Best Radiohead Song

[VanillaBean]

Quick question my fellow Escapists.

What is the best song by the band Radiohead?

My personal favorite would have to be Jigsaw Falling Into Place, with Karma Police and Optimistic being tied for close second.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

#1 - Fake Plastic Trees
#2 - High and Dry
#3 - Let Down
#4 - Karma Police
#5 - Idioteque

 

[GrandmaFunk]

obviously it would be this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCArGNKLR8

 

[Trololo Punk]

Not the biggest Radiohead fan but I always thought Creep was an amazing song.

 

[DustyDrB]

Mine is "All I Need". I think most of my favorite songs of theirs come from In Rainbows. "House of Cards" is probably second.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

That's a really hard question. Both Ok Computer an Kid A would probably have the most contenders for that title... Right now I'm listening to Exit Music(For a film) and it's one of my favourites all because of about thirty seconds of mind-bogglingly awesome synth and drum work.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

Thank you for making this thread!!

My favorite songs keep on changing, but at the moment it would probably be:


OK Computer and Kid A are my favorite albums at the moment.

 

[gazumped]

I get different phases of wanting to listen to particular songs all the time (pretty much anything from OK Computer or In Rainbows) but I just keep Paranoid Android pegged as my favourite song in general. I guess because it lasts, it's got variety so it suits a lot of different moods, and the last part makes a satisfying ending and you can air guitar to it...

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'd say OK Computer in its entirety.

Airbag
Paranoid Android
Exit Music
Karma Police
No Surprises

Each one of these songs is frikkin' amazing.

Everything In its Right Place from Kid A, and Go To Sleep, Where I End and You Begin, and We Suck Young Blood from Hail to the Thief also rank high.

 

[A Raging Emo]

In no particular order:

The Bends
Paranoid Android
Thinking About You
Idioteque
15 Step

In my humble opinion.

 

[The Afrodactyl]

In no particular order:

Creep
Paranoid Android
15 Step
Exit Music For A Film
2 + 2 = 5

 

[Cerdog]

In no particular order:

Paranoid Android
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Climbing Up The Walls
How To Disappear Completely
Let Down


You can probably guess I like the ballad-y Radiohead more than either their rocky stuff or the electronic things (although both have exceptions, such as Sulk and Idioteque respectively). I really like Hail To The Thief as an album as well, but it's hard to choose any of the songs as Radiohead's best. If I did, they would be There There, I Will and 2+2=5, but then there are so many I've left off as well.

 

[Jazoni89]

Just about everything on Kid A except for the last track.

Sheer brilliance burned on to a disc.

Also, not technically Radiohead, but the Unkle song Rabbit in your Headlights featuring Thom Yorke is one of my favourite Trip-hop tunes.

 

[Lederin]

No one has said Street Spirit? :O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk&ob=av3e

I really like High and Dry and Just as well

 

[ciancon]

Idioteque is probably my favourite but all of the Best Of album is great.
Other then that...Bodysnatchers is pretty cool too.

 

[Golden Hawk]

Pyramid Song. Also, do a search for the song 'Lift', they've never released it but it sounds brilliant (I think it was somewhere between the bends and kid a era)

 

[Blunderboy]

High and Dry, Idiotique, No Surprises, Fake Plastic Trees and Creep are probably my favourites.
I really like the cover versions Amanda Palmer did on her Ukulele.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Dollars And Cents, Reckoner, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Pyramid Song, Little By Little, Wolf At The Door, The Butcher, Idioteque, Bloom and 2+2=5 have all held the position for me at some point. I guess right now though, it would be Pyramid Song