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

The live version of I Might Be Wrong is far superior

It's funny, I only voted for one song on "Amnesiac" (not this one) but it was #2 on my album ballot. Harder really to abstract individual tracks from it even than with "Kid A" - it's a mood piece. "Kid A" is arctic depression, "Amnesiac" more gauzy melancholy. "I Might Be Wrong" nestles into the flow of it just fine.

http://i.imgur.com/iUJXGF1.jpg

37. Where I End and You Begin [13 votes | 293 points]

I agonized over cutting "Knives Out" off of my ballot (it ended up in my top 25) but it never even occurred to me to keep "I Might Be Wrong" past the initial shortlist compilation stage; its placement here feels about right.

WIEAYB is another just-missed track; there was a point where I seriously considered just submitting every HTTT song but that would have been silly and a total disservice to the rest of the Bends through HTTT run, which borders on impeccable for me.

xp "I Might Be Wrong" was my number 3. Love the murkiness, like a drone.

Where I End is proof that it's impossible to go wrong biting Theme for Great Cities.

Speaking of songs that sound like the Chili Peppers

i sacrificed I Might Be Wrong at #20 for a sentimental selection. i guess those points would've bumped it up a spot at least

http://i.imgur.com/DtiI1RV.jpg

36. Myxomatosis [14 votes | 300 points]

How can Nude place lower than Where I End? Tell you what, fuck this poll and fuck the lot of you. I'm off.

<3 you really, even though you're all wrong

might be, anyway

I like the groove on I Might Be Wrong, kind of a bouncy country thing

are you a rabbit? no? then you don't have myxomatosis, Thom.

Not sure how I feel about Myxomatosis. I don't like the way it just starts like that.

X post he's a rabbit in your headlights.

HTTT is the album where they wrote a bunch of songs based off of funny words they found in the dictionary

myxomatosis would have been in my top 5 if i voted

http://i.imgur.com/hWD4W0n.jpg

35. Black Star [13 votes | 300 points]

at their art-rock best imo xp

Black Star holds up well. Unlike H&D, it sounds very 90s in all of the right ways imo.

http://i.imgur.com/64ou6Mk.jpg

34. Knives Out [13 votes | 304 points]

i still can't hear the supposed Smiths influence in Knives Out. great song though.

i think the influence is just in the melodic chiming circular riff to it, but yeah, it doesn't stand out too much to me either. there are also people who say that it's just a barely reworked version of paranoid android, which again, i can barely hear but doesn't bother me at all.

quite surprised to see 'Nude' drift by with a low ranking and no discussion, were people disappointed by the recorded version after much anticipation or what?

I'm surprised Knives Out is this low, it's one of my favorites although I guess I'm biased toward their more guitar-centric stuff

Yeah I've heard the Paranoid Android thing said (only ever on ILM), I can't hear it at all.

Knives Out is the first of my top ten songs to place.

The chord progression to "Knives Out" is similar to the chord progression of the A section of "Paranoid Android"; once PA gets to The Riff, the similarity goes away.

xpost I have to admit the studio version was slightly disappointing. I was so used to the version with glockenspiel on Meeting People is Easy. Also the MPIE seemed to have a light innocence that the IR version somehow lacked?

this is the version of nude (from 1998) i was talking about: YOUTUBE link

sorry for going on about this but i meant that the musical accompaniment with the hammond organ and glockenspiel in the 1998 version was light and innocent (whatever the fuck i mean by that). obv the lyrics have always been stereotypical radiohead downerism. but i think i preferred the older version because the music and lyrics were such a great contrast

I'd never heard that. Maybe that's why I like the IR version so much. It's a cool version, but I actually miss all of Thom's oooo-ahhhs.

Sorry to be contrary but I really have no idea what's so special about "Nude". I mean, I just listened to that YouTube clip three minutes ago and I can't even remember what it sounded like.

yeah the most amazing 'new song' bit in Meeting People Is Easy was that solo version of How To Disappear..

http://i.imgur.com/5HXzlW7.jpg

33. Bodysnatchers [15 votes | 332 points]

this song rocks

Yeah, I love this.

I might be wrong, black star and knives out where always some of my least favorite Radiohead songs. Where I End and Bodysnatchers on the other hand...

I really hope the gloaming is making it.

Nude is beautiful and sensual. I'd never previously heard the early version but I remember thinking it was the first time I'd heard Radiohead sounding so mellow and at peace with themselves. The sung ooohs towards the end are particularly special to me.

And I'm Def one of those people who can't help but hear Knives Out as a poor man's Paranoid Android. The guitar motif is just too similar.

Bodysnatchers suffers from being a heavy rock track on an otherwise fairly chilled album and I often find myself skipping it for that reason.

Always saw Black Star as one of the lesser tracks on The Bends but I think it's actually improved with age. Hope its neighbour, Bulletproof, places though

Bodysnatchers end part goes perfectly with Nude, in my opinion.

"Bodysnatchers" is the song that keeps making me think I don't find In Rainbows boring; then I try listening to the whole album and it's like instant naptime

great song, though (really many of the IR songs are good; they just don't work as an album for me)

http://i.imgur.com/7laL112.jpg

32. 2 + 2 = 5 [17 votes | 335 points]

Great song, didn't vote for it (it was on the bubble)

it's fun to listen to 2+2=5 with only the left earbud in

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

31. In Limbo [16 votes | 1 #1 vote | 353 points]

Bodysnatchers suffers from being a heavy rock track on an otherwise fairly chilled album and I often find myself skipping it the rest of the album for that reason.

good run here, I like all of the last 4 a lot