Your Favorite Radiohead Songs! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

mellotronwave wrote:

1.I Might Be Wrong

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Some people don't like lists at all. I do. Personal lists. I'm always interested in what someone places at first, and so on. I will listen to I Might Be Wrong and know it's your favorite. And maybe I'll listen a little differently.

-Great selection all around, but that goes without saying.

richardh wrote:

I don't listen to Radiohead enough!

What I can say is that the more I listen, the more I discover just how many layers of complexity, details and investment in compostition, parts, moods, changes etc - that lies hidden in less obvious ways than in your "classic prog". I'm in awe. I could hear that they were somewhat different from either Bends or OK Computer but I didn't really take notice at first. It was a more of a purely emotional response. I can't think of any bands within some sort of mainstream in the last couple of decades that has kept their art so pure (without slipping into total obscurity).

Btw, interesting that you've got two of their most "left field" songs Kid A and Idioteque in your selection of wonderful, but more conventional "hits". I love them both, but here's like 50 songs I would have guessed you'd pick over those two:)

-I'm also sure I would have enjoyed Creep a lot more if it was just one of their old songs, and not both played and covered to death. It's probably great at what it is.

1.I Might Be Wrong
and the next ad libitum
How to Disappear Completely
Kharma Police
Pyramid Song
Everything In Its Right Place
Lotus Flower
Knives out
Idioteque
Like Spinning Plates
Exit Music (For a Film)
Morning Bell
Kid A
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I literally sat watching paint dry. So I started working on a list of my most treasured Radiohead songs. And found it difficult to stop. I suppose Radiohead in many ways is "the band of my life". They've always been there. I actually bought Pablo Honey in my late teens. I only thought it was ok, but after that my love and admitation for them has only kept growing. Sixty amazing songs! Every song is an adventure. Beauty and excitment.

So post your 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 (like I needed) favorites!

1 How to Disappear Completely
2 Pyramid Song
3 All I Need
4 Motion Picture Soundtrack
5 The National Anthem
6 There There
7 Everything In Its Right Place
8 The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy
9 Burn the Witch
10 Life in a Glasshouse

11 Lotus Flower
12 Street Spirit (Fade Out)
13 Idioteque
14 Daydreaming
15 Videotape
16 I Might Be Wrong
17 Dollars and Cents
18 Like Spinning Plates
19 Exit Music (For a Film)
20 Morning Bell

21 Kinetic
22 In Limbo
23 Paranoid Android
24 Kid A
25 The Gloaming
26 Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief
27 No Surprises
28 Optimistic
29 Sit Down. Stand Up
30 You and Whose Army?

31 Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box

32 2+2=5
33 Codex
34 Reckoner
35 Knives out
36 Harry Patch (In Memory of)
37 House Of Cards
38 Spectre
39 Let Down
40 Ful Stop

41 Sail To The Moon

42 Down is the New Up
43 The Tourist
44 Myxomatosis
45 Subterranean Homesick Alien
46 If You Say the Word
47 Airbag
48 Numbers
49 Treefingers
50 A Wolf at the Door

51 Fake Plastic Trees

52 Jigsaw Falling Into Place
53 Where I End and You Begin
54 Climbing Up the Walls
55 Nude
56 4 Minute Warning
57 Glass Eyes
58 We Suck Young Blood
59 Fog
60 Identikit & I Will

(Edit: made space for Optimistic that I forgot)

Edited by Saperlipopette! - May 05 2023 at 03:57