History TearJerker / Radiohead

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWG9xPWsg_g Gagging Order]]"... just listen for yourself.

---> This [The original version] version is like an optimistic look into the future\\

* Some people felt sad while listening to "Present Tense".

* As it soothes and caresses your ears, "Identikit" is very melancholic song. The bridge with beautiful bassline by Colin and ethereal choir doesn't help

(and then the choir goes)

* some people felt sad while listening to "Present Tense".

* Faust arp is crowingly [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments the most heartwarming song]] of "In Rainbows".

* Overplayed and cliché as it may be, to the point that [[CreatorBacklash even the band are sick of it]], "Creep" is popular for a very good reason, because [[ShrinkingViolet its subject]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited matter]] is all-too familiar.

I wish I was special...''"

--> ""Limb by limb and tooth by tooth\\

I wish that I was bulletproof""

* "Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was" can usually tug on one's heartstrings. Don't listen to that song in a depressive mood.

--> "''[[TheAntiNihilist Immeeeeerse]] [[HopeSpot your soooooouuuuuul [[DespairEventHorizon in love...]]''"

* The outright creepy "Climbing Up The Walls". -->''Do not cry out or hit the alarm\\
-->You know we're friends till we die''

[[MadnessMantra Tried to saaaaaaayyyyy]]???
[[MadnessMantra Tried to saaaaayyyyy]]?????
[[MadnessMantra Tried to ssaaaaaayyyy]]???????

--> "''[[TheAntiNihilist Immeeeeerse]] [[HopeSpot your soooooouuuuuul in love...]]''"

--> "''[[HopeSpot Immeeeeerse your soooooouuuuuul in looooooooooove]]\\
[[DespairEventHorizon Immeeeeerse your soooooouuuuuul in love...]]''"

--> "''We are accidents\\
Waiting\\
Waiting\\
To happen''"

Radiohead is [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible weird]], [[NightmareFuel/{{Radiohead}} disturbing]]... yet has a large assortment of [[TearJerker these type of songs]]. Most of their albums have at least a few examples.

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** And try to watch the video for that song, made by them and an alliance with Creator/{{MTV}} against child labor (can't remember the name.)

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFvFVkeGVg&ab_channel=Radiohead I Promise]] is a stunning listen. From Thom's falsetto vocals backed by an acoustic riff, the string arrangement and the funeral march-esque drums. The music video makes it more heartbreaking to listen to as it is supposedly inspired by Thom's experience touring OK Computer by depicting a severed head of an android stuck on a bus and looking out on the outside world, trying to form emotions with figures passing by.

* a already scary and often terrifying song "Climbing Up the Walls" never fails to bring everyone in tears... right?

* Please try to listen to "Man of War" and "Lift" for yourself.

* Some people may have feel melancholic while listening to "Everything in It's Right Place".

* "Lotus Flower" can be sometimes tearjerking and insanely creepy.

* "Harrowdown Hill", Thom Yorke's solo song about the suicide of weapons expert [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)]].

* "Harrowdown Hill", Thom Yorke's solo song about the suicide of weapons expert [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly Dr. David Kelly]].

** The final line is used to great effect in this particular promotional [[https://youtu.be/ldNJqpXmTJs?t=663 blip]] for Kid A which shows the Modified Bear logo as a Polar Bear on a block of ice which after a while begins to sink, sending the bear to it's doom as it just stares and blinks at the viewer.

* They've been known to do brief ambient renditions of already broken songs before playing "Everything in it's Right Place" live. Amongst these are {{Music/REM}}'s "The One I Love", {{Music/Bjork}}'s "Unravel", their own "True Love Waits" and Music/YeahYeahYeahs' "Maps", the last one of which probably stands out as the most saddening.

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* This brings us to the album closer "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". While the rest of the album is far from happy, this one takes a straight veer into sheer nihilism. What can be gleamed from the disturbing and surreal lyrics suggests an utterly painful message of the meaningless and futility of existence, and how everything that we work towards will "fade out" upon our death. The song ends with the conclusion which, in context, sounds more like a desperate plea to achieve some type of purpose.
--> "''[[HopeSpot Immeeeeerse your soooooouuuuuul in looooooooooove]]\\
[[DespairEventHorizon Immeeeeerse your soooooouuuuuul in love...]]''"

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWG9xPWsg_g Gagging Order]]"... just listen for yourself.

--> "Calm.\\

And more productive.\\
A pig.\\
In a cage.\\
On antibiotics.''"

* "Fitter Happier" never fails to bring certain people to tears: alongside the ominous dissonant piano, the computer voice describes the "ideal" modern life of someone who conforms so much to social norms they become an EmptyShell:
--> "''A pig.\\