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

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

such a great, weird song

yeah this has the most slurred and mumbled chorus that's ever been on an album that's gone to Number 1 in America surely. i like it.

Alright, now we're getting to the good stuff. In Limbo was my #2. I just love it.

If "High and Dry" is the template for Coldplay, then "Pearly*" (which I am guessing won't place but I love, it was in my top 5) is surely the template for Muse.

http://i.imgur.com/Q4JGfe4.jpg

30. The Tourist [15 votes | 2 #1 votes | 376 points]

I predict all of Kid A will make it safe for Treefingers.

The Tourist is another of my top ten, for a long time it was probably my favourite song ever.

Coulda been my #1...it was 2nd on my ballot by a fraction of a sliver.

Lucky > The Tourist

The 2 of them together is a powerful album closer.

It's my 6th highest placed OKC track. Absolutely stunning song that I underrated forever.

they are a great closing 1-2 but i did not feel compelled to rank either track very highly individually

If "High and Dry" is the template for Coldplay, then "Pearly*" (which I am guessing won't place but I love, it was in my top 5) is surely the template for Muse.

― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:22 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lucky > The Tourist

― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with this post, i hope to highlight the OTMness of the above two posts

http://i.imgur.com/HncH57g.jpg

29. Life in a Glasshouse [16 votes | 1 #1 vote | 379 points]