I have no idea how "Lucky" and "The Tourist" sound.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
the D.C. one in '98? I was there, Stipe sang on "Lucky."
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
argh you're right
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
airbag
― Jordan, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
(I like Electioneering too...great cowbell!)
wot no 'annie, i'm not your daddy' :( best hidden track ever.
lol
For me 'Paranoid Android', but I'm not a big fan of this album and don't know it very well.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Alf, "Lucky" is the one where he's singing, "So PULL ME OUUUUUT/Of the aircrash..."
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
'lucky' feels a bit out of place cos it was a single before the last single off 'the bends'.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lucky" is also awesome.
― HI DERE, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Let Down", also didn't realize it was a favorite on ILM. No surprise for me, I love Air Supply.
― Euler, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
lf, "Lucky" is the one where he's singing, "So PULL ME OUUUUUT/Of the aircrash..."
Yeah, I remembered after sampling it on iTunes. OK, so it's "Climbing Up the Walls" that's just ok.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
bit too "isn't modern life hollow and alienating, etc, etc..." like we didn't know already.
I don't care about lyrics. The music is good, which is the important thing after all.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
As for some of the mentioned tracks here, "Lucky" I feel would have been the highlight had it been part of "The Bends". On "OK Computer" it sounds a bit too much like an old song representing a style they had already sort of left behind (it was originally released on the 1995 "Help!" album mind you). It's GREAT, don't misunderstand me, but there are several better tracks here.
"Electioneering" is... Well... It's OK and all that. But nowhere close to the quality of the rest of the songs on the album. Not too keen on "Climbing Up The Walls" either, but from "No Surprises" onwards the album manages to pull itself together and come up with three great tracks in the end again.
Still "Exit Music" for me. The way it gradually builds and becomes more and more haunting - SO classic!
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
As for some of the mentioned tracks here, "Lucky" I feel would have been the highlight had it been part of "The Bends". On "OK Computer" it sounds a bit too much like an old song representing a style they had already sort of left behind
quite true, geir. it fits in more with something like "black star" or some of those later tracks on the bends, and would've worked a lot better in that context.
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Coming to think of it, it wouldn't have been the highlight on "The Bends", as that would be "Fake Plastic Trees" no matter what. But it's still a great song.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
let down, but kinda wish i'd shouted out climbing up the walls
― roxymuzak, Monday, 1 October 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna be alone here on voting for Electioneering.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 October 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It should be someone's campaign song, totally bitchin'.
I don't really know any radiohead, but I picked Exit Music (For a Film) because it is such a fantastic name. Oh, hell.
― I know, right?, Monday, 1 October 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"'lucky' feels a bit out of place cos it was a single before the last single off 'the bends'."
i was going to say this. it was on the warchild album, which me and my friends listened to a lot at the time.
― Frogman Henry, Monday, 1 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
one day i am gonna grow wings
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Boo fuckin' hoo. How do you think I feel, being the only one to vote for "Fitter Happier"? Unironically, no less.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 1 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus. every album i completely fell in love with as a kid is having a poll this week.
as much as i love "Let Down", "Exit Music (For a Film)", "Lucky", and "The Tourist" ..... i have to vote "Paranoid Android"
oh and i must add.....greatest album ever
― gman, Monday, 1 October 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Aged pretty poorly in the last couple years. Four years ago I would have put this up pretty high but it's a little stale ten years later. Still, great album.
"Paranoid Android"
― talrose, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Aged pretty poorly in the last couple years.
you think? how so?
― gman, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to be able to go through this album without skipping tracks, but I'll jump from "Karma Police" to "No Suprises" without a second thought, and I almost always turn it off before "The Tourist." Not that I hate the songs I skip, but I've worn them out and can't listen to them anymore. Also, every time I hear certain Radiohead songs I become reminded of high-school gymnasium styled dorm rooms lit by deathly fluorescent bulbs.
― talrose, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Lucky vs Let Down
― Z S, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Subterranean Homesick Alien is quite pretty.
Paranoid Android is insanely great though.
― Mister Craig, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"How do you think I feel, being the only one to vote for "Fitter Happier"? Unironically, no less."
You're not the only one.
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 1 October 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"Airbag" is always going to be my favorite on this one.
― Mr. Perpetua, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I always tend to skip tracks too, but I don't skip "Fitter Happier", which fits in perfectly as kind of a skit/interlude.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I prefer the RadioDread album.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
lucky, closely followed by airbag
― electricsound, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah whatever. 'let down' x-post
― strgn, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:38 (sixteen years ago) link
damn, airbag.
you know what? this is a pretty good album. things age for people for various reasons, i can see that, but there are some pretty great tracks on here. very of its time, i guess, but what isn't?
― strgn, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Luck fitting into The Bends better than OK Computer == crazy talk.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
'Lucky', ahem.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Totally. The mellotron choirs would have stuck out like crazy on The Bends.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I gotta say, the one I always skipped was "Climbing Up The Walls." It always sounded like Radiohead was trying to beat Nine Inch Nails at their own game -- an easy target, and not a particularly satisfying one. Yorke's forced scream near the end is easily his worst moment on record.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
You are wrong.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
(i'd unhappily vote for the doesn't-compute-for-me'tall option but, as is always the case with this kid, it just isn,t there :(
― t**t, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
LET DOWN FTW
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The transcendentally ridiculous, overblown last 20 seconds or so of Climbing Up The Walls are pretty much my favourite on the record. But I still voted Airbag.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The transcendentally ridiculous, overblown last 20 seconds or so of Climbing Up The Walls are pretty much my favourite on the record.
otm
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"Climbing Up The Walls" to me sounds more like a somewhat ill-advised attempt to sound like Portishead or Tricky.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Regardless of who Radiohead are "attempting" to sound like, even assuming that they are, "Climbing up the Walls" is nonetheless devastating. So, that's my vote. Just ahead of "Lucky" and "Airbag". Actually, now that I'm listening to it again, I don't get the hate for "Exit Music (For a Film)" either.
― Lostandfound, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Let Down? Really? That's the second worst track! I went for Karma Police, Paranoid Android a close second.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Electioneering. The only one that runs rather than crawls. They're a rock band, not fucking Eno.
― paulhw, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
obviously "no surprises". was it used in a film/tv show/advert or something? i dont remember over playing it when the album came out, but when i listened through this album the other day for the first time in years it seemed much more familiar to me despite the time since i had last listened to the album than any other tracks.
― pipecock, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hey I love repeating myself!
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"Nude"
― Davey D, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i know let down seems like a boring song but to me it has a beautiful ambivalence, like it's in between happy and sad emotions....
maybe im biased by my own feelings and memories of that song...been listening to okc since 4th grade
― bstep, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
actually i think thats why let down won....its the song that has the most room for the listener to put his own emotions into the song, if that makes sense
― bstep, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
the Let Down demo on the new white cassette is incredible... i hope more of thom's 4-track demos come out, double tracked guitars + vox, more intense singing
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 July 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
I read somewhere recently that the slightly out of time guitar on Let Down was a happy accident. I still find it extraordinary, the way it blurs and melts without losing an epic feel
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 17 July 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
The opened with Let Down when I saw them in Manchester the other week, surprisingly.
― chap, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
THEY opened...