Fake Plastic Trees by Viking Cowboy

Fake Plastic Trees is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released on their second album, The Bends (1995). It was the third single from The Bends in the UK, and the first in the US. It reached the top 50 on the UK Singles Chart, the New Zealand Singles Chart, the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and the Canadian Rock, Alternative chart. Thom Yorke, Radiohead s songwriter, said Fake Plastic Trees was the product of a joke that wasn t really a joke, a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of He said the song arose from a melody he had no idea what to do with. He did not take his usual approach of keeping note of whatever my head s singing at the particular moment or forcing some nifty phrases he devised onto the melody, and instead just recorded whatever was going on in my head. He said: I wrote those words and laughed. I thought they were really funny, especially that bit about polysty