Rank the Radiohead albums...

[NewMarketSean]

Sorry TejadaTheyFall... had to steal your thunder here.

Here are the albums...

Pablo Honey
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
In Rainbows

[Spoonless]

Well, I haven't heard the new one yet, but my personal order:

OK Computer
Kid A
Hail to the Thief
Pablo Honey
Amnesiac
The Bends

But I mean, I'm talking the difference between an A- album and an A+ album. I really love all their albums, with OK Computer and Kid A being my "most frequently listened to" ones.

[frankpembleton]

The Bends - Awesome
OK Computer - Good
Everything Else - Fair

[DoobyDoo]

Ok Computer
Hail to the Thief
Kid A
In Rainbows
The Bends
Amnesiac
Pablo Honey

Hail to the Thief, Kid A and In Rainbows are all pretty interchangeable to me. The bottom of the list is more conclusive.

[Lucky Jim]

Oh, you all are way underrating The Bends.

[frankpembleton]

Oh, you all are way underrating The Bends.

Not me!

It's pretty far ahead of anything they have ever done in my opinion with the possible exception of OK computer.

[NewMarketSean]

Not me!

It's pretty far ahead of anything they have ever done in my opinion with the possible exception of OK computer.

I'd agree with that. And while I haven't listened to Kid A in a while, I don't remember being all that impressed with it and its probably their most critically acclaimed album. But OK Computer takes the cake for me. Best album of all time IMO.

[Spoonless]

I'd agree with that. And while I haven't listened to Kid A in a while, I don't remember being all that impressed with it and its probably their most critically acclaimed album. But OK Computer takes the cake for me. Best album of all time IMO.

I think I probably rank Kid A so high is because The National Anthem is quite possibly my favorite Radiohead song.

[mweb]

The Bends - Awesome
OK Computer - Good
Everything Else - Fair

I agree, except I'd change good to great for OK Computer. The Bends is easily one of my favorite albums by anyone.

[Pushmonkey]

for some odd reason I did not buy anything after Ok computer, even though, the Bends and Pablo Honey and OK Computer are some of my favorite Albums.

[Dan-O®]

OK Computer

The Bends
Kid A
In Rainbows

Hail to the Thief
Amnesiac
Pablo Honey

OK Computer is an album in its own league for me, not a moment wasted or a moment that doesn't completely belong. IMO it's probably the best album I've ever heard, and the album I've listened to most. It was also probably the first album that changed my perception as far as what a rock album could be, and is probably one of the 3 most influential albums of 90's rock (Slanted & Enchanted and Loveless being the other two that come to mind).

The Bends is also great but there are some tracks that are kind of filler in my opinion (Bones, Nice Dream, Sulk), all of which are songs that I like at some level but pale in comparison to the rest of the album. Plenty of classic Radiohead on this album with the title track, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, etc.

Kid A is a landmark that shattered all expectations....there are plenty of breathtaking moments but not all of it connects with me. Morning Bell is a weak track and Treefingers is kind of second-rate early ambient Aphex Twin.

In Rainbows I expect will eclipse Kid A for me at some point. In fact, this is kind of the album I had once hoped that the 4th Radiohead album would be. Lots of gorgeous moments on this album ("All I Need," "Reckoner") and the guitars are in many ways a return to OK Computer/Bends era Radiohead ("Bodysnatchers" reminds me of "Palo Alto," an OK Computer b-side and "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" resembles "The Trickster," from the My Iron Lung EP).

Hail to the Thief didn't do anything special for me. Some really good cuts but a lot of filler. I think it's a grower of an album for many people but it hasn't grown on me yet.

Amnesiac has a few standouts (love the horns on "Life in a Glass House" and I really dig "I Might Be Wrong" and "Like Spinning Plates") but it's a pretty inconsistent album.

Pablo Honey doesn't even sound remotely like the same band to me. However, that doesn't mean it's a bad album....still plenty of worthwhile songs on this album....I like the opener "You" and the closer "Blow Out" in particular. On these tracks you can see a little bit of the future direction the band would take. Most of the album is fairly bland pop-rock. It's hard to believe that this same band would make The Bends a couple of years later.

[DoobyDoo]

OK Computer

The Bends
Kid A
In Rainbows

Hail to the Thief
Amnesiac
Pablo Honey

OK Computer is an album in its own league for me, not a moment wasted or a moment that doesn't completely belong. IMO it's probably the best album I've ever heard, and the album I've listened to most. It was also probably the first album that changed my perception as far as what a rock album could be, and is probably one of the 3 most influential albums of 90's rock (Slanted & Enchanted and Loveless being the other two that come to mind).

The Bends is also great but there are some tracks that are kind of filler in my opinion (Bones, Nice Dream, Sulk), all of which are songs that I like at some level but pale in comparison to the rest of the album. Plenty of classic Radiohead on this album with the title track, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, etc.

Kid A is a landmark that shattered all expectations....there are plenty of breathtaking moments but not all of it connects with me. Morning Bell is a weak track and Treefingers is kind of second-rate early ambient Aphex Twin.

In Rainbows I expect will eclipse Kid A for me at some point. In fact, this is kind of the album I had once hoped that the 4th Radiohead album would be. Lots of gorgeous moments on this album ("All I Need," "Reckoner") and the guitars are in many ways a return to OK Computer/Bends era Radiohead ("Bodysnatchers" reminds me of "Palo Alto," an OK Computer b-side and "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" resembles "The Trickster," from the My Iron Lung EP).

Hail to the Thief didn't do anything special for me. Some really good cuts but a lot of filler. I think it's a grower of an album for many people but it hasn't grown on me yet.

Amnesiac has a few standouts (love the horns on "Life in a Glass House" and I really dig "I Might Be Wrong" and "Like Spinning Plates") but it's a pretty inconsistent album.

Pablo Honey doesn't even sound remotely like the same band to me. However, that doesn't mean it's a bad album....still plenty of worthwhile songs on this album....I like the opener "You" and the closer "Blow Out" in particular. On these tracks you can see a little bit of the future direction the band would take. Most of the album is fairly bland pop-rock. It's hard to believe that this same band would make The Bends a couple of years later.

I agree with most of what you said here. I really only disagree with you about Hail to the Thief, although I think I like The Bends a little less than you do as well.

I love Hail to the Thief, but I agree that it's a grower. Backdrifts is one of my favorite Radiohead songs. I like every song on Hail to the Thief to at least some degree, but that also goes for every Radiohead album except Amnesiac and Pablo Honey.

The Bends is a good CD, but it still feels like undeveloped Radiohead to me. It's lighter, simpler and the lyrics are much more ordinary when compared to the CD's that came after it. I just prefer the sound of everything that came after it.

Amnesiac just sounds like a collection of songs that weren't good enough to be on Kid A. I like Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box, Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army? and Like Spinning Plates. I'm not a big fan of the rest.

I love Kid A as well. Everything in its Right Place, Idioteque and Motion Picture Soundtrack are all great songs. Kid A and The National Anthem are my two least favorite songs off of Kid A, but they're still decent. I left Treefingers off of my Ipod so I don't even really remember what it sounds like.

In Rainbows is a great CD. I agree with you about Reckoner as that's my favorite song on In Rainbows. All I Need is also very good, but I'd place Nude and Weird Fishes in front of it. It's definitely more accessible and maybe more consistent than Kid A and Hail to the Thief, but I'm not ready to say that it's better than both of those CD's yet.

You nailed how I feel about Ok Computer and Pablo Honey, so just read what he wrote. ;)

[bretholmes4]

OK Computer
The Bends
Hail to the Thief
In Rainbows
Kid A
Pablo Honey
Amnesiac


Those middle 3 are really a shuffle and I want make Kid A 3rd just because it was probably one of the most daring projects a band had undergone since Brian Setzer... lol - - But I'd still rank 'em like this.