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

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.

There There was my number 3, everything was my number 6. This is a great top ten, even if my number one placed back in te 20s.

Too bad True Love Waits couldn't make the cut

Almost did!

51-127

51. True Love Waits [9 votes | 0 #1 votes | 191 points]
52. Backdrifts [9 votes | 0 #1 votes | 183 points]
53. Electioneering [9 votes | 0 #1 votes | 175 points]
54. Separator [9 votes | 0 #1 votes | 173 points]
55. Motion Picture Soundtrack [7 votes | 0 #1 votes | 165 points]
56. You and Whose Army? [8 votes | 0 #1 votes | 156 points]
57. (Nice Dream) [8 votes | 0 #1 votes | 156 points]
58. Bones [8 votes | 1 #1 vote | 146 points]
59. Faust Arp [6 votes | 0 #1 votes | 139 points]
60. Worrywort [6 votes | 0 #1 votes | 138 points]
61. How I Made My Millions [7 votes | 0 #1 votes | 138 points]
62. Scatterbrain [7 votes | 0 #1 votes | 136 points]
63. Staircase [7 votes | 0 #1 votes | 132 points]
64. Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was [7 votes | 0 #1 votes | 131 points]
65. Lotus Flower [7 votes | 0 #1 votes | 127 points]
66. Give Up the Ghost [6 votes | 0 #1 votes | 120 points]
67. Cuttooth [5 votes | 0 #1 votes | 108 points]
68. Like Spinning Plates [5 votes | 1 #1 vote | 103 points]
69. We Suck Young Blood [5 votes | 0 #1 votes | 102 points]
70. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors [5 votes | 0 #1 votes | 99 points]
71. Thinking About You [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 93 points]
72. Dollars and Cents [5 votes | 0 #1 votes | 92 points]
73. Sit Down. Stand Up [5 votes | 0 #1 votes | 85 points]
74. A Reminder [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 85 points]
75. Pearly* [5 votes | 0 #1 votes | 84 points]
76. Blow Out [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 83 points]
77. Treefingers [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 74 points]
78. Permanent Daylight [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 74 points]
79. Bloom [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 74 points]
80. Sail To The Moon [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 72 points]
81. Little by Little [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 70 points]
82. Sulk [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 66 points]
83. I Will [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 66 points]
84. A Punchup at a Wedding [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 66 points]
85. The Trickster [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 64 points]
86. Kinetic [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 64 points]
87. Codex [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 63 points]
88. Like Spinning Plates (live piano version) [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 59 points]
89. Meeting in the Aisle [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 58 points]
90. Fitter Happier [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 56 points]
91. Stupid Car [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 53 points]
92. Go To Sleep [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 51 points]
93. Killer Cars [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 48 points]
94. Identikit [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 48 points]
95. These Are My Twisted Words [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 45 points]
96. Bishop's Robes [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 45 points]
97. The Gloaming [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 44 points]
98. True Love Waits (original live version with the keyboards) [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 33 points]
99. Bangers + Mash [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 33 points]
100. Anyone Can Play Guitar [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 32 points]
101. Morning Mr Magpie [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 30 points]
102. Stop Whispering [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 29 points]
103. Supercollider [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 28 points]
104. Faithless, the Wonder Boy [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 25 points]
105. How Do You? [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 24 points]
106. You [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 23 points]
107. Videotape [Live from the Basement] [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 23 points]
108. 4 minute warning [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 23 points]
109. The Present Tense [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 22 points]
110. Morning Bell/Amnesiac [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 22 points]
111. Lurgee [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 21 points]
112. the Amazing Sounds of Orgy [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 19 points]
113. Lull [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 18 points]
114. Maquiladora [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 17 points]
115. Full Stop [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 17 points]
116. Prove Yourself [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 16 points]
117. Planet Telex (Hexidecimal Dub) [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 16 points]
118. Hunting Bears [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 15 points]
119. Go Slowly [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 15 points]
120. Banana Co. [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 15 points]
121. You Never Wash Up After Yourself [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 14 points]
122. Optimistic [Live from the Basement] [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 14 points]
123. Man O' War (Big Boots) [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 14 points]
124. I Can't [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 14 points]
125. Lewis (Mistreated) [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 13 points]
126. How Can You Be Sure? [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 13 points]
127. Fog (Again) (Live Piano Version) [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 13 points]

weird but cool winner. the tense recorded version slightly disappointed me having experienced the heavy as hell live version, but i came around

And if it wasn't for the one specific vote for True Love Waits (original live version with the keyboards) it would've.

Love the #1. Great job ILM

68. Like Spinning Plates [5 votes | 1 #1 vote | 103 points]

Wow, that is surprisingly low.

Albums ranked according to points received:

01. OK Computer: 6317 points
02. Kid A: 4963 points
03. The Bends: 3680 points
04. Hail to the Thief: 3219 points
05. In Rainbows: 3145 points
06. Amnesiac: 2620 points
07. Other: 2570 points
08. The King of Limbs: 657 points
09. Pablo Honey: 549 points
10. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings: 250 points

And votes received:

01. OK Computer: 260 votes
02. Kid A: 205 votes
03. The Bends: 171 votes
04. In Rainbows: 144 votes
05. Hail to the Thief: 142 votes
06. Other: 124 votes
07. Amnesiac: 116 votes
08. The King of Limbs: 34 votes
09. Pablo Honey: 29 votes
10. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings: 11 votes

I feel a little sorry for everything that placed behind "Fitter Happier"

Thanks a lot nate! This was fun. It's the first time I've done an ILM ballot poll.

yup flawless work nate thank you, looked great too

aw i like fitter happier! it didn't make my ballot but i can't imagine okc without it. it feels iconic (probably just to me, but then again it's part of the poll title so to others as well maybe)

3 ppl like it enough to vote for it, so it's definitely not just you

Really enjoyed this, and had given me a whole new level of appreciation for Radiohead.

"Pyramid Song" and "Idioteque" might be my #1 and #2.

I'm glad people enjoyed it, seemed to go well. See you back here in two years for my Smiths poll.

i revisited in rainbows today and would revise my album ballot, sorry in rainbows boringers

i understand why djp thinks the individual songs are great and it's kind of a drag as an album (the pacing is...interesting) but also i was dancing to "bodysnatchers" while walking to work today so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great poll, great turnout -- thanks, nate!

My ballot --

1. Pyramid Song
2. The Tourist
3. Lucky
4. The National Anthem
5. Weird Fishes/Arpegii
6. Optimistic
7. Knives Out
8. Dollars and Cents
9. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box
10. Sail to the Moon
11. Kid A
12. In Limbo
13. Morning Bell
14. Give Up the Ghost
15. Treefingers
16. There There
17. Exit Music (for a Film)
18. Let Down
19. All I Need
20. Fake Plastic Trees

Albums:

1 OK Computer
2 Amnesiac
3 Kid A
4 In Rainbows
5 The King of Limbs

there there and pyramid song were my 1-2 and in the end they were a distance ahead of the pack for me. i was expecting maybe lower half of the top 10 for there there so v pleased that it came out on top. i feel like i can almost forgive ilm

yeah, 'fitter happier' reflects some moment of something very well.

i was about to wonder if the vote split did 'like spinning plates' in but it'd still be stuck in the 50s.

My ballot

Tracks

1 Let Down
2 Everything in Its Right Place
3 There There
4 No Surprises
5 Exit Music (For a Film)
6 The Tourist
7 Paranoid Android
8 Subterranean Homesick Alien
9 How to Disappear Completely
10 Knives Out
11 Idioteque
12 Lotus Flower
13 (Nice Dream)
14 Airbag
15 Street Spirit (Fade Out)
16 Reckoner
17 You and Whose Army?
18 Bodysnatchers
19 15 Step
20 Separator

Albums

1 Kid A
2 OK Computer
3 In Rainbows
4 Amnesiac
5 The King of Limbs

Albums:

Hail to the Thief
OK Computer
Kid A
The Bends
Amnesiac

Songs/Tracks:

There There
Pyramid Song
Paranoid Android
Everything in Its Right Place
Exit Music (For a Film)
A Punchup at a Wedding
Climbing Up the Walls
Idioteque
Just
Lucky
Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
I Will
High and Dry
In Limbo
We Suck Young Blood
Myxomatosis
Optimistic
Morning Bell
Creep
Fake Plastic Trees

Wish I'd been able to find room for Lotus Flower, Codex and Bodysnatchers but I stand by this ballot (and apparently so does most of ILM given the top 4 of the poll)

so what songs failed to get any votes at all? shocker of the century, "pop is dead" seems to be one of them...

Albums
1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. The Bends
4. In Rainbows
5. Airbag/How Am I Driving? EP

Songs
1. How to Disappear Completely
2. Let Down
3. Climbing Up the Walls
4. Everything in Its Right Place
5. Bloom
6. Exit Music (For a Film)
7. Pyramid Song
8. Karma Police
9. Just
10. Airbag
11. Paranoid Android
12. No Surprises
13. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
14. Staircase
15. In Limbo
16. Planet Telex
17. The National Anthem
18. Dollars and Cents
19. Idioteque
20. Fake Plastic Trees

lol I started to bold everything that made the countdown, decided to delete it, apparently I am terrible at editing my own work

Tracks:
The National Anthem
Idioteque
Fake Plastic Trees
Everything in Its Right Place
Talk Show Host
15 Step
Kid A
Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
Life in a Glasshouse
Planet Telex
Exit Music (For a Film)
Reckoner
All I Need
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Faust Arp
Nude
Just
Separator
High and Dry
Palo Alto

Albums:
In Rainbows
Kid A
The Bends
Ok Computer
Amnesiac

I also tried sneaking "The Captain of Her Heart" in there, but Nate wouldn't have any of that.

I didn't vote because I am just a lurker and super lazy. Still, I am kind of shocked that Feral didn't get any votes at all. That is the best one on TKOL. I makes me question myself.

Also, "There There" is way sleepier than most of In Rainbows. I know the same people complaining about In Rainbows are probably not the same people voting for "There There" but I found it surprising.

my wild n crazy ballot

1. Fog
2. Cuttooth
3. Staircase
4. Reckoner
5. Talk Show Host
6. Black Star
7. How I Made My Millions
8. Let Down
9. Treefingers
10. Lotus Flower
11. Life in a Glasshouse
12. Morning Bell
13. Scatterbrain
14. Lull
15. Maquiladora
16. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
17. Kinetic
18. Worrywort
19. In Limbo
20. Bishop's Robes

albums
1. Kid A
2. Amnesiac
3. In Rainbows
4. OK Computer
5. The Bends

This is mine:

Let Down
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Faust Arp
Paranoid Android
Just
Where I End And You Begin
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Black Star
Videotape [Live from the Basement]
2+2=5
Electioneering
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Street Spirit
There There
Lucky
Bullet Proof
Go to Sleep
Optimistic [Live from the Basement]
A Wolf at the Door
Sit Down Stand Up

Seems like its just me and Euler who love Faust Arp. It's like a Nick Drake song reimagined by the Beatles

or vice versa

Pyramid Song
Morning Bell
Airbag
Karma Police
Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
I Might Be Wrong
You and Whose Army?
Knives Out
Reckoner
Backdrifts
Videotape
Fog
How I Made My Millions
Just
Motion Picture Soundtrack
My Iron Lung
Planet Telex
Climbing Up The Walls
Separator
The Tourist

Amnesiac
Kid A
OK Computer
The Bends
In Rainbows

Zero votes:

Coke Babies
Million Dollar Question
Yes I Am
Inside My Head
India Rubber
Gagging Order
I Am a Wicked Child
I Am Citizen Insane
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
I Want None of This
Down Is the New Up
Last Flowers
MK 1
MK 2
Up on the Ladder
Spooks
Phillipa Chicken
Nothing Touches Me
Lozenge of Love
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
Ripcord
Vegetable
Melatonin
I Froze Up
Open The Floodgates
Skirting on the Surface
I Promise
Cut a Hole
Lift
Follow Me Around
Pop Is Dead
Fast-Track
Trans-Atlantic Drawl
Molasses
The Butcher
The Daily Mail
Feral
Paperbag Writer
Where Bluebirds Fly

1. Everything In It’s Right Place.
2. There There
3. Climbing Up The Walls.
4. Motion Picture Soundtrack.
5. Fake Plastic Trees.
6. Videotape
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.
8. Kid A.
9. Identikit.
10. True Love Waits.

11. How To Disapear Completely.
12. Nude.
13. Optimistic
14. How I Made My Millions.
15. No Surprises
16. The Gloaming.
17. Wolf At the Door.
18. Life In A Glass House.
19. Pyramid Song.
20. Talk Show Host

Albums:
1. Kid A
2. In Rainbows
3. Hail To The Thief
4. OK Computer
5. Amnesiac

Mine:

1 There There
2 Paranoid Android
3 2 + 2 = 5
4 Everything In Its Right Place
5 Idioteque
6 I Might Be Wrong
7 Morning Bell
8 Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box
9 Dollars & Cents
10 Sit Down, Stand Up
11 Where I End And You Begin
12 Optimistic
13 High and Dry
14 Karma Police
15 Knives Out
16 Street Spirit (Fade Out)
17 Just
18 Backdrifts
19 A Punch Up At A Wedding
20 Reckoner

But I've been re-listening to In Rainbows since I voted and realised I like it a lot more than I thought I did, so Reckoner should have been higher and maybe one or two others in there.

The number one in this poll is my number one and the top five is basically my top five but with Pyramid Song swapped in for 2 + 2 = 5.

Thanks Nate.

Lozenge of Love is a great track, and a very competent sonic youth homage

I really like I Want None Of This, it almost made my ballot.

thanks Nate for doing this!

Lozenge of Love is a great track, and a very competent sonic youth homage

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, September 11, 2014 6:02 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nevermind it's Permanent Daylight.

1. Subterranean Homesick Alien
2. In Limbo
3. Fake Plastic Trees
4. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5. Airbag
6. Everything In Its Right Place
7. Lucky
8. Let Down
9. Palo Alto
11. High and Dry
12. Paranoid Android
14. The Tourist
15. How to Disappear Completely
16. My Iron Lung
17. No Surprises
18. Faust Arp
19. Kid A
20. Fog

1. OK Computer
2. Kid A
3. The Bends
4. Amnesiac
5. In Rainbows

In hindsight, I'd switch out Faust Arp for Motion Picture Soundtrack.

love yr ballot Brad!

my ballott

1. No Surprises
2. House of Cards
3. Reckoner
4. Give Up the Ghost
5. How I Made My Millions
6. True Love Waits
7. Everything in its Right Place
8. Exit Music (For a Film)
9. Airbag
10. Fog (Again) (or just Fog, whatever)
11. Separator
12. There There
13. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
14. Talk Show Host
15. Lucky
16. Pearly*
17. How to Disappear Completely
18. Life in a Glasshouse
19. 2 + 2 = 5
20. Creep

albums:
1. In Rainbows
2. Kid A
3. OK Computer
4. The King of Limbs
5. The Bends

Oh, I forgot how much I love "Motion Picture Soundtrack"!

My hastily cobbled together ballot:

1. Pyramid Song
2. Reckoner
3. Everything in its Right Place
4. Paranoid Android
5. Supercollider
6. Nude
7. Arpeggi (Weird Fishes)
8. Optimistic
9. Exit Music (From a Film)
10. Backdrifts
11. Lotus Flower
12. All I Need
13. Talk Show Host
14. Faust Arp
15. Morning Bell
16. There There
17. 2+2=5
18. Staircase
19. My Iron Lung
20. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)

1. In Rainbows
2. Kid A
3. Hail to the Thief
4. OK Computer
5. The Bends

In Limbo
Myxomatosis
A Wolf at thr Doir
The National Anthem
How to Disappear Completely
There, There
Little by Little
Reckoner
Permanent Daylight
Where I End and You Begin
I Might Be Wrong
Climbing Up the Walls
We Suck Young Blood
Just
Morning Bell
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Palo Alto
15 Step
Blow Out
Talk Show Host

I somehow deleted 13. Talk Show Host, on my list above. I might switch that one out as well, Treefingers needs votes.

high 5 fellow Thinking About You voters!

yeah great poll, haven't properly listened to them for aeons.

oh yeah I wanted to give a shoutout to the other how I made my millions voters. you guys are my soulmates and true believers in fragile, sulky ballads.

I do like How I Made My Millions

Not into Radiohead enough to vote in this thing but enough to be curious about the results. I am kind of amazed about There There winning and also Reckoner being so high: both seem like perfectly pleasant generic Radiohead songs but no more. This is mystifying to an outsider like me - what am I missing?