Best Radiohead Song

Song's great. Always found it amusing that one of the best Radiohead songs is on one of the only albums that could easily pass for one of their worst, if one of them has to be their worst.

Their worst album is still easily Pablo Honey, followed by In Rainbows

In Rainbows 》The King of Limbs

The King of Limbs is kind of boring and monochromatic but the songs do reinforce and support each other. I like the individual songs on In Rainbows but they way they interact with each other in sequence doesn't work for me in the slightest.

I like two Radiohead albums, Kid A and the new one.

Like you care...

reckoner

― ciderpress, Thursday, July 21, 2016 4:47 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally.

i'm pleasantly surprised to see the love "there there" is getting too. "other" seems to be the early leader in this poll.

"There There" came in #1 on this poll:

A POLL IN A CAGE ON ANTIBIOTICS - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD - RESULTS THREAD

huh, interesting. thanks for the link

Their worst album is still easily Pablo Honey, followed by In Rainbows

Oh, I don't even include the first album. And often In Rainbows is my favorite (when I'm listening to Radiohead). Only one I never listen to, of the post-Pablo years, is King of Limbs, but something about Hail to the Thief is just off, despite so many good songs. It's probably just the pacing/sequencing/wrong choice of album cuts v. b-sides.

just remembered how, as an always-grounded teen in 1997, i would play "exit music" over and over in my room and pointedly increase the volume at the part where he says WE HOPE YOUR RULES AND WISDOM CHOKE YOU.

amazing my mother isn't in prison for murdering me.

lol

just remembered how, as an always-grounded teen in 1997, i would play "exit music" over and over in my room and pointedly increase the volume at the part where he says WE HOPE YOUR RULES AND WISDOM CHOKE YOU.

amazing my mother isn't in prison for murdering me.

― dc

i've been listening to radiohead for decades and i could never make out what on earth he was moaning in that song

your mom was probably the same way

I'm not sure I know any lyrics by the band, and it is probably for the better. I like being able to pick out a few words here and there. Kind of impressionistic.

your mom was probably the same way

― big rave warrior (rushomancy), Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:52 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she was!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

serious post: "the numbers" probably as good as anything they've ever done in their career.

yaaaassss love that "aladdin sane" rogue piano

Everyone upthread OTM about "There There" being fucking fantastic and probably their best song. Struggling to articulate why. Something about the woods and alternate tunings and how it's straightforward instrumentally but the melody and the arrangement is otherworldly...

I've not heard it that much, and when I try to recall it, it seems to resemble Prince's "Thieves in the temple"

I know it does not, its just me..

got to be honest Treesh i fp'd you for this

It sort of does resemble "Thieves in the Temple". Obv this is making me love it more.

I'm a big Radiohead fan and the Hail to the Thief era is fine-to-middling, but 'There There' is their best song.

I think "spectre" is the best thing they've put out in 10 years.

In Limbo

Faust Arp

I also would pick Reckoner as my favorite.

which is the one about stuff again

because that one

life in a glasshouse, man

im at the falafel shop and Weird Fishes is playing

I'm at a fish shop and hotel California is playing

im at a Cornershop

im at the falafel shop and Weird Fishes is playing

― ciderpress

yeah i had that happen at the poutine shop i frequent a couple weeks ago. am slowly coming around to post-amnesiac radiohead. not "king of limbs" though. that shit is weaksauce.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I dunno about "king of limbs" as a whole, but I think "lotus flower" is among their best, maybe just behind "there, there"

also I heard "lotus flower" in a wal-mart of all places, some weeks ago, make of that what you will

I love Little by Little and Morning Mr Magpie at least

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