Album Rating: 3.5

see i think all of the much better rock music going on in 95 makes me a little embarrassed listening to the bends and a third of okc so thats just a full on to each their own. ill admit though id agree that rh doing electronic doesnt really surpass the bar of other classics of that style in that moment, it just made themselves more interesting by their own bar



but yeah the focus around being atmospheric is kinda what makes them stand out. i think tkol is a better album than most of their discog but its approach is very different in texture and style, checks off different boxes

Album Rating: 3.5

i will say though i hadnt been looking at my rating for this album and there is no way in hell this is a 4.5 lmao

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah I kind of have the opposite view, The Bends and Computer marked them the absolute top of the pile in mainstream alt rock/experimental rock, and the albums were extremely creative at the time with very unique stuff.



Yorke signing over ‘an Aphex Twin type beat’ seemed real clunky.



Obviously by Kid A they were doing some amazing stuff…but then to me the ham-fisted’ness came back in places on Hamnesiac and HTTT. By Rainbows and KOL the electronic elements were more natural and more appropriate again (and mostly better quality arrangements too).



At their worst Radiohead electronic experiments had about a 30% awkwardness factor…where Yorke has now reduced that to about 5% on his recent work.



I’m glad they experimented with electronics but it wasn’t all that smooth imo

Album Rating: 3.5

theres def an inherent messiness to all their experiments, kid a included, and thats for me a feature not a bug. last thing i want when listening to these guys is being bored. tkol and in rainbows def feel like the smoothest integration of everything they worked with, and theyre probably this bands full potential to me these days

Album Rating: 3.5

I guess if never thought about it quite this way but I feel the band reached two complete or final forms effectively on OK Computer and In Rainbows, those releases just seem like the band were extremely comfortable and the work stands up as the perfect realisation of sounds they’d been building towards.

Album Rating: 3.5

definitely can see what you mean about okc as well

Album Rating: 3.0

"the deeper they go into electronic waters is pretty directly proportional to how interested i am in them" (2)

it wasn't always the case and there's a ton of context for how I have arrived at this point, but if we're simply talking about what has remained the most enduring side of their style, then yeah for sure. The Bends (especially) has aged terribly for me

I certainly liked the look of your list the most onion

Album Rating: 3.5

The Bends is just locked in time like London Calling or RATM self titled or whatever - you reach for it as a classic of its time and that’s it.



I’d def say a lot of Radiohead electronic stuff around the early ‘00s has just plain been surpassed and is v dated

Album Rating: 3.5

I find it weird peeps are quite lukewarm around Yorke solo but get very excited at Radiohead electronic B-Sides, I dunno, it’s a quirk to me but to each their own

Album Rating: 3.5

i mean real talk i just never considered myself invested enough in radiohead in general to check the solo stuff, but maybe its worth a shot since going off of this it sounds better than a lot of the main bands stuff



idk if id throw london calling in with those other two either since thats one of the most important albums of all time and even without the context of the moment it still feels as monumental. i see what you mean though, electronic radiohead is by no means the be all end all of electronic

Album Rating: 3.5

Doof's list works for me in parts, if I had to think of my top 10 right now it may look like:



1. Let down

2. There there

3. How to disappear

4. All I need

5. Paranoid Android

6. Everything in its right place

7. Lucky

8. Pyramid song

9. Reckoner

10. Like spinning plates

Album Rating: 3.5

Lucky has never stood out for me too much but that’s a solid list fogza

Album Rating: 3.5

‘i mean real talk i just never considered myself invested enough in radiohead in general to check the solo stuff, but maybe its worth a shot since going off of this it sounds better than a lot of the main bands stuff’



The way I’d describe it is Yorke’s last two full solo albums are more satisfyingly ‘electronic artist’ throughout their entire run lengths and there’s some great shit in there.



Might not have the electronic highlights of Radiohead like Lotus Flower etc but it’s whole albums of stuff as good as say Separator

Album Rating: 3.5

word, will have to dig through. thanks

Album Rating: 3.0

"I find it weird peeps are quite lukewarm around Yorke solo but get very excited at Radiohead electronic B-Sides, I dunno, it’s a quirk to me but to each their own"

idk which "peeps" you are referring to (altho 'present company' itt is helping your cause here, damn it onion!) but Yorke's solo stuff is fantastic, ANIMA and The Eraser are both go-to staples at least sitting comfortable alongside, if not usurping much of RH's discog

Wow this got a lot of posts. I don't know where to begin. Also I wasn't thinking of ranking closers here. I just thought huh this album seemed good with just a few duds.