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

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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

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

This was my number one. So haunting, so mournful. Amazing New Orleans horns.

The Tourist was in my top ten, possibly the flat out prettiest song Radiohead ever did

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28. A Wolf at the Door [17 votes | 1 #1 vote | 389 points]

Closing tracks!

woah, that's weird

wolf at the door is my #2. A FLAN IN THE FACE!

I love this song

didn't vote for it

don't you dare. don't you dare. don't you FLAN IN THE FACE

i think of "high and dry" as 1995's vital other side of the coin to "common people" and i prob would've put it #1 if i had known it would end up so low

The live version of I Might Be Wrong is far superior

Really? I thought it was too fast.

I've said it already, but I'll say it again: Knives Out is probably the most miserable-sounding song ever.

sonically or just the overall attitude of the song? I like how miserable it is

Both

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27. Kid A [18 votes | 399 points]

I really should have voted for Kid A. It is great even on its own. I also just realized that I forgot to vote for Gagging Order.

Yeah I'm regretting passing over the tourist and kid a both. Both just beautiful pieces of work.

does anyone recall the leaked version of HTTF? it had some pretty differently mixed versions of some songs and some sounded better than the final mixes. Wolf At The Door was one.

A bunch of stuff I voted for showed up including all of my top 3 (In Limbo, Myxomatosis, Wolf at the Door ). Unspeakably livid that In Limbo got beat out by the fucking Tourist btw!!!

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26. My Iron Lung [20 votes | 407 points]

Kid A is soooo good.

it wasn't at the top of my ballot but I think I enjoyed voting for "the tourist" more than any other track. it's almost a throwaway and then it spreads its winfs

xxxposts "high and dry" is that one that sounds like a dry run for "fake plastic trees" yes?

"my iron lung" riff is all-time greatness. glad tom lost his megaphone he made some questionable choices when it was around imo and yes i voted for this and "the bends" make of that what you will

winfs. things are coming out all weird where is autocorrect when I neeeed you?

The Bends is great! Definitely the high point of that record along with Planet Telex for me. I like it when they rock.

"Kid A" ended up being one of only a couple songs from Kid A that i voted for, it's funny to think of it being one of my top 2 songs from that album but it really is.

Well, just got back to see how this is unfolding:

'High and Dry' - Great to see this place, there seems to be a group of fans that seem to bash this track, if only because it was an obvious influence on what Coldplay (amongst others) ended up doing, but to me this is a great song that in my mind is far superior to anything that Coldplay and their ilk achieved. At the time, I derived the same kind of pleasure out of the song as I got from listening to various tracks on Automatic For The People.

'Nude' - Easily one of my highlights of In Rainbows, one thing that sticks out to me about this one is the drum sound, weirdly enough.

'I Might Be Wrong' - A nice enough guitar riff, but not much of a song, in my opinion. Live versions are far superior, I think.

'Where I End And You Begin' - Why the hell wasn't this a single? My favourite track on Hail To The Thief, and the version that they performed in Live From The Basement absolutely slays. I love the little 2/4 measure pause that they insert just before the second verse, not to mention where Thom kicks it up into a higher gear in the last verse before the outro.

'Myxomatosis' - Excellent track, fucking evil keyboard riff and again the Live From The Basement version rules.

'Black Star' - I'm really surprised to see this place. Back in '95/'96 this used to be one of the highlights of The Bends for me, but I had got the impression that it had been forgotten about or overlooked with the passing of time and the more material the band put out. I certainly know that I'm a bit guilty of overlooking this one in recent years.

'Knives Out' - This is one of those Radiohead tracks where my opinion of it changes according to the mood I'm in. In the right frame of mind, I get taken in by the gorgeous guitar playing, but when I'm not in the mood for it, it just feels like Thom is needlessly moaning while staring at his bellybutton.

'Bodysnatchers' - God, this rocks... although my favourite part of the song isn't so much the guitar riff as to when it opens out during the middle eight.

'2+2=5' - Really surprised to see that this, alongside 'Where I End And You Begin' didn't place higher. Having said that, it's definitely lost a lot of lustre for me since I heard it for the first time through overplay.

'In Limbo' - Works better as part of the suite on the second half of Kid A than in isolation, IMO.

'The Tourist' - Probably my least favourite track on OK Computer that isn't 'Fitter Happier'. It makes for a great album closer (especially that lone bell right at the end), but I'd probably skip it if it came up on a shuffle play.

'Life In A Glasshouse' - This and 'We Suck Young Blood' have their fans. I'm not one of them.

'A Wolf At The Door' - Fucking excellent! Really glad to see this place.

'Kid A' - Again, surprised to see this come so high, but I love it all the same... particularly the bit towards the end where the sustained synths fade in. Great stuff.

'My Iron Lung' - Way too high, one of those tracks from The Bends that doesn't really float my boat anymore.

Why did I let My Iron Lung fall off the bottom of my ballot?

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 8:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For me the template for Muse is when the drums and distorted bass kick in on 'Exit Music (For A Film)'.

Tracks I voted for today: Nude, 2+2=5, My Iron Lung

Tracks I feel bad for not having voted for: Where I End and You Begin (that baseline!), Bodysnatchers, A Wolf at the Door.

I really love the Easy Stars version of The Tourist, feel free to shout at me.

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I'm happy A Wolf At the Door made it, love that song. Actually, I voted for all three of the closing tracks that placed in a row.

Surprised there wasn't more Life in a Glasshouse love. Guess it just hits me with that special type of frisson during the "Someone's listening" part.

I can barely recall "In Limbo," and I've never really loved "Kid A" the song. I really need to throw on a pair of headphones and re-listen.

chap!

had four place today, up to six now.

Iron Lung is the song I didn't vote for that immediately lodged itself in my head after I'd sent my ballot. Is it a proto Paranoid Android? The wig-out-y bits feel very similar to me in isolation, though I've not played them back-to-back.

I thought very hard about whether to vote for High & Dry, because I used to adore it, and I do still love that kick drum sound in the intro. In the end it was a toss-up between that and Fake Plastic Trees, and I decided to go for the latter, just because it feels a little more sophisticated and therefore rewarding longterm strcuturally.

A great run here.

Iron Lung is my favourite song on The Bends and the song that sold Radiohead to me as more than just a post-grunge one hit wonder. I was pretty much obsessed with it as a teenager and spent years trying to perfect the intro riff on guitar. Voted it high at #3.

Despite the much-discussed sequencing issues on more recent Radiohead albums, they certainly know how to start and finish a record and that clutch of finishing tracks that came up is brilliant.

Wolf at the Door is excellent and creepy and kind of violent and I like the arpeggiated keys.
Voted Life In a Glasshouse high too: every so often Radiohead will surrender to pastiche, but in this case they use the Louis Armstrong-esque brass blues sound to maximal effect. They could stand to do more songs a bit like this.

And how can anyone not like The Tourist? Some have said it's an anticlimax, but it's the perfect closer for OKC for me - that feeling of inertia, clinical and airtight despite Thom insisting we 'slow down'. chap - I listen to the Easy Star version of OKC almost exclusively now, partly because I've heard the R'head version so many times and partly because the songs just work so well in dub mode.

The other thing that makes me feel as though 'Knives Out' is a retread of old material, as well as recycling the guitar part from Paranoid Android, the opening line sounds like Thom's about to sing 'I waant yoou to know (tice).. when I'm... not arouuund'

'Kid A' was the first thing I heard off the album - they were playing it in Time Records in Colchester on the day of release - and although I'd come to the shop expressly so I could buy it, I couldn't help but feel a mixture of excitement and disappointment.

On one hand my reaction was 'Wow, Radiohead are making music that sounds like THIS!' on the other, it did feel very heavily indebted to the Warp Records stuff I'd been getting into at the time and coupled with the TDR-friendly packaging (remember the secret booklet behind the CD caddy?) I couldn't help feeling my favourite rock band were in danger of parroting certain electronic music tropes and doing it badly. It took me quite a while to understand just how much more there was going on on Kid A (the album) than that. I'm still a bit hot and cold on Radiohead's more overt forays into electronica - sometimes it reminds me of when metal bands attempt to 'go techno' or slightly dodgy industrial music... Well maybe not that bad but still things like Eraser, Pulk/Pull, Kid A and a lot of King Of Limbs do little for me beyond making me feel slightly embarrassed.

My issue with their overt forays into full-on electronica was always that they didn't mix and master things like the people they were aping; they mixed and mastered things like a rock band, and a lot of the really subtle synaesthetic joy I get from Warp artists, Orbital, etc etc, comes in the way things were mixed and mastered so that they sounded so different from rock music. And this was phenomenologically like rock music, even as it aesthetically moved away from that.

At least to my ears, that is.