THERE IS A GOOD RADIOHEAD SONG

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― radiofan, Friday, 11 February 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's called "Just".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

There are 78 good Radiohead songs (I counted).

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That's out of a possible 130, mind.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, "Fake Plastic Trees," "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and "The Bends" are all better than "Just".

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No they're not.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

no there isn't.

― La Camilla Henemark, Friday, 11 February 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Melissa's figure sounds about right to me.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yes there is. it is called "idioteque"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, I love you because our styles of argument are very similar.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Best Radiohead song of them all: "Kid A"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

let down is cool.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, I love you because our styles of argument are very similar.

They are similar, Ally, and I love you for it too, but there's one fundamental difference: I'm right and you're wrong.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It's called "No Surprises".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Best Radiohead song of them all: "Kid A"

-- Matthew

What's your take on the John Mayer version?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.christinetappeiner.it/images/bait.jpg

― Who did release magic family out from the base of $499 (deangulberry), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys are wrong. radiohead totally rules, you guys are sissy pants anyway.

― you guys are lame, Friday, 11 February 2005 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, how did you know?!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucky wins

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Friday, 11 February 2005 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the one with horns, "National Anthem" I think.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Melissa, rank all Radiohead songs (seriously)

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually like the John Mayer version of Kid A!

― Lingbertt, Friday, 11 February 2005 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Liar

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

that song "Yellow" rocks! its so sensitive and shit

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.hccnet.nl/michiels.gitaarparadijs/rollinsliardisconnect.jpg

― Lingbertt, Friday, 11 February 2005 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"yeah, it's called "Just"."

My favorite.

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Friday, 11 February 2005 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike O:

Like Spinning Plates
Life in a Glass House
Pyramid Song
Scatterbrain
Idioteque
Dollars and Cents
Meeting in the Aisle
The Tourist
A Wolf at the Door
Exit Music (For A Film)
2+2=5
Kid A
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
How to Disappear Completely
There There
Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
How I Made My Millions
Myxomatosis
The Gloaming
Paranoid Android
We Suck Young Blood
Where I End and You Begin
Airbag
Talk Show Host
A Punchup at a Wedding
Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Kinetic
A Reminder
Morning Bell
Paperbag Writer
I Will
Fog
No Surprises
Climbing Up the Walls
Everything in its Right Place
You and Whose Army?
Pearly*
The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
Planet Telex
In Limbo
Sit Down, Stand Up
I Might Be Wrong
Fitter Happier
Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
Backdrifts
Sail to the Moon
Lucky
The National Anthem
Fake Plastic Trees
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
Nice Dream
Just
My Iron Lung
Where Bluebirds Fly
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Optimistic
Lozenge of Love
Permanent Daylight
Black Star
Lurgee
Blow Out
Treefingers
Amnesiac/Morning Bell
Hunting Bears
Karma Police
Knives Out
Let Down
Bishop's Robes
India Rubber
Transatlantic Drawl
Fast Track
Worrywort
Electioneering
The Trickster
Go to Sleep
Maquiladora
Molasses
The Bends
Palo Alto
True Love Waits
Bones
You
High and Dry
Creep
Ripcord
Melatonin
Vegetable
Stop Whispering
Banana Co
Lull
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Sulk
Killer Cars
You Never Wash Up After Yourself
How Can You Be Sure?
Prove Yourself
I Can't
Coke Babies
Faithless, The Wonder Boy
Inside My Head
Stupid Car
Yes I Am
Lewis [mistreated]
Million Dollar Question
How Do You?
Cuttooth
Thinking About You
Pop is Dead
I am a Wicked Child
I am Citizen Insane
Gagging Order

I chose not to include unreleased songs, bringing the total songs down to 113.

Subject to change, daily.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that's how to reply to a request.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 11 February 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i think it is called "lurgee."

― youn, Friday, 11 February 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sit Down, Stand Up"

TEH RAINDROPS

― Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Friday, 11 February 2005 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

how do you? is unspeakable awful, melissa! tut tut...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

unspeakable = unspeakably

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is why it's near the bottom...

Gagging Order is the fucking worst though.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry melissa, i thought that was yr list of good radiohead songs.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead songs wot I enjoy, in no particular order.

absentees that are on radiohead albums = i don't like them
absentees that are b-sides/rarities etc = i haven't heard them

Like Spinning Plates
Life in a Glass House
Pyramid Song
Idioteque
The Tourist
A Wolf at the Door
Exit Music (For A Film)
2+2=5
Kid A
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
There There
Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors
The Gloaming
Paranoid Android
Airbag
Talk Show Host
A Punchup at a Wedding
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Morning Bell
I Will
No Surprises
Climbing Up the Walls
Everything in its Right Place
You and Whose Army?
Planet Telex
In Limbo
I Might Be Wrong
Fitter Happier
Backdrifts
Sail to the Moon
Lucky
The National Anthem
Fake Plastic Trees
Nice Dream
Just
My Iron Lung
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Optimistic
Black Star
Lurgee
Treefingers
Amnesiac/Morning Bell
Hunting Bears
Karma Police
Knives Out
Let Down
Go to Sleep
The Bends
Bones
High and Dry
Creep
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Sulk
Thinking About You

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

that's 55...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, the list is every song they've ever released, ranked by preference.

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― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

melissa does that mean you dislike everything below maquiladora?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, not necessarily dislike, but I'd say everything below that I only enjoy for nostalgiac reasons.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this was something i didn't know:

Creep
Written by: Thom Yorke, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood
(based on The Air That I Breathe, by the Hollies)

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 11 February 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

What?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cuttooth" fucking rocks Melissa, where's the love?! Definitely one of their top 5 b-sides.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Cuttooth fucking sucks. Sounds like U2's idea of what Neu! sound like.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

What's your take on the John Mayer version? (of "Kid A")

I like it a lot. I admire him just for picking such an oddball song, but he does a good job of bringing it down to its essence and focusing on the melody.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it a lot, too. I never saw much mention of it online. Figured it was something people would either totally dig or ridicule but neither happened.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(Prob. my favorite Radiohead song, too.)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Airbag
2. Black Star
3. Exit Music (For A Film)
4. Everything in its Right Place
5. Idioteque
6. You and Whose Army?
7. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
8. Lucky
9. The National Anthem
10. Let Down
11. Amnesiac/Morning Bell
12. Just
13. Bones
14. In Limbo
15. Subterranean Homesick Alien
16. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
17. Motion Picture Soundtrack
18. Life in a Glass House
19. Pyramid Song
20. Like Spinning Plates

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My Radiohead POX:

Kid A
Airbag
Planet Telex
Backdrifts
Just
My Iron Lung
You And Whose Army?
Like Spinning Plates (preferably the live version)
The National Anthem
Myxomatosis

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Subterranean Homesick Alien

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

My top Radiohead songs off the top of my head:

1. Everything in its Right Place
2. Sit Down Stand Up
3. Idioteque
4. Backdrifts
5. Packt Like Sardines
6. Airbag
7. Pyramid Song

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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This whole thread is just reminding me of how fucking much I wish Radiohead were touring this year.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

When are they coming out with a new album/ep/whatever, Melissa?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know. They're not doing much at the moment. Jonny's all involved in the BBC Concert Orchestra thing, and they've been going into the studio in pairs, but I don't think much is being recorded.

This is what happens when rock stars have children...

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

They adopt the buddy system?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha. No, they become all about the time off.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is so bleedin' ridiculous! There's plenty of good fucking Radiohead songs! If you don't know that, go outside and get some fresh air and oxygen to your brain.

xpost sorry - thanks for the info Melissa

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I've never understood the Radiohead hate on ILM either

― jedidiah (jedidiah), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Most recent interview with Thom. Not much about what lies ahead, but fascinating nonetheless.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, I think I still need some more time before another Radiohead record comes out. I get really into them when the records come out, then I have to stop listening to them for a year or so to decompress.

Actually, I wouldn't be so upset if they broke up. Hail To The Thief would be a great final record for them.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Please don't say stuff like that.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I wouldn't be so upset if they broke up. Hail To The Thief would be a great final record for them.

Well, let's just say...I wouldn't respect them any less if they did.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

*puts hands over ears and hums loudly*

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Top 40 -

01 Idioteque
02 Just
03 Like Spinning Plates (IMBW version)
04 Bones
05 Let Down
06 A Reminder
07 Talk Show Host
08 No Surprises
09 Black Star
10 Paranoid Android
11 Exit Music (For a Film)
12 Kid A
13 Motion Picture Soundtrack (early live version)
14 The National Anthem
15 Climbing Up the Walls
16 Cuttooth
17 Scatterbrain
18 A Wolf at the Door
19 How I Made My Millions
20 Subterranean Homesick Alien
21 Pyramid Song
22 2+2=5
23 Airbag
24 Fog
25 True Love Waits
26 Everything in its Right Place
27 Life in a Glass House
28 You and Whose Army?
29 Pearly*
30 I Might Be Wrong
31 Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
32 How to Disappear Completely
33 Sit Down, Stand Up
34 How Can You Be Sure?
35 Lucky
36 Blow Out
37 Electioneering
38 Palo Alto
39 Killer Cars
40 I Am a Wicked Child

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What's with you crazy people who like the live version of LSP better?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ewww and the early live version of MPS too.

The live version of LSP is at least pretty, the acoustic version of MPS sounds like bad emo.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Please don't say stuff like that.

FOR REAL.

― known vaginatarian (nickalicious), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

Even if you ultimately like the studio LSP better, don't you agree that the live version is extremely revelatory? I had no idea that song was under there. Since the lyrics "sound" backwards I just assumed they were backwards and didn't realize there were recognizable words there. So I didn't like the track on Amnesiac until I heard the live version, now I love them both.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the acoustic version of "Motion Picture Soundtrack" more too, but I think it's a sentimental thing - I saw them play that as the final encore of a show in NYC on the OK Computer tour, and I was kinda stunned by that performance. No other version has ever held up to hearing it like that the very first time.

I have a lot of love for the album version of "Like Spinning Plates." I like them about the same, but I have a similar sentimental attachment to the live version.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

To me the studio version was revelatory, every little moment of it. The live version just seemed...I don't know, vapidly pretty.

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― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I quite like 'Pop is Dead'. I'm surprised it's so near the bottom. I don't know most of the others.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda think of the live version of "Like Spinning Plates" as taking place after the studio version, if that makes any sense. The studio version is all contained dread and anxiety, the live version is like a release of that burden.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

POX:
How to Disappear Completely
Like Spinning Plates (any vers.)
Dollars and Cents
Kid A
Morning Bell (Kid A)
Optimistic
National Anthem
Pyramid Song
Wolf at the Door
Scatterbrain

argh

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The best RH song live is There There.

Nothing really compares.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a live performance of "There There" on AOL Sessions and was totally floored by it. It was so PRIMAL!

Also I saw somewhere a live version of "Climbing Up The Walls" that gave me goosebumps.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah but just wait until they do that Can influenced double album Dr. C spoke of, and find the funk behind their computers.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

well, one thing is for sure, they have a lot of songs!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, really, Melissa? I've seen them do that one two or three times now, and have heard a lot of live versions, and it always seems kinda eh to me. My favorite RH live songs are "Idioteque," "The National Anthem," "Airbag," and "Everything In Its Right Place."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen them do There There live 38 times and it never fails to give me chills.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You clearly have a much greater RH threshold than I do, cos I saw them two nights in a row on the last tour and I was kinda bored with the repeat songs in the second show. I've seen them 14 times since The Bends, and I've found that every Radiohead show is about the same, only the setlist changes, so the better shows to me end up being the ones with songs that I've never heard or don't get played as much.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think maybe it's easier to distinguish between the energy of different shows if you see them from the front row. Every time I've ever seen them and have been somewhere in the back or seated or something, the music has still been great, but it's harder to distinguish from show to show and it can get a little boring.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you work for Radiohead? How do afford to see all those shows?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the first times I heard There There was a terrific live version, I think from a bootleg of Salamanca or San Sebastian or something like that, nothing since then has topped that one, but yeah it's like alot of the rest of HTTT in that most of the songs sound better either in person or on boots than on the album itself (esp. The Gloaming and Sit Down, Stand Up).

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Working for them would solve a lot of problems... I afford to see them by quite literally spending money on nothing else.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I discovered while bored that Scatterbrain is really good backwards.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Scatterbrain" is a very underrated song.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It kinda sounds like Sunny Day Real Estate though.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed. Backwards, the whole mood changes. It sounds like it's rising instead of falling, hopeful instead of despairing...

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― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it sounds like Whiter Shade of Pale. But I'm insane.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Which isn't such a problem for me, but that might explain why it isn't more popular.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really into the second half of SDRE's Pink Album when I was 17/18. "Scatterbrain" resembles those songs - "J'nuh" and "Iscarabaid" in particular

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see "Whiter Shade of Pale" actually. I thought of Supertramp at first but I've always thought that about Radiohead since I first heard OK Computer.

I really like "Scatterbrain" FWIW.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Melissa, is there any way you can make an mp3 of the backwards "Scatterbrain"? I'd like to hear that, but I don't really know how to do it without having it on vinyl.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, just give me 10 minutes. Do you want me to email it to you? Send it through AIM/MSN? Or what?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure, email it to fluxblog @ gmail.com

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, sent.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you think?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

How does one play vinyl backwards?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like how the guitar progression sounds backwards! It does sound more cheerful like this.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The best Radiohead song is "New Clothes for the New World".

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a great thread. i'll be playing radiohead all week long. anyhoot, i'll alway be partial to "how to disappear completey" and "idioteque" because of how the music and my memories got tangled up.

― the rock n roll nigga (the rock n roll nigga), Saturday, 12 February 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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