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

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?

A ballot from a fan who stopped caring after Kid A.

TRACKS
1. Fake Plastic Trees
2. Let Down
3. The National Anthem
4. Optimistic
5. Electioneering
6. Thinking About You
7. Airbag
8. How Do You?
9. No Surprises
10. Paranoid Android
11. My Iron Lung
12. Motion Picture Soundtrack
13. Subterranean Homesick Alien
14. Palo Alto
15. Idioteque
16. Stop Whispering
17. Anyone Can Play Guitar
18. Karma Police
19. Bones
20. Just

ALBUMS
1. OK Computer
2. Kid A
3. The Bends
4. Pablo Honey

VIDEOS
1. Just
2. No Surprises
3. Paranoid Android

Last Flowers fell off the bottom of my ballot. It wuz robbed.

WEEEEEE AARRRRRREEE ACCCIIDENNNNTSS WAAAIIITINNG, WAIITINNG, TO HAPPEN

There There
Karma Police
My Iron Lung
Paranoid Android
Nude
(Nice Dream)
Faithless, the Wonder Boy
Life in a Glasshouse
Little by Little
Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
Blow Out
A Wolf at the Door
I Might Be Wrong
Give Up the Ghost
Idioteque
You and Whose Army?
A Reminder
Pyramid Song
Bishop's Robes
How to Disappear Completely

ALBUMS:

1. OKC
2. In Rainbows
3. The Bends
4. Amnesiac
5. Hail To The Thief

How d'ya like them apples? So happy There There got to number one. HTTT is by no means a perfect album, but There There seemed like they'd finally struck that perfect compromise between their avant-electronic side and the epic art-prog band they'd threatened to become on OKC.

Sad that Wish I Was... Bulletproof never made it in. It's such a sumptuous, miserable song so reminiscent of the empty, plastic feeling The Bends generally does so well.

Feel as though (nice dream) needs a bit of a shout out too. Apparently inspired by a Kurt Vonnegut story, although I don't know which one.

Thought Blow Out would make it too - there was a fair bit of lobbying on the other thread. I do like it a lot.

Radiohead have always been good at choosing good ending songs. I just don't understand the love for Motion Picture Soundtrack, although maybe if I'd heard the demos I might have more time for it. Such a slight, washy close to Kid A.

And no King Of Limbs! I think it's a pretty terrible album but I always enjoyed the loop pedal antics on Give Up the Ghost. Later on I came round to Little By Little, the third in the Paranoid Android/Knives Out spiritual triumvirate.

is there a recap of the top 50?

Bullet Proof always seems like a dry run for Subterranean Homesick Alien with those floaty guitars. It was on my ballot too.

1. Fog
2. Where I End and You Begin
3. Separator
4. Everything in Its Right Place
5. There There
6. Lucky
7. Permanent Daylight
8. Bodysnatchers
9. Pyramid Song
10. Karma Police
11. Kid A
12. Subterranean Homesick Alien
13. All I Need
14. Exit Music (For a Film)
15. 2 + 2 = 5
16. How to Disappear Completely
17. Codex
18. Idioteque
19. House of Cards
20. 15 Step

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

Great things about There There:

- The ambiguity of the title - is it supposed to be a consoling 'there, there'? An indication or warning - 'There! There!'? Or something else? Thom has always been good at putting sinister twists on everyday cliches and idioms see Nude's original title, 'Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)'.
- The way the thing builds, from this doomy tribal-funk rhythm, the guitar feedback snaking in and finally locking in with the bass groove. It just grows and grows into this howling lupine torchsong. Then all the doors get kicked in and the best guitar solo of their fucking career happens and it's splenderous before dying back into the intro groove, albeit with a totally different backbeat.
- Speaking of which - those clattering snare fills - love those, especially the one at the end.
- Thom's vocal, obvs -'We are accidents waiting to happen'. You can be crescendous, without being bloody Mogwai.

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

It was the single that my local station chose over "Karma Police" by the time fall '97 had come around. They started getting requests for "Karma Police" a month or 2 later and I don't think I've heard "Let Down" on a commercial station ever since.

nate, it goes without saying, but this was a brilliant poll. thanks so much - it's great to rediscover Radiohead from time to time and it had been way too long for me.

What DL said. Didn't get my vote in in time, but followed this thread closely. Perfect rediscovery moment.

Ah, so 'Reckoner' did place!

Songs that got a vote that didn't quite make it that deserve a shout-out: 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', 'You and Whose Army?', '(Nice Dream)', 'Bones', 'Blow Out', 'Codex', 'Killer Cars', 'Bangers + Mash', 'Morning Mr. Magpie', 'Supercollider', 'You', 'Prove Yourself', 'I Can't'.

Songs that got zero votes that I feel should have got at least one vote: 'Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong', 'Ripcord', 'The Daily Mail', 'Feral'.

Really surprised 'There There' made it to number one, I know that it's rated quite highly around these parts and was expecting it to go Top 10, but personally it's one of those tracks that I enjoy a lot but don't consider to be one of their all-time best.

Whoa, ok everybody--disaster averted! "True Love Waits" actually got 224 points, which puts it solidly at 45th place : ) Sorry, Videotape.

Very interesting poll. Have to say, though--shocked and disappointed by "There There" at #1. That was the song that convinced me Radiohead's amazing run was definitely over. It's just so tepid, and then. . . "rock out" at the end yech.

Well done, Nate. Thanks!

I am very pleased with the winner, and I had a blast with this poll. Thanks again, Nate! I am spinning the Kid A vinyl right now for the first time in awhile. I was also happy to do myself (and dog latin, apparently) the favor of giving 'How Can You Be Sure?' a vote!

Tracks:

1. Idioteque
2. A Wolf at the Door
3. Bodysnatchers
4. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5. Climbing Up the Walls
6. Worrywort
7. Morning Bell
8. There There
9. Nude
10 Lotus Flower
11 House of Cards
12 The National Anthem
13 Life in a Glasshouse
14 Exit Music (For a Film)
15 Reckoner
16 How to Disappear Completely
17 Backdrifts
18 Airbag
19 How Can You Be Sure?
20 Talk Show Host

Albums:

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

best song that i shamefully didn't vote for that should have made the top 50: worrywort

I'm glad that it was still talked about enough itt that someone got to hear it for the first time

And since folks are posting their lists:

01. Exit Music (For a Film)
02. Paranoid Android
03. True Love Waits
04. Kinetic
05. Talk Show Host
06. Worrywort
07. Fake Plastic Trees
08. Nude (especially the original live version)
09. Street Spirit
10. Lucky
11. Polyethylene, Parts 1 + 2
12. Stupid Car
13. Idioteque
14. House of Cards
15. Airbag
16. High & Dry
17. Let Down
18. Dollars & Cents
19. Kid A
20. Bullet Proof (I Wish I Was)

Didn't do an album vote, but if I had:

01. OK Computer
02. The Bends
03. Kid A
04. Kinetic (compilation I made of Kid A/Amnesiac-era b-sides)
05. My Iron Lung EP

Thanks so much, Nate, this was great!

1. Lucky
2. Let Down
3. No Surprises
4. Fake Plastic Trees
5. Pearly*
6. There There
7. Just
8. Airbag
9. Black Star
10. Palo Alto
11. Paranoid Android
12. Planet Telex
13. My Iron Lung
14. Karma Police
15. The Bends
16. Codex
17. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
18. Creep
19. Idioteque
20. Pyramid Song

1. OK Computer
2. The Bends
3. Airbag/How Am I Driving?
4. Kid A
5. Hail To The Thief

Wish I'd voted for How Can You Be Sure. An early one where they've clearly not 'become Radiohead' properly and not beneath experimenting with a slouchy Britpop ballad.

a good bar/pub jam imo

I mean people will probably hate you if you play radiohead at a pub. but they will hate you less if it's that song.

xp Yes to "How Can You Be Sure." I like a lot of the non-album tracks from the Pablo/My Iron Lung era more than the stuff on Pablo Honey.

"Faithless the Wonder Boy" also comes to mind.

Well, this poll has probably crystalized why I'm really not a Radiohead-fan, though I love Kid A and several of their other songs. They've made some great pop-songs early on, and some great electronic genre-experiments later on, but they are just always too rock. And in the end, the song with the 'best guitar solo' was voted #1.

I like Molasses too for similar reasons. Never really saw Radiohead as a humorous band but there's something playful about some of those early b sides

Faithless the Wonder Boy was a go to track for me when I was younger. Should have been on Pablo Honey

xp man 'There There' is not such a straightforward rock song

I really had no idea "There There" was held in such high regard. For me and my friends for whom Radiohead had been musical life's blood from 1995-2001 (high school through college) all agreed it was incredibly boring--felt like Yorke had utterly run out of ideas, didn't trust his electronic/experimental instincts, and was content to run out the clock with "rocking" in a sexless and clunky way, like an arena on downers. Enough to make me go listen to 'Eraser' and 'Amok' to remember that things did eventually get better again. . . ; )

Or "Worrywort," the absolute "There There" antidote.

I love em both!

xp man 'There There' is not such a straightforward rock song

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), 12. september 2014 02:22 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never said it was. But there is enough rock in it that it brings the whole thing down.

oic. but we should not fight bc I am on team kid a, as well.

Radiohead are a rock band

with albums

Thinking about it, it's not the way the solo is played that I particularly like, it's the way it's been produced and how incredible that section sounds, texturally

Well, this poll has probably crystalized why I'm really not a Radiohead-fan, though I love Kid A and several of their other songs. They've made some great pop-songs early on, and some great electronic genre-experiments later on, but they are just always too rock. And in the end, the song with the 'best guitar solo' was voted #1.

literal lols

Long live pop.

I was a latecomer to There, There but for being such an atmospheric stormcloud of a song, that shit is a super catchy earworm

didn't have time to vote; 'let down' would have been my #1

but mainly disappointed that lex has failed to weigh in

Thinking about it, it's not the way the solo is played that I particularly like, it's the way it's been produced and how incredible that section sounds, texturally

― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Thursday, September 11, 2014 5:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's not like this is Jonny Greenwood's Clapton moment or something.

I've never really thought about There There very much besides thinking the drums are cool, I'll have to revisit it to see what you're all on about.

Tracks
1. Airbag
2. Everything in its Right Place
3. Kid A
4. Idioteque
5. The National Anthem
6. In Limbo
7. Planet Telex
8. Pyramid Song
9. Subterranean Homesick Alien
10. Paranoid Android
11. Morning Bell
12. Life in a Glasshouse
13. Fitter Happier
14. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box
15. Optimistic
16. Myxomatosis
17. Fake Plastic Trees
18. Staircase
19. How to Disappear Completely
20. Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Albums/EPs
1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. The King of Limbs
4. Amnesiac
5. Hail to the Thief