well paranoid android i think may be the greatest song ever written, but there is something so beautifully sullen about how to disappear completely.

2+2=5 or Like Spinning Plates (Live) are my favorite RH songs

Come on, ‘Lucky’?, seriously? What about ’subterranean Homesick Alien’? Or ‘Let Down’? Hmmmm? And lets not forget ‘The Tourist’? Johnny’s only penned tune from Ok Computer. Falling melodies of absolute radness! Like riding a digital water slide of endorphins.

Black Star. there is no reason to argue.

You and Whose Army gives me chills. Then again…Nice Dream and A Punch-up At A Wedding are amazing songs as well

morning bell for me

As of late, tom, I’d agree with you: It’s gotta be “Black Star.” But probably my all-time favorite would be “High and Dry.”

01. “Exit Music (for a film)”
02. “Sulk”
03. “Paranoid Android”
04. “Optimistic”
&
05. “Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)”

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
PYRAMID SONG

Just
Subterranean Homesick Alien

It is hard to pick a favourite among so many excellent songs, but I think mine might be either Karma Police or Paranoid Android. Lucky and How to Disappear Completely are also very good.

I hope Brian May’s co author on that astronomy book isn’t Paul Rodgers.

Myxomatosis makes me want to crawl under a desk and hope it doesn’t find me.

true love waits you idiots

Thom’s pick was a good one…I probably would’ve gone w/ “let down.”, “everything in its right place”, “idioteque” or something.

Seriously, they have, like, 50 great songs. One for every week of the year. Why choose?

“Talk Show Host”

i like pearly

1. There There
2. Everything in Its Right Place
3. Pyramid Song
4. Knives Out
5. True Love Waits

Street Spirit (Fade Out)…everyone else is wrong. so sorry.

“Sit Down, Stand Up” gives me that OL’ Tyme Feelin

I’d have to go with “Letdown”. Still gives me the chills.

How to Dissapear is the best Radiohead song. There are some ones that come close, but this one takes the cake.

eric r and tom are right on the money with this one. Black Star fools. maybe high and dry. the rest of you should get over yourselves.

thinking about you

You

Gagging Order

a wolf at the door
karma police
you and whose army?
Just
Big Boots

no particular order:

1) like spinning plates (live)
2) Sail to the Moon
3)electioneering
4)how to disappear completely( have to agree with thom on that)
5)You and Who’s Army?

Seriously, what’s with people liking “Black Star”…its the most generic Radiohead song since their first album…it could be Suede or Oasis or Blur, any Britpop band. The same is only slightly less true of “High & Dry”. I mean, if yr gonna reach back to the Bends, then how about “Planet Telex” or “Fake Plastic Trees”, “the Bends” or “Street Spirit”? “Nice Dream”? You guys picked the two lamest songs on that album.

How is it that only a single person mentioned “Idioteque”??? Brilliant composition.

Bones, Karma Police and Idioteque do it for me.

WAYY CARAZY! i just started to listen to How To Disappear Completely, lately again in the past days (blame it on this fall weather i guess)…

Let Down, Karma Police, Green Plastic Trees, Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Tourist

Anyone can play guitar

letdown
fog
like spinning plates (live)
motion picture
a wolf at the door
how to dissapear

…and so on

electioneering, cause it reminds me of on the beach-era neil young. also lucky is just sooooo intense. and backdrifts has that beautiful vocal melody…

Hunting Bears is the ultimate radio head song, it was life changing- it made me rethink what music is. Made me realize that the Beatles are complete rubbish, for all their “experimentalism” they couldn’t leave the realm of pop music. Except revolution #9, which sucked. Don’t get me wrong, they can make decent pop music, but Radiohead is art.

I find it strange that no one’s mentioned my 3:

-Packed Likes Sardines in a Crushed Tin Can (the beat)
-I Might be Wrong (the riff)
-Motion Picture Soundtrack (the noisescape)

State of Ohio’s record is more rockin.

since we’re discussing “beautiful” moments, i have chosen two (2) from each album (besides that first one… what was it called?

fake plastic trees
bulletproof(i wish i was…)

let down
no surprises

kid a
how to disappear completely (right on thom)

pyramid song
you and whose army
(honorable mention to ‘life in a glass house’)

sail to the moon
there, there

agree to disagree folks, these are just opinions, not fascist dogma.

subterranean homesick alien is underrated, i think… but its radiohead, its all freakin good

id have to go with “i might be wrong” as well…

I’m a sucker for OK Computer, give me “Karma Police” and “Let Down”

My 3
1) Let Down

2) Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was

3) Everything In It’s Right Place

Special mention to their cover of “the sexiest song ever written” – Nobody Does It Better

Here are the 5 best Radiohead tunes; pay no attention to the rest of these fools…

1. Paranoid Android
2. Pyramid Song
3. Myxamotosis
4. How to Disappear Completely
5. Kinetic

“Let Down”
“Fake Plastic Trees”

those two songs are just brilliant.

Go to Sleep

Where I end & you begin

Street Spirit / Fade out

The layered guitars in Let Down does it for me.

The Tourist
Bones
No Surprises
How to Disappear Completely

Most beautiful Radiohead songs are Fake Plastic Trees and How To Disappear Completely… also among the five best, along with Paranoid Android, Karma Police and Exit Music (For A Film).

In my opinion the essentails are My Iron Lung,Subterranean Homesick Alien,No Surprises,Kid A,Morning Bell,I Might Be Wrong,Pulk Pull Revolving Door,Go To Sleep and Where I End And You Begin to just name a few.

Radiohead’s best song by far is “Talk Show Host” off the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack, amazing.

talk show host

“Pyramid Song”. Word.

Runners up…

“Let Down”
“The Tourist”
“Motion Picture Soundtrack”
“Subterranean Homesick Alien”
“Street Spirit”
“Lucky”
“Like Spinning Plates” (one of the most ominous tunes I’ve ever heard)
“Myxomatosis” (not the most beautiful, but perhaps the most arresting song on “Hail To The Thief”)
melodywise, everything on OK Computer is ridiculous.

not there best, but “I Cant” ss pretty underrated

I like the Radiohead song that is really sad bastard sounding and drones on and on. Or maybe I’m thinking of Coldplay… or Snow Patrol… Or James Blunt. Have all British men been neutered as part of some government population control thing?

I might be wrong makes we wanna learn to bootscoot, and i find it impossible to sit still during idioteque… Both classics, but favourite is No Surprises

My current favorite is 15 Step, a new one they played live over the summer. I hope it’s the single off the new album – it’s amazing.

i have to agree with Thom on this one, Dissapear is a beautiful track… but my other faves would have to be No Suprises and Lucky

yup, How to Disappear Completely is it!

[classic... great as a concert closer]

1)creep
2)fake plastic trees
3)everything in its right place
4)paranoid android
5)there there

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Radiohead were talking about here. How can you really try and pick one song out of a catalogue that reflects a very rare, consistent genius?

OK FINE i give in: Let Down, Karma Police, How To Disappear, Life In A Glasshouse, Bones, The Tourist

“Myxomatosis” is the best disease song ever: it kicks “Shiny Happy People”’s ass

Hey guys, they just asked for your favorite track, not your top 5!!!
Mine is PARANOID ANDROID.

If you have to pick one it has to be:

Paranoid Android

- It shows all parts of the genius of Radiohead in its 3 movements.
- First part: odd chords/odd time signature
- Second part great distorted electric guitar/aggressive rock, unpredictable and original
- Third part: slow, brooding, the essence of Thom Yorke’s vocal ability, perfect use of loud/quiet dynamics create the emotional rise and fall of the music

Let the making fun of Timo begin…

There are way too many to choose from but one song from the Bends era sticks out for a single lyric (I don’t want you anymore) and that song is How Can You Be Sure. The song is a B-side but can be found on the Japanese import of The Bends. Though I like this song, I can’t claim it my favorite as all the songs are all worth listening to and absorbing.

Top 5:

Let Down
Let Down
Let Down
Let Down
Let Down

I have spoken.

2+2=5 son.

“the T-1000 has the same files as i do. It knows what i know. It will anticipate this move”

Street Spirit and
Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)

1) Street Spirit (Fade)
2) Fake Plastic Trees
3) The Tourist
4) Planet Telex
and yes 5) How to Disappear Completely

How about Harrowdown Hill from his solo album too, that’s a great track.

backdrifting and where bluebirds fly. and then subterranean homesick alien

do you people use ears? what about “scatterbrain”? that song is gorgeous…

Paranoid Android is the Bohemian Rhapsody of the 90’s. This is the song that pricked up my ears and made me think hmmmm…radiohead..have to check this band out….

Scatterbrain, Let Down and Pyramid Song and True Love Waits for beauty. For sheer mind-blowing transcendent rock, you have to go with the almighty and powerful Paranoid Android…

Gah. Too many wonderful songs to chose from!

BEst RAdiohead song

for me Now is Lucky…
and i love Climbing up the walls…so i dont know…i love it all

Climbing Up The Walls. When I finally go completely batshit crazy, I hope that is what it sounds like in my head.

a pretty cool radiohead song is CITIZEN ERASED by Muse

Thom got it right, folks. ‘How to Disappear’ is their greatest song. It is serene, affecting, horribly depressing, and epic all combined into one song.

They change a lot, but always up there are
1. Let Down
2. There There
3. Morning Bell
4. Street Spirit
5. Idioteque

How to Disappear is good… but it is no Exit Music. I think the mood and idea of the 2 songs is similar, yet Exit Music wins out… still neither are the best RH song- that still belongs to Paranoid Android.

my favorite is “In Limbo”

The MOST BEAUTIFUL Radiohead songs are Let Down, Thinking About You, and the live acoustic recording of Black Star. But yeah, their best is Paranoid Android.

Interesting that nobody has mentioned mine yet..

“Big Ideas” (also known as “Nude”), is only a bootleg, but they play it live often and hopefully will record it proper next go around.
Honorable mention goes to “Pearly”.

Shit, i’m really hung over. When i said Let Down, i meant High and Dry. Sorry guys.

1)Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2)Paranoid Android
3)Idioteque
4)My Iron Lung
5)Exit Music (For A Film)

“I will”

pretty safe to say that a best song can’t ever be pinpointed. agreed, everyone’s got their own faves…but even their so-called “lame” songs have their merit. radiohead is truly a gift. that said…how about choosing your favorite remixed r.h. track. mine’s gotta be zero7’s reworking of climbing up the walls. tho mark ronson’s version of just was damn good…

mine really is Let Down… with Idioteque falling fast on its heels

This is a difficult one for a Radiohead fan. I’d have to say “Paranoid Android” cause it was the first one that blew me away completely. OK Computer is a masterpiece, so after that:
Fake Plastic Trees
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

anything off “The Bends”

1. There There
2. Let Down
3. True Love Waits
4. Street Spirit

damn..i love radioheads music…

1. no surprises
2. karma police
3.paranoid android
4. fake plastic trees
5. high n dry (its a must for our generation)/….

n KID A’s the best electronic instrumental album ever!..go york!

Almost anything played by radiohead is genius, but i have to go with Let Down, hands off the best of their songs… i hope they’ll play it again on their concerts

jonny

My choices are as follows:
1. Climbing up the walls
2. Talk show host
3. street spirit
4. no surprises
5. pyramid song

Let down

haha man.. has been a while since someone left a comment. well, I like No surprises, Sail to the moon, last flowers to the hospital, paranoid android,
but I do like thinking about you too..