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

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.

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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.

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

It's definitely a B-side though, in my opinion.

Compared to the other OKC songs, maybe...but it feels too substantial for a b-side.

"Palo Alto," on the other hand, is definitely a b-side, but more of the "Old Brown Shoe"/"The Inner Light" variety (i.e., a b-side you actually come back to).

I voted specifically for the live version of fog on I think the comlag ep, which is just gorgeous as anything

feel there is at least a 60% chance I browsed matt p's site back in the day

Fog is too low! I'd rate it as a top 5 song in a B-sides poll and top 30 overall.

yeah I like 'fog (again)' as well. were votes split between 'fog' and 'fog (again)'?

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46. Jigsaw Falling Into Place [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 220 points]

think I felt guilty for placing 'worrywort' so high that I left 'Fog' and 'Cuttooth' out

Videotape TOO LOW (even though i didn't vote for it).

not so keen of this one

'Jigsaw Falling Into Place' too low, the guitar work on this is just sublime, particularly in the outro.

There was only one vote for Fog (Again).

"JUST AS YOU DANCE DANCE Dance Dance dance dance..." *gorgeous guitar part*

Videotape is too low indeed.

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45. House of Cards [10 votes | 224 points]

...and there it is, my least favourite track on In Rainbows. I find it pleasant enough while I'm passively listening to it, but have always found it a bit of a snoozer otherwise. Next!

i like the key parties reference.

very excited for your next summary xp

forgot how good Palo Alto was good, actually better than half of OKC imo.

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44. The Bends [10 votes | 226 points]

rules

pretty cool how thom harmonizes with the opening guitar part like sad george benson

xxxpost:

Better than half of OK Computer is pushing it, but yeah, it's a great track. I've just played it again and have been thinking it would have been great if R.E.M. had attempted a version of it. The vocal melody and lyric sound firmly in Stipe territory to my ears, and it definitely sounds like Thom/the band had been listening to R.E.M. a little more than usual.

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43. All I Need [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 230 points]

xxpost: yeah i'm pushing it, but i'm not the biggest ok computer fan honestly.

very excited for your next summary xp

― mattresslessness, Monday, 8 September 2014 22:52 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

need to find yr 1997 geocities fan website on archive.org

is thom yorke drinking riesling there?

it's boone's farm. he's listening to 'radar love'.

'The Bends' is such a great track and one of my all-time favourites. While I think I'd heard and enjoyed a couple of singles from The Bends by the time of their Later With Jools performance in '95 (although I can definitely say for certain that I hadn't heard 'Creep' yet - I'd kinda neatly bypassed that whole thing), it was their performance of this track that really made me sit up and take notice. The fact that it was a great song was one thing, but there was also this sense of "holy fuck, what's the guitarist doing with that string?". I don't know how long it was after that that I was in a record store listening to them play the whole album in the background and thinking "yeah, I want this album", but I'm sure it wasn't long after I saw 'em play 'The Bends' on Jools.

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42. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [11 votes | 234 points]

^^^ great song, didn't vote for it

it's a shame they don't play it live that much (25 times, latest in 2012) but yeah, great song, just off my ballot.

same here

I would have put it on a 30-track ballot

I wasn't amazingly keen on 'All I Need' at first but it grew on me steadily. I love the bass sound on it particularly, but the best moment of the track for me is the outro. They really had a thing with outros on In Rainbows: this, 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place', 'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi'...

'Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box' would have made my ballot with no hesitation or doubt if I'd bothered to cobble one together. In fact, I'm convinced that it should have been a single. Live versions around the time were great re-interpretations of the track, but I think it's just perfect in the form it is on Amnesiac. It's a great electropop song, and those electronic tones sound lovely to my ears. There's nothing really avant-garde about this, and the band themselves would probably disagree (as would many Radiohead fan), but 'Packt Like Sardines' is definitely a pop song... and that's a good thing!

Last one for tonight:

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41. Creep [13 votes | 235 points]

too high

not familiar with this one.