Radiohead/Awesome Music

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WE DON'T HAVE ANY REAL LIIIFE.... FRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDS
"Fake Plastic Trees", especially from around the 3 minute mark to the end.
"Planet Telex": ("EVERYTHIIING IS...brokennn..."), which is all the more impressive when you find out that the band recorded it after drinking copious amounts of wine, and Thom Yorke sang the vocals lying flat on his back, totally wasted.
"Fade Out".
"My Iron Lung" is one of the best songs they ever wrote.

"Paranoid Android". We all die of awesome overload the moment Thom shouts "YOU DON'T REMEMBER!"
The climax of "Exit Music (For a Film)".
"Climbing Up the Walls." Especially Thom's bone-chilling Metal Scream at the end.

CLIMBING UP THE WAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGHH

"The Tourist". What a beautiful song...
"Lucky". Especially the guitar solo.
- "It's gonna be a gloooorrrriiiiouuus dayy...."
The whole album is a gigantic CMOA for music, really.
"Karma Police, Arrest this man, he talks in maths..."

The National Anthem. ESPECIALLY the horns section at the end
"Everything In Its Right Place" for being beautiful and sort of terrifying.
"How to Disappear Completely". All of it. Thom even at one point called it his best song, for good reason.
- Especially when the trumpets come in in their strange arpeggiated patterns, they don't fit in but they just... do.
"Optimistic". Need we say more?
The big giant Apocalyptic disco beast that is "Idioteque" is the musical definition of CMoA.
- Not just the beat, but the vocals paired with the lyrics are superb.
"Motion Picture Soundtrack" is quite possibly the most simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting song in the universe. It's also one of the most beautiful things this music geek troper has ever heard.

The climax of "You And Whose Army?". "We ride tonight... ghost horses." So much punch delivered through such simple lyrics.
The part in "Pyramid Song" where Phillip Selways drumming falls in
- Everything about "Pyramid Song" is awesome!
"The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", a B-side with a creepy, industrial feel to it. The layered vocals just make it sound all the more awesome... picture Radiohead doing a Queens of the Stone Age song.
The entirety of "Life In a Glasshouse".
- Especially the full length version on the two-disc version of the album. It's five minutes of awesome!
"I Might Be Wrong". Everything about it, really, but especially the fake ending.

"2+2=5", the moment when Thom loses his ever-loving shit about halfway through and starts screaming "YOU HAVE NOT BEEN! PAYING ATTENTION! PAYING ATTENTION!" See also: "DON'T QUESTION MY AUTHORITY OR PUTMEINABOX!!"
The climax of "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)" from the same album. "WEEEEE AAAAARE AAAAACCIDENTS WAITIIIING, WAITIIIING, TO HAAAAAPPEN!!"
"Myxamatosis", with its strange time signature and awesome guitar part, not to mention the chilling part where everything drops out but the vocals and drums. "But now. I. Don't. Know. Why I. Feel. So. Tongue. Tied." And then it all comes back in again and goes on to become more and more awesome.
"A Wolf at The Door" is just amazing and unlike any other Radiohead song, with brilliant pattering lyrics.
"Sit Down Stand Up".

When they started a remix contest for "Nude," one of the contestants submitted a version done on an oscilloscope, an old printer and scanner, and an answering machine(which played the vocals), played through hard drives instead of speakers.
- In saying that, the original is just amazing on its own, too. There is a single chord change (that happens multiple times) at the 2:26 mark. It just blows my mind every time I hear it, it's sublime.
- We can't talk about "Nude" without mentioning the incredible vocal performance Thom Yorke gives on that track. It's his greatest by a long shot. Absolutely ethereal and wondrous.
The bridge in "Reckoner", when all the percussion cuts out and all you're left with are the rising voices and strings.
- Just "Reckoner" period.
Of course, the ending of "Bodysnatchers" is spine tingling, with the guitar's going overload and Yorke screaming vocals.
"Weird Fishes_Arpeggi" needs a mention. It is inextricably awesome, the massive buildup for an entire song and then completely stripped down at 3:03.
"Videotape" always brings this troper to tears by the end. Especially when paired with this insanely awesome video.

"Morning Mr Magpie" sounds like Radiohead trying to do funk music in their own way, and it works beautifully.
The epic brass background in "Codex" is amazing. It's scary and apprehensive and beautiful and nostalgic all at once.
When the wall of distorted vocals singing "into your arms" hits at about the 3 minute mark of "Give Up The Ghost".
The basement version of The King of Limbs. That is all.

"Big Boots". Radiohead with an awesome, almost James Bond-esque feel to it.
- And it's still unreleased, to boot!
"Polyethylene (Parts 1 and 2)", especially part 2
"I Am Citizen Insane".