History Awesome / Radiohead

* A rather notorious one involving Music/{{Prince}}, who was rather outspoken for his views regarding [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil videos of his live performances being put up on YouTube.]] He decided to cover "Creep" at a live show one evening, and someone put it up online, only for that person to be served a cease and desist letter by Prince's lawyers. Cue Thom Yorke stepping in with: "Put it back up, Creep is ''our'' song." Never has {{irony}} been so sweet.
** Even more ironic seeing as "Creep" is the band's BlackSheepHit.

* Radiohead collaborating with '''Music/HansZimmer''' to remix their song "Bloom" into a beautiful orchestral piece called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODsUpq0WAYY "(Ocean) Bloom"]].

* Knowing how BrokenBase-inducing and SomethingCompletelyDifferent ''Kid A'' is, and how it wasn't really promoted with a media blitz or any singles or whatever, you can't help but feel kind of awesome when it ended up at #1 in the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates USA]] for a week. Thom himself said "We were Music/TheBeatles... for a week."

** It currently holds the spot of '''#67''' on the ''Rolling Stone'' top 500 albums list, the highest that album post-1999 on the list holds.
** Not awesome enough? Before the 2012 update, it was at #428, indicating a jump of '''361 spots'''.
** In 2020, [[UpToEleven it got even better]]. It now sits at '''#20''', even though it's no longer the highest ranked album post-1999.

* The guitar solo in "Go to Sleep," particularly in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53MaNyo-BkI#t=162 Jools Holland live performance]]. CrazyAwesome.

** It currently holds the spot of '''#67''' on the ''Rolling Stone'' top 500 albums list, the highest that any 21st century album on the list holds.

** In 2020, [[UpToEleven it got even better]]. It now sits at '''#20''', even though it's no longer the highest ranked album from the 21st century.

** In 2020, [[UpToEleven it got even better]]. It now sits at '''#20'''.

** Another MV example: the "Nude" video, in all of its {{overcrank}}ed awesomeness.

* In June of 2019, a hacker stole Thom's minidisk drive from the ''OK Computer'' sessions, containing hours of unreleased demos, and threatened to release it unless the band paid them $150,000. Rather than sit around and let themselves get extorted, the band opted to release all ''18 hours'' of the thing on their Bandcamp page and donate the proceeds to Extinction Rebellion.

* A rather infamous one involving Music/{{Prince}}, who was rather outspoken for his views regarding [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil videos of his live performances being put up on YouTube.]] He decided to cover "Creep" at a live show one evening, and someone put it up online, only for that person to be served a cease and desist letter by Prince's lawyers. Cue Thom Yorke stepping in with: "Put it back up, Creep is ''our'' song." Never has {{irony}} been so sweet.

* The band's embrace, at long last, of "Creep". For years, the band hated the song and never played it, but by 2016 it had found a spot in their setlist rotation. Specifically, it's usually dragged out as a special treat for fans, and live performances are now coveted by the devoted fanbase they cultivated after they escpaed the song's shadow. For instance, listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9XrW398UI a crowd full of adoring fans]] ''roar with excitement'' from the first few bars of the song when they played it at Coachella in 2017.

* A rather infamous one involving Music/{{Prince}}, who is rather outspoken for his views regarding [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil videos of his live performances being put up on YouTube.]] He decided to cover "Creep" at a live show one evening, and someone put it up online, only for that person to be served a cease and desist letter by Prince's lawyers. Cue Thom Yorke stepping in with: "Put it back up, Creep is ''our'' song." Never has {{irony}} been so sweet.

* The band's embrace, at long last, of "Creep". For years, the band hated the song and never played it, but by 2016 it had found a spot in their setlist rotation. Specifically, it's usually dragged out as a special treat for fans, and live performances are now coveted by the devoted fanbase they cultivated after they escpaed the song's shadow. For instance, listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9XrW398UI a crowded full of adoring fans]] ''roar'' with excitement from the first few bars of the song when they played it at Coachella in 2017.

* The band's embrace, at long last, of "Creep". For years, the band hated the song and never played it, but by 2016 it had found a spot in their setlist rotation. Specifically, it's usually dragged out as a special treat for fans, and live performances are now coveted by the devoted fanbase they cultivated after they escpaed the song's shadow.

* The band's embrace, at long last, of "Creep". For years, the band hated the song and never played it, but by 2016 it had found a spot in their setlist rotation. Specifically, it's usually dragged out as a special treat for fans, and live performances are now coveted by thedevoted fanbase they cultivated after they escpaed the song's shadow.

* There's something significant about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyFcXxyQFh4 Thom asking their Glastonbury '03 audience if they were having a good time, and the whole place erupting in cheers]].

** It currently holds the spot of '''#67''' on the ''Rolling Stone'' top-500-albums list, the highest that any 21st century album on the list holds.