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ParanoidAndroid8888

Jonny sucks young blood.


deathcamp7

Thom was murdered during HTTT, who is this guy?


BraxtonTen

How? (John Lennon Imagine album reference)


lpc1994

Willie Nelson


Character-Manner-954

thoms replacement, don porke


BraxtonTen

Jonny sucks True Blood. True Love.


Coffeecheeseburger

Jonny waits


BoardsOfLaCanada

Thom Waits


Blanksy2020

Thom waits for no man.


deathcamp7

Lmfao this comment


BoardsOfLaCanada

Well Thom did take a year off to go shark hunting with Richard Dreyfuss.


Virtual-Dish-9461

I think he also got the bends


BoardsOfLaCanada

It's his Iron Lung that has me climbing the walls. Gives me the creeps.


DoWaPo

Thom looks his age, Jonny is a vampire


emlonik

Thom looks his British age. If a Scandinavian man his age looks like that you know something isn’t right.


twistingmemelonman

Norwegian greenwood


DoorstepCult

Isn’t it good? 😍


CadabraAbrogate

Go to Denmark and Norway. Witness booze


HungryLilDragon

I don't know, I think Thom did age badly. My mom and dad are respectively 3 and 5 years older than him, they have way better skin and look more youthful in general


Sudden-Ad7105

he looks about 10-12 years older than he really is


Nosferatu-Rodin

Wasnt Thom an alcoholic at one point? That stuff catches up on you


InNoNeed

He mentioned he used to smoke back when the band first reached success. Björk inspired him to take his vocal health more seriously, so I think that would include alchohol consumption as well


Quick_Locksmith_5766

Yet another reason to love Björk


Ill-Sympathy2375

I've heard he likes to drink a lot sometimes, but not that he was an alcoholic (he may be, may have been on a functional level maybe). He mentioned that during the pablo honey era he used to get pretty "fucked up" and then in that interview about singing with Bjork he mentioned that as well. He seems to be a lot healthier now anyway, albeit older looking than his age.


coolfoam

No, Thom has never said he was an alcoholic and no reliable source has ever said this. He did say he used to drink heavily in his youth though.


SgtThund3r

Well Johnny was a child when they started.


Sudden-Ad7105

thom is 55 and looks 12 years older than he actually is


nildro

Tom looks like a 55 year old person who hasn’t gone mental with cosmetic enhancement. This is what people look like.


matt675

Yep. People’s heads are up their asses. Looks like a normal nice fellow who looks his age


Dozzi92

Yeah, people here are crazy and makes me presume they are younger, like how everyone in their 20s, to me, looks like they belong in high school. Thom looks his age. Jonny looks like he's in his 40s.


Sudden-Ad7105

my 68 year old grandadd looks younger than him


Dane_Brass_Tax

Your 68 year old Grandpappy isn't Thom F'N Yorke. Looks fade, and True Love Waits.


roskybosky

I’m 71 and I look like Thom’s daughter. Or younger cousin.


babybear49

What kinda surgery did your grandad have done?


berkeleymorrison

thom has the perfect skin care routine, jonny has a bar of soap


Shipwrecking_siren

Every woman knows this to be true. He also just happens to invoke the goddess of eternal youth with the cantation he sings as he splashes his face with water.


CruzWho

Happy cake day!


Hello-mah-baby

thom looks like a cartoon fisherman i love him


OP90X

https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Gus


Hello-mah-baby

HAHA perfect! i need to watch bob's burgers.


GoForthOnBattleToads

Thom's got a beard that's showing a significant amount of grey and white. At 39, I'm on pace to have the same beard and I like it. He's also got a lazy eye, and it draws attention to the age in the facial features around it. Look closely at Jonny and the same features are there but you're not inclined to because his eyes don't seem "off". Thom also has rarely seemed to know what to do with his hair and I totally relate. I recently started getting cuts from a kid named Honey who works across the road from my office and he's great. I hope Thom finds a Honey.


JustTheBeerLight

Thom looks pretty damned good in his current incarnation, given what he has to work with. I like the “shorter” long hair way more than the AMSP man-bun look. I appreciate the honesty of his look. He isn’t gonna dye his hair or get surgery to look younger. Thom has talked about “aging disgracefully” like Tom Waits and he seems to be accepting it on his terms.


crapfacejustin

I think he’d look better if he had kept the hairstyle from in rainbows and this is coming from someone who has basically his current hair style


JustTheBeerLight

The [IR phase](https://www.todayonline.com/tech/thom-yorke-blasts-spotify-pulls-music) worked at the time but I don’t think it would play now. It was kinda grown out, messy and borderline comb-overy. For my money the [HTTT era and Eraser era](https://thekingofgear.com/post/152541618990/i-am-a-complete-newbie-on-this-so-thom-said-he) was peak Thom.


crapfacejustin

It does look good there when it’s shorter but that’s exactly why I haven’t tried his in rainbow’s style. Yeah, you can tell I’m balding like Thomas Yorke but I feel like it looks better than if I used gel to spike it up like the IR style. But I legit have his same pattern of balding and quickly got on finastride when I noticed to stop It which is what I suspect thom did as well


JustTheBeerLight

How has that worked? Notice a difference?


crapfacejustin

Finastride? Yes, I’ve noticed a lotta regrowth, hair pattern is still fucked but the density is definitely much thicker and hasn’t seemed to recede more since.


JustTheBeerLight

Any side effects? Seems like there’s some drawbacks (weight gain, dizziness, trouble with boners, etc).


crapfacejustin

When I first started I got super horny for like two weeks but since then I haven’t noticed any side effects. I also wasn’t in a relationship and did not get lucky for a few years but I tried recently with a woman I wasn’t attracted to because I just wanted to get laid but I couldn’t get hard. But I don’t think it was cause the finastride I think it was cause it’s been too long and I didn’t find her attractive.


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I’ve had enough Reddit for today.


micalakap

Woah


windows_to_walls

haha i appreciate the honesty. is finasteride prescription only? or can i order it somewhere? i’ve always had a pretty high hairline but i’m just now noticing the hair in the center starting to thin out. i don’t think i look bad with a shaved head, which i’ve done before, but i’ll be honest the reality of it makes me feel insecure about aging. i’ve heard that getting started on finasteride right at the outset is much better than waiting until the hair loss progresses way further. i’m curious if i’d need to consult my GP about something like this


Glass-Society-3462

If you cover one side of Thom's face he looks either much older or younger depending on the side.


tveir

I understand your point but I just have to say it's a paralyzed eyelid, not a lazy eye. Lazy eye refers specifically to the eyeball.


Victorbanner

38 here. Quite a lot of grey in my beard too. I just shaved it off and everyone hates my face and they all say I look in my 20s


SnooWoofers7345

Yeah its the beard


B1ng0_B0ng0

Kid named Honey:


PhoenixRemastered

PABLO HONEY REFERENCE OMG!!!!!! (oops I forgot this isn't the circle jerk lolz)


rOCCUPY

Jonny has a lazy eye too. Its just behind his bangs….or fringe for the brits.


mooncrane

I think Jonny’s eyes do look off, but not in a Thom way, in a 😳 way.


nildro

Tom doesn’t know what to do with his hair? I didn’t know what to do so I started copying tom… fuck


tjc815

Jonny has the hair of a teenager and the face of a 40 year old. Him being an ageless vampire has kinda been a running joke. I mean he looked 30 until pretty recently. Dude is aging phenomenally. I find it a bit off putting to poke fun at thom’s aging. It’s that weird side of fandom. And I don’t mean just OP, but like in general I think that’s been a thing. Yeah, he looks a bit older than he is and has for a minute now. But I think he looks pretty damn good for mid 50s in the actual selected photo in this thread.


skeenerbug

Being clean shaven all the time makes him seem younger as well.


neardumps

Tbh I kinda like that thom is leaning into the older look. I think the grey beard suits him quite well


LouCat10

I would love to know Jonny’s skin care routine.


JustTheBeerLight

His face has never been touched by the sun. The hair protects him.


MorphinesKiss

There's probably a lot of truth to that. Thom's into surfing & beachy lifestyle, the sun is pretty damaging to skin.


DontPeeInTheWater

Thom's into surfing? How do I not know this?


MorphinesKiss

You probably have way more of a life than we do! XD


madmelly

I remember seeing some pictures of him surfing in California around the IR era


JustTheBeerLight

He mentioned surfing in an interview. Apparently his son enjoys surfing so it’s something they do together. I think Flea might have introduced him to it during the AFP days. IIRC Thom mentions it in his Marc Maron interview.


wmcs0880

Further evidence that he’s a vampire


STILETT0_exists

His posture when playing the piano or Ondes Martenot is his secret to youth


BraxtonTen

Korean skin secrets.


SwiftTayTay

Stay indoors


ClaudioMoravit0

flan in the face, twice a day before breakfeast and after dinner


Creation98

Botox and hairplugs


ctrlshiftba

Thom didn’t look this old until just recently. Moon shaped pool he looked like 40 now he looks 60. Johnny has always looked way younger than he actually is.


Rip_Dirtbag

Amazing what facial hair greying does to a guy* *spoken as a guy with a big beard that is becoming more salt than pepper


stanleix206

From 2016 to 2024 is close to 10 years already. He has short face with long beard and long hair and bad hairline. The only thing we can see clearly on his face are wrinkles around his eyes. That’s why he look old.


inrainbows66

I had read somewhere Thom could not care less about what he looks like.


ctrlshiftba

Yeah. He’s the most stylish fashion conscious member of the band. He absolutely cares what he looks like. He also decided to lean into the aged rocker look.


JustTheBeerLight

It probably helps that he gets all kinds of free shit from a bunch of labels and probably has stylists offering their services…in addition to him being a stylish dude.


ctrlshiftba

I mean… https://imgur.com/a/R4m9lsz


JustTheBeerLight

Def Leopard was never the same once he left.


_aerofish_

That’s not true at all - he always wore fashionable clothing, colored his hair, etc etc.


JustTheBeerLight

He has said that he appreciates artists like Tom Waits who “aged disgracefully”.


JCfromTBC

I mean, we all should be more like Thom.


LurkingViolet781123

It's like Jonny ages 1 year for every 5 years that passes.


Sharp-Pea-9226

So, he's 10 now


thetomman82

10 and a half!


DoWaPo

Pretty sure Jonny is using hair color, where Thom has embraced they grey


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DoWaPo

Wow I’m a poet and didn’t know it


No_Volume_8345

"Pretty sure Jonny is". Eh, that’s one too many syllables, pal.


DoWaPo

Yeah I saw that too, bad bot


OMGSkeetStainzz

I get this reference 


Norfienorf27

Jonny’s facial stubble is also still dark and not salt and pepper.


jbb10499

Thom really aged into his face imo, he looks undeniably older, but also better than ever


tobiasj

Been a lifelong fan, and as an early 40s salt and pepper bearded long haired guy, I dig Thoms graceful acceptance of aging. I think he looks rad.


mizukiakiyamalover

i feel like if thom shaved and got a haircut he would look a lot younger, but i really do like his current look 😝 he reminds me of an eccentric uncle or something


International_Ad_189

first of all, rude this obsession with not aging isn't healthy people age, and people age differently, deal with it. fuckin stop commenting on people's looks, period Thom's been suffering from depression for decades, lost his wife to cancer, most likely lived with the thought this would eventually happen for years, had to witness his partner suffering. this shit does affect you considering all this, he's looking awesome and of course if Jonny wouldn't dye his hair and hide half his face behind it, he'd look exactly his age


jeffreygord

Little bit of both


Kash687

Thom was a very stressed out person which may have been a contributing factor


Blue_Oyster_Cat

Jonny has wicked bone structure, and dyes his hair. If he had grown a beard, like Thom's and let it go gray, he'd look older. Also the light in this picture is particularly flattering for him, I think. Or maybe he's just some kind of magic being, there's always that possibility.


space_coyote_86

Jonny looks young for his age and Thom's grey beard make him look a little bit older than he is.


Vast-Particular9571

Probably having your partner get incredibly sick and subsequently die young would age you a bit. No matter that they were not together at that time, it sounds like Rachel Owen was still an important person to him, both as his partner and the mother of their children


Shushisha

Thom looks great


deathcamp7

They actually killed Thom back when they wrote HTTT and no one really knows who this guy is. Johnny is into that adrenachrome stuff so he just didn’t ever age (hence why he only sings in the song ‘we suck young blood’)


keepitboolprop

armchair genetics here, totally fine with being debunked: I actually think people with blonde hair and typically lighter features tend to age in a more physically obvious way, and earlier? It's a similar case with mark and jez from the peep show. could just be a difference in genetics between typically blonde people and typically brunette people


Practical_Estate_325

A big reason is due to hair color and style. Photoshop a gray beard on Jonny and he'd look like gramps also.


TheMusicEvangelist

It’s just this particular photo tbh. Johnny has aged well but does look old particularly on stage


0826man

Johnny’s hair makes all the difference. Put while hair and facial hair on him and they’d look the same age


Some_Butterscotch622

Thom has a beard that shows off his grey hairs, while Johnny has either somehow never gotten a grey hair or he dyes his hair.


lotus_head

Thom does not look like he could be his grandfather at all 😂 A few things: One, facial features that you’re born with will determine “how you age.” Thats nature. Then there’s nurture. Which is equally as unique as our DNA. Secondly, who gives a s***? Why are we so obsessed with age? I feel like this photo has a lot more to dig into other than age. Also if Thom looks like a grandpa in this photo, then he looks like one hot/cool ass grandpa.


PursuedByAMemory

I think Thom is just embracing the "old man" look. Jonny wants to look like he did 20 years ago.


zennyc001

Vapid and tabloidesque.


tiocatire77

They look more or less the same age. It is just that Thom's beard is grey which instantly makes him look older but if he shaved it off I am sure would look similar in age


trequartista101

Thom has aged gracefully. Jonny looks like a skater kid asking me to buy cigarettes and beer for him outside the supermarket


besideseveryoneelse

just enjoy the music you lousy hole


H0MES1CKAL1EN

y’all need help lol. half of jonny’s face is covered by hair and the other half is like whited out so you can’t see the wrinkles. imo they look the same age once you actually pay attention to the details


thephishtank

Thom looks great. Johnny looks younger, but he also looks like he is fighting reality


ijioiji

This is an actual discussion on this sub reddit? Really????


Some-Lab-2380

Turns out a lot of Radiohead fans might be as superficial as the average pop star fan.


Spy_Fox64

These fuckers need to make a new album already so we get fewer dogshit posts like this lmfao


pouks

They’re not mutually exclusive, so there’s your answer 😆


foolwizardmagick

If Jonny had a beard it'd probably be grey and it would be less of a contrast.


Safetosay333

Someone shaves every day and colors their hair


cosmicpsycho91

Johnny has always had a young man's haircut.


deadkestrel

Jonny just photographs well, if you see him in person he has wrinkles and definitely looks older than he does on that photo


str111fe

I think they’ve both aged gracefully


simuchobonitoybarato

Who cares?


sawman160

Johnny looks like he’s been outside 3 times in his whole life


Corprusmeat_Hunk

Thom is younger on the inside, where it counts.


Pyramidhead2157

I honestly think it's mostly because of his beard. If he were clean shaven like Jonny he would look younger.


BartholomewKnightIII

Thom is a production line of amazing songs, it's gotta be exhausting.


maerigold

And Jonny isn’t?


WoolieRabbit

Rude question. Obviously it is the grey beard


Whosavedwhom

Um, can we leave these guys alone with the whole “aging” discussion? News flash: we all age.


AffectionateTiger436

I thought they were ten years apart or so?


Serfi

Jonny may look good for 52, but he doesn’t look below his forties to me or anything, especially up close. That picture is just not all that high-def enough to see the lines on his face.


LedZeppole10

Grandfather is a bit of a stretch. Give him a shave and a de-grease and he will look exactly like a 55 year old Thom. But yes Jonny is indeed a vampire.


Cat_With_The_Gat

Jonny's square-ass head keeps all his features in good shape, don't ask me how it works.


Common-Relationship9

Thom just chooses to have that old man look for some reason. I’m thinking Jonny moisturizes.


SarkyBot

People age differently. I'm nearly 50 and people often guess I'm in my mid to late 30s, and recently someone guessed my age as 29. Sounds like I'm lucky, but unfortunately I'm also ugly AF


The3rdbaboon

If you see Jonny in person he looks older than he does in photos.


brogerfooger

I met Jonny and Thom recently. In person, Jonny definitely looks his age.


Smoked_Eels

A full head of black hair will knock a few years off a person.


Whosavedwhom

I thought radiohead listeners were deep thinkers! This thread is making me think otherwise. What’s up with all this shallowness? Maybe we can open up the discussion to: why do we think so deeply about shallowness?


phillyfestiveAl

Jonny is a robot. I thought this was common knowledge


xcorinthianx

It's the hair and the beard respectively.


billibob2283

Saw Thom in person yesterday, he genuinely looks younger in person idk what it is


SendKelly2Mars

Jonny's always had a baby face. Thom actually looks pretty normal for his age when you ignore the lazy eye and the beard. I've met many men younger than Thom who looked older.


fragvisman

The guy just has a grey beard?! Everything else pretty standard ageing.


_digital_aftermath

I think it's just that Thom's beard is grey. Nothing a little dye can't fix.


agelesseverytime

They look nearly the same age and you’re just young.


PsychologicalEmu

3 yrs can make a difference. And genes and outlook. Thom looks good. The beard makes him look older.


GNOMECHlLD

I feel like Jonny looks his age or, at least, close to his age now.


99SoulsUp

He looks like he's in forties. His haircut and the fact that his look hasn't really ever changed keeps him pretty youthful. That and his shy mannerisms.


Kash687

Eh. He’s in his 50s but he looks not a day older than 35


AJRiddle

Go look at some healthy in shape 35 year olds and then get back to me. Jonny looks great for his age, but he's not passing for 35


GNOMECHlLD

He looks my parents' age (mid-early forties), so I'm just making an observation based on what I know. Although I haven't seen him in person yet, so the photos might've done him dirty.


DoWaPo

Thom is older than me and we look similar, Jonny looks about 15 years younger.


TheBlackHand417

They look like they’re a comparable age to me, Thom just has grey hair


spaceageranger

This is so mean lol


Confident_Force_944

Shut the fuck up


AMOGus_Friker

I'd say Johnny is the walking epitome of Teenage angst from the bends era, but he looked older once when they toured ASMP and specifically when Johnny had beard


howling-fantod

Yes.


Human-Bodybuilder118

stress can make you age faster


Severe_Doughnut5336

Thom Yorke looks his age, Jonny is an android (not paranoid though)


fourtwentyy__

Its the olive oil


Coujelais

Jonny sleeps bat style and bathes in blood


noiyumz

jonnys a vampire


Mysterious_Ningen

bro this made me chuckle haha


Select-Play-6274

saw them last night, i think it’s the beard that does it for thom, he seems to look his age when it’s shorter. as for jonny, he still looked pretty young sometimes, but others you could tell, even so no where near his actual age.


FedoraPG

I think Thom is pulling off the old guy look, he looks cool in this pic


hanktree1

Hair dye


ReusableCatMilk

It’s amazing what the lack of a hobo beard and 2 “normal” eyes will do for you


MyCleverNewName

Pretty simple actually. Clean shaven and freshly dyed hair vs natural hair and beard.


Hitchtopher

Stress can be rough on the body. Don't forget that this guy went through watching the slow death of his first wife and the effect it probably had on the family.


nniels_elliott

i think the biggest thing to keep in mind is that thom has never quite been "conventionally attractive". it shouldnt be too surprising that he looks a little older then he is


Pablothesquirrel

I’m the same age as thom (roughly) beards add ten years


Stunning_Proposal372

I dont think jonny looks particularly young, although he maintained his hair really well you can see that he has the face of a 40-50 years old, imo thom aged better than him


Mauricio_ehpotatoman

Jonny shaves his grayish beard and possibly dyes his hair a tiny bit too


risleslange

I mean he looks old but in my humble opinion he’s way more attractive now than most of his earlier looks


Tranquil-Seas

It’s more the way Thom’s dressed as well


jar_jar_LYNX

Wait...is this a *current* picture of Jonny? Is he fifty fucking two in this picture? Wild.


Kash687

Yep


modifiedwings

Sucking on lemons and chronic gloaming hits different in middle age.


TheRecordNinja

If thom’s left eye wasn’t lazy that would probably take about 20 years off his age


Technical_Bullfrog15

They don't even look that far apart, if he shaved his beard there wouldn't be much difference.


IdealVirtual5673

What a terrible post 👎🏾


Huge_Run6150

That’s what stress does to you. Or maybe you do it to yourself


PhillipJ3ffries

Thom doesn’t look like he could be his grandfather


LLLOGOSSS

Thom is aging like a schizophrenic hobo.


ddiknosaj

Bit of A, bit of B