- Better Export for You: The Japanese release includes "How Can You Be Sure" and "Killer Cars" as bonus tracks.
- Creator Backlash: Thom Yorke doesn't exactly think highly of "High and Dry," saying "It's not bad... it's very bad." Radiohead hasn't played it since 1998, and unlike another early hit, "Creep", it won't be returning to their set list any time soon.
- Distanced from Current Events: The line "just shoot your gun, you'll never change" in "Sulk" was changed to "just like your dad, you'll never change" for the album after the suicide of Kurt Cobain in 1994; while the song was originally about the 1987 Hungerford Massacre, Radiohead came to the conclusion that keeping the line as-is would prompt unintended connections to Cobain.
- God Never Said That: The following hilariously pretentious quote about the true meaning of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", attributed to Thom, has been floating around the Internet since at least the early 2000s, despite the fact there's zero evidence he ever actually said it:
"'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It's called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things you'll one day swallow whole.' I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack… Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realise what they're listening to. They don't realise that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh. And it's real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I'd crack. I can't believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I'm convinced that they don't know what it's about. It's why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging its tail on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It asks too much. I didn't write that song."
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: The US video for "High and Dry" was never officially reuploaded by the band, neither on their YouTube channel nor the Radiohead Public Library. Consequently, fan reuploads and the out-of-print video album 7 Television Commercials are the only means of watching it.
- Referenced by...: Peter Gabriel covered "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" on his 2010 Cover Album Scratch My Back. Radiohead, unfortunately, declined the opportunity to cover one of Gabriel's songs in turn for And I'll Scratch Yours; according to Gabriel, the band were originally planning on covering Gabriel's "Wallflower" for the album, but ultimately backed out because they disliked Gabriel's cover.
- Similarly Named Works: No, "Black Star" has no relation to the David Bowie album ★ or its Title Track.
- Throw It In!: The guitar riff that starts at about 2:50 into the song "Fake Plastic Trees" was supposed to start a half measure later, but was put in at the wrong time in mixing. The band decided that it sounded better the way it was, and left it in.
- What Could Have Been: Initial promotional copies of the Japanese release include "When I'm Like This" as one of the bonus tracks; the commercial Japanese release replaces it with "How Can You Be Sure".
- Word of God: Averted by the video for "Just": The final line that the man lying in the street says is not subtitled, and the cuts between odd camera angles make lip reading impossible. The band have refused to say what the line is. Lip-readers have attempted to estimate what exactly the guy is saying, with estimations ranging from the fitting "God help me, I'll tell you" (with fans speculating that the offending phrase is actually spoken during the shot where the band are staring down at the man from the window) to the more absurd "I like banana yogurt".
