Been here since Creep. Thought Pablo Honey was incredible as a teenager and had my Pablo Honey t shirt I wore to high school. All the while loving every release Radiohead had. The Smile came along and I was totally digging the new direction. So organic with Thom and Jonny. The output was so insane. Never could have expected it, 3 albums already. Not to mention the live streams and EPs. I just have to say Cutouts is absolutely one of my favorite recordings ever made. Up there with In Rainbows. The lyrics, the instrumentation, the emotion. It's really incredible. I'm listening to it now. Tried listening to something I bought recently and stopped halfway through, because I had to just listen again. This is what In Rainbows did to me when it came out. Nothing else mattered. I realize it came out over a year ago. I'll tell you, I listened to In Rainbows almost every day for over a year after it came out. I feel Cutouts is an absolute masterpiece.

like honestly they are on par with radiohead for me. i wish they would keep making albums but sadly they proly wont or wont return for a good couple of years 😔😔

Hello I recently tried to play Thin Thing through FL studio with out external plugins but I couldn't get Jonny's tone any tips would help and I would really appreciate them

Making my own playlist and asking people with deep knowledge about the Smile for underrated songs

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Overall I'd say the album is most similar to TKOL, which is funny because no one song sounds most like TKOL, but as a whole it does. I should say that I totally view A Light for Attracting Attention as its own album with its own sound and this isn't to diminish that.
Just my opinions. Let me know yours!

Happy New Year! Random question: I was just listening to Steve Moore and is it just me, or does 'Don't Get Me Started' sound a lot like 'Broken Kills'?

Does anyone know if this song is autobiographical? I was just wondering how often this happens to people, the thinking about not turning and letting their car go straight off a cliff.

Anthony Bourdain had similar thoughts while in the Caribbean, and let the next song on the radio decide whether he'd grab the wheel again and turn rather than fly into the ocean.

Most of the music video felt pretty straightforward with conveying the overall meaning of the song until 4:05 when crosses and other symbols began appearing on the mountaintop (which sounds so strange out of context, haha). The lyrics ‘and your force means nothing’ appearing alongside these visuals confused me.

Anyone got any ideas about what it’s trying to say? The song and the video combined? Or even just the song by itself?

Just got the Wall of Eyes Vinyl and just saw this Text which is not a lyric from a song? It gives me Fitter Happier 2.0 vibes. Anyone knows what it is about?

I know it's a year late, but I just found this in Hamburg. My first time seeing one, and I don't think this one has been posted before. I saw it out of the corner of my eye on a bus trip and had to go back to confirm.

I have mixed feelings about The Smile. I'd like to love them, but every time I listen to them, there's something that creates a distance between the songs and me.

I think I have a problem with Thom Yorke's voice, which I sometimes find too high-pitched. On some songs, it doesn't bother me, but on others, it takes me out of the listening experience.

I really like the simple but elegant production. When I listen to this band, I don't expect the same experience as with Radiohead. I feel like The Smile will more or less work for me depending on the moment.

The Smoke, for example, with a different voice, might appeal to me. However, I appreciate the fact that Thom Yorke's voice is evolving along with his style, and that's great if some people like it.

The same goes for the album Wall Of Eyes. There are songs I could like, but I have a hard time with the vocals...

I'd like to know what you think, because I don't think I'm the only one concerned. When and how did you feel that the click finally happened?

Going to come across as an asshole, I apologize in advance.

I miss the 2024 vibes so much. The new music was so good and so exciting. All of the haters were (for the most part) a bunch of irritable Gen Xers that couldn't get over the loss of Nigel, and it was always a good time making fun or egging them on.

But now it's 2025, Radiohead are a legacy act, and r/radiohead is mostly "I'm 53 and extremely rich, my Amersterdam ticket was rescheduled, I have to fly back to Los Angeles soon, also I may have gotten scammed".

Radiohead is old. Their fans are old, weird, and lame. And I am sad.

Come back Smile, don't go.

Wall of Eyes features a narrator who's feels stuck. They are oppressed by a "wall of eyes" of their own creation, in a state of constant worry about how others see them. They hollow themselves out and strap themselves into a train hoping it will eventually take them somewhere they're free, only to find it going in a loop (stops 1-5) and it will never take them where they want (trains don't go there).

The trains don't go there (one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five)

I Quit is the 6th song on the album. And features the narrator finally getting off the train, quitting the "game" of living for others opinions. Now following a path blindly, unburdened by worry. They've literally broken the cycle — going beyond the 5th stop.

This is my stop

This is the end of the trip

...

A dead drop

This is the end of the trip

A new path

Out of the madness

I can’t for the life of me understand how to count this song. I feel like it’s in every time signature at the same time. It’s like a 3/4 feel with a 5/4 kinda feel and then it’s like also swung at the same time??!! I’m having an aneurysm! Help!!

Just wanted to see if people think the same at all? Love the song but I think if 1/2 minutes of the first half of the song were cut it wouldn’t make much difference to the tension building. As there isn’t a significant difference between the 2 & 3rd verse.

Chord timing fixed ✅ Better voicing ✅ Ignore the last 2 seconds ✅