The Radiohead Albums Poll

Best Radiohead Album

Best Radiohead Album?
Best Radiohead Album

shame....dont think we've had an In Rainbows poll yet, maybe do that instead?

Never heard of these guys. Are they a Talking Heads tribute act or something?

Still "OK Computer".

Geir OTM

And yet on the past two polls Kid A has been ahead with the double of votes.

Because this is ILM. Ask the Q or Mojo readers (that is, people with good taste in music), and the only serious contender possibly preventing "OK Computer" from winning would be "The Bends". :)

My my... I just realized I made a comment on one of those threads and I completely forgot about it to the point of repeating the same thread, even more that one is not even 6 months old.

My most sincere apologies.

Q or Mojo readers (that is, people with good taste in music)

ha

Geir, out of curiosity, do you ever change your mind on whether you like a piece of music or how much you like one? And if so, how does this work with your theory of objective-goodness of music?

"OK Computer" influenced Travis, Coldplay, Muse and Keane, and thus gave the world a lot of marvellous music.
― Geir Hongro, viernes 2 de marzo de 2007 12:1

Probably you hitted there the subconcious reason why I cannot rank this one above Kid A or even In Rainbows.

oh, geirpaws

If there was no huge critical consensus around the holy trilogy of The Bends/OK Computer/Kid A and all the voters' sunny optimistic sheeplike behavior was dissolved, the winner would be Hail to the Thief -- truly the best Radiohead album.

BAAAAA YAYWOO

For me the holy trilogy would be Ok Computer/Kid A/In Rainbows. If Mr. Yorke werent so contrived about his own work, In Rainbows could have been the natural and smooth transition after Kid A. Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief sounded imho knackered - there were some great tracks on both albums, but there is also some of the most pretentious fodder they've ever recorded.

Ok Computer/Kid A/In Rainbows are very tight and concise albums. I think they're perfect, wouldn't add or remove any song from them. Albums like The Bends, Amnesiac, the Eraser and HTTT sound more like transitions to me, while I'm not completely in love with them, the perfection achieved on those three albums wouldn't be possible if it werent for this 'transitions'.

It took me about five years to realize that the correct answer is Kid A

This is the correct order:
In Rainbows
Kid A
The Bends
OK Computer
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief

I haven't heard Pablo Honey in its entirety. Am I correct in assuming it's the least good? I love much of Hail, even, it's just uneven.

I'd swap The Bends and OK Computer. Other than that, OTM.

I'd like them a whole lot more if it wasn't for that annoying slurring way Thom Yorke sings, like he was a miserable 14 year old or something.

I guess it's OK Computer, but I go with In Rainbows

I still don't understand how anyone can listen to the entirety of In Rainbows in one sitting; basically it took songs from it popping up in Genius playlists for me to realize that, in isolation, I like a lot of the music on it, but putting it all together is akin to musical Kryptonite for me.

^^^ youve said this before somewhere and I still dont get it. although it took me a while to get into it. i cant decide between in rainbows and kid a. but HTTF is by far the worst

This is the correct order:
In Rainbows
Kid A
The Bends
OK Computer
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief

^yep

Hail To The Thief is massively underrated.

(I say this because it has a bunch of really great songs on it, is sequenced masterfully and basically is the only Radiohead album I listen to these days.)

Yes. I don't understand why Hail To The Thief gets slagged on.

because it has a terrible title

I will take a stupid title over an oppressive melange of songs that sound so similarly eponymous that I still don't know their names.

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hold up

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

Never listened to Pablo Honey

1 Amnesiac
2 Hail to the Thief
3 the rest

Dan otm. It's a great collection of songs, but as an album it's a great collection of songs.

Geir, out of curiosity, do you ever change your mind on whether you like a piece of music or how much you like one?

Once the tune gets into my head, I may like some stuff better than the first time I listen to it. That would be the 3rd or 4th listen at most, or maybe a bit more with complex prog suites.

But what I liked 20 years ago, I will always like just as much today as I did then.

interesting (wasn't trying to troll you, really)

(also how is this thread still unlocked?)

The correct order:
OK Computer
The Bends
Hail To The Thief
In Rainbows
Amnesiac
Pablo Honey
Kid A

Hail To The Thief - OK Computer - Kid A
The Bends
Amnesiac
In Rainbows
the wailing laments of starving children
the mushy crackling sound made by a steamroller rolling over a puppy
Pablo Honey

My intuition says, right now:

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

thx for the poll mO_oka

OK Computer just nudges out In Rainbows imo.

Leif.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/images/2006/10/19/dmu_head_in_hands_315x420.jpg

Z S.

OK Computer and In Rainbows are tied in my list.

But they're tied for fourth.

/^:

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

^that's more like it (though I've been reconsidering the Bends a little bit...I mean the secons side starts with just, and then goes on to my iron lung and then follows through with bulletproof...that's a helluva one-two punch + bonghit...)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

iSouljaboytellem

YAAAHH TRICK YAAAHHH

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That's sick is that, Tony.

Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
The Bends
OK computer - In Rainbows
(never heard Pablo Honey)

HttT
Amnesiac
Kid A
OK Computer
In Rainbows
Bends

finally a poll that radiohead can manage to win

lol

shocking results

...not really. Although I guess In Rainbows could have gained a higher slots.

Leif.

what up leif

hi?

oh man totally cosign Jordan, totally

lool leif

cannot believe so many people voted in this goddamn poll.

Leif is in the house.

Just listened to The Bends for the first time in years, and I think it's one of the few albums that makes a compelling case for having more than one guitarist in a band (see also: Moby Grape, Television)

What about Siamese Dream?

But didn't Corgan play all the guitar on that one?

waaaaaht @ this revive

Kid A
In Rainbows
OK Computer
Amnesiac
The Bends
HTTT
Pablo Honey

i think iron maiden closed that case

Thin Lizzy, Slayer, Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Stones, ad infinitum. What the fuck????

Bends is a pretty badass guitar album...

I agree: I think its great. But that guy's post above was bizarre