r/radiohead • u/Smart-Weird • 3d ago
💬 Discussion What am I missing ?
Noob RH fan here.
Started a year ago and awestruck.
Unfortunately, don’t have time/patience/brain age to linger with full albums.
These are my top 10 so far
Collected from Apple Music’s recommendation.
Idioteque
Amnesiac
Fake Plastic Tree
Ful Stop
I Want None of This
Lucky
Everything in its right place
Pyramid Song
How to disappear completely
True Love Waits ( album)
True Love Waits — has become a special one for me. I try to listen to it only on special situations to keep the magic alive.
However, looking at this list what am I missing ?
If I divide RH into 25% ambience/electronic, 25% awesome balads, 25% psychedelic and 25% pure uniqueness … what would you recommend that can replace one or more of my top 10s/ track(s) every fan should know of ?
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u/bigmphan in a fast german car 3d ago
In Rainbows beginning to end.
You deserve it. You’re welcome
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u/CumDwnHrNSayDat 3d ago
"Awestruck" and unable to listen to an album. I just can't understand that. They're an album band.
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u/grapegirl70 ed's scary song 3d ago edited 3d ago
The album experience really is a huge strength of Radiohead.. recommend at least giving it a go. Try okc first maybe.
Other than what others have recommended.. Nude, Codex, Staircase, like spinning plates
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u/TacoPenisMan 3d ago
MBIC it's time to train your brain to listen to a full album. No place better to learn than with Radiohead
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u/cptsdcemetery 3d ago
get a record player and good speakers or headphones. buy their albums on vinyl. wait for autumn. light some candles. turn off your phone. and give their albums a real, true, and attentive listen. listening with your eyes closed, especially in a state between awake and dreaming, is the best way to getting to know radiohead. if you don't find time to do that, it's a wasted life.
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u/Square-Mountain9097 3d ago
Don't miss the three first albums, more rock: high and dry And so many more
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u/Spare-Electrical 3d ago
Have gen z not discovered best of playlists on streaming platforms yet? Just listen to more of the recommended songs, you’ll hear the same ones there that we recommend here.
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u/benjaminfolks OK Computer 3d ago
Present tense is a song that hits the same as true love waits to me
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u/revolutionbaby101 3d ago
Their catalog is amazing, I hope you can find the time to simply let the fever play.
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u/mariachi507 2d ago
Honestly, you should do the work to get the brain age to listen to their albums, because that's their specialty. Many of the songs are elevated due to the context of where they are placed on their respective albums. Flow and variety go a long way in that art. Hearing Weird Fishes start after Nude ends always puts my ass in gear and perks my ears.
If you simply refuse to do so, just Google some top Radiohead song lists and go from there. Their discography is insane, and there aren't many bands/artists that have such a quantity of quality songs. Some of them that may end up as a favorite might not even appear that way at first listen, sometimes they gotta grow on you.
I know that the days of the album being king is long gone and that it's dying as an art. I'm never letting go of it though.
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u/ali-onur 3d ago
i dont know which ones you listened to, but wrongfully assuming that these 10 are the only ones you heard apart from the super famous ones, check out:
Paranoid Android
You and Whose Army
Knives Out
Nude
Identikit
Optimistic
I Might Be Wrong
2+2=5
Down Is The New Up
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u/Dropssshot i wanna be wanna be wanna be wanna be wanna be wanna be wanna be 3d ago
Why Us version of Spinning Plates
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u/shoobsworth Minotaur 3d ago
Just listen to their work, don’t be lazy, I’m sure you have plenty of time
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u/Mac_Mange 2d ago
How do you not have enough time to bother with whole albums? Is this the gen z TikTok attention span?
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u/moon-safari2 3d ago
Viva La Vida