What is the best Radiohead song and

what does your selection say about you?

Second part is the most important.

Do you still use media as a way to define yourself? Does it matter that you are into punk and not disco, or the inverse for contrarian reasons? Is politics all that matters? Or is your attention so scattered that you barely have an identity anymore at all?

what is this identity you speak of

Having a favourite Radiohead song in 2021 says more about you than which song you pick.
"Pyramid Song".

"Let Down"

"There There"

"Idioteque" but every song mentioned so far is a highlight.

I want to know what it says about my personality though

Never understood why people like Let Down. Even for the 'Head it's a mopey dirge. I love the Easy Star Allstars version though

"Idioteque" is a fav of mine too.

and "Everything In Its Right Place".

pretty much anything on "The Bends" that isn't "Just".

I think it says that I like the way melodic craft and rhythmic drive were integrated with a Paul Lansky sample. Sorry, treesh, maybe you could expand on what you were looking for - or maybe this was it?xps

"Let Down" says about me that I like warm, moody pop pieces that build in intensity as the song goes

Daydreaming. Or Packt Like Sardines. Or Backdrifts (I know, right?). Or, sure, Everything in its Right Place.

That song about being a creep and being a weirdo

It says that I am a creep and that I am a weirdo

Nothing will ever beat the mindblowing first time I heard 'Kid A' (the song) but I have a feeling that much of the impact of that moment could be chalked up to the nitrous.

Don't have one and *I don't have a television either.

(*I do, but that's what it says about me)

I knew Treesh was a Cambridge Analytica plant.

listening to OK Computer for the first time in years and noting how wide-eyed it sounds - not just the lyrics, but you can tell they're a band doing a great job of just feeling their ways around a new sound for the first time

"Airbag" another fav. wasn't big into it at first but it does so much with simple ideas, and that chorus rules.

does have kind of a "Planet Telex" feel but Airbag does more for me than that.

"Paranoid Android" was my fav at age 16 cos I was a kid just getting into prog and this scratched a similar itch

treefingers

I define myself by the dumb shit I’ve done over the years

In Limbo

pyramid song obvious favorite as 'song', but packt like sardines made quite the impression on a college sophomore stoner in its approach to sonics/production

Go To Sleep

'Let Down', probably.

'Cause I just want transcendence through immanence, y'know?

"Subterranean Homesick Alien," because I like the sense of wistful fantasy

how come nobody is answering the second question

oh wait I didn’t even see the opening post lol at me

Black Star because I just stand about now that I don't think of you.

I love "Let Down." It's very pretty, and yeah, I'm a sucker for moody pop pieces that build in intensity as the song goes. Just a coincidence, but I actually listened to this album for the first time in years while road tripping this week. Still sounds great!

I really do think “treefingers” is an exceptional ambient piece.. the chords are beautiful, evokes slow panning across enormous lunar canyons… the sloppy editing makes it even better.

Fake Plastic Trees

Because I’m fake. And plastic. And a tree.

I'm a real plastic tree

Weird Fishes / Arpeggi, which indicates that I have been through a midlife crisis

Let Down -- as a kid I would cry over accidentally stepped-on bugs

I had my first car accident while listening to fake plastic trees. Just turned too fast off the main road, banged my wheel against a friend’s curb. Anyway, I experience that embarrassing and scary moment in montage when I hear that song.

Radiohead has grown in my critical estimation since then—age 17–which is really interesting. But i listen to them less.

"The National Anthem" because baritone sax improves everything. What it says about me is that I prefer jazz to Radiohead. And that I haven't seriously listened to Radiohead (like, ooh, they've got a new album, drop everything, here we go) in 20 years.

Radiohead were in my top 5 favorite bands for a long time and really the only thing that stopped that was me becoming a hip hop addict for 3 years. i'll still vibe with all their albums except King of Limbs though

i had a really surreal and nightmarish experience at a "king of limbs" listening party. i will not share it. the events took place mostly in my mind but owing to a realization i had about the room i was in. i have not returned to that album either for this purely contingent and circumstantial reason, which is weird because i don't avoid "fake plastic trees." that car accident wasn't so bad i guess.

all criticism is autobiography.

right now i am housesitting and i told the device (alexa?) to play radiohead but i want it to stop now and i can't. i don't think it's an alexa because i keep saying "alexa!" and it won't light up. it's a squat white cylinder.

idiot tech

the tourist, and what it says about me is that i highly value the mellotron choir sound

so treesh what is your fave?

“the tourist” is dope

it might be creep but i also like lucky.

i like creep because it was the first radiohead song i heard and it really did sound new to me. and some of the lines are just so perfect in reflecting the experience he is trying to describe. "your skin makes me cry" is right up there with "do i dare to eat a peach?" in capturing the way beauty shames us.

i like lucky because of "kill me sarah. kill me again." something about seeing a reference to pop culture recontextualized like that -- again -- for me this was just brilliant. i had an OK Computer poster in my freshman dorm room.

what this all says about me is that i am a lyrics guy.

What is the pop culture reference there?

Terminator

True, most bystanders did wonder what the hell he was doing there

isn't it a terminator reference? maybe not

It's not, no, unless you really want it to be (which you clearly do!).

Thom in 1997: 'Everyone knows about this one. Recorded for War Child, unplayed by Radio 1. Who’s "Sarah"? No one I know. It’s just my favourite name.'

It's actually "Kill me, Sara" -- as in Sara Lee -- it's an anti-cake song.

"2+2=5"

because i don't like my authority being questioned and i certainly don't like being put in a box.

just kidding, it's "weird fishes."

Street Spirit needs more love

Street spirit sounds like dust in the wind

Lol kinda