Radiohead album knockout!
 

Which will be followed by a song knockout!
I've been wanting to do this for a while

You have two days! Happy voting!

When I read knockout I thought it would be one of the polls where you vote your least favorite, so I picked Pablo Honey without seeing "Which Radiohead album is the best/your favorite?"
Oh well. I would've voted Kid A as my favorite

Why is none not an option?

Did anyoen like Hail to the thief?
2+2=5 was great and there were a couple cool tunes but i thought that overall it was pretty bad

I don't really like Radiohead.

Oh fuck I wish I voted Amnesiac. I voted ok computer because, you know, the most diverse masterpiece of their career and everything.

But Amnesiac's got no votes and I'd say it's actually my favorite. Just not what I'd consider the best.

hail to the thief
hardest one for me to get into
but when i got into it, it was fucking amazing

runner up:
kid a

The Bends

i think OK computer is a bit overrated, and to clarify overrated is used not because it's not a great album, it is, but it's not a masterpiece and not the best album of the last 10 years

The Bends is really over looked, i think the track selection is far superior then OK Computer (but Paranoid Android is the best single song from either record)

OK computer is their best. Kid A in my opinion is their worst. People who diss Pablo Honey simply because of how old it is annoy me.

Radiohead shmadiohead, I was huge into them in highschool and I got so sick of them from all my friends playing them to death. I still break out OK computer and Pablo Honey from time to time. And of course the bends.

No, I just Believe that Pablo Honey sounds nothing like Radiohead, it's mainly Creep (A good song) with a lot of filler.

Pablo Honey has some decent songs in it like the song you perhaps which is an even better song then Creep in my opinion. Though I gotta Give it too you the other songs on Pablo Honey are pretty much Garbage.

So, I voted for Amnesiac becaus it's my favorite album by Radiohead by far.
The atmosphere on the album is so dark and bleak, I love it. And it includes some of my favorite songs such as I might be wrong, You and whose army?, Pyramid song, Like spinning plates and Life in a glasshouse (the xylophones in this song were an excellent idea)

There you go I think I've spend enough time writing bollocks.

Where the fuck is My Iron Lung EP?

THAT is my favourite!!!!

But since it's not an option, I voted for Kid A.

I can't believe so many people voted for OK computer.

OK Computer > The Bends > Kid A > Amnesiac > Hail > Pablo Honey

I hope the new album will be good, but most likely it will suck a cheetah's dick.

easy ... Kid A

REP
For Wesley Willis reference

The Bends bring back childhood memories, so its got my vote, and because its a great record.

Kid A

This is more exciting that watching horse races.

GO GO, KID A !!! I bet loads of cash on ya!!

i know yeah!!

c'mon Kid A, the money for the Kids shoes depend on you.

how will I tell my wife, when Pablo Honey wins???

OK Computer is just such a classic for me i'll always love it. It's the kind of record i can spend hours getting lost in with tracks like paranoid android, subterrean homesick alien,karma police, no surprises, airbag and electioneering. The record just gives off this great atmosphere.

26 hours remaining!! We have to break the tie!

Hey same! Though I'm 15 so i'm talking like about 4 and 5. I remember hearing some of their songs on the radio.

Kid A...no question about it

I totally agree! i adore Kid A, one of my favourite records ever, but i think OK Computer certainly deserves all the hype its gets, its just incredable

im sick of people telling me Muse are much better (WTF? their last album was a steaming pile of cowshit...although i do quite like Origin of Symmetry and Absolution)....anyways sometimes it feels like im the only person in south wales that loves Radiohead!

OK Computer
Because...

The opening riff for "Stockholm Syndrome" is one of my all-time favorite classic/metalish guitar riffs.

yeah Absolution really does rock....i just cant stand 'Black Holes and Revelations'.....and i dont think Muse are as good as Radiohead (Muse are a great band tho)

Totally agree about Muse, Absolution was a really good but "Black Holes" was so disappointing, Muse aren't up to par with Radiohead. Muse is an alright band, Radiohead are great.

Muse is bollocks.

right on _slavo_ right on.

tHe bEnDs

Unquestionably Kid A

No fair! Why was this poll only on for so short a time? Two days? Bullshit...

Anyway, Radiohead are pretty much my 3rd or 4th fave band of all time, so I don't think I could pick any one album as my favorite, so I'll just name the good and bad points of each one...

Pablo Honey: I don't understand why people rag on this one so much...maybe it's becuz there are some songs on here that wouldn't sound out of place alongside Gin Blossoms and Counting Crows ("Ripcord" and "I Can't" come easiest to mind), but "You", "Stop Whispering", "Anyone Can Play Guitar", "Blow Out", and yes, of course, "Creep" stand alongside their best.

The Bends: The first of three masterpieces, easily mixing pop/rock with more unusual fare. Although in hindsight this isn't all that far removed from Britpop (I personally have no problem with 90s Britpop), there are some twists and turns that make the songs unique, like how "My Iron Lung" switches from soaring melody to screaming discordance, and the choppy guitar part in "Bones".

OK Computer: It would be easy to be an indie snob and dis this one as overrated and the choice for fairweather music fans; after all it was their most popular album (unusual nowadays to think of "Karma Police" appearing on a record with Hanson's "MmmBop" and Lenny Kravitz' "Fly Away", as was the case with NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 1). But to me, like the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, this is one of the few times in history where an album actually deserved its popularity, critical praise, and subsequent status with music historians. Every song on here is great (though I'll admit I didn't like "No Surprises", Lucky", and "The Tourist" very much at first), with "Paranoid Android" making my list of favorite songs that I can never tire of. "Climbing Up The Walls" actually made me feel a little uncomfortable the first time I heard it...

Kid A: This was actually the first Radiohead album I bought, so I guess it wasn't as much of a culture shock to me as it might have been to those who'd gotten used to the idea of Radiohead as a guitar rock band, since there are no audible guitars on here until "Optimistic" (unless you count the bass on "The National Anthem" or the buried acoustic on "How To Disappear Completely"), six songs in. I like how the somewhat minimalist arrangements allows for the songs' melodies to take the forefront, and how they take elements of non-mainstream musical styles like IDM and free jazz and use them in songs completely apart from them-you wouldn't call "Idioteque" IDM or "The National Anthem" free jazz, would you? If fact, what kind of album would you call this general? It's not really rock, it's certainly not pop, and it's not wholely electronic either. It's just...music.

Amnesiac: To be quite honest, though I do like this album, I really don't listen to it very often. That said, there are some great songs on here, like "Pyramid Song", "Crushed Like Sardines In A Tin Box", "I Might Be Wrong", and "Knives Out". "Push/Pulk Revolving Doors" makes for an interesting change of pace, and "Like Spinning Plates" had me scratching my head to figure out how they got the drums to sound like that (until I learned the song was being played back in reverse; maybe someday with the time and equipment I'll "unreverse" the track to see I can figure out what Thom's singing and somehow get an idea what it's about). Overall, though, for me the most amazing thing about this record is that it was done by the same band who played "Creep" only eight years earlier.

Hail To The Thief: This album is actually really underrated in my opinion. At first, I labelled it in my head as weak and a disappointment, but over time it has grown on me a lot. The band seems to have found a middle ground between experimentation and more straightforward fare, and I hope the next Radiohead disc continues in this vein-although I certainly wouldn't want it to sound exactly the same. "2+2=5", "Go To Sleep", "Where I End And You Begin", "Backdrifts"...the only track I really don't like all that much is "We Suck Young Blood", and even then, sometimes when I'm in the mood to hear this one I like it anyways. Also thought the "2 title" thing ("The Boney King Of Nowhere.", "No no no no no no no no.") was cool.