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I believe A Moon Shaped Pool is now on spotify. Please, if you've made an album list and haven't yet listened to it, try to do so. It's running a tight race with another album and I'd hate for it to lose simply due to the fact that less people have listed it.

3 days remain to vote.

I'm voting, Bleu! I'm voting! A Moon-Shaped Pool is in my queue! I might get my votes up for tonight. So far I'm thinking my #1 album is going to seriously piss a lot of people off though...

Albums
01 | In Rainbows
02 | Kid A
03 | OK Computer
04 | The King of Limbs
05 | Hail to the Thief
06 | A Moon Shaped Pool
07 | Amnesiac
08 | I Might Be Wrong
09 | The Bends
10 | Pablo Honey

Songs
01 | All I Need
02 | Idioteque
03 | Creep
04 | Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi
05 | No Surprises
06 | There There
07 | House of Cards
08 | The National Anthem
09 | Just
10 | Optimistic
11 | 2 + 2= 5
12 | How to Disappear Completely
13 | Climbing Up the Walls
14 | Reckoner
15 | Lotus Flower
16 | Burn the Witch
17 | Paranoid Android
18 | Let Down
19 | Everything in it’s Right Place
20 | Pyramid Song
21 | Little by Little
22 | 15 Step
23 | Airbag
24 | Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box
25 | In Limbo

babydoll wrote:So far I'm thinking my #1 album is going to seriously piss a lot of people off though...

Aww don't think like that, babydoll! We're pretty nice people! The only one that would truly piss me off is Pablo Honey, but even then, it's just an opinion.

babydoll wrote:I might get my votes up for tonight. So far I'm thinking my #1 album is going to seriously piss a lot of people off though...

I won't get pissed off. IMO, when it comes to Radiohead, songs or albums, there is no wrong answer.

prosecutorgodot wrote:

babydoll wrote:So far I'm thinking my #1 album is going to seriously piss a lot of people off though...

Aww don't think like that, babydoll! We're pretty nice people! The only one that would truly piss me off is Pablo Honey, but even then, it's just an opinion.

It's not Pablo Honey, at least. Anyway, my rankings:

Albums:
01 | The King of Limbs
02 | The Bends
03 | Amnesiac
04 | In Rainbows
05 | OK Computer
06 | Kid A
07 | A Moon-Shaped Pool
08 | Pablo Honey
09 | Hail to the Thief (the only Radiohead album I passionately disliked)

Songs:
01 | Fake Plastic Trees
02 | Pyramid Song
03 | Idioteque
04 | Burn the Witch
05 | True Love Waits
06 | Spectre
07 | Electioneering
08 | Nude
09 | Nobody Does It Better (bootleg live recording)
10 | Planet Telex
11 | Street Spirit (Fade Out)
12 | Lotus Flower
13 | Everything In Its Own Place
14 | Life in a Glasshouse
15 | High and Dry

Minor change to my songs list, Glass Eyes has grown on me a lot

Albums as it was

1. Climbing Up The Walls
2. Paranoid Android
3. How To Disappear Completely
4. Pyramid Song
5. Reckoner
6. Karma Police
7. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
8. Idioteque
9. There There
10. Everything In Its Right Place
11. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
12. Let Down
13. All I Need
14. Motion Picture Soundtrack
15. A Wolf At The Door
16. Daydreaming
17. Exit Music (for a Film)
18. Fake Plastic Trees
19. Nude
20. Kid A
21. Glass Eyes
22. Sit Down Stand Up
23. In Limbo
24. The Tourist
25. True Love Waits

babydoll, you voted for Nude twice, and is "Everything Has Its Own Place" supposed to be "Everything In Its Right Place"?

Albums

1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. Amnesiac
4. A Moon Shaped Pool
5. The Bends
6. In Rainbows
7. Hail to the Thief

Abstain: The King of Limbs, Pablo Honey, I Might Be Wrong

Songs

1. The National Anthem
2. Paranoid Android
3. Everything in its Right Place
4. Pyramid Song
5. Climbing Up the Walls
6. Idioteque
7. Let Down
8. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
9. Burn the Witch
10. Life in a Glasshouse
11. Lucky
12. No Surprises
13. Optimistic
14. There There
15. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
16. How to Disappear Completely
17. Daydreaming
18. Karma Police
19. Just
20. Reckoner
21. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
22. Exit Music (For a Film)
23. In Limbo
24. 15 Step
25. Identikit

BleuPanda wrote:babydoll, you voted for Nude twice, and is "Everything Has Its Own Place" supposed to be "Everything In Its Right Place"?

Fixed on both accounts. I somehow had "Nude" confused with "High and Dry". And, sorry, but I still get the latter's title confused.

So, let's see...the deadline for the poll is tomorrow, which I'm going to take to mean midnight CST. However, since I will be sleeping during that time, as long as you have it in by 7 am CST on the morning of the 21st, it will be included.

I spent nearly as long putting my songs list together as I did trying to remember my old username....

Albums

1. OK Computer
2. In Rainbows
3. Kid A
4. Hail to the Thief
5. The King of Limbs
6. Amnesiac
7. The Bends
8. A Moon Shaped Pool
9. Pablo Honey

Songs

1. Cuttooth
2. Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)
3. The National Anthem
4. Let Down
5. Gagging Order
6. Motion Picture Soundtrack
7. How To Disappear Completely
8. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
9. Nude
10. No Surprises
11. Pyramid Song
12. A Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Rag Doll)
13. Knives Out
14. Electioneering
15. House Of Cards
16. Separator
17. 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
18. Idioteque
19. Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes & Ladders)
20. There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere)
21. The Bends
22. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
23. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
24. 15 Step
25. The Tourist

33 song lists submitted! (and a few less album lists)

I was not expecting these numbers, so this is a pleasant surprise.

This poll's finally inspired me to join after years of lurking.

Albums

1. OK Computer
2. The Bends
3. Kid A
4. A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Hail To The Thief
6. Pablo Honey
7. Amnesiac
8. In Rainbows
9. The King Of Limbs

Songs

1. Exit Music (For A Film)
2. No Surprises
3. Karma Police
4. Reckoner
5. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
6. Idioteque
7. Pyramid Song
8. Burn The Witch
9. Everything In Its Right Place
10. Paranoid Android
11. The Bends
12. Lucky
13. Creep
14. Decks Dark
15. Ripcord
16. I Will
17. Identikit
18. Motion Picture Soundtrack
19. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
20. Fake Plastic Trees
21. Talk Show Host
22. High & Dry
23. Man O' War (Big Boots)
24. Thinking About You
25. A Reminder

As others have said, the songs list is hard. In my opinion, Exit Music is the Mount Everest of OK Computer (with the bit where the big bass line kicks in being the summit) but in terms of an 'opportunity cost', it's difficult to deny that the album would suffer more from Paranoid Android being left out.

Albums

1. The Bends
2. OK Computer
3. Kid A
4. Amnesiac
5. In Rainbows
6. Hail To The Thief
7. A Moon Shaped Pool
8. The King Of Limbs
9. Pablo Honey

Songs

1. Pyramid Song
2. Karma Police
3. Creep
4. Lucky
5. Paranoid Android
6. My Iron Lung
7. Reckoner
8. You And Whose Army?
9. Just
10. Everything In Its Right Place
11. Idioteque
12. How To Disappear Completely
13. There there.
14. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
15. Let Down
16. 15 Step
16. 2+2=5
17. Burn The Witch
18. Decks Dark
19. Optimistic
20. Life In A Glass House
21. No Surprises
22. Fake Plastic Trees
23. High And Dry
24. The National Anthem
25. Spectre

Albums ranking:

1. Kid A
2. OK Computer
3. The Bends
4. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
5. Amnesiac
6. In Rainbows
7. A Moon Shaped Pool
8. Hail to the Thief
9. The King of Limbs
10. Pablo Honey

No songs ranking, because I hate ranking songs.

Well, I wasn't going to contribute to this topic initially, because I belong to an apparently otherwise empty in-between kind of people who are both annoyed by classic rock machoistic and hedonistic posturing, and Thom Yorke's whining and paranoia; and who top it all off with believing that despite some truly great moments, Radiohead's post-Kid A career is vastly overrated. That's right, I don't really like Radiohead. However, since I coincidentally did a run-through of their discography recently to write a (mixed) review for A Moon Shaped Pool on my Facebook page, I decided that I might just give it a shot. For the occasion, I did my first listenings of Pablo Honey and I Might Be Wrong, and while listening to the former was amusing — as Dinosaur Jr. imitators, they weren't actually half bad, which is a polite way of saying that more than half of the record was worth a shot, even though if I wanted a Dinosaur Jr. fix, I'd rather listen to the real thing, thank you very much — listening to the latter was enlightening. I thoroughly disagree with everyone who listened to it ranking it that low; the album features great performances of Kid A and Amnesiac material, full of energy and fun. Perhaps the fact that these performances are this great is frustrating to actual Radiohead fans, who might have wished for a full, career-retrospective live album featuring such magnetic performances instead of an oddly self-restrained 40 minutes-long album, but for a casual Radiohead listener like me, it was a more than satisfying listen.

Pierre wrote:
No songs ranking, because I hate ranking songs.

I'm with you I don't either. I'm just not a songs person at all.

Well, I'm off to bed for the night. If you still haven't submitted, do so in the next few hours. I will begin the presentation sometime tomorrow.