Best Ever Albums

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

LAF2 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:59:04 GMT

Author: LAF2

Posted: 01/18/2015 03:59

I had never been much of a music fan, but when I found Radiohead, I listened to their albums alone for hours on a daily basis over the course of nine months. I've listened to Pablo and TKOL maybe 15 times apiece, with all the others at least 50 times (I know, too much!). But having done all that, OKC is the one that I still find the magic in every time. I've listened to it over 100 times and I still find new things to love about it every listen. Call me cliché, call me unoriginal, call me predictable, but OKC's message about technology's societal impact combined with instrumentals that reinforce this idea make it almost impossible to beat. The Bends has some fantastic standalone singles and was my first favorite, but its replay value decreased at about 50 listens. Kid A took the longest to grow on me, and at the end of my Radiohead period it eclipsed OKC by the slightest margin. I've never loved it as much as many fans do. Amnesiac is their underrated gem, and has a beautiful, unique sound to it that ebbs and flows. I connected immediately with it. HTTT has some great rock, but its tracks are hit-or-miss and it sags in the middle. In Rainbows has fantastic tracks, but it's never had the wow factor to make me think it their best album for more than a day or two.

My rankings of all 8:

1. OKC
2. Kid A
3. Amnesiac
4. The Bends
5. In Rainbows
6. HTTT
7. Pablo
8. TKOL

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

salmon — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:11:20 GMT

Author: salmon

Posted: 01/18/2015 03:11

1.- KID A
2.- In Rainbows
3.- Hail To The Thief
4.- Amnesiac
5.- The Bends
6.- Ok Computer
7.- The King of Limbs
8.- Pablo Honey

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:39:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/18/2015 01:39

1. Ok Computer
2. In Rainbows
3. Kid A
4. Hail to the Thief
5. The Bends
6. Amnesiac
7. The King of Limbs
8. Pablo Honey

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:35:33 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/17/2015 23:35

I was always kind of partial to Amnesiac. The Yorke quote is great, and it goes along with what attracted me to it when I first listened to their full discography end to end (maybe a year after In Rainbows came out): where Kid A is this incredibly organized, formally flawless album, Amnesiac shows a little bit of the thought process that went into it, and thus avoids the pitfall of sounding like a soaring attempt to be Kraftwerk on Radio-Aktivitat or whatever other vague rock-meets-progressive-electronic comparison the music journalist in someone wants to make. This is a horrible articulation of what I'm trying to get across, but yeah, I like the slightly open-ended, unnerving elements of Amnesiac. Where Kid A lets you get lost in its creepy, prophetic vision of the 21st century, Amnesiac is always kind of drawing attention to its fiber as a music album made by people with specific tools. I need to listen to it again soon since I recently revisited Kid A.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

F1Aaron — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:35:19 GMT

Author: F1Aaron

Posted: 01/17/2015 23:35

The Bends and In Rainbows are my personal favorites but Kid A and OK Computer are fantastic too

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

JasonZaia — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:00:05 GMT

Author: JasonZaia

Posted: 01/17/2015 23:00

Alright...well, Ok Computer is an obvious choice; as is Kid A. So I'm going to go completely left wing and say Amnesiac - probably their most interesting album when you think about it. Especially when you consider the way Thom York liked to describe it: "I read that the gnostics believe when we are born we are forced to forget where we have come from in order to deal with the trauma of arriving in this life. I thought this was really fascinating. It's like the river of forgetfulness. [Amnesiac] may have been recorded at the same time [as Kid A] ... but it comes from a different place I think. It sounds like finding an old chest in someone's attic with all these notes and maps and drawings and descriptions of going to a place you cannot remember."

- That statement alone completely improves the quality of Amnesiac. Therefore, it is indeed a brilliant album; possibly their best!

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Captain_Dude — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 01:36:43 GMT

Author: Captain_Dude

Posted: 08/25/2014 05:36

I've tried listening to Radiohead many times. I just can't get into them.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

AlexZangari — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:38:37 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 08/25/2014 03:38

1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. In Rainbows
4. The Bends
5. Hail to the Thief
6. The King of Limbs
7. Amnesiac
8. Pablo Honey

They fall into pairs for me. 1&2: absolute bliss. 3&4: fantastic. 5&6: very good but essentially flawed. 7&8: not remarkable at all outside of a few great tracks.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:21:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/24/2014 18:21

Rarely listen to Radiohead these days. Kid A was always my favorite, followed by OK Computer. If I had to pick a third, maybe Amnesiac? Always was meh on everything that came after and before that trilogy.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

manurock — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 08:50:18 GMT

Author: manurock

Posted: 08/24/2014 12:50

Glad to see that Kid A isn't on the top 3 right now from Radiohead in this poll. My favourites are Ok Computer and the Bends, in that order.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

sg6 — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:38:44 GMT

Author: sg6

Posted: 08/24/2014 00:38

in rainbows

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

mickilennial — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:44:44 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 08/23/2014 23:44

For me the top records I spin from them are:

Kid A
OK Computer
The Bends

Rest are in small rotation.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Skinny — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:43:32 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/23/2014 23:43

SquishypuffDave wrote:

In Rainbows ... I honestly cannot fault it. It flows perfectly, it's just the right length, every track serves the overall experience, etc. The same can be said about the tracks themselves. The arrangements are economic, everything in its right place (haaawww), no song overstays its welcome or stops short of its potential.

(Kid A is amateur hour.)

All of this. It's the only album of theirs that actually lives up to the hype, though I do also really enjoy their rockier records (bar Pablo Honey). Hail to the Thief and The Bends are dope.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:54:05 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/23/2014 22:54

1. The Bends
2. OK Computer
3. Amnesiac
4. Everything else...

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:38:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/23/2014 21:38

Going with Hail to The Theif for now

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

meruizh — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:33:34 GMT

Author: meruizh

Posted: 08/23/2014 18:33

In Rainbows... for now

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

MightyMoose — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:30:55 GMT

Author: MightyMoose

Posted: 08/23/2014 18:30

OK Computer

Fav Radiohead . . .

maccuill — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:23:29 GMT

Author: maccuill

Posted: 08/23/2014 18:23

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OK Computer by Radiohead

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Facetious — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:13:26 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 08/23/2014 18:13

Amnesiac. Kid A is close, and OK Computer also has its strengths. The rest of their albums are decent (even Pablo Honey, which has some of their best rock songs), King of Limbs being the worst/least interesting one.

Re: What is your favorite Radiohead album?

Nothingman94 — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 03:41:30 GMT

Author: Nothingman94

Posted: 08/23/2014 07:41

Hard choice. I love every song on In Rainbows, but I also love the atmosphere of OK Computer and the experimentation on Kid A.

I've been listening to OK Computer a lot lately, so I think I'll pick that as my #1, with In Rainbows trailing just behind.