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The best Radiohead album is In Rainbows...wait no, OK Computer...wait no, it's...
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What would you cut/add?
personally I'd get rid of Revolving Doors, Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Hunting Bears (a nice instrumental but kinda slows the album's pace down), and Like Spinning Plates (or at least replace it with the piano version they play live).
Amazing Sounds of Orgy, Cuttooth, and maybe Worrywort and Fog should be on the album; the first two at least for sure.
Thornton Reed
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Spinning plates??? Are you mad
Kid A, easily. It's an emotional journey that never gets old, one of the only albums that makes me feel tired after listening to it.
1. Kid A
2. In Rainbows
3. OK Computer
4. Amnesiac
5. King of Limbs
6. The Bends
7. Pablo Honey
If you'd told me back in 1997 that Radiohead would ever make a better album than OK Computer I wouldn't have believed you. In fact, I might have punched you for even suggesting OKC could be topped.
Also made an album of their best b-sides back in about 2002. Stands up against a lot of their best stuff, to be honest. Fog is one of my favourites.
Yeah, Revolving Doors is just a failed experiment. Can't agree on Morning Bell/A at all, nor Hunting Bears. Like Spinning Plates is interesting - I like it but having listened to the incredible live version has kind of ruined it forever for me. Any of the B-Sides you've listed are incredible, though. Cuttooth maybe just a little flat or long, but still good.
1. Kid A
2. In Rainbows
3. OK Computer
4. Amnesiac
5. King of Limbs
6. The Bends
7. Pablo Honey
If you'd told me back in 1997 that Radiohead would ever make a better album than OK Computer I wouldn't have believed you. In fact, I might have punched you for even suggesting OKC could be topped.
Also made an album of their best b-sides back in about 2002. Stands up against a lot of their best stuff, to be honest. Fog is one of my favourites.
Yeah, Revolving Doors is just a failed experiment. Can't agree on Morning Bell/A at all, nor Hunting Bears. Like Spinning Plates is interesting - I like it but having listened to the incredible live version has kind of ruined it forever for me. Any of the B-Sides you've listed are incredible, though. Cuttooth maybe just a little flat or long, but still good.
Thornton Reed
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I would have loved them to do a whole album with the brass and woodwind section they use on national anthem and life in a glass house, I think that could be amazing
I can't decide, they are all so different. Even Pablo Honey has their songs, namely "Thinking about you" "Vegetable" and "Anyone can play guitar", it's far more poppy and in line with other rocks bands of their time though, compared to their later work.
Do I really have to choose?
Do I really have to choose?
My friends and I said that about 24 hours after Amenesiac released. (Man, remember the days of running to the record store on release day?!? By the time Hail to the Thief arrived they were over.) I think everyone had that idea, and we've all being hoping for it ever since.
Thornton Reed
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The music on spinning plates is genius. It gives this sense of motion which perfect for the song. Love that track one of the highlights on the album for me
I'd probably rank them as The Bends >>>> OK Computer > In Rainbows >>> Amnesiac > Hail to the Thief > Kid A >> King of Limbs > Pablo Honey
The Bends is just so fucking well crafted and well done. The perfection of that sort of sound with that album is part of why I forgive them a bit for their immaturity in songwriting that followed. That's really part of my Problem with Kid A and parts of Amnesiac/HttT. They had this immaturity that they wouldn't accept things that sounded catchy. I read a few interviews with them grappling with that feeling while writing HttT and finally kind of getting over it in those sessions.
Personally Radiohead are at their best when they combine their superb songwriting skills with a dash of experimentalism. They're good songwriters, and I like when they accept that and go with it.
The Bends is just so fucking well crafted and well done. The perfection of that sort of sound with that album is part of why I forgive them a bit for their immaturity in songwriting that followed. That's really part of my Problem with Kid A and parts of Amnesiac/HttT. They had this immaturity that they wouldn't accept things that sounded catchy. I read a few interviews with them grappling with that feeling while writing HttT and finally kind of getting over it in those sessions.
Personally Radiohead are at their best when they combine their superb songwriting skills with a dash of experimentalism. They're good songwriters, and I like when they accept that and go with it.
Mango Positive
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I hate that so many of you dislike Pablo Honey. It was my favorite album of theirs for years. Until The Bends came out. Still, listen to You, Lurgee, Blowout, Anyone Can Play Guitar and tell me they're bad songs. It was their foot in the door album, but without it and Creep's success, they'd have never written the songs on OK Computer.
I love the evolution they've shown. For the OK Computer tour, they played in a small 2,000 person capacity club in Atlanta. The next time they came to Atlanta, the amphitheater sold out in 2 minutes.
My favorite albums are The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows, depending on my mood, but I absolutely love all of them.
I love the evolution they've shown. For the OK Computer tour, they played in a small 2,000 person capacity club in Atlanta. The next time they came to Atlanta, the amphitheater sold out in 2 minutes.
My favorite albums are The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows, depending on my mood, but I absolutely love all of them.
Acquiescence
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It's OK Computer, okay? Good, glad we settled on that.
I can't even choose.. I'll go with OK Computer being their best, although this answer would change depending on the day you ask me.
OK Computer
Kid A
in Rainbows
Amnesiac
King of Limbs
Hail to the Thief
The Bends
Pablo Honey
That's my order I guess. They are all amazing except for Pablo Honey but that gets a pass. And I still love it
OK Computer
Kid A
in Rainbows
Amnesiac
King of Limbs
Hail to the Thief
The Bends
Pablo Honey
That's my order I guess. They are all amazing except for Pablo Honey but that gets a pass. And I still love it
Empyrean Heaven
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I like Kid A a lot since it's open to interpretation. I almost like to think of it as a rock opera where a man is conscripted by a rebellion to stop the cloning companies.
Doors and Plates are both awesome. Morning Bell and Hunting Bears are both bad though, get rid of those and add Orgy and Transatlantic maybe.
You should just listen to Jonny's soundtrack albums then
If they went that route, Jonny would be the only one who could write and conduct the music, so it'd essentially be a solo Jonny record anyway.
Thornton Reed
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You should just listen to Jonny's soundtrack albums then
If they went that route, Jonny would be the only one who could write and conduct the music, so it'd essentially be a solo Jonny record anyway.
I'll be fine with that. It will keep Thom off the electronics
The work johnny did on the master and there will be blood is outstanding
OricWindstar
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All their In Basement stuff is amazing. Just wish they had done Jigsaw Falling Into Place!
I risked missing one of my GCSE English exams because I raced into town and back between exams in order to get the Limited Edition of Hail To The Thief.
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