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

Looking forward to this one

Why only 20 votes? I feel like I'm murdering my own children.

― 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),

I think only Fog and Morning Bell can qualify, but they're more about divorce and child neglect than murder.

I voted for a few b-sides, hoping others will too...

I definitely will; some of the OKC b-sides are among their best work.

I'm voting for How I Made My Millions, which remains one of the best unrealesed tracks I've heard.

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?

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.

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).

Working my way through at the moment. 'Knives Out' is possibly the most miserable song ever.

That's one of my favourites, will probably be in my top 10.

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.

good time for this poll, the end of summer and all that.

...Coming after a band who famously covered "Surfin' Bird"

did Lift ever come out proper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3-4fK8h8ig

Shit, this is going to be hard.

Lift never got a release, no.

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!

Amnesiac was the jump-the-shark moment for me

or Hail to the Thief maybe, Amnesiac had "Pyramid Song" at least

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.

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 to
i think i already know the answer but i thought i should ask

*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.

In Rainbows is the only one I ever listen to these days. Played it a couple of times just this week.

Amnesiac was the jump-the-shark moment for me

or Hail to the Thief maybe, Amnesiac had "Pyramid Song" at least

― 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

FYI

Radiohead - Kid A / Amnesiac Poll
The Radiohead Albums Poll

best version of Fog, with our Thom in good fooling at the beginning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWucA7e-LRg

Trying to push the number of OKC-era songs on my ballot below nine. That's when Radiohead were great though. :/

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

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.

0 Creep

I predict Creep will place, but fairly low.

I am v v tempted to vote for nothing, nothing at all off OK Computer, just to be contrarian.

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.

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.

I really like that version of "Morning Mr. Magpie". It's a lot more explicitly indebted to Talking Heads.

I only have one OKC track on my ballot, and I think only 3 post-OKC.

Oh shit I almist missed this. Cant wait!

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.

Ballot sent, ranking fairly arbitrary. Decided against including any alternate versions of songs.

HTTT has some clunkers--a few too many wispy ballads--but overall that record holds up real well. The first song rocks my proverbial socks off once it gets going.

that is the album i have listened to recently and you are right Hail to the Thief holds up really well. it is just too long is my only complaint.

Could lose We Suck Young Blood and Myxamotosis and would be fine.

There's a Thom compiled alternate tracklisting floating about the web that omits Backdrifts and Punch Up, two of my faves on it!

I Will was the one I couldn't get through.

I liked "We Suck Young Blood". Felt very audacious and cool that such a big band would release a track recalling a Brecht/Weill piece on an album in 2003. OTOH, that album was were I sort of got off the bus. I did purchase the next two (and The Eraser) out of duty I guess. I still haven't actually opened TKOL.

Could lose We Suck Young Blood and Myxamotosis and would be fine.

There's a Thom compiled alternate tracklisting floating about the web that omits Backdrifts and Punch Up, two of my faves on it!

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), martes 26 de agosto de 2014 2:35 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What!? Myxomatosis is the best song in that album!

Felt very audacious and cool that such a big band would release a track recalling a Brecht/Weill piece on an album in 2003.

And a Charles Mingus piece:

http://youtu.be/O9BqdhhFUsc

I got off the bus with HTTT too. It just felt so average. There was no tension in their music anymore.

No tension in There There is quite a statement.

Practically every song on HTTT is defined by tension

Sensing Ok Computer is going to take a beating here.

HTTT is definitely too long, Thom Yorke himself once made a post somewhere with his revised version that trims a great part of it. I posted this on the playing god thread and noone really cared about it but I'll repost it here either way.

PLAYING GOD: Hail to the Thief

Actually Thom Yorke himself once played god with this one and posted an alternate tracklist to it in the band's blog. Here's his version:

there there
the gloaming
sail to the moon
sit down. stand up
go to sleep
whereiendandubegin
scatterbrain
2+2=5
myxomatosis
a wolf at the door

He solves two of the album's main problems. It's length is one of them. The album really benefits from cutting a couple of songs off of it and specially if one of the songs is 'We Suck Young Blood'. That's the second one.

I have a couple problems with his alt tracklist, though: A) He rearranged the tracklist in a way that you lose the opening one-two punch of '2+2=5' and 'sit down' which is one of my favorite moments in the album. B) He removed 'Backdrifts' which is one of the few fun, light moments in the album and a personal favorite of mine. I also kind of hate 'go to sleep' except for Johnny's solo at the end of it but I'm always bored by the time it arrives. I'd much rather have the b-side 'I am a wicked child' as a substitute, it kind of has the same country-rock feel only more kraut. It's not very remarkable but it gets the job done. Also love 'the gloaming' so throwing it in there to balance some of the removals on the bottom half. You can easily take them out if you want for a 10 track album. Here's my take then:

1. 2+2=5
2. Sit Down Stand Up
3. Sail to the Moon
4. Backdrifts
5. I Am A Wicked Child
6. Where I End and You Begin
7. Gagging Order
8. The Gloaming
9. There There
10. Myxomatosis
11. Scatterbrain
12. A Wolf at the Door

― Moka, Wednesday, June 19, 2013

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!

Ha, regarding Jigsaw - it was one of 4 songs fighting for my number 1 spot

63 ballots in now, is this a record?

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

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.

63 ballots in now, is this a record?

― 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.

Bowie's still the record at 80.

arrrgggh, forgot about this. Sent mine over just now, in case you'll still take it.

Re: Flea etc Paperbag Writer is basically an Atoms For Peace Flea track, surely?

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