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Top 30 Radiohead tracks
Or, as people here like to call them, 'Thom Yorke and teh Radioheads' (for reasons I honestly don't know and probably never will).
I'll start:
1. The Tourist
2. Let Down
3. No Surprises
4. Motion Picture Soundtrack
5. Subterranean Homesick Alien
6. Airbag
7. Morning Bell
8. Climbing Up the Walls
9. Optimistic
10. How to Disappear Completely
11. The National Anthem
12. Kid A
13. Planet Telex
14. Everything in Its Right Place
15. Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
16. The Bends
17. Bones
18. Black Star
19. 2 + 2 = 5
20. Sail to the Moon
21. Paranoid Android
22. Pyramid Song
23. A Wolf at the Door
24. Reckoner
25. Scatterbrain
26. Dollars and Cents
27. Go to Sleep
28. All I Need
29. I Might Be Wrong
30. Myxomatosis
Casualties: Anyone Can Play Guitar, I Can't, Vegetable, Sit Down. Stand Up., Where You End and I Begin and House of Cards.
You can just do a top 10 or 20 instead if you want.
do i have to list any?
No, but you do have to: marvel, sneer, or express indifference at my ranking.
1. Creep
2. Creep
3. Creep
4. Creep
5. Creep
6. Creep
7. Creep
8. Creep
9. Creep
10. Creep
11. Creep
12. Creep
13. Creep
14. Creep
15. Creep
16. Creep
17. Creep
18. Creep
19. Creep
20. Creep
21. Creep
22. Creep
23. Creep
24. Creep
25. Creep
26. Creep
27. Creep
28. Creep
29. Creep
30. Creep
thx bbz
was going to post this but with more the's
Not actually too bad
1. Talk Show Host
2. Pyramid Song
3. Idioteque
4. I Might Be Wrong
5. Exit Music
6. There There
7. Motion Picture Soundtrack
8. Climbing Up the Walls
9. Fog
10. A Wolf at the Door
you do list Subterranean Homesick Alien far too high though
And Idioteque far too not in the list.
oh bollocks, I thought I included it.
not one of my favourites though. If I could redo my list I'd have it at #24.
yeah I've always had a thing about that song. I think it's gorgeous.
I'll explain what I mean, because I want people to see the beauty that I see in that song. My terminology with instruments is crap though.
Half way through the song (between 2:00 and 2:10) there's a beautiful, tropical keyboard sound, similar to the piano that appears in Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here', but better.
After Thom sings 'take me on board their beautiful ship/showing the world I love to sing', between 2:29 and 2:32 there's a BEAUTIFUL, aquatic, echoing ambient sound that reminds me of Brian Eno.
Then there's:
'I'd tell of my friends but they'd never believe me/
They'd think that I've finally lost it completely/
I'd show them the stars, and the meaning of life/
They'd shut me away, but I'd be alright/'
Amazing electronic sound effects occur during those lyrics, sounding a bit like Squarepusher's 'Hard Normal Daddy'. Finally, 2:52 to 3:00 (when Thom sings 'shut me away........but I'd be alright) is one of the most beautiful, goose-pimple-inducing few seconds in music I've ever heard. Again, it's sounds aquatic, and haunting, like something underwater in an artificial ocean that's clumsily rising to the top, causing sexy ripples to form on the surface.
And the last 15 seconds seconds are also breathtaking. I don't know why, but to me it's the sound of a day in the life of someone at home living in American suburbia (like in American Beauty).
ah man I should've included Talk Show Host
and Bishop's Robes.
once upon a time
this board was one radiohead thread after another. some involved greater than signs to rate albums and tracks, like this one could have but you didn't because you missed a trick. negative opinions of radiohead would often be met by po-faced, defensive scorn. it was a shit time to be alive.
unrelatedly, this happened because as mentioned radiohead fans are so ready to defend them, they can't even spot an obvious wind up when it's delivered as a forced suppository: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4324362#r6561758 then other similar things like this happened: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4442727#r7918744 and this http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4442675#r7917237 which were funny because
a) what i mentioned before about radiohead fans being a bunch of knobbers
b) the fact that what radioheaders like least is the song the creep as it was before they were all clever and the best band in the history blah blah blah yawn.
shouldn't be funny anymore but every now and then you still get a biter.
Impossible. This would change if I did it again:
1. Maquiladora
2. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
3. The Trickster
4. The Bends
5. There, There
Fuck knows about the rest, too many, can't be arsed
faaaark the Bends-era b-sides were strong
I think really my top 5 is...
1. Maquiladora
2. The Trickster
3. Killer Cars
4. Talk Show Host
5. Banana Co.
be arsed!
hardly ever listen to the fuckers anymore
1/ Killer Cars
2/ My Iron Lung
3/ You and Whose Army?
4/ The Bends
5/ True Love Waits
6/ Street Spirit (Fade Out)
7/ Nude
8/ Paranoid Android
9/ Karma Police
10/ Climbing up the Walls
11/ Vegetable
12/ A Punch Up at a Wedding
seriously though can we get some love for Killer Cars?
incredible song
haven't listened to them in ages but probably something like
1) Paranoid Android
2) The Pyramid Song
3) Everything In It's Right Place
4) Karma Police
5) 2+2=5
6) Idioteque
7) Just
8) Creep
9) There, There
10) Nude
Rough question!
1) No Surprises / Exit Music (For A Film) - tied for first due to personal importance
2) Idioteque
3) Videotape
4) Motion Picture Soundtrack
5) Everything In Its Right Place
6) Life in a Glass House
7) 2 + 2 = 5
8) Fake Plastic Trees
9) Pyramid Song / Knives Out / Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box - Tied because it's too hard to pick just one
10) Talk Show Host
Just listened to a bunch of teh Radiohead
for the first time in ages thanks to this thread. Haven't really put much thought in this, here's my top 20:
1) Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
2) Let Down
3) The National Anthem
4) Paranoid Android
5) Black Star
6) 2+2=5
7) I Might Be Wrong
8) Pyramid Song
9) Optimistic
10) Myxomatosis
11) Idioteque
12) Just
13) Last Flowers
14) Treefingers
15) (Nice Dream)
16) Sit Down, Stand Up
17) Gagging Order
18) Motion Picture Soundtrack
19) Fitter Happier
20) Electioneering
the best thing they have every done is
Pulk? It's not even the 2nd best thing they did in the first three songs on Amnesiac.
Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors :'''D
I swear it's them trying to do a 'Gantz Graf' by Autechre
I think in general by looking at this thread we can conclude:
STOP GETTING RADIOHEAD WRONG!