I bought Pablo Honey, The Bends, Kid A, and Amnesiac. I've got the other ones except I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings.
Pablo Honey isn't a bad album, as I've heard it described as, it's just a first album. Anyone Can Play Guitar and How Do You? are probably my favorites.
The Bends is Ok, Got a bunch of great songs. They just don't seem to mesh well with me for some reason.
O.K. Computer is a wonderful album, Let Down and No Surprises are masterpieces.
Kid A is a fantastic album. My third favorite album by them (behind Hail to the Thief and O.K. Computer)
Amnesiac just feels like tracks that they couldn't get to fit with the tracks on Kid A. Not bad, but they could've spent some more time on it. Maybe waited a year and released Kid A/Amnesiac as a double album? I don't know, but alot of the tracks don't seem finished.
Hail To The Thief is my favorite album, as it combines all their experiences from their past albums onto this one. I can sing along with every song, and feel like I myself have written them. From 2+2=5 to A Wolf At The Door, it's a album I can't really find fault with. Not saying it's the best album in the world, but definitely the best radiohead album in my opinion.
In Rainbows is disappointing. Especially now that I've listened to their other albums. Nothing too catchy. Nothing too interesting.
In Rainbows is beautiful, it's my favorite
OK Computer is probably my favorite. Paranoid Android, Karma Police, and No Surprises are my favorite songs in the album, and probably my favorite Radiohead songs altogether.
I was also disappointed by In Rainbows, although it's still a great album. It's just that it often kinda lulls instead of ever gripping you by the throat the way OK Computer does. Not to mention the other album-esque moments (like the opening track and its Kid A-ness) were done better in those other albums.
Kid A is my favorite Radiohead album, OK Computer being my second favorite.
Quote from: NautSyd on July 31, 2009, 12:27:30 PM
Hail To The Thief
That album doesn't get anywhere near the type of recognition it deserves.
Since In Rainbows came out it has been my favorite (Jigsaw Falling Into Place), but Pablo Honey and Amnesiac have always been high in my favorite albums... Pablo Honey is just so raw and, well, plain that it satisfies my taste for alternative rock quite well (not to mention Blowout is one of the fucking greatest songs ever).
Quote from: NautSyd on July 31, 2009, 12:27:30 PM
I bought Pablo Honey, The Bends, Kid A, and Amnesiac. I've got the other ones except I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings.
Got comlag or Airbag or In Rainbows disc 2? Or the Eraser? Or any of the other shit that my roomate had, oh god.
QuotePablo Honey isn't a bad album, as I've heard it described as, it's just a first album. Anyone Can Play Guitar and How Do You? are probably my favorites.
It's such a different style than the later records that it's hard for many to like it. But it's a good Alt Rock album.
QuoteThe Bends is Ok, Got a bunch of great songs. They just don't seem to mesh well with me for some reason.
It was Radiohead's bridging point from alt rock into art rock.
QuoteO.K. Computer is a wonderful album, Let Down and No Surprises are masterpieces.
Kid A is a fantastic album. My third favorite album by them (behind Hail to the Thief and O.K. Computer)
Amnesiac just feels like tracks that they couldn't get to fit with the tracks on Kid A. Not bad, but they could've spent some more time on it. Maybe waited a year and released Kid A/Amnesiac as a double album? I don't know, but alot of the tracks don't seem finished.
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QuoteHail To The Thief is my favorite album, as it combines all their experiences from their past albums onto this one. I can sing along with every song, and feel like I myself have written them. From 2+2=5 to A Wolf At The Door, it's a album I can't really find fault with. Not saying it's the best album in the world, but definitely the best radiohead album in my opinion.
It lags a lot for me in the middle. Like...the songs aren't memorable or constant. 2+2=5, Wolf, Myxamasomething are so solid. I used to like it more, it's...it has a lot of good energy.
QuoteIn Rainbows is disappointing. Especially now that I've listened to their other albums.
Really?
QuoteNothing too interesting.
Yeah, I can understand that, I guess. I'm a big fan of all their sonic textures and things. It's like Kid A on crack in many respects, taken to the end of the artistic spectrum after The Bends, and-
QuoteNothing too catchy.
doodhuh;
For me:
In Rainbows
Kid A
The Bends
Hail to the Thief
OK Computer
Amnesiac
Pablo Honey
In Rainbows is my favorite album by them. It just takes a while to get the melodies stuck in your head
In my opinion:
1) OK Computer
2) In Rainbows
3) Kid A
4) Amnesiac
5) The Bends
6) Hail to the Thief
7) Pablo Honey
OK Computer is a masterpiece, no denying that.
In Rainbows took a while to get to like. Didn't like it the first few listens then I realized how great it really is.
Kid A is beautiful, also has one of my favorite songs...ever, Idioteque.
Amnesiac is just a solid album. Not too many standouts, but it balances it out to be considered good.
The Bends....eh
Hail to the Thief.....ehhhhhhhhh
Pablo Honey... wry
The thing about Radiohead is you have to listen to their albums bazillions of times to really appreciate them. Some of their albums take longer than others.
At first, I thought Amnesiac was pleasant and easy to listen to but overall rather lackluster. It sounded like a few really great songs mixed in with a bunch of tossed-off experiments. Over the years, however, I've really grown to like it. The trick is figuring out how to listen to it. It doesn't follow the kind of progression a normal album does. Eventually I began to realize that it's really a vivid picture of a different world, a sort of dreamlike reality close to ours but different in several really big ways. It's hard to explain. It's best to listen to it after midnight. 3'oclock a.m. works best for me.
Hail to the Thief is a complex beast. For a while it really grated on my nerves. It seemed like the songs were mediocre and packed too full of synthesizers and such. Like Amnesiac, though, it slowly revealed its true nature to me. I personally think it's a depiction of everyday life in the city filtered through a really manic, desperate, detached state of mind. Close listening is key for this one.
There's not much I can say about In Rainbows except that you just have to keep listening to it. When I first hear it, absolutely nothing jumped out at me at all. Nearly two years later is hands down my favorite Radiohead album. Just listen to it. It will take a while, but at some point it will finally make sense.
Quote from: reefer on July 31, 2009, 01:07:23 PM
In Rainbows is beautiful, it's my favorite
I agree.
I never could get in OK computer that well, but it has some great songs.
Houdini have I ever told you that I love you so much
Radiohead is my favorite band
For me
1) The Bends
2) In Rainbows
3) Ok Computer
4) Pablo Honey
5) Kid A
6) Amnesiac
7) Hail to the Thief
Most people are surprised when they hear that The Bends is my favorite album...Mostly considering many people just look at it as a stepping stone to Ok Computer. But just about every song on that album grew on me. High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, My Iron Lung, Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was, Black Star, lol actually every song on the album. I just love it to death, although it's a the last step before Radiohead moved into that more electronic sound. The midway point between Pablo Honey and the sound that Radiohead is generally known for.
Also, just because Hail to the Thief is my last on the list doesn't mean I don't like it. I love ALL of Radiohead's albums, that's why I would say they're my favorite band. It's just...one of them has to be last. I even downloaded the 24 disc version of Towering Above the Rest, which I listen to frequently when I want to hear a bit of a different sound from the studio album versions of their songs doodhuh;
There's a lot of catchy stuff there.
If I had to name my ten favorite Radiohead songs I'd probably saaay
- High and Dry (the bends)
- Subterranean Homesick Alien ( Ok Computer)
- House of Cards (In Rainbows)
- Jigsaw Falling Into Place (In Rainbows)
- My Iron Lung (the bends)
- Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was (the bends)
- Fake Plastic Trees (the bends)
- Exit Music (For a Film)
- The National Anthem (Kid A)
- Creep (Pablo Honey)
Creep was the first Radiohead song I ever heard so it holds a place in my heart :(
The first Radiohead song I heard was Paranoid Android
Quote from: Hïro on August 08, 2009, 03:22:58 AM
The first Radiohead song I heard was Paranoid Android
Same here, actually. Still one of my favorites.
Quote from: Kaz on August 08, 2009, 04:16:58 PM
Same here, actually. Still one of my favorites.
Me too thumbup;
Quote from: Houdini on August 02, 2009, 02:04:48 AM
At first, I thought Amnesiac was pleasant and easy to listen to but overall rather lackluster. It sounded like a few really great songs mixed in with a bunch of tossed-off experiments. Over the years, however, I've really grown to like it. The trick is figuring out how to listen to it. It doesn't follow the kind of progression a normal album does. Eventually I began to realize that it's really a vivid picture of a different world, a sort of dreamlike reality close to ours but different in several really big ways. It's hard to explain. It's best to listen to it after midnight. 3'oclock a.m. works best for me.
I got off work and popped Amnesiac into the cd player and drove around. You're definitely right about the after midnight listening. It really made me appreciate the album more. I can't bare to listen to it during the day though. I don't know what it is but this is definitely a lot better when listened to in the right location. For me it just happens to be on dark country roads during the night.
As for In Rainbows. I've owned it since it came out. I was disappointed with it when it first come out. I did grow to like it for a period of time. I just can't really listen to it as much as some of there other ones.
Oooh that reminds me I can play the awesome hardrocking part of Paranoid Android, all of Sulk, and the skeleton of Weird Fishes on piano and it's prettttyyyyy