History NightmareFuel / Radiohead

* "Exit Music (For A Film). A song that was made for [[Film/William ShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet the film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuilet''.And what do they have? The intense guitar and electronic choirs that accentuated its quiet beginning, the broken-sounding raw vocals, the drums kicking off, all of it?! Well, [[TearJerker they succeed it.]]

* "Exit Music (For A Film). A song that was made for [[Film/William ShakespeareRomeoAndJuliet the film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuilet''.And what do they have? The intense guitar and electronic choirs that accentuated its quiet beginning, the broken-sounding raw vocals, the drums kicking off, all of it?! Well, [[TearJerker they succeed it.]]

* "Exit Music (For A Film). A song that was made for [[Film/William ShakespearesRomeo+Juliet the film adaptation of Romeo and Juilet]]. And do they have? The intense guitar and electronic choirs that accentuated its quiet beginning, the broken-sounding raw vocals, the drums kicking off, all of it?! Well, [[TearJerker they succeed it.]]

* "No Surprises" is a quite calm and emotional song and it's gentle nursey rhyme material; But the [[LyricalDissonance lyrics]] are filled with images suggesting ''suicide'', alienation, and pollution. Not to metion the lines about carbon monoxide poisoning. Hell, you even hear the background vocals singing "[[NothingIsScarier Let me out of here!]]"

* "Life in a Glasshouse" is a minor-key, New Orleans-style dirge about [[StepfordSmiler the suffocating nature of celebrity]], with Thom Yorke singing about [[ParanoiaFuel constant prying eyes and restrictive expectations against a backdrop of wailing trumpets and clarinets]].

--->I jumped into the river,
--->Black-eyed angels swam with me.
--->A moon full of stars and astral cars,
--->And all the things I used to see.
--->[[TearJerker All my lovers were there with me]],
--->[[TearJerker All my past and futures]].

*** its music video contains a lot of strange imagery as well, such as a woman's head on a giant Operation game table, images on a TV screen where Thom Yorke's head is replaced by a giant heart, a scene in which his feet are replaced by cooked chickens and being cut up, and an image of his face on a mouse's body.

--->We are the [[TitleDrop dollars and cents]]
--->and the pounds and pence
--->and the mark and yen, and yeah,
--->why don't you quiet down?
--->[[BodyHorror we're gonna crack your little skulls]]
--->[[BodyHorror we're gonna crack your little souls]].

--->[[BeingWatched There's someone listening in]].....

* Kinetic": the lyrics sound like they're from the perspective of someone trying to escape an inevitable (and horrible) fate.
--->please keep moving... better keep moving.....

-->''Steal all my children''
-->''If I don't pay the ransom''
-->''But I'll never see them again''
-->''If I squeal to the cops''
-->''[[BrokenRecord No no no no no no no]].''

---> '''[[MotiveDecay FITTER.]] [[TitleDrop HAPPIER.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MORE PRODUTIVE.]]'''

* "No Surpries" is a quite calm and emotional song and it's gentle nursey rhyme material; But the [[LyricalDissonance lyrics]] are filled with images suggesting [[suicide]], alienation, and pollution. Not to metion the lines about carbon monoxide poisoning. Hell, you even hear the background vocals singing [[NothingIsScarier "Let me out of here"!]]
* The music video for "No Surprises" is probably not for anyone with a fear of drowning. It depicts Thom Yorke singing "No Surprises" in close-up while wearing a dome over his head like an astronaut. As he sings, the dome begins to fill with water. When it is completely full, Thom goes limp and motionless for almost a full minute. The dome drains, and he gets out alive. He was never in any actual danger -- they {{Over Crank}}ed the film in order to make it appear he was motionless. He actually only had to hold his breath for a few seconds. The kicker? The video took several takes to film, and each time Thom grew more and more stressed out and agitated. Horribly, eye-wateringly claustrophobic.

--->'''[[TitleDrop CLIIIIMMMBBINNNNNG!!!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis UUUUUUPPPPPP THHHHE!!!]] [[CarefulWithThatAxeWAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUU]][[MetalScream GHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]][[LastNoteNightmare AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH!!!!!!!]]'''

--->'''[[TitleDrop CLIIIIMMMBBINNNNNG!!!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis UUUUUUPPPPPP THHHHE!!!]] [[CarefulWithThatAxeWAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUU]][[MetalScream GHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]][[LastNoteNightmare AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH!!!!!!!]]

-->'''[[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU-HAVE-NOT-BEEN!]] [[MadnessMantra PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]] [[BrokenRecord PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]] [[CarefulWithThatAxe YOU HAVE-NOT-BEEN-PAYING-AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]

---> '''FITTER. HAPPIER. MORE PRODUTIVE.'''

---> '''FITTER. HAPPIER. MORE PRODUTIVE.

* "Burn the Witch": Whilst the song itself is ParanoiaFuel, along with its' [[PsychoStrings increasingly discordant strings]], what does Radiohead do for the video? A cutesy stop-motion animated version of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.

-->'''[[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU'RE-NOT-BEEN!]] [[MadnessMantra PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]] [[BrokenRecord PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]'''

* "[[Sanity Slippage Song Climbing Up]] [[VillainSong the Walls]]" is arguably the one Radiohead song with an outright reputation for being terrifying. It's a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house, sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, noisy electronics, heavy drumming, and loud guitars. About it, Thom has said:

** During the final reprise freak out of "Paranoid Android", mixed quite low in the background, there are blasts of what sounds like White Noise on normal speakers, but on headphones, you can hear that it's (presumably) Thom screaming his lungs out and babbling incoherently.

* "Climbing Up the Walls" is arguably the one Radiohead song with an outright reputation for being terrifying. It's a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house, sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, noisy electronics, heavy drumming, and loud guitars. About it, Thom has said:

--->'''CLIIIIMMMBBINNNNNG!!

** "No Surprises" is actually quite horrifying to listen to if you pay attention to the [[LyricalDissonance lyrics]], ''especially'' during the ending, with the background vocals singing "[[AndIMustScream Let me out of here]]"!

* The opening track "Packt Like Sardiness In A Crushd Tin Box" with its paranoid and jiggering lyrics "[[MadnessMantra I'm a reasonable man, get off, get off, get off my case]]".

* it music video contains a lot of strange imagery as well, such as a woman's head on a giant Operation game table, images on a TV screen where Thom Yorke's head is replaced by a giant heart, a scene in which his feet are replaced by cooked chickens and being cut up, and an image of his face on a mouse's body.

* [[VillainSong Dollas And Cents]]. Specially the lines.

--->we're gonna crack your little skulls
--->we're gonna crack your little souls.

* There's something extremely unsettling about B-Side "The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy". The weird synths, the pulsing percussion, and Thom's eerily [[ArousedByTheirVoice sexual]] singing.

-->'''[[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU'RE-NOT-BEEN!]] [[MadnessMantra PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]] [[BrokenRecord PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]

-->'''[[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU'RE-NOT-BEEN!]] [[Madness Mantra PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]] [[BrokenRecord PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]

-->'''[[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU'RE-NOT-BEEN!]] [[Madness Mantra PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]] [[BrokenRecord PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]\\

* "The National Anthem", when the instruments drop out, and we're left with distorted samples of dialogue and an orchestra at the end.

-->'''[[SuddenlyShouting BECAUSE!]]\\
[[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU'RE-NOT-BEEN!]]\\
[[Madness Mantra PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]\\
[[BrokenRecord PAYING AT-TEN-TION! PAYING AT-TEN-TION!]]\\

* The music video for "There There". The amount of [[RogerRabbitEffect purely surreal]] stuff in [[SurrealMusicVideo the video]] isn't all that scary, but it's the [[GainaxEnding equally surreal ending]] that sells it. Basically, the moral of that story is [[SpaceWhaleAesop "Don't wear clothes you find in the woods]] or [[CreepyCrows crows will attack you]], then [[BodyHorror you'll turn into a tree."]]
** [[PainfulTransformation Thom's transformation]] is also depicted in [[GrossUpCloseUp very graphic detail]], intercut with his terrified reactions. His skin turning to wood, roots growing from his feet, branches ripping through his pants...
** The freakiest part has to be the final frame, where you see [[AndIMustScream Thom's still screaming face on the tree]]...

* "Myxomatosis". Heavily distorted lead synth and guitar that constantly seems off-key? Check. Screeching organ in the background? Check. Vaguely ominous and brutal lyrics containing such lovely phrases like: "the mongrel cat came home holding half a head", "don't know why I feel so skinned alive", and "twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis?" Check. An unnatural rhythm that defies any time signature? Check. And then you find out myxomatosis is a disease that gives rabbits huge skin tumors before killing them. Nice.