It's beautiful and probably the prototype for muse's 'starlight', no?
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton)
OTM
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:38 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/I9SHOLD.jpg
05. Idioteque [36 votes | 3 #1 votes | 880 points]
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:50 (eleven years ago)
http://vimeo.com/51713269
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:53 (eleven years ago)
Ha! just tried to submit my #1 and here's the awesome SNL performance
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:54 (eleven years ago)
think i was 13 when i saw that snl performance
"this is my favorite band" i thought
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:55 (eleven years ago)
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:56 (eleven years ago)
some snl board i found the next day was full of "wtf is this garbage" posts
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:56 (eleven years ago)
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.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:57 (eleven years ago)
Idioteque was my #1.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:57 (eleven years ago)
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.
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:59 (eleven years ago)
i'm so out of touch with radiohead that when i see 'reckoner' i still think 'PAH PAH PAH'
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:59 (eleven years ago)
It would be awesome if 'There, There' took #1
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:01 (eleven years ago)
Never seen that SNL clip before, that was fucking great. Still love love love Idioteque.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:02 (eleven years ago)
the I Might Be Wrong cd version recorded at Oxford is pulverising.
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:04 (eleven years ago)
lol & otm
― ogmor, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:06 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/clMjHF9.jpg
04. Pyramid Song [36 votes | 5 #1 votes | 927 points]
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:07 (eleven years ago)
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.
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:08 (eleven years ago)
that snl clip was great
<3 pyramid song
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:11 (eleven years ago)
"'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
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:12 (eleven years ago)
"Pyramid Song" is the song who rating on ILM is most out of sync with mine. I think it's sewage, easily the worst Radiohead song. I just get it. It sounds like I feel when I'm gonna barf.
― Euler, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:13 (eleven years ago)
When it came out a friend asked me what I thought of OK Computer. "I like the sparkly one," I said. He knew exactly which one I meant. Let Down is the song that made me love that album.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:20 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/1PWsaS5.jpg
03. Paranoid Android [37 votes | 4 #1 votes | 965 points]
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:25 (eleven years ago)
Wow, thought it was a lock for #1.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:25 (eleven years ago)
Love it.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)
Both "Idioteque" (that SNL performance was amazing, I remember watching it thinking "last time I felt this way about an SNL musical guest, it was The Sugarcubes") and "Pyramid Song" (stately escalation done to perfection; this band really understands crescrendo) are easily among Radiohead's best work. Both were in my top 10.
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:30 (eleven years ago)
I am actually shocked "Paranoid Android" wasn't #2!
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:31 (eleven years ago)
Whoa.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:33 (eleven years ago)
I didn't even turn in a ballot.
oh man there is an outside chance that the top 4 of the poll will be the top 4 of my ballot in a slightly different order
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)
Oh, horror, does this mean There There is gonna win? It does, doesn't it??
― jmm, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:37 (eleven years ago)
I really really hope so!
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:39 (eleven years ago)
i didn't vote for "there there" but i think it'd be kind of neat if it won!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:39 (eleven years ago)
i cant even work out what the other one is
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:40 (eleven years ago)
I'd also be cool with a shocking "We Suck Young Blood" or "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" upset
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:40 (eleven years ago)
(other one is "Everything In Its Right Place", no?)
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:41 (eleven years ago)
ah yes
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:42 (eleven years ago)
hope it's 'there there'
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:43 (eleven years ago)
though it'd be a good meta joke if there there didn't show at all now
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:44 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/otNI7ZP.jpg
02. Everything in Its Right Place [38 votes | 3 #1 votes | 1030 points]
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:45 (eleven years ago)
congratulations "Go To Sleep"
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)
wow
― my friend, Gater (Clay), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/6sP66So.jpg
01. There There [39 votes | 5 #1 votes | 1097 points]
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)
Thanks to everyone who voted!
BALLER
YOU MADE THE CORRECT CHOICE, ILM
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)
WOOT
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)
signed, one of the ppl who voted "There There" at #1
Not sure my ballot would've been enough to push EIIRP up to #1, but still awesome it ranked that high.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:48 (eleven years ago)
cool ass no. 1
generally try to play three drums at once
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:50 (eleven years ago)
Love TT when it's playing; can't remember a fucking thing about it when it finishes.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:51 (eleven years ago)
It's not an awful song, but I always found it pretty underwhelming, like a muted but slightly faster "Optimistic," but without any of that song's mystery, tension, or energy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 September 2014 20:51 (eleven years ago)