POLLD LIKE SARDINES IN A CRUSHD TIN BOX - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD

That's 51 ballots, amazing turnout!

Yeah terrific, think I barely scraped 30 for the one I did.

Spent three days agonizing over making a shortlist but once I did, pulling together the ballot was surprisingly easy

ballot in

voted. ballot ended up surprisingly rocktastic.

Sent! Didn't have time to do all the necessary listening, so my ballot looks like something I would have drafted in 2003.

Nice. Who knows with all of these ballots!

I don't think it's gonna be a particular surprise or spoiler to say everything on my ballot spanned The Bends to Hail to the Thief

you missed their best album, imo.

I honestly don't understand the In Rainbows hate.

as an album, I find it to be incredibly boring

More like In RainBLOWS, amirite?

i was kind of pleased that it's the one album not on Spotify so i didn't even have the option of easily revisiting it along with the rest of their catalog. still voted for the one song off it that i liked, though.

as an album, I find it to be incredibly boring
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Sunday, September 7, 2014 8:07 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like RH have done those songs better on other albums, or Paul McCartney has (faust arp, obv). I like body snatchers and bangers and mash from the bsides disc a lot tho, on my ballot.

rdio has in rainbows up for free in US btw

DJP, do you like 'A Wolf at the Door '? It seems like it could almost be on In Rainbows to me. A perfect segue.

I do like "A Wolf at the Door", which is helped immensely by not being on a boring album

lol

In Rainbows has "15 Step," "Bodysnatchers," "Nude," "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi," "Reckoner" and "House of Cards." you guys are nuts!

Only two songs on IR I don't outright love are the last two.

reckoner sounds like a fuckin chili peppers song

also some of thom's worst vocals on that record tbh, just lazy meandering falsettos.

I disagree so hard but goddamn I lol'd

There are probably Philip Glass songs that sound more like RHCP

NAME EM

take thom's voice outta reckoner and start singing like scar tissue or something

Songs from liquid days obv glass' most rhcp record

i remember liking reckoner a lot when it came out but after going back and listening to it for this poll last week i gotta say m bison otm

but bodysnatchers is the best track on IR

yall im tellin you theres a reason thom is working with flea now
#ghostwriting

Flea is thom's muse

when flea did voiceover work for the wild thornberrys, he was just told to talk the way thom danced

Kedis is such a nanny

Thom won't keep you on a leash

lso some of thom's worst vocals on that record tbh, just lazy meandering falsettos.

i really like In Rainbows but there's definitely a trend with thom yorke's singing over the last few years where he's relying more and more on just humming and cooing in a falsetto as a replacement for actually singing words or doing something interesting. i'm sure some rh haterz would say he's ALWAYS done that, but it's grown more pronounced and frequent recently. i'm not sure where he started relying on it too much but i feel like it turned a corner in the in rainbows era?

I'm not a hater, but I'd say he turned that corner after The Bends, i.e. when things got really good

but when does he do it on OK Computer?

i feel like I might be the only person who voted for 'jigsaw falling into place' (though it was at #20).

one of two songs of in rainbows i quite like, and somehow it was the song that 'got me into' radiohead.

xp I feel like it's in 'let down' even if he's technically singing words

'bug in the ground' = 'bugginarouuhhahahahaound'

olly, I think you are special for appreaching jigsaw top 20. But I definitely like it. ooooooOOOh weeeee OOOOOH

Is it too late? I cant believe I let this slip my mind again

xxxxxp actually, there's a lot of aahhh-oooohs in Paranoid Android anyway.

so I'd say it started with the instrumental break of Paranoid Android

yeah that. i think thom's voice as an instrument prolly peaked at the bends, i mean he just fucking belts shit out and goes for it, i can see why ppl would be upset about him abandoning it because he had a rock n roll *voice* fw that's w, and i can imagine his years of touring and drinking in the 90s strained it. plus his tendencies for more "introverted" sounding music now have put a damper on those tendencies anyway. i dont mind the moan now, but he uses it so much in plac of an actual musical idea and it signifies nothing to me other than wet bathmat.

haha, 'Nude' was top 10 for me

Is it too late? I cant believe I let this slip my mind again

― a waxing interest in waning (Drugs A. Money), Monday, September 8, 2014 3:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm leaving for work soon so if you (or anyone else) can get a ballot in within the next six hours it'll be counted.

Awesome

Voted!