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

And I adore Reckoner. It's a Fisher Price version of New Grass to me.

This one is the biggest surprise for me by far. I love it, but it is not a standout track on the album for me.

Lucky is too high for me, probably my least favorite on OKC (except for electioneering).

(I say weirdly because "Lucky" was #10 on my ballot)

Everyone I knew adored Lucky when we were 17/18, when it came out. I thought it was alright but I was way too busy with Spiritualized and dance music to get OK Computer.

...and there's my #1. Not just my favorite Radiohead song, but maybe my favorite song, period. It's gonna be a GLOOOOOORIOUS DAY gets me every time.

Lucky was the first song I heard off OKC. And before I ever heard it I read something by Eno about how great he thought it was. Personally I was a bit... let down.

It's such a strong chorus

It's a rousing tune, but not as original or interesting as lots of their other stuff. I like em best with more of a groove behind them as well.

But yeah, the chord change into the chorus, complete with spectral choir, is powerful stuff.

Also that strange guitar break after the second chorus kills.

I think it's a E minor flat 9th or something? Doesn't really matter but it's cool.

http://i.imgur.com/QTJW5hQ.jpg

07. Airbag [32 votes | 1 #1 vote | 783 points]

this is the best ever appropriation of POLL in a poll title imo

wow at that votes and points jump

"Airbag" is such a weird song for me. Whenever I actually hear it, I love it and I just started trying to figure out that main melodic guitar riff which frequently gets stuck in my head, but whenever I revisit OK Computer, I skip directly to "Paranoid Android" without even blinking and MAYBE think to go back to "Airbag" once I've listened to the rest of the album.

talking of choruses, this one has a good one.

http://i.imgur.com/0hvMi6s.jpg

06. Let Down [31 votes | 3 #1 votes | 823 points]

TOO LOW

guessing this'll be the last thing from my list to appear. anyway this was my favorite radiohead song when i was in high school/college and i still love its queasy qualities

My #2. I thought this would be higher.

My #1.

TOP FIVE COMING IN ABOUT AN HOUR.

love Let Down, i had no idea it was so popular. baffling that it wasn't a single.

It had a video

ironically it was the only ok computer song i heard on the radio until karma police a few years later

isn't it ironic

I still dont like the chorus on Let Down, and I feel like everything I like about the song is deployed way better in SHA. OKC is p much my least favorite Radiohead anyways; there's only 3 maybe 4 songs on there I have any time for anymore

It's beautiful and probably the prototype for muse's 'starlight', no?

I'm just here to see how high "Everything in its Right Place," er, placed.

and then you will be frozen in a euphoric dream of your choosing?

It's beautiful and probably the prototype for muse's 'starlight', no?

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton)

OTM

http://i.imgur.com/I9SHOLD.jpg

05. Idioteque [36 votes | 3 #1 votes | 880 points]

http://vimeo.com/51713269

Ha! just tried to submit my #1 and here's the awesome SNL performance

think i was 13 when i saw that snl performance

"this is my favorite band" i thought

OTM

some snl board i found the next day was full of "wtf is this garbage" posts

It took me a little while to warm up to this song, but the SNL performance sold me on it.

(That said, I do prefer the studio arrangement.)

Idioteque was my #1.

haha. I can remember replaying it for my best friend's dad (who actually has an awesome but entirely different taste in music), and he basically reacted that way.

i'm so out of touch with radiohead that when i see 'reckoner' i still think 'PAH PAH PAH'

It would be awesome if 'There, There' took #1

Never seen that SNL clip before, that was fucking great. Still love love love Idioteque.

the I Might Be Wrong cd version recorded at Oxford is pulverising.

i'm so out of touch with radiohead that when i see 'reckoner' i still think 'PAH PAH PAH'

lol & otm

http://i.imgur.com/clMjHF9.jpg

04. Pyramid Song [36 votes | 5 #1 votes | 927 points]

Wow, that SNL performance, they're totally outside themselves.

Also, is Thom Yorke a tiny little guy or did he just look like he was 5'1" via camera angles?

xp - Pyramid Song, boom, there's my #1.

that snl clip was great

<3 pyramid song

"'Pyramid Song' is me being totally obsessed by a Charlie Mingus song called Freedom and I was just trying to duplicate that, really. Our first version of 'Pyramid' even had all the claps that you hear on Freedom. Unfortunately, our claps sounded really naff, so I quickly erased them."

http://youtu.be/O9BqdhhFUsc