A POLL IN A CAGE ON ANTIBIOTICS - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD - RESULTS THREAD

thank God for small favors

so Black Holes and Revelations isn't placing then?

*high 5s nearby radiohead fans*

Damn, Muse are way more popular than radiohead among spotify users.

I'm more of a Parachutes fan myself, wish that one had placed.

http://i.imgur.com/IMoQQ7n.png

02. Kid A [48 votes | 19 #1 votes | 1732 points]

http://i.imgur.com/ctqmWar.png

01. OK Computer [52 votes | 13 #1 votes | 1831 points]

Thought Kid A would win this one. More #1 votes but I guess there's a couple of ILM users who didn't even consider it in their top 5 albums.

Bleuch. ALL WRONG.

But I only have myself to blame as I got really sick and forgot to vote.

I love Muse, I'd love to run a Muse ILM poll but I figure I'd get like 3 participants.

If the albums had been ordered according to how many points their songs received in the tracks ballot, it would've been:

01. OK Computer
02. Kid A
03. The Bends
04. Hail to the Thief
05. In Rainbows
06. Amnesiac
07. The King of Limbs
08. Pablo Honey

how many total ballots again? did everyone vote OKC?

I'm viewing that as essentially a Kid A/OKC tie. With 19 #1 votes, you probably wouldn't have to tinker with the scoring system much to put Kid A in first.

yeah, like making #1 votes the only ones that count

Album rankings pretty much OTM, except I'd place Pablo Honey over The King Of Limbs. Say what you like, but as flawed as their debut is, it still boasts some (in my opinion) good material (and no, I'm not thinking about the obvious here either), and has a youthful energy to it that their later material lacks. I guess it's kinda like their Adolescent Sex to Kid A's Tin Drum, or whatever. The King Of Limbs is obviously more "exploratory" (for want of a better term) and more in the art-rock vein, but while it sounds beautiful it places, the songs at their core aren't really up to snuff IMO.

amnesiac is far too low imo. my #1.

muse are one of the least ilm-friendly bands possible

ilm just needs some training: http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Muse-Fan

did we get enough ballots for a music videos poll?

Only 4! I'll run down the top 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8

03. Just [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 73 points]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLEbAVjiLA

02. Paranoid Android [3 votes | 96 points]

so classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxyXg

01. No Surprises [4 votes | 1 #1 vote | 145 points]

cool. thanks for that!

Going to start the tracks now. Hope I don't embarrass myself with the graphics, never done anything like that before. There's no rhyme or reason to the pictures used. Also, credit is due to whoever did the amazing pictures for the Madonna poll, whose style I've shamelessly stolen.

http://i.imgur.com/JsxSzEp.jpg

50. Videotape [9 votes | 202 points]

ilm just needs some training: http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Muse-Fan

― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref)

Appreciate the use of classical pieces in songs such as 'Butterflies and Hurricanes', and 'Space Dementia'. Understand that Bellamy is a genius and has many classical influences.

http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/imagecache/Node_Page/images/1310408441466.jpg

Oh nate I could have helped with the banners! Should have told me! I did a quick one for a past tribute event we had at one of my bars, it would've been easy to adapt to your poll:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t31.0-8/10477365_296838937156891_4158892196298291131_o.jpg

Ah man they would've looked amazing! I wish I had subbed it out.

http://i.imgur.com/jliZTRr.jpg

49. Palo Alto [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 202 points]

these graphics are cool

^^

yes they work well

xp how many bars do u have

http://i.imgur.com/UoG53fk.jpg

48. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 208 points]

damn, these #1 votes are interesting

oh polyethylene would've totally made my ballot if it hadn't apparently totally slipped my mind by the time I dashed it off

i listened to the airbag ep mowing the lawn every week, true story

'Videotape' is one of those tracks for me that works better in the context of the album than in isolation. I don't mind it, and the effects towards the end sound great on headphones, but there's much better from In Rainbows to come in this poll, I suspect.

'Palo Alto' is fucking great, though. That vocal melody is so Michael Stipe it hurts.

Yeah these images you have, Nate, are really fitting with the band's aesthetic either way! They look really nice.

xxxp: two bars so far, and a club coming up sometime next year.

also started a geocities fan website in 1997 that didn't go anywhere, truly loved underscores and clinical fonts

polyethelene popped into my head out of nowhere about 6 months ago.

http://i.imgur.com/JY54HTN.jpg

47. Fog [8 votes | 2 #1 votes | 210 points]

part 2 of polyethylene is awesome. I completely overlooked this one.

'Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)' is pretty decent, and have always enjoyed the way it starts with just Thom and acoustic, before he gives up and the band come in and start rocking. It's definitely a B-side though, in my opinion.

3 of my votes have showed up already

'Fog' on the other hand, is definitely NOT B-side material, and really should have made it onto Amnesiac. The second half of that album could definitely been improved by having more tracks of this calibre on there. Beautiful track.

also started a geocities fan website in 1997 that didn't go anywhere, truly loved underscores and clinical fonts

― mattresslessness, Monday, 8 September 2014 22:30 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the perfect aesthetic for a radiohead poll

Heh, well did a quick experiment with the template I already had but I think I ended up liking yours better.

http://i.imgur.com/AddDNma.jpg

1997 is where it all began, we are now in 17 AD

'How I Made My Millions' is almost a pisstake of Thom's non-verbal singing, right?

When There There, Planet Telex, and then Bodysnatchers run into each other on a playlist in that order it doesn't seem like Radiohead have actually been all that radical in their development over that 13/14 year period. Obviously there's a lot of other stuff too, but I used to think of Kid A as a real "this is a new band" moment and it's, of course, not that simple at all.

This poll's really fucking broken me.

This was tweeted by Thom and just retweeted by Radiohead.

http://i.imgur.com/SR8HuMM.jpg

more linocut artwork, huh

God, coloured vinyl always looks so good.

p. sure that's just a dinner plate

great poll

I'd love to do another one to see how A Moon Shaped Pool would get on.

would think it needs more time, surely KoL would fare better by now

I also think we should have a thread for hilarious fan hyperbole and fill it with quotes on Radiohead

also, FIGHT!:

http://i.imgur.com/cJOKUb7.png

http://thequietus.com/articles/23859-grant-gee-radiohead-interview-meeting-people-is-easy

Excellent and amusing insight into how Grant Gee made the No Surprises video. I'd love to read a nice fat Q+A type book about their whole career. There still isn't a decent Radiohead book as far as i'm aware?

I kept things simple. Only four!.

Solid list.

My top four, too — but their best rock riff is The National Anthem.

“Bodysnatchers” for me, but I will rep for “There, There” too.

'I Might Be Wrong'

Kid A for me, but leaving out The Bends is like leaving out the heart.

You guys been listening to the weekly gigs from their archive? Dublin 2000 and Bonaroo 2006 have been really excellent so far. Soundboard quality too. Astoria ‘94 tonight..

https://youtu.be/RjQZd8p-eBM

it's cool they're doing this weekly thing for the pandemic... though it's all (so far) stuff they already put out on their "public library" site. I'd probably be more enthused to check it out if not for that... even though I haven't gotten around to much of it yet! Oh well.

About this poll.... I just recently did my first ilm artist ballot and I may have misunderstood about albums. Are you only supposed to list the ones you really like (or, i guess, "rate")? I'm just surprised at the low number of votes for Pablo Honey. I doubt that few of the voters ever heard Pablo Honey. They just didn't even bother to put it last on their list?

the rules for polls vary a fair bit, the underworld poll is definitely a huge outlier in ballot size. i'd imagine for this one people were only allowed to vote for a maximum of 5 albums.