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

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 :/

http://i.imgur.com/qvUE3Jf.jpg

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...?

Reckoner, idiotheque

Actually Pyramid Song might be #1

Really regretted not voting for subterranean the moment I pressed send on my ballot.

Where will karma police place?

http://i.imgur.com/GniEs8u.jpg

17. Climbing Up the Walls [20 votes | 2 #1 votes | 494 points]

Worth a nod for the final couple of bars alone. Xpost to self

Never really been a fan of that one, it's the only OK Computer song that I haven't loved at some point.

Climbing Up The Walls, that is.

Climbing up the walls is my favorite ok computer song

loved permanent daylight & the EP was my way in to radiohead & getting hooked on music more generally, tho I don't feel especially sentimental about it. that & talk show host were the only pre OKC things I voted for. live version of permanent daylight is proper sonic youth stuff

Climbing is another one I probably should've voted for. I think I made a subconscious decision to make my ballot as OKC light as possible for some reason.

Actually Pyramid Song might be #1

No doubt this will be considered sacrilege by nearly everyone on here, but for the most part I don't really care if albums work as albums, I just view them as a collection of tracks*. The tracks that I like, I listen to a lot. The tracks I don't like, I just forget about once I've given them a few goes. I vaguely recall there was a poll on here for Amnesiac a while back and I was bewildered when Pyramid Song won because I can't even remember it. It's not just that I don't like it (or presumably didn't like it in 2001), I can't remember anything about it at all.

*the exception being where they're joined together like the second half of Kid A

Never really been a fan of that one, it's the only OK Computer song that I haven't loved at some point.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, September 10, 2014 4:03 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same here. It's by far my least favorite song on the record. It always reminded me of Nine Inch Nails.

(wait, no, I think I dislike "Electioneering" more...or at least as much)

ah dang just realized my favorite httt track won't place

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

Don't blame me I voted it #1

It may not even be the best track on The Bends but after knowing this act solely based on "creep" and "high and dry" US airplay and having zero interest in pursuing them further this was the track that made me sit up and take notice.

I did love Electioneering for a few days in the summer of 97.

I have to say, I did too, and I remember being glad they chose to play it on their Tonight Show appearance. But it hasn't aged well for me.

CLIMBING UP THE WALLS IS SO SO SO SO SO SO SO GREAT

I love climbing's lyrics, and the production is quite unique and awesome set in the radiohead catalog imo

depending on the day, it's my fave/2nd fave/3rd fave OK Computer song

I've realized that Hail to the thief is kinda like Climbing Up the Walls: The Album at times

I love how tightly wound and claustrophobic the song is initially, how it winds tighter and tighter, slowly building to that great explosion, and then BUILDS SOME MORE to that amazing final howl

yeah if wolf at the door is my favorite Thom vocal as a whole, that final howl is my favorite Thom vocal moment

http://i.imgur.com/wf218xw.jpg

16. Planet Telex [27 votes | 522 points]

prob nothing from my ballot is going to appear from here on out, but then mine was designed according to "radiohead songs i still have a desire to hear"

I always forget how great "Planet Telex" is