In about a month I am going to a festival where I don't know most of the bands.
That's why I decided to listen to all Radiohead albums in chronological order.
That's called Toms Logic.
🎵 You by Radiohead
💿 Pablo Honey, 1993
▶️ https://song.link/y/OzL7u5teZhg
Edit: screw it, let's make this a 🧵
There's a reason why Pablo Honey is the #Radiohead album I listened to the least (see attached image for context)
Honestly it isn't that good except for some songs. But other than that, it's quite generic early 90s britpop (the good stuff).
On "The Bends", Radiohead didn't change much, but everything improved significantly. This might be their most mainstream and most accessible album.
It's great from start to finish with incredible songs, like this one 👇
🎵 Fake Plastic Trees by Radioead
💿 The Bends, 1995
▶️ https://song.link/y/6gDhsUWCHrg
The video of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" is as perfect as the song.
🎵 Street Spirit (Fade Out) by #Radiohead
💿 The Bends, 1995
▶️ https://youtu.be/LCJblaUkkfc
I still want to listen to the first version of this song - which is arguably the best rock song ever written - which featured hammond organs and a glockenspiel.
🎵 Paranoid Android by #Radiohead
💿 OK Computer, 1997
▶️ https://youtu.be/fHiGbolFFGw
The making of the video to "No Surprises" alone is making me anxious.
“I loved that idea that Grant had,” Yorke told MTV’s 120 Minutes, “just a face in the screen, one shot and the water. In Europe, there’s a lot of pubs where you always have MTV playing and I like the idea of my face leering out in the corner in a bar, some guy drowning himself in the corner of one of these terrible disco bars where they have MTV playing.” Then Yorke realised he was relaying all this to MTV. “Oh, I shouldn’t have said that.”*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzP1nY8JnQo
*https://www.loudersound.com/features/radiohead-the-making-of-no-surprises
"OK Computer" is a flawless masterpiece on the same level as Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon".
Then everything changed with Kid A.
Thomas
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