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zakalwe
February 25th 2025


41996 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

It’s all parp and no bite

zakalwe
February 25th 2025


41996 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

1. How to Disappear Completely

2. Bones

3. Reckoner

4. Codex

5. Spectre

6. Lucky

7. Paranoid Android

8. The Bends

9. House of Cards

10. Present Tense



tectactoe
February 25th 2025


9228 Comments


Surely that is not your list of ten best Radiohead songs.

Demon of the Fall
February 25th 2025


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm afraid, hold me

zakalwe
February 25th 2025


41996 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Slags

tectactoe
February 25th 2025


9228 Comments


1. Motion Picture Soundtrack
2. Exit Music (For a Film)
3. Reckoner
4. Life in a Glasshouse
5. Let Down
6. Ful Stop
7. Videotape
8. Pyramid Song
9. The National Anthem
10. Paranoid Android

zakalwe
February 25th 2025


41996 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

S’alright that

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

These days I’d probably go:



1. Let Down

2. How to Disappear

3. Paranoid Android

4. Exit Music

5. Nude

6. Idioteque

7. Talk Show Host

8. 2 + 2 = 5

9. Fake Plastic Trees

10. Cuttooth

onionbubs
February 25th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

1. separator

2. idioteque

3. videotape

4. worrywort

5. let down

6. glasshouse

7. climbing

8. fog

9. kid a

10. sardines



purely off the top of my head

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I used to think 2+ 2 =5 was too on the nose, too 1984 paranoid…but honestly I do feel I was asleep to a lot of things when I look back at what I believed back in 2003 when the song came out.



I simply wasn’t paying attention, I have to say the song hits like a tonne of bricks now.

tectactoe
February 25th 2025


9228 Comments


Not sure Cuttooth would crack my Top 50 even but I do love seeing a relatively forgotten B side high up on someone else's list.

onionbubs
February 25th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

cuttooth rules

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I love the oh so English vibe of Cuttooth, it is the epitome of that Radiohead Oxford politeness, love a more uptempo piano with Thom too, it sort of goes nowhere in a krautrock’ish stylee in the most artful way.



It’s better than anything on Amnesiac for me and sort of shows the priorities of the band at the time. It quite simply rules.

tectactoe
February 25th 2025


9228 Comments


It does. But as far as AMNESIAC B sides go, I'd probably place 'Amazing Sounds of Orgy', 'Fog', and 'Worrywort' above it, personally.

onionbubs
February 25th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah worrywort is incredible, one of my favorite b sides by a major band

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I mean 5 star classic songs run to about 40 for Radiohead so I’m not saying there aren’t a load of close contenders to feature in my top 10 but over the last five years they’re the ones I most reach for.

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I’m not a huge fan of the other Amnesiac B-Sides - sound like forays into more electronic waters, one foot in one foot out. They’re ok.

onionbubs
February 25th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

my preference for them is def contextualized by where i think they shine. the deeper they go into electronic waters is pretty directly proportional to how interested i am in them. just do not care about this band as much when they pick up the guitars. band like this has spanned enough ground that either is fair

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I dunno, I just think Radiohead on the best of King of Limbs and esp the best of Yorke solo destroys those tracks, though I get they’re more atmospheric efforts.



IDM and Instrumental Hip Hop/Trip Hop were so huge at the time I found some Radiohead electronic stuff a bit try hard and maybe even faintly embarrassing at times back then.



Prob more forgiving now.



I think a typical rock format (which is there on 90% of their work tbh) has served them best. Yorke’s solo stuff has actually been better at more ambient/abstract/beat driven material than Radiohead for me.

DoofDoof
February 25th 2025


17351 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yorke has certainly released 20-30 tracks I’d rate higher than ‘worrywort’ or ‘orgy’ for example, not even a debate



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