What with the news of EMI compiling a Radiohead best-of (read), DiS decided to try and call the major’s bluff by assembling our own 15-track career-summary CDs.
The band won’t be doing any promotional work for their former label; likewise, DiS isn’t actually going to burn these mixes onto CDs and send them out to you. But you can, of course, shout our selections down. G’wan then – comment accordingly, but remember this is EMI material only, no XL goodness. We know you’re as geeky as these two super-fans…
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Gareth Dobson, A-grade Radiohead geek
1 ‘Planet Telex’
2 ‘Just’
3 ‘Talk Show Host’
4 ‘Street Spirit’
5 ‘Paranoid Android’
6 ‘Let Down’
7 ‘Lucky’
8 ‘How To Disappear Completely’
9 ‘Everything In Its Right Place’
10 ‘Idioteque’
11 ‘Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box’
12 ‘Pyramid Song’
13 ‘There There’
14 ‘The Gloaming’
15 ‘A Wolf At The Door’
Unborn chicken voices and Gucci piggies: Radiohead, ‘Paranoid Android’
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Mike Diver, top-dollar fanboy
1 ‘Paranoid Android’
2 ‘Lucky’
3 ‘Just’
4 ‘Black Star’
5 ‘Planet Telex’
6 ‘Idioteque’
7 ‘The Gloaming’
8 ‘There There’
9 ‘Pyramid Song’
10 ‘Karma Police’
11 ‘Sail To The Moon’
12 ‘A Wolf At The Door’
13 ‘Prove Yourself’
14 ‘Fake Plastic Trees’
15 ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’
Ice age come: Radiohead, ‘Idioteque’
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And the top 15 Radiohead tracks based on Last.fm plays over the past six months, minus In Rainbows songs.
1 ‘Karma Police’
2 ‘Paranoid Android’
3 ‘Creep’
4 ‘No Surprises’
5 ‘Airbag’
6 ‘Let Down’
7 ‘Lucky’
8 ‘Exit Music’
9 ‘Fake Plastic Trees’
10 ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ (Blues? Alien, no? Ed)
11 ‘Everything In Its Right Place’
12 ‘Idioteque’
13 ‘High and Dry’
14 ‘Climbing Up The Walls’
15 ‘Electioneering’
Just because you feel it: Radiohead, ‘There There’
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So, Radiohead fan boys and gals: your final fifteen, below… go!
(The Weekly DiScussion ‘proper’ will arrive on your monitor on Thursday, when we’re in the mood for some loving.)
The Gloaming
is dire... how could you?
I'd stick
with the Last FM chart, but trade 'Creep' for 'You'.
^
This.
^ That
all very well
but a b-side and rarities compilation is probably more worth having - like the drill ep, killer cars, lift (live) and the really good live version of dollars and cents which is noisy and paranoid as opposed to the version on Amnesiac that sends me to sleep
They brought back 'Nude'
kicking and screaming from it's pre-OK Computer days and then got it down both live and on record heart/brain/groin meltingly beautifully.
It's about time someone reminded the buggers that 'Lift' is still in limbo and needs some lovin'.
I agree with badgertastic,
there's some lovely shiny nuggets lurking in the early b-sides. 'Coke Babies', 'Million Dollar Question', 'Stupid Car', 'Killer Cars', 'Maquilladora' (although the live version was better), 'Banana Co' - I'd love to hear all of them again. And the Punk RockTM version of 'Thinking About You' from the Drill EP is good for a chortle.
PS
Gareth Dobson is on the money here, sorry Mike
not with The Gloaming he isn't
mine is worse but...
1. 2+2=5
2. Just
3. Airbag
4. Sail To The Moon
5. Idioteque
6. Kid A
7. Nude
8. There There
9. Paranoid Android
10. I Might Be Wrong
11. Reckoner
12. The National Anthem
13.Planet Talex
14. Lucky
15. Exit Music (For A Film
true dat
although i like the song - prove yourself (drill ep version) would be better
1. Airbag
2. National Anthem
3. Black Star
4. You and Whose Army?
5. Reckoner
6. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
7. Optimistic
8. Let Down
9. Planet Telex
10. Idioteque
11. Pyramid Song
12. Karma Police
13. Everything in it's Right Place
14. How to Disappear Completely
15. Where I End and You Begin (The Sky is Falling In)
There you go.
oh, no XL
wish I could read.
Replace 5. Reckoner with Climbing Up the Walls then.
Talk Show Host
without being too nerdy, has gotta be in amongst it. frekin tune.
and also that True Love Waits from the live album would be in mine. bloody tune that.
I prefer
the Live mini album version of Like Spinning Plates...
both awesome though
I am also sad to miss off My Iron Lung and Airbag and god knows what else.
if EMI are clever, they'll do a nice 38-odd track double CD with some rareties spliced in there...
In fact, I might post my definitive double CD version later when I get bored...
x
I'd put 'Banana Co' on there
fo sho. And 'High And Dry'.
(not really 'high and dry')
True Love Waits
but they should just use the mp3 thats been floating online since 2000 as it has the lovely synthy bleeps in the background and is still the best version of it
absolutely spot on - that version is genius
try and convince the band of that though :-(
Where is Graham Reed's Top 15 Tracks?
I doubt much Kid A got on there:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/2419
Singles
Let face it - EMI is not going to be slipping in everyone's favorite lesser known album tracks here. I'm sure it will be primarily a singles comp, which may look something like this:
1. Anyone Can Play Guitar (1993)
2. Creep (1993)
3. Fake Plastic Trees (1995)
4. Just (1995)
5. High and Dry (1995)
6. Paranoid Android (1997)
7. Karma Police (1997)
8. No Surprises (1998)
9. Optimistic (2000)
10. Idioteque (2000)
11. Pyramid Song (2001)
12. Knives Out (2001)
13. I Might Be Wrong (2001)
14. There There (2003)
15. Go To Sleep (2003)
16. 2+2=5 (2003)
Add
Street Spirit to that and you might be on the money for an EMI compiled release.
I bet it'll
open/close with Creep.
Sulk and Let Down
are the best radiohead songs.
Wow,
I thought I was the only person who thought that Sulk and Let Down were their best songs. :-D
No Pop Is Dead?!
It's too difficult. I'll have a think. Exit Music would definitely be in there. The Gloaming would not!
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"?
surely there's enough Radiohead to fill a best of, without having to stick Dylan songs on there as well.
Here's Mine:
1) Fake Plastic Trees
2) Just
3) Street Spirit (Fade Out)
4) Let Down
5) Karma Police
6) Climbing Up the Walls
7) Everything in Its Right Place
8) Idioteque
9) Motion Picture Soundtrack
10) Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
11) Pyramid Song
12) I Might Be Wrong
13) 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)
14) There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)
15) A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll.)
I really wanted to include "Exit Music (For a Film)"-- amongst others-- but, alas, narrowing Radiohead's entire EMI career down to a mere 15 tracks is very difficult indeed.
As has already been said, in reality, it'll almost certainly be a singles compilation. How sad. But, hey, it'll introduce a lot of people to Radiohead, so it's not all *that* bad.
these songs, mabe shuffle the order somewhat...
1. Morning Bell
2. Black Star
3. Let Down
4. How to disappear completely
5. There There
6. Idioteque
7. Like Spinning Plates
8. Climbing up the walls
9. Permanent Daylight
10. Where i end and you begin
11. True Love Waits
12. Karma Police
13. I might be wrong
14. street spirit (fade out)
15. Motion Picture Soundtrack
*16. Lift (bonus track)
anyone reading these?
thought not. fuck it.
1. the bends
2. my iron lung
3. paranoid android
4. subteranean homesick alien
5. exit music (for a film)
6. karma police
7. no surprises
8. everything in its right place
9. motion picture soundtrack
10. pyramid song
11. you and whos army
12. hunting bears
13. 2+2=5
14. there there
15. reckoner
no In Rainbows songs
you bell.
Would love to see this
1) Coke Babies
2) Vegetable
3) Prove Yourself
4) Pop Is Dead
5) Inside My Head
6) Bones
7) Electioneering
8) Fitter Happier
9) Melatonin
10) Hunting Bears
11) Where Bluebirds Fly
12) Paperbag Writer
13) We Suck Young Blood
14) Innocents Civilian
15) We Suck Young Blood (again)
but seriously
1) Everything In It's Right Place
2) Creep
3) Fake Plastic Trees
4) There There
5) Lucky
6) Pyramid Song
7) My Iron Lung
8) Paranoid Android
9) Idioteque
10) Just
11) No Surprises
12) Talk Show Host
13) How To Disappear Completely
14) Karma Police
15) Street Spirit (Fade Out)
my 15 for a penny
1. planet telex
2. high and dry
3. street spirit
4. airbag
5. karma police
6. lucky
7. everything in it's right place
8. national anthem
9. how to disappear
10. idioteque
11. packt like sardines (live jools holland fuzzbazz version)
12. pyramid song
13. there there
14. nude
15. exit music for a film
hidden bonus b-side : if it's best b-side people will want talk show host...
but i like a bit of killer cars (acoustic), young and idealistic
yes
the live acoustic version of killer cars kicking around is the best version, awesome song, a b-side collection would be ace.
assuming every album needs to be represented by at least one song
this is the definitive best fifteen songs given that criteria in their best running order...
1 - Airbag
2 - The Bends
3 - Paranoid Android
4 - Just
5 - My Iron Lung
6 - Lucky
7 - Pyramid Song
8 - There There
9 - Idioteque
10 - You Never Wash Up After Yourself
11 - Stop Whispering
12 - Fake Plastic Trees
13 - Steet Spirit
14 - The Tourist
15 - Motion Picture Soundtrack
just reading through the others...
I'm absolutely shocked that not everyone has included Airbag, possibly the best alternative pop song both musically, and melodically, ever written.
here here
and that's without even saying how it's one of the greatest openers ever
As if
Creep won't be on it
This...
1. Paranoid Android
2. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
3. Punch Up At A Wedding
4. Idioteque
5. Knives Out
6. Pyramid Song
7. 15 Steps
8. Exit Music (For A Film)
9. There There
10. No Surprises
12. Creep
13. I Might Be Wrong
14. Videotape
15. Karma Police
It obviously has to be-
1) 2+2=5
2) Paranoid Android
3) Idioteque
4) Just
5) Electioneering
6) Pyramid Song
7) Exit Music (for a film)
8) Creep
9) Street Spirit
10) Planet Telex
11) Karma Police
12) Knives Out
13) The National Anthem
14) Airbag
15) Everything In It's Right Place
I forgot to mention, this is in no particular order.
:)
Id go with
1. 2+2=5
2. Paranoid Android
3. Creep
4. The Trickster
5. Just
6. Everything In Its Right Place
7. The National Anthem
8. Life In A Glass House
9. Idioteque
10. Lucky
11. Street Spirit
12. Pyramid Song
13. I Might Be Wrong (live)
14. My Iron Lung
15. Like Spinning Plates
16. Exit Music (For A Film)
Essentially if Electioneering, Just and My Iron Lung aren't in your list
You've failed.
Radiohead Mixtape
I might actually just make this mix instead of buying the EMI version.
1. The National Anthem (from 'Kid A')
2. Anyone Can Play Guitar (from 'Pablo Honey')
3. Black Star (from 'The Bends')
4. There There (from 'Hail To The Thief')
5. Talk Show Host (from 'Romeo & Juliet OST')
6. Climbing Up The Walls (from 'OK Computer')
7. Lucky (from 'OK Computer')
8. House Of Cards (from 'In Rainbows')
9. Fake Plastic Trees (from 'The Bends')
10. Knives Out (from 'Amnesiac')
11. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi (from 'In Rainbows')
12. Idioteque (from 'Kid A')
13. Sulk (from 'The Bends')
14. Karma Police (from 'OK Computer')
15. Creep (from 'Pablo Honey')
Bonus Track. The Clock (from Thom Yorke's solo album, 'The Eraser')
.
anyone not including arpeggi is not worth talking to ever again
*Joins in*
Maybe not this order, but just 15 tracks.
1) Creep
2) Stop Whispering
3) Just
4) Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5) Fake Plastic Trees
6) Paranoid Android
7) No Surprises
8) Everything In Its Right Place
9) Idioteque
10) Pyramid Song
11) I Might Be Wrong
12) True Love Waits
13) There There
14) 2+2=5
15) Where I End and You Begin
I reckon that would be a decent Radiohead sampler.
Fk it why not....
1. Pop is dead
2. Banana Co.
3. Just
4. Black star
5. My iron lung
6. Let Down
7. Paranoid Android
8. Idioteque
9. Everything in its right place
10. The national anthem
11. Packt like sardines in a crushd tin box
12. Knives out
13. 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)
14. There there (The boney king of nowhere.)
15. Where I end and you begin (The sky is falling in.)
wot no In Rainbows tracks?
e.g Arpeggi/Weird Fishes?
It's only EMI stuff.
ie. no XL, so no In Rainbows.
airbag only features once above?
Obviously tosh then.
fuck it
1) 2+2=5
2) Let Down
3) The Bends
4) Where I End And You Begin
5) The Trickster
6) Everything In Its Right Place
7) Street Spirit (Fade Out)
8) Knives Out
9) Exit Music (For A Film)
10) Sail To The Moon
11) Life In A Glasshouse (Full Length Version)
12) High And Dry
13) Fog
14) Lucky
15) Fake Plastic Trees
Pearly* deserves a place I'd say..
1 The Bends
2 Just
3 Creep
4 Pop Is Dead
5 Airbag
6 Pyramid Song
7 Lucky
8 Karma Police
9 Pearly*
10 Knives Out
11 Fake Plastic Trees
12 Paranoid Android
13 Everything In Its Right Place
14 There There
15 Sail To The Moon
My 15
1. 2+2=5
2. Exit Music
3. Planet Telex
4. How To Disappear Completely
5. Paranoid Android
6. Dollars and Cents
7. I Might Be Wrong
8. Life in a Glasshouse
9. The Bends
10. Let Down
11. Idioteque
12. The Gloaming
13. Nude
14. Weird Fishes
15. Motion Picture Soundtrack
Something like
1Airbag
2Kid A
3Lift
4Ideoteque
5Anyone Can Play Guitar
6Black Star
7Scatterbrain
8Gagging Order
9Pop Is Dead
10 Sulk
11 How Can You Be Sure?
12 True Love Waits (dunno if they have rights to a decent version), if not Palo Alto or Sulk maybe
13Everything In It's Right Place
14A Wolf At the Door
15Life In A Glasshouse