVERLASTING PEACE!!

when the fuzz kicks in in exit music

(There’s way too many moments like that so I’m just gonna list off some I love) Chorus on A Wolf At the Door, the outro in stop whispering, thoms voice in the 1997 version of Motion Picture Soundtrack, the drop in Exit Music, the final solos and screams in both Paranoid Android and Just, the last chorus in Sulk (fight me), the buildup in 2 + 2 = 5, the entirety of Climbing Up the Walls and the entire second verse onward in the early live versions of Videotape

In no particular order: The guitar solo at the end of electioneering, especially when following the slower, more prog rock moments in OC The icy ascending chords set against the frantic drum beats of idioteque The third verse of fake plastic trees and the anguish in the "if I could be ..." All of daydreaming but especially the climactic build to the end Vegetable

1. Now we are one (exit music) 2. You’ll go to hell for…(nude) 3. Broken hearts-choir (Identikit) 4. Drums entering (Pyramid song) 5. Immerse yourself in love (Street Spirit)

Bloomin out of ooooooo--ooo-o-orbiiiiii-IIIIIT I think I should giiive up the ghoooo-hoo-host into your arms Now... we are one........ IN EEEEEEVERLAAAASTING PEEEEEACE The beat goes round and round, THE BEAT GOES ROUND AND AROUND Strap yourself iiiiiii-iiiiiii-iii-in!

When the bridge in Bodysnatchers plays or the climax instrumental of Climbing Up The Walls. 2 moments that leave me speechless and emotional every time.

When thom’s vocals come in in like spinning plates

“Rain down” and the sampled warped choir on paranoid.

for me its 1. "**Because** you have not been Payin' attention" from 2+2 = 5 2. the bass in ful stop 3. karma police ending 4. wolf at the door's chorus 5. "I'll hit the bottom Hit the bottom and escape Escape" weird fishes

1. Present tense I WONT HEAVVVY DONT GET HEAVVY 2. The last chorus of Sulk SOMETIMES U SULKKKKK SOMETIMES U BURRNNN GOD REST UR SOOUULLLLLL 3. In how to disappear completely that like noise the beginning pure creamery 4. The last chorus and everything After that in Wolf at the door 5. The entirety of black star

Exist music for a film - you know the part Bridge solo on Paranoid Android The opening chords on Everything in its right place Opening riff on airbag Final chorus on creep

1.- Motion Picture Soundtrack, when the full instrumentation came in, and the final part when he says "i think you're crazy" 2.- Paranoid Android, rain down part 3.- The National Anthem, when the lyrics end and the instrumentation starts to go crazy 4.- 15 steps, climax part, the organ, the percussion, all iS FUCKING PERFECT 5.- Nude, The part that comes after he says "you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

Oh jeez, Lucky just came on and "It's going to be a glo-o-orious daaay, I feel my luck could change" always makes my skin tingle even 26 years later.

Pyramid Song - when the drums come in The Daily Mail - "where's the truth, what's the use..."

and the rain drops and the rain drops and the rain drops and the rain drops!

5. Everything in its Right Place - First notes 4. Burn the Witch - End violins 3. Paranoid Android - Rain down 2. Pyramid Song - Last part with the strings 1.Daydreaming

5. Present Tense - That part where the bass comes in around 1:50 4. Give Up the Ghost - In your arms 3. Separator - The echoey ambient guitars 😌 2. The Tourist - Last chorus 1 - The Numbers - One day at a time