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Musician plays Radiohead's "No Surprises" on actual rocks

Popkin
Nov 18, 2025
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Simon Portefaix on Instagram: "No Surprises - Radiohead 🪨

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This guy takes the idea of rock music quite literally. Watch Simon Portefaix play an incredible cover of Radiohead’s “No Surprises” by drumming on actual rocks. I prefer this version to the original — it sounds magical.

In the comments, Portefaix explains that he spent hours carefully selecting stones that naturally had these pitches so he wouldn’t have …

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