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Ambitious, edgy and sometimes disturbing but interesting music with a variety of sonic textures. Enjoying this more than I expected to, based on hearing other albums by Radiohead. 4
I was thinking 3 on Friday, but, on reflection, I don’t remember any redeeming qualities. It was either unenjoyable or tolerable.
There's about 75% of a great album here
The generator has blessed me! The Cure’s Disintegration yesterday and this one today. Both gorgeous, lengthy soundscapes that have grown with me since I first got the CDs as a teenager. While I typically rate Hail to the Thief a tier lower than my absolute favorite Radiohead albums, it is still absolutely a 5 in the broader perspective. (Radiohead is likely my favorite band of all time.) I love that I have an excuse to fully immerse myself in it and without distraction for this project. There are so many transcendent tracks on this record. There, There is in my top songs of all time. I still remember the first time I heard it when the music video played on MTV2!
Listened before? No* Familiar with the artist? Yes! I do like Radiohead, but I've almost exclusively listened to The Bends and OK Computer. Thoughts: - I may have actually listened to this once many years ago. I could see teenage me not liking it because it was too weird; but I've liked a lot of weirder stuff since then. :) - I love it when "Sit Down Stand Up" just goes crazy at the end. - Go To Sleep feels a bit more like older Radiohead, which I like. - I could cut a few songs out of the middle of this and have maybe a 9 or 10 song album I loved. Favorite track(s): Sit Down Stand Up, A Wolf At The Door Least favorite: We Suck Young Blood (not a fan of the vocals there)
One of the better RHs for me. 3.5/5
Repetitive and bleeds into each other. No standouts
라디오 헤드라서 기대를 하고 들었는데 아주 안 좋지는 않았지만 솔직히 내 취향은 아니었다. I listened to it with high expectations because it was Radiohead; while it wasn't terrible, to be honest, it wasn't really my style.
I like this very much, but I listened to In Rainbows two days ago, I like that much more than this albu. However, I think this would be most bands' best album.
ich mag's gar nicht. aber sehr kreativ.
2nd radiohead album i have encountered on here. Still not impressed. Music is ok but Thom Yorkes vocals annoy the shit out of me
Excellent album.
It’s probably radiohead’s weakest records, and despite awesome tracks there are some that i never return to
They can’t stop making great albums
A good album but at the end of Radiohead phase were they were amazing. There There is my type of Radiohead it gets a little wail dancey at the end. Not bad tho
HELL YES!!!! I love this album, I have loved this album since high school. I don’t have anything deep to say, just very happy to get an easy 5 star.
レディオヘッドは、好きなバンド3選に入ってくるバンドだと思う。 その中でも、The BendsからIn Rainbowsまでの作品は全て素晴らしいものになっていると思うし、実際に僕はそれらを好いている。 その中でHail to the Thiefは、OK ComputerとKid Aを足したものだと思っていて、バランスは割と好きな感じ where I end and you beginとかがいいですねー。 レディオヘッドは全部良い!
I never got Radiohead and I still don’t. What about this makes them so amazing? It baffles me.
"Are you such a dreamer. To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever. Where two and two always makes up five." 2 stars for the music experimentation and the moods, 2 stars from lyrics and vocals, always makes up 5 stars in my world. Nothing beats OK Computer to me, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve the 5/5 sweet spot in my head. There are songs that are complete moods in here. There, there to talk me down of anxiety. "Just 'cause you feel it Doesn't mean it's there" But then, you'll always know, in the back of your head, through all the noise and war and explosions and chaors and some romance some lucky bastards get to to live that: "We are accidents Waiting, waiting To happen So then in the end you'll just "I'm gonna go to sleep And let this wash all over me"
a pretty great radiohead album with some underrated cuts in here. I'm feeling a strong 7 to a light 8. first listen tracklist ranking: 1. A Wolf at the Door 2. Myxomatosis 3. A Punchup at a Wedding 4. 2 + 2 = 5 5. Sit Down Stand Up 6. Backdrifts 7. The Gloaming 8. Go to Sleep 9. We Suck Young Blood 10. There There 11. Where I End and You Begin 12. Sail to the Moon 13. Scatterbrain 14. I Will
I'm pretty ignorant to Radiohead due to being a hatin-ass bitch... but I did enjoy this. Everything was arranged really well and the (very rusty) band nerd in me has a hard time hating on some 7/8 tracks... I still don't completely enjoy Thom Yorke's voice though.
If I wanted to hear someone complain I’d rather it be rage against the machine
I think I’m still largely out on Radiohead from a perspective outside of the singles but I have found myself enjoying this album front to back. There, there and Wolf at the Door are my personal highlights.
Not any real stand out favorites for me on this one but if it’s any consolation it might be my favorite Radiohead album so far. Just a bit more listenable front to back for me than Kid A or Amnesiac.
Kudos to the group for taking on the Bush II presidency, although I think American Idiot does it more accessibly. This is a pretty bleak, aurally challenging listen. I suspect repeat listens would make me like it more, but that’s not the format here. Would go 3.5 stars if I could.
Estoy intentando ser imparcial porque reconozco la producción, pero igual no me mueven estos manes.
Tråkig start, men tok seg noe opp utover albumet. Likevel langt svakere enn In Rainbows.
It’s a solid record but probably their worst. I do love There There and especially 2+2=5 though.
that sure was radio head
album #130 i do not think there needs to be this much radiohead on this list. the first two tracks gave me SUCH false hope for this album. the unsettling vibes and layering were very pleasing to the ear and the overall stylings were definitely up my alley. they were weird with strong bass lines and vocal performances. however, after the first two tracks the tracks become repetitive with the worst of it from tracks 10 to 13. i tried to like it - but it just fell flat. ಄ average track rating: 2.2/5 ಄ favourite track(s): 2+2=5, sit down stand up ಄ least favourite track(s): scatterbrain ಄ album rating: ★★☆☆☆ ಄ number of albums left to review: 959 ಄ number of albums i agree with being on the list: 57 ಄ albums from the list that i would consider for my list: 25 ಄ albums i would not include on my list: 105
It's one of theirs I haven't returned to much in the last 20 years, and listening reminded me why. Two or three great tracks, that would stand along anything they've done, and interesting stuff going on throughout. But as an album somehow less convincing for me, and a notch below their best.
of all their mopey song writing, this album is the mopiest. it’s music a ghost would listen to
Not the best Radiohead album but decent. Might get bettwrbeith more listens
God they're so whiny sometimes
The music, singing and songs were good, just not for me.
I can only say that it just doesn't give me any strong feelings one way or another.
I know I'm not a Radiohead person. But they need to pick a lane- either chill mellow music or chaotic energetic, or at least the same in each song, or maybe one flip/album. It's just jarring when it's multiple songs. Additionally, either have the vocals intelligible or not. He sings as if it should understand, but you can't.
This album wasn't my cup of tea. not the type of music I usually listen to. some were a little slow for my hi energy brain to focus. I think the first album we got "Kid A" was more whimsy and this one came off a little more depressing
did not like on 1st pass, enjoyed 2nd time around also I know this came first, but it is giving Arcane Fav Song: Sail To The Moon
YSJS TE JTDWRHZWHMTEJMZTZTTETZE SE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 5/5
Not to my tastes.
I've never listened to Radiohead before. I wasn't sure what to expect. It was a good album. I can recognize how influential they were for their time through their blend of genres.
I've tried. I swear I've tried. But I just don't get Radio Head. It's not that I hate it or think the music isn't any good. It just doesn't inspire anything in me. I've listened to every studio album and none of them do anything for me. Usually with bands that people talk about they think are amazing I can find the thing that they like. Poetic, great musicianship, beautiful song writing, catchy melodies. But nothing blows me off the page. The weird thing is, people talk about RH with so much passion and praise that I really really really want to get it.
Not my thing
I am not a Radiohead fan. There music is WAY TO SAD BOY for me. . The cover is neat. I did enjoy a few songs Backdrifts and There, There. 3.5/10
there would be no Muse without Radiohead
so far it feels like the weakest radiohead album, feels like an album long mushed murmur
mid 4.0. Ainda é um bom álbum, mas para os padrões do Radiohead, acho que é mediano. É muito consistente, mas não é tão memorável quanto outros trabalhos deles, as faixas também são um pouco repetitivas em momentos. Favs: Sail to the Moon, Where I End and You Begin, There There, Scatterbrain, A Wolf at the Door.
They’re just so good at what they do.
once again fooled by radiohead into thinking at the start of the album that it was a little underwhelming only to realise by the end that of course they know what they're doing and they can put together a collection of songs (even if this is probably one of their albums i like less). I knew a few of the singles but comparatively not so many standouts
Mi piace di più di amnesiac e kid a, ma meno di ok computer e the bends
6/10
Rating: 4.6/5 Short Review: This album feels restless as hell. Every time it starts settling into something comfortable, Radiohead seems to deliberately make it uncomfortable again. Guitars, electronics, strange rhythms, beautiful melodies, Thom Yorke sounding like civilization has approximately twelve minutes remaining. The problem is that it’s a little too much album. Fourteen tracks, almost an hour, and I can feel it. There are songs I’d happily lose. But the best material is fantastic, and I like how messy and anxious the whole thing feels. It doesn’t have the almost perfect shape of Kid A, but maybe being slightly unruly is part of its charm. Favorite Track: “There There.” Yep. This one got me. That slow buildup, the drums, and then the guitars finally breaking loose. Probably the song I’d immediately put on again after finishing the album.
A decent electronic rock album. The instrumentals and beats are good, but the vocals are too whiny. I first listened to this right after reading "The Hour of the Star" by Clarice Lispector, and I thought it was very good. Then I relistened to it a few times and came to my senses. Still, for a brief period, I understood why people liked Radiohead so much.
Radiohead more like Radioshit.
Me sorprendió bastante que me gustara tanto. Muy buen álbum
te odio Radiohead
Regardless of what Thom Yorke may have said at the time (or might say now) this was, and is, protest music - against the Iraq War most directly, but also against the media environment in which Yorke and his bandmates were forced to exist, both immediately as a band and more spiritually as humans on the earth at a time of moral and spiritual fracture. The repeated "the rain drops" on "Sit Down. Stand Up" is a sign to run from something else that drops, especially as the videogame gun sounds come in for the last ten seconds or so. And "The Gloaming" employs a Matmos-like slice-core palette in the service of a warning blast against neo-fascism. "There There" is as snide as Yorke has ever been, undercutting its optimistic sound with that cynical, patronizing title. All good tricks, and well performed. But something about this album just feels a bit pro forma and detached to my ears. Perhaps that's just a function of the malaise of having to confront, once and for all, that not only can Rock and Roll not stop wars but it can't even put up much more than token resistance. Everyone knows how the trick is done at this point; the system has responded and adapted accordingly. Protest is priced in (and limited to "free speech zones" as if that isn't an oxymoron). It's hard getting your ass kicked, especially when it's by fuckwits like Bush and Blair. But I think there's something deeper at work here. For all the production bells and whistles, this album feels less sonically adventurous than its predecessors somehow. And Yorke's anger doesn't seem to be able to sharpen into quite the fine edge he intends; some of the more screed-y lyrics here, especially on "A Punchup at a Wedding" and "A Wolf at the Door," feel like he'd been listening to nu-metal. He seems tired. They all do, which is both par for the course coming from the band who put out *Meeting People Is Easy* and a mild betrayal of what post-*Kid A* Radiohead was supposed to signify - a band reborn and refreshed. More than anything this feels like a mid-Seventies Entropy Album - something made by exhausted Rock Stars who have been on the road too long and now can't go home because they've forgotten how. They feel like they're Playing The Hits on some level. More fundamentally, what made the Radiohead of *The Bends* and *OK Computer* transcendent was their ability to express something true and essential about the hollowness of modern life. Those were albums *about* disconnection, whereas this is a disconnected album. Yorke's lyrics are more and more abstract, less and less tied to any corporeal reality. He sings about ideas but not people. Which brings me to another highly anticipated album from an English band who were looked at as having profound moral and even spiritual insight, and whose standoffish singer responded with a dark, difficult work that trafficked in totalitarian signifiers. (Two nickels, etc., etc.). Of all Radiohead's admitted influences it is telling how infrequently they seem to mention Pink Floyd, and nowhere more so than here. They feel here like they want to remake *The Wall* and are also afraid of being seen wanting to remake *The Wall*, and understandably so. So they have made something angular and oblique and avoidant instead; they've ended up remaking *Animals*, only even colder and more weary. And I think *Animals* is great but I've never been able to connect with it in quite the same way I connect with *The Wall* and *Dark Side* and *Wish You Were Here*, and that's basically how I feel about *Hail to the Thief* also. So where do we end up? This is a hard album to judge, because I think I'd be a lot easier on it if anyone else had made it. It's been enormously influential - I was thinking about how "Where I End and You Begin" sounds like a Silversun Pickups tune but really it's the Pickups that sound like *them*. And it's still very good - I need to be careful and temper my criticism a bit here. But it's on the lower end of Radiohead's output, and in some ways it's more interesting to talk about than to listen to. I'd end with a sarcastic "Mission Accomplished" but that feels a little too on the nose.
Actually pretty good. Will listen to later stuff.
How good is the 3th best Radio head album?
I just don’t care for Radiohead all that much. It all sounds the same. I added the first song to my playlist
Kinda depressing but it was good. I was thinking 4 just because of how interesting it was but nah I gotta save those.
Great Radiohead album to which I haven’t paid enough attention.
80
Jag lyssnade igenom hela albumet trots att det var jobbigt. Det hela är en kletig smet som aldrig blir bra någonstans. Har svårt att se att detta ska lyssnas på innan man dör. Försökte hitta något som var bra, men det krävs nog hjälp av diverse substanser för att hitta något.
me gusta mucho la facilidad que fue despues del kid a regresar a las guitarras no puedo decir mas me gusta Radiohead
This was always my favorite Radiohead album. Never been much into them though. This was a nice revisit though Light 8
Do we really need SIX Radiohead albums? I don’t really get what you could glean from this that you wouldn’t get from their other records that have a much more solidified spot on this list (OK Computer and The Bends). Like is this bad? No, it’s pretty decent. But it’s not that much different than their other work. And I don’t think it is nearly as iconic as the aforementioned records. 3/5
I love this one! So underrated!
Radiohead. Classic.
Flawless, angsty, so good.
I get they want to explore cool time signatures and weird chord patterns, but after a while it’s just Thom groaning and random drum patterns to me.
idk. just don't like too much this band. this LP as much. not bad but just can't get the vibe.
not my favorite radiohead album. sail to the moon is still the only song i like on it. that's a great song but the other ones were just ok
Bom considerando q n é um dos melhores da banda
Sonically interesting, musically - less so. Radiohead's one of those bands I've always been behing the curve on. I loved Creep, but it took me decades to get into The Bends and Pablo Honey. I am now starting to dig OK Computer, so I may love this just befreo I kick the bucket. For now, a 3, because it ticked my earpussy.
JL : 3, Backdrifts
It's a Radiohead Album
That's sacrilegious!
I loved most of this !!!!! Even the songs I didn’t like were interesting and I have a feeling they’ll grow on me the more I listen.
The very first album I got when I started doing this back in December was Radiohead. I said it then and I'll say it again... I'm not sure why I never got that into Radiohead and don't listen to them much, because I love their music. I was familiar with a couple of songs on this album, but most of it was new to me. I really liked this one. It's more guitar and drum heavy then some of their other stuff. It almost gives me a NIN feel on some songs. I do think it's a bit long and it drops off a bit on the second half, but very solid album that I'll listen to again.
Solo There,There no es tremendamente mala, el resto sí.
Ulinasta ja voivotuksesta on tämäkin ratiopää-levy tehty. Pilaa koko kokemuksen.
Ihan siisti levy tämäkin Radiopää. En ihan pääse laulajasta yli vieläkään, ei oikein mukaudu omaan korvaan.
2.5
As a long time Radiohead fan this ranks highly for me. I love all their albums, but this came out at a really interesting time in my life. Politically it felt relevant and it still feels relevant to this day. What it does well is bridge that gap of the more experimental elements of Kid A and Ambesiac to bring something somehow more recognisable, but at the same time completely different. It's an easy 5 stars for me, it's one of my favourite albums of all time.
4.5
There are people that don’t like Radiohead, and I accept that. I don’t understand it, but I accept it. I just feel so badly for those people, though, you know?
For an album that’s literally nobody’s favorite Radiohead album this is pretty fucking awesome to be honest
It's not revolutionary like OK Computer, or the wonky experiment that Kid A and Amnesiac were, but it's still a solid enough Radiohead album, regardless. Solid 4 Stars.
I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5. I mean, yeah, it’s probably the “worst” Radiohead album we’ve gotten on the list, in terms of track-to-track coherence & flow. I need to desperately relisten to “OK Computer” with a more refined ear to give it the 5 or higher it probably deserves in retrospect, but it probably had a better flow than this does. The thing is though, even the “worst” Radiohead album is still a damn Radiohead album. You know it’s going to be good, at the very least. This doesn’t reach the same exceedingly high highs as “Kid A” or “In Rainbows”, but I think it’s still good. It’s an album that honestly feels just as relevant in the throes of the current Trump administration as it did during the onset of the Iraq War in 2003. Yes, Thom Yorke & friends have hypocritically gone a bit too silent on a certain ongoing genocide as of late (especially ironic given “Sit Down. Stand Up.” was written based on the 1994 Rwandan genocide), but their stupidity on one issue does not diminish their strength towards the issues they tackle on this album, at least for me. However, I totally get it if this album’s statements have become diminished, & if this feels like a retrospective pile of fully hypocritical trite to anyone else. Musically, we’re somewhere between “Kid A” & “In Rainbows”, as it should be – lots of minimalist synth work contrasted with somewhat maximalist real instrumentation, with a welcome return to guitars, drums, piano & more. The mixture sounds good, and there’s some real standout moments in the production throughout. Vocally… yeah, it’s Thom Yorke. You know what to expect, and he nails it, especially with the depth on some of his more forceful lines & some of his higher falsettos. Lyrically, this is pretty sharply written, touching on a lot of the issues people had in 2003 with shattering faith over what constitutes ‘good’, the warmongering of George W. Bush's administration & a generalized perspective on the military industrial complex as a whole. However, I just think it’s a bit more abstract than it should’ve been for an attempt at a politically biting album. It’s easy to cut through the subtext here, especially with that title, but sometimes, you just gotta call a spade a spade. “Sail to the Moon”, for example, is a track about drinking the hope-filled Kool-Aid after the collective spirit spurred on by the moon landing & subsequently losing all faith, yet pleading to someone (apparently his son) to be the leader who can restore it. I think it’s a really nice track, but a lot of the album doesn’t really play as straightforward as that one. They take a little more to comprehend (especially on something like “Myxomatosis”), and while I think I got most of them, I shouldn’t have to be thinking this much to get the lyrics for an album trying to make a statement. That said, getting these tracks did elevate them for me. The biggest issue, of course, is the slight bloat & flow of the album; Radiohead themselves have said they’d cut some tracks here & that it’s one of their weaker albums, and I would agree with the former, at the very least. I’m not sure exactly what to cut, since I did like practically all of these tracks, but something about the flow here just doesn’t have the same cohesion I’ve come to expect from a Radiohead album. If anything, it’d probably be the ones where Thom goes a bit more ‘woe is me’, like “I Will” & “A Punchup at a Wedding”, as well as some of the longer / plainer ones, like “Backdrifts”, “We Suck Young Blood”, or “Scatterbrain”. Once again though, I just kinda like all of those tracks, for one reason or another. Overall, it’s a little pile of issues that don’t directly affect the actual quality of the tracks themselves, but the album in its totality that’s putting this at a 4.5 for me, but it’s still a pretty easy bump up to a 5 regardless. I think a lot of these tracks apply too potently to today’s current climate to not get something out of them, & while they’re written in far broader strokes than an actual politically-driven album would be for 2026, the underlying frustration is still there & still pretty easy to feel. As always, if you don’t like Radiohead at all, you probably just won’t like this. If you do, you’ll probably enjoy it, but like I’ve said, it’s the “worst” one we’ve gotten so far. It’s still a 4.5 bumped up to a 5, and I’m still glad it’s on the list. I'm looking forward to whenever we get "The Bends".
Would give 3.5 if I could. Some songs got a bit repetitive, even some songs started sounding the same, but there are plenty good songs that have that signature moody vibe of radiohead.
The least objectionable radiohead album I've ever heard. Still pretty awful.
I like the blend between rock and electronic sounds. Some parts of songs are really emotionally loaded but some songs just are a bit boring to me. I think that’s because the genre is not really my thing but also that it’s a very layered album you need to listen to more than once. His voice fits the songs really well.
I’m not sure why I’m getting this album again . . . . The first Radiohead album I’ve actually listened to. Loved! I wasn’t a fan of We Suck Young Blood, but other than that this album is great.
A Radiohead album I didn’t know. Surprised by bifurcation of reviews here. I’m not a mad fan but had quite high expectations, which were not disappointed. It takes me more than a day to get to know a Radiohead album, I’ll come back to this some day. Already there are many songs I liked on 1st or 2nd hearing, none that put me off. (None that I loved instantly, but I’ll give them time.). It’s at least Pretty Wonderful, 9/10.
Lots of Radiohead albums on this list. I appreciate their artistry, but I just can't get into them for some reason.
This is a lower tier Radiohead album for me. It still has some great tracks. 4.5 but I round up.
Would like to give this another deep listen. I liked the album, but I felt I was missing a lot without the ability to listen carefully.
While I can admire the emotion of this album, and the playing, I kept waiting for something to happen, but it did not.
Not sure if this is a hot take but this should be the Radiohead album people should start with to get into them. They have so many sounds and this like if you take a piece of all of them to make one thing that's pretty good.
Radiohead down and dirty. Get er out and get the label off our back. And it’s awesome still. They’re all going to be 5s. Every one of their albums on this list. And the ones not on the list, too, really. Pablo Honey? Maybe not. Otherwise, yeah in terms of this list and the music included on it, they’re all 5s. I keep the wolf from the door But he calls me up Calls me on the phone Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up Steal all my children if I don't pay the ransom And I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops So I am just gonna ooooooooooo 5 Boolean: True
Legendary
Não conhecia esse álbum em particular, mas gostei sim!
3.8/5
Powiem tak: z całej dotychczasowej plejady z Radiogłową to jest najcięższa w wysłuchaniu i odbiorze płyta, co oczywiście nie zmienia faktu, że to dobra płyta. Tylko w ich skali - nienajlepsza.
A Radiohead album is still a Radiohead album. People may have been down on it but it still hits the spot.
Radiohead é sempre um 8 ou 80 e comparando com outros álbuns esse é bem fraco. Músicas chatas e esses sons eletrônicos são bem forçados e esquisitos. Me senti ouvindo o Ross tocando teclado
Love this album. Love Radiohead. Didn't expect this album on the list. I love it, but always found it one of their, if not their most underrated albums.
Hail
Amazing album! Can't believe I've been sleeping on Radiohead for so long.
It's a good album, I just think they have much better albums than this.
Fav band
This is so close to a 5 it’s not funny. This is easily their most underrated album. Outstanding.
Toooo "radiohead" for me.
A pretty even album, but not so many standout tracks. Still a good album overall.
It didn't do it for me. Didn't manage to finish it. Wasn't much I liked
Radiohead is one of those bands I just can’t get into, no matter how hard I try. I occasionally enjoy the music, but Thom Yorke’s vocals drive me crazy.
Okay, some songs are mint
Nja, inget för mig. Långsamt och enformigt. Where I End And You Begin och A Wolf At The Door bäst.
No.
I just don’t like Radiohead and this project has just proven that more for me.
More style than substance.
I tried. I really tried but this just didn’t offer anything for me. Appreciated their efforts being musicians and being confident in their own style but doubt I will ever listen to any of these tracks again.
anxious, angry, and strangely beautiful, the soundtrack for recognizing the truth and realizing no one is coming to fix it.
561/1089 - I remember finding this kinda boring when I first listened to it (I liked the first few songs). I think this was because I was sick and listening on my phone speaker, but now that I'm healthy and listening on headphones, I realize I like this more than Amensiac (which I also like). There's a good mix of the electronic, classical, and rock sounds Radiohead is known for although there aren't as many hooks and melodies as something like OK Computer or even In Rainbows. Also I'm personally a fan but six albums seems excessive. Maybe three (Bends, OKC, Kid A) is a good cutoff.
Most of the songs were great at the beginning, then it got a little too mellow/warbly towards the end
Radiohead is always a good listening
Too edgy
One of the most slept on Radiohead albums. Dark, brooding, and contains their greatest song ever: There There. Reading others' reviews about how Radiohead sounds unnecessarily challenging: If you don't get Radiohead, hate to break it to you, but you're not gonna get much in the way of experimental music. There are some songs on HttT that are understandable skips like the glacial We Suck Young Blood and maybe even Sit Down Stand Up but the glitches, changing time signatures, and chamber piano are endlessly interesting to me. Another stupid take is to say Radiohead fans are insufferable. (The call is coming from inside the house) You're thinking of Pitchfork bro. Blind worship. If a fan of this band were truly in a cult, they'd say Pablo Honey and The King of Limbs are on equal footing with any other record of theirs. And that's just not true. Radiohead are not gods. So I'm giving it a 4.5 because it's not perfect, but a five on this site because people don't seem to get the assignment. Judge it on its merits rather than its fanbase.
This album was released on my 16th birthday and I remember going to buy the CD the week it came out. As I've mentioned in previous reviews, Radiohead are a bit of a tough band for me to evaluate because my personal experiences have definitely skewed my perception. With Hail To the Thief, I have fond, poignant memories of listening to this on my discman, walking home on a Spring night after dark. I also remember watching the "There There" premier on MTV2 and talking to my friends at school about it the next day. I'll never forget my one friend who loved this album because he hated Kid A/Amnesiac: "yeah it sounds like they're actually playing their guitars again instead of just recording the sound of them taking the guitars apart and putting them back together." I certainly prefer Kid A/Amnesiac, but there's a handful of songs on this album that have really stuck with me -- "Sail to the Moon" might be my favorite Radiohead song ever. So yeah, it's tough to have a fair take on this album, especially since a couple of the guys in the band have revealed their odious politics, but overall I really liked re-listening to this album.
UHHH NAMNAM radiohead 3/4 paras albumi? semmosdt syksy vibat mut vähä häröl taval ig?
Some fun sound. Radiohead will always be a great listen but they lost me for a bit in the middle of this so it’s not quite hitting that top band. Still loved this though
Electronic influenced rock. Sounds politically charged.
I really like Radiohead but there's large parts of this album that wash on by, 2+2=5 and There There are both tremendous tracks though.
Nice. Men inte deras bästa. 3/5
Why was this my first Radiohead album
Sadly, my least favorite of the "classic" Radiohead albums. It still is very solid, but it is kind of overrated compared to their other albums. 'There, There' and especially '2 + 2 = 5' are two of their all-time best songs, but I don't love the rest that much. It feels like a weird zone where it's not as interesting as their previous electronic experiments in the early 2000s, but it also doesn't have as much great tunes as their more traditional rock material, and it leaves it as a pretty unique Radiohead experience, while also not really being one I wan't to go back to that much. Good, but I wish I liked it more.
LOVE RADIOHEAD FOREVER
Sort of confirms to me that I don't like Radiohead. Heard some of their stuff before and always thought them dreary and depressing. This confirms it for me. It all blends into one sad listening experience
There's some peaks and valleys here. I get why people are so enamored with this band but they've always been hit or miss for me. The twitchy rhythms, anxious beeping...just shut the fuck up. I'm sure Thom Yorke is some sort of lyrical genius, but I don't understand what he's saying half the time. But then there are songs that settle into really nice grooves and that have some movement. There's some great guitar here in places. They're great musicians, this is well crafted and well thought out...but, like I said, the twitchiness and the electronics are a bit too much at times.
Didn’t enjoy, didn’t hate as much as I thought I would. I liked one song. Matey boys voice was doing my head in.
No standouts
while i do consider myself a radiohead fan, this is the one album of theirs i've listened to that i haven't been able to get at all. i can tell it's good, i understand the vision behind it, and yet i just don't like it. i think it's a little too cold and unforgiving for my taste, and it doesnt have any standout tracks for me unlike kid a that help make it a bit more accessible. 3/5, not sure if it deserves to be here (especially over their 2016, which is their best and much much better than this one)
Okzinho
3.3/5 - sometimes intentionally quite discordant, and to me not in an evocatively interesting way. enough to put me off a little to be honest. may give it another try in the future: still a good album :)
Instrumentals good but a little more subtlety in the lyrics would’ve been nice
Dang, they forgot to make the good tracks on this one. Few songs got there but not most.
did not enjoy this at all (1.6/5)
Again, not really my thing
Like I can tell it’s good but it just does absolutely nothing for me
Good first song, then it tails off badly and is quite boring unfortunately
The record is okay, but I enjoyed more Radiohead's earlier records. 3.5/5
My normal genre. No notes 5/5
Até agora, Radiohead nunca errou. Mentira, errou nas últimas 3 ou 4 músicas do álbum.
Probably not in my top 3 Radiohead but still pretty good.
Shit
8/10 Radiohead's journey from indie band to art rock pioneers through the exploration of electronica and experimental compositional and production techniques is a well documented one. Hail To The Thief is an interesting step on that journey as they play with electronic music structures while starting to drift back towards slightly more traditional rock music tones. There's still a lot of sonic experimentation present, but in this case they attempted to not overthink things and progress with the record in a freer way, worrying less about perfection and focusing more on flow and feel, completing the recording in only two weeks. To me, that approach comes together to create a very good, if slightly flawed record. There's plenty of interesting stuff at play, from the aforementioned electronic music structures, with build ups of tension and groove until they reach a drop where the pace and intensity of the track kicks in, to the typical Radiohead techniques of blending time signatures and slightly unorthodox harmonic arrangements to create non-typical musical expressions. At it's strongest, they touch on exquisite sequences and melodic compositions that weave joyously into the vibe of the track, the production and composition working hand in hand to create works of undeniable quality. The latter half of the album probably has more of those moments for me, and tracks like We Suck Young Blood, I Will and A Punch Up At A Wedding really hit home. It's all good stuff, and there are moments of pure magic in the whole, but to me it does feel a touch bloated and, in places, underdeveloped. There are tracks in which the clarity of the production suffers a little, or the compositions don't feel quite as tight and refined as their greatest work. The vibes and atmosphere that they create across the record are excellent as usual, but there were times when it felt like an idea was stretched just a little too far, or there was not quite the range and variety between tracks that their better albums offer. That's not to say this is bad. It's a very, very good album that holds somewhat of a special place for me as the record that really convinced me that Radiohead were a worthwhile band to get to know. But in the pantheon of Radiohead's work, it's not quite at the top table. I think the raw ingredients are there, but the execution isn't quite at their peak. This kind of sits on the border of an 8/9, but I think in terms of development of the Radiohead story, this could be considered somewhat of a similar, albeit slightly superior, step between the pillars of Kid A and In Rainbows. But it's still a Radiohead record, so it wasn't likely to be bad, was it? 2+2=5 - The atmosphere straight from the off is so good here. I love the non-traditional vocal harmonisations that gives things a really edgy feel. Structurally, this is a lot like a dance track in that it moves and builds within a set framework with a steady rhythm before they kick in with a drop half way through. It's heavy, punch, sonically rich and has cool hooks. A winning start. Sit Down. Stand Up - Again, this is atmospheric and well balanced in the production. The subtle parts that float in and out from the background like the glockenspiel and some synth pads are great and the slow build is so enticing. It's another track that kicks in with what is essentially a drop. The blend of rhythmic parts after the drop are great, although I would say the mix is a little crowded and muddy. It's still great though. Sail To The Moon - After a fairly intense couple of songs, we drift into something more melodically focused now. The counterpoint and harmony from the guitar and piano is lovely throughout and Yorke's drifting vocal works so well against it. Some of the distant, reverb soaked synth sounds are so cool too. The main vocal melody is excellent, and is enhanced with the interesting harmonisations. Backdrifts - Radiohead do sound design so well. They use techniques to cloud and obscure the core of a lot of the sounds so things become unclear, but tonally critical to the production. This track has a lot of those floating tones, set against some much sharper, punchier electronic drums. They also throw in moments where things become clearer, like the piano part, while Thom Yorke's vocal straddles the line between clear and out of focus. It's really nice, if a little long. Go To Sleep - I love the bar of four, two bars of three pattern to this. It allows a steady pulse, but makes things jump around against the beat as it goes. Again, lots of great ear candy and sound design on display here that helps to keep things fresh and there's plenty of dynamic range in here too. The main beat is great and drives the track well, and there's just so much going on, with a blend of crisp sounds against shrouded, distorted or reverberant ones. Great stuff. Where I End And You Begin - The rolling beat here is really cool, especially with the round, roaming bass set alongside it. It's another darkly atmospheric vibe, but they dip in and out of more cacophonous stacks of layers and slightly more stripped back sections nicely. There are some great bits of guitar work that jump out of the noise and, while it is a touch crowded in places, it's still excellent vibe and atmosphere building work with great hooks and motifs. We Suck Young Blood - And we move on to a more slow, considered beat now. The piano and guitar work is fractured in places, which helps build that crumbling atmosphere. The vocal melody is slow moving and dragging, but again, that works hand in hand with the haunting sound design. We do get a flurry of drive through a small section, but it drifts away nicely. A really darkly pretty song. The Gloaming - This crisp, crunchy beat, littered with electronic pops and skitters is excellent. It sets so well against the low, pulsing, pure bass line. The build of the orchestration as this moves is really nice and the sound design and ear candy on this track is superb. Melodically, it's on the restricted side, but this one is all about that vibe and sound design, which is brilliant. There, There - Johnny Greenwood's chord structure here roams around in a pretty unconventional way, adding an air of uncertainty to the composition. Thom Yorke's vocal melody is superb, especially during the chorus which is hook city, despite being set against that more unconventional backing. It's structurally fairly considered, bordering on slow moving, but again, the atmosphere is so engaging and they keep adapting and varying things on the regular to keep things fresh. It's a lovely song. I Will - Oooh, those vocal harmonisations. So pretty. It's nice to get a cleaner, tighter moment like this within the record as a palate cleanser. It's short, but has bags of dynamic range. There are some exquisite runs in the backing vocal that shift and shape the perception of the lead as it flows. The transition to a final section near the end is lush too. What a beautiful piece of work. A Punch Up At A Wedding - That bass line is killer. They layer instruments over expertly and drag the tonal core out of shape with some slightly discordant choices during the intro, which is very cool. It's a slightly more stripped back orchestration than elsewhere on the record, but that's to it's benefit for me. This is stacked full of hooks, while still finding space for interesting moments of sound design. Interestingly, this is the track that was left circling my head after the first couple of listens of the record. Myxomatosis - Another killer riff! It's particularly interesting because of the way the drums play against it, so the groove feels quite awkward. I can't quite work out what they're doing time signature-wise, but it's currently 10am and I'm about to land in Lyon having left the house in Leeds at just after 1am, so excuse my slackness. Anyway... This is atmospherically excellent, rhymically interesting, has killer riffs and is darkly, menacingly hooky. More excellence. Scatterbrain - This is a tasty dose of Thom Yorke's soaring vocals over some pretty, is slightly sombre guitar work. Very Radiohead. The counterpoint between the layered guitar parts is excellent and adds a bit of complexity during those sections that elevate this nicely. It's perhaps not as broadly interesting from a tonal point of view, but it's still melodically excellent. A Wolf At the Door - We've definitely dipped back to more traditional Radiohead style songs towards the end of this record. The long, run-on vocals have a nice and interesting rhythmic flow to them. The chorus is excellent too. The dynamic range of this track is very nice and they use some more interesting pieces of sound design to add flavour and depth. Not a top tier Radiohead track, necessarily, but still a nice one.
I didn't care for the vocals, but the instrumentals were tolerable.
I've never really given Radiohead a serious listen, but I thought it was pretty okay. The songs didn't stand out from each other well enough, but I did like how the songs often evolved and picked up tempo over time. The vocals didn't bother me, and the instrumentations were adequate for what the album was trying to be.
No one makes a full hour of Thom Yorke's insufferable whining and moaning with the least interesting, mind-numbing techno-piano alt garbage music quite like Radiohead.
Objectively good, but not to my taste.
There are flashes of brilliance throughout but the songs do not resonate with me particularly. I added “Where You End and I Begin” to my playlist. I like the drums.
"2+2=5" and "A Wolf at the door" are so good
I really enjoyed Kid A, but outside of that album I still don’t understand the level of hype around Radiohead. This one has plenty of ideas, and I can hear the mix of electronic weirdness and more traditional rock they were going for, but most of it left me waiting for the album to finally come alive. “2 + 2 = 5” starts things off with some urgency, and “There There” was probably the strongest song on here for me. After that, though, the album spends a lot of time brooding without giving me much reason to stay invested. It’s tense, political, and paranoid, but those qualities don’t automatically make the songs interesting. Nothing here was bad enough for me to dislike the album, but I never got excited about it either.
Never raved over Radiohead but this was pretty fab!
Solid I think pretty good
Radiohead has been my favorite band since I was in middle school and this album came out when I was a junior in high school. There is nothing I could possibly give this release except love. This reflects the anxiety of the time so well. Thom Yorke’s vocals are at a peak on HTTT and In Rainbows, very beautiful and very angsty and very passionate. I love the dissonant harmonies and his use of vibrato. The balance of weird electro and moody rock they created on these songs is a sweet spot for me. Underrated in Radioheads discography imo.
Förstår fortfarande inte radiohead riktigt två bra låtar men vägen dit var verkligen inte rolig
This is a 5/5. Love it.
Blech I just can’t get into Radiohead.
Probably my favourite as well, it's like a wee best of, all their different styles in one place
Think it's my favourite by them as well, probably their messiest and least focused album but love the variation and it's full of tunes
Wasn't a massive fan of Radiohead when i was younger but safe to say I've been converted over the years. Great album (4.5)
There's so many good songs in this and it's the first Radiohead album i ever listened to. Totally underrated.
being sandwiched between kid, ok computer, and rainbows isn't doing this album any favors. that being said, it's still radiohead doing radiohead things and i love it. underrated! 3.5
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A blessing to my ears.
I keep trying, but I don't like anything else as much as OK Computer or The Bends. There just isn't enough melody in the rest of it all.
Going to be controversial but I like this album more than In Rainbows. I rank this as my 3rd favorite Radiohead album with OK COMPUTER and The Bends being 1 and 2 respectively. This is still a 4 star album.
I thought I didn't like Radiohead. Turns out I was wrong.
I enjoyed this album. It feels like it was a huge improvement over the mediocrity that was Kid A.
Not my thing
please stop making me listen to radiohead
Fine, I guess?
You would think I might give this a 1 because some of the members of Radiohead are not great people. But actually I'm giving this album a one because it's exhausting and annoying. OK Computer remains tops for a reason.
their best one imo, captures a feeling of autumn and being deep in a dark forest perfectly.
Like you’re stuck in a dream sequence
I'll be honest, I didn't pay much attention to this album, it was mostly in the background. But I didn't hate it and liked the first couple of songs.
I don’t know what to say… I love it… but feel like Radiohead has so many other better albums. Hearing it with my noice canceling headphones certainly enhances the album. 4.1
Hmmm. Definitely interesting. But missing something for me compared to OK Computer. I’ll probably take the advice of a couple of the other reviews and give this a couple of additional listens at some point. For now: 6/10 Pretty Good
love radiohead but this sucked
This shit banged??? Insanely overhated. 5 for any other band
While I think OK Computer and Kid A are masterpieces, and this one superficially sounds like Kid A, I just never got into it as much as those albums. Also, a good example of an album that doesn't need to take up room on the list crowding out others. The list has Kid A, which is enough to make sure someone experiences post-OK Computer Radiohead before they leave this earth.
Wow I really liked this album, it's similar to their other records but slightly different. I definitely would listen again and it's good background music for when your in a low mood but also mad/determined to get work done and prove others wrong you know.
Not something I would reach for but it was OK.
Maybe I’m just too happy and prosperous to be moved by this album right now. In rainbows unbeatable sorry.
A bit inconsistent and too long but has some of their best songs
Album equivalent to mud. Just all sounds the same while still managing to be super boring
I always like Radiohead when I listen, but rarely do. Not sure why. This is a great album, and one that I probably missed, but has enough of the stuff I like from OK Computer and other releases in addition to unique offerings. Big fan.
Honestly underwhelming. Too experimental for me
The more and more I dive into Radiohead I simply don’t understand what’s so polarizing about them. Half of their stuff we’ve gotten on here is just noise slop with super droney vocals. Sure they’ve got their hits, and they’ve got a handful of songs I enjoy. But the full album experience from these guys.. Is putting me to sleep 😴 Jesus am I becoming a boomer? Enjoyed the first track and everything went downhill from there. Idk man why does Thom sound like such a pompous all the time?
Another Radio head album that I don’t really understand. It’s a bunch of moaning with okay instrumental and lyrics that I’m sure mean something but it’s less poetry and more nonsense to me. Interesting soundscapes that really don’t engage me as this should. Thom Yorke and friends are in their bag you can tell they know what they are doing but it’s more of the same. Perhaps it leads itself more to the reinvention that comes from in rainbows but I could not be bothered to
i feel like a chud for saying it, but I didn't really love it
Ei tää nyt huono ollu, muttei mikään superikaan. Paljon samallaisia fiboja joita Muse toi myöhemmin markkinoille.
Ei tääkään...
Tää on kyllä kans hyvä. Ei lähe käsistä viel taidehommat, muttei oo kuitenkaan ihan limasta. Vaikee verrata vaikka tohon ok COCKputeriin kun on sillai niin eri puista veisteltyä, vaikka sama pumppu onkin. Kyl mää tätä nykysellään mieluummin kuitenkin kuuntelen. Ei kuitenkaan pysty täysii antaan, kun on näillä pari viel mieluisampaa rieskaa.
No olipas paska levy. Hengetöntä määkimistä ja muutenkin huonoja biisejä. En ollut ennen kuullut yhtään biisiä tästä levyltä, eikä olisi haitannut vaikka olisi jäänyt kuulematta. Veikkaan että jos tän levyn olisi tehnyt vaikka bändi nimeltään Head Radio, niin ei olisi lähelläkään tätä listaa.
Great songs but don't love the album. Jumps around too much. On the low end of my Radiohead list.
Though I’ve listened to Radiohead before (who hasn’t) this was actually my first full Radiohead album. It was just okay! I liked some of the songs, I thought others were annoying and boring at the same time. The album felt much too long. I think they got a little too confident and then didn’t edit enough. Looking forward to more Radiohead albums that blow this one out of the water.
I just got lost in this album , really enjoyed it
This feels blasphemous but I just didn’t think this was particularly great.
Mein zweites Radiohead Album nach OK Computer. Interessante Sounds, Stimme vom Lead nervt aber hat Wiedererkennungswert. Trotzdem versteh ich die Lyrics nicht. Als Instrumental Album würde ich es deutlich besser finden. Fühlt sich oft an wie die Folge von Spongebob, als sie im "nichts" gelandet sind. Album vermittelt ein Gefühl, was ich nicht ganz beschreiben kann. Irgendwie distanziert, aber auch nostalgisch, traurig, bedauernd, erinnert an einen regnerischen Tag in der Stadt. "Sit Down. Stand Up." ist der beste Song mit einer 3,5/5. Album bekommt: 2,5/5
Incel rock. Radiohead has 2 good albums and this was not one of them
Estoy claramente sesgado. Scatterbraim es una canción pra salir a comprar el pan.
i like this album already. also 2+2=5, the first song of the album, is my favorite song from radiohead.
Radiohead is one of those bands that are difficult to get into for me. I like the music, but it can be a challenge to listen to a whole album at times. It takes several listens to really appreciate them sometimes. This is not their best attempt, but it’s still a decent record. I don’t think it’s a 5 star record, but further listening might get me there. My biggest issue with Radiohead is the length of their albums, going around 10-15 minutes too long in my opinion. This is the longest record of theirs yet. It’s a solid entry though. 4 stars
It was ok. Nothing really stood out as being all that great.
A very Radiohead album
Never really been that into radiohead. Sorry thom.
great to listen to white working. loveee scatterbrain.
Art Rock/Alternative Rock Favorite Tracks: 2+2=5, Backdrifts, Where I End and You Begin, There There, A Wolf at the Door Least Favorite Song: We Suck Young Blood So this was my second full listened to album from Radiohead, the first one being Amnesiac (to which I gave a 7/10 on). While this album is a tad better than Amnesiac, I feel like it still has the same quality of it being good, but not something that’s more standout. There’s a couple of favorite songs on here that I would really love, others are only just good or okay. While the full album is going into my personal collection, I’ll more than likely just revisit to some of the songs on the album than others. Maybe it’s because some say that it felt like a collection of both styles that should’ve been placed in their previous albums, but idk if that’s the case. Again, I’ve only listened to two of them, this included. 7/10.
Another classic!
Fora, ali u trenucima dosadno. Pogotovo pri kraju. 3/5
I was kind of underwhelmed by this one for a long time after it came out, but the whole Hamlet thing made me revisit it and I’m grateful it did. Not their most consistent record but there’s some corkers on here.
I don’t think it’s their best album. A bit too long and poorly sequenced. Love Radiohead but rarely reach for this one
>Hail To the Chief pun Wow, so clever. Big brain.
It started strong and went downhill from there. The album lacked cohesiveness.
did not like this one. starting tracks were good, quickly went downhill imo and i was just not interested by the second half. many tracks felt like they went nowhere musically and i got bored of the sound of the album fast. maybe im just a radiohead hater tho bc i can understand why ppl like them, this album just wasnt for me at all enjoyment: 32/100 fav: backdrifts least favs: the gloaming, i will
loved the electronic pieces, i cannot however listen to the ones on the sadder side by choice, because i don't want to start having suicidal thoughts again
The first Radiohead album this list has given me, and if the music press is anything close to a reliable source, this probably isn't the last one either. Hail to the Thief is the rockiest Radiohead release since The Bends, and the first one resembling conventional alt rock since OK Computer 6 years prior. This one is distinctly edgier though, and it brings the band's political undercurrent to the forefront. Inspired by the band travelling across the U.S. and writing down catchphrases and slogans inscribed on billboards across the country, Radiohead really sought out to return to their alt rock roots though there's a distinctly electronic half to basically every song. It definitely feels like it was a more spontaneous process than the calculated and deliberate sessions that produced Kid A and Amnesiac. However, that spontaneity also translates to a slightly overlong album with a few too many tracks; I think this one could really have benefitted from being trimmed down by about 3 or 4 songs with those left behind being made bonus tracks. Otherwise ideas feels like they return and repeat, but not because of a deliberate attempt to establish a theme. Nevertheless, Radiohead is a fairly consistent band, and this album managed to move the band forward once again (hard to do that 6 times in a row...) The band would never return to this level of cynicism and righteous fury again, as the albums to follow either moved in a personal direction (In Rainbows, Moon Shaped Pool) or played with the sound to a near-fault (King of Limbs.) Sometimes I miss this Radiohead. Key Tracks: Sit Down Stand Up, Where I End and You Begin, There There, Myxomatosis
2 + 2 = 5 - 4.5/5 Sit Down, Stand Up - 4/5 Sail To The Moon - 3/5 Backdrifts - 3.5/5 Go To Sleep - 3/5 Where I End and You Begin - 3/5 We Suck Young Blood - 3.5/5 The Gloaming - 3.5/5 There, There - 3.5/5 I Will - 3/5 A Punch Up at a Wedding - 4/5 Myxomatosis - 4.5/5 Scatterbrain - 3/5 A Wolf At the Door - 4/5
I’ve never really been much of a Radiohead fan but this album was melodically depressing for me.
An alright album with great instrumentation and 6/10 arrangements. Vocals continue to be a sore spot for me for RH; Yorke sings in such a distinctively weak manner that it can be tough to find the melody and vocal rhythm. It's almost like he can't decide if he wants his voice to be in the background or center stage. All in all, none of the songs really caught me.
Through this journey I’ve grown a greater appreciation for Radiohead, but as the 4th album of theirs I’ve received in this list (In Rainbows, Amnesiac, The Bends) I had a harder time getting into this one, even with several listens through/deep dive on lyrics, etc.
Not their best but still good
I've never found this album particularly interesting, like the band started focusing on all of the musical ideas I liked the least from OK Computer. Still some good things here, the singles stand out and Wolf at the Door was a nice surprise right at the end.
I do like There There, but not enough to bump this up to a 4
inaspettato
Good but def not my fave Radiohead album
What a rocker to open with. Especially when it explodes. Sit Down has a haunting piano which erupts into this frenzy of bleeps and bloops. And then when the drums kick in I’m levitating. Sail feels very Floyd when it starts. But then those vocals from Yorke destroy me. This is a good time to point out how dystopian, more so than usual, these lyrics are. Backdrifts didn’t do much for me but musically it’s interesting. It just goes on for too long for what it is. Go to Sleep starts with killer acoustic guitar and Thom’s awesome vocals. It really builds on this which I appreciated. The drums on Where I End stood out the most until that guitar and mysterious synths of course. We Suck is probably my least favorite on the album. I just don’t dig on how slow it is and the clapping bothered me. It eventually has a burst of energy but by then it didn’t matter. The Gloaming is a feast for the ears when it comes to the synths but that’s all that stands out. There, There is another standout but I did have a point where Yorke’s vocals were a bit grating. I Will feels more like an interlude so it didn’t do much for me other than the vocals. A Punchup is a great track especially that bass riff. The guitars sound like nothing I’ve heard before on Myxomatosis but that may not work for everyone. Scatterbrain feels like a leftover from the last two albums so I don’t know why they chose to use it here. Not a bad track but I do feel it sticks out in a negative way. Finally it closes with something that musically feels like a fairytale but the lyrics tell a different story.
Banger. Didn’t feel as much like a weighted blanket of sadness like the other Radiohead albums I’ve listened to. It was angrier. Genuinely so too.
Was not enamoured by the start of the album, first few songs. Go To Sleep was good, There There decent, A Wolf At the Door ok, recs from another review, didn't finish the rest of the album.
Listening to Radiohead is like going to an elementary school talent show. Some kid gets on stage and starts singing, he's forgetting all the words, mumbling through everything, and he's clearly on the verge of wetting himself, but you can't get up to leave because if you do he'll start crying.
I suppose I have no issue with the electronic haze of Radiohead's post-OK Computer output, but I do think I need to be in the right mood for it. I felt myself realizing that this music wasn't meant for sunny days when I took a stroll outside and watched a squirrel throw an acorn at another squirrel. This was while Thom was yelling about capitalism or penetration or something. In Radiohead's defense, who could compete with a squirrel fight?
Wait... is Radiohead a good band? This is the first I'm hearing about this...I should tell people.
Compared to all their albums before hail to the thief this is average. Not a standout track amongst them. Political tracks take away from the tunes and melodies in previous albums
Radiohead I feel is only as amazing as people say it is, to people who haven't listened to anything else ever. I like them but this album didn't feel special to me
Nie my gunsteling radiohead album nie ek verkies hulle meer rock stuff. Maar hy het 'n paar baie nice tracks gehad soos die eerste en laaste track
i remember loving this when it first released. let's see if i still do?!?! still pretty great
Rating this against other RADIOHEAD albums this one isn't my favorite. 4.5/5
Radiohead - masters of their sound. Some slow and downbeat, others trancelike. Highly enjoyable
Ekki þeirra besta
Mehh
This is entry #4 on the list from Radiohead. Again, they must be a favorite of the list maker. The album cover is colorful. The music seemed boring and plodding. Nothing memorable here.
We meet again, Radiohead. An auspicious start to the week? This is a very familiar album cover, even though I don't have this album. 'There, There' was on the countdown for so long - it's one of the few (~50?) music videos I remember clearly, mostly because I hated it and thought it was creepy and boring. Memory aside, the vocals here are so ... thin? high? which is probably why I never got into this "middle era" of Radiohead. Bring back 'Thinking About You'! Bring on 'Weird Fishes'! Still comforting background noise though. Highlight: 'Myxomatosis'
I feel like Kid A was the beginning of the end for this band. I dont hate Kid A by any means, but ever since, thier music has lacked that it factor that helped them bridge so many genres and gained such a diverse fam base.
Awesome
I feel like I have to be in a very specific mood for Radiohead. Their lyrics are good but I often felt like the song dragged on. I did like this album and I think I will come back to it when I'm looking to feel meloncholic.
The first Radiohead album I’ve actually listened to. Loved! I wasn’t a fan of We Suck Young Blood, but other than that this album is great.
Thom Yorke whining about american politcs over bland beats
Just so good
Yeah an incredible record, so atmospheric and moving. I have listened a couple times before but it was to re-engage properly. Loved it but I still think Kid A reigns supreme.
Brilliant. Forward thinking, great spread of genre and loved that it leaned in a few directions without really sticking to any one flavour or space. I know everyone praises Radiohead for pushing boundaries and I've been hesitant to dive deep until now. This was decisive proof of the value of their contribution to music for me.
Fantastic album. On of their best
Great album.
I Will is truly haunting
Almost unlistenable I like a lot of Radio Head but this was painful, what I was able to get through. It felt more interesting than good. I couldn't even finish it.
Люблю радиохед, не топ-1 альбом, но вайбит норм.
Grumpy goths
not the best thing radiohead have made but i am fond of this. myxomatosis especially but i do really like the blend of their earlier rock roots with more experimental stuff akin to amnesiac. good stuff
SORRY, I'm going to be 5ing almost all of these Radiohead albums. 'A Wolf at the Door' is probably my favorite song of theirs, also.
3.5, starts off strong but the last few songs are just filler, nothing particularly memorable. Some songs are good but they definitely have better stuff out there.
sehr angenehm, schwebt aber durchgehend knapp unter der reiseflughöhe von bangern
Trash. Second reccomended album and it was a bad choice. Never been a fan of Radiohead. Very slow songs. Very whiney vocals and pitch is unappealing to my ears. 1/5.
Pretty great but not Radiohead's best work
I should listen it again. Just lay on my bed and turn it on because first time when I listened it I was in my thoughts and some songs just passed by
It is popular to shit on this one, especially for people who don't like radiohead's music. I think it is a lot like some modern art museums I've been to where you can see how thought out the exhibits are, and there are cool techniques at use too, but it's all too miserable and intense at times. I'm not going to hate on a concept album that clearly has an interesting artistic perspective on violence, but about halfway through the moaning and groaning of this one I was considering moving on.
Some really beautiful bits of what's overall a long and drawn out album. Need to give a better chance to indulge the lyricism a big more but for me it wasn't as atmospheric and moving as their big 4 albums have proven to be. Tentative rating: 6.5/10
This album came at a weird time where I think Radiohead was mid-transition. They made OK Computer, followed that up with the complete pivot that is Kid A, and eventually made another pivot to In Rainbows. This album sounds like they were trying to infuse some Amnesiac into OK Computer, and I just don't think it was quite the sound they were looking for. If I had heard this in 2003 I for sure would have thought, "Dang, Radiohead's run might be over now" and it's absolutely wild that this was just a mid-evolution album. Some of these songs are really, really good, they just don't quite land because there's too much tension between songs. The connections between them is weak, which makes each song sound less polished than the earlier stuff. They also really went for the slow burn on this album, leaving some of the songs sounding more algorithmic. Overall, it's a great album, and any problems I have with it are because they are being contrasted with some of the best albums in history. I just think this one came at a weird time.
I keep trying to follow where they are taking me, but I just can’t with this one.
RATING: 7/10 HIGHLIGHT: There There LOWLIGHT: Go to Sleep
Radiohead maintains their cool factor throughout.
This is one of my favorite albums. There's something about so much of Radiohead’s material that just hits it exactly for me - tense, complex, precise, rhythmic music with vague but interesting lyrics. They're my "comfort music," and for some reason I started listening to this particular record a lot more during the pandemic, working insane amounts of overtime at my little desk at home while wailing along with “Hail to the Thief.” I'm sure I've sustained hearing damage from "Sit Down, Stand Up." First I turn it up when the bass comes in. Then a bit louder when the drums come in. And then louder, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the raindrops, and the
2.8. We Suck Young Blood is grating.
A good Radiohead album, though in their catalog one of the albums I revisit less than some of their others. There's a few really good tracks, some are ok, and one or two I usually want to skip.
Kinda creepy weird. Bailey's "is he going to kill me" album
I am not a Radiohead fan. Sorry.
I love this album. I can’t judge it properly because there are too many emotions tied up in it.
Pretty tedious.
Never got much into Radiohead not sure why..but now I do..not horrible but
I'm not sure what to rate this one, I was bored. Maybe I'm missing something?
Rate: 10/10. Admito que cuando me salió este álbum mi reacción fue un jumpscare, pero ya es natural. Amo a Radiohead y también me vuelven miserable. "Where I End and You Begin" temon. AGUANTE RADIOHEAD!!!!
(4/7) I never really got the radiohead hype
I was relatively late to the Radiohead party - didn't get excited about them all at the time. I think it's mostly Yorke's whiny voice - bit of turn off for me. That said, they are in my top 100 artists on last.fm, so I mustn't dislike them. This is a fine Radiohead album, if not a good Radiohead album, but there are others that are stronger.
Lives in the shadow of OKC, Kid A, and In Rainbows. A really well-played record, I like the songs, but to me it just sounds like Radiohead Doing Radiohead But Just Not As Good As Radiohead Has Done Radiohead before. Which feels unfair to HTTF, but it feels like there's untapped potential and creativity on this one.
Meh. Never been a Radiohead fan. Fully aware it's not for me.
Peak mid
In their discography I feel like this album is one of the underrated ones. Not as trailblazing as Kid A or OK Computer, it finds them consolidating their style. The rock song structure blends well with the electronic flourishes.