Your 10 favorite Radiohead songs

nacho · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:01 pm

this is difficult...

in no particular order:

Black Star
How to Disappear Completely
True Love Waits
Pryamid Song
Airbag
Like Spinning Plates (live version)
Lucky
Subteranian Homesick Alien
Talk Show Host
Karma Police

puma · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:05 pm

1: Idioteque
2. Planet Telex
3. Fake Plastic Trees
4. The Trickster
5. Packt Like Sardines in a Tin Box
6. High and Dry
7. 2+2=5
8. Everything in Its Right Place
9. A Punch Up at a Wedding
10. Karma Police

That was hard to narrow it down to ten. Don't make me do it again.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:32 pm

HaqDiesel Wrote:

why do so many people hate "electioneering"? i've always really liked it. is it just that it doesn't seem to fit with the character of the greater album?

I want to know why so many love "You and whose army?" I can't stand that song. It just drags on and on in this seemingly endless drone of nasal non-enunciation. Drives me nuts, can't listen to it.

"Electioneering" I like, however.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:36 am

Mot Wrote:

HaqDiesel Wrote:

why do so many people hate "electioneering"? i've always really liked it. is it just that it doesn't seem to fit with the character of the greater album?

I want to know why so many love "You and whose army?" I can't stand that song. It just drags on and on in this seemingly endless drone of nasal non-enunciation. Drives me nuts, can't listen to it.

I think it's mostly the fact that it's so painfully beautiful. And then when the drums kick in at 1:53 and the chorus begins, it just seems to soar in some sort of precisely melancholy way.

It kind of channels all the frustration you ever had towards anything into one simple line: "you and whose army?"

The whiny drone of nasal non-enunciation could be anyone's whining, and often is.

It is for these reasons that so many love "you and whose army?"

Verbal Intercourse · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:48 am

My ten would all be from The Bends, Kid A, and Amnesiac. I love all three of those albums, but I can't stand OK Computer or Hail to the Thief.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:50 pm

Makes No Sense At All Wrote:

My ten would all be from The Bends, Kid A, and Amnesiac. I love all three of those albums, but I can't stand OK Computer.

You picked an appropriate user name.

Fryxell · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:01 pm

Airbag
No Surprises
I Might Be Wrong
Idioteque
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Pyramid Song
The Gloaming (live)
Myxomatosis
Alligator In The Sewers (or whatever it's called)
Like Spinning Plates (live)

Verbal Intercourse · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:04 pm

Drinky Wrote:

Makes No Sense At All Wrote:

My ten would all be from The Bends, Kid A, and Amnesiac. I love all three of those albums, but I can't stand OK Computer.

You picked an appropriate user name.

Yeah, I mean I just don't understand that album. At all. None of the songs hit me. I think, as I've said before, that the sequencing really fucks the album up as a whole for me, because if I pick a random song from it and play it alone, I enjoy it (although would still place it after those other three, probably).

Airbag is a terrible choice for an opener, in my opinion. That song has never hit me, and I've listened to it plenty of times. Tracks 2-6 are arranged appropriately, and are actually quite enjoyable, but then the second half just basically doesn't connect with me at all.

I'm more of a Kid A/Amnesiac type guy (especially the latter), but The Bends is still one of the best albums of the 90s.

aerodynamics · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:34 pm

no order

Permanent Daylight
Planet Telex
India Rubber
The Tourist
Nice Dream
Blow Out
Sail to the Moon
Fake Plastic Trees
Maquiladora
Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

No order

Karma Police
Airbag
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit
Just
Blow out
How To Disappear Completly
Pyramid Song
Sail To the Moon
Polyethylene Parts 1 & 2

Tough, indeed

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

HaqDiesel Wrote:

My list is so bogus. There are like 10 other songs I love as much as many of the songs on there.

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

HaqDiesel Wrote:

why do so many people hate "electioneering"? i've always really liked it. is it just that it doesn't seem to fit with the character of the greater album?

I think it' s the worst Radiohead song i've heard.

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

Drinky Wrote:

Makes No Sense At All Wrote:

My ten would all be from The Bends, Kid A, and Amnesiac. I love all three of those albums, but I can't stand OK Computer.

You picked an appropriate user name.

Thats funny. I was just going to type someting very similar.

puma · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:12 pm

I would pick the Bends/Kid A over OK Computer any day.

alive · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 352

The Bends (slow version only, probably my favorite Radiohead song)
Talk Show Host
Maquiladora
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Fog
Optimistic
Paranoid Android
Let Down
Karma Police
Lucky

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:01 pm

ok, i'll play......

Let Down
Just
Paranoid Android
Fake Plastic Trees
The Bends
Karma Police
High And Dry
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Airbag

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:49 pm

cmanhatan4 Wrote:

Mot Wrote:

HaqDiesel Wrote:

why do so many people hate "electioneering"? i've always really liked it. is it just that it doesn't seem to fit with the character of the greater album?

I want to know why so many love "You and whose army?" I can't stand that song. It just drags on and on in this seemingly endless drone of nasal non-enunciation. Drives me nuts, can't listen to it.

I think it's mostly the fact that it's so painfully beautiful. And then when the drums kick in at 1:53 and the chorus begins, it just seems to soar in some sort of precisely melancholy way.

It kind of channels all the frustration you ever had towards anything into one simple line: "you and whose army?"

The whiny drone of nasal non-enunciation could be anyone's whining, and often is.

It is for these reasons that so many love "you and whose army?"

Hmm. Interesting, I guess. It sounds like childish whining to me.

FT · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:45 pm

I dig "Idioteque," but that's about it. No quiero Radiohead.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:15 pm

OK, off the top of my head, not in order, more then 10, and i know i'll miss 2-3 obvious ones for myself.

Paranoid Android
The Trickster
Airbag
Polyethelene Parts 1 & 2
Just
Idioteque
2+2=5
You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Thinking About You
National Anthem
Lucky
The Bends
Climbing Up The Walls
You and Whose Army
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Talk Show Host
Electioneering.

to be continued...those are the ones that immediately came ot mind.

Mr. Mister · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:21 pm

cmanhatan4 Wrote:

Mot Wrote:

HaqDiesel Wrote:

why do so many people hate "electioneering"? i've always really liked it. is it just that it doesn't seem to fit with the character of the greater album?

I want to know why so many love "You and whose army?" I can't stand that song. It just drags on and on in this seemingly endless drone of nasal non-enunciation. Drives me nuts, can't listen to it.

I think it's mostly the fact that it's so painfully beautiful. And then when the drums kick in at 1:53 and the chorus begins, it just seems to soar in some sort of precisely melancholy way.

It kind of channels all the frustration you ever had towards anything into one simple line: "you and whose army?"

The whiny drone of nasal non-enunciation could be anyone's whining, and often is.

It is for these reasons that so many love "you and whose army?"

I second all that and would add that it's one of Radiohead's most triumphant and defiant songs; the release with the chorus is euphoric...

paladisiac · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:44 pm

Tough. i think to logically tackle this, i need to list a top 3 from each full-length album and pick from that...

PABLO HONEY:
01 creep
02 stop whispering
03 anyone can play guitar

BENDS:
01 fake plastic trees
02 (nice dream)
03 my iron lung

OK COMPUTER:
01 let down
02 karma police
03 paranoid android
04 suberranean homesick alien

KID A:
01 how to disappear completely
02 idioteque
03 the national anthem
04 optimistic

AMNESIAC:
01 pyramid song
02 knives out
03 i might be wrong

HAIL TO THE THIEF:
01 2+2=5
02 a wolf at the door
03 myxomatosis

OVERALL TOP 10:
01 how to disappear completely
02 let down
03 karma police
04 pyramid song
05 paranoid android
06 idioteque
07 the national anthem
08 fake plastic trees
09 creep
10 2+2=5

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