Radiohead on the Modern Rock Charts

Let Down all the way for me

at last, a chance to poll some Radiohead songs

Another Radiohead thread!

*throws confetti*

**votes for Creep**

In new and surprising ways

There, There, Optimistic or Lotus Flower.

paranoid android was never a single? used to hear pretty often on the radio

Let Down all the way for me

voted there, there over let down. didn't realize fake plastic trees had done that well! for some reason i thought high and dry was the big altradio hit. had also forgotten that 'bodysnatchers' got the radio push and did pretty well (had kinda forgotten 'bodysnatchers' period tbh).

The Paranoid Android video definitely got play on MTV, and it was a single in Europe. Don't remember hearing it on altradio (at least in California).

Would never in a million years have named Bodysnatchers as their biggest hit after Creep.

^^ me too

The student run alt rock station in Champaign played "Paranoid Android" all the time for about a month, but then would only trot it out for special countdowns or whatever.

Are there going to be many more Radiohead polls? An artist poll is due to run in a few weeks time and I'm wondering if it'll be worth it.

also voted there there over let down

if possible i would have voted for the coda of karma police, though.

Voted for "There There" just to imagine the unfettered joy on Ed O'Brien's face when he realized he could play chords.

Why is Paranoid Android not in here? It was one of their biggest radio hits here in Mexico.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Paranoid_Android_CD1.jpg

It was definitely a single.

I think this is a poll of their placements on Billboard's Modern Rock Chart?

Oh ok, I was just looking at the charts and realized it never got released on the US as a single. That's odd though considering it was their highest single in the UK charts up to that point (at #3, creep didn't get higher than #7)

let down was not a single, iirc, it got played a lot right before/right when okc dropped.

Yeah let down doesn't appear as a single.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead_discography#Singles

optimistic is literally the only decent radiohead song

radiohead sux

Just realized it was nine months between let down and the end-of-year / Grammy hype / critical okc resurgence that led to karma police the next march

Six months, rather

They were also touring the US at the time.

(I did not actually vote for Creep)

((Of these songs, probably There There or Let Down or maybe Fake Pla-aaastic Trees but it's mystifying what songs are on this list, TBH))

let down

my local alt-rock station played "Just" WAY more than the national average at the time, for a while i could expect to hear it every morning, really really great radio song. still maybe my fav Radiohead song period, which they had a bunch of songs that sounded like that.

Voted for "There There" just to imagine the unfettered joy on Ed O'Brien's face when he realized he could play chords.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 28, 2014 6:24 PM

But Ed O'Brien plays drums on There There?

Oh sod it, HTTT is my favourite RH album so I'm voting for that one. Also, the video is absolutely amazing. Anything where Thom Yorke gets turned into a tree gets my vote.

No, wait, I'm not.

Did you ever have the experience of listening to music by an artist you are normally ~obsessed with~ while not in the grip of that particular obsession and find yourself astonished to discover that a particular track is... y'know, only *music*? And not a magical key to a gateway to a sublime experience of dizzying emotional heights? And it's kind of shocking, because you're expecting *that* experience, and it's just guitars and drums and someone singing over the top?

Just a reminder, shocking though it is, that the emotional transcendence of a track lies between one's own ears and expectations, rather than being encoded in the actual musical notes. I don't know why this shocks me, but it always does.

There There is my choice for best song here but I gotta give it up for Just as the song (& video! ) that first made me a fan

The just video! I paused and slo-mo'd it, couldn't figure out what he said at the end

just remembered NV spoiling his ballot paper by scrawling FAUST ARP across it which i think is my all-time fav ilx thing. still makes me feel profoundly happy to think about

Voted Let Down but could have easily chosen There There or Just

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Gravity always wins. Mostly because I'm just perplexed by their later life singles choices.

No "Anyone Can Play Guitar"?

I vaguely remember Vegetable getting airplay circa 1993

voted There There because I didn't notice Let Down somehow

HTTT is severely underrated so I don't mind so much

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

People like Let Down? Always a low point on OKC for me. The Easy Star All stars version is miles better

Was it even a single ?

CD singles were released to radio stations for airplay in America but I don't think a full commercial release ever happened

It was going to be a single, but they hated the video so much they decided to cancel it. The original plan was to make a video for every song on OK Computer. That would've been AWESOME.

Let Down is always the one that sticks in my head, but then again, I've spent a lot of my life in airports.

apparent from the HttT singles, which I managed to miss completely (still never heard the album, still don't care), this list encompasses a lot of my favorite RH... maybe I'll feel differently in another ten years, but right now, I have much more patience for them as a "modern radio rock" band than a "conceptual art-rock album" band

(... challops, I know; but I've just heard OKC & Kid A SO MANY TIMES, y'know?)

* "apparent" = "apart"

okay I just downloaded previously-unheard "There There" & inexplicably-missing-from-my-itunes "Creep", and made a playlist of the top 10; will report back with findings

"let down" is melodramatic and dismissable in some moods but in others it's the ideal pink floyd/smiths synthesis that attracted me to radiohead in the first place. hysterical and useless!

yeah, it's easily one of their most accessible songs post-The Bends; I don't think they did anything else that straightforward until "House of Cards" (NB I love both songs, and will probably still be rocking The Bends when I die)

The "one day I am gonna grow wings" coda of let down gets me every time. Really picks you up when you're feeling down (and not many radiohead sons can say that)

"let down" would be a great contemp-country ballad

No bcuz the chorus is a dead skunk

So... the only song in here that wasn't actually a single won the poll.

K, I just double checked and it seems it did actually chart. Wikipedia isn't listing it as a single so it charted but it seems like it wasn't actually released?

http://www.billboard.com/artist/277326/radiohead/chart?f=377

this has been covered in-thread, apparently the single shipped to radio stations but was never commercially released

The numbers after the song titles are chart positions on the modern rock tracks chart

People outside the US getting confused about how US radio charts work.

okay so far the major revelation of this poll is just how awesome the "Fake Plastic Trees"-->"Just" sequence is—shoulda dropped the two (weak) songs that separate them on the album!

I love nice dream, could do without bones.