The "OK Computer" poll

As for some of the mentioned tracks here, "Lucky" I feel would have been the highlight had it been part of "The Bends". On "OK Computer" it sounds a bit too much like an old song representing a style they had already sort of left behind (it was originally released on the 1995 "Help!" album mind you). It's GREAT, don't misunderstand me, but there are several better tracks here.

"Electioneering" is... Well... It's OK and all that. But nowhere close to the quality of the rest of the songs on the album. Not too keen on "Climbing Up The Walls" either, but from "No Surprises" onwards the album manages to pull itself together and come up with three great tracks in the end again.

Still "Exit Music" for me. The way it gradually builds and becomes more and more haunting - SO classic!

As for some of the mentioned tracks here, "Lucky" I feel would have been the highlight had it been part of "The Bends". On "OK Computer" it sounds a bit too much like an old song representing a style they had already sort of left behind

quite true, geir. it fits in more with something like "black star" or some of those later tracks on the bends, and would've worked a lot better in that context.

Coming to think of it, it wouldn't have been the highlight on "The Bends", as that would be "Fake Plastic Trees" no matter what. But it's still a great song.

let down, but kinda wish i'd shouted out climbing up the walls

I think I'm gonna be alone here on voting for Electioneering.

It should be someone's campaign song, totally bitchin'.

I don't really know any radiohead, but I picked Exit Music (For a Film) because it is such a fantastic name. Oh, hell.

"'lucky' feels a bit out of place cos it was a single before the last single off 'the bends'."

i was going to say this. it was on the warchild album, which me and my friends listened to a lot at the time.

one day i am gonna grow wings

I think I'm gonna be alone here on voting for Electioneering.

Boo fuckin' hoo. How do you think I feel, being the only one to vote for "Fitter Happier"? Unironically, no less.

jesus. every album i completely fell in love with as a kid is having a poll this week.

as much as i love "Let Down", "Exit Music (For a Film)", "Lucky", and "The Tourist" ..... i have to vote "Paranoid Android"

oh and i must add.....greatest album ever

Aged pretty poorly in the last couple years. Four years ago I would have put this up pretty high but it's a little stale ten years later. Still, great album.

"Paranoid Android"

Aged pretty poorly in the last couple years.

you think? how so?

I used to be able to go through this album without skipping tracks, but I'll jump from "Karma Police" to "No Suprises" without a second thought, and I almost always turn it off before "The Tourist." Not that I hate the songs I skip, but I've worn them out and can't listen to them anymore. Also, every time I hear certain Radiohead songs I become reminded of high-school gymnasium styled dorm rooms lit by deathly fluorescent bulbs.

Lucky vs Let Down

Subterranean Homesick Alien is quite pretty.

Paranoid Android is insanely great though.

"How do you think I feel, being the only one to vote for "Fitter Happier"? Unironically, no less."

You're not the only one.

"Airbag" is always going to be my favorite on this one.

I always tend to skip tracks too, but I don't skip "Fitter Happier", which fits in perfectly as kind of a skit/interlude.

I prefer the RadioDread album.

lucky, closely followed by airbag

yeah whatever. 'let down' x-post

damn, airbag.

you know what? this is a pretty good album. things age for people for various reasons, i can see that, but there are some pretty great tracks on here. very of its time, i guess, but what isn't?

Luck fitting into The Bends better than OK Computer == crazy talk.

'Lucky', ahem.

Totally. The mellotron choirs would have stuck out like crazy on The Bends.

I always tend to skip tracks too, but I don't skip "Fitter Happier", which fits in perfectly as kind of a skit/interlude.

I gotta say, the one I always skipped was "Climbing Up The Walls." It always sounded like Radiohead was trying to beat Nine Inch Nails at their own game -- an easy target, and not a particularly satisfying one. Yorke's forced scream near the end is easily his worst moment on record.

You are wrong.

(i'd unhappily vote for the doesn't-compute-for-me'tall option but, as is always the case with this kid, it just isn,t there :(

LET DOWN FTW

The transcendentally ridiculous, overblown last 20 seconds or so of Climbing Up The Walls are pretty much my favourite on the record. But I still voted Airbag.

The transcendentally ridiculous, overblown last 20 seconds or so of Climbing Up The Walls are pretty much my favourite on the record.

otm

"Climbing Up The Walls" to me sounds more like a somewhat ill-advised attempt to sound like Portishead or Tricky.

Regardless of who Radiohead are "attempting" to sound like, even assuming that they are, "Climbing up the Walls" is nonetheless devastating. So, that's my vote. Just ahead of "Lucky" and "Airbag". Actually, now that I'm listening to it again, I don't get the hate for "Exit Music (For a Film)" either.

Let Down? Really? That's the second worst track! I went for Karma Police, Paranoid Android a close second.

Electioneering. The only one that runs rather than crawls. They're a rock band, not fucking Eno.

obviously "no surprises". was it used in a film/tv show/advert or something? i dont remember over playing it when the album came out, but when i listened through this album the other day for the first time in years it seemed much more familiar to me despite the time since i had last listened to the album than any other tracks.

let down is certainly not one of the worst tracks.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Let Down? Seriously?

Let Down better than Paranoid Android? 'Tae fuck!

How did "Fitter Happier" get more votes than "Climbing Up The Walls"? That is ridiculous.

RECOUNT.

I totally prefer Fitter Happier to Climbing Up The Walls

havent listened to this since i was 17, in bed, with headphones on, but i really find it hard to believe anyone on earth could like fitter happier more than pretty much any other song ever

also karma police + paranoid android should = letdown x2 at least

awesome......let down finally getting the praise it deserves.

NOT

--bstep

I like how the slow songs won this poll. They are the only reason I like OK Computer.

LET DOWN? That's one of their worst songs. I like the Radiodread version a lot though. Best? Karma Police.