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

I did love Electioneering for a few days in the summer of 97.

I have to say, I did too, and I remember being glad they chose to play it on their Tonight Show appearance. But it hasn't aged well for me.

CLIMBING UP THE WALLS IS SO SO SO SO SO SO SO GREAT

I love climbing's lyrics, and the production is quite unique and awesome set in the radiohead catalog imo

depending on the day, it's my fave/2nd fave/3rd fave OK Computer song

I've realized that Hail to the thief is kinda like Climbing Up the Walls: The Album at times

I love how tightly wound and claustrophobic the song is initially, how it winds tighter and tighter, slowly building to that great explosion, and then BUILDS SOME MORE to that amazing final howl

yeah if wolf at the door is my favorite Thom vocal as a whole, that final howl is my favorite Thom vocal moment

http://i.imgur.com/wf218xw.jpg

16. Planet Telex [27 votes | 522 points]

prob nothing from my ballot is going to appear from here on out, but then mine was designed according to "radiohead songs i still have a desire to hear"

I always forget how great "Planet Telex" is

"Planet Telex" blew my mind on first listen; "THIS is what those flash-in-the-pan 'Creep' guys came up with?!"

haha yes, that was basically my reaction when I first played The Bends (although it was muted because I already had OK Computer on endless repeat)

yeah I'm kinda falling in love with The Bends all over again thanks to this roll out. I keep wanting to complain. But I listen to the track first, and then I can't complain really.

I love how Planet Telex prefigures later stuff while still sounding a bit dated in its own right - not in a bad way, just that you wouldn't mistake it for OKC. It occupies its own unique space.

has The Bends ever been remastered? the CD i have is shockingly quiet and muffled.

The Bends sounds brilliant on CD as far as I'm concerned.

Don't think I voted for this but really, really wish I had in hindsight.

http://i.imgur.com/kNtInqb.jpg

15. Morning Bell [23 votes | 525 points]

come now too low

I thought this would be a #1 contender

the Kid A version is obv better but i do have a soft spot for /Amnesiac and my vote was kinda for both

Kid A version >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Amnesiac version

Same here. I think of Amnesiac's as the hungover Sunday morning version.
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OK Computer is really going to run away with this poll in the top 10

Just one #10 vote for Morning Bell/Amnesiac.

I really like Amnesiac for the most part but the amount of ill-will "Morning Bell Amnesiac" generates in me colors my reaction to every song on the album after it with searing, intense dislike, to the point where I had to put the album on shuffle in order to appreciate "Life In A Glass House"

Let Down has surely got to be in the Top 50 Radiohead songs?

let down
exit music
airbag
par and
lucky

these will all place i should imagine. what is left off of bends, fake plastic trees?

yep

"Bones" won't make it :'(

http://i.imgur.com/sOjf2UJ.jpg

14. Exit Music (For a Film) [23 votes | 2 #1 votes | 529 points]

drum fill -> synth = classic, obviously

And I guess Bulletproof won't make it ether?

I like that photo. Thom as Slender Man.

did not make my original 20 but i slipped it on the end in recognition of it being a big deal for me and my favourite radiohead song between the ages of 20 and 23

My favourite section is the 'breathe, keep breathing' part, gorgeous.

such a great way to hear it for the first time; the end credits of Romeo And Juliet. seemed like a long time until OKC came out after.

There was almost a year between R+J and the release of OKC. Ah, the mid-'90s!

http://i.imgur.com/6NIS66I.jpg

13. Fake Plastic Trees [21 votes | 2 #1 votes | 536 points]

How did Radiohead get so attached to that movie as to have two songs connected with it?

I'm reading Wikipedia right now and this is mind-blowing: "In August 1996, Radiohead toured as the opening act for Alanis Morissette"

Not keen on FPT, just sounds boringly straightforward to me. Was unsurprised when David Cameron named it his favourite Radiohead song.

XP ha yeah me too.

re R+J ..
Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann commissioned Radiohead to write a song for his upcoming film Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann gave the band footage of the final 30 minutes of the film, and Yorke said "When we saw the scene in which Claire Danes holds the Colt 45 against her head, we started working on the song immediately." Soon afterwards, the band wrote and recorded "Exit Music (For a Film)"; the track plays over the film's end credits but was not included on the soundtrack at the band's request.

it was my favorite off The Bends in high school

CLIMBING UP THE WALLS IS SO SO SO SO SO SO SO GREAT

had it #5 but wish I'd placed it higher now

jmm dont forget Clueless!

http://i.imgur.com/QuzoRvZ.jpg

12. How to Disappear Completely [24 votes | 3 #1 votes | 549 points]

My #5!

high five to the fellow number 1 voters! i was convinced it was a top 3 lock.