I don't think this vote would go this way today, fwiw
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I was thinking that, with the output of each since the original poll.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
I mean, Vulnicura alone is a major achievement post-2012; I just think ILM has become an even more insanely slavish hub for Radiohead fandom
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
Idk, I think the popular narrative is that Bjork's albums have become increasingly hermetic and hookless after the '10s, while the last Radiohead is widely acclaimed well beyond ILM? It would be a pretty different story without A Moon Shaped Pool, since King of Limbs is their only other album in the same era and is probably their worst.
Still, they've remained very high profile with the side projects and soundtracks, and I don't know anyone irl who has kept up with Bjork.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
I love the TKOL sessions :( if Supercollider and Staircase were on TKOL it’d be less maligned. It might be the third or fourth RH album I come back to the most.
Also it can’t be their worst when Pablo Honey and HTTT exists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Wait, HTTT is now disfavored?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
I've seen it get hate for being overstuffed but I love HttT
(I don't think I've ever listened to Pablo Honey all the way through tbh)
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
HTTT is generally ranked at the bottom with Pablo Honey and TKOL.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
Also Amnesiac which is sort of a polarizing album.
I put it above Amnesiac.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
HttT is awesome. Probably the worst production/mastering of their post Bends catalog though. I also like it more than Amnesiac.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
Have we done a Radiohead poll?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
I love Amnesiac and the beefy production/mastering on HttT :)
Time for a redo: The Radiohead Albums Poll
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Amnesiac is my favorite Radiohead album that I never want to listen to
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
I know ranking Radiohead albums is the most basic and boring dude topic imaginable, and yet:
A Moon Shaped PoolAmnesiacHail to the ThiefIn RainbowsKid AOK ComputerKing of LimbsThe BendsPablo Honey
(I never want to listen to Kid A, and can't even really hear OK Computer anymore)
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link
Seeing the Kid A/Amnesiac material performed live in 2001 was revelatory, I always hear those albums from the perspective of seeing them live at a time the band was peaking.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
The album I listen to the most lately is The Bends. But many of the songs on Kid A feel like their pinnacle. Definitely amused at how many times an album poll has been conducted, but I'd be more interested in a songs ballot poll at this point.
I enjoyed participating in the Bjork ballot poll!
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
would rank the albums something like this
vespertinekid ain rainbowsok computerhomogenic
postdebutthe bends
vulnicuraamnesiaca moon shaped poolfossorabiophilia
hail to the thiefthe king of limbsmedullavolta
pablo honeyutopia
― ufo, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
That's a very respectable sorting.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 22:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah Vespertine and Kid A at the top is very agreeable.
I’d place Medulla and TKOL higher though
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
HTTT = Postthe rest in some sort of orderIn fuckin Rainbows
― imago, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
post has some of her best tracks, but it would only just about scrape into my top 5 Bjork LPs. even with better sequencing I'm not convinced those songs go together.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
HTTT is good, yes, and doesn't get enough love.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
you can lose a whole bunch of tracks from the first half of Post without much problem, the rest bangs unbelievably hard though
― imago, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
skip from Hyperballad to Isobel to unlock maximum 'greatest mini-album that never was' power
― imago, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
I Go Humble is on the Japanese version and could make it gel better. What to do with Army Of Me and It's Oh So Quiet is more of a problem though. Maybe they should just have been standalone singles. Maybe starting at Hyperballad could work? Anyway, I can not just put this CD on and listen to it.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
Man you guys really love In Rainbows a lot... am I missing something with that one?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:34 (one year ago) link
I have never heard In Rainbows
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
I did this poll a few years back, before A Moon Shaped Pool, would be fun and interesting to do it again:
A POLL IN A CAGE ON ANTIBIOTICS - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD - RESULTS THREAD"> A POLL IN A CAGE ON ANTIBIOTICS - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD - RESULTS THREAD
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
Damn thanks for sharing that thread - really surprised at There There making #1 over Paranoid Android and EIIRP, but totally worthy, honestly. HttT really does slay, and to me it's the last "Essential" album they dropped. Everything after begins to have that musky "old band" smell.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link
Absolutely. IR was dead bottom of my joint ranking. I have no idea why it has the cachet it does
― imago, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 07:29 (one year ago) link
it's some of their best & most accessible songwriting with rich, tasteful arrangements. nothing even close to a dud on it and a lovely warm sound too
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:21 (one year ago) link
accessible, tasteful and warm! just what i want ;)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:30 (one year ago) link
i think there's a good case for "weird fishes" as their very best moment
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:46 (one year ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, March 14, 2023 11:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
This seems crazy to me because Hyperballad into The Modern Things and You've Been Flirting into Isobel are the best bits of sequencing on the album.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:10 (one year ago) link
I don't really put Björk and Radiohead on the same artistic plane. Radiohead is a decent band with some consistency. None of their albums approach Björk's work, so a ranking would start with at least 7 Björk albums, then maybe Amnesiac / OKC.
Listening to Hail to the Thief now, I think 2+2=5 was the first Radiohead song I heard, and Where I End and You Begin was a favorite, but I think my most powerful emotional reaction to Radiohead is polite attention.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:39 (one year ago) link
And for that reason, no Radiohead album sounds significantly worse than the others to me. Björk on the other hand has some real up and downs (like 80% up 20% down).
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:47 (one year ago) link
I would be much more charitable towards Radiohead, but this is essentially otm. At the end of the day, Radiohead is a very good rock band. Bjork is . . . something else. I've probably known as many people who can't stand her music as people who adore it, but no one who is indifferent. It's sui generis.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
otm
good ranking too ufo
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Funnily, these were my two favorite acts in high school (mid-1990s), and yet I would never have thought to compare them, and don't really see any points of comparison. I would assume Bjork influenced Yorke a lot toward his desire to make non-rock, electronic-rooted music; but obviously to me, he never got close to the level of electronic brilliance...
If I were forced, I guess I'd go...
HomogenicMedullaPostA Moon Shaped PoolVespertineKid AVulnicuraOK ComputerDebutThe BendsAmnesiacBiophiliaIn RainbowsDrawing Restraint 9FossoraPablo HoneySelmasongsThe King of LimbsVoltaUtopiaHail To the Thief
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
The only ones I dislike would be 'Volta,' 'Utopia,' and (the only one I hate) 'Hail To the Thief' (which just about put me off Radiohead permanently).
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
I really can't compare the two, there are superficial similarities (instantly identifiable singers & songwriters who have both been intensely influenced by electronic music, and have incorporated it but aren't bound by it), but I'm just glad they both exist and got that '90s/early '00s music industry $$$ to do what they've done.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Selmasongs
was surprised no one had mentioned this so far, considering the thread subject!
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
'Hail To the Thief' (which just about put me off Radiohead permanently).
fun h8r detected
― imago, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
i love radiohead and bjork. i will say that the exact opposite of fun, mathematically, is the song "we suck young blood". i like that song, even, but it is impossible to have fun with that one on lol
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
after being rly unfun it goes really fun out of nowhere for 20 seconds! SURPRISE FUN
― imago, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
Beavis: What’s going on? How come they just don’t play that surprise fun part through the whole song? Hehe?”
Butt-Head: “Well Beavis, if they didn’t have like a part of the song that was the opposite of fun, than it’s like, the other part wouldn’t be as cool.”
Beavis: “Really? You’re pretty smart Butt-Head.”
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
(this is a reference to the beavis and butthead segment on creep, back in the day! just wanted to make that clear because on anywhere other than ilm that would probably be deeply misunderstood)
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
i do like how after the wild surprise fun part, it goes straight into Won't let the creeping ivy / Won't let the nervous bury me / Our veins are thin / Our rivers poisoned / We want the sweet meat / We want young blood
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 18:08 (one year ago) link
yes, it is very theatrical. gr8 fun
― imago, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link