2/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

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).

3/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

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

4/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

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

5/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

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

6/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

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

7/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

"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.

https://youtu.be/7QPY7lcvBPw

#NipTuck #Radiohead

8/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

I remember when I was listening to Kid A 25 years ago... wait? 25???
...anyhow, back then this album was incredibly inaccessible to me. I tried to hold on to bits and pieces but most of it just slipped through my fingers.

One song that I could grasp though was Optimistic.

🎵 Optimistic by #Radiohead
💿 Kid A, 2000
▶️ https://song.link/y/1On-ZHfTWOo

9/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

Amnesiac was my first. It confused me and it still confuses me.

"You And Whose Army?" is my favourite song on it.

🎵 You And Whose Army? by #Radiohead
💿 Amnesiac, 2001
▶️ https://song.link/y/QQnc-hM80UQ

However, there's a live version of "Like Spinning Plates" on the "I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings" album which is my favourite live performance of any Amnesiac songs:

▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnIHVvEwbLk

10/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

When "Hail to the Thief" was released, I wasn't too fond of it. It was - as the 2 before - very inaccessible to me at first.
But in contrary to Kid A and Amnesiac, I never really fully got into it.

Anyhow, they played a couple of songs 2009 when I saw them. I cried throughout the whole concert because it was so incredible.²

🎵 The Gloaming by #Radiohead
💿 Hail to the Thief, 2003
▶️ https://song.link/y/Qh_iXvllR6E

²here's the setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/radiohead/2009/green-park-st-polten-austria-53de671d.html

11/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

While In Rainbows is a 10/10 perfect album (for me), I never listened to ever.

Thom Yorke said that it contains some of their best work. And I can see that, "Down Is The New Up" is really good.

🎵 Down Is The New Up by #Radiohead
💿 In Rainbows (Disk 2), 2007
▶️ https://song.link/y/KTYIDMXTRL4

12/n #RadioheadHeadsJourney

In Rainbows Disk 2 is indeed amazing. It took me only 18 years to finally listen to it.

Also: here are my favourite 10 #Radiohead songs. One of them is a live version:

1. Paranoid Android
2. Reckoner
3. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
4. Everything In Its Right Place
5. Fake Plastic Trees
6. No Surprises
7. Like Spinning Plates (Live)
8. You And Whose Army?
9. Idioteque
10. Videotape

Runner ups:
My Iron Lungs,
You
There, There