The Song Fight Bulletin Board

What is your favorite Radiohead song?

Black Star

"Everything in its Right Place." It's one of those songs I never even realized was in a weird time signature until I tried to learn how to play it.

Currently "Exit Music (For a Film)"

Let Down is my favorite.

I love the B sides from the Bends and OK computer: Lull , Maquiladora etc.
Myxomatosis has maybe my favorite Radiohead riff.
That version of National Anthem on SNL was awesome with the SNL band providing all the dissonant horn stuff.
I like all of their stuff, great band!

I didn't really like Radiohead until I heard "Jaydiohead". Now, I like almost all of Radiohead's music. You need to check it out! Wikipedia Jadiohead for more info (since I still can't post links).

Anyway, if I had to pick one or two, it would be "Karma Police" and "15 Step".

-jd0

"Reckoner", subject to change at a moment's notice. That beat...

While "Paranoid Android" is an epic of the highest caliber, the album that made me fall in love with Radiohead was Amnesiac and it all started with "I Might Be Wrong". I had liked Radiohead before that. But Amnesiac was the album where I truly became a fan and it started with guitar riff that drives "I Might Be Wrong". It was the song that made me buy the album which blew my mind. Honorable mentions to "Life In A Glass House", the aforementioned "Paranoid Android" and "High & Dry".

My wife is a bigger Radiohead fan than I am, and she said "Either 'Letdown' or 'Lull.'" I notice that the latter was also on glennny's shortlist. I'd never heard it before, so we just pulled it up on Youtube. I like it, but it seems surprisingly uncomplicated for Radiohead. Over a bit too soon.

Then she changed her mind and said "Pyramid Song."

No surprises, it's "No Surprises."




(But of course there's so many other songs of theirs that I love nearly as much! "High and Dry," "Karma Police," "Fifteen Step," "My Iron Lung," just to name a very few...)

Bonus video, if you have 55 minutes to spare:

Surprised no one has said Creep. Maybe it's too 'mainstream'. lol

"Creep" is pretty good. I almost said "Fake Plastic Trees," which is also more "mainstream" than your average Radiohead song.

I always sing "Creep" at karaoke but it's not their best song. Also "My Iron Lung" is about "Creep" (and is also a much better song).

fluffy wrote:I always sing "Creep" at karaoke but it's not their best song. Also "My Iron Lung" is about "Creep" (and is also a much better song).

Huh, I can actually imagine that in your voice. Rock on.

Radiohead Live in Astoria is in my top 3 concert videos of all tine. It's the Bends and Pablo Honey material. They like to do shows and try out new material while recording albums. This show was before the Bends came out. As you watch it and My Iron Lung comes on, if you didn't know better, you'd say " WTF, why did they overdub the studio recording for just this song?", they didn't. They liked their performance of MIL so much at that show, that that's what they used for the album.

I thought Creep was an okay a Pixies wannabe song when it came out. Then I heard Thom Yorke and Johnny in the studio at KROQ, and Thom sang his ass off and sold it like no one has ever sold a song live in the studio. I became a fan then, but when the Bends came out they pulled away from all the other 90s bands. They joined the ranks of Jeff Buckley with the Bends ( in my view).

I was front and center at the San Francisco OK Computer show , and it was the best major label show I've ever seen. Their shows have gotten so expensive and it's so tough to get good seats, I'm pretty sure I'll never top that Radiohead experience from April of 1998.

They're such a good band!

"Codex".

I think I will be boring and say "Creep" (the original version).
-bill

Street Spirit (Fade Out)