Exit Music is an interesting one. We were commissioned to supply a restored Mellotron for this album plus a selection of tape frames. We had recently acquired 18 Tangerine Dream frames and took them along. Jonny and Thom auditioned all the frames and chose three. One of those frames had the Eight Voice Choir sound. They were so knocked out that after we said our goodbyes, they recorded Exit Music that evening with the 'tron supplying the haunting choir that makes Exit Music so special! There's a mellotron all over the album but it wasn't a TD machine....honest!

Watching musicians geek out over Radiohead is one of my favorite things to do in the whole wide world.

This album found me on a June afternoon in 2005. I was 14 years old, and had just gone through a traumatic and heartbreaking experience and walked 40 blocks across the island I grew up on in the Puget Sound. I was walking down the hill to the ferry terminal to buy a ticket. Head down, holding back tears, and experiencing what I feel was my first real wave of depression in my life. As I passed the line of cars waiting to board, I heard a faint sound in the distance. I followed the sound to a car with its drivers window rolled down, the stranger inside was completely spaced out listening to No Surprises when I approached him, uninvited. When the song ended he opened his eyes and was startled to see me standing beside him crying. He asked if I was okay and I told him no, but I felt the song had changed my perspective of my day and life. He told me it was Radioheads album, OK Computer. I told him I had heard Creep and knew of the band, but never really listened to them. He hit eject on his radio, and handed me the disc. I have listened to it in its entirety almost every single rainy day since. I don't know if I would be alive if it weren't for that stranger. This album is a part of me, embedded in my spirit. I'm forever grateful for him, and all the members of Radiohead.

Album came out 1997. At this time, rock guitar was going out of fashion. Classic rock Zeppelin-style was long gone, prog rock and punk rock was gone. Grunge was going out. Kurt Cobain passed away. Basically, Radiohead came along and said "here's a new way we can use electric guitar to compose music". A landmark album.

That vocal harmony at the end of Let Down is maybe my favorite part of any song ever.

Radiohead has written some of the the best movie songs to never appear in any films.

Paranoid Android is like the Bohemian Rhapsody of alternative music.

The falsetto bit in Let Down = goosebumps every time

Every time airbag finishes I automatically in my head go “boop boop boop”

3:48 Airbag
9:18 Paranoid Android
18:32 Subterranean Homesick Alien
24:15 Exit Music (For a Film)
31:12 Let Down
36:58 Karma Police

A masterpiece.  I have listened to this album hundreds of times and it never gets old.  There are so many nuances.  It’s so complex but somehow all fits together perfectly.  To me this is hands down the best album in the last 30 years.

I watched Romeo and Juliet in the cinema and remember when Exit Music kicked in, everyone stayed in their seats and watched all the credits and listened to the song.  An amazing song and perfect for the end of that film

This album is absolutley sensational, like nearly all of Radiohead's music.
I could say that "Exit Music" is one of their greatest ever songs, but they have so many.

I love this guy’s ability to pick out notes and chords out of thin air. Definitely provides a unique perspective.

Subterranean Homesick Alien is still one of the most beautiful compositions I've ever heard.  It never fails to completely suck me in.  26 years later and it still affects me the same way it did when I first heard it.

Came for "Let Down"
Up there with the best songs ever recorded

The snare drop at 33:01 is one of my favourite bits of music ever. The build up that entire time

"Subterranean Homesick Alien" is one of my favourite tunes from Radiohead. If it starts playing in the background I can't pay atention to anything else...

imagine this kind gentleman reacting to the 1997 album Homogenic by Björk

The power of Exit Music hits me every time.