Radiohead - Lyrics Knowledge Trivia Quiz

Answer: A Wolf at the Door

To be exact, it is the last line of the chorus, which appears twice in the song.

"I keep the wolf from the door, but he calls me up.
Calls me on the phone, tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up.
Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom,
and I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops..."

'A Wolf at the Door' (with the alternate title 'It Girl. Rag Doll.') appeared on the sixth LP album "Hail to the Thief" (2003).

Answer: butter

"You've got a head full of feathers, you got melted to butter" appears in the song 'Faust Arp' from the seventh LP album "In Rainbows" (2007). That line is the last one in the song.

'Faust Arp' is a song which only uses vocals, guitars and strings. It's really beautiful when you listen to it more often. It also has the most lyrics in the whole album, despite being the shortest song.

Answer: God loves his children.

The excerpt is from nearly the end of the six-minute-plus song. The other lines are made up by myself.

'Paranoid Android' appears on the third LP album "OK Computer" (1997) and is one of Radiohead's longest songs with six minutes and 22 seconds. It originally consisted of three separate ideas which were all summed up together in this one song.

Answer: Get to the bunker

There's the line "Who's in a bunker?", but not "Get to the bunker". Again, this was made up.

'Idioteque' is a track on the fourth LP album "Kid A" (2000) and features electronic sounds and drums. When Radiohead plays this song live, Thom (the vocalist) usually dances like crazy on stage!

Answer: Talk Show Host

'Talk Show Host' didn't appear on any of the first seven LP albums, but it is pretty famous, not only because it's an awesome track.

This song is also the title song for William Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" (1996) movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Answer: an airbag

It's from the song 'Airbag', another track from "OK Computer".

The second half of the second verse looks like this:
"In a fast German car
I am amazed that I survived,
an airbag saved my life."

Answer: the moon

This verse is featured in the song 'Sail to the Moon' (with the alternate title 'Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.') which appears on the sixth LP album "Hail to the Thief" (2003).

It's one of their most beautiful songs, although it might at first sound a very little dissonant to you in the beginning.

Answer: The Tourist

'The Tourist' is one of, if not the most beautiful tracks on this album, and it's a slow swing-styled calm song.

The chorus lyrics look as follows:

"Hey, man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down."

Answer: twice

They appear in the second verse and in the third verse, after the bridge.

'Let Down' is featured on the album "OK Computer" (1997). This song was originally supposed to be the first single from the album, but Radiohead then chose 'Paranoid Android' instead.

Answer: Dinosaurs roaming the earth

"Dinosaurs roaming the earth" is the last line in 'Optimistic' and is sung three times.
The similar phrase with the same meaning from 'Where I End And You Begin' is "The dinosaurs roam the earth" and it appears quite at the beginning of the song.

When I first heard/read it, it kinda struck me a little. It's not like Radiohead reuses a certain line for another song very often! (From what I've noticed, plastic bags also appear more often in their songs.)

Answer: Fake Plastic Trees

The part where this appears sounds as follows:

"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."

'Fake Plastic Trees' (a song on the second LP album "The Bends" (1995)) is a slow song that starts out calmly and builds up as the song progresses.

Answer: OK Computer

The words "carbon monoxide" are featured in the song 'No Surprises', and the whole line (just before the first chorus) goes as follows:

"I'll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide."

Answer: It is the 21st century.

The line appears in the second half of the song. The other lines are not sung twice in a row.

'Bodysnatchers' is a pretty catching track from the seventh LP album "In Rainbows" (2007).

Answer: Planet Telex

'Planet Telex' (a track on "The Bends" (1995)) does not feature the words "Planet Telex" in the song.

There are quite a few songs which don't feature their titles in their lyrics. Some examples are (not featuring instrumental tracks) 'Bodysnatchers', 'In Limbo', 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', 'How to Disappear Completely (and never be found again)', 'Idioteque', 'Pyramid Song', 'The National Anthem', 'Paranoid Android', 'Fake Plastic Trees', among some others.

Answer: Ghost Horses

The second part (when the drums come in) of the song's lyrics goes as follows:

"You forget so easy.
We ride tonight, we ride tonight,
ghost horses, ghost horses.
We ride tonight, we ride tonight,
ghost horses, ghost horses, ghost horses."

'You and whose Army?' is featured on the fifth LP album "Amnesiac" (2001), which starts out kind of calm, but after the drums come in, it sounds really godlike. The piano part also sounds really heavy.