Radiohead Band • Page 92

It’s been years since I’ve listened to most of Radiohead’s albums so shout out to this thread for sparking my motivation to revisit their discography this week. Looking forward to seeing if any of my thoughts have changed since 2019, which I think is the last time I listened to most of their albums from start to finish

 

Read a bit about Radiohead's disappointment with Hail to the Thief and rediscovered Thom's alternate tracklist, so I started there and did some fine-tuning to make a 10-track version that I think flows really well and tackles some of my issues with the record proper. Anyone else listen to Thom's version or play around with their own? I call mine Sail to the Moon

1. There, There
2. Go To Sleep
3. Sail to the Moon
4. Sit Down. Stand Up.
5. Where I End and You Begin
6. Scatterbrain
7. We Suck Young Blood
8. 2+2=5
9. Myxomatosis
10. A Wolf at the Door

 

the album is pretty much perfect as is

 

Hot take: should have been an ep imo

There There
Sail to the Moon
Myxo
Scatterbrain
Wolf
Gagging Order

Like half the rest is fine and the bottom 4 or so are lowest tier Radiohead for me

 

its bloated and inconsistent but HttT is definitely to probably better than PH, Bends, OKC, KoL, AMSP on the whole

 

Bloated and inconsistent but better than OKC!?

 

This HTTF slander should not be tolerated

 

y’all really say anything

 

Very very easily worst non PH album, feel like putting it above OKC is way more wild than saying half of it sucks

 

I don't even think it sucks lol I just think it's unfocused and sprawling in a way that their other records (PH aside) aren't

 

these days, probably. except for a track or two.

 

very very easily a bad and wrong post

 

theyre both great albums i dont see the problem here haha

i like HttT more than OKC these days but there are some HttT tracks that i skip. i dont listen to either very often.

im kinda just entrenched in the Amnesiac, Kid A, In Rainbows superiority

also Toms latest solo work and now Smile are REALLY doing it for me. i think hes put out some of his very best work recently, and thats crazy at this point, and that its not RH.

 

In Rainbows
AMSP
the rest

 

honestly haven’t listened to HTTT in full very many times, but Where I End and You Begin is one of my favorite Radiohead songs.

 

HTTT is a great record, it has some filler. Both things are true.

 

scatterbrain too. there there might be their best song.

 

I can definitely get behind There, There as their best song. Somewhere in my top 5-10 for sure.

and because I can’t let mention of a song that has a great alternate version go without posting it, this is what made me love Scatterbrain:

 

i used to just play Knives Out and There There back to back over and over

 

Speaking of alternate versions, Thom played a solo show recently with a lot of great alternate/acoustic versions, some of them being the first time he's played them solo - Bodysnatchers, These Are My Twisted Words, Daydreaming, Decks Dark, Pana-vision

Here's a playlist of the whole show

 

Wild setlist.

If not for Weird Fishes I honestly might have Decks Dark highest of any post HTTT Radiohead song. Best on its album, better than anything on TKOL, as good or better than most of IR. It just feels so much like his OKC-Amnesiac era songwriting.

 

Honestly some of the song structures and general vibes of AMSP remind me most of HTTT, just more focused and condensed. A more natural progression from In Rainbows (and I say that loving TKOL)