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

I didn't vote for Talk Show Host instead I plumped for its neighbour on the single, Bishops Robes, but they're of a piece in my mind

I love the end section of Optimistic where they finally start rocking out with massive cymbal crashes after the twitchy nervinous most of the song. Terrific release. Also one of Yorke's best lyrics I think.

TSH has one of my favourite lines of his as well: "I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches".

Yeah great line. And it kind of precedes OKC with some of those nice electronic flourishes too

AFAICR it came out between OKC and Kid A, which makes sense.

It was a b-side of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" in early 1996.

Ha, shows what I know.

Weird fishes was my #2. This is far too low, ILM, you should be ashamed of yourself

I've always thought of it as a bridge from TB to OKC.

It was a b-side of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" in early 1996.

Speaking of which..

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21. Street Spirit (Fade Out) [21 votes | 1 #1 vote | 471 points]

weird fishes is a beautiful song. gives me all of the feelings.

I liked it a lot upon IR's release. I think the "IR is booooring" folks got to me with that one.

Street Spirit is amazing and deserves to be top 10 ;_;

I guess the 'Thom vocables as major part of song' starts there, actually

when checking to see if a guitar is in tune I still play the main Street Spirit riff, just out of pure instinct. I think it was the first fingerpicky sorta thing I learned in that formative time.

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20. No Surprises [19 votes | 2 #1 votes | 472 points]

I am starting to get very worried about some of my pet fave album cuts ;_;

i'm guessing permanent daylight isn't going to make the cut (no way it would beat talk show host, that's for sure). i didn't think it would, but i threw it a pretty high vote so i was hoping someone else would join me. last time i saw radiohead play they played permanent daylight and it was such a treat

Apart from the iconic riff I actually find No Surprises kind of dull.

No surprises was my number one. Just feels like it sums up the band's raisin d'être about as well as any single song.

I love it. Was my #4.

No Surprises fell off the end of my ballot; I'm glad to see it here but there are other songs I go to bat for (RIP "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors", you are still an excellent trip-hop/industrial mashup that could have been inserted on Pre-Millenium Tension and not been out of place)

anyone doing a spotify playlist of the countdown?

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19. Just [21 votes | 2 #1 votes | 476 points]

Great song.

Made my top 10. The Whammy bit near the end knocks me out every time.

Yeah my fave Radiohead in straight out Indie rock mode. Still didn't make my ballot.

The Just video was my entry point into The Bends; it's a fantastic introduction

yet another awesome song that I did not vote for

Not gonna lie, Mark Ronson is the reason I didn't vote for Just

I like the instrumental bridge that almost sounds like chamber music or something.

this song rules and it was high up my ballot. i didn't vote for no surprises or street spirit but maybe should have, i eschewed them for some deeper cuts.

I remember that for a year+ The Bends was a "featured" cd at best buy, like super cheap, bc I guess capital was trying to break them past Creep in the USA, and they had a video watching kiosk with the "Just" video, and I loved it but didn't buy the cd bc I was annoyed that best buy had been pushing it so hard. "the 90s"

Happy to see Weird Fishes make it. It's been my favourite Radiohead song ever since I first heard In Rainbows. It's so beautiful the way it just builds and builds until the "I get eaten by the worms" bit.

Just has been been ruined for me by going to same indie club every week for almost two years when I was 16/17. It's my own fault really.

you did to yourself then? it is just?

The Just video was my entry point into The Bends; it's a fantastic introduction

Otm. Same here. Official beginning of my Radiohead fandom.

first heard "ok computer" at a circuit city listening station.

you did to yourself then? it is just?

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton)

Ha! Can't believe I didn't see the potential for that joke myself.

i'm guessing permanent daylight isn't going to make the cut (no way it would beat talk show host, that's for sure). i didn't think it would, but i threw it a pretty high vote so i was hoping someone else would join me.

This made the top half of my ballot. I really dig it. But yeah no chance of placing :/

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18. Subterranean Homesick Alien [22 votes | 1 #1 vote | 483 points]

Nice! This seems like one of those tracks that's too easy to overlook. I don't even think I considered it for my ballot until I did my big relisten before voting, after which (I think) it made my top ten.

My relationship with Radiohead went something like:

- heard "Creep"; liked it, didn't love it
- ignored pretty much everything from The Bends because it wasn't breakbeat/jungle/trip-hop/The Cure/Prince
- saw the video for "Paranoid Android", went "wait, THAT'S Radiohead?????"
- bought OK Computer, lost mind, decided they'd become amazing
- saw the video for "Just", went "holy shit they've been amazing for a while!"
- bought The Bends, lost mind again
- bought Pablo Honey, fell over laughing, promptly intentionally lost Pablo Honey
- bought on release and loved: Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief
- listened to In Rainbows, fell asleep
- listened to several In Rainbows songs in isolation, went "oh hey these are actually good", played the album again, fell asleep
- bought King of Limbs, loved it, played it three times, never went back

Yes! This is the best Radiohead track, with the best lyrics and best arrangement. Nick Drake meets Joe Zawinul.

I guess the Creep video aired 57 times in a 24 hour period once (how is this even possible?) but for some reason I dont think I heard it once until I'd already become a massive fan of The Bends

*aired on MTV

Weirdly, "Subterranean" didn't work live at all. Strictly dullsville. It wasn't helped by Radiohead trying to stick as closely as possible to the studio arrangement, but the chorus was awful; Phil Selway hacking away at his hi-hat vainly trying to keep the energy up, guitar arpeggios barely audible, and Thom sounding like a cheerleader in front of a squad of people who don't give a shit.

Love the studio version, though.

Some fantastic songs I didn't vote for. Starting to get an idea of what the top 3 will be. Am I allowed to guess? Am I?

Yeah carry on!

1. Paranoid Android
2. There There
3. Uh... Exit Music for a Film...?