7 Radiohead Facts to Make You Lose Yourself (For a Minute There) 

Correction: At 2:08 - Though he has provided additional live drums on tracks like "There, There," Ed O'Brien is mainly one of Radiohead's guitarists. The person onscreen is their drummer Philip Selway, but the "November Rain" recollection is still from O'Brien.

"the reason we don't use guitar as much anymore, is because there are only a handful of pixies albums, we can't keep copying them" 😂😂😂

I have a feeling that whenever Radiohead decides to call it quits, their final album will be composed of all the songs they shelved, fully realized, and then God will smite humanity.

[Radiohead Anecdote] "York burst into tears" [Another Radiohead Anecdote] "York burst into tears"

I read once that when Thom Yorke was recording with Bjork, he cried while recording his vocals, and felt pleased with the results. Bjork, however, chastised him for being selfish in his performance, that the intention is to move your audience emotionally, not yourself.

“The jigsaw fell into place.” Madlad.

Fun fact #8: When they first played the Whiskey A Go-Go, I was a cab driver and I happened to drive them from the hotel to the club, then later from the club to the hotel.

Just to go further, Talking Heads got the "Radiohead" expression from a Chico Buarque's - one of the greatest brazillian singers - song called "O Último Blues" (The Last Blues), in which the expression "Rádio Cabeça" (Radiohead) appears.

What's great about Radiohead is that even when you can see the "seams" (i.e., that many of Thom Yorke's seemingly-profound lyrics are obscure personal jokes, and that much of their music has a very direct and specific influence), the whole package is still wonderful. Even when they're trying to sound like the Pixies or Can or the Banshees, they still sound like Radiohead. Even though Thom Yorke finds the lyrics to "Fake Plastic Trees" funny, he imbues his vocals with such a profound level of emotion than even he breaks down crying.

2:08 Ah yes Ed O’brien my favourite drummer

15:12 forgot to mention that thom almost died that day. A live wire was beside a pool and he almost touch it with his wet hands. Praise that guy who moved it

There There and Nude are 2 of the best songs in their catalogue....I love the fact that songs can sit around for years and then flower into their perfect forms. As someone who plays music in a band, and a huge Radiohead fan, it's heartening to realise that if a song is good enough it will eventually, (over time) reveal itself

Pyramid Song The strings, arranged by Jonny Greenwood, were recorded on 4 February 2000. They were performed by the Orchestra of St John's in Dorchester Abbey, a 12th-century church about five miles from Radiohead's studio in Oxfordshire. Greenwood instructed the players to swing in the style of jazz musicians. Pyramid Song notably uses an unusual rhythm and its time signature has the been subject of debate. According to Radiohead's drummer, Philip Selway, "Pyramid Song is in swung 4/4"; however, he said he "felt his way" through the drum part rather than count it. On the day of recording, Selway initially felt lost and that the session was going badly, but the drum part "fell into place" when he stopped trying to analyse the rhythm and instead responded to the inflections in Yorke's piano and vocals. Every member of Radiohead has been essential to their sound and progression.

"There There" was the first Radiohead song I ever heard, and one of first (if not THE first) songs I taught myself to play on the drums. Imagine my joy when I learned guitar years later and figured out how to play it on that too!

Gosh....the Bends album. Still cuts deep. Must have listened to it day after day after day for months when I was about 21. I'd just moved to London on my own & I didn't have a friend in the world. That album was my friend. SUCH an important album for people like me

Here is the complete story about the origin of name of the band: David Byrne was really into brazilian music and in 1985 Chico Buarque released a song called O Último Blues (The Last Blues) with these words: "To the sound of the last blues. On the Radio Head. If you can forget. The girl you seduce". Byrne loved the concept of a radio station playing inside someone's head and decided to write a song about it, Radio Head.

As a teenager stuck on MTV in the mid 90's, I never heard/saw "Creep", although other slacker anthems like ".... Teen Spirit" or "Loser" were overheard. My first encounter with Radiohead was "Paranoid Android" sometime in December 1998. And boy, that was something. That was my path and blessing to become a real fan.

On the topic of both songs inspired by guitar legends and songs which took a long time to gestate: "Knives Out" took more than a year to complete, and was inspired by Johnny Marr. Ed O'Brien actually got the chance to play the song for Marr.

I can understand why they hate Creep, but that song means a lot to me, and that guitar chug is maybe one of the greatest sounds in music.

Great video, but at around the 2:00 mark you say Ed O'Brien is the drummer. It's actually Philip Selway, Ed O'Brien is one of the guitarists.

My favOurite thing about Radiohead, is Thom's wobbly head.

We supporting Trash Theory 1 & 2

"drummer Ed O'brien"? 2:08 bruv whut......

They are probably one of the few bands where their B-sides are just as fantastic as the cuts that make the albums. And they are also one of the few bands where they have that long gestation period. Another example was what was originally called “Big Boots” but then finally “completed” as - of all fucking things - a B-side like bonus track for their 20th anniversary commemoration of OK Computer as “Man o’ War”. It was supposed to be their contribution to The Avengers (not the one people know now) and they even went to Abbey Road Studios to do it. Their attempt to record it was also documented in Meeting People Is Easy. And speaking of Meeting People Is Easy, it was for a long time the film where you could actually hear snippets from their “complete album discography” until The King of Limbs was released (which I actually like). So yes: not only could you hear selections from Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer, but also Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows.

jeff buckley changed my life forever and died exactly 3 months before i was born.... forever a legend....

The deleted video for Pop Is Dead is a great story. Along with the band's dislike of the song. Things could be worse for them, it could have been that which was their first hit!

They closed 2016 NYC Madison Square Garden with “Creep” and THE CROWD WENT CRAZY! SO GLAD I WAS THERE!

Why isn’t this video on the main channel? Great video by the way 😊

he lays down because he wants to , I have done this often , its very comfortable to do something you want to do , without being told

I've always thought Nude took a decade to properly bloom into a finalised piece of material... Because it finally sounded like a story of release, from a shadow side that once had a stronger voice & influence on someone... The unperceived & inexperienced lure & trap of ourselves, to often be a enemy to ourselves... For not examining our thoughts of attraction towards others... or another when it happens to trigger in us. Nude is such a amazing song for putting into that context, even if Thom & Radiohead had no intention or idea for making it so... But it's so much like the shadow self of a mind... Lurking around for wanting a way back in of otherwise better wisdom achieved by questioning attractions... Before poisoning thoughts become often unwise for any of it getting under the skin... There is no worse feeling, & waisted energy for feelings & emotions... Than steering yourself in wrong directions for not checking yourself in... To what hooks u into triggers of attraction. Nude is the perfect wisdom & epic release of knowing better of it... of one's self imo??? "You'll paint yourself white, then fill up with noise... but there will be something missing? Now that u find it... u won't? Now that u feel it... u don't? You've gone off the rails... Who hasn't been there & done that for otherwise feeding more of an attraction to someone, that was bad for getting a bigger idea about... Than we ever should have done to begin with?

I might be wrong, but wasn't it when Colin came up with the new bassline to Nude they finally got it working? Saying the bassline was all that was left is not really true. Can't even remember where I heard that, but...

How does this guy not have 5 million subscribers

I just think this channel should have been called Trash Two-ory and the next one should obviously be Trash Threeory.

Love this new format for Trash 2. More pleaseee.

I’m here for both channels!! Let’s Goooo!!!

He do like bursting into tears dont he?

Learned a few things here alright, as always a great video x

sunnyday real estate is my favorite band i wasn’t expecting them to be mentioned in this

This is too good. Tx man!

"Just" was inspired by Olivier Messiaen - favorite Greenwood composer

This video slaps as hard as Idioteques drum-machine solo

The ch-ch ch-ch ch-ch in Creep isn't an attempt to undermine the song. This is the second video you've said that. This is a sound the guitarist used to make when he was warming up. The producer heard it, and suggested it for the song. It's a perfect example of using a guitar for percussion.

John Mcgeoch is incredible

Johnny's remark about not borrowing from the Pixies any more because they've only got three albums to mine for inspiration makes me wonder if rock music in general fell out of popularity for the same reason. The best rock music was made in the first 20-odd years of it's existence, mid-50s to about the late 70s, when disco and punk got really big. Pretty much every rock band after that drew from those 20-odd years. By the time we got to the late 2000s, that era was far enough in the past that the then-twentysomethings making new pop music were too young to be nostalgic for that era, which is largely why synth pop had a big resurgence (that and rock music from the 80s was mostly terrible). 90s rock music has the opposite problem, IMO, it's so perfect (mostly cuz it was drawing inspiration from the best 60s and 70s rock music) that nobody would dare try to improve on it. There's only so much great rock music to imitate, eventually you have to do something else. Radiohead obviously figured that out.

I fkn loved this. Subbed now.

My favorite fun fact about Radiohead is I'm not here this isn't happening

I saw Radiohead support Kingmaker (remember them? thought not....) at Leicester Students Union on 7th November 1992. I had no idea who they were, of course, but I remember Creep. Those distinctive dead note blasts blew everything else off the stage that night.

.....oh, and BTW, if I could go back in time to any gig, that Astoria '94 gig would be waaaay up the list

This video was actually petty good

great facts... not just the stuff everyone already knows

My new favorite punchline is "...and then Thom Yorke burst into tears." I love this band, I don't even mean it disrespectfully, but by the second time it came up in this video it hit me just right and I had to pause it from laughing too hard at the thought of everyone plugging in their instruments "...and then Thom Yorke burst into tears."

PIXIES IS SUCH A GOOD BAND

Kudos on the Ed O'brien name pronunciation 🙌🏻

Thom reminds me a little of Tadao Ando and people alike in that their talents far supersede whatever rationale they want to superimpose into their creation. They may say whatever they want, previously informed by their minds, lives, struggles, pains, calculations, frustrations and whatnot, but the talent flows stronger and deafly to those earthly conjectures.

Jonny Greenwood - megalomaniac , words I would never have expected to hear in one sentence. 4:15

For a minute there I lost myself

Another great video - thanks. 2.10s - drummer’s Phil Selway

Awesome video

love the nod to john mcgeoch

rarely fun and to the point musical content 👌

I love the radiohead drummer, ed obrien

Someone decoded it and the man at the end of the Just video says something along the lines of "lie down on the pavement and I'll tell you" (the "ill tell you" lines up but I forget the wording of the first half the does)

8:48 pretty sure it’s “down is the new up” you’re welcome

More Radiohead!!!

Favorite fun fact (if Wikipedia is correct): "Karma Police" was inspired by a running joke among the band members. Thanks for sharing. S.R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular

The just music video gives me hard "Bartleby, the Scrivener" vibes

Need more Trash Theory💙👍

I never connected iron lung with creep lol. Did see pixies live and very understandable to be heavily influenced.

14:48 i mightve had a heart attack here

I always thought there was a bit of “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac in “There, There.”

I fucking love Nude. It's one of my favorite Radiohead songs. When I first heard it I thought the end of the song (the vocal scale) sounded familiar. I thought about it for months without an answer. Until finally it hit me. You know the scene in The Little Mermaid where Ariel gets her voice back? It sounds like that. Does anyone else hear it?

Cool video

Great Vidio

Drummer is Phil Salway

What about "Where I end and you begin" and how much of a tribute/rip-off it is to one of my fave Simple Minds songs "theme for great cities" Such a good steal. Nice vid. really enjoys the back stories.

There's a Trash Theory 2? Shweet.

Radiohead has found a place in my mind like the Beatles but in a different time.

I'm pretty sure I heard the bends was dedicated to the late comedian/philosopher Bill Hicks which I think is pretty awesome!

When you are listening to albums like hail to the thief and in rainbows its actually insane to thin that they're the se people that made creep

Their beats are so complex and complicated no one cares if they get it wrong. They're beloved anyway.

“Drummer Ed O’ Brene”

My favorite fact is about True Love Waits. They tried remaking the song on Kid A. This lead to the song, Pulk/ Pull Revolving Doors on Amnesiac.

i was born on the release of hail to the thief (6/9/03).

damn i love radiohead

I'm here to say: I love There There

The drummer is Phil Selway. Ed O'Brien plays guitar

To me, the riff in "Just" seem more inspired by King Crimson's "Red".

the man on Just video clip could say "I see a way"

"drummer - Ed O'Brien" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

“the drummer ed o’breen” 💀💀

Stop whispering was never mentioned.. Great lyrics of a song

From the Basement In Rainbows.

Thom, when plastic trees are fake:🤣

i love radio hed by talking heads

well, true love waits… 21 years

I hate to call you out but the drummers name is Philip Selway. Not sure where you pulled Ed O’Green from…..there is an Ed….but no one named ‘Greene’. Loved the facts though! Cheers-

Funny you didn't mention that 2021 remix of Creep by them, which was basically an official shitpost

Good video, a small/big correction Radiohead's drummer Is Phil Selway, not Ed O'Biran.

Do you think you would ever cover the band Thursday and the NJ emo/post hardcore scene on your main channel?

‘Ed Obreen’ is the drummer???