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* "[[https://youtu.be/2w6kHS_IRrE 2 + 2 = 5]]", the moment when Thom loses his ever-loving shit about halfway through and starts screaming: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HAVE-NOT-BEEN! PAYING ATTENTION! PAYING ATTENTION!]]" See also: "DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY OR [[MotorMouth PUTMEINABOX]]!!"

* "[[https://youtu.be/2w6kHS_IRrE 2 + 2 = 5]]", the moment when Thom loses his ever-loving shit about halfway through and starts screaming: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HAVE-NOT-BEEN!]] [[MadnessMantra PAYING ATTENTION!]] [[BrokenRecord PAYING ATTENTION!]]" See also: "DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY OR [[MotorMouth PUTMEINABOX]]!!"

* Of course,"[[https://youtu.be/YVDSdDoD4Sg Bodysnatchers]]" but especially it's spine tingling ending, with the guitar's going overload and Yorke screaming vocals.

* "[[https://youtu.be/2w6kHS_IRrE 2 + 2 = 5]]", the moment when Thom loses his ever-loving shit about halfway through and starts screaming: "YOU HAVE NOT BEEN! PAYING ATTENTION! PAYING ATTENTION!" See also: "DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY OR PUTMEINABOX!!"

* Of course, the ending of "[[https://youtu.be/YVDSdDoD4Sg Bodysnatchers]]" is spine tingling, with the guitar's going overload and Yorke screaming vocals.

* "[[https://youtu.be/6gDhsUWCHrg Fake Plastic Trees]]" is a rather sorrowful song about what seems to be real turning out to be fake. It's especially beautiful from around the 3 minute mark to the end, when the song picks up before drifting into calmness once again.
* "[[https://youtu.be/uDLkaISa-B8 Nice Dream]]" is just an all around beautiful song to listen to, led by an acoustic guitar and some glorious vocals on Thom's behalf.

* "[[https://youtu.be/1On-ZHfTWOo Optimistic]]". The song, is true to its name, optimistic, with its lyrics especially being so ("You can try the best you can/The best you can is good enough"). The [[FadingIntoTheNextSong transition]] from "Optimistic" to "In Limbo" is also very well done.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/ocQImpRfPMk Blow Out]]". And people say "Creep" is their best song of the album.

* "[[https://youtu.be/PXyrCRd1ikw Planet Telex]]" ("EVERYTHIIING IS... Brokennn..."), which is all the more impressive when you find out that the band recorded it after drinking copious amounts of wine, and Thom Yorke sang the vocals lying flat on his back, totally wasted.

* "[[https://youtu.be/6gDhsUWCHrg Fake Plastic Trees]]", especially from around the 3 minute mark to the end.

%%* "[[TearJerker Bullet Proof...]] [[https://youtu.be/KkCgUI_g2oo I Wish I Was]]".

* "[[https://youtu.be/rF8khJ7P4Wg Paranoid Android]]". We all die of [[AwesomenessIsVolatile awesome overload]] the moment Thom shouts "YOU DON'T REMEMBER!"
%%* "[[https://youtu.be/d1tQFX_9ct0 I'M JUST UPTIGHT! UPTIGHT!]]"

* "[[https://youtu.be/OWibEwJLzRs Climbing Up the Walls]]". Especially Thom's bone-chilling MetalScream at the end.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/yuZYQvvLXVY Lucky]]". '''Especially''' the guitar solo.
%%-->It's gonna be a gloooorrrriiiiouuus dayy...
%%* "[[https://youtu.be/aAXRKPGKXWs The Tourist]]". What a beautiful song...

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/rDAjFstQrTk The National Anthem]]". ESPECIALLY the horns section at the end.

* "[[https://youtu.be/1On-ZHfTWOo Optimistic]]". The [[FadingIntoTheNextSong transition]] from "Optimistic" to "In Limbo" is also very well done.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/_Qvlh_dvmkk I Might Be Wrong]]". Everything about it, really, but especially the fake ending.
* "[[https://youtu.be/CQBy3g0dMN0 Knives Out]]". An unnerving, yet fantastic single that deals with Cannibalism taking heavy inspiration from Music/TheSmiths. Johnny Smith had this to say about the song: "I was beyond flattered and quite speechless – which takes some doing. He (Ed O'Brien) explained to me that with that song they'd tried to take a snapshot of the way I'd done things in the Smiths – and I guess you can hear that in it."

%%!!''Kid Amnesiae''
%%* Unreleased fan favorite "[[https://youtu.be/Vcwy2YDyigA Follow Me Around]]" [[https://youtu.be/nrxWiU_v9Qs was later released]] after being circulated for about 20 years as a proper studio recording for the 20th anniversary of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' alongside "If You Say the Word" in 2021.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/eWqlpvLjMyM Sit Down. Stand Up.]]". AND THE RAINDROPS AND THE RAINDROPS.

* "Burn the Witch", a track teased and anticipated for ''years'', was finally released as the first single of the album on May 3rd, 2016. And it was worth the wait.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/d1tQFX_9ct0 I'M JUST UPTIGHT! UPTIGHT!]]"

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/yuZYQvvLXVY Lucky]]". '''Especially''' the guitar solo.
%%-->It's gonna be a gloooorrrriiiiouuus dayy...
%%* "[[https://youtu.be/aAXRKPGKXWs The Tourist]]". What a beautiful song...

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/rDAjFstQrTk The National Anthem]]". ESPECIALLY the horns section at the end.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/_Qvlh_dvmkk I Might Be Wrong]]". Everything about it, really, but especially the fake ending.

%%!!''Kid Amnesiae''
%%* Unreleased fan favorite "[[https://youtu.be/Vcwy2YDyigA Follow Me Around]]" [[https://youtu.be/nrxWiU_v9Qs was later released]] after being circulated for about 20 years as a proper studio recording for the 20th anniversary of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' alongside "If You Say the Word" in 2021.

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "[[PuntuactedForEmphasis But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied.]]" And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

* "[[https://youtu.be/PXyrCRd1ikw Planet Telex]]" ("EVERYTHIIING IS... Brokennn..."), which is all the more impressive when you find out that the band recorded it after drinking copious amounts of wine, and Thom Yorke sang the vocals lying flat on his back, totally wasted.
* "[[TitleTrack The Bends]]" in general - the guitar intro is awesome. Calls up images of a sunny morning on a city street. [[https://youtu.be/K8z8hLvjb_U WE DON'T HAVE ANY REAL... FRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDS]].

* "[[https://youtu.be/d1tQFX_9ct0 I'M JUST UPTIGHT! UPTIGHT!]]"

* "[[https://youtu.be/yuZYQvvLXVY Lucky]]". '''Especially''' the guitar solo.
-->It's gonna be a gloooorrrriiiiouuus dayy...
* "[[https://youtu.be/aAXRKPGKXWs The Tourist]]". What a beautiful song...

* "[[https://youtu.be/rDAjFstQrTk The National Anthem]]". ESPECIALLY the CreepyAwesome horns section at the end.

* "[[https://youtu.be/_Qvlh_dvmkk I Might Be Wrong]]". Everything about it, really, but especially the fake ending.

!!''Kid Amnesiae''
* Unreleased fan favorite "[[https://youtu.be/Vcwy2YDyigA Follow Me Around]]" [[https://youtu.be/nrxWiU_v9Qs was later released]] after being circulated for about 20 years as a proper studio recording for the 20th anniversary of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' alongside "If You Say the Word" in 2021.

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied.]]" And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/rDAjFstQrTk The National Anthem]]". ESPECIALLY the horns section at the end.

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "[[Punctuacted!For!Emphasis! But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied.]]" And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "[[PunctuactedForEmphasis But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied.]]" And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/d1tQFX_9ct0 I'M JUST UPTIGHT! UPTIGHT!]]"

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/yuZYQvvLXVY Lucky]]". '''Especially''' the guitar solo.
%%-->It's gonna be a gloooorrrriiiiouuus dayy...
%%* "[[https://youtu.be/aAXRKPGKXWs The Tourist]]". What a beautiful song...

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "[[PunctactedForEmphasis But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied.]]" And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/_Qvlh_dvmkk I Might Be Wrong]]". Everything about it, really, but especially the fake ending.

%%!!''Kid Amnesiae''
%%* Unreleased fan favorite "[[https://youtu.be/Vcwy2YDyigA Follow Me Around]]" [[https://youtu.be/nrxWiU_v9Qs was later released]] after being circulated for about 20 years as a proper studio recording for the 20th anniversary of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' alongside "If You Say the Word" in 2021.

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "[[PuntuactedForEmphasis But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied.]]" And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

%%* "[[https://youtu.be/eWqlpvLjMyM Sit Down. Stand Up.]]". AND THE RAINDROPS AND THE RAINDROPS.

* "[[https://youtu.be/DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied." And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.

* "[[https://youtu.be/6iFS22yyXj8 Supercollider]]". They made a 7-minute-long song ''about a particle accelerator''. ''The King of Limbs [[https://youtu.be/Kkm4zow0H4g From the Basement]]'' version gives the whole album a more alternative feel compared to the original.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk Creep]]", the emotion in that song, and the self loathing.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocQImpRfPMk Blow Out]]". And people say "Creep" is their best song of the album.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXyrCRd1ikw Planet Telex]]" ("EVERYTHIIING IS... Brokennn..."), which is all the more impressive when you find out that the band recorded it after drinking copious amounts of wine, and Thom Yorke sang the vocals lying flat on his back, totally wasted.
* "[[TitleTrack The Bends]]" in general - the guitar intro is awesome. Calls up images of a sunny morning on a city street. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8z8hLvjb_U WE DON'T HAVE ANY REAL... FRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDS]].
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDhsUWCHrg Fake Plastic Trees]]", especially from around the 3 minute mark to the end.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDLkaISa-B8 Nice Dream]]" is just an all around beautiful song to listen to, led by an acoustic guitar and some glorious vocals on Thom's behalf.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnk4jiWamm4 Just]]". Special mention goes to the guitar and that epic solo at the end...
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHK67LiMI8k My Iron Lung]]" is often considered the superior version of "Creep", and it shows: the sudden change from a britpop ballad to a harsh alternative song is as burtal as it is awesome.
%%* "[[TearJerker Bullet Proof...]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkCgUI_g2oo I Wish I Was]]".
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na5qrW032H4 Black Star]]". That chorus and riff... "Blame it on the black star / Blame it on the falling sky / Blame it on the satellite that beams me home..."
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk Street Spirit (Fade Out)]]". From the guitar buildup to Thom's broken voice, you have a magnificiently tragic AlbumClosure.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZ1DDs_cMM Lewis (Mistreated)]]", the B-Side to "My Iron Lung" , can only be summarized as Radiohead at their most garage rock-y.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU7sUENatUU Talk Show Host]]", the B-side to "Street Spirit" and easily the band's most popular B-side, is based around a simple guitar riff but still manages to build a solid listening experience with brooding lyrics and the likes.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNY_wLukVW0 Airbag]]". The guitars, the riffs, the cut-up beats and Thom's elated lyrics and singing combine to create a triumphant and awesome opening track.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF8khJ7P4Wg Paranoid Android]]". We all die of [[AwesomenessIsVolatile awesome overload]] the moment Thom shouts "YOU DON'T REMEMBER!"
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1tQFX_9ct0 I'M JUST UPTIGHT! UPTIGHT!]]"
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmmedScLmY Exit Music (For a Film)]]", possibly the coolest song inspired by ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' ever recorded. Its quiet start, accentuated by sheer guitar and electronic choir, is equally awe-inducing and chilling, but it gets real awesome when the drums and synths kick in, building up to one of the most incredible climaxes in Radiohead history. Never did you think the sentence "Now we are one in everlasting peace" could be uttered [[MundaneMadeAwesome with such grandeur]].
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_NvVMUcG8 Let Down]]", especially the "You know where you are" bit. It's sparkly, it's simultaneously ecstatic and heartbreaking, and it manages to make something truly beautiful out of depression and alienation without glamorizing either.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH97ma9YiI Karma Police]]" starts with a calming piano and acoutsic guitar duet, then the tension rises to lead to the CreepyAwesome electric sirens.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HimvFbossU8 Fitter Happier]]" is an example of CreepyAwesome, as well as summarizing what the entire album is all about.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtgWrFTtQk Electioneering]]" is a good song for those looking for a harder sound on the album.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWibEwJLzRs Climbing Up the Walls]]". Especially Thom's bone-chilling MetalScream at the end.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxyXg No Surprises]]". A different form of creepy than "Climbing Up The Walls", this song is a good embodiment of suburban ennui and the effects of modern life on the average person. Not to mention the Glock added in for extra irony.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuZYQvvLXVY Lucky]]". '''Especially''' the guitar solo.

%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAXRKPGKXWs The Tourist]]". What a beautiful song...

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDhKICAm0OY Big Boots]]". Radiohead with an awesome, almost ''Film/JamesBond''-esque feel to it. After existing for twenty years as a bootleg recording ripped from ''Meeting People Is Easy,'' a proper studio recording (titled "Man O' War") has been released along with "I Promise" and "Lift" for the 20th anniversary edition of ''OK Computer''. Huzzah!
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhtaAnOaec8 Polyethylene (Parts 1 and 2)]]", especially part 2. Another example of MundaneMadeAwesome with operatic declarations of "plastic bag, middle class, polyethylene" and "there is no significant risk to your health", not to mention the music itself. The way the song spirals out at the end as if it were a spacecraft launched into the atmosphere? Lovely.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrpGhEVyrk0 Everything in Its Right Place]]" for being beautiful and sort of terrifying. The awesomeness may be either [[{{Narm}} diminished]] or [[NarmCharm increased]] for you once you figure out what he's saying...

%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDAjFstQrTk The National Anthem]]". ESPECIALLY the horns section at the end.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk How to Disappear Completely]]". All of it. Especially when the trumpets come in in their strange arpeggiated patterns, they don't fit in but they just... do. Thom even at one point called it his best song, for good reason.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1On-ZHfTWOo Optimistic]]". The [[FadingIntoTheNextSong transition]] from "Optimistic" to "In Limbo" is also very well done.
* The big giant Apocalyptic disco beast that is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNqv3nHyteM Idioteque]]" is the musical definition of [=CMoA=]. Not just the beat, but the vocals paired with the lyrics are superb.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTT6k3Q4JnQ Morning Bell]]" is already pretty awesome, but then the halfway point comes to accentuate to the weird awesomeness: "Cut the kids in half."
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ju8xO_Zvfo Motion Picture Soundtrack]]" is quite possibly the most simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting song in the universe.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VzLn6DMCE Pyramid Song]]", especially the part where Phil Selway's drumming falls in. It's also a lesson in composition when you realize it's in CommonTime.
* The climax of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAUMgureA6o You And Whose Army?]]". So much punch delivered through such simple lyrics.

%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qvlh_dvmkk I Might Be Wrong]]". Everything about it, really, but especially the fake ending.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQBy3g0dMN0 Knives Out]]". An unnerving, yet fantastic single that deals with Cannibalism taking heavy inspiration from Music/TheSmiths. Johnny Smith had this to say about the song: "I was beyond flattered and quite speechless – which takes some doing. He (Ed O'Brien) explained to me that with that song they'd tried to take a snapshot of the way I'd done things in the Smiths – and I guess you can hear that in it."
* ''Kid A''[='=]s "Morning Bell" was already an awesome song, but then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LGS0S8Lh4A it was rerecorded and revamped]] with a much more orchestral overtone for ''Amnesiac''.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOAxhYo9vE Like Spinning Plates]]" is magnificent, especially when one considers [[http://citizeninsane.eu/music/amnesiac/spinningplates.html how it was made]].
* The entirety of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upl_rxmsu6s Life in a Glasshouse]]". ''Especially'' the full length version on the two-disc version of the album. It's five minutes of awesome!

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5LT9X9F-YM The Amazing Sounds of Orgy]]", a B-side with a creepy, industrial feel to it. The layered vocals and eerie, pounding drum riff just make it sound all the more awesome... picture Radiohead doing a Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge song.

%%* Unreleased fan favorite "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcwy2YDyigA Follow Me Around]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxWiU_v9Qs was later released]] after being circulated for about 20 years as a proper studio recording for the 20th anniversary of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' alongside "If You Say the Word" in 2021.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6kHS_IRrE 2 + 2 = 5]]", the moment when Thom loses his ever-loving shit about halfway through and starts screaming: "YOU HAVE NOT BEEN! PAYING ATTENTION! PAYING ATTENTION!" See also: "DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY OR PUTMEINABOX!!"
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWqlpvLjMyM Sit Down. Stand Up.]]". AND THE RAINDROPS AND THE RAINDROPS.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTjQsshhPtM Backdrifts]]". The small piano solo is pretty cool, and the beat sounds like a malfunctioning steam train. It's like {{Industrial}}, {{Ambient}}, Glitch and HipHop were thrown into a blender...
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0v8rCZazrA We Suck Young Blood]]". Never has a quiet song about vampires been so awesome. At one point in the song, the sound almost ''explodes.''
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-XynViVN3E Go to Sleep]]", a simple yet effective alternative song.

* The beautifully eerie "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D05s_GuFOvA The Gloaming]]", which starts off with a jittery IDM-y loop before turning into a warbling, claustrophobic piece with Thom's [[EchoingAcoustics echoing]] voice sweeping over the apprehensive soundscapes.
* The climax of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2aH-sluR5s There There]]". Take some guitars, heavy drums, "WEEEE ARRRRRE AAAAACIDENTS WAITIIIING TO HAPPENNNNNN!!!!" and a video with Series/{{Bagpuss}} and Thom Yorke grabbing golden clothes and experiencing its tree-morphing side effects and you've got yourself the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Alternative Rock Anthem of Awesome]]. It is, somehow, both ominous and uplifting.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeKRbmUBns Myxomatosis]]", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied." And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isz01iv8Ls A Wolf at the Door]]" is just amazing and unlike any other Radiohead song, with brilliant [[PatterSong pattering]] lyrics.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySxUxvxrHeQ I Am Citizen Insane]]". Super-chill but slightly creepy.

* Of course, the ending of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVDSdDoD4Sg Bodysnatchers]]" is spine tingling, with the guitar's going overload and Yorke screaming vocals.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbWBRnDK_AE Nude]]" is an amazing song: there is a single and sublime chord change (that happens multiple times) at the 2:26 mark. Thom Yorke's ethereal and wondrous vocal performance may be his greatest by a long shot. When they started a remix contest for this song, one of the contestants submitted a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ version]] done on an oscilloscope, an old printer and scanner, and an answering machine (which played the vocals), played through hard drives instead of speakers.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3DrL8pwu1k Weird Fishes / Arpeggi]]" is inextricably awesome, the massive buildup for an entire song and then completely stripped down at 3:03.
* The bridge in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOoCixFA8OI Reckoner]]", when all the percussion cuts out and all you're left with are the rising voices and strings. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmmsMeHAaE And then Cee Lo Green covered it.]]

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLJJRIWCLU Jigsaw Falling Into Place]]", a 4-minute alternative upbeat ''and'' relaxing song.
* "Videotape" is a real TearJerker, especially when paired with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_a3PMJ5Y0I this insanely awesome video]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xN-H5QTYWs This live performance]] of "Bangers and Mash". Thom [[CrazyIsCool playing a second set of drums like a madman]] and singing at the same time.

* On February 18th, 2011, a gleeful fandom began its ''The King of Limbs'' experience with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjUI7OqEWc Bloom]]", quite possibly Radiohead's best opening track yet. The wailing, echo-y vocals are just eerie and ominous enough to set the tone of the album. The Music/HansZimmer-produced [[RearrangeTheSong orchestral arrangement]] of the song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODsUpq0WAYY "(Ocean) Bloom"]], is equally powerful, if not more so.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqVcKwEJ2w4 Morning Mr Magpie]]" sounds like Radiohead trying to do {{Funk}} music in their own way, and it works beautifully.
* The epic brass background in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5c9w6uWBOI Codex]]" is amazing. It's scary and apprehensive and beautiful and nostalgic all at once.
* When the wall of distorted vocals singing "into your arms" hits at about the 3 minute mark of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIupuBQ8W_c Give Up the Ghost]]".
* A contender for best ''closing'' track is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Wu45h1HdY Separator]]". The beat is strangely addictive... and after the heartbreaking double of "Codex" and "Give Up the Ghost", this song wraps up the album on a comforting, calming and hopeful note. "If you think this is over, then you're wrong..."

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFS22yyXj8 Supercollider]]". They made a 7-minute-long song ''about a particle accelerator''. ''The King of Limbs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkm4zow0H4g From the Basement]]'' version gives the whole album a more alternative feel compared to the original.

* A hi-hat-heavy hip-hop style beat? Cool. Indie Rock-style guitar riffing? Nice. A manic synth solo? Great. [[GenreMashup All of these at the same time?]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sRWQ5BhYcE Identikit]]".

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFS22yyXj8 Supercollider]]". They made a 7-minute-long song ''about a particle accelerator''.
** ''The King of Limbs'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkm4zow0H4g From the Basement]]'' version gives the whole album a more alternative feel compared to the original.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHK67LiMI8k My Iron Lung]]" is often considered the superior version of "Creep", and it shows: the sudden change from a britpop ballad to a harsh alternative song is as burtal as it is awesome. Its B-Side, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZ1DDs_cMM Lewis (Mistreated)]]", can only be summarized as Radiohead at their most garage rock-y.

-->Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5LT9X9F-YM The Amazing Sounds of Orgy]]", a B-side with a creepy, industrial feel to it. The layered vocals and eerie, pounding drum riff just make it sound all the more awesome... picture Radiohead doing a Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge song.
* The climax of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAUMgureA6o You And Whose Army?]]". "We ride tonight... ghost horses." So much punch delivered through such simple lyrics.

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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySxUxvxrHeQ I Am Citizen Insane]]". Super-chill but slightly creepy.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xN-H5QTYWs This live performance]] of the B-side "Bangers and Mash". Thom [[CrazyIsCool playing a second set of drums like a madman]] and singing at the same time.

* ''The King of Limbs'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkm4zow0H4g From the Basement]]'' version gives the whole album a more alternative feel compared to the original.