Your favourite Radiohead album

[Bold Seagull]

In view of some irrational posts by myself on another thread, and given their broad spectrum of work, which do you rate as their best album?

 

[Buzzer]

The Bends. As near to a perfect album as you can get, IMHO. There's not one filler on that album.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Between The Bends and OK Computer, obviously, I went with OK Computer because it's more matured.

 

[kalinski]

been a fan all my life, but feel In Rainbows edges OK Computer...not rational reason why, have all the songs on one playlist!

 

[leigull]

Vote for Hail to the Thief here

 

[PHCgull]

i f***ing love spotify

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

been a fan all my life, but feel In Rainbows edges OK Computer...not rational reason why, have all the songs on one playlist!

Is that a Broken Bells avatar?

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Has to be The Bends. One of my favourite albums of all time, I love listening to it still. As a typically angsty 13/14 year old it was perfect at the time.

 

[brakespear]

'Hail to the Thief' for me....the jumping off point before they disappeared up their collective arses.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I voted for OK Computer, but Pyramid Song as an individual track seemed to grab me the most, probably because i listened to that a great deal when working for Penguin Books when i knew no one and had my earphones enveloping my head as napster roared and the travel-book editorial i had in front of me endlessly bored. It seemed a little anthemic for me in sound as i was a brief and unenergetic blip in this vast eerie silence of open-plan impersonality. I had it on repeat for some time and then on again more around 9/11, it seeming fittingly funereal yet beautiful.

 

[Skaville]

The Bends. As near to a perfect album as you can get, IMHO. There's not one filler on that album.

Not one track that can be overlooked. Amazing album

 

[Zamora For England]

Up until recently, The Bends. Now, Hail To The Thief. Then Kid A. Then Pablo Honey.

 

[Bigtomfu]

At the time The Bends held more significance for me but I believe OK Computer edges it. An excellent collection of songs and lyrics that drifts perfectly along as well as any opera or symphony.

Not that they ever would but there's one hell of a Best Of album amongst that lot.

 

[big nuts]

In Rainbows just edges out OK Computer for me followed closely by the Bends and Kid A. Thats 4 absolute classic albums that no band can match or better not even the Stones or Beatles.

 

[Bracknell_Gull]

The Bends for me all the way. Sulk is one of my favourite tracks of all time, but like other have said before me, not a single bad track on there.

 

[Bold Seagull]

In Rainbows just edges out OK Computer for me followed closely by the Bends and Kid A. Thats 4 absolute classic albums that no band can match or better not even the Stones or Beatles.

Yeah, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road, Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquet don't even come close.....*cough*...*splutter*...

 

[Skaville]

In Rainbows just edges out OK Computer for me followed closely by the Bends and Kid A. Thats 4 absolute classic albums that no band can match or better not even the Stones or Beatles.

Not sure about that. Abbey road, rubber soul, the White album, revolver, help, sergeant pepper...

 

[Skaville]

In Rainbows just edges out OK Computer for me followed closely by the Bends and Kid A. Thats 4 absolute classic albums that no band can match or better not even the Stones or Beatles.

Not sure about that. Abbey road, rubber soul, the White album, revolver, help, sergeant pepper...

 

[tinx]

The Bends just edges it fro Kid A for me.

 

[Hotchilidog]

1. Bends
2. Pablo Honey
3. OK Computer