Radiohead Week - 7

Garth Jennings deserves a medal for this video. It's undoubtedly Radiohead's finest since Street Spirit in 1995, and this may even take-over that mantle. The choreography credit goes to a man named Wayne McGregor, but I don't see why; the dancing is clearly all Thom's work, if we can call it that. We've known for about a decade that Thom's a complete fucking lunatic, but who would have thought it would be so perfectly captured in this way? So often presented as the dour face of a dour indie band, Thom has not only put that stereotype to rest, and with dramatic impact, but also reinvented the music video for a dying market. There's no ego, no complacency, just unadulterated sensual delight. On this evidence alone, there is no one as effortlessly charismatic in music as Thom Yorke, and, if I may say so, no one quite so erogenous either.



My favorite moment comes at around 1.20 for obvious reasons. He knows it.