oh, go and tell the king that the sky is falling in

In parallel with Jeff Buckley, Radiohead's Thom Yorke popularised the angst-laden falsetto, a thoughtful opposite to the chest-beating lad-rock personified by Oasis's Liam Gallagher. Sounding girly to a backdrop of churning guitars became a much-copied idea, however, one which eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound.

Without this ... Coldplay would not exist, nor Keane, nor James Blunt.

- about Radiohead's "The Bends" as on Guardian


A while ago, I was into the whole ambient chill out music thing. I just ran them on loops, playing non stop and I was just looking for more and more of the same stuff. Then, all of a sudden, I revisited Radiohead and now I'm having this Radiohead renaissance. Their songs are just massive. Larger than life. At some point, you feel gripped by what they're trying to do and express with their music. It might be retrospective, after you hear what people have said, stripping down the album and analysing it's parts, but really, Radiohead is more than the sum of it's parts.

Here's two songs from each of their seven albums. Enjoy.

Pablo Honey
Radiohead - Creep
A Radiohead classic that is just plain alt rock, which belies what people often associate them with. Anyone knows the movie that this clip is from? Stars Johnny Depp quite clearly.
Radiohead - You

The Bends
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead - Black Star

OK Computer
Radiohead - The Tourist
Radiohead - No Surprises

Kid A
Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - In Limbo

Amnesiac
Radiohead - Knives Out
Radiohead - Life in a Glasshouse

Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - 2+2=5
Radiohead - Scatterbrain

In Rainbows
Radiohead - House of Cards
Radiohead - Nude