Album Rating: 4.0

There There, Sail to the Moon and Where I End and You Begin are my favs here

Album Rating: 4.0

wolf at the door is so good, I love singing along to it--I think its literal-ness is a little less lame than a lot of other radiohead songs' lyrics

Always been my fave Radiohead song actually

Album Rating: 4.5

Forever underrated [3]

Album Rating: 3.5

it's probably their best closer

Album Rating: 3.5

True Love Waits is my fav Radiohead closer

Wolf At The Door is still a very good song tho

Album Rating: 3.5

I think Life In a Glasshouse is my favourite but this and True Loves Waits are certainly contenders.

If it was 3 o’clock in the morning and someone suggested standing up at a ‘waffle house’ I’d be doing the sitting.
Fucking waffles. Absolute nonsense.

Album Rating: 4.0

Waffle House, maybe the most ubiquitous roadside restaurant in the south (there are 27 of them along the Tennessee stretch of I40), is only slightly larger than its sign. It is a model of efficiency, eschewing serifs, paper menus and advertising. Open 24 hours, and on Christmas (as we discovered) it has a logo that could only have been ‘designed’ by a signmaker (this is the old school way to design) and has never changed. Each capital letter is housed in a separate square yellow box (a waffle?) making it easy to manufacture (each letter is the same unit) and indelibly generic. Even though WAFFLE and HOUSE have different letter counts they sometimes stack equally, sometimes in a ‘brick’ pattern, sometimes flush left, etc. No two signs are alike, but they all seem exactly alike; the holy grail of Corporate Identity. In fact, every single restaurant looks like it was built in 1955 (when the chain started) and has never been changed. How can you change a restaurant that never closes? The impression is that they have been open continuously since 1955.



A Waffle House interior is a medley of tile and Formica. The sheer number of different Formica wood patterns used is impressive, and the commitment to the material is unabashed. There is a great two tone (wood) detail in the counter that gives a very clear boundary to each counter diner; sort of a wooden placemat.

Album Rating: 4.0

In spite of the name, Waffle House is not just waffles [The number one Waffle House item sold is coffee. Waffles are number three, right after hashbrowns]. Waffles are a small part of the Unique American Phenomenon™, Good Food Fast® offering. I could eat every meal at Waffle House, but then I would die an early and wheezing death. [“If you stack all of the Jimmy Dean sausage patties Waffle House sells in one day, the stack would be as tall as the Empire State Building.”] The food preparation is done entirely in front of you on a cooking line that is deceptively simply, but obviously honed for production. Waitresses ‘call out’ (“can I call out now?”) orders in rotation, allowing the line to complete one waitress's order at a time. The calling out is loud, without inflection, and if you add some bongos, sounds like Beat Poetry.



This method can slow things down, but eliminates confusion as well as the ‘pickup’ counter normally taking up space in most restaurants. In their ‘down time’ waitresses wash the dishes at a machine under the eating counter. They never need to leave your sight.



For a place called Waffle House the number of waffles sold is not all that impressive; just over 418 million. I think there are McDonalds locations that have sold that many hamburgers. But at McDonalds no one bothers to say hello as soon as you walk in the door. This is a credo at Waffle House, as is the owner-operated franchise. ‘Operated’ means the owner is in the store, and failure to live up to that commitment is grounds for franchise default. At McDonalds you are at a food factory, but if you squint WH looks (and sounds, with its famous juke box) like your local diner. This simple distinction is the difference between a restaurant and a franchise that happens to sell food instead of shoes or insurance.

I feel like 2.5 is low for this album. Someone will tell me that the 'Gloaming' is a good song now heh this album really has some great songs. Tracks 1.2.4.6.9.11.12.14. I think they are excellent. There There is one of the best ever!

Album Rating: 4.0

talk yo shit

Album Rating: 2.5

Radiohead closers



1. Street Spirit

2. Tourist

3. Motion Picture Soundtrack

4. Videotape

5. Blow Out

6. True Love Waits

7. A Wolf at the Door

8. Separator

9. Life in a Glasshouse

Album Rating: 4.0

separator is their best closer along with videotape

Album Rating: 2.5

To be fair I have ranked it a tad too low but I stand by it

Album Rating: 2.5

This album can get to fuck mind

Album Rating: 3.5

Blow out is ok but no way it's the fifth best closer. I don't think true love waits is even a good song, never mind better than glasshouse

Album Rating: 2.5

Has the emotional pull

Life in a Glasshouse last is a travesty, that is literally one of their best songs full stop.

Album Rating: 3.0

Glasshouse for #1

True Love Waits last (2)