The Beatles of their time.  so many artists have been influenced by them. 

Well, I have been listening to music for a lifetime almost - I am not dead yet - These days at least half is classical. I am still firm in my view that there is not a better, multi-layered, imaginative, challenging and ultimately rewarding band than Radiohead. They will be talked about in the same tones of reverence as Bach, Mozart and Wagner one day.

Well, I have been listening to music for a lifetime almost - I am not dead yet - These days at least half is classical. I am still firm in my view that there is not a better, multi-layered, imaginative, challenging and ultimately rewarding band than Radiohead. They will be talked about in the same tones of reverence as Bach, Mozart and Wagner one day.

This kind of song gets an easy 10 for me. The intro, the crescendo, the conclusion. Just perfect all around. My late wife and I listened to a lot of Radiohead and argued / debated their best albums and compositions. She, being a classical pianist, always had a fondness for this composition. Almost anything RH gets a 9 and up from me.

Thanks to RP for keeping Radiohead highly placed in the playlist.

Well, I have been listening to music for a lifetime almost - I am not dead yet - These days at least half is classical. I am still firm in my view that there is not a better, multi-layered, imaginative, challenging and ultimately rewarding band than Radiohead. They will be talked about in the same tones of reverence as Bach, Mozart and Wagner one day.

After hundreds of listenings of this, there is, to me, no denying that Thom Yorke is a GREAT singer/ translator/ interpreter of passionate emotion, and used in exquisite artistic balance against his amazing bandmates' artistic expression. Super-immortal stuff. Thanks, RP!

Double Radiohead! This happens a lot. I happen to hate Radiohead. It is the only band I always change the channel for but frequently you are playing RH on the main and the rock mix. Is this the algorithm?

wow, they have evolved to a new sonic genus since this

This song by Radiohead is very special to me, so I took a little time today making a list of my favorite songs. Be advised this is not a “best song” list, unless by best song is meant “best songs at pleasing my own personal ears”.  We’re all critics, and no person’s opinion is any more (or less) valuable than any other person’s.  I am however always on the lookout for recommendations.  I like to read lists, so I hope you can forgive me for interrupting your listening experience today by giving you a list of my own.

No music writer can resist categories, which is why I avoid professional music writing like the plague.  However, in being the hypocrite that I reserve the right to be, however much it may undermine my smug sense of self-importance, I have invented six entirely new music categories below. These categories are not meant to be taken very seriously.  They are a straightforward attempt at grouping the songs in a somewhat meaningful way, in order that you might be spurred to listen to them, purchase them, and then relay the good opinion of them forward to future generations of listeners, who will in turn behave in a similar fashion—all in the (likely vain) hope that multitudes of ears will have orgasms.  

The songs are not ranked in any way—I love them all more or less equally.

Madrigalia—delicate songs with ponderous mandolin-lute-sitar-acoustic sounding guitar riffs

Nick Drake—Fly—Bryter Layter

Led Zeppelin—That’s the Way— Led Zeppelin III

REM—Perfect Circle—Murmur

The Cure—Just Like Heaven—Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me

Echo & the Bunnymen—Bring On the Dancing Horses (single)

Alice in Chains—I Stay Away—Jar of Flies

Troubadour-Minstrel—bold lyrical and choral pieces

Bob Dylan—Like a Rolling Stone—Highway 61 Revisited

Simon & Garfunkel—The Sound of Silence—Sounds of Silence

Radiohead—Fake Plastic Trees—The Bends

Gomez—Rhythm and Blues Alibi—Liquid Skin

Belle & Sebastian—The State I Am In—Tigermilk

Neutral Milk Hotel—The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. One, Two & Three—In an Airplane Over the Sea

Rube Goldberg—convoluted, defying categorization, WTF?, Don’t ask.  Or: Music that comes with warning labels

Beatles—Rain (single)

Radiohead—Airbag—OK Computer

REM—Begin the Begin—Life’s Rich Pageant

Nick Drake—Cello Song—Five Leaves Left

Neutral Milk Hotel—Ghost—In an Airplane Over the Sea

Massive Attack—Teardrop—Mezzanine

Kyrie Eleison—giving meaning to life, from which to draw inspiration

Ray LaMontagne—Be Here Now—Till the Sun Turns Black

Madrugada—The Lost Gospel—The Deep End

Enya—Book of Days (single, English version)

Vienna Teng—Augustine—Inland Territory

The Decembrists—Sons and Daughters—The Crane Wife

Bach—Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring—Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Songs to Disappear In—lush, ambient-strings or synth, meandering melodies, non-choral-centric

Moby—Porcelain—Play

New Order—Ceremony (single)

New Order—Your Silent Face—Power, Corruption & Lies

Brian Eno—Deep Blue Day—Apollo

Wagner—Vorspiel (prelude)—Das Rheingold

Vaughn Williams—Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Juvenilia—adolescent songs

Rush—Tom Sawyer—Moving Pictures

The Cult—She Sells Sanctuary—Love

Blondie—Heart of Glass—Parallel Lines

The Smiths—How Soon is Now? (single)

Modern English—I Melt With You—After the Snow

Simple Minds—Don’t You Forget About Me (single)

This song by Radiohead is very special to me, so I took a little time today making a list of my favorite songs. Be advised this is not a “best song” list, unless by best song is meant “best songs at pleasing my own personal ears”.  We’re all critics, and no person’s opinion is any more (or less) valuable than any other person’s.  I am however always on the lookout for recommendations.  I like to read lists, so I hope you can forgive me for interrupting your listening experience today by giving you a list of my own.

No music writer can resist categories, which is why I avoid professional music writing like the plague.  However, in being the hypocrite that I reserve the right to be, however much it may undermine my smug sense of self-importance, I have invented six entirely new music categories below. These categories are not meant to be taken very seriously.  They are a straightforward attempt at grouping the songs in a somewhat meaningful way, in order that you might be spurred to listen to them, purchase them, and then relay the good opinion of them forward to future generations of listeners, who will in turn behave in a similar fashion—all in the (likely vain) hope that multitudes of ears will have orgasms.  

The songs are not ranked in any way—I love them all more or less equally.

Madrigalia—delicate songs with ponderous mandolin-lute-sitar-acoustic sounding guitar riffs

Nick Drake—Fly—Bryter Layter

Led Zeppelin—That’s the Way— Led Zeppelin III

REM—Perfect Circle—Murmur

The Cure—Just Like Heaven—Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me

Echo & the Bunnymen—Bring On the Dancing Horses (single)

Alice in Chains—I Stay Away—Jar of Flies

Troubadour-Minstrel—bold lyrical and choral pieces

Bob Dylan—Like a Rolling Stone—Highway 61 Revisited

Simon & Garfunkel—The Sound of Silence—Sounds of Silence

Radiohead—Fake Plastic Trees—The Bends

Gomez—Rhythm and Blues Alibi—Liquid Skin

Belle & Sebastian—The State I Am In—Tigermilk

Neutral Milk Hotel—The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. One, Two & Three—In an Airplane Over the Sea

Rube Goldberg—convoluted, defying categorization, WTF?, Don’t ask.  Or: Music that comes with warning labels

Beatles—Rain (single)

Radiohead—Airbag—OK Computer

REM—Begin the Begin—Life’s Rich Pageant

Nick Drake—Cello Song—Five Leaves Left

Neutral Milk Hotel—Ghost—In an Airplane Over the Sea

Massive Attack—Teardrop—Mezzanine

Kyrie Eleison—giving meaning to life, from which to draw inspiration

Ray LaMontagne—Be Here Now—Till the Sun Turns Black

Madrugada—The Lost Gospel—The Deep End

Enya—Book of Days (single, English version)

Vienna Teng—Augustine—Inland Territory

The Decembrists—Sons and Daughters—The Crane Wife

Bach—Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring—Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Songs to Disappear In—lush, ambient-strings or synth, meandering melodies, non-choral-centric

Moby—Porcelain—Play

New Order—Ceremony (single)

New Order—Your Silent Face—Power, Corruption & Lies

Brian Eno—Deep Blue Day—Apollo

Wagner—Vorspiel (prelude)—Das Rheingold

Vaughn Williams—Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Juvenilia—adolescent songs

Rush—Tom Sawyer—Moving Pictures

The Cult—She Sells Sanctuary—Love

Blondie—Heart of Glass—Parallel Lines

The Smiths—How Soon is Now? (single)

Modern English—I Melt With You—After the Snow

Simple Minds—Don’t You Forget About Me (single)