Present Tense (track) by Radiohead
Year: 2016
From the album A Moon Shaped Pool (track #9)
Present Tense appears on the following album(s) by Radiohead:
- A Moon Shaped Pool (track #9) (this album) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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20/100  | 09/27/2025 15:19 | gmessian | | 56/100 |
95/100 | 08/28/2025 17:36 | jtc91 | | 82/100 |
95/100 | 08/17/2025 03:09 | mttr-in-plc | | 88/100 |
90/100 | 07/05/2025 17:45 |  Igtonumama | | 81/100 |
95/100 | 07/03/2025 22:25 | stareaterogni0n | | 74/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 90.7/100, a mean average of 89.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.2.
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This is maybe my favorite Radiohead song
A masterpiece
Prolly the best song on the album with decks dark and identitik (and maybe glass eyes^^)
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That bossa nova vibe is super dope. that bridge with thom's voice is so beautiful
My favorite on the record behind Daydreaming...Beautiful bossanova-inspired guitar melody combined with that heartbreaking lyrical imagery. Then the choir hits (as it does in several other tracks on this album) and I'm completely floored.
corenfro 04/19/2017 21:17
Oh. My. Gosh. a bittersweet love/breakup song from Thom that is even more heavy when you consider he divorced from his wife who died of cancer a year later. It's a beautiful song and ugh, I don't even want to think of what goes through Thom's head when he revisits this.
DeusExMackia 03/02/2017 13:19
This honestly might be one of their best songs
Perfect.
That bridge...
The light airy bridge on this track challenges the one on Muse's "Citizen Erased" for the most spectacular I've ever heard. It completely takes me away and makes me feel weightless (and I'm a big guy!).
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