We asked our readers to pick 10 essential Radiohead tracks for newcomers. Here's what they came up with

Earlier this week we asked readers via Twitter and Facebook which Radiohead songs they would recommend to newcomers. We've compiled a list of 10 tracks – covering each of the band's albums.

We've put the tracks into a YouTube playlist, or you can click each song title to watch on YouTube, or listen on Spotify. We've included a little bit of information on the songs, and some links to our Radiohead coverage below for those who;d like to find out more about the band.

Commonly regarded as one of Radiohead's greatest songs, Paranoid Android covers two different time signatures and three different key signatures, and sounds like several songs stitched together. Does that make it the pre-millennial Stairway to Heaven? You decide.

With an intro that sounds like something from a trance track, Idioteque uses blippy synths, electronic beats and harmonised falsetto vocals to create one of the Radiohead's most atmospheric songs. Indicative of the change in direction the band took on Kid A, it quickly became one of their most popular tracks with critics and fans.

Fake Plastic Trees (and the whole of the Bends for that matter) represents a shift from the grunge-lite of previous album Pablo Honey. One of the album's more subtle tracks, in hindsight it seems to point towards the sounds and themes of follow-up OK Computer.

The first single from their sixth album, There There appears to be about a failing relationship ("Just because you feel it, doesn't mean it's there") although, as is usually the case with Thom Yorke's lyrics, they could be about something else entirely. Radiohead are never ones to shy away from ambiguity.

Reckoner features haunting, atmospheric guitars that capture your attention on a single listen. Radiohead geeks will also point out that the song is placed 61.8% of the way through the album, following the Golden Ratio and supposedly offers an aesthetically pleasing positioning. RADIOHEAD FACT.

The sign of a truly great band arguably lies in the strength of their B-sides; Talk Show Host demonstrates a band so confident in their songwriting abilities they're happy to put something as good as Talk Show Host as a mere support track to Street Spirit.

On Codex, and King of Limbs in general, Radiohead move into more leftfield territory, increasingly experimenting with texture and rhythm.

Angsty, grungy, and bristling with emotion, Creep was a huge hit for the band and for some it remains the quintessential Radiohead track. The three blasts of noise leading into the choruses are created by lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood literally hitting the strings of his guitar while muting them with this fretting hand – he felt the song to be too "wimpy" beforehand.

With a strange time signature, impenetrable lyrics and a sinister and beautifully disconcerting feel, Pyramid Song builds on the minimalistic sound the band established in the post-OK Computer era.

The result of a competition between Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood over who could get the most chords into one song, this is a four-minute long firestorm of punky guitars and angsty sneer.

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