Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Director: Jake Scott Producer: Ellen JacobsonCinematography: Salvatore Totino Production company: Black Dog Films (LA) Commissioner: Dilly Gent

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[petersmith]

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

[Sbibb]

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

[xPassiflorax]

''I wish they would only take me as I am.'

— Vincent van Gogh

[Smilthy]

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.

[HEXAGRAM-mocg]

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

[horseconfused]

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

[ronneyrendon]

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

[Itsyrm]

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

[irvingg.]

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.

[tribecop]

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

[prodNieva]

still one of the most beautiful songs ever...

[miguelrodriguez-pineroriva]

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

[JohnDoe-tmwz]

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

[timmyteaching]

She was so funny and always in place. I cherished her.

[davidkarin]

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.

[mosriteminioncause]

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.

[marcosgomes]

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

[cantomosha]

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.

[unt]

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.

[JGuier]

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.