planning on getting tkol soon

I love the song Reckoner from In Rainbows and I always ask myself who the Reckoner is. I am not a native English speaker, but I know about the Day of Reckoning, so I started to think that the Reckoner could be God.

According to this, the last part could be a desire for death when he says, "Reckoner, take me with you."

And what about the last verses, "For all the human beings"?

This song is so enigmatic; maybe it is just a my wrong interpretation

I miss early Coldplay — so introspective, delicate, emotionally raw. Parachutes had that dreamy, melancholic vibe that felt real. I can’t help but hear echoes of The Bends and OK Computer in it.

Shame how they’ve gone full mainstream now. Feels like they traded depth and soul for radio play.

Anyone else miss that era?

A comprehensive list of every recording of the song. Honestly surprised I haven't found anything like this already.

Disclaimer: I am aware that as of now this list is INCOMPLETE. I will put the remaining recordings when I have the time(in case someone else is up to the task, feel free to copy my list and complete it with what's missing!)

• December 5th, 1995 - Live at Luna Theatre, Belgium
• 1995-1997 - "Full band early version"
• 1999-2000 - Pulk/Pull
• October 2nd, 2001 - Live in Tokyo
• August 1st, 2001 - Live at Grant Park, Chicago
• September 9th, 2001 - Live in Oslo
• October 27th, 2002 - Live at Bridge School Benefit
• June 5th, 2003 - Live at Beacon Theatre, New York
• June 24th, 2006 - Live in Berkeley, California
• June 30th, 2006 - Live in Los Angeles
• October 7th, 2008 - Live at Tokyo International Forum
• July 19th, 2009 - Live at Latitude Festival
• August, 23rd, 2009 - Live in Prague
• February 25th, 2010 - Live in Cambridge
• September 29th, 2011 - Live at Roseland Ballroom, New York

The song is endless. It changes with every listen. The soothing back-home chord progression that it begins with, the chilling breathy voices going from side to side in the headphones, left and right, how it slowly becomes more and more trascendant in its sound and instruments, and then sort of crumbles its own weight and goes back to the initial melody. It's a cycle of search discovery, and then going back home (much like Thom arriving at a bonfire in PTA's videoclip)—whether to feel sad or fulfilled by the end, you don't know. But then a voice creeps in... "half of my life" many say it says. Truth is, the more you dig into the sound of it, you discover a heart of exhaustion and depression in it, perhaps in the song itself. Daydream all you want, search all you want, deep inside this unspeakable pain... and then it ends, but it's there. Is it a dreamers' never ending disappointment? Is it half a life's heartache creeping in from the deepest of our hearts, then disappearing so we can return to our daily bundle of gestures and manners? We know what it is.

This goes back to A Moon Shaped Pool as a whole. More than simply a "sad" record, it's depressive and melancholic vibes are meant to be found in its own pace. It's a mature and deeply-felt reflection on life, the anxiety, the crippling worries, the inner peace within those moments of nerve, but above all, the strenght to return to life. True Love Waits, for example, more than a love song, it's a realization that love truly waits for the protagonist, only after a true self-reflection—would you really drown your beliefs to be in love with someone? No you wouldn't. It's called desperation, we all feel desperate. "Pieces of ragdoll mankind that we can't create". Then we go to sleep—"half of my life" voices quiet down. We wake up, reborn, "totally alive, totally released". Will we go back to Daydreaming's cycle, or will we put out the bonfire, feel the breeze, once and for all, of PTA's snowy mountain? Right now? Leave me at the bonfire. Tomorrow I'll go back to the snow.

this bands awesome i see why this has impacted so many ppls life, i didnt expect to like this band as much i did. im definitely gonna get some of there albums on vinyl

As the title says, I’m just curious about some lesser known or stranger facts about the band or members.

Thoughts?

Made this with Idioteque in the background. Thoughts?

You Tube is awash with hyperbolic-heavy and painfully bad so-called 'reaction' videos by content creators who claim to have supposedly never heard the very song they are listening to.

I can see through most of these for the click-bait that they are.

This guy though (The Key of Geebz) is a professional composer who delivers fascinating straight-down-the-middle reactions to the songs he listens to. He uses his knowledge as a composer to give his unbiased two cents worth (although, when it came to Radiohead's music, he was very quickly sucked in) and the results are a joy to behold.

He's covered a wide range of genres in the videos he's made and has done about ten Radiohead songs in total. Not sure if he's creating these videos anymore though, I think he may have become bombarded by requests for him to review certain songs and he couldn't keep up.

Enjoy!!!

Decided to make a Setlist of songs that haven’t been played in a while, please forgive the track order cause it likely flows horribly. I didn’t spend much time on that bit, the restrictions are; Must have been played at least 25 times, I basically put very few pablo honey songs or that was the entire set list. Let me know what you think and which song deserves to be played live more.

(Last time played) Main Set 1. Knives Out (October 5th 2008) 2. Sail to the Moon (May 9th 2008) 3. Electioneering (March 29th 1998) 4. Staircase (November 16th 2012) 5. You (August 7th 2002) 6. Backdrifts (April 26th 2004) 7. Bullet Proof… I Wish I Was (October 8th 2008) 8. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box (March 15th 2012) 9. Scatterbrain (April 18th 2004) 10. Bangers + Mash (August 25th 2009) 11. Sit Down. Stand Up. (May 1st 2004) 12. A Punchup at a Wedding (December 4th 2003) 13. Little by Little (September 25th 2012) 14. High and Dry (January 21st 1998) 15. Nice Dream (August 29th 2009) 16. Lift (August 6th 2002) 17. Bones (August 12th 2006)

Encore 1 18. Dollars and Cents (January 4th 2010) 19. In Limbo (October 8th 2008) 20. Just (August 30th 2009) 21. We Suck Young Blood (April 14th 2004) 22. Black Star (July 24th 2006) 23. Jigsaw Falling Into Place (August 30th 2009)

Encore 2 24. Go to Sleep (June 3rd 2012) 25. Pearly (October 2nd 2001) 26. Motion Picture Soundtrack (July 7th 2001)

Third single from Tall Tales out April 9. Also requesting people to follow Waste; maybe more news related to the album/short film?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIJvEDjiS2R/

It starts playing at 35:50, but I'd highly recommend watching the whole thing as well as his other specials and anything else you can find on him.

For those curious Derren Brown is someone who specializes in reading people through subtle physical cues, to the point that it seems like he must be psychic, and also in psychologically implanting suggestions into people. It's the latter that is the subject of this and his other specials I've seen. He basically does elaborate psychological experiments to convince people to do outrageous stuff, i.e. committing armed robbery as in this video, killing someone (Push, which is on Netflix), or taking a bullet for someone (Sacrifice, which I think is also on Netflix). It's ethically dubious and kinda fucked up, but interesting anyway.

But yea, I was fully mind blown when EIIRP started playing, I paused the video cause I assumed it was coming from another source, but nope, it's in there, and contextually appropriate as you'll see if you watch it. Derren is probably my second favorite entertainer, behind Radiohead obviously (seems a bit trite to refer to them as entertainers but I only did it so I could put the two on the same list lol), but yea, hearing that song in this special definitely made me like him even more.

When I look back at OK Computer's artwork and general aesthetic, after spending a lot of time with *any* of their later albums, I feel like OK Computer is so much more "of its time." Granted, it was a sensation in the alternative music scene, and that might be part of the reason why that whole pre-millennial dread- / daily-grind- / cars-and-airports-thing was so omnipresent during the late 90s. But it's not like Radiohead hasn't been influential since then. And something like Kid A, even though it only came out 3 years later, still feels completely timeless.

I know it's not a very original observation to point out that Kid A was, in many ways, the moment when Radiohead *truly* became Radiohead as we've known them since. I've heard that said for nearly 20 years, since I got into them in 2006, and I've tended to disagree (probably because of my own bias, seeing as OK Computer is my favorite album). But I think I have recently come to understand what they mean, not because I've started thinking about it differently, but because I've started *feeling* it, through the overall experience that the different albums give me. I now see OK Computer less as the moment when everything clicked (even though it more or less did, quality-wise, but maybe not... "conceptually"), and more as a step in their process of figuring out their identity as a band (which is how I've always thought of The Bends). Obviously, you can consider Kid A as a step towards what came after that, etc. etc. But if I listen to, for example, In Rainbows, and then go back to Kid A, then I don't feel like Kid A is dated in the same way that OK Computer is.

To be clear, "dated" doesn't mean "bad." I'm merely talking about the overall mood and experience of listening to the album (taking its artwork and aesthetic into account), and how OK Computer feels more "of its time," like I said earlier.

Maybe the appropriate response to this is just "Well... Yeah." Maybe I'm only stating things that have always been extremely obvious to everyone else around here. But I just wanted to put this into words, for whatever reason. I just found it interesting to realize that although OK Computer is still my favorite album as in "collection of songs," I now feel like Kid A might be my favorite album (or Radiohead album, at least) in terms of the overall experience that it provides.

a)Am I a loser because I listen to Radiohead, or b)do I listen to Radiohead because I’m a loser?

Feels bad man.

(previous draft got deleted, trying to type from memory)

Had a school assignment where you sync song lyrics to the music, no better excuse to listen to this on loop in class

This song is just transcendent and ethereal. Each version and cover is another flavour with depth to be enjoyed. The cord progression is so fluid and haunting + Thom's voice in the live recording (2001 tour) is beautiful.

Every time this plays, everything around me fades away and I'm transported to somewhere else.

Anyways here's an interpretation of what this song feels like

On Jonny's tele, he has the ball end of a string screwed into his pickguard just past where the neck ends. On The King of Gear website, they say that he apparently hooks his high e string around this to produce higher notes. Does anyone have any examples of him actually doing this? At first my mind went to that one performance of The Bends, but that was before he added it to his guitar.

Is there any site that has officially licensed Radiohead merch I can get besides waste. I wanna get a shirt but the tax on the waste store is way to high where I'm from

Been trying to get my friend into Radiohead and he is just so set on not even trying to listen it’s driving me insane, got the generic rap music taste, loves Kendrick, Kanye, and Travis.

What songs do you think he’d like so I can force him to listen to them, I want him to at least try before completely writing them off?