Album Rating: 3.5

I reaaaallly love The Numbers though, it's so nicely orchestrated. I'd say I could do without one of Desert Island Disk, Decks Dark or Present Tense to make it slightly shorter, and then restructure a little.

Burn The Witch is needed to keep the momentum going somewhere after a calmer track, it's misplaced.

Album Rating: 5.0

I always skip Desert Island and Decks

I have a whole re-arrangement of this album that fkn slays (you'll have to believe me for now because I'm not at a place where I can access my playlist)...all I remember is it starts with Glass Eyes which shouldn't work but does miraculously

Once I sub in Ill Wind and Spectre it's gonna be even better

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, the b-sides rule once again. Sounds interesting indeed to start with Glass Eyes.

Album Rating: 3.1

used to have one that started with Ful Stop into Daydreaming, shit slapped

Album Rating: 3.1

also the love for the Numbers has always utterly baffled me. the strings are nice but I can't even make an argument for anything else in it because it's so utterly forgettable. I can't even remotely remember what it sounds like when I'm listening to it

Album Rating: 4.0

Glass Eyes needs to be longer. Easily my number two here behind Daydreaming (True Love Waits might be the best song here, not sure, but I can rarely bring myself to listen to it)

Album Rating: 3.0

i agree with rowan about the numbers. it is nice enough i suppose but yeah utterly forgetable

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Decks Dark, Desert Island Disk, and The Numbers are wonderful tho.

This has been my playlist for a while now, Glass Eyes is really the only way to begin the album and then there's good momentum afterward to make the first half pretty high energy. The second half is more reflective and depressing for the most part, but I like having Ill Wind as the closer cause ending on Daydreaming->True Love Waits is just soul crushing haha

1. Glass Eyes

2. The Numbers

3. Burn the Witch

4. Identikit

5. Spectre

6. Decks Dark

7. Desert Island Disk

8. Ful Stop

9. Present Tense

10. Harry Patch

11. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief

12. Daydreaming

13. True Love Waits

14. Ill Wind

Album Rating: 5.0

wait dude I'm pretty sure this matches up to my playlist almost precisely haha

take out decks dark and desert island (which I scrap entirely because they're boring) and you just about have it

I'll have to confirm once I get home because the playlist is on my itunes, but I know mine goes Glass Eyes -> Numbers -> Burn the Witch -> Identikit, not sure after that but your list looks eerily similar

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I'm just remembering now that back when you first posted your alternate track listing a year or two ago, I may have used that as a template for my own and changed a couple small things when I added the bonus songs.

Album Rating: 5.0

haha maybe, it's amazing how closely they align

either that or great minds just think alike!



glass eyes is def an amazing opener and I love the way it sorta fades into the numbers...burn the witch is also a much better track 3 than track 1

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Agreed.

Burn the Witch isn't a great opener and Daydreaming following it doesn't work for me at all. I think the biggest flaw of the original alphabetical track order though is how the last four songs, which are all excellent, blend into each other too much and kill the momentum. It took like 6 listens for me to finally be able to identify each one for their individual traits.

Album Rating: 3.0

looks like I'll need to listen to this and previous albums a lot more, felt it was one of Radiohead's weaker albums.

then again I also have The Bends at a 3.5 oof

Album Rating: 5.0

OK here we go:



1. Glass Eyes

2. The Numbers

3. Burn The Witch

4. Identikit

5. Ful Stop

6. Daydreaming

7. Spectre

8. Ill Wind

9. Tinker Tailor Soldier

10. True Love Waits



...perfect.

Album Rating: 5.0

...and if I were to throw Harry Patch on there, I think it's fitting as a closer.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Burn the Witch isn't a great opener and Daydreaming following it doesn't work for me at all."

This so hard. What were they even thinking?!

I'll give that tracklist a go, looks way better already.

If you care about that stuff a better tracklist wouln't have Burn the Witch, it is very out of place.

yeah the alphabetical order for the last four songs absolutely obliterates the individual character of each track. this is actually possibly the worst and least effective official tracklisting of any album i've ever heard and it really damages the overall result.

since the last four are all just one monotonous blob together i've never grown especially fond of any one or the other, they are all just good

identikit is the one huge stand-out for me

and i still think burn the witch is one of the worst radiohead songs ever made

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, the pacing is completely off. It's super harmful for the way I enjoy this.

And Alex, although I agree Burn The Witch feels a bit odd, I think its energy is sooo needed because a lot of tracks here are so slow/brooding/calm. It's this album's Bodysnatchers or The National Anthem to me (of course those are wayyyy better, but still)

Bodysnatchers and The National Anthem feel different but not really out of place (and if there's an out of place track in Kid A, it's Optimistic), Burn the Witch is just too different to the rest of the album. You already have Identikit for something less slow, brooding and calm, or Ful Stop.