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Best Radiohead Album/Song?

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    #32
    nomad15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭nomad15


    It is too hard to just pick one song but I'd go with Just Rainbows for the album...I love, love Radiohead :)


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    #33
    baltimore sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    have you done the 1001 thing with OK Computer and In Rainbows?
    http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/

    It's a bit mad, tracks are at the same bpm, one song can end with a guitar effect and the next will begin with the same effect on a piano for example.
    Pretty cool though


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    #34
    Re-Tuned
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Re-Tuned


    The Bends, OK Computer is a very close second.


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    #35
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,846 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I'd rank their albums in this order:
    1. The Bends
    2. In Rainbows
    3. OK Computer
    4. Kid A
    5. Hail To The Thief
    6. King Of Limbs
    7. Amnesiac
    8. Pablo Honey

    Top 10 songs:
    Reckoner
    Fake Plastic Trees
    Nice Dream
    How To Disappear Completely
    Pearly
    True Love Waits
    Climbing Up The Walls
    Blow Out
    The Bends
    Motion Picture Soundtrack


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    #36
    Table Top Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    1.Reckoner
    2.Idioteque
    3.The National Anthem(preferably the live version)
    4.Let Down
    5.Fake Plastic Trees
    6.Karma Police
    7.Videotape
    8.All I need
    9.Talk Show Host
    10.Lotus Flower



    1.In Rainbows
    2.OK Computer
    3.Kid A
    4.The Bends
    5.Hail To The Thief
    6.Amnesiac
    7.The King Of Limbs







    8.Pablo Honey(hate this album,awful,watered down indie,schminde)


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    #37
    freakybeaky108
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭freakybeaky108


    Love Kid A, Amnesiac and In Rainbows. If I had to choose an album I suppose it would be In Rainbows, but my favourite song has to be the Pyramid Song.

    I have to say that I find both the Bends and OK Computer to be a little overrated...


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    #38
    inthefade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭inthefade


    Kid A without a doubt. All their albums are great though, apart from maybe The King of Limbs :P Pyramid song is definitely in my Top 5 fave songs of theirs. As well as How to Disappear Completely.


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    #39
    happyman81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭happyman81


    The Bends and OK Computer just sound juvenile compared to their more recent work.

    Hail to the Thief is my pick.


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    #40
    Colonel Kurtz
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Colonel Kurtz


    Kid A is definitely one of the most under-rated albums ever. For me, it's neck and neck with The Bends for their best.

    An honourable mention too for In Rainbows. Reckoner is one of their all-time standout tracks.


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    #41
    Ormus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭Ormus


    1. OK Computer
    2. In Rainbows
    3. Kid A
    4. The Bends
    5. Amnesiac
    6. Hail to the thief
    7. The King of Limbs
    8. Pablo Honey

    Having read this thread, I can't help noticing that a lot of people appreciate Kid A and it's technical brilliance, but not many have come out and expressed their actual love of it, in the same way as they have for OK Computer, In Rainbows or The Bends. Personally I think Kid A is an amazing album; flawless, innovative, original, well produced. But it is a bit clinical.

    As far as best song goes, so hard to choose, I will give my vote to Exit Music (For a Film). Still makes the hairs on my neck stand up. Honorable mentions for Fake Plastic Trees, Reckoner and Idioteque.


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    #42
    Ormus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭Ormus


    Colonel Kurtz wrote: »
    Kid A is definitely one of the most under-rated albums ever. For me, it's neck and neck with The Bends for their best.

    An honourable mention too for In Rainbows. Reckoner is one of their all-time standout tracks.

    How is Kid A underrated? Massive critical acclaim. Surely one of the most highly rated albums since the turn of the Millenium.


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    #43
    happyman81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭happyman81


    Indeed.

    Wiki:

    Kid A has been considered one of the most challenging pop records to have commercial success.[13] The album won a Grammy for Best Alternative Album and was nominated for Album of the Year. It also received praise for introducing listeners to diverse forms of underground music.[6] Despite the band's new direction alienating some fans and critics,[6] Kid A received generally positive reviews from notable music publications.[13] It was subsequently listed by multiple publications as one of the best albums of recent years, and in 2009 was ranked No. 1 in lists of the best albums of the 2000s by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and The Times.


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    #44
    Stompbox
    Registered Users Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    'In Rainbows' was the first Radiohead album I really got; it's t'rific. The first time Bodysnatchers greeted my ears was like a religious experience.

    I'm not gonna choose a favourite song because it varies depending on mood but 'There, There' is seeing a lot of playtime lately, that song is absolutely gorgeous. The opening line gets me every time: 'In pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape.'


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    #45
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Pyramid Song


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    #46
    iluvcheese92
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭iluvcheese92


    I'd have to say All I Need from In Rainbows


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    #47
    amokrecordings
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭amokrecordings


    KID A is well above the rest... But I have to say that Amnesiac has had the most appeal as the years go by


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    #48
    Mannix1888
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭Mannix1888


    Paranoid Android


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    #49
    Culthurst
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Culthurst


    The gloaming... Sounds like an aphex twin redux, absolutely brilliant stuff


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    #50
    karaokeman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Album - Kid A

    Song - The National Anthem


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    #51
    Dibble
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭Dibble


    In Rainbows is my favourite album.

    It's very difficult to pick a favourite song, but one that I do come back to is Like Spinning Plates from Amnesiac. Originally, I found the album version quite dense and I just couldn't get into it. However, when I heard the stripped-down live version, it all made sense. What a song. What a band.

    Album version
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOAxhYo9vE

    Live (I Might Be Wrong) version
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfFtIcQlpQk


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    #52
    Kold
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    1. Amnesiac - I might be Wrong
    2. In Rainbows - Reckoner
    3. Kid A - The National Anthem
    4. OK Computer - Electioneering
    5. Hail to the Thief - There There
    6. The Bends - Fake Plastic Trees
    7. The King of Limbs - Lotus Flower
    8. Pablo Honey - You

    Listed in order of album quality rather than best song. This is canon, if you disagree, you are wrong. Glad to be of service.


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    #53
    flackattacker
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭flackattacker


    amnesiac is my favourite album because i love odd quirky music with you and whos army being my favourite song


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    #54
    padders67
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭padders67


    ok computer is my favourite - let down is best track but tearing down these walls and exit ( theme from a film ) are very underrated .

    have ye heard easy star all stars reggae version of OK computer ? done under the name Radiodread ?

    its a great listen - let down is especially good . toots and the maytals supplying the brass bits


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    #55
    ROBBO7
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭ROBBO7


    There there -thom yorke apparently cried with happiness after he heard it played back to him so it must be the best thing he had written up to then. Live it is just perfect.

    In Rainbows favourite album purely for the track listing each song blends perfectly and then its all over in a hearbeat. A pretty perfect album if you ask me..


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    #56
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    OKC best album.

    Let Down is just perfect, pure euphoria.


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    #57
    aqn29swlgbmiu4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭aqn29swlgbmiu4


    Cannot get enough of Paranoid Android


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