best radiohead album

[Jowy]

itt amnesiac is nobody's favourite

[Shorty]

^ also Hail to the Thief. Nobody likes Hail to the Thief.

The Bends, OK Computer and then Kid A.

I like you.

I like you too, because you know what's what.

[Jowy]

2+2=5 and Wolf at the Door are two of the GOAT Radiohead tracks though.

[Shorty]

but I hate the rest of it

[The Man]

HttT has some of the best individual Radiohead tracks but overall it's a pretty inconsistent album. Same with Amnesiac. Neither of them have many songs that are out-and-out bad but overall they're not on the same level as their best work.

Kid A is the best though; everyone who doesn't agree is wrong

[charliepanayi]

I really like Hail to the Thief, it just needs a little trimming - I'd take out Backdrifts, The Gloaming and maybe Scatterbrain. But I think the album unfairly suffers from coming in between Kid A/Amnesiac and In Rainbows, which both made a big impact due to their sound and the 'suddenly coming out and pay what you want' business respectively.

[I Took the Red Pill]

OK Computer then In Rainbows then Kid A

[The Man]

I really like Hail to the Thief, it just needs a little trimming - I'd take out Backdrifts, The Gloaming and maybe Scatterbrain. But I think the album unfairly suffers from coming in between Kid A/Amnesiac and In Rainbows, which both made a big impact due to their sound and the 'suddenly coming out and pay what you want' business respectively.

Agreed on all counts, right down to what tracks I'd trim (although I'm not sure about Scatterbrain). Hail to the Thief is effectively a refinement of the experiments on Kid A and Amnesiac, which is fine. The album was quite clearly intended to sustain a consistent atmosphere from start to finish, and it succeeded marvellously at this. It contains several of Radiohead's best songs as well, particularly "2+2=5", "Sail to the Moon", "There There", and "The Wolf at the Door". It just suffers from not being a start-to-finish masterpiece like many of Radiohead's other releases.

I'd also say Amnesiac suffered from effectively being "more of the same" as Kid A - it is very similar in many respects. However, I wouldn't trim as much from it as from HttT - probably just "Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors" and the alternate version of "Morning Bell", which is decidedly inferior to the Kid A version in every aspect. "Knives Out" is somewhat inferior as well, but not enough to merit being trimmed.

By comparison, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows don't have any fat to trim. Even the bonus disc for In Rainbows is solid from start to finish (ok, I guess those two brief, goofy ambient interludes are kind of iffy).

I'm still digesting The King of Limbs but it seems pretty solid as well, just not up to the standard of those four. That said, the four tracks they released later in 2011 are possibly better than most of the stuff on the album.

[Mirage]

there's this album with one of those songs on

probably that one