When they strike gold it's amazing - Like Spinning Plates, Let Down, Street Spirit, but I do find them over rated. I'd say I like about 18 to 20 Radiohead songs. In Rainbows does nothing for me. They are very hit and miss.

 

What about you?

 

 

I get the overrated thing about Radiohead, although I like them. I like all their albums, but Pablo Honey probably the least. I guess I haven't listened to it enough to be really familiar with it. I really like In Rainbows, especially Faust Arp, Reckoner, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, House of Cards and Videotape. I love the album The Bends as well. There's something really interesting and exciting about Kid A as well. Yeah, I don't know what else to say. I like Radiohead.

I'm the complete opposite in the case of 'In Rainbows'. I think it's an amazing album, definitely one of my favourite albums of the last five years.

It's the album that really got me into them as a band (I was aware of them before but had never really been a fan).

 

As for their other material, after hearing (and loving) 'In Rainbows' I downloaded 'OK Computer' as this was the album of theirs I'd heard the most about. I like it, but to be honest I still don't see why it's meant to be such a classic... 'In Rainbows' is far superior imo. Obviously I love some of the songs on 'OK Computer' (such as 'No Surprises', 'Karma Police', 'Lucky') but altogether I feel there's something missing.

 

I still haven't explored their whole discography (although I intend to at some point!) but from what I have heard ('In Rainbows', 'OK Computer', 'Kid A', 'The Best Of') I really like at least 3/4 of it.

 

I loved OK Computer when it came out but haven't listened to it for a long time. I still get a buzz whe I hear 'Anyone Can Play Guitar'. Sick to death of 'Creep' even though it was one of my favourite ever songs when it came out. Can't really get into anything from 'Kid A' onwards and, yeah, I still like most of 'The Bends'.

 

'Pop is Dead' is still bloody awful though.

I'm the complete opposite in the case of 'In Rainbows'. I think it's an amazing album, definitely one of my favourite albums of the last five years.

 

Completely agree :wub:

 

 

I have seen them live twice and they are absolutely brilliant. A couple of my friends who aren't too fond of them were blown away by their performance at Leeds last year.

 

The thing that makes Radiohead appealing is how experimental each album is. Thom Yorke's solo album is well worth a listen as well if anyone hasn't heard it

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My favourites would be

 

Like Spinning Plates

Street Spirit

Pyramid Song

Lucky

Let Down

Motion Picture Soundtrack

Backdrifts

Climbing Up the Walls

Exit Music

Talk Show Host

Fake Plastic Trees

 

 

I also think they're over-rated. The Bends is probably the only album of theirs I could still sit down and listen to, OK Computer is far too lauded and worshipped although at it's best (Paranoid Android) it is bloody brilliant. I haven't really been terribly interested in much they've done since Kid A, although Pyramid Song was good. They kind of lean towards art-w*n**ry a bit too much for my liking.

Not over-rated at all. I like every album they have released after (and including) The Bends.

 

Kid A is my second favourite album of all time and I consider it to be a towering achievement of rock music.

 

I will have to get around to doing a Radiohead top 10 tracks but it would be awfully difficult.

I like Kid A and it's well made but it doesn't click with me. I prefer Amnesiac. The Bends I think is good but they were still making songs that sound like other bands and I think it's derivative and can't listen to songs like Just, My Iron Lung and High and Dry.

LUV DEM

 

karma police, idioteque, backdrifts, how to disappear completely, high and dry, a punchup at a wedding, jigsaw falling into place mmm mm mm

 

though i'm the opposite of a lot of magazines; i think they've easily released some of the greatest singles of all time but none of their albums would be top 10 in any decade list for me.

Amnesiac clicked me so late...Last year I think. I had adored Kid A since the release and maybe that's why it took time for me to get into Amnesiac.. Since then they have gone downhill although In Rainbows is quite good

 

But OK Computer...A masterpiece...I adore every single song (except Fitter, Happier)

I like the following songs:

 

Creep

Just

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Fake Plastic Trees

Paranoid Android

Karma Police

Subterranean Homesick Alien

Knives Out

All I Need

 

Maybe if I give them more of a chance I could get into more...

Pyramid Song :wub:

In order, I love the following:

 

Planet Telex

The Bends

High And Dry

Fake Plastic Trees :wub:

Just :wub:

Street Spirit (Fade Out) :wub:

Bishop's Robes

Talk Show Host :wub:

Paranoid Android :wub:

Exit Music (For A Film)

Let Down

Karma Police :wub:

Climbing Up The Walls

No Surprises :wub:

The Tourist

Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)

Pearly*

Everything In It's Right Place

Kid A :wub:

The National Anthem

How To Disappear Completely :wub:

Optimistic

In Limbo

Idioteque :wub:

Morning Bell

Motion Picture Soundtrack

Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box

Pyramid Song :wub:

You And Whose Army?

I Might Be Wrong

Knives Out

Like Spinning Plates

2+2=5

Sit Down. Stand Up.

Sail To The Moon

Backdrifts :wub:

Go To Sleep

Where I End And You Begin

The Gloaming

There There

Myxamatosis

Scatterbrain

A Wolf At The Door

15 Step

Bodysnatchers

Nude

All I Need :wub:

Faust Arp

Reckoner

Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Videotape

 

So yeah, amazing band.

I also think they're over-rated. The Bends is probably the only album of theirs I could still sit down and listen to, OK Computer is far too lauded and worshipped although at it's best (Paranoid Android) it is bloody brilliant. I haven't really been terribly interested in much they've done since Kid A, although Pyramid Song was good. They kind of lean towards art-w*n**ry a bit too much for my liking.

 

I echo that completely, "The Bends" is a masterful piece of rock music (and without it there'd be no Muse) but "OK Computer" was, from what I've heard of it, just one of those critically acclaimed albums that sold really well, nothing life-changing. They took that as an excuse to indulge in some really experimental stuff and full credit to them but "Kid A" and the like really aren't for me and I hate it when people revere everything they do now just because they're Radiohead. The attitude (the whole "In Rainbows" shenanigans especially) really gets on my nerves but then again there's bands that I love (Oasis being the obvious one) whose attitude other people can't stand.

Well I personally prefer OK Computer because it has a handful of great songs - more than any of their other albums. I really dont like Airbag, Subterranean Homesick Alien or The Tourist and only tolerate No Surprises.

I do not agree with the opinions that say that Kid A onwards was an excuse to be self indulgent. Radiohead undoubtedly progressed from Pablo Honey through The Bends to OK Computer. Kid A was merely the next stage in their progression. It happens to be my favourite stage of their career but it's really nothing more than a logical next step for them, it does end there though as I don't think their music has progressed much further since 2000.

Can't stand High and Dry....

really like their earlier stuff and their later stuff. "creep" is a great song and "in rainbows" a great album. can't say i agree with pitchfork and rolling stone that "kid a" is the best album of the decade. it just doesn't do it for me, a little overrated

Kid A was the perfect follow up to OK Computer...The best band in the world challenged themselves and created something new. That's why it's so acclaimed.