Comments on: The Twenty Best Radiohead Songs

By: alice

alice — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:07:16 +0000

In my opinion tis is the best paylist

pyramid song
exit music ( for a film)
creep
paranoid android
optimistic
reckoner
jigsaw falling into place
idioteque
kid A
house of cards
karma police
the national anthem
you and whose army?
no surprises
15 step
go to sleep
2+2=5
the tourist
high and dry
my iron lung
morning bell
sail to the moon
life in glasshouse
Let Down
Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)
lucky
Nude
street spirit
fake plastic trees
airbag
and many other songs

By: sitting duck

sitting duck — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:47:34 +0000

Everytime I think I have a favorite, it changes after a few days. At present, I'm liking Like Spinning Plates (live) (I love how Thom has to announce the song to the audience at the beginning), but I just read someone mentioning Electioneering, and I have to say that while I agree it's never been my favorite, there's something about the rawness of that song that gets me going.

By: Incense

Incense — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:36:21 +0000

I thouroughly enjoyed your description of the tracks, especially the writing for Paranoid Android. It interests me to see what other people make of and take from Radiohead's music.

By: Justas

Justas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:40:29 +0000

i can't believe no one mentioned polyethylene……………

By: JustletgoMC

JustletgoMC — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:40:40 +0000

I like the list, except you are forgetting 2 Radiohead staples. Idioteque and Street Spirit have to be in the top 20.

By: abhinav

abhinav — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:42:26 +0000

you haven't done justice to paranoid android….it is easily no.1.
creep??youv'e got to be kidding me…

By: maninder_chhabra

maninder_chhabra — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:12:10 +0000

good work mate..this surely sums up the great works of radiohead.. but” everything in its right place” is not at its right place… deserves a place in top 5

By: GHOSTHORSE

GHOSTHORSE — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:45:31 +0000

I'm obsessed too, nlferts, so I know you meant to include Talk Show Host (any live version) on your list (f EMI for releasing such a pansy-ass studio version on best of). Thanks, though, for giving props to Wolf. Most people say that Paranoid Android sealed Radiohead's place in history. I somewhat agree, but Wolf proves that they can take any genre and make it their own — without really trying.

By: nlferts

nlferts — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:47:30 +0000

Ill hop on the bandwagon and make my own top ten:
1.Let Down
2.Paranoid Android
3.Fake Plastic Trees
4.Life in a Glass House
5. Motion Picture Soundtrack
6.Pyramid Song
7. Jigsaw Falling into Place
8. There, There
9. Street Spirit
10.A Wolf at the Door

Album Ranking:
1.OK Computer
2.Kid A
3.Amnesiac
4.In Rainbows
5.The Bends
6.Hail to the Thief
7. Pablo Honey

Take it for what is worth, but this is from someone who is obsessed with Radiohead

By: ana_89

ana_89 — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:48:04 +0000

i love radiohead..<3 my favorite song is “house of cards”!

By: elladylan

elladylan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:14:04 +0000

Radiohead are so fucking special. I wish I was special.

No, Creep isn't one of their best songs, but for the brilliance of the lyrics if nothing else, it deserves to make their top 20.

My top 20 (the hardest thing i've ever had to do; I could easily make a top 100):
1. Paraniod Android
2. Fake Plastic Trees
3. Karma Police
4. How to disappear completely
5. Exit Music (for a film)
6. Let Down
7. Reckoner
8. Just
9. Talk Show Host
10. Idioteque
11. There There
12. All I Need
13. No Surprises
14. Lucky
15. Street Spirit (fade out)
16. 15 Step
17. All I Need
18. Nude
19. Airbag
20. Creep

In my opinion they've only ever gone wrong twice.
1. High and Dry
2. Black Star

By: alexandermartinez

alexandermartinez — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:48:45 +0000

Really? No Nude or Idioteque? Great list, but when you leave off instant classics like those? FAIL!

By: Radio_lucho

Radio_lucho — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:34:56 +0000

I live listening to these genius , these are the best songs for when you smoke some pot
No order of course, cause these are master pieces , art is not a competition.

Paranoid Android
Reckoner

To me, these are the most beautiful and complex songs from the fucking universe.

Weird fishes
15 Step
Knives out
2+2 = 5
Bodysnatchers
Where i end and you begin
In limbo
Go slowly (from the basement)
There There
The national Anthem
How to dissapear completely
Mixomatosis
Optimistic
Nude
All i need
Lucky

By: crock31

crock31 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:13:55 +0000

Your crazy if you don't think OK Computer isn't number one. Whether or not it's their most famous almbum is irrelevant you can try to be coy and original with that list but it is one of the best albums of all time. Not one song on the album isn't beautiful.

By: albaab

albaab — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:18:04 +0000

I alwez thot written reviews of music is shit…how can you descryb Music?? U jst gotta hear it…
My friend…thank you for proving me so ridiculously wrong….so accurate…brilliant piece of write up
This article actually made me discover and convert to Radiohead

By: jaridious

jaridious — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:03:20 +0000

my list changes frequently, but i'll post anyway, no pablo honey and no the bends (sorry):

1. climbing up the walls
2. pyramid song
3. paranoid android
4. there there
5. exit music (for a film)
6. you and whose army?
7. reckoner
8. i might be wrong
9. let down
10. how to disappear completely
11. a wolf at the door
12. the national anthem
13. house of cards
14. go to sleep
15. lucky
16. all i need
17. life in a glasshouse
18. motion picture soundtrack
19. cuttooth
20. 2+2=5
21. packt like sardines in a crushd tin box
22. sail to the moon
23. i am a wicked child
24. like spinning plates
25. last flowers

By: asbani

asbani — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:08:06 +0000

WoW all of these songs in the list are awesome, but I'm shocked and suprised to not seen these two songs at your list too.

Jigsaw falling into place
Wolf at the door

These two songs are amazing......They're up to bar with paranoid android for my taste, have fun

By: serene

serene — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:06:12 +0000

ya right, last flowers is absolutely breath-taking

By: just me

just me — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:33:16 +0000

no one can decide what's best, i guess? in order to make the perfect list we should put all radiohead's songs without any order… nothing's places first and nothing places last

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:02:21 +0000

Okay, people need to chill. This is just one persons opinion. We all have our favorites, none of our lists are going to be EXACTLY the same. I think the bottom line here is that you cannot pick just twenty of the best Radiohead songs. It needs to be more like fifty.

By: Domus

Domus — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:08:05 +0000

All i need. What an under rated song!!!!!!! everyone should listen to it again i think and just think about the lyrics meaning.
Its ridiculous!

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:08:00 +0000

I think you're missing quite a few, for e.g: Palo Alto, Talk Show Host, There There, How To Disappear Completely, The National Anthem

By: King

King — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:46:14 +0000

how about climbing up the walls?

By: Alias

Alias — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:39:19 +0000

No How To Disappear Completely?
…
fail.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:10:25 +0000

(No Order)
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Karma Police
Wolf At My Door
You And Who Army?
15 Steps
2+2=5
High And Dry
Reckoner
Bodysnatchers
Fake Plastic Trees

By: james

james — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:29:53 +0000

my favorite is fake plastic trees
idk why ive always liked it

By: ma9net

ma9net — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:26:15 +0000

and then some….i used this guide to dl some good radiohead songs and im blown away by the accuracy of the description

outstanding!!

By: TREY

TREY — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:22:04 +0000

Songs that shook me by radiohead and still do to this day:

Fake Plastic Trees
Just
Bulletproof
Nice Dream
Paranoid Android
Exit Music
Let Down
Fitter Happier
All of Kid A except for tracks 5,6 and 7(By far kid A is Radioheads Magnum Opus for me) *Motion Picture Soundtrack is there most emotional song of all time and just downright beautiful
...Amnesiac as well is great as an album but in the middle gets a bit less amazing
From Hail to the Thief: Sit Down. Stand Up.
We suck Young Blood
Go to Sleep
A wolf at the door
In Rainbows: Amazing albums but if forced to pick favorites, Bodysnatchers, All I Need, House of Cards, Nude

By: fast-shop

fast-shop — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:50:34 +0000

Sail to the Moon – one of my favs – Anyone see them at Victoria park, was a bit dissapointed by the venue and sound, much better in smaller venue – tho when they did the v festival that fooking rocked.

By: Anders

Anders — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:35:42 +0000

I dunno. How do you rate this. I can only mention the five songs that I have had a most serious love affair with over the years (and I mean that quite literally). This is a very exclusive list, and I guess other circumstances might have led to me picking other songs:

Street spirit
Lucky
I might be wrong
Living in a glass house
Nude

For some reason I always rated Amnesiac as their best album.