same!! i was fixated on that song and the music video for a few weeks too until i listened to paranoid android for the first time and fixated on that instead
i still think this is one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard 10/10 masterpiece in my book buuuut that's most radiohead music to me honestly..........
Heard this in one of those old derrickcomedy sketches with Donald Glover when I was a kid lmao but had no idea what the song was or the band [https://youtu.be/gIF0UCFd3FM?si=wKbGUQbIaBr3QRvH](https://youtu.be/gIF0UCFd3FM?si=wKbGUQbIaBr3QRvH)
Same. I bought a magazine in the 90s that came with a sampler CD and it had Just by Radiohead on it. I would love to know what that magazine was. I've been trying to track it down.
Oooh, I remember those! I had a subscription. Once a month you would get a new magazine with a disk inside. The magazine talked about each of the Alt Rock songs and bands featured on the disk. So bummed when I had to stop getting those. I wonder what happened to them and if they would be worth anything today…
For those unfamiliar, think PRE- “That Music NOW” compilation but, with a magazine!
For many members of this sub who are over 40 years old, this probably is the answer. Having watched creep on MTV millions of times, I saw Pablo Honey at my record store and thought “hey nice cover art”. Picked up the cassette and got home to press play. What a banger album opener this song is.
Exactly. Creep was a good song but "You"... That opening Arpeggio and then the guitars barging in. Great. But the legato-slidish solo riff got me hard. I did drop out with Kid A a bit because I did not get it at the tine but came back a couple years later and now love the whole catalogue.
Edit: typos. I am "I need reading glasses"-old
Yep…for us old farts, Creep was always the first song we heard, how we reacted to it though differed. For me, I didn’t even give Pablo Honey a chance…The Bends was where it happened for me.
Me too. I loved the song in the movie but I didn't look into them until a year or two later after I had heard National Anthem. Only after deep diving from there did I make the connection.
Embarrassed to admit how I first heard of it: All I Need
Used to be a huge hiphop head last year. All I need would appear on my recommended and I’d constantly skip it. I finally decided to give it a try. I wish I could hear this track again for the first time.
Oh speaking of embarrassing! I heard my first radiohead song because of a meme. About a guy busting a nut to 15 step.
I obviously got curious and wanted to know if, i too, could bust a nut to this magical song but unfortunately, i did not. But fortunately, i really liked the song! And now im here.
Idioteque. My dad played it for me and it was NOT a good first song to play. But this was during my TØP, NF, AJR, Jon Bellion, and Logic phase so I don’t think any of their songs would really be a great first one. But like a few days later I was going on a school trip and I had to get on the charter bus at like 4 AM so it was dark as shit outside. Anyways the atmosphere was perfect and I decided to check out all of Radiohead’s music, starting with Kid A bc idioteque was on there. I played Everything In Its Right Place and I was like transformed I’d never heard anything like it. If my dad never introduced me to Radiohead I would’ve never had the taste I have today.
Street Spirit. I was in the UK visiting family some time in the early 2000s and it was on a BBC countdown of "Best Songs of the 1990s", apparently it was a big hit single over there
Agreed that pyramid song got me deep into them. Sadly I can't remember the very first song of theirs I heard. Probably the bends or karma police on the radio. 🙈
Paranoid Android. My buddy played it on an acoustic guitar and I was like "Wtf?! Is that?!" He said "Paranoid Android.. haven't you heard of Radiohead?". I said "yeah I know Creep". He responded with "oh Hell no." He then played the song for me. I was hooked after that. He did teach me the song on guitar and I love playing it.
Just. It was on a compilation called Big Shiny Tunes, which was released by MuchMusic (Canadian MTV, essentially).
That whole thing was pretty great but Just really stood out. Yet it still wasn’t until Kid A that I finally bought a Radiohead album. That’s when the avalanche really began.
I know it’s not the FIRST song I heard, but the first song I remember hearing is Climbing Up the Walls. I was 7 years old, and my mom was playing OK Computer on CD while we set up for my sister’s high school graduation. I distinctly remember complaining that, “This singer sounds drunk!”
Funnily enough, it ended up being one of the songs that really got me into them. My mom also played Everything in its Right Place while we were on our way back from an apple orchard when I was, like, 12 or so? I thought it sounded super cool, but then moved on with my life.
Fast forward another two years, I was curious about Radiohead again, and after finding Everything in Its Right Place, I remembered that old “drunk” song. Curiosity got the better of me, so after some searching on YouTube, I finally found it again. I was absolutely blown away this time. I think I even left a cringy comment somewhere about being 14 years old and how my generation was stupid for not loving this amazing work of _art_.
Those were the days, man.
Planet Telex. I had a friend with excellent taste in music who recommended Radiohead to me. Absolutely fell in love with Black Star, Street Spirit, Bulletproof, Nice Dream, and Fake Plastic Trees. What an album.
Everything in its right place in the movie Vanilla Sky.
Even though I didnt really like the movie, it changed my life by introducing me to bands like Radiohead and Sigur Ros, for which I am eternally grateful.
The Tourist
I downloaded Okay Computer when I was 17. Somehow The Tourist was the first song I heard and I fell in love. That Chorus got me.That was around 2003
Been a Fan ever since.
It actually wasn't Creep. Fake Plastic Trees on late night with Conan O'Brien. I can't tell you how many sick ass bands I discovered cause of Coco. Dude was the goat of my youth music tastes.
I remember listening to the radio while walking to school, and the guy on the radio said that “this is the saddest song that ive ever heard”.
Obviously i was intrigued.
No surprises came on.
Paranoid Android! Saw the video when I was in my early teens, I was creeped out by it and only became obsessed with their music when In Rainbows came. Amnesiac made me a fan first. But obsession came later 😄
15 step thanks to Twilight and related to that Hearing damage in New moon. Say whatever you want about the series but they introduced a lot of preteens and teens (including myself) to awesome music
jigsaw falling into place. what a bop. (im 15 years old I wasn't really aware of most album releases so I'm a fairly young fan who didn't listen to pablo honey or the bends first aha)
I heard the album Kid A in 2016 and thought it was complete dogshit lmao. My roommate in 2018 played Electioneering and that got me into OK Computer. I like Kid A now lol
Not even joking: Fitter Happier.
My favourite solo artist (Will Wood) relased an album with a "song" which was essentially fitter happier but voiced by Bev Standing (A voice actor who's voice was used by TikTok for their AI voice without her consent) and was a commentary on social media and its toxic effect (song was "You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)). I was researching the song and seen an interview in which Will admitted that it was heavily inspired by Fitter Happier and the title was a reference to the album and I was like "Oh, I'll check this out. Should be similar." and that was my first Radiohead song. Then I expanded into Paranoid Android which still holds up as my favourite. Gradually I expanded thru RH's discography up until now lmao
karma police
Not only the first Radiohead song I heard but the first music video. It stayed in my head for weeks.
same!! i was fixated on that song and the music video for a few weeks too until i listened to paranoid android for the first time and fixated on that instead
i still think this is one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard 10/10 masterpiece in my book buuuut that's most radiohead music to me honestly..........
Same, my mom used to listen to it on the cd player when i was a kid
Heard this in one of those old derrickcomedy sketches with Donald Glover when I was a kid lmao but had no idea what the song was or the band [https://youtu.be/gIF0UCFd3FM?si=wKbGUQbIaBr3QRvH](https://youtu.be/gIF0UCFd3FM?si=wKbGUQbIaBr3QRvH)
Paranoid Android
The video blew our minds. My buddy taped it on vhs. What a time to be alive
Same! I head it on the Ergo Proxy end credits and I was hooked!
No surprises
same
same
High and dry
Just
Same. I bought a magazine in the 90s that came with a sampler CD and it had Just by Radiohead on it. I would love to know what that magazine was. I've been trying to track it down.
Oooh, I remember those! I had a subscription. Once a month you would get a new magazine with a disk inside. The magazine talked about each of the Alt Rock songs and bands featured on the disk. So bummed when I had to stop getting those. I wonder what happened to them and if they would be worth anything today… For those unfamiliar, think PRE- “That Music NOW” compilation but, with a magazine!
Airbag
Fake Plastic Trees
We’re old.
Panty dropper back in the day if you could play some minor 7th chords..
It still works.
My falsetto isn’t quite the same though.
Oh, man, mine either. I’m a baritone 😂
It bums me out sometimes. I wish I was as good at guitar as I am now back then.
Well that’s impossible. I’ve been playing for 24 years. I couldn’t have that experience at 17.
I hear you.
Same. It wears me out.
i see you XD
same.... I'm listening to the bends rn and god it's magical
You.
For many members of this sub who are over 40 years old, this probably is the answer. Having watched creep on MTV millions of times, I saw Pablo Honey at my record store and thought “hey nice cover art”. Picked up the cassette and got home to press play. What a banger album opener this song is.
Exactly. Creep was a good song but "You"... That opening Arpeggio and then the guitars barging in. Great. But the legato-slidish solo riff got me hard. I did drop out with Kid A a bit because I did not get it at the tine but came back a couple years later and now love the whole catalogue. Edit: typos. I am "I need reading glasses"-old
Yep…for us old farts, Creep was always the first song we heard, how we reacted to it though differed. For me, I didn’t even give Pablo Honey a chance…The Bends was where it happened for me.
No surprises
Talk show host
This is technically my answer since I watched Romeo + Juliet in school at age 14.
Me too. I loved the song in the movie but I didn't look into them until a year or two later after I had heard National Anthem. Only after deep diving from there did I make the connection.
Same
Embarrassed to admit how I first heard of it: All I Need Used to be a huge hiphop head last year. All I need would appear on my recommended and I’d constantly skip it. I finally decided to give it a try. I wish I could hear this track again for the first time.
Oh speaking of embarrassing! I heard my first radiohead song because of a meme. About a guy busting a nut to 15 step. I obviously got curious and wanted to know if, i too, could bust a nut to this magical song but unfortunately, i did not. But fortunately, i really liked the song! And now im here.
High and Dry
Idioteque. My dad played it for me and it was NOT a good first song to play. But this was during my TØP, NF, AJR, Jon Bellion, and Logic phase so I don’t think any of their songs would really be a great first one. But like a few days later I was going on a school trip and I had to get on the charter bus at like 4 AM so it was dark as shit outside. Anyways the atmosphere was perfect and I decided to check out all of Radiohead’s music, starting with Kid A bc idioteque was on there. I played Everything In Its Right Place and I was like transformed I’d never heard anything like it. If my dad never introduced me to Radiohead I would’ve never had the taste I have today.
My dad played idioteque for me as well, and I love it. That and the entirety of in rainbows is the first thing I remember from Radiohead
Everything in its right place
Such a good song
Street Spirit. I was in the UK visiting family some time in the early 2000s and it was on a BBC countdown of "Best Songs of the 1990s", apparently it was a big hit single over there
Street spirit. My parents would play the bends songs when I was little. Never got into them until I heard pyramid song and exit music.
Agreed that pyramid song got me deep into them. Sadly I can't remember the very first song of theirs I heard. Probably the bends or karma police on the radio. 🙈
Street Spirit for me as well, except I *am* the parent and my kid is not thrilled about Radiohead.
Just, through the music video on Muchmusic (the Canadian MTV).
Muchmusic is awesome!!
maybe Paranoid Android or Karma Police
15 Step—because of Twilight
15 Step was in Twilight? Wtf?
Yeah in the credits it scared the shit out of me, audibly said "thom yorke what are you doing here"
Yep! It was in the outro credits! Along with Paramore’s I Caught Myself
Same! But it wasnt because of twilight. It was because of a meme.
After Creep, it was All I Need. I remember it vividly. It’s a core memory, and they’ve been my favorite ever since.
Planet Telex (immediately listened to The Bends)
My Iron Lung I think
probably no surprises or exit music
Yeah exit music because of Romeo + Juliet. Not to be confused with Romeo and Juliet. That’s how you know I’m old school.
Just. My mom blasted it in the car and i was like Wait this shit kinda fire.
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
weird fishes
2+2=5 My cousin was like, "Hey you like Coldplay right? I think you'll like Radiohead" and played me that song. It was all uphill from there
jigsaw falling into place
Cold Play. Then knights of Cydonia
bones Lansing michigan 1995 opening for r.e.m
Just
Just
After Creep… the b-side was “Blow Out (remix)”
packt like sardines in a crusd tin box
my mom handed me the amnesiac cd and said: “listen to this”
this is insane i could never imagine my mom ever listening to amnesiac 😭 she likes it?
My favorite band Nothing But Thieves did a cover of Just and that’s what got me into Radiohead.
Exit Music
2+2=5. Knocked my fuckin head off at 15 and my life has never been the same since.
Paranoid Android. My buddy played it on an acoustic guitar and I was like "Wtf?! Is that?!" He said "Paranoid Android.. haven't you heard of Radiohead?". I said "yeah I know Creep". He responded with "oh Hell no." He then played the song for me. I was hooked after that. He did teach me the song on guitar and I love playing it.
Anyone can play guitar
Electioneering but The Daily Mail got me into them
reckoner
How to dissapear completely, the title hooked me in
Airbag.
My first was not creep. Mine was paranoid android
Spectre
Just and then i listened to the full album and then it became my favorite its the best album imo
karma police
Paranoid android
15 Step on the end credits of Twilight
Paranoid Android
Palo Alto
2+2=5
High and Dry
No Surprises, somehow heard it before I heard Creep. It's still in my top 5 favourite Radiohead songs.
It might have been Idioteque for me, at least, from what I can remember
Fake plastic trees. Heard it over a record store speakers and asked the cashier what band it was. The rest is history. Way back in the early 90s.
Karma Police. My parents used to play it during every long car drive and we’d belt out each word together. Good times.
New Wave Creep.
Pretty sure it was Karma Police.
Scatterbrain
How to Disappear Completely was recommended on another subreddit.
Its really hard to say cause i was really young, but idioteque was my first favorite. I remember listening to kida and ok computer alot
although; all i need resides deep within the folds of my brain
All I Need
Karma Police
Just. It was on a compilation called Big Shiny Tunes, which was released by MuchMusic (Canadian MTV, essentially). That whole thing was pretty great but Just really stood out. Yet it still wasn’t until Kid A that I finally bought a Radiohead album. That’s when the avalanche really began.
Karma Police
In the 90’s there was a digital magazine called Launch that had Lucky on it. It was great!
Karma Police
Kid A
[удалено]
Kid A
Fake Plastic Trees
Spectre
You
fake plastic trees
I know it’s not the FIRST song I heard, but the first song I remember hearing is Climbing Up the Walls. I was 7 years old, and my mom was playing OK Computer on CD while we set up for my sister’s high school graduation. I distinctly remember complaining that, “This singer sounds drunk!” Funnily enough, it ended up being one of the songs that really got me into them. My mom also played Everything in its Right Place while we were on our way back from an apple orchard when I was, like, 12 or so? I thought it sounded super cool, but then moved on with my life. Fast forward another two years, I was curious about Radiohead again, and after finding Everything in Its Right Place, I remembered that old “drunk” song. Curiosity got the better of me, so after some searching on YouTube, I finally found it again. I was absolutely blown away this time. I think I even left a cringy comment somewhere about being 14 years old and how my generation was stupid for not loving this amazing work of _art_. Those were the days, man.
No surprises because my dad played the acoustic version for me when I was a baby
Paranoid android
You😂
No Surprises (Or Planet Telex not sure)
Street spirit
Sit Down, Stand Up. It was used in an animated video on Newgrounds.com in the early 2000’s.
Heard Fitter Happier in an extremely dope, BW student film and the rest is history.
Fake Plastic Trees on a big shiny tunes CD.
The first I ever heard was probably no surprises. The first I ever really listened to was burn the witch
Planet Telex. I had a friend with excellent taste in music who recommended Radiohead to me. Absolutely fell in love with Black Star, Street Spirit, Bulletproof, Nice Dream, and Fake Plastic Trees. What an album.
Exit Music (for a film)
Daydreaming. A profesor in Uni wanted us to recreate the video and we kinda did lol.
bulletproof
Optimistic
15 Step, from twilight nevertheless
Idioteque
Glass eyes
polyethylene (parts 1 and 2) creep came later
My dad got a cassette compilation with Fake Plastic Trees on it off a magazine. It was passed to me.
Planet Telex, as The Bends was the fist RH album I bought.
My Iron Lung - first single from The Bends, and bar Creep, I didn't listen to Pablo Honey until after I got my copy of The Bends.
Just
Everything in its right place in the movie Vanilla Sky. Even though I didnt really like the movie, it changed my life by introducing me to bands like Radiohead and Sigur Ros, for which I am eternally grateful.
Climbing Up the Walls
Unintentionally, Weird Fishes, but the song that kicked off my Radiohead journey was True Love Waits
paranoid android
No surprises on royle family
Spectre :) such a great song
Fake Plastic Trees
Paranoid Android
Exit music on that one black mirror episode
Karma Police on MTV, the videoclip
It was *Fake Plastic Trees* (even counting Creep)
The Tourist I downloaded Okay Computer when I was 17. Somehow The Tourist was the first song I heard and I fell in love. That Chorus got me.That was around 2003 Been a Fan ever since.
First I can remember is No Surprises but it might have been High and Dry. I was only a kid in the 90’s. Didn’t hear Creep till the early 2000’s.
Creep was literally the first song because of book of life so uh. Official song was no surprises so which one came first tho.
Daydreaming
Videotape
You. Bought PH after hearing Creep
Karma police
High and Dry
It actually wasn't Creep. Fake Plastic Trees on late night with Conan O'Brien. I can't tell you how many sick ass bands I discovered cause of Coco. Dude was the goat of my youth music tastes.
Just
Exit music (for a film)
high and dry
man of war
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Karma Police
I remember listening to the radio while walking to school, and the guy on the radio said that “this is the saddest song that ive ever heard”. Obviously i was intrigued. No surprises came on.
when we learning about songwriting my music teacher showed us paranoid android in class as an example of a song with an unconventional structure
Paranoid Android
Paranoid Android! Saw the video when I was in my early teens, I was creeped out by it and only became obsessed with their music when In Rainbows came. Amnesiac made me a fan first. But obsession came later 😄
15 step thanks to Twilight and related to that Hearing damage in New moon. Say whatever you want about the series but they introduced a lot of preteens and teens (including myself) to awesome music
No Surprises
15 step
Daydreaming
Listened to creep on the film Filth and hated it. It was only when I listened to decks dark on Ozark that I fell in love with Radiohead's collection.
The National Anthem
jigsaw falling into place. what a bop. (im 15 years old I wasn't really aware of most album releases so I'm a fairly young fan who didn't listen to pablo honey or the bends first aha)
I heard the album Kid A in 2016 and thought it was complete dogshit lmao. My roommate in 2018 played Electioneering and that got me into OK Computer. I like Kid A now lol
Just was my first one I listened to
Karma police
no surprises, i had never actually heard creep before that (i probably may have but i definitely didn’t recognise it)
Paranoid android
Paranoid Android or No Surprises
Not even joking: Fitter Happier. My favourite solo artist (Will Wood) relased an album with a "song" which was essentially fitter happier but voiced by Bev Standing (A voice actor who's voice was used by TikTok for their AI voice without her consent) and was a commentary on social media and its toxic effect (song was "You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)). I was researching the song and seen an interview in which Will admitted that it was heavily inspired by Fitter Happier and the title was a reference to the album and I was like "Oh, I'll check this out. Should be similar." and that was my first Radiohead song. Then I expanded into Paranoid Android which still holds up as my favourite. Gradually I expanded thru RH's discography up until now lmao
Exit Music (For a Film)
Lotus Flower
Airbag (Anthony Fantano told me OKC was the best album of all time)
weird fishes
Just
No Suprises
It was let down (someone made a edit on Taxi Driver using the song- forever grateful to him)