The Radiohead POX

Any 10 from The Bends over everything else.

planet telex
go to sleep
no surprises
polyethylene pts 1 & 2
idioteque
you
meeting in the aisle
let down
airbag
karma police

xp you of all ppl???

Worrywort
Planet Telex
Fake Plastic Trees
Reckoner
Myxomatosis
Life in a Glasshouse
How to Dissapear Completely
Kid A
Exit music
Fog

Idioteque
No Surprises
Black Star
Let Down
House Of Cards
(Nice Dream)
Bullet Proof....Wish I Was
Kid A
Knives Out
There There

ah ive already posted to this thread i see and theres 5 changes from what i put down last time

Fitter Happier
There there
Kid A
Scatterbrain
Let Down
Last Flowers til the Hospital
You and Whose Army?
No Surprises
We Suck Young Blood
Sail to the Moon

Decks Dark would definitely be in there now I think.

Fitter Happier

no way, if anything I'd swap out Sail to the Moon with Morning Bell/Kid A version.

Again; one per album + 1 b-side

Blowout
Fake Plastic Trees
No surprises
How to dissappear completely
Pyramid Song
Worrywort
Myxomatosis
Reckoner
Separator
The Numbers

Maquiladora
You
Planet Telex
Let Down
Kid A
You and Whose Army?
There there
Videotape
Morning Mr. Magpie
Burn the Witch

xp idgi, "Fitter Happier" barely registers with me at this point except as a collection of cliches (which admittedly may have been less cliched in 1996) with sound-design just interesting enough to keep from skipping ahead to hear "Electioneering" -- admittedly a good idea to sequence it after "Karma Police" (for CD anyway; on the 2xLP "Karma Police" closes side 2, "Fitter Happier" kicks off the second disc, & I am getting tripped up trying to imagine this)
maybe I need to relisten

also limiting myself to the "one per album + 1 b-side" rule

Blowout
Planet Telex
Let Down
How to Disappear Completely
Pyramid Song
There, There
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Bloom
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
Daydreaming

A Reminder
In Limbo
Amazing Sounds Of Orgy
The Tourist
Decks Dark
Meeting In The Aisle
Palo Alto
Airbag
Backdrifts
Pyramid Song

there there
nude
pyramid song
15 step
daydreaming
no surprises
paranoid android
everything in its right place
nice dream
let down

bunny slopes I feel like you & I have v.similar taste in the radioheads

MaresNest I respect & honor your idiosyncratic choice of "The Tourist", in ways that I categorically refuse to extend to anyone who reps "Fitter Happier"

Davey D are you part of the surprising silent majority of "Nice Dream" lovers, or did we already go over this on another thread?
(fwiw I have listened to (Nice Dream) a handful of times since then & have come to appreciate what others see in it, not least: its ability to hold up under repeated listening scrutiny)

... that concludes this installment of "Being Judgmental Towards Other Radiohead Fans" -- join us again at this hour tomorrow, when I'll share my ranking of songs on The Bends by how hype I get when I sing them in my car on the way to work out ~~

Bernard, is it really that unusual? The cut bar/chord change combo in the verses is so lovely.

The eight OKC era b-sides alone make a fantastic mini album.

Nice Dream would be one of my choices for old songs which I'd love to hear re-recorded and adapted to the new AMSP arrangements and production values.

Davey D are you part of the surprising silent majority of "Nice Dream" lovers, or did we already go over this on another thread?

Definitely didn't discuss on another thread - I'm not sure what it is I love so much about this song. It just possesses this humble, melancholy air that nothing else from this era of Radiohead quite hits upon, at least for me... I'm also happily surprised to see it popping up so frequently here.

I should possibly note that my experience of Radiohead was entirely derived from albums + a few music videos back in the day ; my first and only experience of them as a live band was earlier this week, when I youtubed a clip from Austin City Limits in which Thom Yorke does a little swaggy dance while singing "Broken hearts / Make it rain"

in other words, if some people were to like "Nice Dream" because it's a song from the band's earlier incarnation which they've continued to play live throughout the years -- that entire dimension would be lost on me

sorry, that's "(Nice Dream)"

bunny slopes I feel like you & I have v.similar taste in the radioheads

Seconded

this should be easy to do since i don't have time for him

in chronological order

Planet Telex
Paranoid Android
A Reminder
2+2=5
Sit Down. Stand Up
A Punchup At A Wedding
Bodysnatchers
Little By Little
Supercollider
Daydreaming

How to Disappear Completely
The Tourist
Planet Telex
Let Down
House of Cards
Karma Police
Morning Bell
Knives Out
There There
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

Something like:
Idioteque
Pyramid Song
Identikit
Let Down
15 Step
Myxamatosis
All I Need
Where I End and You Begin
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Life in a Glasshouse

Everything in its right place
True love waits (live)
No Surprises
Life in a Glasshouse
Bodysnatchers
Worrywort
There, There
Lucky
(nice dream)
Airbag

top ten dr tchock enunciations

haven't listened to any of these in a while but they are burned into my brain

TEN. "lemon" - you know the one, when the song starts to turn and you can picture him screwing his wee little face up
9. "does" - this goes on for such a long time it goes through several forms, transcends its meaning and becomes a delicate mystery
8."cafés" - spat out very nicely with an extra syllable and everything
7. "wide" - good synergy between semantic content and underenunciated gaping delivery where it sounds like he might be drowning in his own voice
SIX."fire" - captures the whole vibe in one good moment
5. "uncle" - demented grunt for the first syllable a particular highlight
4. "California" - mb grimes has topped this in terms of expansive delivery but the way he rouses himself to reach the third syllable is A+ tchocky goodness
3/ "holy" - he sounds so weary
2. "roman" - like the last man alive at the end of the world doing his duty
1. "empire" - it never fails to make my heart sing

nice dream is in my top 5 Radiohead songs.

bunny slopes I feel like you & I have v.similar taste in the radioheads

― bernard snowy

heh, i was about to say the same!

blowout
planet telex
lucky
kid a
pyramid song
where i end and you begin
all i need
separator
daydreaming
fog

Here are mine:

1. There There
2. Karma Police
3. Nude
4. Paranoid Android
5. [nice dream]
6. My Iron Lung
7. Daydreaming
8. Faithless the Wonder Boy
9. Bulletproof... Wish I was
10. Blowout

Looking at this, it's weird. Despite me liking Kid Amnesiac-era Radiohead plenty, and thinking that I'm SO OVER The Bends, there's definitely a bookendedness about this list in that a vast majority of the songs are from either early or late-era Radiohead.

My brother can sing and play the song 'Kid A' on acoustic guitar. I never thought of it as a proper song until I saw him do it when we were back home for Christmas.

is your brother John Mayer? cuz I saw him do it that way live many years ago (dragged their by an ex-girlfriend). not recommended.

one of my first college experiences was some guy down the hall excitedly sharing the john mayer kid a via audiogalaxy. i thought "i wonder how much money i can get back if i drop out right now"

If I'm being really real, this is what I go back and listen to if I'm not putting on full albums:

Paranoid Android
Everything in Its Right Place
Packt Like Sardines
Pyramid Song
2 + 2 = 5
Sit Down Stand Up
Backdrifts
Reckoner
Daydreaming
Identikit

I like that list. "Reckoner", those HTTT songs, and "Everything" are real highlights for me too.

You
Bones
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Everything In Its Right Place
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
Cuttooth
Where I End and You Begin
15 Step
Codex
Identikit

I'm not a Radiohead fan but here are some memorable moments off the top of my head

1. The way the melody explodes upward when Thom sings "anyone can play guitarrrr" (Pablo Honey is the album I enjoy returning to the most)
2. A ghost memory about having feelings and feeling them when listening to The Bends album, pretty sure I know all the words to "Fake Plastic Trees", but those feelings are unfamiliar to me now
3. The drums dropping in and out on "Airbag"
4. The exquisite guitar picking pattern in the a-section of "Paranoid Android", also notable is the self-parodic line "the crackle of pig skin" which was when I got off the "I care about Thom's lyrics" train
5. Feeling like I was the only person on the internet who thought "Electioneering" was the best OKC song, and that "Let Down" and "Lucky" were cold garbage
6. The first .5 seconds of "Everything In Its Right Place", unable to sit at a Rhodes for more than a minute without playing those chords
7. Jonny's delicious string arrangement on "How To Disappear Completely", the guitar riff on "National Anthem" (and nothing else about that song)
8. Thinking that the Kid A bear was very clever bit of branding
9. Being obsessed for a day over "Like Spinning Plates", reversing the track in my DAW and listening, and searching for live recordings; disliking every individual song on Amnesiac otherwise
10. Listening all the way through "Hail To The Thief" exactly once, feeling impressed when it goes "the raindrops, the raindrops", then remembering that I hate this band by the time Thom sings "it's a drunken punch-up at a wedding"
11. Enjoying all of In Rainbows thoroughly, especially the live performance of "15 Step" with marching band, the rising vocal coda on "Nude", debating with a friend whether or not it was OK to delete "Faust ARP" from the iTunes
12. Going to see the band for free, watched their soundcheck and was non-plussed, then saw them play with the full lighting rig and was blown away, felt like I knew and liked every song they played
13. Dancing memes
14. Feeling envious of Jonny's film scores, feeling whatever about Thom's solo album, loving the live set of Atoms For Peace
15. The new album floated by my head without a single Thom contribution making an impression

Oh and somewhere in there I forgot but I stan for their cover of "On Your Own Again"

Oh also: the drum sound on "Reckoner", prob my #1 favourite thing about this band

15. The new album floated by my head without a single Thom contribution making an impression

there are a lot of guitar and piano moments that sound Thom-y to me though (his solo albums helped me realize how much this is true).

Oh also: the drum sound on "Reckoner", prob my #1 favourite thing about this band

so great, the '60s stereo thing with the whole drumkit panned hard to one side, and the perfect tambourine sound in the other channel.

Yeah, that's great! I could have just listed all of In Rainbows tbh.

1. My Iron Lung
2. Airbag
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
4. Everything in its Right Place
5. Optimistic
6. Pyramid Song
7. There There
8. 15 step
9. Separator
10. Daydreamer

5. Feeling like I was the only person on the internet who thought "Electioneering" was the best OKC song, and that "Let Down" and "Lucky" were cold garbage

I have definitely argued for "Electioneering" as the best OKC song before, but can't imagine ever in a million years disliking "Let Down"

"Lucky" has a good chorus, but is hard to feel any type of way about besides

oh yeah & I 110% agree w/ hosannas for the "Reckoner" drum sound. instantly recognizable (at least, it stands out from the rest of their stuff, sonically) yet familiar... Jordan sez 60s stereo mixing, but I hear the echo of late Talk Talk as well

debating with a friend whether or not it was OK to delete "Faust ARP" from the iTunes

not okay, but only because of the lovely moment when the strings come in, which is a minor album highlight for me

xp clarification: shoulda said something like "unmistakable but familiar" -- within seconds, the music impresses upon me a sense of time&place that are just as strong as the 90s britpop heyday evoked by the churning guitars of The Bends, if somewhat more nebulous

I should also-also note that the crisp, dry drum sound kicking off "Weird Fishes" is equally great, albeit in a totally opposed way

hearing this version of Arpeggi for 2 and a half years before IR came out ruined the song for me. this is such a beautiful song, i really can't stand the meat & potatoes arrangement on the record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrKPrpOvfCI