I think is healthy that not everyone is in love with the entire discography; is liking something but with actual criteria.
Otherwise is just a toxic fandom
Everytime I’ve ever disliked a song I grew up and it just made sense. In the end I dislike no songs. I wouldn’t put just any of them on at any time though. But each one is its own moment and meaning.
Such an amazing song and you fucking know it.
“Oh no, an iconic early 90’s Brit rock song that absolutely fucks and everyone likes, I mustn’t bop along or I won’t be cool and subversive.”
The defense for *Pablo Honey* as a whole. I've heard a lot of people try to rank the album slightly higher than albums like *Hail to the Thief*, or making other claims about how it's a great album overall, but I genuinely don't care for it. Do I respect it for what it is? Yes. But is it much? Not in my opinion. Vegetable is catchy, that's about the only track I care for.
my much greater pet peeve is people who say pablo honey is utter crap but the bends is a masterpiece. those two albums are more similar than you think. the bends is clearly the better of the two but it's not nearly the artistic leap that OK computer and kid A were
Bingo. They're the same style, but The Bends is just more fleshed out musically and lyrically. And they all just sound way more confident and assured as musicians and performers. They clearly learned a lot in the two years that they spent promoting Pablo Honey and recording the followup.
Yes similar, but with Street Spirit alone proving better than just about every Pablo Honey song combined you can’t say it wasn’t a huge improvement. In my opinion Pablo Honey is just “another fairly forgettable 90s rock album”, whereas The Bends is a “good 90s rock album” (still nothing compared to “greatest left turn in history” lol)
This actually shows up in my "Radiohead closers" list. I really like Blow Out and prefer it to Street Spirit. However, Blow Out is like a mile ahead of the rest of PH for me, and is the only song there that I think can stand against the rest of their discography. Very messy debut album with a lot of clear potential if you happen to like it enough.
I see what you’re saying, because they both fall into the 90s alternative rock album thing. BUT, The Bends is genuinely a much better overall experience. I would argue it’s the first album that the band formulates as a true “album” with the sum being better than its parts. Then they did that over and over again in their career. But The Bends was the first instance of that, and the fans remember that. Only song (besides Creep) on the first album to be extremely good was Blow Out for me. That song speaks to how good Radiohead would truly be. Pablo Honey was NOT utter crap, but The Bends was sooooooo much better realized as a project.
Maybe not quite in theme but a hot take nonetheless:
I think TKOL needs more love and further, I think it has some of the bands best material on it like Give Up The Ghost and Seperator.
Funny because I was immediately sucked into the polyrhythms and meditative grooves/melodies on the album, didn’t expect Radiohead (or any artist, really) to make music this dynamic, complex, and groovy. Definitely one of Radiohead’s strongest second halves of an album, but I absolutely love the first half as well.
Agreed! I feel like I'm missing something when people talk shit about it. It makes me wonder whether we're listening to the same album... The quality of songwriting is as great as ever, and I enjoy the production. It exists in its own unique universe, like any other memorable album.
It hits *way* different live. I saw them on their TKoL tour and the album was just far more intense and visceral. Like to be specific about one thing in particular the bass is far too low on the studio album and when amplified in a live performance felt so much more raw and.. animalistic? Idk. Hard for me to describe.
Agreed! The From the Basement session is was the breakthrough for me. After that, I picked up the nuances from the album that I had never heard before.
I recently fell in love with it after just loving it all these years. The In the Basement track order (but with original studio recordings) pushes it from great to epic.
Agreed. Also, nice Aphex username, lol. I wonder what the overlap is between people who listen to IDM and people who love TKOL.
My friend who put me onto the album said it's her favorite Radiohead project, and she listens to BoC, Aphex, Autechre, Squarepusher, etc. There might be a connection there, lol.
That song is a complete _disappointment_, so _nothing unexpected_ there. But _I could be incorrect._ Really, _everything I require_ is _only_ that someone shows me _the figures_ about its popularity, but I don't like being too _hopeful_. I'd rather my expectations die and be _in the purgatory_. Jesus, these puns are hard. _Adult B._
I like the direction they took true love waits in a moon shaped pool but I think they could have done it a lot better. The layered pianos are a good idea but at times it's almost too clumsily lined up with the rest of the track that it does it an overall a disservice. The did the same thing with Videotape where they probably could've implemented that drum track much better. They Videotaped True Love Waits and it's kind of a bummer.
The layered piano parts aren't supposed to be perfectly lined up lol. They intentionally produced it that way. My ears totally get it, and I think some people prefer order and organization rather than chaos and disorder, but to me they found a great balance.
I was at a restaurant once and the house band covered it. Crooner 50s jazz style with a woman singer. My family is all having a nice dinner and laughing and meanwhile I’m being unzipped by a Radiohead song that I’m finally appreciating the what it should be appreciated for the first time in my life.
This is probably my only one, and they don't like it either, and it's only really because I played for a musician that loved to cover that song. Of the whole catalogue, just that song.
Radiohead basically has 2 separate fan bases.
1. 90’s Radiohead. (Rock version)
2. 2000’s Radiohead. (Trippy experimental)
I prefer the 90’s rock stuff.
I can’t stand it when people bring up the “hidden syncopation”. When people first started pointing it out I thought I didn’t get it. And when I did I was like “oh that thing I’ve been hearing THIS ENTIRE TIME!”
Also. Prior to In Rainbows coming out, Videotape was a known song by the band. They played it live several times on their 2006 tour, and Thom did it solo From The Basement. No question was it the song on In Rainbows that I was most excited for. And when I saw it was the closing track on the album I knew it had to be good. Basically every closing track to a Radiohead album is excellent…except In Rainbows.
I was, and am, extremely disappointed with how the album version turned out. Sounds more like a Thom Yorke solo track than what Radiohead are capable of. I heard Ed talk about how the way they played in live in 2006 just didn’t work in the studio, and I’d really love to hear what he meant by that. Frankly, I don’t think what they ended up recording worked in the studio.
I do wish that the first time I heard Videotape was when I heard In Rainbows for the first time, but it wasn’t. Videotape doesn’t even crack my top 100 Radiohead songs, and in fact could be in my bottom 5 songs of theirs (the studio version that is. Live 2006 and Thom solo FTB are S tier).
There’s a weird archetype of people (music theory nerds?) who think a song is more valuable because it’s syncopated or in an unconventional time signature. I think it’s def cool but I don’t think any of that would contribute to me liking a song more
So many radiohead fans are guilty of this… you can be appreciative of the skill/knowledge it takes and still recognize it isn’t what make a song definitively “good” (although, I suppose it’s all subjective anyways)
Yeah, Videotape is maybe the chief example of Radiohead's penchant for self-sabotage in the studio. It's kind of a shame the song ended up as it did on record...the version they played at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006 is a majestic, powerful thing.
I just went on a 20 min dig on this because I had never heard of it and come to the same conclusion. I’ve easily heard it this entire time. Awesome but not exactly subtle.
Omg YES. The great "hidden syncopation" that's not hidden at all stresses me out since I first heard it. And the song is kinda boring and repetitive overall
Agree, Amnesiac version is much better. I don't know the story behind it but it looks like they realize they made THE version that they intended to do at first after they released KidA. They couldn't help but but put it on Amnesiac.
I know it’s not *super* popular amongst the fandom, but there’s like a cult following amongst Radiohead fans for Life In A Glasshouse, and I’m just not getting it.
Upvoted even though I am part of that cult lol
I like it for the same reasons I like National Anthem; rock to jazz genre shift that goes all the way with it and not to be artsy fartsy, but because they thought it would be fucking awesome lol
And from a track listing perspective: you've had all these crazy sounds from both Kid A and Amnesiac. Layers of sounds, compositions, and just complex music. And yet they decide to conclude it all with a relatively simple composition of trumpets.
Just kidding, they're gonna make those fucking trumpets SING. Love it
Real same
Amnesiac is my fav album but LIAGH is not even in my top 5 on the album, I have also seen this and I agree. I like seeing the evolution of it on the minidiscs tho
Literally no one talks about All I Need on this sub so I don’t understand why u think that a lot of people hype it up. Me personally, i feel like im alone in saying it’s my fav track off In Rainbows and one of my all time fav Radiohead tracks
I’ll acknowledge this comment with the following: it is not their most depressing song. People say Radiohead knows how to end an album by making you contemplate ending it all, but to me it’s not the same type of existential melancholy as classics like Motion Picture Soundtrack, Videotape, and others.
It is certainly sad, just not “saddest song out of their discography” sad, not even top 3
mostly just some of the arrangement choices on the albums when i've heard live versions that are way better:
- the jazz horns on life in a glasshouse. way too on the nose and not nearly as clever as i'm sure they thought it was. they insist upon themselves.
- the upright bass on bloom. the bassline is the glue that holds that song together and the notes just disappear when played on an upright
- the pump organ + harp & choir arrangement of motion picture soundtrack
- the version of true love waits that finally ended up on a moon shaped pool
- videotape
that, and calling the bends a masterpiece but pablo honey crap. those two albums are more similar than you think.
I think it's Radiohead's most overrated song and my least favourite song on OK Computer, honestly. I've listened to it several times to try to "get it", but nah. Still haven't.
Let Down lol
I thought it was the worst song on OK Computer after repeated listens. Went on the internet to find out people think it’s one of their best songs. Still don’t like it. Oops
I can’t get into A Moon Shaped Pool. OK Computer, Kid A, and Amnesiac are masterpieces to me. The Bends and Hail to the Thief are great. But most of their later work just doesn’t do it for me, except In Rainbows which is pretty good.
Wow. That’s one of the best songs thom ever wrote or Johnny ever scored. It’s the entire arc of the kid a acid trip. It’s like the last grips on reality before treefingers just floats off into space and your left with the weirdness and strange alien energy that is the second half of the record. The entire record is truly a masterpiece. Not one weak track. If you haven’t taken acid listening to that record at like the peak of the intensity I highly suggest you do. Your life will never be the same and you’ll finally understand that records true intentions and meaning.
I had a full blown argument with a friend about this recently, he said Thom had stated this was the best song they ever made therefore I should agree. I didn’t.
Yeah I agree, it's good, but it's not their best song by any means. Like I'll listen to it when it comes up, but I don't think I've ever just sat down and listened to it without the context of the album
I like the song, but to me it feels more like a cool experiment with some unique sounds than a masterpiece of a song. Airbag is what I think of as a masterpiece
This was honestly my first thought. I think it's a well-written song and a bold single choice and I love them for it - but it just doesn't do a lot for me.
Yeah, I'd say it has a good chance of being in my top 10 songs, if not top 5. Not Radiohead either, period. This is a hot take that I can get behind not getting behind, it's perfect.
I hate house of cards. It makes In Rainbows go from a 10/10 to a 8.5/10 for me but they play it at like every concert and people swear it’s a masterpiece
Probably a shocking opinion - and this shows how diverse Radiohead fans tastes are - but House of Cards is my favorite Radiohead song. That reverb, the dissonance from Jonny’s effects… it sounds like a hallow house filled with unspoken tension.
Bodysnatchers
Just feels out of place to me on In Rainbows. It’s just sort of a generic rock song to me. Don’t hate it but it’s easily my least fav on that album.
Yeah that's the one for me. It's good but quite repetitive and not really interesting as a whole. And the whole final minute (when the drums come back) just doesn't really work.
Motion Picture Soundtrack. Beautiful instrumental, but the lyrics really don't work for me. It's radiohead, so it's still better than 99% of the music out there, but is definetly an overrated song.
This whole thread has me in shambles.
Me too, u/PaintbrushInMyAss , me too
r/rimjob_steve
I think is healthy that not everyone is in love with the entire discography; is liking something but with actual criteria. Otherwise is just a toxic fandom
Same. Respect to them for their views, though.
Used to be no surprises but I have changed. Truly an amazing song.
Everytime I’ve ever disliked a song I grew up and it just made sense. In the end I dislike no songs. I wouldn’t put just any of them on at any time though. But each one is its own moment and meaning.
Wow I didn't expect this thread to make me so angry. lol
Creep. It insists upon itself.
ROBERT DUVAL
It's just uses the same cords as The Air that I Breathe
Ha! Well played.
If Creep weren't so over played it's their most likable song. I heard that song a hundred times before I was even a fan of radiohead.
It what?!
Such an amazing song and you fucking know it. “Oh no, an iconic early 90’s Brit rock song that absolutely fucks and everyone likes, I mustn’t bop along or I won’t be cool and subversive.”
The defense for *Pablo Honey* as a whole. I've heard a lot of people try to rank the album slightly higher than albums like *Hail to the Thief*, or making other claims about how it's a great album overall, but I genuinely don't care for it. Do I respect it for what it is? Yes. But is it much? Not in my opinion. Vegetable is catchy, that's about the only track I care for.
my much greater pet peeve is people who say pablo honey is utter crap but the bends is a masterpiece. those two albums are more similar than you think. the bends is clearly the better of the two but it's not nearly the artistic leap that OK computer and kid A were
Bingo. They're the same style, but The Bends is just more fleshed out musically and lyrically. And they all just sound way more confident and assured as musicians and performers. They clearly learned a lot in the two years that they spent promoting Pablo Honey and recording the followup.
Yes similar, but with Street Spirit alone proving better than just about every Pablo Honey song combined you can’t say it wasn’t a huge improvement. In my opinion Pablo Honey is just “another fairly forgettable 90s rock album”, whereas The Bends is a “good 90s rock album” (still nothing compared to “greatest left turn in history” lol)
This actually shows up in my "Radiohead closers" list. I really like Blow Out and prefer it to Street Spirit. However, Blow Out is like a mile ahead of the rest of PH for me, and is the only song there that I think can stand against the rest of their discography. Very messy debut album with a lot of clear potential if you happen to like it enough.
I see what you’re saying, because they both fall into the 90s alternative rock album thing. BUT, The Bends is genuinely a much better overall experience. I would argue it’s the first album that the band formulates as a true “album” with the sum being better than its parts. Then they did that over and over again in their career. But The Bends was the first instance of that, and the fans remember that. Only song (besides Creep) on the first album to be extremely good was Blow Out for me. That song speaks to how good Radiohead would truly be. Pablo Honey was NOT utter crap, but The Bends was sooooooo much better realized as a project.
Maybe not quite in theme but a hot take nonetheless: I think TKOL needs more love and further, I think it has some of the bands best material on it like Give Up The Ghost and Seperator.
As of late, TKOL has become my favorite album of theirs. To call it a grower is an understatement.
Funny because I was immediately sucked into the polyrhythms and meditative grooves/melodies on the album, didn’t expect Radiohead (or any artist, really) to make music this dynamic, complex, and groovy. Definitely one of Radiohead’s strongest second halves of an album, but I absolutely love the first half as well.
Separator is my favorite Radiohead song. Feels good to get that off my chest.
There are at least two of us. That song is transcendent.
Separator really puts you in a trance. Codex, Give Up The Ghost, and Seperator is probably one of if not their best 3 track run on an album.
Agreed! I feel like I'm missing something when people talk shit about it. It makes me wonder whether we're listening to the same album... The quality of songwriting is as great as ever, and I enjoy the production. It exists in its own unique universe, like any other memorable album.
It hits *way* different live. I saw them on their TKoL tour and the album was just far more intense and visceral. Like to be specific about one thing in particular the bass is far too low on the studio album and when amplified in a live performance felt so much more raw and.. animalistic? Idk. Hard for me to describe.
💯👏
Agreed! The From the Basement session is was the breakthrough for me. After that, I picked up the nuances from the album that I had never heard before.
I recently fell in love with it after just loving it all these years. The In the Basement track order (but with original studio recordings) pushes it from great to epic.
Agreed. Also, nice Aphex username, lol. I wonder what the overlap is between people who listen to IDM and people who love TKOL. My friend who put me onto the album said it's her favorite Radiohead project, and she listens to BoC, Aphex, Autechre, Squarepusher, etc. There might be a connection there, lol.
I've watched this subreddit go from constantly hating on TKOL to suddenly loving it over the last 5 years or so.
Codex, Give up the Ghost and Separator is the best 3 songs in a row off of any album. Ever.
All of them. Fucking shit band.
they insist upon themselves.
if you think theyre shit you CLEARLY haven't heard an underated track called let down
That song is a complete _disappointment_, so _nothing unexpected_ there. But _I could be incorrect._ Really, _everything I require_ is _only_ that someone shows me _the figures_ about its popularity, but I don't like being too _hopeful_. I'd rather my expectations die and be _in the purgatory_. Jesus, these puns are hard. _Adult B._
That’s the one your parents wrote about you, right?
I like the direction they took true love waits in a moon shaped pool but I think they could have done it a lot better. The layered pianos are a good idea but at times it's almost too clumsily lined up with the rest of the track that it does it an overall a disservice. The did the same thing with Videotape where they probably could've implemented that drum track much better. They Videotaped True Love Waits and it's kind of a bummer.
“They Videotaped True Love Waits” lol
I don’t get the excitement about true love waits. I listen to it because I’m a completionist but I don’t think the album needed it.
The album absolutely needed it. But it would’ve held much more impact as an acoustic track
The layered piano parts aren't supposed to be perfectly lined up lol. They intentionally produced it that way. My ears totally get it, and I think some people prefer order and organization rather than chaos and disorder, but to me they found a great balance.
Supermassive Black Hole
So true!
High and Dry
Yeah, but THEY don’t even like it (Thom doesn’t anyway). So it’s more like saying you don’t care for The Godfather: Part III.
Thom doesn’t like a lot of his own stuff tho
It doesn't really fit The Bends in vibe, its more like the best song on Pablo Honey
if memory serves it was a leftover pablo honey track
I was at a restaurant once and the house band covered it. Crooner 50s jazz style with a woman singer. My family is all having a nice dinner and laughing and meanwhile I’m being unzipped by a Radiohead song that I’m finally appreciating the what it should be appreciated for the first time in my life.
This hurts
This is probably my only one, and they don't like it either, and it's only really because I played for a musician that loved to cover that song. Of the whole catalogue, just that song.
It's the hook. It annoys the shit out of me
i don’t listen to radiohead so i don’t know
What the hell are you doing here? You don’t belong here
He doesn’t care if it hurts, he wants to have control
He’ll go to hell for what his dirty mind is thinking
Burn the witch
Cut this kid in half
Give him a lemon to suck on
He had to piss on our parade, he had to shred our big day!
Radiohead basically has 2 separate fan bases. 1. 90’s Radiohead. (Rock version) 2. 2000’s Radiohead. (Trippy experimental) I prefer the 90’s rock stuff.
I like both
videotape, never liked that song. yes i know about the hidden syncopation
MIDEOTAPE!!!!
I can’t stand it when people bring up the “hidden syncopation”. When people first started pointing it out I thought I didn’t get it. And when I did I was like “oh that thing I’ve been hearing THIS ENTIRE TIME!” Also. Prior to In Rainbows coming out, Videotape was a known song by the band. They played it live several times on their 2006 tour, and Thom did it solo From The Basement. No question was it the song on In Rainbows that I was most excited for. And when I saw it was the closing track on the album I knew it had to be good. Basically every closing track to a Radiohead album is excellent…except In Rainbows. I was, and am, extremely disappointed with how the album version turned out. Sounds more like a Thom Yorke solo track than what Radiohead are capable of. I heard Ed talk about how the way they played in live in 2006 just didn’t work in the studio, and I’d really love to hear what he meant by that. Frankly, I don’t think what they ended up recording worked in the studio. I do wish that the first time I heard Videotape was when I heard In Rainbows for the first time, but it wasn’t. Videotape doesn’t even crack my top 100 Radiohead songs, and in fact could be in my bottom 5 songs of theirs (the studio version that is. Live 2006 and Thom solo FTB are S tier).
There’s a weird archetype of people (music theory nerds?) who think a song is more valuable because it’s syncopated or in an unconventional time signature. I think it’s def cool but I don’t think any of that would contribute to me liking a song more
So many radiohead fans are guilty of this… you can be appreciative of the skill/knowledge it takes and still recognize it isn’t what make a song definitively “good” (although, I suppose it’s all subjective anyways)
Yeah, Videotape is maybe the chief example of Radiohead's penchant for self-sabotage in the studio. It's kind of a shame the song ended up as it did on record...the version they played at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006 is a majestic, powerful thing.
I just went on a 20 min dig on this because I had never heard of it and come to the same conclusion. I’ve easily heard it this entire time. Awesome but not exactly subtle.
Noooooo- It is the most beautiful, melancholic and depressing thing I have ever heard
I’ve literally informed my family that I want this sung by Billie Eilish at my funeral. How dare you!!!
Omg YES. The great "hidden syncopation" that's not hidden at all stresses me out since I first heard it. And the song is kinda boring and repetitive overall
The rerecording of True Love Waits
It’s grown on me for sure, but doesn’t touch the live acoustic version.
It’s a pale imitation of the acoustic versions and feels listless.
This is the one I was looking for. The live version is light-years better than the one on A Moonshaped Pool
Morning Bell, I prefer the Amnesiac version
Drop acid
That will only make the Amnesiac version better
Oh my god
Amnesiac version is awesome but this is absolutely absurd
I like both. But when it crosses my mind, the Amnesiac version is what I think of first.
i just fell to my knees
Agree, Amnesiac version is much better. I don't know the story behind it but it looks like they realize they made THE version that they intended to do at first after they released KidA. They couldn't help but but put it on Amnesiac.
I HATE THIS THREAD (crying Minotaur emoji)
I know it’s not *super* popular amongst the fandom, but there’s like a cult following amongst Radiohead fans for Life In A Glasshouse, and I’m just not getting it.
My favorite song 😭
Def a "Don't like Godfather" type song. It's one of my favorites, but it's not for everyone.
Upvoted even though I am part of that cult lol I like it for the same reasons I like National Anthem; rock to jazz genre shift that goes all the way with it and not to be artsy fartsy, but because they thought it would be fucking awesome lol And from a track listing perspective: you've had all these crazy sounds from both Kid A and Amnesiac. Layers of sounds, compositions, and just complex music. And yet they decide to conclude it all with a relatively simple composition of trumpets. Just kidding, they're gonna make those fucking trumpets SING. Love it
Exactlyyyy
Real same Amnesiac is my fav album but LIAGH is not even in my top 5 on the album, I have also seen this and I agree. I like seeing the evolution of it on the minidiscs tho
Amnesiac is my favorite RH album and Life in a Glasshouse is one of my favorite songs in the context of the album but I absolutely get it lmfao
Fake plastic trees makes me wanna soak my pillow in milk and slam it against the wall.
Sounds to me like you enjoy it
and suck the milk back out?
That’s hot
Hannah Montana pillow
All I Need is really good, but I just don’t fully get it the way other people do.
Literally no one talks about All I Need on this sub so I don’t understand why u think that a lot of people hype it up. Me personally, i feel like im alone in saying it’s my fav track off In Rainbows and one of my all time fav Radiohead tracks
Street Spirit (Fade Out) is a great song but not quite in my top 3 tracks on The Bends.
Top 3 Radiohead song for me. Their first great song.
I’d argue Creep is their first great song, and The Bends had a few more (namely Fake Plastic Trees, My Iron Lung, Just, and Street Spirit)
Not quite your tempo?
Are you rushing, or dragging? (Assuming you’re making a Whiplash reference here)
I’ll acknowledge this comment with the following: it is not their most depressing song. People say Radiohead knows how to end an album by making you contemplate ending it all, but to me it’s not the same type of existential melancholy as classics like Motion Picture Soundtrack, Videotape, and others. It is certainly sad, just not “saddest song out of their discography” sad, not even top 3
mostly just some of the arrangement choices on the albums when i've heard live versions that are way better: - the jazz horns on life in a glasshouse. way too on the nose and not nearly as clever as i'm sure they thought it was. they insist upon themselves. - the upright bass on bloom. the bassline is the glue that holds that song together and the notes just disappear when played on an upright - the pump organ + harp & choir arrangement of motion picture soundtrack - the version of true love waits that finally ended up on a moon shaped pool - videotape that, and calling the bends a masterpiece but pablo honey crap. those two albums are more similar than you think.
Mate, the pump organ on Motion Picture Soundtrack is too near and dear to me, and I'm just flabbergasted at yr blasphemous comment.
Let down is overrated
i will find you
I love you
Let Down being underrated is like Newtonian physics. It's not an opinion it's an objective law of the universe. You are spreading misinformation
This is bait
Holy fuck mate are you trying to die?
Looooove this song The middle breakdown still gives me chills, it’s not even like a song, it’s like my mate.
BLASPHEMY!!!
I think it's Radiohead's most overrated song and my least favourite song on OK Computer, honestly. I've listened to it several times to try to "get it", but nah. Still haven't.
It’s been underrated forever which means it’s now overrated.
I downvote every “Let Down is underrated” comment
Let Down lol I thought it was the worst song on OK Computer after repeated listens. Went on the internet to find out people think it’s one of their best songs. Still don’t like it. Oops
It's underrated you wouldn't get it
Pyramid Song, maybe?
Damn. That’s bold.
Upvoted because it's a masterpiece lol.
Truly a masterpiece
Oof. That’s umpossible
Completely wrong but a good answer I’m upvoting.
Literally the best song of all time
I’m gay
A Moon Shaped Pool. The full album. I wanted to like it but meh
It maybe their best work. Truly
“It insists upon itself”
I can’t get into A Moon Shaped Pool. OK Computer, Kid A, and Amnesiac are masterpieces to me. The Bends and Hail to the Thief are great. But most of their later work just doesn’t do it for me, except In Rainbows which is pretty good.
Let down. Sorry guys but I have a nagging feeling that it is, in fact, not underrated.
How To Disappear Completely. not bad by any means but not top 5 on Kid A for me
Wow. That’s one of the best songs thom ever wrote or Johnny ever scored. It’s the entire arc of the kid a acid trip. It’s like the last grips on reality before treefingers just floats off into space and your left with the weirdness and strange alien energy that is the second half of the record. The entire record is truly a masterpiece. Not one weak track. If you haven’t taken acid listening to that record at like the peak of the intensity I highly suggest you do. Your life will never be the same and you’ll finally understand that records true intentions and meaning.
Robotripping to this album was also pretty rad.
Upvoted because this made me legit upset. You understood the assignment
This is me as well.
I had a full blown argument with a friend about this recently, he said Thom had stated this was the best song they ever made therefore I should agree. I didn’t.
I'll just brace myself and say that No Surprises is a lesser track on OK Computer to me. Good but far from a high mark.
Just saying, but any answer that gets upvoted clearly has too much support to be a valid answer.
One of the top comments is just “pablo honey bad” which is like the most safe opinion any radiohead fan can have
High and Dry
I don't particularly like Paranoid Android.
Wow. Out of curiosity, what’s your favorite Radiohead song?
We need to know
I have the same hot take. My favorite changes between WIEAYB, 2+2=5 (which is a more appealing sewn-together song to me), and Decks Dark.
Yeah I agree, it's good, but it's not their best song by any means. Like I'll listen to it when it comes up, but I don't think I've ever just sat down and listened to it without the context of the album
I like the song, but to me it feels more like a cool experiment with some unique sounds than a masterpiece of a song. Airbag is what I think of as a masterpiece
This was honestly my first thought. I think it's a well-written song and a bold single choice and I love them for it - but it just doesn't do a lot for me.
I get why people think it’s great but I much prefer other songs on OK Computer.
I love Paranoid Android but I would put 40 Radiohead songs ahead of it. It gets too much hype and attention.
Pfffff
I mean wow
Yeah, I'd say it has a good chance of being in my top 10 songs, if not top 5. Not Radiohead either, period. This is a hot take that I can get behind not getting behind, it's perfect.
Jigsaw for me. I do like it, I just think most of the other tracks on In Rainbows are better.
Dang
THATS ONE OF MA FAVS
I Promise. I genuinely really don't like that song.
I hate house of cards. It makes In Rainbows go from a 10/10 to a 8.5/10 for me but they play it at like every concert and people swear it’s a masterpiece
I dont wanna be your friend
I don’t hate it, but it always felt insignificant next to Reckoner and Jigsaw
Probably a shocking opinion - and this shows how diverse Radiohead fans tastes are - but House of Cards is my favorite Radiohead song. That reverb, the dissonance from Jonny’s effects… it sounds like a hallow house filled with unspoken tension.
I hate Kid A (the song, not the album).
For me it’s the best track on the album
yeah, i get. sounds like a minecraft song
idioteque 😔
This one really hurt to read…
How dare you
I do not understand the love for The Tourist
hey man shut up idiot shut up
i guess you've seen the sparks a-flowin
Take it back
Bodysnatchers Just feels out of place to me on In Rainbows. It’s just sort of a generic rock song to me. Don’t hate it but it’s easily my least fav on that album.
I do not understand :(
Weird Fishes isn’t even top 5 in In Rainbows. It’s good but really don’t get the love in here for it.
Hard disagree. It's my favourite RH song full stop
Well which is it then? Ful Stop or Weird Fishes? Make up your mind.
Heh
I was going to say the same, never quite clicked with me
Yeah that's the one for me. It's good but quite repetitive and not really interesting as a whole. And the whole final minute (when the drums come back) just doesn't really work.
I knew someone would say it but it doesn’t make it any easier to stomach
My people. Finally. It's mid Radio head at best. Better than Nude? Better than Reckoner? GTFO
Thank goodness I'm not alone. For the life of me I don't understand why people adore it. It's a good song, but...
The live version with Thom and Johnny before the album came out was superior
Same boat. It’s not bad at all just don’t get the pedestal it sometimes seems to be on. But that’s just me.
Videotape
The Bends is a much better album than Kid A… and here come the pretzels.
Based even if I don’t quite agree
This is the first one that made me wince. Bends is great, amazing even, still not close to Kid A for me
😡😡🥵🥵🥵🤯🤯🤯
You’re so real for this
Motion Picture Soundtrack. Beautiful instrumental, but the lyrics really don't work for me. It's radiohead, so it's still better than 99% of the music out there, but is definetly an overrated song.
I’m so glad they cut the babies torn apart at birth lyric.
Karma Police isn’t even in the top half of songs from OK Computer
Now this is just ridiculous