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

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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...?

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?

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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

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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

"Planet Telex" blew my mind on first listen; "THIS is what those flash-in-the-pan 'Creep' guys came up with?!"

haha yes, that was basically my reaction when I first played The Bends (although it was muted because I already had OK Computer on endless repeat)

yeah I'm kinda falling in love with The Bends all over again thanks to this roll out. I keep wanting to complain. But I listen to the track first, and then I can't complain really.

I love how Planet Telex prefigures later stuff while still sounding a bit dated in its own right - not in a bad way, just that you wouldn't mistake it for OKC. It occupies its own unique space.

has The Bends ever been remastered? the CD i have is shockingly quiet and muffled.

The Bends sounds brilliant on CD as far as I'm concerned.

Don't think I voted for this but really, really wish I had in hindsight.

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15. Morning Bell [23 votes | 525 points]

come now too low

I thought this would be a #1 contender

the Kid A version is obv better but i do have a soft spot for /Amnesiac and my vote was kinda for both

Kid A version >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Amnesiac version

Same here. I think of Amnesiac's as the hungover Sunday morning version.
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OK Computer is really going to run away with this poll in the top 10

Just one #10 vote for Morning Bell/Amnesiac.