Best-Of Radiohead

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The booted:

Pablo Honey
Thinking About You
How Do You?

The Bends
Bulletproof
Sulk

OK Computer
Electioneering
Lucky

Kid A
Treefingers

Amnesiac
Morning Bell/Amnesiac

Hail to the Thief
Scatterbrain
A Wolf At the Door (sorry Josh)
We Suck Young Blood (happy Josh?)

Since HTTT has the most tracks, I took down three as Wolf and WSYB tied.  It seems fair enough, as much as I love Wolf.  Amnesiac had a clear losing track, with everything else tied at one, so I could really only take one off for that album.

Anyway, the remaining:

Pablo Honey 7 tracks
You
Creep
Stop Whispering
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Ripcord
Lurgee
Blow Out

The Bends 8 tracks
Planet Telex
The Bends
High and Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Nice Dream
Just
My Iron Lung
Street Spirit

OK Computer 9 tracks
Airbag
Paranoid Android
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Exit Music (for a film)
Let Down
Karma Police
Climbing Up the Walls
No Surprises
The Tourist

Kid A 8 tracks
Everything In Its Right Place
Kid A
The National Anthem
How to Disappear Completely
Optimistic
Idioteque
Morning Bell
Motion Picture Soundtrack

Amnesiac 9 tracks
Pact Like Sardines...
Pyramid Song
Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
You and Whose Army?
I Might Be Wrong
Knives Out
Dollars & Cents
Like Spinning Plates
Life in a Glasshouse

Hail to the Thief 10 tracks
2+2=5
Sit Down Stand Up
Sail to the Moon
Backdrifts
Go To Sleep
Where I End and You Begin
The Gloaming
There There
A Punchup at a Wedding
Myxomatosis

Let's just see how voting goes on this one.  I'll see if we can't eliminate at least two per album, but that really depends on being able to do that fairly.

VOTE TWICE - the one you want off the most and the one you want off almost as much.

[DvChWi]

Planet Telex
Nice Dream

The Tourist
Exit Music for a Film

Kid A
Motion Picture Soundtrack

Now let me go off and cry for betraying my little friends....

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Stop Whispering (way too U2-esque)
Ripcord

Nice Dream
Planet Telex

Subterranean Homesick Alien
Let Down

Motion Picture Soundtrack
Kid A

*sigh* Pull/Pulk
Knives Out (as yummy as mice are)

Sit Down, Stand Up
Sail to the Moon

[Emericana]

The Gloaming
Backdrifts

You took Wolf? Ye shall surely die.

[Escuchame]

I can't vote any longer....

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I can't vote any longer....

NOOOO!  Surely, you can help bring it down further.  Just, excuse yourself from an album or something.  Right now, our best-of Radiohead CD is a quadruple album.  As much as I'd like to believe Radiohead is that good, I don't think any band is.

[murlough23]

I see that my nefarious plan to assassinate the wolf has succeeded! Now, onto other acts of deviance...

The Bends
My Iron Lung
Just

OK Computer
Let Down
No Surprises

Kid A
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Optimistic

Amnesiac
Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
Dollars & Cents

Hail to the Thief
Sail to the Moon
A Punchup at a Wedding

OK, this is getting hard now...

[Josh]

*Sigh* I miss the wolf already...

Nice Dream
Fake Plastic Trees

The Tourist
Subterannean Homesick Alien (this is painful...)

Kid A
Optimistic

Life in a Glass House
Dollars and Cents

Backdrifts
Go to Sleep (RIP, Wolf...)

 

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My Iron Lung
Just

No Surprises

Optimistic

Dollars & Cents

A Punchup at a Wedding

OK, this is getting hard now...

You will fail.  You MUST fail.  Andree can't save you now! (or can he?)

[murlough23]

Hey, I never said I was happy about all of those choices. If we were voting for music videos, I'd definitely want "Just" to stay in the game.

[murlough23]

You know what? We need to start making mean and nasty comments about these songs as we vote them off. For example:

My Iron Lung is about to breathe its last breath.

Just - Don't blame me. The song did it to itself, and that's why it really hurts.

Let Down - You shall be crushed like a bug in the ground.

No Surprises - Take a handshake of carbon monoxide.

Motion Picture Soundtrack - Too bad the film was a flop.

Optimistic - Looks like your glass is half empty.

Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors - Go fall into one of those trap doors that you can't come back from.

Dollars & Cents - There are better songs to talk about. Be constructive.

Sail to the Moon - I liked you better as "Pyramid Song".

A Punchup at a Wedding - You had to ruin it for everyone.

NP: "Knives Out", Radiohead

[Josh]

I would have said "You had to piss on our parade" for that last one.

And a pox on you for dissing "Sail to the Moon." May your crops wither and die.

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[murlough23]

And a pox on you for dissing "Sail to the Moon." May your crops wither and die.

I don't have any crops! I guess it was a retroactive pox...

NP: "My Iron Lung", Radiohead

[Josh]

If I were making my own personal best-of collection, "Motion Picture Soundtrack" would definitely make the but. Fantastic song.

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Other than some PH songs, I think MPS is the weakest on the list, but I think it's very pretty in that solemn way and a good closer to Radiohead's second (and latest up to this point) masterpiece.  I think I'm going to go take some sleeping pills.

[Josh]

I think you're crazy. Maybe.

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I think you're crazy. Maybe.

probably.

vote, darn you Andree!  You can't leave the game hanging like this.  We need at least so many.

[murlough23]

Blast you, Josh, for going back in time and putting a pox on my crops such that I would never even have the urge to grow any! You have completely severed me from the parallel universe in which I live a blissful agricultural lifestyle!

NP: "Sail to the Moon", Radiohead
(There, I'm listening to it. Can I have my crops back now? Or can you at least put a pox on my weeds and we'll call it even?)

[RokrantheGreat]

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[RokrantheGreat]

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[RokrantheGreat]

Do I have to memorize their songs in order to know that I don't like them?    

[Escuchame]

If I were making my own personal best-of collection, "Motion Picture Soundtrack" would definitely make the but.

HUH?

In any case...

NOTE: I'M VOTING, BUT DON'T STONE ME IF IT LOOKS LIKE I'M PICKING NAMES OUT OF A HAT.  THIS IS ALREADY HARD AS IT IS.

Baby Bend - PLANET TELEX, MY IRON LUNG (BITCH IS NOT A NICE X-TIAN WORD)

OK 'Puter- AIRBAG (ZIKE!)... for real now... LUCKY, CLIMBING UP THE WALLS

Kid O - MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (I'm not touched by it), KID A (love you)

Amnesty - I MIGHT BE WRONG (Indeed), LIFE IN A GLASSHOUSE (I think)

HoTT - A PUNCHUP AT A WEDDING, MYXOMATOSIS (Meh)
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There.......... happy?

ALso... to all who voted "DOLLARS & CENTS," "LET DOWN," and "FAKE PLASTIC TREES," you're definitely on narcotics.

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There.......... happy?

Yes, very.

Wait 'til next round.  I'm going to screw with the rules and see what happens...make it really difficult.

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As it stands:

Pablo Honey
Stop Whispering  1
Ripcord  1

The Bends
Nice Dream  3
Fake Plastic Trees  1
Planet Telex  3
My Iron Lung  2
Just  1

OK Computer
Subterranean Homesick Alien  2
Let Down  2
No Surprises  1
The Tourist  2
Exit Music  1
Lucky  1
Climbing Up the Walls  1

Kid A
Motion Picture Soundtrack  4
Optimistic  2
Kid A  4

Amnesiac
Pull/Pulk  2
Dollars & Cents  2
Life in a Glasshouse  2
I Might Be Wrong  1
Knives Out  1

Hail to the Thief
Sit Down, Stand Up  1
The Gloaming  1
Backdrifts  2
Go To Sleep  1
Sail to the Moon  2
A Punchup at a Wedding  2
Myxomatosis  1

Get your votes in soon.  I'm going to have to do something about getting some tiebreakers in here, so that's probably what the next round will focus on, with slightly different rules (in other words, nothing eliminated until we figure out what we don't want on the list the most as a group, being that there are ties in every album but Kid A).

[murlough23]

Hey... I liked "Nice Dream". (Maybe it's a subliminal thing because it rhymes with "Ice Cream", which reminds me, why hasn't Weird Al parodied Radiohead?.) Go figure that y'all would vote it off.

BTW, did I ever mention that the first time I head John Mayer, it wasn't one of his radio hits? It was a live acoustic cover of "Kid A" that I downloaded while scavenging for Radiohead covers. Don't ask me how he did it... but it actually worked.

If I had to be the one to break these ties, here's what I would boot:

Planet Telex (b/c I like "Nice Dream", as mentioned above)

Let Down (though "Alien" will probably go next)

Motion Picture Soundtrack (no contest, "Kid A" is way better!)

Life in a Glasshouse (I realized yesterday that this song actually kind of annoys me. Funny that I keep coming up with other things on Amnesiac to vote for instead of "Knives Out", which was initially my least favorite song due to the lyrics.)

Sail to the Moon (too close to the name of an Anime series for comfort)

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Sail to the Moon (too close to the name of an Anime series for comfort)

haha...that's too funny.  I had a good friend who was a Sailor Moon nut.  He was frightening.

Man, Life in a Glasshouse is one of my favorites, but it is an oddball.  It sounds kind of New Orleans-flavored, you know (of the instruments I play, I'm also best at trumpet, so I appreciate it from that angle...Littleton is very good).

[RokrantheGreat]

(Maybe it's a subliminal thing because it rhymes with "Ice Cream", which reminds me, why hasn't Weird Al parodied Radiohead?.)

 

Maybe he doesn't like them either. Or he thinks that they're lyrics are silly enough w/out his intervention. *ducks for cover behind a large delivery truck*

[murlough23]

[DvChWi]

If he can't parody a full song, I think he should put out an "Esoteric Art-Rock Polka" at some point. Don't you think it'd be great to hear a few lines from "Paranoid Android" delivered over a perky bed of accordions?

That would be cool.  I think the "you don't remember" section from Paranoid Andorid would work great in a polka.  He could also do some Sigur Ross.  That would be interesting.

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That would be cool.  I think the "you don't remember" section from Paranoid Andorid would work great in a polka.  He could also do some Sigur Ross.  That would be interesting.

It's funnier when most of the audience knows what he is parodying, so I'm not sure that he'll ever do Radiohead...they aren't exactly a radio band.  Also, do most Weird Al fans know what "esoteric" means?

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Maybe he doesn't like them either. Or he thinks that they're lyrics are silly enough w/out his intervention. *ducks for cover behind a large delivery truck*

Dude, you duck a lot and there's no need.  I can't knock you upside the head anyway, at least not as long as I have dial-up.  Cable modem here I come!

and, I repeat, you know something of like two songs, zeroing in on a short section of one of them, so you should really stop making yourself seem so foolish.

[RokrantheGreat]

Dude, you duck a lot and there's no need.  I can't knock you upside the head anyway, at least not as long as I have dial-up.  Cable modem here I come!

and, I repeat, you know something of like two songs, zeroing in on a short section of one of them, so you should really stop making yourself seem so foolish.

Ok, so I'm being foolish.  I still want to know why I have to be an expert to know I don't like a certain kind of music. Do I have to "know" the songs? Isn't just hearing them enough?

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Ok, so I'm being foolish.  I still want to know why I have to be an expert to know I don't like a certain kind of music. Do I have to "know" the songs? Isn't just hearing them enough?

An opinion doesn't count for squat if you dismiss a 6 min 30 sec song based on two lines of its lyrics (that aren't even particularly bad if you decidedly to check context once), and it looks even worse when you dismiss a 6 album band based on the same.  It shows a certain amount of ignorance in terms of what you are talking about, and that isn't even argueable.  

I don't mind you killing your credibility in musical opinion little by little, that's up to you.

[RokrantheGreat]

An opinion doesn't count for squat if you dismiss a 6 min 30 sec song based on two lines of its lyrics (that aren't even particularly bad if you decidedly to check context once), and it looks even worse when you dismiss a 6 album band based on the same.  It shows a certain amount of ignorance in terms of what you are talking about, and that isn't even argueable.  

I don't mind you killing your credibility in musical opinion little by little, that's up to you.

*sigh* Here we go again...   I do not dismiss "Paranoid Android" just because of that much-quoted lyric. In fact, "PA" is the best Raiohead song that I've heard. I just use those lyrics to tease the phanboys about how weird Rh is.  =)  I'm not "dismissing" Rh, just saying that they do not appeal to me. And yet you keep implying that I need to have listened to every Cd, and know at least several lyrics from them, in order to know that they do not appeal to me. I have listened to two Cd's, OKC and KidA. Isn't that enough? Or do you require me to spend hours of my time refining my dislike with the other 4 cd's?

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They aren't that weird, but whatever.  You've given two CDs a run...I expect you to go no further (although, knowing what you like, you might actually find you like "The Bends" ok).  I just think the "unborn chicken voices" thing is getting tired from you, that's all.  It was funny the first 50 times.

For the record, I've listened to "Hybrid Theory", "Reanimation", and "Meteora" at least two times a piece.  I personally feel responsible to understand why I dislike something, but I shouldn't expect that of everybody, so you're right.

[RokrantheGreat]

They aren't that weird, but whatever.  You've given two CDs a run...I expect you to go no further (although, knowing what you like, you might actually find you like "The Bends" ok).  I just think the "unborn chicken voices" thing is getting tired from you, that's all.  It was funny the first 50 times.

For the record, I've listened to "Hybrid Theory", "Reanimation", and "Meteora" at least two times a piece.  I personally feel responsible to understand why I dislike something, but I shouldn't expect that of everybody, so you're right.

Thank you. I will try to keep the "unborn chicken voices" to a minimum. And maybe, just maybe, I might even try out "The Bends."
I'm glad that your LP informed, but I just don't have time to listen extensively to all the new bands that I've heard of from the phorum.

 

[DvChWi]

I'm glad that your LP informed, but I just don't have time to listen extensively to all the new bands that I've heard of from the phorum.

You don't have to listen to every band, just Radiohead, U2, and R.E.M.   I like to know what I'm judging very well before I make my decisions, and I think it wise that others would do the same.  But, this thread has now run its course.  Please direct all voting towards the newest best of Radiohead thread.  Closed.