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The guitar tracks are the giveaways here: a clear riff, a big chorus, a hook you can hum. Save your doubt for the programmed songs, where the usual Radiohead signposts disappear.
A few details separate the people who know the band from the people who know the songs: a name borrowed from Talking Heads, a record fans priced themselves, a guitarist scoring Hollywood films.
Work through the band in four tiers. The guitar anthems come first, then the electronic tracks that fool people, the buried album cuts, and finally the falsetto that names a song when nothing else will.
Begin with the radio songs. 'Creep', 'Karma Police', 'No Surprises', 'Fake Plastic Trees' and 'High and Dry' are guitar-driven and instantly Radiohead, the ones most players name before the first verse ends. If a clip has a clear riff and a big chorus, it usually lives here.
Kid A and Amnesiac are where the guessing gets hard. 'Everything in Its Right Place', 'Idioteque', 'The National Anthem' and 'Pyramid Song' swap guitars for synths, loops and the ondes Martenot. Anyone waiting for a rock riff freezes, because these tracks sound almost nothing like 'Creep'.
Past the singles, the album cuts decide the winners: the guitar arpeggios of 'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi', the loping 'Reckoner', the fragile 'Nude', the closing 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' and the shape-shifting '2+2=5'. Call one of these correctly and you are well into superfan territory.
When the instruments give nothing away, the voice does. Thom Yorke's high, wavering falsetto ties 'No Surprises' to 'Pyramid Song', and it is often the fastest way to call a track. His work with Atoms for Peace and the solo album 'The Eraser' are the outliers a deep round slips in.
The band changed its own sound. The early songs are guitar rock, but the Kid A and Amnesiac tracks run on synths and loops, so the hardest question is often whether you are even hearing the same band.
You will hear the guitar hits, 'Creep', 'Karma Police', 'Paranoid Android' and 'No Surprises', next to electronic-era cuts like 'Idioteque' and 'Everything in Its Right Place' that sort the die-hards from the rest.
Listen for Thom Yorke's high falsetto. When the arrangement gives nothing away, from a short clip the voice is usually the quickest tell, from 'No Surprises' to 'Pyramid Song'.
A perfect round needs the electronic era, not just the singles. If you can place 'Idioteque' or 'The National Anthem' the moment they start, you are in rare company.
Radiohead is Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. The same five have played together since 1985, when they met at school in Abingdon near Oxford, England.
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