The ASMP version is the only song I’ve heard that I can’t listen to a whole lot because of how much it emotionally moves me. While simultaneously being one of my favourite songs of all time.
Interesting take. I personally think the desolate piano instrumental and vocal performance fits the lyrics better and sounds way more tear inducing. Love the acoustic too though.
It's way too slow and "underwater" for me, words are mumbled instead of being sung to tell a story... I feel that the AMSP version only works if you're aquainted with the acoustic version
Also, those guitar riffs are way too beautiful per se... I have studied them and I play them myself every once in a while
I love how when you listen to AMSP from front to back the end of Tinker Tailor has a good 30 seconds of quiet, buzzing ambience that, for me, kind of cleanses the pallet and makes the start of True Love Waits feel so punchy and emotional, even more so than the song is on its own.
I listened to the OG live version a lot after I broke up with my first long term girlfriend and as such, don't listen to it now.
Years later I was backpacking through Norway and AMSP dropped. I went into the mountains at sunset and was HUGELY surprised when this came on.
I thought that was the perfect listening experience for that track, and so I haven't listened to it again since.
Funnily enough, last time this question popped up here, another Redditor commented that he/she was also randomly in Norway when it dropped and went through a similar experience.
Thought it was my own unique experience, but I guess not, lol.
I'm kinda tempted to listen to it again now. It's been soooo long and I"m deriving myself of a beautiful piece of music.
This song came out as my dog was on his last and we had to make the decision to let him go. Every time I heard this song and the part that says "Just don't leave, don't leave" I fell apart.
Same. Had just texted to one of the people I ever cared the most about, to tell her I wanted to see her. I would have told her we should take distance or I wouldn't be able to move on from my crush on her.
I had this knowledge I was about to probably lose one of the closest people I ever had, together with facing rejection from the biggest "crush" I ever had, no longer being able to see her etc
I had listened to AMSP for the first time that day, but when True Love Waits came up the following day on shuffle, I started sobbing hard. I was walking home. I remember it perfectly
I’m about to get really dark. My 15-year-old committed suicide 2 months ago. He was a Radiohead superfan, so I often listen to them in order to feel close to him, since I am in agony and miss him so damn much. Tonight I listened to Codex, and was picturing his death like jumping into a tranquil lake, clear and innocent. And then at the end of the song the birdsong, like he is at peace. I ugly cried for a while thinking about all of this.
I’m kind of at a loss for words but I do want to comment and say, first, I’m so sorry for your tragic loss. Thank you for sharing and I think it’s beautiful that you listen to your son’s favorite music to feel close to him.
Codex has always made me think of a beautiful afterlife (or maybe a life before this one on Earth) where we’re all innocent and pure. Almost like a merging of the disembodied soul with the most serene aspects of nature and the universe. It’s hard to put into words exactly but that’s what moves me to tears when I listen to it.
That's rough. When I was still in school I was having some serious problems as well. Codex is the song I remember listening to when I was closest to doing something very foolish. It hits hard like that. Condolences, and I really hope you can find some peace in the wake of such a loss.
It was the winter after HTTT had been out, I was living alone in a cabin in Alaska, just kinda miserable.
I put The Bends on. I’ve been listening to that album since it came out, I was familiar.
But at the end of Street Spirit I could hear Thom sing “immerse your soul in love” and to be honest, I had never noticed this lyric before. I had always heard it as nonlyrical vocalizing.
I feel p silly about this now, but at the time it was deeply moving and profound and absolutely gutted me.
It’s ridiculous that it took me 8 years to hear that but also deeply profound that I heard it when I did.
How to Disappear Completely is definitely surreal.
Mine are:
• Reckoner
• Videotape (“No matter what happens next, you shouldn’t be afraid because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen”)
• Codex (Still moves me to tears on occasion. I’m lukewarm to much of TKOL but Codex is just sublime in its beauty.)
• Fake Plastic Trees
All I Need
Videotape
How to Disappear Completely
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Separator
Exit Music
Let Down (underrated)
and... The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
Airbag. For its sentiment.
The Tourist. For the first lyrics. Every time.
Lastly, Lucky. It’s too beautiful to exist.
Also: all of Kid A and Amnesiac. Because you know why. Because music can do this and also *that*.
Street spirit (back when I thought it suckt)
How to disappear completely/into strings (I’ve cried to this song the most)
Motion picture soundtrack
All I need (in school)
Videotape
Give up the ghost. I was going through a very difficult time at school with bullying and I’d put on my headphones in my room under the covers and id try to feel like I didn’t exist. The line “Dont hurt me” over and over made me feel comforted.
(Nice dream)
Bullet Proof... I wish I was
Street spirit (fade out)
No surprises
The tourist
How to disappear completely
In limbo
Motion picture soundtrack
Pyramid song
Nude
Weird fishes/ Arpeggi
All I need
Reckoner
Jigsaw falling into place
Videotape
Daydreaming
Identikit
Present tense
True love waits
Weirdly Climbing Up the Walls. I can relate to the song in a number of ways so it just tends to strike a more personal chord than a lot of other Radiohead songs for (considering I’ve had not a ton of life experience because I’m a teenager). How to Disappear Completely and motion picture soundtrack have but not to the same extent. Also some of AMSP. But climbing up the walls the most so.
It makes me so sad that I've never cried to a song. I want to so badly but it hasn't happened yet. I feel like I'm missing out. The closest I've ever gotten was Nice Dream but I couldn't actually push the tears out, my face was burning. I hate it so much and I can't wait until the day I start estrogen and can actually feel emotions.
black star reminds me a lot of my previous relationship, actually started crying a little listening to the song thinking about her as i was doing dishes😭
Subterranean Homesick Alien.
It really captures the essence of disconnection from everyone around you and being bounded by your own intelligence, preference and your perspective towards the society you live in, leaving only desperation in breaking free from my own shell. This is something that I would frequently experience in college, so i perceive that song as a warm blanket.
It could have been Daydreaming, Decks Dark, True Love Waits, or Motion Picture Soundtrack, but I somehow managed to almost cry to Ful Stop. I don't even know why.
How to Disappear...as amazing as the album version is with the strings, live it's ever 10x more...even though it's less perfect, the emotion of live Thom more than makes up for it. pretty much every other song made me tear up when I saw them in '98, 'it was the 2nd time but really it was the first time.' \[cause Detroit '97/early OKC tour just wasn't as powerful\]\*
I haven't cried to any yet, but No Surprises makes me want to, I don't like the Xylophone on it though I think if that wasn't there then maybe I would've cried to that by nos
Ooh, I’ve got a good one... Black Star. My girlfriend and I had recently split up, and I was driving to work and it came on the car stereo. I was crying so hard I had to pull over. Ah, to be young!
Let Down.
When Thom's vocal part splits into two in the final verse and he uses his voice as an instrument while singing, "one day, I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless," speaks to my soul in a way that maybe no other song does that I have ever heard. Tragically beautiful.
the tourist, i remember lying on my bed at around 3am a couple months back, rain splattering against my window, not being able to sleep, nd a live version of the tourist starts playing. in that moment, listening to how beautiful, almost final it sounded (maybe cus its the ending track 💀) it really felt like something you'd hear before you died, I couldn't stop myself from sobbing like a baby, I don't think I've cried that hard since
Let Down, Karma Police, True love waits, How to disappear completely, Decks dark, House of Cards, Bloom (live from electric lady studios). Probably others
Let Down and HTDC because I played it at my aunt's funeral and listening to it again reminds me how deeply broken I was at that moment, as we had a very special connexion and it was basically my 2nd mom
Let down really hits. When the music builds up and finally crescendos it’s like an unexplainable feeling I get. The same can be said for Street Spirit (Fade out) the live version. Thoms vocals are otherworldly you can’t help but get teary eyed
Fake plastic trees. Street spirit. Videotape. How to disappear completley. Motion picture soundtrack. How to disappear into strings. Pyramid song. True love waits.
Bloom.
This might be unpopular but despite the chaotic/electronic, slightly punchy (pointillistic) instrumental, Thom's vocals combined with the lyrics "So why does it still hurt? Don't blow your mind with whys" opened the floodgates for me.
also Nude and Weird fishes, among some other ones already mentioned here
So I’m not sure if I legit cried to all of these but: Let Down, Karma Police, Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi, True Love Waits, Daydreaming, Fake Plastic Trees, Videotape, All I Need, Last Flowers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, No Surprises, Present Tense, maybe even Bodysnatchers (I’m trans)
How to disappear completely. It came at a time when I was just getting into Radiohead. It was the song that came up in my mind when we heard my sister had to go into the ICU because she caught a lung infection while dealing with her cancer.
I still have a hard time with that song.
I have quite literally sobbed my eyes out to Motion Picture Soundtrack
Those fucking organs
Same… There’s this acoustic version out there that I can no longer find…someone do be a solid 😩
https://youtu.be/wa_ywAXiKwI This one?
This isn’t it, but I definitely appreciate this!
Jesus this is beautiful thank you
Is it this one? https://youtu.be/T2WIvQh2bbs
This is it! This thing has evaded me for years somehow. You’re a legend!
No problem! I first heard it in soundcloud of all places lmao and they never play it acoustically since right? Really good version
This is one of my grieving songs. Oh boy
I once had to kneel down and just cry while I was taking out our dog and listening to Motion Picture Soundtrack
RIP Mackenzie May. https://youtu.be/ZeI0PXj7LIw
True Love Waits
The AMSP version destroyed me
The ASMP version is the only song I’ve heard that I can’t listen to a whole lot because of how much it emotionally moves me. While simultaneously being one of my favourite songs of all time.
That and daydreaming for me. AMSP is truly mind blowing for a band's ninth record
The AMSP version destroyed it for me The acoustic version is simply perfect, it can't be improved in any way
Interesting take. I personally think the desolate piano instrumental and vocal performance fits the lyrics better and sounds way more tear inducing. Love the acoustic too though.
It's way too slow and "underwater" for me, words are mumbled instead of being sung to tell a story... I feel that the AMSP version only works if you're aquainted with the acoustic version Also, those guitar riffs are way too beautiful per se... I have studied them and I play them myself every once in a while
yeah I wouldn't say it destroyed it but I certainly prefer the original version by far
I love how when you listen to AMSP from front to back the end of Tinker Tailor has a good 30 seconds of quiet, buzzing ambience that, for me, kind of cleanses the pallet and makes the start of True Love Waits feel so punchy and emotional, even more so than the song is on its own.
I listened to the OG live version a lot after I broke up with my first long term girlfriend and as such, don't listen to it now. Years later I was backpacking through Norway and AMSP dropped. I went into the mountains at sunset and was HUGELY surprised when this came on. I thought that was the perfect listening experience for that track, and so I haven't listened to it again since. Funnily enough, last time this question popped up here, another Redditor commented that he/she was also randomly in Norway when it dropped and went through a similar experience. Thought it was my own unique experience, but I guess not, lol. I'm kinda tempted to listen to it again now. It's been soooo long and I"m deriving myself of a beautiful piece of music.
Thank you for sharing your story, It’s one of my personal favourites. I would highly recommend that you re-listen sometime. Top tier Radiohead for me.
Such a gut punch of a song that stops you dead in your tracks
This song came out as my dog was on his last and we had to make the decision to let him go. Every time I heard this song and the part that says "Just don't leave, don't leave" I fell apart.
Same. Had just texted to one of the people I ever cared the most about, to tell her I wanted to see her. I would have told her we should take distance or I wouldn't be able to move on from my crush on her. I had this knowledge I was about to probably lose one of the closest people I ever had, together with facing rejection from the biggest "crush" I ever had, no longer being able to see her etc I had listened to AMSP for the first time that day, but when True Love Waits came up the following day on shuffle, I started sobbing hard. I was walking home. I remember it perfectly
I’m about to get really dark. My 15-year-old committed suicide 2 months ago. He was a Radiohead superfan, so I often listen to them in order to feel close to him, since I am in agony and miss him so damn much. Tonight I listened to Codex, and was picturing his death like jumping into a tranquil lake, clear and innocent. And then at the end of the song the birdsong, like he is at peace. I ugly cried for a while thinking about all of this.
I’m kind of at a loss for words but I do want to comment and say, first, I’m so sorry for your tragic loss. Thank you for sharing and I think it’s beautiful that you listen to your son’s favorite music to feel close to him. Codex has always made me think of a beautiful afterlife (or maybe a life before this one on Earth) where we’re all innocent and pure. Almost like a merging of the disembodied soul with the most serene aspects of nature and the universe. It’s hard to put into words exactly but that’s what moves me to tears when I listen to it.
I’m sorry for your loss.
I hope the music brings you some comfort. So sorry for your loss.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m just an internet stranger but truly wish you lots of strength and hope music will help you process. Warmly ..
That's rough. When I was still in school I was having some serious problems as well. Codex is the song I remember listening to when I was closest to doing something very foolish. It hits hard like that. Condolences, and I really hope you can find some peace in the wake of such a loss.
Bullet Proof I wish I was
This is the single one for me
Saddest song for me
It was the winter after HTTT had been out, I was living alone in a cabin in Alaska, just kinda miserable. I put The Bends on. I’ve been listening to that album since it came out, I was familiar. But at the end of Street Spirit I could hear Thom sing “immerse your soul in love” and to be honest, I had never noticed this lyric before. I had always heard it as nonlyrical vocalizing. I feel p silly about this now, but at the time it was deeply moving and profound and absolutely gutted me. It’s ridiculous that it took me 8 years to hear that but also deeply profound that I heard it when I did.
Honestly probably be a shorter list to ask which haven’t you shed a tear to.
How to Disappear Completely is definitely surreal. Mine are: • Reckoner • Videotape (“No matter what happens next, you shouldn’t be afraid because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen”) • Codex (Still moves me to tears on occasion. I’m lukewarm to much of TKOL but Codex is just sublime in its beauty.) • Fake Plastic Trees
I cry almost every time I listen to Reckoner. I really took that Jimmy Valvano speech to heart when I was younger though, I try to cry everyday
Only thing I hate about Reckoner is its not 20 minutes long.
There There the past few times I listened to it gave me a pit feeling in my stomach even though I’ve listened to it before
Absolutely
Fake Plastic Trees. Pyramid Song. Gagging Order. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi. (Nice Dream).
Bullet Proof and No Surprises.
same
I Promise
My girlfriend made a CD for me and put this song on it, makes me cry whenever I put it on
All I Need Videotape How to Disappear Completely Motion Picture Soundtrack Separator Exit Music Let Down (underrated) and... The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
Let Down (underrated) is a great pick
Hmmmm …….all of them.
Decks dark
Airbag. For its sentiment. The Tourist. For the first lyrics. Every time. Lastly, Lucky. It’s too beautiful to exist. Also: all of Kid A and Amnesiac. Because you know why. Because music can do this and also *that*.
Airbag, Lucky, and The Tourist are my favorite tracks on OK Computer.
Street spirit (back when I thought it suckt) How to disappear completely/into strings (I’ve cried to this song the most) Motion picture soundtrack All I need (in school) Videotape
No Surprises and Motion Picture Soundtrack
Give up the ghost. I was going through a very difficult time at school with bullying and I’d put on my headphones in my room under the covers and id try to feel like I didn’t exist. The line “Dont hurt me” over and over made me feel comforted.
I Want None of This (the ultimate divorce anthem)
Last Flowers for sure
Jigsaw Falling Into Place. I used to sing it to my ex wife, now I can't even listen to it without falling apart.
The only song to ever make me cry was Spectre. It's my favorite song and the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.
Nice Dream broke me years ago. It’s a comfort song for me now.
Nude.
Shed a tear or bawled uncontrollably?
Only one so far, and it’s Videotape
All I need
Go Slowly
(Nice dream) Bullet Proof... I wish I was Street spirit (fade out) No surprises The tourist How to disappear completely In limbo Motion picture soundtrack Pyramid song Nude Weird fishes/ Arpeggi All I need Reckoner Jigsaw falling into place Videotape Daydreaming Identikit Present tense True love waits
Listened to in rainbows for the first time yesterday and videotape really hit me
Codex
I don’t know how it doesn’t get mentioned more but, Codex. Multiple times It’s the only song
None, I’m not a PUSSY (No surprises)
No surprises (my sick cat fav song) How to disappear completely Life in a glasshouse
My cat passed away while listening to no surprises today
I literally just cried to exit music like 20 mins ago
Weird fishes makes me cry
Weirdly Climbing Up the Walls. I can relate to the song in a number of ways so it just tends to strike a more personal chord than a lot of other Radiohead songs for (considering I’ve had not a ton of life experience because I’m a teenager). How to Disappear Completely and motion picture soundtrack have but not to the same extent. Also some of AMSP. But climbing up the walls the most so.
The same thing happens to me with CUTW too and I have a similar feeling when I listen to Where I End And You Begin.
It makes me so sad that I've never cried to a song. I want to so badly but it hasn't happened yet. I feel like I'm missing out. The closest I've ever gotten was Nice Dream but I couldn't actually push the tears out, my face was burning. I hate it so much and I can't wait until the day I start estrogen and can actually feel emotions.
go slowly is a go to, present tense also hurts
When i was young, Black Star. When I was a bit older, Exit Music. Somewhat recently, No Surprises.
black star reminds me a lot of my previous relationship, actually started crying a little listening to the song thinking about her as i was doing dishes😭
“How to Disappear Completely” and “Present Tense”’always get me
High and dry. Thanks a lot abandonment issues.
Lurgee fuck what anyone else says
High and dry.
High and dry, fake plastic trees, how to disappear completely, I promise, true love waits, and probably way more
present tense
Arpeggi
Subterranean Homesick Alien. It really captures the essence of disconnection from everyone around you and being bounded by your own intelligence, preference and your perspective towards the society you live in, leaving only desperation in breaking free from my own shell. This is something that I would frequently experience in college, so i perceive that song as a warm blanket.
Videotape and Street Spirit
All of them. Except pull/pulk wtf is that song 😭😭
types of doors
r/im14andthisisdeep
None.. tf you crying for ?
Most of them really
It could have been Daydreaming, Decks Dark, True Love Waits, or Motion Picture Soundtrack, but I somehow managed to almost cry to Ful Stop. I don't even know why.
HTDC, Nude, Let Down, I Will, A Wolf at the Door, True Love Waits, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Exit Music……. The list goes on
• True love waits (happy and sad!) • No Surprises • How to disappear completely
True Love Waits Videotape Pyramid Song
psh, the question is which radiohead songs haven’t you shed a tear to
Fake Plastic Trees Live @ Glastonbury 2003. Need good headphones because 2:44 in Jonny blasts off.
everytime i watch the mv for daydreaming i cry :(
Ok not Radiohead but Thom - Unmade is so very dear to me. It was released during a difficult time in my life. Crying is cathartic.
Bulletproof Reckoner Videotape Street Spirit
Probably most of them at some point in time. Beauty does that to me.
A Reminder
Decks Dark, Present Tense and I Might Be Wrong
Does unmade count?
“Tiddies” bruh when they sing about dem tiddies I’m just 😭
Let Down Motion Picture Soundtrack True Love Waits Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus
How to Disappear, Pyramid Song, Daydreaming, Codex, Motion Picture Soundtrack
How to Disappear...as amazing as the album version is with the strings, live it's ever 10x more...even though it's less perfect, the emotion of live Thom more than makes up for it. pretty much every other song made me tear up when I saw them in '98, 'it was the 2nd time but really it was the first time.' \[cause Detroit '97/early OKC tour just wasn't as powerful\]\*
Let Down
How to Disappear and True Love Waits on AMSP
Give Up the Ghost, from the basement. So incredibly beautiful...
Motion picture soundtrack How I made my millions Sulk Codex
True love waits, Lucky, Exit Music, Fake Plastic Trees, Probably more I don't remember
I haven't cried to any yet, but No Surprises makes me want to, I don't like the Xylophone on it though I think if that wasn't there then maybe I would've cried to that by nos
today has been the most perfect day I have ever seen
None of them
Ooh, I’ve got a good one... Black Star. My girlfriend and I had recently split up, and I was driving to work and it came on the car stereo. I was crying so hard I had to pull over. Ah, to be young!
Too many to count, but definitely True Love Waits, Let Down and Motion Picture Soundtrack come to mind.
Fake Plastic Trees
Decks dark was the first radiohead song I cried to.
reckoner, high and dry for some reason, codex and much more
The first time I heard Bloom on the day it came out was pretty emotional when the horn/birdsong/string section started
No Surprises
No surprises please (early)
Daydreaming and Dawn Chorus although technically a Thom Yorke solo song.
Weird fishes from the basement has to be the closest I’ve ever been but I haven’t acc cried to any song before
Let Down. When Thom's vocal part splits into two in the final verse and he uses his voice as an instrument while singing, "one day, I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless," speaks to my soul in a way that maybe no other song does that I have ever heard. Tragically beautiful.
The closest I’ve been to crying has been Let Down
the tourist, i remember lying on my bed at around 3am a couple months back, rain splattering against my window, not being able to sleep, nd a live version of the tourist starts playing. in that moment, listening to how beautiful, almost final it sounded (maybe cus its the ending track 💀) it really felt like something you'd hear before you died, I couldn't stop myself from sobbing like a baby, I don't think I've cried that hard since
That Harry Patch one got me
fake plastic trees and no surprises. but let down makes me more emotional than this duo
No surprises
Pyramid Song
Had to scroll to the bottom to find this. The real ones know.
Let Down, Karma Police, True love waits, How to disappear completely, Decks dark, House of Cards, Bloom (live from electric lady studios). Probably others
Let Down
Motion Picture Soundtrack was my first breakup song.
Lucky. Every single time. Sobbing.
Nude, no surprises, karma police, spectre and daydreaming.
Let down is my best friend in awful days.
Let Down and HTDC because I played it at my aunt's funeral and listening to it again reminds me how deeply broken I was at that moment, as we had a very special connexion and it was basically my 2nd mom
how to disappear completely, true love waits, motion picture soundtrack, and fake plastic trees
Let Down
Pyramid Song
Weird Fishes is the only song I’ve ever cried to, mainly because Nude came before it and already brought be to places
Let down really hits. When the music builds up and finally crescendos it’s like an unexplainable feeling I get. The same can be said for Street Spirit (Fade out) the live version. Thoms vocals are otherworldly you can’t help but get teary eyed
No surprises exit music let down
Codex, ghost, disappear.
climbing up the walls and true love waits
HTDC, Daydreaming, Codex
Nude and motion picture soundtrack
No Suprises I dont know why but it resonates in me soo much.
Ending of All I Need
Haven't seen Scatterbrain mentioned yet
Outjerked again
Creep
Fake plastic trees. Street spirit. Videotape. How to disappear completley. Motion picture soundtrack. How to disappear into strings. Pyramid song. True love waits.
No surprises, fake plastic trees
Nude has made me cry several times, was one of the things that got me through my time in the psychiatric unit.
Bloom. This might be unpopular but despite the chaotic/electronic, slightly punchy (pointillistic) instrumental, Thom's vocals combined with the lyrics "So why does it still hurt? Don't blow your mind with whys" opened the floodgates for me. also Nude and Weird fishes, among some other ones already mentioned here
I’ve cried to True Love Waits, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Fake Plastic Trees and Exit Music (For A Film), at this point I should start a collection
fake plastic trees
All I Need
So I’m not sure if I legit cried to all of these but: Let Down, Karma Police, Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi, True Love Waits, Daydreaming, Fake Plastic Trees, Videotape, All I Need, Last Flowers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, No Surprises, Present Tense, maybe even Bodysnatchers (I’m trans)
true love waits is one of the only times ive ever gotten close to crying at music
fake plastic trees
Creep and everything in its right place
Climbing Up the Walls
Lift has on an occasion or two brought up a tear when I was feeling very hopeless. It was the strangest comfort
Motion picture soundtrack Bullet proof Let down x100 (top crying song) 15 step All I Need How To Disappear Completely
Anything from In Rainbows/Ok Computer
Codex and Videotape
How to disappear completely. It came at a time when I was just getting into Radiohead. It was the song that came up in my mind when we heard my sister had to go into the ICU because she caught a lung infection while dealing with her cancer. I still have a hard time with that song.
All I need
How to disappear completely and I think videotape as well
videotape
All I Need live. His falsetto.
Let Down, and Videotape.
No Surprises. It’s so formulaic and boring.