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

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.

According an interview Yorke gave to The Wire in 2001 they had the vocal vocored trough Greenwood's Ondes Martenot on the song "Kid A".

They also used something called the Palm Speaker who's, quoting Radiohead, "creating a halo of hazy reverberance around his vocal. The Palm Speaker is something else that Monsieur Martenot invented, to go with the Ondes. It's a bit like a harp with a speaker in the middle of it. The strings are tuned to all 12 semitones of an octave, and when you play a note in tune, it resonates that specific string and it creates this weird kind of echo that's only on those pitches".

Maybe that's we can hear on The National Anthem

Hope it helps

cheers

S.

Palm Speaker OTM

Not that I don't love Mingus and a good Black Saint-esque brass buildup, but mixing that with Radiohead is not so compelling.

xp I thought it might be doubled, but you can tell something is resonating with the notes he's singing. Like an acoustic guitar sitting in a practice space.

Several xposts - Opposite for me. Only came rou do to the National Anthem after revising Kid A years later.

you can see it in the middle here

This was my #2, and the distinctly Bill Dixon-esque trumpet solo is a large part of why (although the horn players on SNL soloed like they first heard of -- not heard -- Ornette Coleman that afternoon).

xp it's like an ancient, spooky autotune

love it live w/ radio static&mournful ondes, love the studio version w/ the increasingly hectic horns

i remember hearing a honking sax over a big fat bassline and being like "hmm, never thought a Radiohead song would remind me of Morphine"

it is truly a rare bird, RH syncretism at its finest imo

http://i.imgur.com/7GZ2Rs9.jpg

09. Reckoner [25 votes | 1 #1 vote | 582 points]

called it. bye "You And Whose Army" and "Motion Picture Soundtrack."

btw The Bends wound up with 3181 points for the songs in the top 50 while In Rainbows ended up with 2935 points. so The Bends is the better album and you all know it even if you don't want to admit it. :)

hahaha

no way, Faust Arp is #1

you showed them

if you count b-sides, The Bends had 3612 points.

The Bends mean track placement = 26+1/3
In Rainbows mean track placement = 34+2/3

oh wait. I just checked, and The Bends still has 'High and Dry' on it, so...

Hail to the Thief mean track placement = 33+1/4

so far. another burn for In Rainbows (which I love)

We should do an album vote to see which one we think is best

I vote for Faust Arp

I love Reckoner, excellent chord changes, even better bridge. Voted as my number 7.

RIP Melissa W

http://i.imgur.com/YdPm1aN.jpg

08. Lucky [25 votes | 2 #1 votes | 604 points]

Standing on the edge...

weirdly I think this is too low

National Anthem was the only track I liked on Kid A for literally years. Still love it. Hit the same buttons for me as chunks of XTRMNTR, which I thought, and on some days still do think, does a chunk of what Kid A is trying to do a whole lot better.

And I adore Reckoner. It's a Fisher Price version of New Grass to me.

This one is the biggest surprise for me by far. I love it, but it is not a standout track on the album for me.

Lucky is too high for me, probably my least favorite on OKC (except for electioneering).

(I say weirdly because "Lucky" was #10 on my ballot)

Everyone I knew adored Lucky when we were 17/18, when it came out. I thought it was alright but I was way too busy with Spiritualized and dance music to get OK Computer.

...and there's my #1. Not just my favorite Radiohead song, but maybe my favorite song, period. It's gonna be a GLOOOOOORIOUS DAY gets me every time.

Lucky was the first song I heard off OKC. And before I ever heard it I read something by Eno about how great he thought it was. Personally I was a bit... let down.

It's such a strong chorus

It's a rousing tune, but not as original or interesting as lots of their other stuff. I like em best with more of a groove behind them as well.

But yeah, the chord change into the chorus, complete with spectral choir, is powerful stuff.

Also that strange guitar break after the second chorus kills.