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

"JUST AS YOU DANCE DANCE Dance Dance dance dance..." *gorgeous guitar part*

Videotape is too low indeed.

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45. House of Cards [10 votes | 224 points]

...and there it is, my least favourite track on In Rainbows. I find it pleasant enough while I'm passively listening to it, but have always found it a bit of a snoozer otherwise. Next!

i like the key parties reference.

very excited for your next summary xp

forgot how good Palo Alto was good, actually better than half of OKC imo.

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44. The Bends [10 votes | 226 points]

rules

pretty cool how thom harmonizes with the opening guitar part like sad george benson

xxxpost:

Better than half of OK Computer is pushing it, but yeah, it's a great track. I've just played it again and have been thinking it would have been great if R.E.M. had attempted a version of it. The vocal melody and lyric sound firmly in Stipe territory to my ears, and it definitely sounds like Thom/the band had been listening to R.E.M. a little more than usual.

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43. All I Need [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 230 points]

xxpost: yeah i'm pushing it, but i'm not the biggest ok computer fan honestly.

very excited for your next summary xp

― mattresslessness, Monday, 8 September 2014 22:52 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

need to find yr 1997 geocities fan website on archive.org

is thom yorke drinking riesling there?

it's boone's farm. he's listening to 'radar love'.

'The Bends' is such a great track and one of my all-time favourites. While I think I'd heard and enjoyed a couple of singles from The Bends by the time of their Later With Jools performance in '95 (although I can definitely say for certain that I hadn't heard 'Creep' yet - I'd kinda neatly bypassed that whole thing), it was their performance of this track that really made me sit up and take notice. The fact that it was a great song was one thing, but there was also this sense of "holy fuck, what's the guitarist doing with that string?". I don't know how long it was after that that I was in a record store listening to them play the whole album in the background and thinking "yeah, I want this album", but I'm sure it wasn't long after I saw 'em play 'The Bends' on Jools.

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42. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [11 votes | 234 points]

^^^ great song, didn't vote for it

it's a shame they don't play it live that much (25 times, latest in 2012) but yeah, great song, just off my ballot.

same here

I would have put it on a 30-track ballot

I wasn't amazingly keen on 'All I Need' at first but it grew on me steadily. I love the bass sound on it particularly, but the best moment of the track for me is the outro. They really had a thing with outros on In Rainbows: this, 'Jigsaw Falling Into Place', 'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi'...

'Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box' would have made my ballot with no hesitation or doubt if I'd bothered to cobble one together. In fact, I'm convinced that it should have been a single. Live versions around the time were great re-interpretations of the track, but I think it's just perfect in the form it is on Amnesiac. It's a great electropop song, and those electronic tones sound lovely to my ears. There's nothing really avant-garde about this, and the band themselves would probably disagree (as would many Radiohead fan), but 'Packt Like Sardines' is definitely a pop song... and that's a good thing!

Last one for tonight:

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41. Creep [13 votes | 235 points]

too high

not familiar with this one.

really the thing about "Packt" for me is that it is immediately followed by "Pyramid Song", which is so immediately connected to my subconscious pleasure centers that I almost instantly forget that I even listened to "Packt" in the first place

"Creep" rules, it is one of my karaoke standards

i am very pro-"creep"

50. Videotape [9 votes | 202 points]
49. Palo Alto [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 202 points]
48. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 208 points]
47. Fog [8 votes | 2 #1 votes | 210 points]
46. Jigsaw Falling Into Place [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 220 points]
45. House of Cards [10 votes | 224 points]
44. The Bends [10 votes | 226 points]
43. All I Need [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 230 points]
42. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [11 votes | 234 points]
41. Creep [13 votes | 235 points]

are the verses and chorus of 'creep' the same narrator?

um... yes?

so he says all of that creepy stuff in the verses and then realizes how creepy he is in the chorus?

see my previous post

woo my no. 1 already placed ("fog")

best thing that was ever associated with Creep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RB3edZyeYw

it's a funny song

He says 'BUT I'm a creep' not 'BECAUSE I'm a creep'. I just want the narrator to know that he is a creep because of all those thoughts in the verses.

I voted Videotape for this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njCps4jGaks

thought strong chance creep wouldn't place which would've been fun

also, ppl need to listen to jigsaw more, that is a great song

the day Creep went Top 10 in the UK (late Summer '93) i bumped into a gloomy Damon Albarn and an upbeat Loz 'Kingmaker' Hardy sat together in a Manchester bar just before Elastica's first ever gig outside of London. DA needled me for having a Suede t shirt on but was pretty nonplussed when i asked him what he thought of an indie band going into the Top 10. seemed like a pretty big deal to me, as it hadn't happened much since The Stone Roses, if at all. Loz Hardy told me "aw they can fuck off". happy days.

Glad All I Need placed, lovely moody muscular track.

several xposts to DJP:

Yeah, those two definitely make for a great album opening. There's been a lot of discussion since Amnesiac came out of shuffling the track order and including B-sides from the same sessions etc. and while I think the album is a bit of a jumble in terms of song order (particularly the second half), they definitely got the two opening tracks right.

I don't see 'Creep' in the same way that others do... I'd never even heard it until after I'd bought The Bends! I didn't know anything about how the band felt about it or anything about the band trying to shake off a "one-hit wonder" tag until much later. When I did finally hear it (post-Bends, pre-OKC) I liked it, and still continue to like it. It seems to get a load of shit off the newer fans that got into Radiohead after OK Computer, though.

He says 'BUT I'm a creep' not 'BECAUSE I'm a creep'. I just want the narrator to know that he is a creep because of all those thoughts in the verses.

― wolves at doors: they flan @ u face (Sufjan Grafton)

Don't overthink it, it's just the following clause to 'I wish I was special'.

ah, good call. it always sounded so absurd to me. like a version of 'Taxman' where George sings 'but I'm the Taxman' in the chorus.

Yeah, that's how I've always heard the lyric too, as the following clause to 'I wish I was special'. It's just Thom putting some chick on a pedestal and obsessing over her while not feeling particularly chipper about himself.

Amazing to think that even around the time of 'Creep', Thom still had 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' in his back pocket, waiting to be given the organ'n'Disney harp treatment.

it amazes me more that you could not 'bother to cobble' a ballot together when you clearly love this band and its albums
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