A POLL IN A CAGE ON ANTIBIOTICS - ILM Artist Poll #56 - RADIOHEAD - RESULTS THREAD

Albums first! I might start the tracks run down before the end of the day, let's see how it goes.

54 albums ballots were received, 11 albums/EPs were voted for..

http://i.imgur.com/xBj8Fso.jpg

11. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings [2 votes | 66 points]

YAY results thread!!

http://i.imgur.com/M3bZetG.jpg

10. My Iron Lung [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 68 points]

Oh fuck, there was an emergency yesterday and I forgot to vote!

Goddamn it it's 3am why would you do this to me.

Anyway can't wait!

http://i.imgur.com/GcmYq9x.jpg

09. Pablo Honey [4 votes | 119 points]

Yay @ PH even showing up!

(And hi-5s to 3 other people.)

http://i.imgur.com/koT9HiK.jpg

08. Airbag / How Am I Driving? [9 votes | 2 #1 votes | 290 points]

Love Airbag EP so much

i used to stare at the airbag ep cover when i bought it (probably because i had a total of 8 or 9 CDs at that point and nothing to do) and wonder why IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR and POLICE were underlined. looking at it now for the first time in forever, they just look like links!

also it looks like stanley donwood made it on MS Paint

I love this thread title.

http://i.imgur.com/WtNnsgt.jpg

07. The King of Limbs [10 votes | 292 points]

interesting vote distribution to have KOL land above Airbag despite having only 1 more vote and 0 v 2 #1s

They really should have released an Airbag/My Iron Lung equivalent of Kid Amnesiac b-sides.

For sure. Choosing 7-8 b-sides from that era to create a fake EP would be a fun process

http://i.imgur.com/T1LO7Lp.jpg

06. Hail to the Thief [29 votes | 3 #1 votes | 913 points]

well there's a point jump

also lol @ Pablo Honey

oh weird, people like The Bends I guess

The Bends is a great album!

http://i.imgur.com/l5p5Ucg.jpg

05. Amnesiac [31 votes | 2 #1 votes | 961 points]

Whoa at the point jump.

Of the remaining 4 albums, this being ILM, I have no honest idea of how they'll be ranked. I'd go with Bends-IR-OKC-Kid A but who knows.

http://i.imgur.com/0JJZRyI.jpg

04. The Bends [38 votes | 3 #1 votes | 1230 points]

They really should have released an Airbag/My Iron Lung equivalent of Kid Amnesiac b-sides.

― Van Horn Street

For sure. Choosing 7-8 b-sides from that era to create a fake EP would be a fun process

― Karl Malone

Problem is Airbag is from 1998 and My Iron Lung 1994 so they're not really from the same era. Itch is from 1994 too... maybe a great EP could be created with Itch+My Iron Lung+The Bends b-sides which are all dated 1994/1995, here's the list:

The Bends "B-Sides"
----------------------
1. Lewis (Mistreated)
2. Maquiladora
3. How Can You Be Sure?
4. Banana Co.
5. Molasses
6. Killer Cars
7. India Rubber
8. You Never Wash Up After Yourself
9. Talk Show Host
10. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
11. Bishop's Robes
12. Lozenge of Love
13. The Trickster
14. Permanent Daylight

They really should have released an Airbag/My Iron Lung equivalent of Kid Amnesiac b-sides.

― Van Horn Street

For sure. Choosing 7-8 b-sides from that era to create a fake EP would be a fun process

― Karl Malone

Problem is Airbag is from 1998 and My Iron Lung 1994 so they're not really from the same era. Itch is from 1994 too... maybe a great EP could be created with Itch+My Iron Lung+The Bends b-sides which are all dated 1994/1995, here's the list:

The Bends "B-Sides"
----------------------
1. Lewis (Mistreated)
2. Maquiladora
3. How Can You Be Sure?
4. Banana Co.
5. Molasses
6. Killer Cars
7. India Rubber
8. You Never Wash Up After Yourself
9. Talk Show Host
10. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
11. Bishop's Robes
12. Lozenge of Love
13. The Trickster
14. Permanent Daylight

― Moka, Monday, September 8

Lol just realized you're talking about the kid a era. We already have one of those it's called Amnesiac.

http://i.imgur.com/0VT505r.jpg

03. In Rainbows [40 votes | 11 #1 votes | 1372 points]

thank God for small favors

so Black Holes and Revelations isn't placing then?

*high 5s nearby radiohead fans*

Damn, Muse are way more popular than radiohead among spotify users.

I'm more of a Parachutes fan myself, wish that one had placed.

http://i.imgur.com/IMoQQ7n.png

02. Kid A [48 votes | 19 #1 votes | 1732 points]

http://i.imgur.com/ctqmWar.png

01. OK Computer [52 votes | 13 #1 votes | 1831 points]

Thought Kid A would win this one. More #1 votes but I guess there's a couple of ILM users who didn't even consider it in their top 5 albums.

Bleuch. ALL WRONG.

But I only have myself to blame as I got really sick and forgot to vote.

I love Muse, I'd love to run a Muse ILM poll but I figure I'd get like 3 participants.

If the albums had been ordered according to how many points their songs received in the tracks ballot, it would've been:

01. OK Computer
02. Kid A
03. The Bends
04. Hail to the Thief
05. In Rainbows
06. Amnesiac
07. The King of Limbs
08. Pablo Honey

how many total ballots again? did everyone vote OKC?

I'm viewing that as essentially a Kid A/OKC tie. With 19 #1 votes, you probably wouldn't have to tinker with the scoring system much to put Kid A in first.

yeah, like making #1 votes the only ones that count

Album rankings pretty much OTM, except I'd place Pablo Honey over The King Of Limbs. Say what you like, but as flawed as their debut is, it still boasts some (in my opinion) good material (and no, I'm not thinking about the obvious here either), and has a youthful energy to it that their later material lacks. I guess it's kinda like their Adolescent Sex to Kid A's Tin Drum, or whatever. The King Of Limbs is obviously more "exploratory" (for want of a better term) and more in the art-rock vein, but while it sounds beautiful it places, the songs at their core aren't really up to snuff IMO.

amnesiac is far too low imo. my #1.

muse are one of the least ilm-friendly bands possible

ilm just needs some training: http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Muse-Fan

did we get enough ballots for a music videos poll?

Only 4! I'll run down the top 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8

03. Just [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 73 points]

I wish I voted in this, but tbh the biggest reason I didn't was because I'd feel compelled to listen to Pablo Honey for the 1st time for the sake of fairness/completion. I couldn't face it.

I thank the voters for validating my opinion that TKOL just kind of sucks.

1 - Climbing Up the Walls
2 - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
3 - I Might Be Wrong
4 - There There
5 - All I Need
6 - Creep
7 - Idioteque
8 - Where I End and You Begin
9 - Everything in Its Right Place
10 - Paranoid Android
11 - Myxomatosis
12 - Backdrifts
13 - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
14 - I Will
15 - Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
16 - Thinking About You
17 - Pyramid Song
18 - Planet Telex
19 - How to Disappear Completely
20 - Let Down

Thanks, Nate!

Yeah, I'm kind of baffled at EIIRP and TT finishing 2+1; I like both, but would never think of them as absolute favourites. I guess EIIRP was the first thing a lot of people heard of Kid A, cos there was no lead single and it opened the album, so it perhaps has some epochal weight because of that. And I remember friends who weren't enormous Radiohead geeks loving There There, whereas it nonplussed me for several months. I know it gets a lot of love from here, though.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, September 12, 2014 4:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same. you could cut the top 2 off the poll entirely and it would make way more sense imo.

also "Let Down" is eye-rolling and banal to me the way "High and Dry" is to most of you guys.

Thanks for running this Nate

1.The Tourist
2.Let Down
3.Planet Telex
4.House of Cards
5.Karma Police
6.How to Disappear Completely
7.Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
8.Knives Out
9.Lucky
10.Morning Bell
11.Talk Show Host
12.Airbag
13.Everything in Its Right Place
14.Sail to the Moon
15.There There
16.Reckoner
17.Codex
18.In Limbo
19.Meeting in the Aisle
20.Bones

1. OK Computer
2. Kid A
3. In Rainbows
4. The Bends
5. Hail to the Thief

Relistining to a lot of the tracks that places, and I just don't care about Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows at all. On the other hand, I listened to The King of Limbs, and still find it very touching. A track like Give Up the Ghost is very beautiful.

Thanks so much for doing this poll, Nate!

My boring-ass ballot...and while I'm happy to see 2 others voted for "Fitter, Happier," I never thought I'd be the only voter for "Lewis (Mistreated)."

1. Paranoid Android
2. The National Anthem
3. Morning Bell (Kid A)
4. Karma Police
5. Pyramid Song
6. Just
7. Exit Music (For a Film)
8. Optimistic
9. Fitter Happier
10. Subterranean Homesick Alien
11. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
12. Idioteque
13. Planet Telex
14. Let Down
15. My Iron Lung
16. Airbag
17. I Might Be Wrong
18. Bones
19. Lewis (Mistreated)
20. The Bends

Albums:

1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. The Bends
4. Amnesiac
5. My Iron Lung EP

I voted for "Faust Arp" as a joke.

I didn't. I think it's good.

Faust Arp

I voted for Faust Arp

Actually no I didn't

my #3. why would it be a joke?

Had completely forgotten how great There There is.

dog latin's "There There" post (and WilliamC's likening of the drums to those on "I Can't Explain") sent me scurrying back for another listen. It's much better than I remember -- I didn't relisten to HTTT for the poll, and hadn't heard the song in 10 years. It still wouldn't have made my ballot, and it's not something I'd play to convince someone of Radiohead's greatness, but I'm digging it now.

actually I don't remember if "Faust Arp" is good or bad, I was just playing on the old ILM meme.

It might be their prettiest tune.

can we get the full list?

ALBUMS

01. OK Computer [52 votes | 13 #1 votes | 1831 points]
02. Kid A [48 votes | 19 #1 votes | 1732 points]
03. In Rainbows [40 votes | 11 #1 votes | 1372 points]
04. The Bends [38 votes | 3 #1 votes | 1230 points]
05. Amnesiac [31 votes | 2 #1 votes | 961 points]
06. Hail to the Thief [29 votes | 3 #1 votes | 913 points]
07. The King of Limbs [10 votes | 0 #1 votes | 292 points]
08. Airbag / How Am I Driving? [9 votes | 2 #1 votes | 290 points]
09. Pablo Honey [4 votes | 0 #1 votes | 119 points]
10. My Iron Lung [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 68 points]
11. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 66 points]

VIDEOS

01. No Surprises [4 votes | 1 #1 vote | 145 points]

02. Paranoid Android [3 votes | 0 #1 votes | 96 points]

03. Just [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 73 points]

4. Knives Out [2 votes | 1 #1 vote | 70 points]

5. Street Spirit (Fade Out) [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 66 points]

6. There There [2 votes | 0 #1 votes | 64 points]

7. Karma Police [1 vote | 1 #1 vote | 40 points]

8. Motion Picture Soundtrack [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 28 points]

9. House of Cards [1 vote | 0 #1 votes | 28 points]

TRACKS

01. There There [39 votes | 5 #1 votes | 1097 points]

02. Everything in Its Right Place [38 votes | 3 #1 votes | 1030 points]

03. Paranoid Android [37 votes | 4 #1 votes | 965 points]

04. Pyramid Song [36 votes | 5 #1 votes | 927 points]

05. Idioteque [36 votes | 3 #1 votes | 880 points]

06. Let Down [31 votes | 3 #1 votes | 823 points]

07. Airbag [32 votes | 1 #1 vote | 783 points]

08. Lucky [25 votes | 2 #1 votes | 604 points]

09. Reckoner [25 votes | 1 #1 vote | 582 points]

10. The National Anthem [21 votes | 3 #1 votes | 561 points]

11. Karma Police [24 votes | 0 #1 votes | 557 points]

12. How to Disappear Completely [24 votes | 3 #1 votes | 549 points]

13. Fake Plastic Trees [21 votes | 2 #1 votes | 536 points]

14. Exit Music (For a Film) [23 votes | 2 #1 votes | 529 points]

15. Morning Bell [23 votes | 0 #1 votes | 525 points]

16. Planet Telex [27 votes | 0 #1 votes | 522 points]

17. Climbing Up the Walls [20 votes | 2 #1 votes | 494 points]

18. Subterranean Homesick Alien [22 votes | 1 #1 vote | 483 points]

19. Just [21 votes | 2 #1 votes | 476 points]

20. No Surprises [19 votes | 2 #1 votes | 472 points]

21. Street Spirit (Fade Out) [21 votes | 1 #1 vote | 471 points]

22. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi [20 votes | 1 #1 vote | 452 points]

23. Talk Show Host [20 votes | 0 #1 votes | 431 points]

24. Optimistic [18 votes | 1 #1 vote | 427 points]

25. 15 Step [20 votes | 1 #1 vote | 411 points]

26. My Iron Lung [20 votes | 0 #1 votes | 407 points]

27. Kid A [18 votes | 0 #1 votes | 399 points]

28. A Wolf at the Door [17 votes | 1 #1 vote | 389 points]

29. Life in a Glasshouse [16 votes | 1 #1 vote | 379 points]

30. The Tourist [15 votes | 2 #1 votes | 376 points]

31. In Limbo [16 votes | 1 #1 vote | 353 points]

32. 2 + 2 = 5 [17 votes | 0 #1 votes | 335 points]

33. Bodysnatchers [15 votes | 0 #1 votes | 332 points]

34. Knives Out [13 votes | 0 #1 votes | 304 points]

35. Black Star [13 votes | 0 #1 votes | 300 points]

36. Myxomatosis [14 votes | 0 #1 votes | 300 points]

37. Where I End and You Begin [13 votes | 0 #1 votes | 293 points]

38. I Might Be Wrong [15 votes | 0 #1 votes | 289 points]

39. Nude [13 votes | 0 #1 votes | 282 points]

40. High and Dry [12 votes | 0 #1 votes | 243 points]

41. Creep [13 votes | 0 #1 votes | 235 points]

42. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [11 votes | 0 #1 votes | 234 points]

43. All I Need [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 230 points]

44. The Bends [10 votes | 0 #1 votes | 226 points]

45. House of Cards [10 votes | 0 #1 votes | 224 points]

46. Jigsaw Falling Into Place [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 220 points]

47. Fog [8 votes | 2 #1 votes | 210 points]

48. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 208 points]

49. Palo Alto [10 votes | 1 #1 vote | 202 points]

50. Videotape [9 votes | 0 #1 votes | 202 points]

So I bought Com Lag today. And I'll probably order the 2CD Amnesiac shortly.

Com Lag is great, but wasn't there an error in the Four Tet scatterbrain remix?

Are either of the 33 1/3 books any good? Amazon reviews are not positive...

The OKC one is as dry as the Sahara desert and a load of old nonsense for the most part. Haven't read the other one.

This poll has broken me; all I can listen to, and want to read about, is Radiohead.

Haha yeah I fell asleep to them the other day and it's played havoc with my last.fm stats

I've had Optimistic trapped in my head on a loop for about three days

I've been listening to Kid A and Amnesiac on my daily commute to work since this poll!

My work here is done.

Actually Thom's "wtf is he singing these aren't even words"ness is pretty heavily in evidence on Creep. I've no idea wtf he's singing before the "run run run RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuun" bit. Not a clue.

I hear it as "she's running out again"

but yeah, he's never been that intelligible; probably working out the Michael Stipe book.
Which reminds me - I properly got into this band and REM at the same time after hiring cassettes of Out of Time and The Bends from the local library. That was a cheery week for 14 y/o me.

'How I Made My Millions' is almost a pisstake of Thom's non-verbal singing, right?

When There There, Planet Telex, and then Bodysnatchers run into each other on a playlist in that order it doesn't seem like Radiohead have actually been all that radical in their development over that 13/14 year period. Obviously there's a lot of other stuff too, but I used to think of Kid A as a real "this is a new band" moment and it's, of course, not that simple at all.

This poll's really fucking broken me.

This was tweeted by Thom and just retweeted by Radiohead.

http://i.imgur.com/SR8HuMM.jpg

more linocut artwork, huh

God, coloured vinyl always looks so good.

p. sure that's just a dinner plate

great poll

I'd love to do another one to see how A Moon Shaped Pool would get on.

would think it needs more time, surely KoL would fare better by now

I also think we should have a thread for hilarious fan hyperbole and fill it with quotes on Radiohead

also, FIGHT!:

http://i.imgur.com/cJOKUb7.png

http://thequietus.com/articles/23859-grant-gee-radiohead-interview-meeting-people-is-easy

Excellent and amusing insight into how Grant Gee made the No Surprises video. I'd love to read a nice fat Q+A type book about their whole career. There still isn't a decent Radiohead book as far as i'm aware?

I kept things simple. Only four!.

Solid list.

My top four, too — but their best rock riff is The National Anthem.

“Bodysnatchers” for me, but I will rep for “There, There” too.

'I Might Be Wrong'

Kid A for me, but leaving out The Bends is like leaving out the heart.

You guys been listening to the weekly gigs from their archive? Dublin 2000 and Bonaroo 2006 have been really excellent so far. Soundboard quality too. Astoria ‘94 tonight..

https://youtu.be/RjQZd8p-eBM

it's cool they're doing this weekly thing for the pandemic... though it's all (so far) stuff they already put out on their "public library" site. I'd probably be more enthused to check it out if not for that... even though I haven't gotten around to much of it yet! Oh well.

About this poll.... I just recently did my first ilm artist ballot and I may have misunderstood about albums. Are you only supposed to list the ones you really like (or, i guess, "rate")? I'm just surprised at the low number of votes for Pablo Honey. I doubt that few of the voters ever heard Pablo Honey. They just didn't even bother to put it last on their list?

the rules for polls vary a fair bit, the underworld poll is definitely a huge outlier in ballot size. i'd imagine for this one people were only allowed to vote for a maximum of 5 albums.