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Favorite Song from OK Computer?

Poll Results: What is your favorite song off of Radiohead's "OK Computer"?

 
  • 5% (4)
    Airbag
  • 17% (12)
    Paranoid Android
  • 2% (2)
    Subterranean Homesick Alien
  • 10% (7)
    Exit Music (For A Film)
  • 18% (13)
    Let Down
  • 17% (12)
    Karma Police
  • 5% (4)
    Climbing Up the Walls
  • 11% (8)
    No Surprises
  • 11% (8)
    Lucky
  • 0% (0)
    The Tourist
70 Total Votes  
post #1 of 34
9/27/07 at 4:30am
Thread Starter 
I'm sorry if your favorite song is Electioneering or Fitter Happier, but the poll only allows for 10 choices.

It's a tough choice, for sure, but I had to go with No Surprises. It's the song that hooked me into the album (hard to believe, but when I was a young lad I was frustrated at how few of the songs were easily 'catchy'. Now I see that all the songs are extremely catchy and get stuck in my head often.)

EDIT: Looking back, I wonder if I didn't make a mistake. I really really love Let Down. Hmmmm...
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post #2 of 34
9/27/07 at 5:17am
If we were talking The Bends or Hail to the Thief, I'd have no problem picking a favorite(in both cases it's the album closers, for those interested). I can't pick just one track off of this album, or the Kid A/Amnesiac combo. Something different grabs me each time I listen to them.

I've halfway forgotten Pablo Honey even exists, for some reason.
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post #3 of 34
9/27/07 at 5:24am
It would be already difficult enough to ask for best Album (Though I would have to go with Kid A on this one).

Asking for the song on this Album just isn´t fair. Every song is special in it´s own way. Even after roughly a decade I still put this disc in quite regulary.
But If you would put a gun to my head I would pick "Karma Police". But only based on biographical reasons, because this is like the song for breaking up.
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post #4 of 34
9/27/07 at 9:04am
This is some Sophie's Choice shit.

I went with "Exit Music (For a Film)". Absolutely heartbreaking. Least favorite: "The Tourist"; every time I listen to the album I'm exhausted by the time that one rolls around and I just can't give it the same attention.
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post #5 of 34
9/27/07 at 9:20am
I went for 'Exit Music (For A Film)' as well. There's something really ethereal and precious about that song. It just really gets under my skin, it's also the one song which really highlights the benefits of where they recorded the album, that airy, spooky, and also claustrophobic quality is something which seems to come from the surroundings.
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post #6 of 34
9/27/07 at 9:59am
'Airbag' for me. There really isn't a wrong choice, though...isn't it great when you can say that about an album?
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post #7 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:05am
Man, that is a hard choice. I ended up picking 'Let Down', there's this little harmony on the last chorus that could makes me smile no matter what. I think almost every other song is a close second.

My personal opinion on Radiohead's albums has been that OK Computer is their best album, but The Bends is my favorite.
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post #8 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:14am
Karma Police.
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post #9 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:15am
I like that one song, the one that's a great sleep aid? Oh wait, that's the whole album.
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post #10 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:29am
"Let Down."
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post #11 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:38am
It's a contest between Cimbing up the walls and Lucky.

Lucky, especially live.
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post #12 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:38am
I am not really a Radiohead fan (Save for The Bends, which i like lots and lots), so my opinion probably means less (or more, depending on what way you look at it...probably less, though). That being said I went with Paranoid Android, though it was a close call between that and Lucky.
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post #13 of 34
9/27/07 at 10:51am
Toss-up between "Paranoid Android" and "Let Down" for me, but I went with "Paranoid Android," since it was the first time that Radiohead truly blew me away. I liked "Creep" and "High and Dry," but they just sounded like the work of a halfway decent rock band with good dynamic sense. I didn't realize they had experimental aspirations until I heard "Android," with its weird little percussion tics, guitar outbursts, and time signature changes.
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post #14 of 34
9/27/07 at 11:01am
alot easier than I would have thought years ago: Let Down. it's one of the most beautifully layered songs Radiohead have written.
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post #15 of 34
9/27/07 at 11:34am
I wish How to Disappear Completely was on this album so I could pick it. I also with that How to Disappear Completely was on every album because it's that brilliant and beautiful.

But I digress and choose Exit Music.
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post #16 of 34
9/27/07 at 12:00pm
Subterranean Homesick Alien - I love Complaint Rock.
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post #17 of 34
9/27/07 at 12:04pm
So hard to pick, but I have to say Let Down. It's rare that I ever hear any of the album after that song because I just keep repeating it.
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post #18 of 34
9/27/07 at 3:29pm
Paranoid Android, hands down just fucking rocks. So epic.
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post #19 of 34
9/27/07 at 3:52pm
While I'm really blown away by how the album is constructed as a whole, I'd be lying if I didn't admit to still getting goosebumps when I hear "Let Down."
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post #20 of 34
9/27/07 at 3:55pm
Climbing Up the Walls - something primal about the song and its creepy effectiveness.
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post #21 of 34
9/27/07 at 4:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Riviello
I like that one song, the one that's a great sleep aid? Oh wait, that's the whole album.
I hope we all neg-repped him into oblivion.
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post #22 of 34
9/27/07 at 5:17pm
Let Down, although No Surprises is a very, very close second.

And yes, I'll admit it: when I'm alone in my car and I hear the last minute and 20 seconds of Let Down I turn it up and belt it out, always wishing I'll somehow magically grow another set of vocal cords so I can sing both vocal tracks.
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post #23 of 34
9/27/07 at 5:24pm
Judas gets pos-rep love from me for picking Airbag. That's how you open an album, kids. Admittedly, the rest is how you second-through-twelfth-track an album, too.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Least favorite: "The Tourist"; every time I listen to the album I'm exhausted by the time that one rolls around and I just can't give it the same attention.
"The Tourist" is post-coital.
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post #24 of 34
9/27/07 at 6:58pm
Fuck it, I went with "Paranoid Android".

I hate the video(well, the art style), but love the shit out of the song.
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post #25 of 34
9/27/07 at 7:10pm
I'm gonna have to go with 'No Surprises' it's an achingly beautiful song.
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post #26 of 34
9/27/07 at 7:53pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pvt. Spunkmeyer
And yes, I'll admit it: when I'm alone in my car and I hear the last minute and 20 seconds of Let Down I turn it up and belt it out, always wishing I'll somehow magically grow another set of vocal cords so I can sing both vocal tracks.
Likewise. It's definitely my favorite track to play on my guitar, as long is no one is around to hear me butcher it.
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post #27 of 34
9/28/07 at 12:29am
'No Surprises'. It's been my fave OK COMPUTER tune since the very first time I heard the album.
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post #28 of 34
9/28/07 at 2:17am
I chose "Paranoid Android" for almost the same reasons as DaveB. Except that The Bends, being the album that made a fan out of me, really took me on a ride for a while. But I still remember how awestruck I was the first time I heard "Paranoid Android" on the radio. That song gave me reason to believe that Radiohead might be one of the best and most inspired bands out there. And, at the time, it was also one of the songs that helped restore my faith in the future of rock music. And to top it off, it's still a great song today.

Can't freakin' wait for the new album to come out. Does it have a proper title yet?
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post #29 of 34
9/28/07 at 2:29am
"Climbing Up the Walls" is almost my top pick, but the "most favorite" honor has to go to "lucky/waster".

The way that song embodies the hopeful/less-ness of a crush on the crux of either dying or being reborn into a relationship - the aircrash/superhero dichotomy, or maybe it's all just in his head. So slightly sinister, almost obsessive, where he's just wanting Sarah to take that step into oblivion with him.

Standing on the edge of possibility or something supremely ugly. Maybe it's just a toss of the coin or what side of the bed I got up on in the morning, but whichever way it goes, it's damned passionate.
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post #30 of 34
9/28/07 at 2:22pm
"Let Down" was the first song on this album to really, thoroughly, kick my ass, but I've found myself appreciating "No Surprises" more and more over the years. They both arrive at that obscenely gorgeous climactic destination, but I dig how "No Surprises" seems to get there more effortlessly. That simple backup harmony at the end of the song is so devastatingly effective.

This song is probably my favorite Radiohead video, too, for that matter.
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post #31 of 34
9/30/07 at 5:17pm
It's very close between "Lucky" and "Climbing Up The Walls" for me. Summer smile summarized my feelings about "Lucky" perfectly. I love "Climbing Up The Walls" for the creepily hollow but somehow still inhabited atmosphere it creates, and that even the lyrics on their own give me the willies. But I get a kick out of hearing Thom Yorke say my name, so I have to give it to "Lucky."
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post #32 of 34
9/30/07 at 6:49pm
Airbag, brings me back to the feeling I had the first time listening and being blown away to this damn near perfect album.
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post #33 of 34
9/30/07 at 7:14pm
Best song? Either Paranoid Android or Let Down.

But favorite? Climbing Up The Walls. Aside from the fact that it's just beautifully layered, like every song on the album, the song makes mental illness and homicidal tendencies have so many different, conflicting emotions attached to it besides/along with "disturbing as hell", I almost feel like I get a brand new song out of it every time. Least until that scream reminds you you're supposed to be freaked out.
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post #34 of 34
10/1/07 at 9:40am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin Clark
Best song? Either Paranoid Android or Let Down.

But favorite? Climbing Up The Walls. Aside from the fact that it's just beautifully layered, like every song on the album, the song makes mental illness and homicidal tendencies have so many different, conflicting emotions attached to it besides/along with "disturbing as hell", I almost feel like I get a brand new song out of it every time. Least until that scream reminds you you're supposed to be freaked out.
Well you are certainly right. And this is the song that articulates the whole record, it takes such a primal "are you afraid of insanity" to different levels, blended with fine music. As you were saying that scream is just a reminder.
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