u/PlumberOfTheCosmos

Here is my full list of favourite songs as someone who’s only been listing to them for essentially almost a year. (First time Ranking in this app!)

1: Nude - Perfect. No scaling nor grading is required for this song. Even so, it won’t entirely show how truly great this song is. Amazing, it feels like it’s my first time listening to it once it plays. The song that perfectly defines love for me.

2: Pearly* - Incredibly underrated. I’m surprised how this song isn’t as famous and well known like No Surprises or Paranoid Android. A great rock (if not similar) song.

3: Go Slowly - One of the only songs that actually got me crying. This song sounds like two partners trying to heal each other from their past experiences from old relationships. The person wants to change but doesn’t have the patience to, whilst the other calms them down, and that it is gradual, not something that can be fixed immediately. The line “Go Slowly” perfectly shows that feeling. This song is about a new beginning, an end to a chapter. But not merely forgotten. This song is good without the vocals too. Just as, if not, more sad than the original.

4: Sail to The Moon - Personally the best of HTTT. It feels so out of place for an album, a great contrast at that. The music feels different each time, yet delivers a rhythm that blends so smoothly. Quite surprised how this song wasnt released along with AMSP (they’d have to wait years for that so I do understand).

5: (Nice Dream) - Boy this song was a mouthful to take all in. This song starts off with this melancholic feeling, carrying that same vibe until the mid-end section of the song. Where that same vibe slowly shifts to a more chaotic one, the electric guitar performs that chaos quite well. I use this song to fall asleep ALL the time, I guess you could say… it gave me a (Nice Dream).

6: High And Dry - Constantly listen to this, I mainly use it to start my albums with all the Radiohead songs in it IF I don’t know what to play first. I am currently practicing this song in guitar and have made little to no progress (I’m a complete newbie with guitar).

7: Creep - First song that introduced me to the band. Hated by the band or not, this song has a special place in me. Both this and High and Dry are great songs to introduce new people to the band.

8: I Promise - This song shattered me the first time I heard it. The lyrics gives the feeling of that one person that will forever wait for that one individual who’ll never come back, no matter how long they wait. The lines of each sentence ends with the same, gut-wrenching phrase “I promise” which constantly reminds you how DEPRESSING this song is.

9: Give Up The Ghost - I used to absolutely DESPISED this song to no absolute reason! Eventually I gave it a chance of a listen (rather than a skip) and it turned out not to be really that bad. This song turned out to be quite sad too.

10-12: BackDrifts + Lotus Flower + Hunting Bears (Interchangeable) - Quite conflicted where to put these three. But these songs have similarities than meets the ears. Both these songs give off this “We are ready to die” vibes. Knowing this mission is risky, they continue movie forward not with proud-full determination, but with accepted demise. They are ready to be forgotten just to save others or the world.

13: Where I End and You Begin - 10/10 the BEST name for a title of a song. Similar to 10-12 but filled with that proud determination instead. They are ready to fulfill their duty without regret nor hesitation. As if they want another to take their place. Hence the name.

14: The National Anthem - Saxophone. 🎷 (I freaking love saxophones since I’m a sax player too).

15: There, There - The Ending is EVANGELICAL. The song starts off tame and collective. However, it all breaks loose by the end of the track, as if waiting to happen… the line “We are Accidents, Waiting to Happen” shows that quite well.

16: A Punch Up At A Wedding - First introduced me to HTTT. It would’ve been higher if it weren’t for the other HTTT songs.

17: True Love Waits - Definitely one of their saddest, Non-depressive songs. It doesn’t sound like Radiohead yet does. This seems out of character by the band, yet so close to them. Everything about this song contradicts Radiohead’s main music yet compliments it at the same time. This song is truly magnificent.

18: Indentikit - Never really cared about this one at first. I usually skipped this song. However, after finally giving it a chance, the vocals around the middle of the track was out of nowhere! It gave off divine-like sounds, almost like the song was worshipping something or someone. To me, this songs like an Egyptian song (purely on the vibes of the vocals). Honestly, this is Radiohead’s most experimental song (NOT album, but SONG).

19: Subterranean Homesick Alien - ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! I’m surprised how many people appreciate this song. I’m glad it has attention, due to its other-worldly soundtrack and energy.

20: My Iron Lung - I like the intro of this song, the ending of the song is kind of a throw off to me. Overall, the goodness outweighs the minuscule amount of bad! (I seriously think this song would’ve been a banger of a outro credit choice for the movie Iron Lung by Markiplier!)

(Too lazy to list more and the reasons, so here’s a couple of songs that were close to being in the list instead with no type of placements whatsoever)

Honourable Mentions:
- Optimistic (ESPECIALLY with the vocals!) (Top 1 of HM)
- How To Disappear Completely
- Decks Dark
- You
- Vegetable
- Banana Co
- 4 Minute Warning
- How I made My Millions
- Ful Stop
- The Trickster
- Idioteque
- Kid A
- TreeFingers
- Man o War
- Karma Police
- India Rubber
- Black Star
- Street Spirit (Fade Out)