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

I think I'm the only one itt who's repped for it.

I doubt it would have made a big difference, but I forgot to vote for "Bangers + Mash."

out of that list i'd guess that motion picture soundtrack won't make it

― Karl Malone

I'll be disappointed if that doesn't make the list. That chorus is just so incredibly moving. It was my number two behind Weird Fishes.

I didn't really get "Motion Picture Soundtrack" til I heard the OKC-era acoustic version.

fuck yeah karma police, that's an amazing song

It looks like Kid A may have the highest average point total per track after all of the beans are counted. If this is the case, I'm going to argue that ILM actually voted Kid A best album. I will then collect the highest average flag point total.

Oh for a second I thought you meant the song "Kid A" and I was all like "yessss."

Airbag
Paranoid Android
Lucky
Let Down
Everything In Its Right Place
The National Anthem
Idioteque
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pyramid Song
You and Whose Army?
There There

No Reckoner? :(

no way you and whose army makes it over reckoner

ogmor, to be honest I'm not much of a sci-fi enthusiast, why do you ask?

Surprised at Optimistic placing so high here, to me it's the the clunky half-finished rock song that fucks up the flow of Kid A, I had no idea people liked it so much.

Whenever I listen to the chorus of lucky I want it to turn into the hitchhikers theme, they're so close

Hitchhikers Theme Extended 12-inch Club Mix

Just catching up now. Great poll so far although the last 10 have been relatively predictable. 11 of my 20 have show up so far. I think there's 5 left in my top 10 that I'd expect to see still included here. I only voted for 2 of the last 10.

A shame 'Cuttooth' didn't make the list (my favourite Amnesiac b-side). I'm surprised that nothing from the bonus CD that came with the limited version of 'In Rainbows' made the cut. Did people not really pay much attention to that one? A shame as it has some wonderful songs on it. Personally (if I'd had the time) I would have repped for 'Go Slowly' which I think is an absolutely gorgeous song, arguably Radiohead's most depressing though. Would have thought that '4 Minute Warning' and 'Last Flowers' might have have some support as well.

At this stage I'm rooting for strong placements for 'There There', 'Reckoner' and 'Let Down'.

Would never have pegged 'The National Anthem' as a contender for the top 10. Would much rather see 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' in there.

Karma Police is such a great song. Luckily it's not too overplayed in the UK. Spent ages learning to play this on guitar too and have since developed a highly stylised fingerpicked version I like to dig out on occasion.

Visited for How to Disappear too - a very In Rainbows-esque song and the first I heard off Kid A as they played a bit of it on the radio before it came out.

I'll lump Fake Plastic Trees in with High & Dry as a song that worked well at the time but has aged somewhat. Still better than High & Dry and I love the 'and if I could be who you wanted' part.

Exit Music - now I hadn't realised that this had been out before OKC. Might go to some lengths to explain why it sounded so familiar on the album. Always sounded like a pastiche of something to me - Leonard Cohen, or some French crooner?

Only recently came round to Morning Bell and I'm still not sure it's as good as people are making out. I couldn't even tell you how Motion Picture Soundtrack goes - can't remember it!

Planet Telex - yes an amazing song but I still think of it as a really effective intro track for the Bends over anything else.

Good to see Climbing Up the Walls placing nice and high. A total bad trip of a song. Whoever said it preceded HTTT upthread is OTM.

Subterranean Homesick Alien is okay. Not my favourite. A little bit twee for Radiohead I reckon.

Just is so great. No Surprises is nice enough but I'm kind of tired of it. Street Spirit is the Stairway to Heaven of the 90s.

One thing I've realised about this poll is I'm way behind on 2000's R'head b-sides

I've never understood the love for Just. Always hoping it's going to turn into 'Shot by Both Sides' at any moment.
Still great list all the same, fantastic images too, thanks nate.

I was going to do a Spotify list but (in the UK at least) In Rainbows is missing, can easily compile all the results so far in a YouTube playlist is people are interested?

Not looking forward to Let Down placing very much. Always heard it as a really abysmal analogue of No Surprises with draggy lyrics 'Transport/Motorways and tramlines' oh god please kill me...

Love this version though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBamm5XqO8

Much prefer Let Down to No Surprises. Never liked the latter much.

Cuttooth is one of my favourites, should have had it much higher in my list (think I confused it with Fog, which I also like but nowhere near as much).

Sad Separator didn't make it; think it's a really beautiful piece, the best thing about KoL by some distance. I like KoL a lot to start with but it's faded.

Never liked How To Disappear. Something vapid about it, which I guess is kind of the point / appropriate.

It's the bass that makes it special for me, it would just be a decent Radiohead song without it.

How To Disappear is mostly notable for one amazing chord change.

I'll lump Fake Plastic Trees in with High & Dry as a song that worked well at the time but has aged somewhat. Still better than High & Dry and I love the 'and if I could be who you wanted' part.

i agree with this but in fpt's case i feel it's largely a production issue, cuz this is p incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vp03a0Sbk

It looks like Kid A may have the highest average point total per track after all of the beans are counted. If this is the case, I'm going to argue that ILM actually voted Kid A best album. I will then collect the highest average flag point total.

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:45 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think that's way too early to call, especially considering that Kid A and OK Computer each have 3-4 songs that are locks for the top ten and we have no idea how much the points are going to jump up from here or for which songs. i am interested to see how those things shake out vs. the albums poll, though. "Reckoner" is going to need a lot of points for In Rainbows to wind up with a larger overall point total than The Bends.

just discovered this and it's a bit special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chE1_g3GAWw

One ondes isn't cool. You know what it's cool?

*what's

I'm kind of wishing I'd voted for "Lotus Flower" and "Codex" now

One of my favourite concert memories is seeing Radiohead play in a Roman amphitheatre in Verona on a perfect summer's night in 2001. They opened the encores with Fake Plastic Trees and when it kicked up a notch halfway through, the woman next to me exploded into tears. I will always love that song for that moment.

in Verona

Hope they played Exit Music!

Whenever I listen to the chorus of lucky I want it to turn into the hitchhikers theme, they're so close

― ogmor, Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:19 AM (8 hours ago)

Loool, "Journey of the Sorcerer"! I never connected the two before!

I'm kind of wishing I'd voted for "Lotus Flower" and "Codex" now

― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:53 AM (1 hour ago)

I voted for Codex, it's so beautiful. That and Pearly* are the two songs I voted for that haven't shown up and have no chance of doing so.

yeah me neither, but now i'll never be able to unhear it. i wonder if there are any other glaring HGG2TG references on OKC? (other than the obvious part where Thom sings 'Slartibartfast' backwards during the breakdown on Electioneering).

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I was really hoping Staircase would make it. I like The King of Limbs plenty, but the songs sort of all blend together in a pleasant if fairly unexciting way.

But Staircase feels like a big "this is what we are doing now, and you will like it" statement. It would have been an amazing opener to the TKoL that justified their vision in the way that Planet Telex, Airbag and Everything in it's Right Place did.

I wish I had of put it in my top 10 ahead of my 6th favourite Kid A track but oh well.

Staircase is awesome, gorgeous synth textures, and I could listen to the last minute or so on repeat for hours. That and Supercollider were higher in my ballot than any actual KoL song.

Also sad Backdrifts won't place, my favourite HTTT song some days.

Identikit goddamit

i wonder if there are any other glaring HGG2TG references on OKC? (other than the obvious part where Thom sings 'Slartibartfast' backwards during the breakdown on Electioneering).

Uh, yeah there are:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xfWCDLoCU

http://i.imgur.com/EzPkOr5.jpg

10. The National Anthem [21 votes | 3 #1 votes | 561 points]

Wow...expected this to be top three at least.

This one got old fast for me. I don't think I've listened to it all the way through in 10 years.

Yeah same for me.

Plus the bass sounds (to me) a bit out of tune once the rest of the band comes in, and once I noticed that I couldn't unhear it and it really annoys me now.

Voted for National Anthem in my top ten. Radiohead + free jazz is a formula that works for me.

I've always wondered how the vocal effect on this is achieved. I understand why people get bored with it, but the brass and Thom's screaming puts it over the top for me.

yeah me neither, but now i'll never be able to unhear it. i wonder if there are any other glaring HGG2TG references on OKC? (other than the obvious part where Thom sings 'Slartibartfast' backwards during the breakdown on Electioneering).

You mean besides Paranoid Android?

It lost a lot of its edge for me when I used to listen to Kid A a lot. But now I don't hear it all that often I really enjoy it and it's back to being one of my favourites, man that brass just sounds good.

i remember when they played SNL it seemed like the vocal melody was just being doubled on the ondes martenot and i was like ahh it's not a vocal effect at all

Love this song.