That's enough fun, thankyou.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

To celebrate POPTIMISM tonight, who better to feature in the Canon Poll than...erm...



Yes, well, let's get onto the poll shall we.


[Poll #864577]


THE PANIC THE VOMIT.

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I tick anyone can play guitar PURELY for an awesome live version where the guitar sounds like 10000 BOSCH HAMMERDRILLS. The version on the album is "mince" as ultraruby would say.

[cis.livejournal.com]

After living in oxford for two years with nary a thom yorke sighting, suddenly this year I see him on a weekly basis, walking the other way from me along the broad. I still get a little excited thrill inside that I probably cover up by looking sour and mean in his direction. (obv if i saw ed o'brien i would implode with love&adoration as he is 1xactual ROCK STAR)

ok computer was my favourite album in the world ever ever ever for very many years; I'm not ashamed; or maybe I am, but I'm trying not to be.

None More Indie

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

5 votes in - NO TICKS FOR CREEP.

Re: None More Indie

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

& also the voting is confirming my suspicion that this will be a surprisingly close run canon.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

For me, I think part of the reason I haven't listened to that album in so long is that it is SO closely tied - even more so than most albums I've loved - with a particular time and place. It would be like LITERALLY wearing a black overcoat and wandering down Broad Street thinking about posh girls again.

I would defend 'Let Down' to death, though.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Bands like Radiohead are really quite rubbish at choosing what to put out as a single, are they not?

Re: None More Indie

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i ticked it. it is a good song. about a grillion (roughly) times more fun to listen to than anything post Bends. ok computer killed any liking i had for this band in the way that everything after live forever killed oasis.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think there's a lot of twaddle on OKC, but its first three songs fulfil the um Radiohead 'brand promise' pretty amazingly.

Re: None More Indie

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

"more fun than OK Computer and its successors" = most backhanded compliment EVAH

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

At least they made the right decision with Kid A (i.e. NONE OF THIS AWFULNESS)

[cis.livejournal.com]

I thought both 'Lucky' and 'Airbag' were singles! so. confused.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Never 'eard of 'em. Are they "new rave"? ;)

I have never heard...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

OK Computer.

Am I missing out?

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I always thought there were more off Pablo Honey. 'You' or Ripchord' or summink ?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Lucky' is the one Radiohead song I actively like!

also tolerable is 'Climbing Up The Walls' off OKC as it is trip-hop innit and you can't actually hear T Yorke's voice very well.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I thought that Morning Bell and Idioteque were singles too! And Lucky - tho they did Lucky for that charity album, and it had a video and everything to support the album sales, so I guess that's where we could be getting mixed up.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Oh and Airbag was a collection of OK Computer B-sides that also had Airbag on for no reason & Lucky was just on that War Child charity compilation album, I think.

Re: I have never heard...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

NO! i heard it on repeat play (against my will) when it was out and it is dreadful.

Re: I have never heard...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No.

(I used to own it. It has its moments, which are actually really unmomentous compared to actual moments, but is really really unremarkable and the critical love BEMUSES me. what are these people hearing in this boring music?! what?!)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Because I am ACTUALLY NOT AWAKE, I wrote 'Knives Out' where I meant to write 'Fake Plastic Trees' in my 'best' one. Sorry about that.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Lucky was definitely a single, got to #38 or something. I would have given it a ticky had it been in there.

Airbag was the first track off a mini-album so probably doesn't count.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I thought Idiotheque was a single too. And it would have been my favourite if it had.

Re: I have never heard...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

1. It's very pretty
2. They have a great knack of making guitars not sound like guitars and making cool noises
3. They are very good at doing crescendos

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Check that lack of consensus.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Yes. Why Idioteque was never a single when it was clearly THE BEST THING THEY HAVE EVER WRITTEN is beyond me.