I stand by having no use for studio TKOL, but digging the From the Basement recordings quite a bit
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 August 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
this will be fun, have no idea how to cut it to just 20 tracks.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 24 August 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm curious if any thom yorke/jonny greenwood solo tracks would make the cut if they were included
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 24 August 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
probably not, i guess. i've always been a big fan of the bodysong soundtrack, but it's tough to vote for one standout song from it that makes sense in isolation
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 24 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
rip phil selway
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Through together a quick ballot without any relistening - quite tough to get it down to 20 tracks, and the ordering felt pretty random, but feel like the top half of the songs ballot chose itself pretty easily.
― toby, Sunday, 24 August 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Threw together, even.
Why only 20 votes? I feel like I'm murdering my own children.
― Moka, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
At least 10 of the songs I don't want to leave off are b-sides but pragmatically speaking they are the ones that have the least chance of making it.
Staircase, Worrywort, Fog, 4 minute warning, Talk Show Host, A Reminder.... this is too hard.
― Moka, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
― Moka, Sunday, August 24, 2014 3:15 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are there any Radiohead songs about murdering your own children? there's gotta be, like, at least 6, right? subpoll?
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Fog will def be on my ballot
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
"Cut the kids in half" (morning bell)
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Looking forward to this one
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
― birdman junior dad (some dude),
I think only Fog and Morning Bell can qualify, but they're more about divorce and child neglect than murder.
― Moka, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I voted for a few b-sides, hoping others will too...
― toby, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
I definitely will; some of the OKC b-sides are among their best work.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm voting for How I Made My Millions, which remains one of the best unrealesed tracks I've heard.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
There's Wolf At The Door and I Will, but I think those are more other people murdering your children.
I'm going to have to vote in this, aren't I, to stop all these people who ~don't even liiiiike~ Radiohead from fucking this up?
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
people who think TKOL is dull but unquestioningly rep for In Rainbows basically defy my comprehension
This is pretty much my opinion. Why is it incomprehensible? The two albums are pretty different.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Having just re-listened to both, yeah, they're definitely different. But they also strike me as being the same degree of meh: on IR, their approach to the standard guitar-bass-drums instrumentation shows a complete lack of character, while on TKOL said lack of character/personality is applied to electronics. And on both, Yorke stays in his comfort zone and can't/won't challenge himself (or his/their audience).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Working my way through at the moment. 'Knives Out' is possibly the most miserable song ever.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
That's one of my favourites, will probably be in my top 10.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
The Captain Of Her Heart is my obvious #1, but I'll have to go back and listen to the rest to fill my ballot.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
good time for this poll, the end of summer and all that.
― Bee OK, Monday, 25 August 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
...Coming after a band who famously covered "Surfin' Bird"
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 August 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
did Lift ever come out proper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3-4fK8h8ig
― piscesx, Monday, 25 August 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
Shit, this is going to be hard.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 25 August 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
Lift never got a release, no.
― Simon H., Monday, 25 August 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
MaudAddam, my first thought was that Palo Alto was going to be the only non-album track to place in my list - and then I saw your post. Awesome. That song is massive!
― octobeard, Monday, 25 August 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Amnesiac was the jump-the-shark moment for me
or Hail to the Thief maybe, Amnesiac had "Pyramid Song" at least
― nova, Monday, 25 August 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
don't think i'll be re-listening to anything for the purposes of this poll, because these days i'm kinda permanently all Radiohead-ed out, but i'm still super excited about voting in this and suspect it'll be a fairly painless process given that i've already heard all the music and can recall how pretty much all of it sounds.
― charlie h, Monday, 25 August 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
most of the way through pablo honey, god this drum sound is so bad, it's driving me mental. also thom yorke just talked about playing with himself and it was very uncomfortable. creep will probably sneak into my ballot, i was suprised how much i still enjoyed it (maybe being surrounded by awful post-grunge and post-u2 helped)
also is anything on the bonus disc of pablo honey worth listening toi think i already know the answer but i thought i should ask
― olly, Monday, 25 August 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
*bonus disc of the collectors edition that is
bonus disc has (versions of) 3 songs I voted for that aren't on pablo honey, so I hope so. Not sure I've listened to any of those songs for at least 5 years though, so I could be wrong. It also has a bunch of stuff I wouldn't want to sit through.
― toby, Monday, 25 August 2014 05:29 (nine years ago) link
In Rainbows is the only one I ever listen to these days. Played it a couple of times just this week.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 25 August 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
― nova, Monday, August 25, 2014 4:01 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, HTTT was the final glorious 'throw everything we've got at the wall' moment of generosity & excitement
― imago, Monday, 25 August 2014 07:05 (nine years ago) link
FYI
Radiohead - Kid A / Amnesiac PollThe Radiohead Albums Poll
― piscesx, Monday, 25 August 2014 10:31 (nine years ago) link
best version of Fog, with our Thom in good fooling at the beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWucA7e-LRg
― piscesx, Monday, 25 August 2014 10:38 (nine years ago) link
Trying to push the number of OKC-era songs on my ballot below nine. That's when Radiohead were great though. :/
― jmm, Monday, 25 August 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Reckon I'll have none from PH, 1 from The Bends and it'll be pretty evenly divided from thereon out.
By the way, Supercollider:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFS22yyXj8
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 25 August 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Right now I'm looking at 5 Bends, 7 OK Computer (feeling very boring here, but this is the album on the basis of which I call myself a fan), 4 Kid A, 1 I Might Be Wrong, 1 In Rainbows, 2 b-sides.
― jmm, Monday, 25 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
0 Creep
― jmm, Monday, 25 August 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
I predict Creep will place, but fairly low.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 25 August 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
I am v v tempted to vote for nothing, nothing at all off OK Computer, just to be contrarian.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 August 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
If I can be arsed to participate by the cutoff point my votes are going to be heavily biased towards OK Computer, HTTT and In Rainbows since they're the only ones are actually any good most of the way through (imo). TKOL was so dull I don't think I've actually listened to this band since.
― a proclamation of tortoise intent (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 25 August 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Can we vote for From the Basement versions? I'm not that into the album version of Bloom, for example, but love the FTB reading.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 25 August 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
I really like that version of "Morning Mr. Magpie". It's a lot more explicitly indebted to Talking Heads.
― jmm, Monday, 25 August 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I only have one OKC track on my ballot, and I think only 3 post-OKC.
― toby, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Oh shit I almist missed this. Cant wait!
― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
I've only been able to cut one song from OK Computer so far. It might be my favorite album of all time. I'm still working on it tho.
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
NAME EM
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
take thom's voice outta reckoner and start singing like scar tissue or something
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
Songs from liquid days obv glass' most rhcp record
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
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
― een, Monday, 8 September 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
but bodysnatchers is the best track on IR
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
yall im tellin you theres a reason thom is working with flea now#ghostwriting
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
Flea is thom's muse
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
when flea did voiceover work for the wild thornberrys, he was just told to talk the way thom danced
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Kedis is such a nanny
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 September 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm not a hater, but I'd say he turned that corner after The Bends, i.e. when things got really good
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
but when does he do it on OK Computer?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 September 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
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.
― olly, Monday, 8 September 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
xp I feel like it's in 'let down' even if he's technically singing words
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
'bug in the ground' = 'bugginarouuhhahahahaound'
olly, I think you are special for appreaching jigsaw top 20. But I definitely like it. ooooooOOOh weeeee OOOOOH
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
Is it too late? I cant believe I let this slip my mind again
― a waxing interest in waning (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 September 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
xxxxxp actually, there's a lot of aahhh-oooohs in Paranoid Android anyway.
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Monday, 8 September 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
haha, 'Nude' was top 10 for me
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 September 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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.
― nate woolls, Monday, 8 September 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Awesome
― a waxing interest in waning (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 September 2014 07:56 (nine years ago) link
Voted!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 8 September 2014 08:40 (nine years ago) link
Ha, regarding Jigsaw - it was one of 4 songs fighting for my number 1 spot
― nxd, Monday, 8 September 2014 09:20 (nine years ago) link
63 ballots in now, is this a record?
― nate woolls, Monday, 8 September 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
haha, 'Nude' was top 10 for me― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, September 8, 2014 4:51 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, September 8, 2014 4:51 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
YEah, it's definitely the standout on IR for me. Feels like these last few albums all have at least one world-beating song on them and about 3 which leave absolutely no impression on me whatsoever. It's prob why my tracks ballot and my albums ballot don't really sync up so well because my top ten tracks are skewed towards those few late great songs while the earlier albums win out.
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 8 September 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link
― nate woolls, Monday, September 8, 2014 5:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Steely Dan poll got 77 ballots. but right now you're tied with Classic Rock, I also got 63 ballots for that one.
― some dude, Monday, 8 September 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
Bowie's still the record at 80.
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Monday, 8 September 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
arrrgggh, forgot about this. Sent mine over just now, in case you'll still take it.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 8 September 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
Re: Flea etc Paperbag Writer is basically an Atoms For Peace Flea track, surely?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 8 September 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Results thread:
A POLL IN A CAGE ON ANTIBIOTICS - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD - RESULTS THREAD
― nate woolls, Monday, 8 September 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link