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

Ah, so 'Reckoner' did place!

Songs that got a vote that didn't quite make it that deserve a shout-out: 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', 'You and Whose Army?', '(Nice Dream)', 'Bones', 'Blow Out', 'Codex', 'Killer Cars', 'Bangers + Mash', 'Morning Mr. Magpie', 'Supercollider', 'You', 'Prove Yourself', 'I Can't'.

Songs that got zero votes that I feel should have got at least one vote: 'Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong', 'Ripcord', 'The Daily Mail', 'Feral'.

Really surprised 'There There' made it to number one, I know that it's rated quite highly around these parts and was expecting it to go Top 10, but personally it's one of those tracks that I enjoy a lot but don't consider to be one of their all-time best.

Whoa, ok everybody--disaster averted! "True Love Waits" actually got 224 points, which puts it solidly at 45th place : ) Sorry, Videotape.

Very interesting poll. Have to say, though--shocked and disappointed by "There There" at #1. That was the song that convinced me Radiohead's amazing run was definitely over. It's just so tepid, and then. . . "rock out" at the end yech.

Well done, Nate. Thanks!

I am very pleased with the winner, and I had a blast with this poll. Thanks again, Nate! I am spinning the Kid A vinyl right now for the first time in awhile. I was also happy to do myself (and dog latin, apparently) the favor of giving 'How Can You Be Sure?' a vote!

Tracks:

1. Idioteque
2. A Wolf at the Door
3. Bodysnatchers
4. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5. Climbing Up the Walls
6. Worrywort
7. Morning Bell
8. There There
9. Nude
10 Lotus Flower
11 House of Cards
12 The National Anthem
13 Life in a Glasshouse
14 Exit Music (For a Film)
15 Reckoner
16 How to Disappear Completely
17 Backdrifts
18 Airbag
19 How Can You Be Sure?
20 Talk Show Host

Albums:

1. Kid A
2. In Rainbows
3. Hail to the Thief
4. OK Computer
5. Amnesiac

best song that i shamefully didn't vote for that should have made the top 50: worrywort

I'm glad that it was still talked about enough itt that someone got to hear it for the first time

And since folks are posting their lists:

01. Exit Music (For a Film)
02. Paranoid Android
03. True Love Waits
04. Kinetic
05. Talk Show Host
06. Worrywort
07. Fake Plastic Trees
08. Nude (especially the original live version)
09. Street Spirit
10. Lucky
11. Polyethylene, Parts 1 + 2
12. Stupid Car
13. Idioteque
14. House of Cards
15. Airbag
16. High & Dry
17. Let Down
18. Dollars & Cents
19. Kid A
20. Bullet Proof (I Wish I Was)

Didn't do an album vote, but if I had:

01. OK Computer
02. The Bends
03. Kid A
04. Kinetic (compilation I made of Kid A/Amnesiac-era b-sides)
05. My Iron Lung EP

Thanks so much, Nate, this was great!

1. Lucky
2. Let Down
3. No Surprises
4. Fake Plastic Trees
5. Pearly*
6. There There
7. Just
8. Airbag
9. Black Star
10. Palo Alto
11. Paranoid Android
12. Planet Telex
13. My Iron Lung
14. Karma Police
15. The Bends
16. Codex
17. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
18. Creep
19. Idioteque
20. Pyramid Song

1. OK Computer
2. The Bends
3. Airbag/How Am I Driving?
4. Kid A
5. Hail To The Thief

Wish I'd voted for How Can You Be Sure. An early one where they've clearly not 'become Radiohead' properly and not beneath experimenting with a slouchy Britpop ballad.

a good bar/pub jam imo

I mean people will probably hate you if you play radiohead at a pub. but they will hate you less if it's that song.

xp Yes to "How Can You Be Sure." I like a lot of the non-album tracks from the Pablo/My Iron Lung era more than the stuff on Pablo Honey.

"Faithless the Wonder Boy" also comes to mind.

Well, this poll has probably crystalized why I'm really not a Radiohead-fan, though I love Kid A and several of their other songs. They've made some great pop-songs early on, and some great electronic genre-experiments later on, but they are just always too rock. And in the end, the song with the 'best guitar solo' was voted #1.

I like Molasses too for similar reasons. Never really saw Radiohead as a humorous band but there's something playful about some of those early b sides

Faithless the Wonder Boy was a go to track for me when I was younger. Should have been on Pablo Honey

xp man 'There There' is not such a straightforward rock song

I really had no idea "There There" was held in such high regard. For me and my friends for whom Radiohead had been musical life's blood from 1995-2001 (high school through college) all agreed it was incredibly boring--felt like Yorke had utterly run out of ideas, didn't trust his electronic/experimental instincts, and was content to run out the clock with "rocking" in a sexless and clunky way, like an arena on downers. Enough to make me go listen to 'Eraser' and 'Amok' to remember that things did eventually get better again. . . ; )

Or "Worrywort," the absolute "There There" antidote.

I love em both!

xp man 'There There' is not such a straightforward rock song

― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), 12. september 2014 02:22 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never said it was. But there is enough rock in it that it brings the whole thing down.

oic. but we should not fight bc I am on team kid a, as well.

Radiohead are a rock band

with albums

Thinking about it, it's not the way the solo is played that I particularly like, it's the way it's been produced and how incredible that section sounds, texturally

Well, this poll has probably crystalized why I'm really not a Radiohead-fan, though I love Kid A and several of their other songs. They've made some great pop-songs early on, and some great electronic genre-experiments later on, but they are just always too rock. And in the end, the song with the 'best guitar solo' was voted #1.

literal lols

Long live pop.

I was a latecomer to There, There but for being such an atmospheric stormcloud of a song, that shit is a super catchy earworm

didn't have time to vote; 'let down' would have been my #1

but mainly disappointed that lex has failed to weigh in

Thinking about it, it's not the way the solo is played that I particularly like, it's the way it's been produced and how incredible that section sounds, texturally

― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Thursday, September 11, 2014 5:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's not like this is Jonny Greenwood's Clapton moment or something.

I've never really thought about There There very much besides thinking the drums are cool, I'll have to revisit it to see what you're all on about.

Tracks
1. Airbag
2. Everything in its Right Place
3. Kid A
4. Idioteque
5. The National Anthem
6. In Limbo
7. Planet Telex
8. Pyramid Song
9. Subterranean Homesick Alien
10. Paranoid Android
11. Morning Bell
12. Life in a Glasshouse
13. Fitter Happier
14. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box
15. Optimistic
16. Myxomatosis
17. Fake Plastic Trees
18. Staircase
19. How to Disappear Completely
20. Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Albums/EPs
1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. The King of Limbs
4. Amnesiac
5. Hail to the Thief

One thing I love about "There There" is that the drums always remind me of "I Can't Explain."

As I said on the other thread, I'm pretty sure this is the same exact ballot I would have filed if this poll was being conducted in 2003.

1. Bones
2. Lucky
3. Pyramid Song
4. Climbing Up The Walls
5. Fake Plastic Trees
6. Everything In It's Right Place
7. The National Anthem
8. High and Dry
9. You And Whose Army?
10. Paranoid Android
11. Let Down
12. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
13. My Iron Lung
14. Electioneering
15. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
16. Planet Telex
17. Exit Music (For A Film)
18. Optimistic
19. Creep
20. We Suck Young Blood

Tracks:
Life In a Glasshouse
True Love Waits
There There
Everything In Its Right Place
Pyramid Song
Paranoid Android
Reckoner
The National Anthem
The Tourist
Idioteque
Climbing Up the Walls
My Iron Lung
Like Spinning Plates (Live)
Worrywort
High and Dry
A Wolf at the Door
Lucky
How to Disappear Completely
Fog (Again)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Albums:
Ok Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
In Rainbows
The Bends

overall my ballot was quite in sync with ILM

1. Just
2. No Surprises
3. Life in a Glasshouse
4. High and Dry
5. There There
6. Exit Music (for a Film)
7. Idioteque
8. Knives Out
9. Planet Telex
10. Fake Plastic Trees
11. Paranoid Android
12. Kid A
13. Blow Out
14. My Iron Lung
15. The Trickster
16. Myxomatosis
17. Hunting Bears
18. Bodysnatchers
19. 15 Step
20. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)

My ballot:

Idioteque
Let Down
There There
The Bends
Karma Police
2 + 2 = 5
Bodysnatchers
Reckoner
Planet Telex
Give Up The Ghost
Where I End and You Begin
High and Dry
Myxomatosis
Airbag
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box
Creep
Backdrifts
Street Spirit
I Might Be Wrong
Pyramid Song

Albums
Hail To The Thief
OK Computer
The Bends
In Rainbows
Amnesiac

Idioteque #1, bodysnatchers high, and backdrifts. I like it!

ballot, with final rankings:

Exit Music (For a Film) 14
Street Spirit 21
Optimistic 24
No Surprises 20
Lucky 08
There There 01
Paranoid Android 03
Planet Telex 16
Just 19
Idioteque 05
Pyramid Song 04
Knives Out 34
A Wolf at the Door 28
(Nice Dream) 57
Karma Police 11
Let Down 06
Subterranean Homesick Alien 18
In Limbo 31
The National Anthem 10
Creep 41

albums
1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. The Bends
4. Hail to the Thief
5. Amnesiac

vids
1. Knives Out
2. There There
3. No Surprises
4. Paranoid Android
5. Motion Picture Soundtrack

tracks:

Just
Morning Bell
Subterranean Homesick Alien
The Bends
Talk Show Host
Lucky
My Iron Lung
Paranoid Android
Palo Alto
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box
Kid A
Airbag
Give Up The Ghost
Planet Telex
I Might Be Wrong
Reckoner
Black Star
A Punch Up At A Wedding
Climbing Up The Walls
Bones

albums:

The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
The King of Limbs

Morning Bell at #2 is a cool idea. It's only gotten better the more I've listened to it this week.

for years and years it would've been my #1 but i decided to get behind "Just"

interesting to me: for a lot of their albums, the top ranking song was the lead single -- OK Computer, Amnesiac, HTTT, Pablo Honey, The Bends (for the US lead single, anyway). and the other three albums basically had no advance single and were released all at once.

If I put a ballot into this, my top 10 would honestly just be Kid A in running order (yes, even treefingers).
Awesome poll though! I thought it might even shake my complete apathy to OK Computer for a while there.

A little surprised no King Of Limbs tracks popped up, would have loved to see Separator and Giving Up The Ghost get a place.
Completely surprised at There There placing where it did, I remember nothing of that song and never knew it was such a hit.

Really enjoyed this, and had given me a whole new level of appreciation for Radiohead.

OTM

thanks for doing this Nate, you did another amazing job! The Cure and Radiohead, not bad.

i know if i listened to every song instead of just previewing songs it might have been a bit different.

1. Paranoid Android
2. There There
3. Idioteque
4. Bodysnatchers
5. True Love Waits
6. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
7. House of Cards
8. Talk Show Host
9. The National Anthem
10. 2 + 2 = 5
11. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
12. The Tourist
13. 15 Step
14. My Iron Lung
15. Karma Police
16. Go To Sleep
17. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
18. The Trickster
19. A Punchup at a Wedding
20. Fake Plastic Trees

Albums:

1. In Rainbows
2. OK Computer
3. Kid A
4. Hail to the Thief
5. The Bends

My ballot, fwiw:

15 step
National anthem
Airbag
Fog
Reckoner
Paranoid android
Separator
These are my twisted words
There there
Where I end and you begin
Talk show host
Bodysnatchers
Fake plastic trees
Just
Weird fishes / arpeggi
Let down
Cuttooth
Staircase
Morning bell
Pearly

In rainbows
Ok computer
Kid a
The bends
Httt

If I were to do it now as opposed to a fortnight ago, Cuttooth and Fog would switch, the Daily Mail would knock Pearly off, and I'd swap Staircase for Planet Telex and maybe try and squeeze My Iron Lung in.

Plus I just need to assess all of Amnesiac again.

1 – Reckoner
2 – There There
3 – Climbing Up the Walls
4 – Life in a Glasshouse
5 – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
6 – Let Down
7 – Videotape
8 – Airbag
9 – A Wolf at the Door
10 – Everything in Its Right Place
11 – Cuttooth
12 – Where I End and You Begin
13 – Idioteque
14 – Fog
15 – Codex
16 – Jigsaw Falling In To Place
17 – Go Slowly
18 – 15 Step
19 – I Might Be Wrong
20 – Planet Telex

1 – Kid A
2 – OK Computer
3- In Rainbows
4 – The Bends
5 – Hail to the Thief

Great poll Nate!! Glad to see 'There There' come out on top. Also, I'm happy that my number 1 vote helped place "Reckoner' in the top 10 where it deserves to be!

re: Everything In It's Right Place - I like it. My bandmate says the opening chords sound like slipping into a warm bath on a cold night. Not sure it's #2 material and actually quite surprised it placed so high and beat out Paranoid Android, but whatever.

Alan, I think Reckoner did OK...

Yeah, I'm kind of baffled at EIIRP and TT finishing 2+1; I like both, but would never think of them as absolute favourites. I guess EIIRP was the first thing a lot of people heard of Kid A, cos there was no lead single and it opened the album, so it perhaps has some epochal weight because of that. And I remember friends who weren't enormous Radiohead geeks loving There There, whereas it nonplussed me for several months. I know it gets a lot of love from here, though.