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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ybWaIvmaM "Harrowdown Hill"]], one of the songs off of Thom's solo album ''The Eraser''.
** [[LyricalDissonance It may sound upbeat, but it's actually about the suicide of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert) David Kelly]].
** The song title was named after the place in Oxfordshire where his body was discovered.
** The image of Thom motionless underwater in the video is very unsettling.
** The way Thom's vocals suddenly cut off at the end before the guitars take over.
-->[[BrokenRecord I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness,]] [[MadnessMantra I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness]]
-->[[KilledMidSentence I feel me-]]
** [[LyricalDissonance It may sound upbeat, but it's actually about the suicide of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert) David Kelly]].
** The song title was named after the place in Oxfordshire where his body was discovered.
** The image of Thom motionless underwater in the video is very unsettling.
** The way Thom's vocals suddenly cut off at the end before the guitars take over.
-->[[BrokenRecord I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness,]] [[MadnessMantra I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness]]
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** [[LyricalDissonance It may sound upbeat, but it's actually about
** The song title was named after the place in Oxfordshire where his body was discovered.
** The image of Thom motionless underwater in the video is very unsettling.
** The way Thom's vocals suddenly cut off at the end before the guitars take over.
-->[[BrokenRecord I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness,]] [[MadnessMantra I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness]]
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** In general, ''TKOL'' had some pretty freaky art.
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* Myxomatosis. Heavily distorted lead synth and guitar that constantly seems off-key? Check. Screeching organ in the background? Check. Vaguely ominous and brutal lyrics containing such lovely phrases like "the mongrel cat came home holding half a head", "don't know why I feel so skinned alive", and "twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis"? Check. An unnatural rhythm that defies any time signature? Check. And then you find out myxomatosis is a disease that gives rabbits huge skin tumours before killing them. Nice.
* The music video for "There, There", where Thom finds some golden clothing and wears it with...[[BodyHorror interesting side effects]].[[note]][[spoiler:He turns into a tree.]][[/note]]
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* Myxomatosis."Myxomatosis". Heavily distorted lead synth and guitar that constantly seems off-key? Check. Screeching organ in the background? Check. Vaguely ominous and brutal lyrics containing such lovely phrases like "the mongrel cat came home holding half a head", "don't know why I feel so skinned alive", and "twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis"? Check. An unnatural rhythm that defies any time signature? Check. And then you find out myxomatosis is a disease that gives rabbits huge skin tumours tumors before killing them. Nice.
* The music video for "There,There", where Thom finds some golden clothing and wears it with...There". The amount of [[SurrealMusicVideo purely]] [[RogerRabbitEffect surreal]] stuff in the video isn't all that scary, but it's the [[GainaxEnding equally surreal ending]] that sells it. Basically, the moral of that story is [[SpaceWhaleAesop "Don't wear clothes you find in the woods]] [[BodyHorror interesting side effects]].[[note]][[spoiler:He turns or you will turn into a tree.]][[/note]]"]]
** [[PainfulTransformation Thom's transformation]] is also depicted in [[GrossUpCloseUp very graphic detail]]. His skin turning to wood, branches ripping through his pants...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ybWaIvmaM "Harrowdown Hill"]], one of the songs off of Thom's solo album ''The Eraser''.
** [[LyricalDissonance It may sound upbeat, but it's actually about the suicide of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert) David Kelly]].
** The song title was named after the place in Oxfordshire where his body was discovered.
** The image of Thom motionless underwater in the video is very unsettling.
** The way Thom's vocals suddenly cut off at the end before the guitars take over.
-->[[BrokenRecord I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness,]] [[MadnessMantra I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness]]
-->[[KilledMidSentence I feel me-]]
* The music video for "There,
** [[PainfulTransformation Thom's transformation]] is also depicted in [[GrossUpCloseUp very graphic detail]]. His skin turning to wood, branches ripping through his pants...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ybWaIvmaM "Harrowdown Hill"]], one of the songs off of Thom's solo album ''The Eraser''.
** [[LyricalDissonance It may sound upbeat, but it's actually about the suicide of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert) David Kelly]].
** The song title was named after the place in Oxfordshire where his body was discovered.
** The image of Thom motionless underwater in the video is very unsettling.
** The way Thom's vocals suddenly cut off at the end before the guitars take over.
-->[[BrokenRecord I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness,]] [[MadnessMantra I felt me slipping in and out of consciousness]]
-->[[KilledMidSentence I feel me-]]
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* "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors". [[HellIsThatNoise Not much of a melody to speak of, a hellish-sounding rhythm]] and sparse, ominous lyrics.
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* "Nude."
--> You'll... go... to... hell... for... what... your... dirty... mind... is... thinking...!
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*** If you don't quite see it past the catchy drums and bassline, listen to it again and do the best you can to block out the bass and drums and listen to everything else in the song; you will find a nightmarish, paranoid, and enormous soundscape that becomes more and more intrusive as the song progresses.
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** "Optimistic," while not as outwardly creepy as the others, sounds particularly suicidal. The repetition of lines like "The best you could was good enough" juxtaposed with dark and minor chord choices makes the lyrics sound extremely bitter, sarcastic, and resigned.
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*** There's definitely an ominous...something going on throughout the beginning of the song in the background, though it fades away after a while. And then there's the creepy drunken strings near the end of the song.
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* Myxomatosis. Heavily distorted lead synth and guitar that constantly seems off-key? Check. Screeching organ in the background? Check. Vaguely ominous and brutal lyrics containing such lovely phrases like "the mongrel cat came home holding half a head", "don't know why I feel so skinned alive", and "twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis"? Check. An unnatural rhythm that defies any time signature? Check. And then you find out myxomatosis is a disease that gives rabbits huge skin tumours before killing them. Nice.
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-->i am the bloody pied piper rats and children follow me out of town a scarecrow that dont scare the crows nowadays i get panicked i have ceased to exist my words you know are out of ink. drooling looney tunes moving room to room did you lie to us tony? we thought you were different but now were not so sure now you know were not so sure. we can blow a hole in anything thatchers children see you on the way back down. kill the enemy within unhinged cowboys and indians moving statues yur safe until you look away. i would like to change back now please to the shadow of my former self. iam the bloody pied piper. & the rats and the childrenll fllow me around so you hade better make it worth my while. please allow me the suspension of your disbelief the benefit of the doubt.
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-->i am the bloody pied piper rats and children follow me out of town a scarecrow that dont scare the crows nowadays i get panicked i have ceased to exist my words you know are out of ink. drooling looney tunes moving room to room did you lie to us tony? [[TonyBlair tony]]? we thought you were different but now were not so sure now you know were not so sure. we can blow a hole in anything thatchers children see you on the way back down. kill the enemy within unhinged cowboys and indians moving statues yur safe until you look away. i would like to change back now please to the shadow of my former self. iam the bloody pied piper. & the rats and the childrenll fllow me around so you hade better make it worth my while. please allow me the suspension of your disbelief the benefit of the doubt.
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* "Climbing Up the Walls" is the most well-known example. It's about a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house, sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, electronics and loud guitars. About it, Thom has said:
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* "Climbing Up the Walls" is the most well-known example. It's about a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house, sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, electronics noisy electronics, heavy drumming and loud guitars. About it, Thom has said:
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* "Climbing Up the Walls" is the most well-known example. It's about a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house (sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, electronics and loud guitars). About it, Thom has said:
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* "Climbing Up the Walls" is the most well-known example. It's about a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house (sung house, sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, electronics and loud guitars).guitars. About it, Thom has said:
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* "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors". Not much of a melody to speak of, a hellish-sounding rhythm and sparse, ominous lyrics.
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* "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors". [[HellIsThatNoise Not much of a melody to speak of, a hellish-sounding rhythm rhythm]] and sparse, ominous lyrics.
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Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/33352/#SpL1oyYOpf7ulGwv.99
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** The music video (which uses "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" as an intro to the song) is even creepier. Most of the video centers on a bizarre machine that pulses and flickers... it's only toward the end of the video that the viewer sees [[spoiler:the siamese twins that are being ripped apart inside the machine.]]
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* "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors". Not much of a melody to speak of, a hellish-sounding rhythm and sparse, ominous lyrics.
-->There are doors that let you in and out\But never open\But they are trapdoors\That you can't come back from
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-->There are doors that let you in and out\But never open\But they are trapdoors\That you can't come back from
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* The meaning behind "Paranoid Android."
-->'''paranoid android.''' in a bar in hollywood* the centre of the western universe, standing at the bar (social drinking) after doing the talk show bit. do you want to know this? this is what we aspire to is it? it is dark, there is a woman opposite me o is as sociably anorexic as her poodle, she looks desolate in her make up and lost eyes, next to her her husband boyfriend is persuading a younger fleshed half his age stewardess to come back to the hills to their mansion to sample his wine. she looks t him like he's a character in a hammer house horror. one of our friends spills a glass of wine over a vacuum packed gucci outfit complete with matching white hand bag. the witch goes crazy, we think it is fuunny. until we see the evil in her eyes. m friend is asked to leave. the gucci creature is the closest thing i have seen to the devil. the woman is possessed. i cannot sleep that night asking what we've got our selves into. voices talking like fax machines, hissing and spitting like demons, this is the master race. and now im part of it. anyway you didnt want to know that.
-->'''paranoid android.''' in a bar in hollywood* the centre of the western universe, standing at the bar (social drinking) after doing the talk show bit. do you want to know this? this is what we aspire to is it? it is dark, there is a woman opposite me o is as sociably anorexic as her poodle, she looks desolate in her make up and lost eyes, next to her her husband boyfriend is persuading a younger fleshed half his age stewardess to come back to the hills to their mansion to sample his wine. she looks t him like he's a character in a hammer house horror. one of our friends spills a glass of wine over a vacuum packed gucci outfit complete with matching white hand bag. the witch goes crazy, we think it is fuunny. until we see the evil in her eyes. m friend is asked to leave. the gucci creature is the closest thing i have seen to the devil. the woman is possessed. i cannot sleep that night asking what we've got our selves into. voices talking like fax machines, hissing and spitting like demons, this is the master race. and now im part of it. anyway you didnt want to know that.
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* There's something disturbing about the quiet, traumatized-sounding, [[GratuitousPanning gratuitously panned]] backing vocal in "Pearly*" contrasted against the aggressive 'rawk' lead vocals- it sounds like there's one Thom wailing away onstage and another one right behind you. The fact that the song is about a group of Japanese girls who prostituted themselves to get tickets to a Radiohead concert (much to Thom's horror) just makes it even more unsettling.
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* The eerie MadnessMantra that is "The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold)."
-->Genie let out of the bottle
-->It is now the witching hour
-->Murderers, you're murderers
-->We are not the same as you
-->Genie let out of the bottle
-->Funny haha, funny how
-->When the walls bend
-->With your breathing
-->They will suck you down to the other side
-->Shadows blue and red
-->Your alarm bells
-->Should be ringing
-->This is the Gloaming.
-->Genie let out of the bottle
-->It is now the witching hour
-->Murderers, you're murderers
-->We are not the same as you
-->Genie let out of the bottle
-->Funny haha, funny how
-->When the walls bend
-->With your breathing
-->They will suck you down to the other side
-->Shadows blue and red
-->Your alarm bells
-->Should be ringing
-->This is the Gloaming.
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** "Morning Bell" carries on the trend of LastNoteNightmare[=s=], and is overall somewhere between soothing and dark. Also, It doesn't seem particularly creepy until, suddenly, all the instruments but the drums cut out and this line:line is [[MadnessMantra repeated over and over]]:
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--> Cut the kids in half
--> Cut the kids in half
--> Cut the kids in half
--> Cut the kids in half
--> Cut the kids in half
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* The horrifying, distorted wailing of Thom Yorke at the end of "In Limbo". In fact, the second half of the song seems to be a slow descent into madness.
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* Really, while the song "Kid A" may be the strongest example, the entire album ''Kid A'' has a very eerie, nihilistic, and very ''wrong'' atmosphere throughout it. The whole album, while never being outwardly scary, is very undeniably creepy. [[BrownNote And it gets worse and worse the more you listen to it.]]
** Starting with "Everything In Its Right Place", which is in [[UncommonTime 10/4 time, by the way]], with it's strange synths and Thom's distorted voice, combined with its constant build up.
** "The National Anthem" has some very strange noises placed constantly throughout the whole song.
** "How To Disappear Completely" is extremely bleak.
** "Treefingers" is very soothing taken out of context, but after the ominous tunes preceding it is more NothingIsScarier than anything. It should also be noted, that placing it in a "sleep" playlist is a [[BrownNote very bad idea.]] There's something very wrong with the song.
** The horrifying, distorted wailing of Thom Yorke at the end of "In Limbo". In fact, the second half of the song seems to be a slow descent into madness. An epic LastNoteNightmare.
** "Idioteque" starts off pretty calm, but pretty much everything from the bridge on is pretty much one big LastNoteNightmare.
** "Morning Bell" carries on the trend of LastNoteNightmare[=s=], and is overall somewhere between soothing and dark.
** "Motion Picture Soundtrack" is a big case of MoodWhiplash, pretty much an inversion of LastNoteNightmare. In fact, it's pretty much SweetDreamsFuel in any other context. But in this case, similar to "Treefingers", on ''Kid A'' it pretty much ends up being NothingIsScarier. Especially with the two minutes of silence at the end.
** Starting with "Everything In Its Right Place", which is in [[UncommonTime 10/4 time, by the way]], with it's strange synths and Thom's distorted voice, combined with its constant build up.
** "The National Anthem" has some very strange noises placed constantly throughout the whole song.
** "How To Disappear Completely" is extremely bleak.
** "Treefingers" is very soothing taken out of context, but after the ominous tunes preceding it is more NothingIsScarier than anything. It should also be noted, that placing it in a "sleep" playlist is a [[BrownNote very bad idea.]] There's something very wrong with the song.
** The horrifying, distorted wailing of Thom Yorke at the end of "In Limbo". In fact, the second half of the song seems to be a slow descent into madness. An epic LastNoteNightmare.
** "Idioteque" starts off pretty calm, but pretty much everything from the bridge on is pretty much one big LastNoteNightmare.
** "Morning Bell" carries on the trend of LastNoteNightmare[=s=], and is overall somewhere between soothing and dark.
** "Motion Picture Soundtrack" is a big case of MoodWhiplash, pretty much an inversion of LastNoteNightmare. In fact, it's pretty much SweetDreamsFuel in any other context. But in this case, similar to "Treefingers", on ''Kid A'' it pretty much ends up being NothingIsScarier. Especially with the two minutes of silence at the end.
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{{Radiohead}}: Masters of ''scaring the hell out of people.''
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* "A Wolf At The Door."
--> Steal all my children
--> If I don't pay the ransom
--> But I'll never see them again
--> If I squeal to the cops
--> [[BrokenRecord No no no no no no no]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM "Like Spinning Plates"]] is extremely unsettling, from the distorted vocals in the first few lines to the fact that the music itself is another song played backwards.
* Nearly any of the promotional 'blips' that were made for ''Kid A''. Downright creepy scenes and imagery, and incredibly apocalyptic and futuristic.
* "Climbing Up the Walls" is the most well-known example. It's about a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house (sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, electronics and loud guitars). About it, Thom has said:
-->"This is about the unspeakable. Literally skull-crushing. I used to work in a mental hospital around the time that Care In The Community started, and we all just knew what was going to happen. And it's one of the scariest things to happen in this country, because a lot of them weren't just harmless... It was hailing violently when we recorded this. It seemed to add to the mood. Some people can't sleep with the curtains open in case they see the eyes they imagine in their heads every night burning through the glass. Lots of people have panic buttons fitted in their bedrooms so they can reach over and set the alarm off without disturbing the intruder. This song is about the cupboard monster."
** The metal scream at the end just adds to the effect.
-->Climbing up the '''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'''
* "Kinetic": the lyrics sound like they're from the perspective of someone trying to escape an inevitable (and horrible) fate.
--> Keep moving... please keep moving...
* "Fitter Happier" is a list of random, vaguely authoritarian slogans set to a minimalist soundscape and an out-of-tune piano. The list itself is spoken by [[MachineMonotone a computer.]]
** The phrases get worse and worse as they go along;
-->[[AC:fitter, happier\\
more productive\\
...\\
sleeping well ([[BlatantLies no bad dreams]])\\
no paranoia\\
...\\
at a better pace\\
slower and more calculated\\
[[BreadEggsMilkSquick no chance of escape]]\\
...\\
no longer empty and frantic\\
like a cat\\
tied to a stick\\
...\\
calm, fitter, healthier and more productive\\
a pig\\
in a cage\\
on antibiotics]]
* The [[ImAHumanitarian conclusion]] of "Where I End and You Begin."
* The horrifying, distorted wailing of Thom Yorke at the end of "In Limbo". In fact, the second half of the song seems to be a slow descent into madness.
* Stanley Donwood's artwork, especially for ''Kid A''.
* The final third of "Paranoid Android" is endlessly chilling.
* During the final reprise freak out of "Paranoid Android", mixed quite low in the background, there of blasts of what sound like White Noise on normal speakers, but on headphones you can hear that it's (presumably) Thom screaming his lungs out and babbling incoherently.
* The video for Karma Police can be horribly unsettling sometimes, especially when the view shifts to Thom's unreadable face or the terrified hunted man.
* "Bloom (Mark Pritchard RMX)" and "Separator (Anstam RMX pt ii)" are both quite dark and ominous.
* "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors".
* The album cover for ''The King Of Limbs''.
* The song "Kid A" is initially only kind of unsettling. It gets creepier when you figure out the lyrics ("standing in the shadows at the end of my bed...") and the fact that to Thom they represent something so horrible he distorted his voice in the song to distance himself from it. The speculation regarding what exactly that is doesn't help (the creepy pied piper imagery suggests pedophilia, while Thom has hinted it's about cloning or mind control). Then you look up its pages in the maze section of the Radiohead website, one of which is a picture of a man with his eyes sewn shut. And then you look up the lyrical outtakes, made by Thom's usual semi-comprehensible stream of consciousness to seem like they were written by a lunatic:
-->i am the bloody pied piper rats and children follow me out of town a scarecrow that dont scare the crows nowadays i get panicked i have ceased to exist my words you know are out of ink. drooling looney tunes moving room to room did you lie to us tony? we thought you were different but now were not so sure now you know were not so sure. we can blow a hole in anything thatchers children see you on the way back down. kill the enemy within unhinged cowboys and indians moving statues yur safe until you look away. i would like to change back now please to the shadow of my former self. iam the bloody pied piper. & the rats and the childrenll fllow me around so you hade better make it worth my while. please allow me the suspension of your disbelief the benefit of the doubt.
-->never say anything
-->be instrumental
** A lot of weird stream-of-consciousness-style text (in addition to the exceedingly morbid and surreal art) can be found in their aptly-titled book ''Dead Children Playing'' which pretty much showcases all of Donwood/Yorke's artwork from OKC to HTT. A little snippet:
-->just a million mobiles and modems squawking and sputtering and hissing like piss on a fire like a million gallons of piss on an inferno just think of it ok? just think of that. '''Vertebrae being sawn apart sounds like this.'''
-->NOTHING NOTHING YOU JUST IMAGINED IT A NOISE NOTHING A SILENCE JUST THE HOUSE "SETTLING". WHOS THAT WHOS THAT NOTHING IMAGINED IT WHOS THAT OUT THERE/ IN THE KITCHEN THERES NOTHING IN THE COLD COLD LIGHT NOBODY BEHIND THE DOOR NOTHING.
-->EVERYBODY STOPS AND GAWPS
-->EYES POPPED OUT LIKE CIGARETTE MACHINES
* "Nude."
--> You'll... go... to... hell... for... what... your... dirty... mind... is... thinking...!
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''[[TheStinger we've got heads on sticks... and you've got ventriloquists... standing in the shadows at the end of my bed...]]''
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* "A Wolf At The Door."
--> Steal all my children
--> If I don't pay the ransom
--> But I'll never see them again
--> If I squeal to the cops
--> [[BrokenRecord No no no no no no no]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM "Like Spinning Plates"]] is extremely unsettling, from the distorted vocals in the first few lines to the fact that the music itself is another song played backwards.
* Nearly any of the promotional 'blips' that were made for ''Kid A''. Downright creepy scenes and imagery, and incredibly apocalyptic and futuristic.
* "Climbing Up the Walls" is the most well-known example. It's about a song about people living next to an insane asylum being unable to sleep at night for fear of someone coming in the house (sung entirely in a slurred, unintelligible tone over a musical duel between screechy strings, electronics and loud guitars). About it, Thom has said:
-->"This is about the unspeakable. Literally skull-crushing. I used to work in a mental hospital around the time that Care In The Community started, and we all just knew what was going to happen. And it's one of the scariest things to happen in this country, because a lot of them weren't just harmless... It was hailing violently when we recorded this. It seemed to add to the mood. Some people can't sleep with the curtains open in case they see the eyes they imagine in their heads every night burning through the glass. Lots of people have panic buttons fitted in their bedrooms so they can reach over and set the alarm off without disturbing the intruder. This song is about the cupboard monster."
** The metal scream at the end just adds to the effect.
-->Climbing up the '''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'''
* "Kinetic": the lyrics sound like they're from the perspective of someone trying to escape an inevitable (and horrible) fate.
--> Keep moving... please keep moving...
* "Fitter Happier" is a list of random, vaguely authoritarian slogans set to a minimalist soundscape and an out-of-tune piano. The list itself is spoken by [[MachineMonotone a computer.]]
** The phrases get worse and worse as they go along;
-->[[AC:fitter, happier\\
more productive\\
...\\
sleeping well ([[BlatantLies no bad dreams]])\\
no paranoia\\
...\\
at a better pace\\
slower and more calculated\\
[[BreadEggsMilkSquick no chance of escape]]\\
...\\
no longer empty and frantic\\
like a cat\\
tied to a stick\\
...\\
calm, fitter, healthier and more productive\\
a pig\\
in a cage\\
on antibiotics]]
* The [[ImAHumanitarian conclusion]] of "Where I End and You Begin."
* The horrifying, distorted wailing of Thom Yorke at the end of "In Limbo". In fact, the second half of the song seems to be a slow descent into madness.
* Stanley Donwood's artwork, especially for ''Kid A''.
* The final third of "Paranoid Android" is endlessly chilling.
* During the final reprise freak out of "Paranoid Android", mixed quite low in the background, there of blasts of what sound like White Noise on normal speakers, but on headphones you can hear that it's (presumably) Thom screaming his lungs out and babbling incoherently.
* The video for Karma Police can be horribly unsettling sometimes, especially when the view shifts to Thom's unreadable face or the terrified hunted man.
* "Bloom (Mark Pritchard RMX)" and "Separator (Anstam RMX pt ii)" are both quite dark and ominous.
* "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors".
* The album cover for ''The King Of Limbs''.
* The song "Kid A" is initially only kind of unsettling. It gets creepier when you figure out the lyrics ("standing in the shadows at the end of my bed...") and the fact that to Thom they represent something so horrible he distorted his voice in the song to distance himself from it. The speculation regarding what exactly that is doesn't help (the creepy pied piper imagery suggests pedophilia, while Thom has hinted it's about cloning or mind control). Then you look up its pages in the maze section of the Radiohead website, one of which is a picture of a man with his eyes sewn shut. And then you look up the lyrical outtakes, made by Thom's usual semi-comprehensible stream of consciousness to seem like they were written by a lunatic:
-->i am the bloody pied piper rats and children follow me out of town a scarecrow that dont scare the crows nowadays i get panicked i have ceased to exist my words you know are out of ink. drooling looney tunes moving room to room did you lie to us tony? we thought you were different but now were not so sure now you know were not so sure. we can blow a hole in anything thatchers children see you on the way back down. kill the enemy within unhinged cowboys and indians moving statues yur safe until you look away. i would like to change back now please to the shadow of my former self. iam the bloody pied piper. & the rats and the childrenll fllow me around so you hade better make it worth my while. please allow me the suspension of your disbelief the benefit of the doubt.
-->never say anything
-->be instrumental
** A lot of weird stream-of-consciousness-style text (in addition to the exceedingly morbid and surreal art) can be found in their aptly-titled book ''Dead Children Playing'' which pretty much showcases all of Donwood/Yorke's artwork from OKC to HTT. A little snippet:
-->just a million mobiles and modems squawking and sputtering and hissing like piss on a fire like a million gallons of piss on an inferno just think of it ok? just think of that. '''Vertebrae being sawn apart sounds like this.'''
-->NOTHING NOTHING YOU JUST IMAGINED IT A NOISE NOTHING A SILENCE JUST THE HOUSE "SETTLING". WHOS THAT WHOS THAT NOTHING IMAGINED IT WHOS THAT OUT THERE/ IN THE KITCHEN THERES NOTHING IN THE COLD COLD LIGHT NOBODY BEHIND THE DOOR NOTHING.
-->EVERYBODY STOPS AND GAWPS
-->EYES POPPED OUT LIKE CIGARETTE MACHINES
* "Nude."
--> You'll... go... to... hell... for... what... your... dirty... mind... is... thinking...!
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''[[TheStinger we've got heads on sticks... and you've got ventriloquists... standing in the shadows at the end of my bed...]]''
