I think I'll just leave this comment here, so that whenever someone likes it, I'll be reminded of this masterpiece.

Heard this blasting out of my teenage daughters room last night. My work is done here

It was 1995 when this masterpiece came out. 1995 and life was already “fake”; if only they knew what would happen in the end, Facebook, Instagram, having to buy countless things to “fit in.” Radiohead, they were always ahead of their time. Always excellent, brilliant.

I called into work sick the day this came out, bought the cd and drove around the back country roads all day. This album is the soundtrack of my 17s, love it!

I’m jealous of anyone who listens to this tune for the first time.

Shortly after my wife died, I drove passed where she was buried, and I heard this for the first time. We had marriage struggles, but we worked them out, we loved each other very much, & had a daughter, 11 months later bone cancer took my wife. The song was like us. I had to pull over. Its been over 20yrs, since and I still Love her.

"And if I could be who you wanted......if I could be who you wanted......all the time.......all the time." Just KILL ME ALREADY. My god, this pulls at my heart strings like no other.

''I wish they would only take me as I am.' - Vincent van Gogh

Radiohead is one of the few bands that make me feel melancholic, nostalgic and euphoric all at the same time. They're honestly like a drug to me. I can listen to them when I'm sad, happy or anything in between and I always come out feeling better afterwards. They're honestly one of the greatest bands in existence.

I am 65 and just discovered this band. I love it.

My father was an exceptional man, he was a seaman, a captain, so naturally he would leave home, come back after some time, then leave again etc. The strange thing now is that since he passed away 6 years ago, hes been visiting me quite frequently in my dreams. My dreams are very lucid, sometimes i get confused if i dream or not, so i ask him why hes back since hes dead. Its like he comes back from one of his trips abroad and then he leaves

Thom Yorke saw Jeff Buckley live & said he was a big influence on his singing style i.e. using the whole range of his vocal abilities & the use of subtleties in his singing. He said this was the first song where he applied the inspiration he got from hearing Jeff Buckley. If anybody reading this has not heard Jeff Buckley's album Grace & you like Radiohead & Thom Yorke's singing style & range, then check out the full album on you tube. I'm not saying it sounds like a Radiohead album, but you can hear what Thom Yorke meant about the use of vocal range & expression, with power & with subtlety. It's a masterpiece of an album, great songs & a majestic vocal performance. What a loss Jeff Buckley is to the world of music. Great songwriter too.

“If I could be who you wanted, all the time…” Kills me every time man..

I was driving around Boston with my girlfriend listening to this song when she told me she loved me for the first time, she passed away 3 years ago and this song will always bring me back to her, I love you forever sweetheart

この曲を聴きながら、日光がちょうど私の体を覆うような時間帯で床に寝そべっています。このまま眠りたい

I can still feel the cellophane wrap in my hands when I opened this album for the first time.

"If I could be who you wanted all the time." Hits hard

I was 20 when this came out. I was lost, reaching for my identity. Now I'm 47, a dad of 4 and my wife is leaving me. That feeling of being lost is still here.

For 25 years, Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" has been in the background, but it's only now that I truly listen to it, truly feel every word. After eight years with my wife, at 42, I suddenly grasp the full weight of this song. It's strange how a familiar melody can suddenly hit differently. The tears I shed now aren't just for lost moments or past disillusionments, but for the painful acknowledgment of what I've experienced and felt in my relationship. Thom Yorke's voice, heavy with melancholy, touches me deeper than ever, resonating with my own fractures and revealing truths I had long ignored. It's a poignant revelation, sad yet beautifully unexpected.

One of the greatest songs ever. Heard it when I was 7 in 95. Listen to it all the time at age 36. Wish I could have seen them in concert.

"why did you take so long to buy groceries?" me:

When i'm in a supermarket, with my caddie, I always see Thom singing in the middle of my groceries. Always and forever.

This song reminds me of the feeling of trying to hold on to something you know was never real in the first place. Something that you try and prop up with an illusion of reality but deep down you feel it’s as illusory as the waking dreams you have of how things should be but never will be. Then it comes to a point where it all comes crashing down shattering in a myriad different pieces of what you thought was but never is. It can be anything. Love. Hope. Life. Your self image.

still one of the most beautiful songs ever...

Freezing cold morning at 2am in 1995 and we had left the cd playing all night, i woke up and this song was playing with the sound of the fire burning in the background... it was one of those surreal moments time stood still...i just listened with this melancholic feeling before drifting back to sleep. My life has been a series of ups and downs and twists and turns since then, sometimes it helps to go back to that moment in my mind to find the peace i once knew as a teen in the 90's.

I am 97 years old and just discover this band I hope that have a little more time to hear their songs

“If I could be who you wanted, all the time…” I can't say anything about this part, it's simply kills me

no. radiohead. go away. I don't need you tonight.... gotta listen away, can't skip this one- Thanks Thom i'm now depressed.

Radiohead is one of those rare bands that's perfect for the expanse between waking and sleeping. Too tired to stay up, but not tired enough to pass out. There are only a few bands that can properly fill those hours, and Radiohead's definitely one of them.

Here’s my interpretation. I think it’s about how we hold onto relationships that are disappointing and ultimately fake. Deep down we know they are fake, but the idea of leaving them behind and being alone makes us feel that we would blow through the ceiling. We might think to ourselves “Maybe it really doesn’t get better than this”. So instead we keep watering our fake plastic trees in the hopes that they become something real. This process wears us out everyday because no matter how much we water that plant, the tree will never become real. We trade being alone with the feeling of dissatisfaction and emptiness because we can’t seem to let them go. We then realise we aren’t who they need either and become insecure about our place in their life, just as they are in ours. Two people destined to stay together who should’ve always been apart.

This song will hits differently even the world has been disappeared

2024 ? Anyone ??

"She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love" That is the climax, the painful truth. My blindness and all those fake ideas, people, emotions and things I believed and wanted to believe are real...

was listening to this endlessly the day my dad died in april. don't know how i'm gonna listen to it ever again, to be honest. thinking about how my dad just never could be the guy any of us wanted him to be, no matter how much he wanted to. how much i wanted to run screaming from the hospital room he was laying unresponsive in. my mind has put up a block where his memory is and i just can't push past it. dunno how i feel about it. rest in peace i guess.

i'm 25 and I don't know what to do with my life... i feel safe in these comments. keep me hidden

It doesn't take more than the first chord for the nostalgic feeling to take over. A pure classic.

Radiohead comment section is the most depressingly wholesome place on the internet

I am sad to say I forgot how brilliant Radiohead were, until my 15 year old son reminded me. He started listening to them and reintroduced his mother to their brilliance.. Love love love.❤❤❤

in mere weeks i became literally obsessed with radiohead, completely new to almost every song that werent no surpises, creep, or karma police. ive learned the bends is one their most phenomenal albums and this song is just amazing. if i ever have kids, i really want them to listen to this funky band

they go so far deep into sadness it's almost happy again that's catharsis

I totally understand listening to "sad" music while depressed would seem to only reinforce the depression, but sometimes "sad" songs help a depressed person feel understood and less alone. I am also a fan of Portishead, and everyone hearing me listen to it would assume that it was depressive... I found it tremendously uplifting.

September 2023 and I've just discovered this absolute gem. Thom Yorkes voice is unreal.

It's not easy to be unique these days with so many different styles out there, but nobody sounds like Radiohead. Fantastic music

Thom York has one of the greatest voices in the history of rock music.

I was in a bar in Florida and they had an empty piano sitting there. In walked a very large Russian guy speaking broken English and he asked the bartender if he could play the piano. He started playing popular show tunes and no one was really paying attention to him . He saw me looking at him and he said to me what would you like to hear and I said I'm sure you don't know the music that I like and he replied try me. I said Radiohead. He started with Paranoid Android and played about 10 songs by Radiohead before he left. I asked the bartender who he was and he said I have no idea I've never seen him before. It was great almost like a ghost walked in played Radiohead and then disappeared. It was an interesting night that I enjoyed immensely. I think this memory of mine pretty much indicates how universal and overarching the music Radiohead makes.

I'll be 40 this September. I became a Radiohead fan when this album came out. This is hitting me

3:42 ここのシーンがめっちゃ好き。日本はもう夜だから寝ます、おやすみ

UNPOPULAR TAKE: I'm really not depressed. I just listen to this song cause it's an absolute banger.

I have never heard a more mood altering song like this... If you are happy, this song brings you down a notch or two... If you are sad, it picks you up... powerful

I listened to this a lot many years ago when my best friend died. People who don't understand think Radiohead would have made those times worse. It didn't. It got me through. This song released a feeling inside me that no other song ever will. A feeling of hope and peace. Thank you for this song and the help it gave me in the darkness ❤

The fact this song came out in 1995 is insane…2024 n here we are folks timeless classic

"If i could be who you wanted If i could be who you wanted All the time All the time" Always hits me really hard

Lyrics: [Verse 1] A green plastic watering can For a fake Chinese rubber plant In a fake plastic earth That she bought from a rubber man In a town full of rubber plans To get rid of itself [Chorus 1] It wears her out It wears her out It wears her out It wears her out [Verse 2] She lives with a broken man A cracked polystyrene man Who just crumbles and burns He used to do surgery For girls in the eighties But gravity always wins [Chorus 2] And it wears him out It wears him out It wears him out It wears [Verse 3] She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run [Chorus 3] And it wears me out It wears me out It wears me out It wears me out [Outro] And if I could be who you wanted If I could be who you wanted All the time All the time

Anyone listening to this song and is struggling. Remember people love you and this isn't the end. Just the beginning.

She looks like a real thing She tastes like a real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn And run My favourite lyrics from all the music

First time I went to London, my friend took me to Camden. We walked around and then went to a small coffeeshop. The coffeeshop was empty. My friend went to the bathroom and I sat at a table by the window. I remember the water of the Regent's Canal flickering under the night lights. Suddenly, this song began playing in the radio. In the building by the other side of the canal, people were having a dance lesson (salsa, it seemed). I sat there in silence, just mesmerized at all the beauty this world has to offer. The right song, at the right place, at the right time. It was unforgettable.

2023, this song makes even more sense than in 1997. I was 12 years old, poor kid in Brazil, and this song gave me the desire to learn English just to understand what the song was saying. I wanted to read the feelings in the lyrics. Radiohead changed my life for better for sure. 🇧🇷

Norman Reedus who plays Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead is in that video. He's the dude in dark coat, who struggles with his shopping cart and kicks a cardbox

I know these lads have moved well beyond this song and this album. But I really hope they realize how awesome this song is. This is the one that got me started on my Radiohead journey. And it still gives me goosebumps all these years later.

Radiohead: the only band to successfully use polystyrene in a song

"If I could be who you wanted, all the time..." *_I'M NOT CRYING, YOU ARE_*

“It wears me out” this song is awesome

When I first listened to this song, I thought it was a just a nice song. I listened to it several times and realised it is a very sad song. Now every time I listen to it I cant stop crying.

When you lose your mom at the supermarket

Radiohead tried to record this for months and couldn't figure it out, until they went to see Jeff Buckley live. 'Thom sat down and played it in three takes, then burst into tears afterwards. And that's what we used for the record' Colin, 1997

This song is from my youth. I was listening alone in my room. I can still remember my adolescent heart.

1995. Best song to come out as you were nearing adulthood and trying to figure things out. For me anyway. ❤

I think this is the most human song ever written

I remember sitting all alone in my room listening to this played on the radio while my parents were fighting outside. I was 10 or 11 years old. Everytime i hear this song it always breaks my heart for the love i never know during my childhood days. I hope you finally found the love you seek Pa, up there in heaven. I love you Dad.

absolutely amazing. i have no more words. absolutely fucking amazing.

Gotta admit, things get sad once you grow up.

Being an angst ridden teenager when this came out in the 90s this really expressed my melancholy emotions perfectly. I felt imperfect and misunderstood and this expressed what I couldn't express. Radiohead defined me as a teenager growing up when other groups couldn't. They got me and I got them. They gave me the validation I craved and wanted. It was music for the jilted generation.

As a 15 year old I thank my dad for my music taste

This song continues to be in my daily playlist! I can’t listen to it enough and love singing with my heart and soul. It speaks to our inner child who wants real love in a fake world. What could be more cathartic ?

RIP for those who only listen to creep. All radiohead songs are masterpiece thats why I like this band

sometimes we need sadnees to make us apreciate happiness and sometimes we need darkness to fall in love with light....

I feel like, this song is about the weight of expectation and the experience of disappointment. One of my favorite songs for years

thank you, Jeff Buckley, for inspiring Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke and Radiohead for waking me up.

"She looks like the real thing, She taste like the real thing, My fake plastic love" , "And if i could be who you wanted" these parts hit me so hard right now..

This song kisses all my scars.

Αφήνω ένα σχόλιο στα Ελληνικά που λέει πως ό,τι γλώσσα κ αν μιλάμε όσοι αγαπάμε αυτό το τραγούδι, αυτό το συγκρότημα, την καλή μουσική είμαστε αδέλφια που μας ενώνει η σπουδαία τέχνη.

If you don’t get goosebumps throughout this killer masterpiece, then you are half dead! I think it’s their best song and it’s not even close.

This song is absolute genius. It talks about how fake people are nowadays, that they pretend who they are not and thus comparing them to plastic. "Gravity always wins" refers to how in the end they will fall, and they will be forced to come true. All of this fake behaviour, fake things and fake people wears the protagonist out. In the end, the protagonist too wishes to become fake just so he can get his love. This song single-handedly exposes one of the biggest problems in our modern society, how people are forced to act who they are not so they can be perceived as "cool" and not "lame" and won't be socially alienated anymore.

listening to Radiohead at midnight. depression mode: on

In the late 90s everytime I saw a new Radiohead music video I was taken to a magical world rampant with raw emotions. I’m 46 now and they will always remain my favorite band

Probably one of the most emotional song in the rock alternativ history. The melody, the lyrics, the voice.

How can a song I have heard a million times still break my heart like it was the first time?

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

Truly one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Thank you Radiohead.

The song, Yorke's performance, the direction and last but not least the cinematography (a rare outstanding job in music videos) 👏👏👏👏👏👏

There's no way to describe this. Is it rock? Folk? Grunge? Alternative? Psychedelic? It sounds like all of them put together ... and it's beautiful

"She looks like the real thing , She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love" Idk why but that part gives me so much chill and sadness in same time..

I’m 180 years old and I love this song.

Thom looks like a little kid in that shopping cart.

This is one of the most important songs of my life.

Greetings to all those guyz who came after listenin the "creep". inorder to check out for more masterpiece By RADIOHEAD!!!

I’m high asf this song just made me cry I ain’t gon lie

That's not just music...that's a legacy of wonder.

Today's my birthday. Got greeted by like 6 people, no celebration. Nothing special happened this day but at least I'm ending it with a special song. Happy 21st to me. *edit: Thank you everyone! Keep safe. :>

i listened to this song while i was on the plane, looking at the sky. and suddenly i realized, that it’s really magical how we get to meet people in our lives with the same interests as us. in this vast, diverse, world, the universe allowed me to meet you ♡