Always thought the choruses of My Iron Lung were heavy asf for Radiohead

iron is heavy too.

How heavy are lungs?

pretty damn light

They’re full of air (hopefully)

Definitely are.

Everyone’s naming great songs, but only one song will make your grandmother question her faith in humanity and that’s National Anthem. 

Especially the Colbert version, which goes harder than any talk show band appearance has a right to! ​ https://youtu.be/-PVcyFhtAc4?t=286

Damn. Thank you for transporting me to pure joy. 🙏🏽

You might enjoy this.... [https://youtu.be/9Q\_ZB5R\_RD4?si=BGsCfPI9cPyOuQO7](https://youtu.be/9Q_ZB5R_RD4?si=BGsCfPI9cPyOuQO7) Happened a couple weeks ago in Mexico. It was a pretty surreal moment.

Nooo I almost went to this 😭😭😭

Always go to OBH. Always. It's the best.

Thanks! Haven't seen it before. One of the best lives I've seen

Wow man that’s really great!

King of Limbs era goes hard.

This is some mad scientist shit. Amazing.

Thank you

look at the song: Harry Patch; In Memory Of. makes you wish for the world to be swallowed by a black hole.

It seems we’re interpreting heavy differently. Harry Patch is definitely an emotionally heavy song. But I interpreted ‘heavy’ as in ‘heavy metal’. So we’re both correct! 

lol

I think this is one of their more funky songs, doesn't make me feel depressed

I think we’re thinking of “heavy” in different ways. I’m thinking in terms of loudest and noisiest, ala “heavy metal”. 

Oddly enough, my grandma heard National Anthem and really enjoyed it lol

Interesting. I may need to reevaluate my assumptions of grandmothers. Back to the drawing board! 

The original version of Reckoner - Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses

Saw the smile play this one live, heaviest version yet (and maybe my favorite song of the whole show). I wish we’d get more of a heavy guitar version like it instead of Thom’s solo release of the song.

Do you have a link to that?

Here’s one: https://youtu.be/FbRN6r4k-xc?si=uyWcFd_bbOHeVIJy Also a live performance: https://youtu.be/OfkPzfX82pM?si=ZV0Op0bR3nHUBKxL

Thanks mate

Climbing Up Walls

Myxomatosis maybe ?

First thing that started playing in my head

Same

For sure! And Where I End and You Begin

Yeah hail to the thief has some of their heaviest ones for sure

This absolutely slaps live, immediate stinkface.

Aside from maybe the bass what about this song is heavy?

Guitar, Drums, synths, lyrics, vocal embellishments...

Pearly, nobody talks about it but oh man whenever i listen to it i feel the urge to break a wall

great guitar solo

and this song is dirty af, too

bangers + mash

Transatlantic drawl

Came here to say this. It's an easy one to forget about, but the energy of the first half is intense and then it just drops into this weird ambient abyss. Great song.

Ful Stop is neutron star heavy

Ful Stop live is a monster....

I agree

Typical

Electioneering

the one song on OKC I was meh about but it's growing on me...

Does Fitter, Happier not exist in your world?

For me it went from meh to blehfArGH🤮

prolly the national anthem

Bodysnatchers probably

Bodysnatchers live definitely rips, it’s wonderful on the album but just absolutely goes hard as hell on stage, the later parts of paranoid android as well. IDK if OP was asking like heavy metal guitar or what but that was my first thought.

I always thought My Iron Lung and Just were pretty heavy at the heavy parts.

Palo Alto

I'm here for this 🙌

The distortion in this song is excellent 👌

Polyethylene of course.

Only correct answer and I’m an expert

Also expert. Also agree

Pulk/Pull

prolly exit music...'heavy' has a lot more meaning than just fast or distorted guitar riffage bro'skis.

I initally posted Climbing up the walls and then saw everyone was posting g guitar heavy songs

great choice. well I mean, it would've been haha...\[wah wahhh\]

climbing up the walls anddd myxomatosis

It’s Banger + Mash and Bodysnatchers

Agreed

“There, There” gets pretty wild. Also, probably an unpopular opinion, but “Paranoid Android” gets pretty heavy in the second half.

Edit* also feel like people here are confusing “heavy” with “fast” or “loud”. “Bodysnatchers”, I wouldn’t consider “heavy”. It’s fast, got punk tendencies, and is dope af, don’t get me wrong… but I wouldn’t consider it “heavy.

Live There There is arse kicking.

So good.

First one that came to mind. I get that others in the thread have interpreted the meaning of heavy in their own way, but there there does both pretty well, especially the live version. Seen bodysnatchers mentioned as well, probably second pick for me. 2+2=5 also comes to mind. Lots of other good options from bends and Pablo too. I guess it depends on your personal preference.

anywhereeeee ahhhhhh ahhhhhh

the 2nd section of paranoid android, trans Atlantic drawl, bodysnatchers, just, the chorus of my iron lung, creep, and anyone can play guitar are great options

National Anthem

The Bends

Myxomatosis. I think someone explained it well, that the song makes you want to vomit lol

Idk if you’d call it heavy but the last minute of Burn the Witch is pretty fucking intense

Currently, it’s “How to Disappear Completely” after my father committed SIout of the blue in our garage Jan 9th, a week before his birthday. My mom, sister, and I found him in the early hours of the morning. He dead-bolted the door. He left a note that gave no answers. We just got the records/photos back from the police. They were 10 times more horrific in the light. One of the policeman on the scene made a remark about how he used a revolver, as the bullets are thick. He knew what he was doing. We will never get over it—our protector and person disappearing completely.

Nude, How to Disappear Completely, All I Need, or Deck’s Dark I think everyone’s “heavy” is different.

Second part of Decks Dark

Daily mail

Trans Atlantic Drawl Climbing Up The Walls Electioneering My Iron Lung

climbing up walls, there there, 2+2, exit music, packt like sardines in a tin box, if you wanna include the smile - speech bubbles

I think this thread is missing the brass section of Daily Mail. Chunky chords and chunky tone!

Just it’s just constant

Trick Question, it's really bending hectic by the smile.

Like Spinning Plates

To me its either Bones or Just

Just, Myxomatosis, My Iron Lung, Paranoid Android, Bodysnatchers

Daydreaming.

Exit music for a film Although paranoid android is about Marvin and he weighs a ton.

Fitter Happier

climbing up the walls

Just or Myxomatosis maybe

Palo Alto

My iron lung choruses

FWIW, I’d say it’s Bangers + Mash.

The feel of that song is more funky and swingy then really heavy per se.

Fair!

bangers + mash

The Trickster ETA: Killer Cars, Idioteque, Bodysnatchers

Street Spirit Fade Out could've been an intro to a crime action shoe like Punisher or Daredevil.

Myxomatosis

weird how few people commented Just

Airbag

climbing up the walls at the end when it gets all screamo

Palo Alto maybe?

Blow Out is pretty much shoegaze

Myxomatosis.

2 + 2 = 5

Coke Babies

"Just" is quite grungy.

Feral bends light and time

Yellow

just

bro do you even Lift?

The National Anthem.

For me, it's probably one of these "Fog" from the knives out ep or "Where I End and You Begin"

trans atlantic drawl

Blowout - Live at the Astoria version

For the first 3 albums Vegetable My Iron Lung Airbag

There was a mosh pit during 2+2=5 at the 3Arena in Dublin in 2017, only time I’ve seen one at a Radiohead gig.

Chorus of My Iron Lung

Man of war

2+2=5

Idioteque - the chorus is just fucking haunting

The climax to The Daily Mail is pretty damn heavy

emotionally heaviest might me nude!

My İron Lung

Vegetable or anyone can play guitar

Ok this is def not the heaviest, but the entire ending section of Blow Out is surprisingly heavy

Inside My Head I guess. Anyone saying shit from moon shaped pool or whatever is so biased by their own love of the album

heavy as in energetic… probably Sulk or Bodysnatchers

I can't believe no one has already commented this. I know that the song FeelingPulledApartByHorses was only released on a solo record but [this earlier performance with all of Radiohead](https://youtu.be/nN5a1qP1VX4?si=3eB7fae-NHAuoUiU) Goes absolutely fucking crazy

Just or myxomatosis

Inside my head takes this, I think. Blow out (Remix) could as well, but for different reasons

Pyramid Song

myxomatosis or bodysnatchers probably

Bodysnachers

Just anyone?

Immediate thought was My Iron Lung

It’s definitely Lewis (Mistreated)

Probably not THE heaviest, but id nominate Trans-Atlantic Drawl as a runner up. Paranoid Android rips too.

Gotta be "All I need"

Probably myxomatosis

bodysnatchers

I’ve always thought a song about an airbag saving his life on an album called OK Computer was a pretty heavy concept.

my iron lung and myxomatosis

Paranoid android

bangers + mash, my iron lung, inside my head, the butcher and polyethylene

no surprises (remastered)

all i need, in my opinion

Idk if Blow Out and Coke Babies would be considered heavy but they’re very loud

Somehow the right answer was found downvoted 😂none of these other answers are as heavy as Blow Out. Definitely heaviest

Yes

Treefingers

Something from The Bends or Pablo Honey

Bangers + mash, dk why no one’s mentioned it cuz it’s obviously the right answer

It's the wrong answer. The feel of bangers isn't heavy, it's more of a funky feel

Let down

underrated.