Favorite Radiohead album?

[xenon]

The Bends for me too

Yeah and me. Although TBF I haven't given the others a proper listen.

 

[xenon]

Right have Hail to the Theif on my PC here. The track order is messed up but I'm playing it now.

 

[AndyO'C]

Pablo Honey has gotta be the best, just because it was how I first heard em - and it can't have only 1 vote!!

Can't care for all the other stuff they did (dull, dull, dull) but Kid A is really amazing also.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

With good reason, it's their weakest release to date.

There's some brilliant tracks on 'hail to the thief' but I find it doesn't flow very well as an album.

 

[Detroit City]

No contest - The Bends.
Still just as fucking brilliant as the first time I heard it.

innit?

Yeah me too...wow didn't realise they aint put anything out in four years...

I think they have a new effort scheduled for 2008.

 

[Crispy]

I really like 'Hail' apart from the filler tracks, which have been present in the last 3 rh albums.

OKC it is then. Clsasic record, IMO and totally of its time.

 

[Detroit City]

OKC it is then. Clsasic record, IMO and totally of its time.

oh you broke the tie

for me I love both OKC and The Bends but I listen to the latter more so thats why I think its better.....but in the end it's all a matter of taste

 

[Johnny Vodka]

OK Computer
then
probably Amnesiac
then
probably a tie between Kid A and The Bends
then
HTTT
then
Pablo Honey

I like the live album too. Has everyone else forgotten about that?

 

[Detroit City]

I like the live album too. Has everyone else forgotten about that?

no, but it's really not new material

 

[clandestino]

I tend to think of Kid A and Amnesiac as one record. All the material was recorded at the same time, and there was talk of it being a double at one point. The two in conjuction are easily my favourite - I listened to OKC the other week and couldn't really see what the fuss was. I felt like that at the time as well, oddly enough. I loved the first two records, went off them around OKC, then came back to them with Kid A. There's some great songs on OKC, but as a whole it's not a patch on Kid Amnesiac.

 

[killer b]

okc is a bit rubbish isn't it? it sounds well dated...

 

[rollinder]

Somewhere between Kid A and OK Computer. Probably OK Computer by 1mm...

I do like Pablo Honey a lot. The Bends is most good too.

I have all of their albums!

Don't think I can choose, really

ok so I've nearly listened to every radiohead album so far today and I still can't choose
I have them all too - normal and book edition of Amnesiac and the map issue of Hail (both worth it for the illistartions)

eta: just realised the alternative title for There There is from a song on bagpuss - so that's why The Bony King Of Nowhere seemed familar

 

[treefrog]

OK Computer. I only heard it in full fairly recently and fell in love with it.

climbing up the walls is just superb...

 

[Detroit City]

I tend to think of Kid A and Amnesiac as one record.

i would agree with that

 

[eddiecurry]

Ah, happy memories watching them playing their little hearts out in front of about 100 people, supporting the Sultans of Ping at the Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh ...

 

[chupucabras]

Kid A for me.. never really got to grips with OK Computer or any of the earlier less electronic-y ones.

 

[William of Walworth]

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OKC it is then. Clsasic record, IMO and totally of its time.

Absolutely ...

I do like The Bends also, but OK Computer is best for me. Call me obvious but ...

I need to relisten to the other, later albums, none of them ever really grabbed me in the same way those two albums did.

And Pablo Honey is well overdue a relisten ...

 

[William of Walworth]

okc is a bit rubbish isn't it? it sounds well dated...

Dated does not necessarily mean rubbish though. In any case, I'm not sure whether it really is dated, or how much it matters if it does.

I agree with Crispy that the album is of its time, but still very very listenable for me ... I think its great in fact. Some classic tracks there.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

I tend to think of Kid A and Amnesiac as one record. All the material was recorded at the same time, and there was talk of it being a double at one point. The two in conjuction are easily my favourite - I listened to OKC the other week and couldn't really see what the fuss was. I felt like that at the time as well, oddly enough. I loved the first two records, went off them around OKC, then came back to them with Kid A. There's some great songs on OKC, but as a whole it's not a patch on Kid Amnesiac.

I always found 'Amnesiac' felt like the leftovers from 'Kid A' rather than an album in it's own right - far more filler than on 'Kid A'.

 

[clandestino]

I always found 'Amnesiac' felt like the leftovers from 'Kid A' rather than an album in it's own right - far more filler than on 'Kid A'.

I wish that more bands had "leftovers" the quality of "Pyramid Song" - easily Radiohead's finest moment IMO.

 

[Cloo]

I think for me it's OK Computer with Amenesiac close behind. Prefer Amnesiac to Kid A - I find it more consistent, although I like Kid A too.

They're one of the few bands I have more than two albums by - quite a lot bands I get all 'Meh, can't be bothered with another album' - but not Thom and co.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

There's some brilliant tracks on 'hail to the thief' but I find it doesn't flow very well as an album.

I really tried to get into the album but none of it stood out for me, just average to boring at best...

 

[killer b]

Dated does not necessarily mean rubbish though. In any case, I'm not sure whether it really is dated, or how much it matters if it does.

yeah, fair enough. i also think it sounds a bit rubbish as well as dated - i can hear what they're trying to do, but i don't think they manage it.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

I wish that more bands had "leftovers" the quality of "Pyramid Song" - easily Radiohead's finest moment IMO.

There are definately quality tracks on it, I just don't find it as consistent as 'Kid A'.

 

[stavros]

Whilst still pretty good, "Amnesiac" seems a bit like them paying lip service to those who felt short changed by "Kid A"'s lack of guitars. The latter feels so much like a formulated album, rather than "Amnesiac" which seems a little more like a collection of songs.

 

[Flashman]

The Bends for me.

 

[Mogden]

The Bends for me.

You can say that again!

Ditto for me I reckon although a few tracks on Amnesiac do really tug at my heartstrings.

 

[cliche guevara]

The Bends, just. (no pun intended)

OK Computer is a classic album and changed the way i percieve music, but i prefer to sing along to The Bends.

Also think HTTT is underrated, and I can imagine a lot of old Radiohead fans who didn't like Kid Amnesiac never giving it a chance.

 

[poului]

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These days I can only listen to Hail to the Thief (which is their best) and bits of the Bends.


Everything else feels a bit tired.

 

[xenon]

Right have Hail to the Theif on my PC here. The track order is messed up but I'm playing it now.

I'll be honest and say I got a bit bored. Didn't play the whole thing. Wasn't really in the mood for the maunful singing style.