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In Rainbows is still a top 3 album of all time, reaches peaks nothing else can match imo. Perfectly consistent listening throughout, flows beautifully with no skips necessary.

If you want more and you've already hit all the B sides (Amazing Sounds is so fucking good), The Smile has been awesome. Some of their work is maybe a bit too Thom Yorke-y for many people but some of the songs arguably surpass Radiohead.

Check out Open The Floodgates, Teleharmonic, and Bending Hectic (insane song)
 
I am a heretic because I hate Kid A. Everything merges into the same interminable electronic beeping and it goes on for fucking ever. Except... How to Disappear Completely. It's a fucking masterpiece and may be their best song.

OK Computer is in my top 3 albums of all time. Pretty close to perfection and incredibly prescient in its lyrical themes about how we get bullied and oppressed by our own technology.
 
Spunt said:
I am a heretic because I hate Kid A
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I wasn’t sure at first, but I’ve liked it more over time. I don’t think it has the same ‘flow’ as any of their other albums, it feels more disjointed somehow.
How to disappear completely is beautiful. I also like pyramid song, and morning bell and idioteque. The whole thing does capture the feeling of being completely fucked off with everything and wanting to step out of the world for a bit.
I wonder if there will be any new material on the back of the tour? Would be nice if there was.
 
I have some unpopular Radiohead thoughts.

1) Kid A was a near-total disaster, a literal satanic psyop. The degenerate morons who prefer it to OK Computer should all be executed for treason against art, good taste, God, etc.

2) That means most active Radiohead fans, who inexplicably prefer the post-OKC era. Merely brainwashed? Or is the musically-limp effete nihilism speaking to something in their rotten soul? I don't care. Their anti-accurate preference for the obviously-inferior latter era of Radiohead helped murder music this century. Yes, this stuff is objective ENOUGH, by the way, art is NOT purely subjective, and there is most definitely not just room to dispute gustibuses, but a duty to destrrrrrrrroy bad taste, because bad taste = dysgenics. Any racist who thinks blackness is dysgenic but who also loves the Kid A and after era of Radiohead more than the OK Computer and before era doesn't understand how CULTURAL dysgenics is, loving Kid A is wayyyyyyyyyy more dysgenic than being black. Might as well have Spiritual AIDS.

3) Half of Amnesiac is great, though.

4) But of course, the other shittier, weaker songs on Amnesiac are what active Radiohead stans generally prefer. Naturally.

5) Radiohead should have been known for the last 20+ years as THE cultural champions, BY FARRRRRR, by leaps and fucking bounds, of 9/11 Foreknowledge. Klosterman's chapter is the most useless, writerly, faggy, inauthentic, eeeeeevil, limited Limited Hangout you'll ever encounter...once you realize how obviously Radiohead knew 9/11 was going to happen. Here's some of the proof:

 
Rolex said:
In Rainbows is still a top 3 album of all time, reaches peaks nothing else can match imo. Perfectly consistent listening throughout, flows beautifully with no skips necessary.
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I largely have to agree. I sometimes think that OK Computer has better peaks in terms of individual songs, but In Rainbows always feels like a complete piece in and of itself, and there are very few albums out there that I think can match it in its totality.
I do wonder if part of the support for OKC is the typical per-song/Best-Of listening that happens now as opposed to singular albums. Having the end of a song lead into the next in some form just feels so much better due to the familiarity, I think.

It helps that I really like the B-sides... 4 Minute Warning is a pretty good morning alarm.

I know it's not technically "Radiohead", but I've been enjoying Hearing Damage by Yorke a good bit recently. It's nice to have something that drones while working on a project, and I wonder how much of that came from being around my father while he worked on his own.
 
The Big HC said:
I largely have to agree. I sometimes think that OK Computer has better peaks in terms of individual songs, but In Rainbows always feels like a complete piece in and of itself, and there are very few albums out there that I think can match it in its totality.
I do wonder if part of the support for OKC is the typical per-song/Best-Of listening that happens now as opposed to singular albums. Having the end of a song lead into the next in some form just feels so much better due to the familiarity, I think.

It helps that I really like the B-sides... 4 Minute Warning is a pretty good morning alarm.

I know it's not technically "Radiohead", but I've been enjoying Hearing Damage by Yorke a good bit recently. It's nice to have something that drones while working on a project, and I wonder how much of that came from being around my father while he worked on his own.
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I think you hit the nail on the head for me regarding how I view the comparison between OK Computer and In Rainbows. I can listen to every song in In Rainbows front to back no problem, and although songs like Airbag and Electioneering blow me away every time I hear them, there are a small handful of songs on OK Computer that make it difficult for me to justify listening to the record front to back. Perhaps a factor in that is that it’s arguably more ambitious than In Rainbows, and thus runs a larger risk of tracks that could be a bit more hit or miss in comparison.
 
I'm a sucker for Optimistic and Everything In Its Right Place, though.
Otterly said:
Or was it d. Other (the Mud.)
@TeaBaggins one if my favourite videos. Dark Brambly Hedge vibe. Love it
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This is the best version of that song.
 
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