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

um... yes?

so he says all of that creepy stuff in the verses and then realizes how creepy he is in the chorus?

see my previous post

woo my no. 1 already placed ("fog")

best thing that was ever associated with Creep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RB3edZyeYw

it's a funny song

He says 'BUT I'm a creep' not 'BECAUSE I'm a creep'. I just want the narrator to know that he is a creep because of all those thoughts in the verses.

I voted Videotape for this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njCps4jGaks

thought strong chance creep wouldn't place which would've been fun

also, ppl need to listen to jigsaw more, that is a great song

the day Creep went Top 10 in the UK (late Summer '93) i bumped into a gloomy Damon Albarn and an upbeat Loz 'Kingmaker' Hardy sat together in a Manchester bar just before Elastica's first ever gig outside of London. DA needled me for having a Suede t shirt on but was pretty nonplussed when i asked him what he thought of an indie band going into the Top 10. seemed like a pretty big deal to me, as it hadn't happened much since The Stone Roses, if at all. Loz Hardy told me "aw they can fuck off". happy days.

Glad All I Need placed, lovely moody muscular track.

several xposts to DJP:

Yeah, those two definitely make for a great album opening. There's been a lot of discussion since Amnesiac came out of shuffling the track order and including B-sides from the same sessions etc. and while I think the album is a bit of a jumble in terms of song order (particularly the second half), they definitely got the two opening tracks right.

I don't see 'Creep' in the same way that others do... I'd never even heard it until after I'd bought The Bends! I didn't know anything about how the band felt about it or anything about the band trying to shake off a "one-hit wonder" tag until much later. When I did finally hear it (post-Bends, pre-OKC) I liked it, and still continue to like it. It seems to get a load of shit off the newer fans that got into Radiohead after OK Computer, though.

He says 'BUT I'm a creep' not 'BECAUSE I'm a creep'. I just want the narrator to know that he is a creep because of all those thoughts in the verses.

― wolves at doors: they flan @ u face (Sufjan Grafton)

Don't overthink it, it's just the following clause to 'I wish I was special'.

ah, good call. it always sounded so absurd to me. like a version of 'Taxman' where George sings 'but I'm the Taxman' in the chorus.

Yeah, that's how I've always heard the lyric too, as the following clause to 'I wish I was special'. It's just Thom putting some chick on a pedestal and obsessing over her while not feeling particularly chipper about himself.

Amazing to think that even around the time of 'Creep', Thom still had 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' in his back pocket, waiting to be given the organ'n'Disney harp treatment.

it amazes me more that you could not 'bother to cobble' a ballot together when you clearly love this band and its albums
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Nyp8A9QWcbY/RuqdNu38BUI/AAAAAAAAANw/TXROvgusVqY/s1600-h/vote%20or%20die.jpg

I can't believe how few points The King of Limbs has compared to the rest of their albums (and also very surprised From the Basement didn't make the cut). Makes me wish I'd put it at number one (not that it would have done anything considering the points difference), because there's no way it isn't better than In Rainbows or HttT. Also interesting to see the earlier b-sides picking up #1 votes.

And with Jigsaw and Packt showing today I think every single one of my votes should place!

Catching up now. I was the vote for Fog (Again), love the piano.

Jigsaw is awesome, wasn't gonna vote for it until I re-listened for this poll. It was my number 18 (or something around there).

I can't believe how few points The King of Limbs has compared to the rest of their albums (and also very surprised From the Basement didn't make the cut). Makes me wish I'd put it at number one (not that it would have done anything considering the points difference), because there's no way it isn't better than In Rainbows or HttT. Also interesting to see the earlier b-sides picking up #1 votes.

And with Jigsaw and Packt showing today I think every single one of my votes should place!

― olly, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:53 AM

???

From the Basement hasn't been released as an album has it? On the other thread I was saying that they should join the two FTB sessions from In Rainbows and TKOL and release them as a live album since they're excellent performances.

I was the vote for Fog (Again)

and i was the other #1 vote

is every song from In Rainbows going to make it? we already have four.

2/10 so far.

I'm ok with no more IR songs making it, srsly what's wrong with y'all

nothing, must be you ;-)

i'd guess nude and reckoner will make it.

pretty sure Weird Fishes is making it also.

Nude, Arpeggi and Reckoner will surely make it. 15 Step and Bodysnatchers wont. Faust Arp depends on the joke votes.

Bodysnatchers will make it. I believe.

i feel like the representation of In Rainbows in the tracks poll is going to expose the ridiculousness of it placing 3rd in the albums poll.

glad "Palo Alto" made the cut, was in my top ten. funny how the would-be title track of OK Computer became a b-side that it's hard to imagine fitting onto the album proper, but it's so catchy.

I bought my In Rainbows vinyl at a show and it has surface nose galore.

i don't think i had any idea how divisive In Rainbows is. putting it #1 for albums was the easiest decision of my whole ballot.

i feel like the representation of In Rainbows in the tracks poll is going to expose the ridiculousness of it placing 3rd in the albums poll.

i know, should have been higher.

*throws hands up in the air*

*waves them around like ... oh wait, this is a Radiohead thread*

in rainbows is the best radiohead album

yeah i almost put it at #1 too

Wait... there's people who hate In Rainbows?

fwiw, I like In Rainbows the most out of all the post-Kid A albums that I don't like.

i don't think i had any idea how divisive In Rainbows is. putting it #1 for albums was the easiest decision of my whole ballot.

― Roberto Spiralli

Same here. It's a perfect album. Really hoping Weird Fishes makes the list. Feel like it's one of the most ignored songs on the album but it's easily my favourite.

I wish I liked anything by Radiohead after "Worrywort" as much as some folks here seem to. 'In Rainbows' was definitely a big improvement over 'Hail To the Thief,' but even still it takes both discs being culled down to 10 or so tracks to be about as good as 'Amnesiac,' which was pretty middling.

Anybody else like the 'Atoms for Peace' disc and Yorke's solo album better than anything after 'Kid A' besides me?

Personally I rank post Kid A stuff as:

In Rainbows
Eraser / TKOL
Amnesiac / Atoms for Peace
Hail to the Thief

Hail to the Thief is their best album

3/10 so far; "Palo Alto" was also in my top ten, happy that it made the list.

also, just got home from work and am seeing the images on a computer screen instead of my phone, they're great

xxpost: I have grown to appreciate it better but it still feels exhausted and all over the place for me.

Since "Creep" has already placed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTF8Cn3Z0nI

Palo Alto my number one, thanks for asking

Eraser's my second favourite Radiohead and related projects album, after okc. Although except for in rainbows I hardly know any of the later albums, lol call myself a fan. Had a few goes at atoms for peace but so far it's failed to stick.

Before last week I hadn't listened to In Rainbows for ~3 years, and for some reason in that three years my dislike of it intensified based on my kinda misremembered impressions. But on re-listen I just found it inoffensive (and still liked it more than Pablo and Bends).

Still, it's far too austere for my liking and it's the height of Thom's lugubrious moaning which is just a chore to listen to. Pretty much everything I actually like about it is done better in TKOL.