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Poll Results: What's Your Favorite Radiohead Album?

 
  • 22% (22)
    The Bends
  • 25% (25)
    OK Computer
  • 29% (29)
    Kid A
  • 0% (0)
    Amnesiac
  • 9% (9)
    Hail to the Thief
  • 14% (14)
    In Rainbows
99 Total Votes  
post #51 of 70
12/9/10 at 2:34am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Ray Abed View Post
I'd rank 'em like this:

Hail to the Thief *****
Kid A *****
The Bends **** 1/2
Ok Computer **** 1/2
Amnesiac ****
In Rainbows ***
Pablo Honey ***

And for kicks: The Eraser ****
Switch Kid A & OK Computer and move Amnesiac down to 3 stars, and you got me as well.
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post #52 of 70
12/9/10 at 6:36am
Wow, I'm surprised Hail to the Thief has so many boosters. It's always been the misstep in my mind.

Kid A
The Bends
OK Computer
In Rainbows
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
Pablo Honey

So much of this is completely infested by nostalgia, and where I was when, blah blah blah, but then, that's just how music works for me.
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post #53 of 70
12/9/10 at 7:58am
Hail To The Thief felt like Radiohead knocking out a bunch of decent songs on autopilot. It's okay but there are far too many b-side level songs on it, and even some of the better songs weren't recorded very well. I heard a lot of the tunes on live bootlegs before it came out, and remember being disappointed at how lifeless many of the tracks ended up in their recorded form.

Amnesiac is their most shambolic album but I think that's what I like about it. It's like they spent ages polishing Kid A into this smooth round package, and Amnesiac is all leftover jagged edges and raw bits of weirdness that didn't fit. I do wonder if at least Pyramid Song shouldn't have made it to Kid A though.
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post #54 of 70
12/9/10 at 8:03am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
Switch Kid A & OK Computer and move Amnesiac down to 3 stars, and you got me as well.
Sometimes Amnesiac is a *** 1/2 to me. Really depends on my state of mind while I'm listening to it. Its oddness and messiness usually wins over me, though.
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post #55 of 70
12/9/10 at 11:25am
For me it's:

Hail to the Thief ****
Kid A *****
The Bends ***
Ok Computer ****1/2
Amnesiac ****1/2
In Rainbows *****
Pablo Honey ABSTAIN...I've never listened to it.
I Might Be Wrong: Live EP ***** <--This contains my favorite versions of every song on it. I probably listen to this more than the full length albums.

The Eraser ****

I've always prefered post Kid A, glitchy, keyboard-y, experimental Radiohead to guitar-centric Radiohead. "Idioteque" is my favorite Radiohead song, with maybe "The National Anthem" as number two. So I guess I'll vote KID A.
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post #56 of 70
12/9/10 at 11:41am
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Originally Posted by fuzzy dunlop View Post
I never fully appreciated Hail to the Thief until I saw Radiohead at Bonnaroo in '06. They played a handful of tunes off it (There There, 2+2=5, The Gloaming, and Myxomatosis, if memory serves) and it definitely changed my mindset on the album as a whole.
There There is fucking unreal live. Their whole show is, really. Almost everything took on a new dimension when I finally saw them live. I was quite taken by just how, well, "intense" it all was. Especially The National Anthem. Jeeeeeeeebus.
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post #57 of 70
12/9/10 at 12:07pm
It is like being asked to choose a favorite child, in the sense that you know you have one but you don't want to admit it publicly.
I love and appreciate every single album on that list, but if I have to pick a personal favorite it's Hail to the Thief.
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post #58 of 70
12/9/10 at 12:09pm
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Originally Posted by joeypants View Post
There There is fucking unreal live.
Yes. I had watched them on youtube, listen to them via stream but nothing compares to having the chance to see them live (I did). There There crescendo is amazing and really well executed.
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post #59 of 70
12/9/10 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by joeypants View Post
There There is fucking unreal live. Their whole show is, really. Almost everything took on a new dimension when I finally saw them live. I was quite taken by just how, well, "intense" it all was. Especially The National Anthem. Jeeeeeeeebus.
I remember them opening with There There, with Ed doing the backup vocals and playing auxiliary percussion up front. My mind was already blown 2 minutes into the set. Easily one of the best shows I've ever been to.

And this thread has inspired me to give Hail to the Thief a listen on the way to work and dammit, its climbing in my album rankings. Still giving the nod to OK Computer, but at this point I don't think I could choose a #2 between Hail to the Thief, The Bends, and Kid A.
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post #60 of 70
12/9/10 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
I had tickets to see them in Virginia once, and it got rained out. I was extremely bummed.
The first time I saw them perform live was in '95 or '96. They opened for Alanis Morisette.

I'll say that again: Radiohead opened for Alanis Morisette.
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post #61 of 70
12/9/10 at 1:21pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
The first time I saw them perform live was in '95 or '96. They opened for Alanis Morisette.

I'll say that again: Radiohead opened for Alanis Morisette.
I was there, man. I was there. (At Jones Beach on Long Island, anyway.) First time I heard Karma Police too, a year before OK Computer. It was a little different and he sang the chorus in falsetto. Always remembered it as being superior to the eventual album track, I wonder if it's easily found somewhere..
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post #62 of 70
12/9/10 at 2:02pm
OK Computer...simply because it was the first Radiohead album I heard. It'll always be my favorite because of that.
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post #63 of 70
12/9/10 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
Point is, I can't imagine the human being alive who likes Pablo Honey more than The Bends.
I used to be friends with a guy who only owned Pablo Honey and claimed the rest of their catalog was shit. Never stopped giving him hell for that.

While I love almost all the songs on Hail to the Thief and thought it was one of the greatest albums I'd ever heard when it came out, I've cooled on it as an album. It's so very scatterbrained (pun not intended) and never fully works as a cohesive album to me.
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post #64 of 70
12/13/10 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by hexx462 View Post
I used to be friends with a guy who only owned Pablo Honey and claimed the rest of their catalog was shit. Never stopped giving him hell for that.
I can't stand people like that. Much like the "Syd Barrett purist." Ugh.
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post #65 of 70
12/16/10 at 9:26pm
I voted Kid A, but I really feel their peak is (and will remain) the imagenary double album of KA/Amnesiac. I probably have an equal number of faves on Am, but KA has the better flow.
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post #66 of 70
12/16/10 at 10:51pm
I voted for OK Computer, because of the superb part writing and counterpoint. I feel that R-head has really moved away from that direction as they've evolved, and while their albums have remained superb, I've always been a little disappointed we didn't get a little more output stylistically similar to OKC.

Second favorite has to be Hail to the Thief.
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post #67 of 70
12/17/10 at 10:41am
I figure this is the best place to put this because we really don't need two Radiohead threads running concurrently. Has anybody else ever done the Ok Computer/In Rainbows thing? If you put both albums in a playlist together, set the crossfade to 10 seconds and put them order going back and forth so you start with Airbag and then 15 Steps, Paranoid Android etc., but keep Karma Police and Fitter Happier together so that it ends with The Tourist the whole thing plays almost perfectly like it belongs together. It's really downright remarkable how well it works.
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post #68 of 70
12/17/10 at 11:19am
There are some who say they did that intentionally.
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post #69 of 70
12/17/10 at 12:35pm
They had to it works entirely too well to be a coincidence.
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post #70 of 70
12/19/10 at 3:06am
OK Computer -- My first real introduction to Radiohead. It's the album that still swings my mood and a record I've invested most of my time, depression, psychosis on. Close to being the best album of the '90s -- followed behind Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Kid A -- Their most complete, polished album. It's a great achievement, and it never fails to move me in some way -- from the album cover to the harps in "Motion Picture Soundtrack."

Amnesiac -- This album doesn't get the love that OK, Kid A and The Bends get, but it's great in its own weird, confused and chaotic way. I love it.

The Bends -- One of the last great alt-rock albums ever delivered. I used to play "High and Dry" to get an ex girlfriend to have sex with me.

In Rainbows -- An album I didn't care for initially; an album I've grown to really love the passed few years.

Hail to the Thief -- It's very good, but it feels very disconnected and Radiohead's least personal effort. There are some fucking fantastics songs, though: "There There", "Go to Sleep", "I Will", "Scatterbrain."
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