Here are mine:
1. There There2. Karma Police3. Nude4. Paranoid Android5. [nice dream]6. My Iron Lung7. Daydreaming8. Faithless the Wonder Boy9. Bulletproof... Wish I was10. Blowout
Looking at this, it's weird. Despite me liking Kid Amnesiac-era Radiohead plenty, and thinking that I'm SO OVER The Bends, there's definitely a bookendedness about this list in that a vast majority of the songs are from either early or late-era Radiohead.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
My brother can sing and play the song 'Kid A' on acoustic guitar. I never thought of it as a proper song until I saw him do it when we were back home for Christmas.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
is your brother John Mayer? cuz I saw him do it that way live many years ago (dragged their by an ex-girlfriend). not recommended.
― evol j, Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
one of my first college experiences was some guy down the hall excitedly sharing the john mayer kid a via audiogalaxy. i thought "i wonder how much money i can get back if i drop out right now"
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
If I'm being really real, this is what I go back and listen to if I'm not putting on full albums:
Paranoid AndroidEverything in Its Right PlacePackt Like SardinesPyramid Song2 + 2 = 5Sit Down Stand UpBackdriftsReckonerDaydreamingIdentikit
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
I like that list. "Reckoner", those HTTT songs, and "Everything" are real highlights for me too.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
YouBonesSubterranean Homesick AlienEverything In Its Right PlacePackt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin BoxCuttoothWhere I End and You Begin15 StepCodexIdentikit
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm not a Radiohead fan but here are some memorable moments off the top of my head
1. The way the melody explodes upward when Thom sings "anyone can play guitarrrr" (Pablo Honey is the album I enjoy returning to the most)2. A ghost memory about having feelings and feeling them when listening to The Bends album, pretty sure I know all the words to "Fake Plastic Trees", but those feelings are unfamiliar to me now3. The drums dropping in and out on "Airbag"4. The exquisite guitar picking pattern in the a-section of "Paranoid Android", also notable is the self-parodic line "the crackle of pig skin" which was when I got off the "I care about Thom's lyrics" train5. Feeling like I was the only person on the internet who thought "Electioneering" was the best OKC song, and that "Let Down" and "Lucky" were cold garbage6. The first .5 seconds of "Everything In Its Right Place", unable to sit at a Rhodes for more than a minute without playing those chords7. Jonny's delicious string arrangement on "How To Disappear Completely", the guitar riff on "National Anthem" (and nothing else about that song)8. Thinking that the Kid A bear was very clever bit of branding9. Being obsessed for a day over "Like Spinning Plates", reversing the track in my DAW and listening, and searching for live recordings; disliking every individual song on Amnesiac otherwise10. Listening all the way through "Hail To The Thief" exactly once, feeling impressed when it goes "the raindrops, the raindrops", then remembering that I hate this band by the time Thom sings "it's a drunken punch-up at a wedding"11. Enjoying all of In Rainbows thoroughly, especially the live performance of "15 Step" with marching band, the rising vocal coda on "Nude", debating with a friend whether or not it was OK to delete "Faust ARP" from the iTunes12. Going to see the band for free, watched their soundcheck and was non-plussed, then saw them play with the full lighting rig and was blown away, felt like I knew and liked every song they played13. Dancing memes14. Feeling envious of Jonny's film scores, feeling whatever about Thom's solo album, loving the live set of Atoms For Peace15. The new album floated by my head without a single Thom contribution making an impression
Oh and somewhere in there I forgot but I stan for their cover of "On Your Own Again"
― fgti, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh also: the drum sound on "Reckoner", prob my #1 favourite thing about this band
― fgti, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
15. The new album floated by my head without a single Thom contribution making an impression
there are a lot of guitar and piano moments that sound Thom-y to me though (his solo albums helped me realize how much this is true).
so great, the '60s stereo thing with the whole drumkit panned hard to one side, and the perfect tambourine sound in the other channel.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that's great! I could have just listed all of In Rainbows tbh.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
1. My Iron Lung2. Airbag3. Subterranean Homesick Alien4. Everything in its Right Place5. Optimistic6. Pyramid Song7. There There8. 15 step9. Separator 10. Daydreamer
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
5. Feeling like I was the only person on the internet who thought "Electioneering" was the best OKC song, and that "Let Down" and "Lucky" were cold garbage
I have definitely argued for "Electioneering" as the best OKC song before, but can't imagine ever in a million years disliking "Let Down"
"Lucky" has a good chorus, but is hard to feel any type of way about besides
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah & I 110% agree w/ hosannas for the "Reckoner" drum sound. instantly recognizable (at least, it stands out from the rest of their stuff, sonically) yet familiar... Jordan sez 60s stereo mixing, but I hear the echo of late Talk Talk as well
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
debating with a friend whether or not it was OK to delete "Faust ARP" from the iTunes
not okay, but only because of the lovely moment when the strings come in, which is a minor album highlight for me
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:49 (eight years ago) link
xp clarification: shoulda said something like "unmistakable but familiar" -- within seconds, the music impresses upon me a sense of time&place that are just as strong as the 90s britpop heyday evoked by the churning guitars of The Bends, if somewhat more nebulous
I should also-also note that the crisp, dry drum sound kicking off "Weird Fishes" is equally great, albeit in a totally opposed way
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 May 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
hearing this version of Arpeggi for 2 and a half years before IR came out ruined the song for me. this is such a beautiful song, i really can't stand the meat & potatoes arrangement on the record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrKPrpOvfCI
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 May 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
okay whoops -- I'm relistening to "Faust ARP" & realizing the strings are present from the very first; in my memory, it was a lot more spare, acoustic gtr+vox, no strings until they come in under I love you but enough is enough. the string+wordless vocal coda, I had forgotten about altogether!
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 May 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
There thereLast Flowers til the HospitalKid AScatterbrainLet DownAirbagKnives OutMorning BellIdiotequeMyxomatosis
― flappy bird, Saturday, 24 June 2017 03:45 (six years ago) link
SupercolliderStaircaseFul StopBurn The WitchIdentikitThe Daily MailFeralCodexBangers & Mash15 Step
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 24 June 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
^ are the ones I most feel like listening to at the moment.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 24 June 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
"Ful Stop" was so amazing on their Glastonbury set last night. So groovy and hypnotic.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I agree. 'Ful Stop', to me, is basically the kind of thing that they were going for on The King of Limbs but perfected.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
yeah I was blown away by that Glastonbury performance of "Ful Stop" - the video stream I saw started right in the middle of it. they played "Daydreaming" and "Lucky" before it, right?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 24 June 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
Yep. Full set audio here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vkbfb
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 24 June 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
phil's playing has gotten a lot more creative over the years. the live version of ful stop is a great example
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 June 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
'Daydreaming' is such a fucking awful way to start a set.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 24 June 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
this is what i think of every time i see phil selway on stage
https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/databank_lobot_01_169_8a50d7ae.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1560%2C878&width=768
― Rodney Stooksbury for President (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 June 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
no i'm not drunk.
No way, it's a really sweet way to ease in to a set. Not every show has to open with a banger. The pacing of their sets is really spectacular imo - look at the first four songs of the Glastonbury set: lulled in by Daydreaming; going into Lucky, which starts off moody and slow then explodes; into the hypnotic & droney Ful Stop; and then a supercharged version of Airbag. That's a great way to start a show.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 25 June 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
It did get a bit morose there in the middle of the set though I thought. Ok it's Radiohead etc. When they played "Ful Stop", I felt I was in some Can in the 70s vibe tho
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 25 June 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
xpost:
Not every show has to open with a banger, but I'd prefer them to open with a song that is worthy of actually being an opener.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Sunday, 25 June 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
honestly i was unconvinced by radiohead playing the old shit, which they did for most of their glasto set. when thom sings ok computer songs it's frequently pretty obvious that he was 20 years younger when they did that album. "the king of limbs" is their worst record since "pablo honey" but when they played "bloom" it was a breath of fresh air after their fairly dire stab at "let down". i'm not saying they're in zep '77 territory or 2017 michael mcdonald or anything but not having really paid attention to the group live since around 2003 i was a little shocked at how much worse the ok computer songs sounded, and since the album was a knife-edge away from morose parody in the first place...
― Rodney Stooksbury for President (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 June 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
I thought 'Bloom' sounded terrible. They've played versions of it which have been astounding, but it wasn't at Glasto.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
The setlist spread at Glasto, for anyone who is arsed:
Pablo Honey: 1The Bends: 2OK Computer: 7Kid A: 2Amnesiac: 2Hail to the Thief: 4In Rainbows: 4The King of Limbs: 2A Moon Shaped Pool: 2
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
so out of 26 songs, _four_ of them were less than 10 years old!
the greatest trick radiohead ever pulled was convincing the world they weren't an oldies band.
― Rodney Stooksbury for President (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Radiohead are not an oldies band. That's a festival setlist - AMSP stuff is not really suited for a festival environment, and the abundance of OKC material obviously had something to do with the reissue. and of course it'd go over well with a broad crowd. Three days earlier in Dublin, the set breakdown was this:
A Moon Shaped Pool: 6Kid A: 4OK Computer: 4In Rainbows: 3Hail to the Thief: 2The Bends: 2The King of Limbs: 2Amnesiac: 1OKNOTOK: 1
Pretty typical for a band that's been making records for 25 years.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
They were playing a festival setlist, and OK Computer has just been reissued. Their usual non-festival sets haven't been been like that.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
i forget which radiohead thread was being used to discuss the OKNOTOK cassette tape, but it's shipping worldwide today so i expect we'll be able to hear it very soon
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
ordered mine, will report back
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
can we all swear a sacred oath to bump this whenever it leaks? and by all i mean you and me at this point, tetrahedron
i will go ahead and draw my own blood in preparation for the oath
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
because this tape will definitely meet all of my expectations and i won't be disappointed in the slightest
Relevant to your interests KM
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
thanks!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
jigsaw falling into placelet downoptimisticsulkparanoid androidreckonerstreet spirit (fade out)idioteque2+2=5talk show host
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 4 August 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
Current POX
Fake Plastic TreesClimbing Up the WallsSeparatorStaircaseSupercolliderKid AEverything in its right placeHow to disappear completelyWorrywortI might be wrong
I don’t think I’ll ever love an album of theirs as much as I love Kid A so that’s always top tier for me but I find it weird that the songs from the TKOL sessions are the other ones I keep coming back to the most. Is TKOL my second favorite Radiohead album!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
I did mine a while ago. Ordered, too (highest first)
Planet Telex 2+2=5Paranoid Android BodysnatchersPyramid SongClimbing Up The WallsA Reminder Little By LittleSupercollider A Punchup At A Wedding
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
aaaaahhh uhhhhhh without fussing over it too much:jigsawnational anthemfogthe gloamingwolf at the doorlet downful stophouse of cardsthere thereseperator
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
"there there" is almost nowhere to be found top of this thread!
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
there therethe national anthema punchup at a weddingwhere bluebirds flyblack starmaquiladoraarpeggi (2005)up on the ladderI might be wrongmorning bell
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link