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[[folder:''Pablo Honey'']]
* "[[https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk Creep]]", the emotion in that song, and the self loathing.
* "[[https://youtu.be/ocQImpRfPMk Blow Out]]" is a wonderful closer, building up from gentle drumming and riffs to heavier riffs and culminating in a noisy and exhilarating finale.
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[[folder:''The Bends'']]
* "[[https://youtu.be/PXyrCRd1ikw Planet Telex]]", with its echoey riffs and powerful vocals ("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/6gDhsUWCHrg Fake Plastic Trees]]" is a 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 an all around beautiful song, led by an acoustic guitar and some glorious vocals on Thom's behalf.
* "[[https://youtu.be/Qnk4jiWamm4 Just]]". Special mention goes to the guitar and that epic solo at the end...
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/KkCgUI_g2oo I Wish I Was]]" is a gentle and melancholic piece about wishing for good yet implausible things in dark times.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/IrTB-iiecqk Street Spirit (Fade Out)]]". From the guitar buildup to Thom's broken voice, you have a magnificiently tragic AlbumClosure.

!! Singles
* "[[https://youtu.be/AQZ1DDs_cMM Lewis (Mistreated)]]", the B-Side to "My Iron Lung" , can only be summarized as Radiohead at their most garage rock-y.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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.
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[[folder:''OK Computer OK NOTOK'']]
!! ''OK Computer''
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/rF8khJ7P4Wg Paranoid Android]]" starts off as a gentle, somewhat oddball tune - and then the heavy guitar riffs come in. We all die of [[AwesomenessIsVolatile awesome overload]] the moment Thom shouts "YOU DON'T REMEMBER!"
* "[[https://youtu.be/d1tQFX_9ct0 Subterranean Homesick Alien]]" gives listeners a break before the darker parts of the album with its relaxing, spacey feel.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/-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://youtu.be/IBH97ma9YiI Karma Police]]" starts with a calming piano and acoutsic guitar duet, then the tension rises to lead to the CreepyAwesome electric sirens.
* "[[https://youtu.be/HimvFbossU8 Fitter Happier]]" is an example of CreepyAwesome, as well as summarizing what the entire album is all about.
* "[[https://youtu.be/3DtgWrFTtQk Electioneering]]" is a good song for those looking for a harder sound on the album.
* "[[https://youtu.be/OWibEwJLzRs Climbing Up the Walls]]" is one of the darkest songs on the album due to the dark ambient noises, string section, and lyrics from the perspective of a stalker. Special mention goes to Thom's bone-chilling MetalScream at the end.
-->CLIMBING UP THE [[CarefulWithThatAxe WAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH]]
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/yuZYQvvLXVY Lucky]]" combines a calm instrumental with an awesome guitar solo and a beauitful rising choir, with the lyrics about a survivor of a plane crash making the whole thing seem bittersweet.
-->It's gonna be a gloooorrrriiiiouuus dayy...
* "[[https://youtu.be/aAXRKPGKXWs The Tourist]]" is a refreshing closer to the album, with a more peaceful sound than the songs before it. The lyrics, which can be seen as a message for one to slow down and relax, add to its beauty.

!! ''OK NOTOK''
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/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.
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[[folder: ''Kid A Mnesia'']]
!! ''Kid A''
* "[[https://youtu.be/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...
--> "Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon"
* "[[https://youtu.be/rDAjFstQrTk The National Anthem]]" already starts out good with its catchy bassline, but then the brass section comes in, which is amazing in its jazzy yet atonal sound.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/1On-ZHfTWOo Optimistic]]". The song is, true to its name, optimistic, especially in its lyrics ("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.
* The big giant Apocalyptic disco beast that is "[[https://youtu.be/DNqv3nHyteM Idioteque]]" is the musical definition of [=CMoA=]. Not just the beat, but the vocals paired with the lyrics are superb.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/6ju8xO_Zvfo Motion Picture Soundtrack]]" is quite possibly the most simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting song in the universe.

!! ''Amnesiac''
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/gAUMgureA6o You And Whose Army?]]". So much punch delivered through such simple lyrics.
--> "We ride tonight... ghost horses."
* "[[https://youtu.be/_Qvlh_dvmkk I Might Be Wrong]]" is driven by an awesome guitar riff and metallic beats. There's also the fake ending, where a smoother guitar riff comes in as you think the song's about to end.
* "[[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 A''[='=]s "Morning Bell" was already an awesome song, but then [[https://youtu.be/6LGS0S8Lh4A it was rerecorded and revamped]] with a much more orchestral overtone for ''Amnesiac''.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/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!

!!! Amnesiac singles
* "[[https://youtu.be/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.

!!''Kid Amnesiae''
* Unreleased fan favorite "[[https://youtu.be/Vcwy2YDyigA Follow Me Around]]" is headed by cool and somewhat folky guitar strumming and features lyrics about something that keeps following us around, which can be interpreted in different ways. [[https://youtu.be/nrxWiU_v9Qs It 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.
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[[folder:''Hail to the Thief'']]
* "[[https://youtu.be/2w6kHS_IRrE 2 + 2 = 5]]", the moment when Thom loses his ever-loving shit about halfway through and starts screaming: "HAVE-NOT-BEEN! PAYING ATTENTION! PAYING ATTENTION!" See also: "DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY OR [[MotorMouth PUTMEINABOX]]!!"
* "[[https://youtu.be/eWqlpvLjMyM Sit Down. Stand Up.]]" is accompanied by a rhythmic keyboard riff and grows increasingly intense until the electronic breakdown with pitter-pattering beats and Thom repeating "And the raindrops" over and over again.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/W-XynViVN3E Go to Sleep]]", a simple yet effective alternative song.
-->OVER MY DEAAAD BOOO-OOODY!!
* The beautifully eerie "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/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.
* "A punchup at a wedding. (no no no no no no no no.)" has a smooth bassline and slightly discordant, jazzy piano melody, over which Thom sings a beautiful, [[TranquilFury quietly angry]] song, which he stated in interviews was about a critic who went to a Radiohead show and basically made up a load of crap about the fans because he couldn't think of any good criticisms of the band, which Thom took exception to. However, even not knowing the context, the song's anger will still be relatable to anyone who's ever had a fight, verbal or physical, with somebody, especially if they were in the wrong or made up lies. Also, if you're an anime fan, you might notice the song's backing track sounds weirdly similar to "Logos Naki World" from the original ''{{Anime/Hellsing}}'' series.
--> {{Hypocrite}}. Opportunist. Don't infect me with your poison. \\
A bully in a china shop. When I turn around [[DirtyCoward you stay frozen to the spot]]. \\
The pointless [[DeadpanSnarker snide remarks]] of hammerheaded sharks; \\
The [[PotCallingTheKettleBlack pot will call the kettle black]], it's [[TitleDrop a drunken punchup at a wedding, yeah.]]
* "[[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/6isz01iv8Ls A Wolf at the Door]]" is just amazing and unlike any other Radiohead song, with brilliant [[PatterSong pattering]] lyrics.
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[[folder:''Com Lag (2 + 2 = 5)'']]
* "[[https://youtu.be/ySxUxvxrHeQ I Am Citizen Insane]]". Super-chill but slightly creepy.
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[[folder:''In Rainbows'']]
!! Original album
* This [[https://vimeo.com/82265527 live performance]] of "15 Step" at the 2009 Grammys, where Thom is backed by the Spirit of Troy, USC's legendary marching band. It's especially awesome since it's Radiohead's first ever performance at the Grammys.
* "[[https://youtu.be/YVDSdDoD4Sg Bodysnatchers]]", especially its spine tingling ending, with the guitars going into overload and Yorke screaming vocals.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/-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://youtu.be/rOoCixFA8OI Reckoner]]", when all the percussion cuts out and all you're left with are the rising voices and strings. [[https://youtu.be/RUmmsMeHAaE And then Cee Lo Green covered it.]]
-->iiiiiiiin Raaaaaaainbooooooows...
* "[[https://youtu.be/GoLJJRIWCLU Jigsaw Falling Into Place]]", a 4-minute alternative upbeat ''and'' relaxing song.
* "Videotape" is a real TearJerker, especially when paired with [[https://youtu.be/f_a3PMJ5Y0I this insanely awesome video]].

!! Disk 2
* [[https://youtu.be/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.
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[[folder:''The King of Limbs'']]
''The King of Limbs [[https://youtu.be/Kkm4zow0H4g From the Basement]]'' version gives the whole album a more alternative feel compared to the original.

!! The album itself
* On February 18th, 2011, a gleeful fandom began its ''The King of Limbs'' experience with "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/ODsUpq0WAYY "(Ocean) Bloom"]], is equally powerful, if not more so.
* "[[https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/zIupuBQ8W_c Give Up the Ghost]]".
* A contender for best ''closing'' track is "[[https://youtu.be/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..."

!! Other
* "[[https://youtu.be/6iFS22yyXj8 Supercollider]]". They made a 7-minute-long song ''about a particle accelerator''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''A Moon Shaped Pool'']]
* "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. Even without the music video, the song's progression makes it seem like it's trying to tell a story - with varied strings, electronic beats, and the synth bass all playing at the right time.
* "Daydreaming" manages to mix the ambient of their ''Kid A'' era with ''In Rainbows''-style art rock for one beautiful MindScrew.
* "Decks Dark" is a song that feels like it's been around forever, with timeless piano melodies and an infectious jazzy groove.
* "Ful Stop" has an incredible amount of buildup, and an equally incredible payoff once the second set of drums kicks in, not to mention some more great guitar riffing near the end.
* 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://youtu.be/5sRWQ5BhYcE Identikit]]".
* "True Love Waits" has been floating around as an unreleased song since ''The Bends'' and was finally officially put on the tracklist. Needless to say, it's a ''perfect'', albeit [[TearJerker sorrowful]], ending to the album.
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[[folder:Other Songs]]
* Radiohead's [[WhatCouldHaveBeen (almost)]] actual ''Film/JamesBond'' theme, "[[https://soundcloud.com/radiohead/spectre Spectre]]". The strings, the bass, the drums, Thom's voice...
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