Hail To the Thief

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Before embarking on this 1001 journey, I didn't really care for Radiohead. But now they are one of my favourites. That being said, I regret so much giving In Rainbows just a 3 when I think about other records on this list that I gave a 3. But I wasn't such a big fan then, so that's it. However, this record is a lot more enjoyable for me believe it or not. It's one of my favourites, and I actually like it more than In Rainbows and Kid A. I can't figure out why, but I like it very much. It's a 5 for me!

God damn this album is so good.

Um dos melhores albums da vida, já que é um álbum da melhor banda da vida. Pelamordedeus.

Radiohead: 5 stars.

Вважаю цей альбом трохи недооціненим, можна навіть на rym подивитися, на цифри в спотіку чи середню оцінку тут. Років 5 тому я з другом робили ренкінг дискографії Радіохед і цей альбом в мене зайняв третє місце. Дуже вдалий баланс між рок та електронною складовою. Купа дуже хороших пісень. Я хз чого його так оцінюють.

Ще з часів школи Hail To the Thief був у моєму умовному топі дискографії рх, і зараз, ретроспективно, це я б сказав топ-3 для мене. Тоді вони повернулись до гітарного саунду, а також записали свій мабуть найбільш "політичний" альбом - такі вже часи були, адміністрація Буша і все таке. Цікаво як би цей альбом звучав зараз)) Можу додати що there there це одна з моїх найбільш улюблених пісень редіохед, просто геніально.

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Great album as is always the case from Radiohead.

#4 感觉对上了脑波频率，好好听

Oooh, so excited to dive into this album. It came out when I was 16 and was one of the few albums I owned, and the first of Radiohead. "There There" is one of my all time favourite songs. This'll be my first 5 star album!

I love Radiohead I love Radiohead I love Radiohead

Not in the top 5 Radiohead albums, but still 5 stars. Sweet and sad and paranoid and justified. This band only has 2 misfires IMO, Pablo Honey and A Moon Shaped Pool. Haters, listen to The Bends and In Rainbows

Amazing

Sometimes, Hail To The Thief is my favorite Radiohead record. The songs are so leftfield, heartfelt... Sometimes chaotic and heavy, other mellow and uplifting. The ending "A Wolf At The Door" is to me one of the best song ever recorded. I looooove that album.

loved it!

I didn't love this album on release, i listened to it plenty but never really connected. Now, it's like meeting an old friend, there's a familiarity there but also a new appreciation of the incredible musicianship Thom's vocals are incredible, laced with emotion, soaring over a bed of sonic genius

Been a while since I listened to this. Such an excellent album

A true classic. A very cohesive, moody album that is very rewarding to listen. It's been a long time since I listened to a Radiohead album from start to finish - I used to, but eventually I just picked the songs I like the most. In this case, there are so many great ones for me - The Wolf at the Door, There There, We Suck Young Blood, 2+2=5... I'm absolutely glad I revisited Hail to the Thief in all its melancholic glory.

More relavant than ever.

incredible album

Banger

The second Radiohead album I listened to in full. The first was Pablo Honey, which I didn't particularly care for, and so dismissed the band for years after. Hail to the Thief, though, really grabbed me from the first listen, and was the spark towards Radiohead becoming one of my favourite bands.

A 4.5 rounded up. I need to listen to it a bunch more to really solidify my opinion, but I found I really liked about half the songs, was transported by 2-3 in that way that Yorke’s falsetto and harmonies do, and found the rest a little less accessible but interesting. Is the rounding up rather than down determined by my respect for Radiohead? Maybe. But this album is still real real good.

Awesome album. Worthy of a 5 in my mind.

There, There - so good. New favorite

Live, love, radiohead. Always a fan of their music, very much up my alley. Not my favorite album, but definitely a good one

I’ve always said this album was slept on, even my Radiohead fans. I’m a huge fan of their entire discography and this is in my top 3 albums by them.

Yeah, yeah, it's perfect. Signed, a very reluctant Radiohead fan

yayayay radiohead! absolutely fire, will def revisit

my second favorite radiohead album! love it

familiar with this album due to my radiohead obsession when i was 11-12. Amazing amazing amazing

If I ever rate a Radiohead album below a 5 then you can reliably say I've been replaced by a simulacrum (unless we're talking about Pablo Honey lmao). Hail To The Thief isn't their best album by any stretch - it's held up by its strongest singles in songs like '2 + 2 = 5' and 'Sail To The Moon', whereas before this they had a pretty stellar track record for no-skips. That said, I'm all over this one like a rash. fav tracks: 2 + 2 = 5, Sail To The Moon, There There, Myxomatosis

fantastic

Perfection

RADIOHEAD !!!!!!!

Yes, incredible

Not my favorite Radiohead but still spectacular

Fantastic album. Love Radiohead

Quality Radiohead, at the time it took a few listens to get acquainted but once I did it revealed a truly great album.

Incredible incredible album. Their 6th studio album and last of their recording deal with Parlophone marks a turning point. Meets a perfect blend of the music of The Bends and Kid A/Amnesiac.

Not my type of music honestly but I haven’t listened to the full thing 😞

criminally underrated album, love the use of pianos, if another artist made this it would be their best, awesome record

wow

Birthday album! Very good and Sail to the Moon is so out of body incredible and nostalgic crazy for me as a high girl in an uber

Maybe it's not a 5 as it's not as good as their best albums. But it's still better than just about anybody else.

This was always going to be a 5, so I listened to the new live version. It also gets a 5.

i think radiohead is growing on me. im liking each album more and more

Yep it’s Radiohead

Awesome gets better with age

great album. wish Thom Yorke wasn’t a raging Zionist but great album.

Impressive for a "second tier" Radiohead album.

Another Radiohead album and, as a big fan of their music, it's another difficult one to rate. This is one of their least cohesive albums, but it is still head and shoulders above most of the 400 albums I've listened to so far. It also contains some of my favourite Radiohead songs in 2+2=5, Myxomatosis and A Wolf at the Door. Fuck it. I'm still giving it a 5. A weaker Radiohead album is still a very good album.

I love Radiohead and very neat album for them.

Great

Near perfect

What a dreamy and melancholic rock album, i was mesmerized from the beginning to the end! I love Radiohead, big fan, always been. This adds up to the huge legacy of the band, and they made something new and beautiful.

Just remember that this was the time Radiohead were touring in Bologna, Italy, so the fact that you got this album feels pretty un-coincidental. This isn’t an album I fully grasped in one listen, but even after the first play through I could already sense the depth and the potential of how much I might like it after a few more plays. It took a few proper listens to get through the dark, inaccessible and clustered layers this album has, not only musically, but also lyrically as they seem very cynical and angry here. They say this album is a mixture of everything they had experimented with up to that point: mainly the paranoia and glitchy electronics of Kid A/Amnesiac, mixed with the tighter band driven songwriting of their earlier work. It’s messy on purpose, anxious, politically charged, and full of that early 2000s dread. Overall, I’m enjoying the album more with every listen, mostly because there’s so much to discover each time. I enjoy the infusion of electronics humming like static in the background, and Thom Yorke sounding half exhausted, half furious yet they still manage to balance atmosphere with melody. There are so many details that I notice with every new listen. There’s rarely any repetition from beginning to end, and even though the songs structures are based on repetition, the songwriting is very linear and the variety in the added layers is huge. The album cover is quite interesting too. It's a roadmap of Hollywood with words taken from roadside advertising in LA and from Yorke’s lyrics. It’s basically a chaotic map of meaningless corporate/political language, just noise, mirroring the album’s themes of confusion, manipulation, and media overload. Rating this album is hard because it feels like a five star album, but compared to the rest of their discography, it’s slightly less good than their other five star records. So I’m giving it four stars because of relativity, even though on a general level it’s basically a five. Realistically, I’d call it a 4.5, so maybe I will give it a five.

Any Radiohead enjoyers?

Two bangers in a row. George not as keen

The follow-up to Kid A and Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief is a continuing progression from earlier work as was the norm from the band. Their style was instantly recognizable, but much like the last two albums, it took a listen or three to fully grasp its beauty. From the beginning of 2+2=5 where the sound of a guitar being plugged in supposedly on day one of the recording sessions, you can tell it's a bit of a departure. Bringing back an element of the rock sound from their first couple of albums. The album though is more mature and more restrained. I think this release sets up for their subsequent, and my favorite album, In Rainbows.

One of my absolute favorite albums, and the one that got me into Radiohead in the first place. It's sadly just as relevant now as it was when it was released in the darkness of the Bush era. The day after the 2024 election, I just put it on and rage cleaned. There's so much raw emotion in the melodies and the lyrics; it was incredibly cathartic.

I've listened to a few Radiohead albums and this was the first time I've 'gotten' it. I loved this album. I don't even know why. It sounds cool and it is musically interesting. There were no songs that I wasn't interested in. I'll have to give this a few listens.

I've always thought this was amazing, I think the rock blended with the experimental stuff they did in Kid A hits a perfect combination here. I think this is certainly better than Kid A, as I think some of the more experimental stuff they did was just not that good. I think they maybe felt less pressure to deliver something than on previous stuff, so I think its probably more relaxed or something. Obviously the playing is great, but I think what makes them so unique in this era is just everything sounds so good together, and every part is also so intricate individually, like the glitchy synth bits and random tape loops (I think). I think there's also a lot of unconventional instruments, probably Johnny Greenwood stuff, like delays being used as instruments. Thom Yorke is of course a brilliant singer and I love the vocal reverbs on his voice, makes some of these feel much more open. He's also really great at bridging the gap between catchy and emotive, which he does loads on here. I think this is when the more 'modern' era of Radiohead started, where they somewhat ditched standard rock for more 'abstract' stuff. Probably better than the bends and kid A and maybe similar to In Rainbows and a tiny bit worse than OK computer. Favourite songs: all but backdrifts, we suck young blood, the gloaming. Overall around 9/10

Un autre excellent disque ! Grandiose, majestueux ! Que de belles choses à dire à son propos ! On ne s’en lasse pas. Plus ! Encore !

♥️

I’m amazed I’m just now listening and really understanding what’s going on with this band. Very much enjoyed listening.

Долгое время я думал, что это самый слабый* альбом группы Radiohead, но в последние пару месяцев в рамках своеобразной подготовки к концертам я, наверное, чаще всего возвращался к нему. Скорее всего потому, что раньше я слушал его сильно реже прочих. Но типа... На этом альбоме есть одна страная песня c охуенным названием, и 13 абсолютных бангеров. Лучшая песня - Myxomatosis.

This is an extremely difficult album to review.  I need more time really to give this a good crack. That said what I can tell for now is this album has a wider identify.  The songs have their own unique play on things and differ in many ways musically.  For example, "There There" has this prominent guitar lead and even has time to elevate it at the end with some pretty decent rock highlights.  In contrast you have songs that have an overly synth effects toolbox (Literally the song before would be a good example or "Myxomatosis").  Then the song after ("I Will") was a slow dragged-out Thom vocal meander with almost no meaningful rhythm component.  Next song, percussion comes immediately back in, and we have a rhythm section again.  "Wolf at the door" I would not even know was a Radiohead song immediately.   In summary I don't think it is as good as Kid A and seems a more random selection of musical intent and does seem to draw upon numerous more individual component tools.  That said I actually enjoyed that element of this album in its own right vs others but I just don't feel this has the spectacular visceral complement that really grabbed me in Kid A for example. Guitar (There there), drums (sit down stand up), vocals (Sail to the moon), synth (the gloaming) - To blend to such good effect I eventually landed on a 5.  I rounded up.

I always feel like Hail to the Thief is a little odd one out in the Radiohead discography and I remember it taking me a few listens to really get into. After transitioning from their alt-rock roots into the electronic fusion of Kid A and Amnesiac, the album seems to hark back to their more traditional rock sound. That's not to say that the album isn't infused with the chaotic, dizzying whirl of rock-electronica that typify post-Kid A Radiohead. I love how tracks like "Sit Down, Stand Up" crescendo into a panic attack of sound that isn't completely comfortable but remains beautiful. It's just that there are tracks like "Go to Sleep." which more fit the rock band formula. The core attraction of Hail to the Thief and Radiohead in general is that they perfectly capture the beauty in the darker themes of human existence. I get that this isn't an album for all occasions, but sometimes its good to just sit on your own in a dark room and wallow in this swirling beautiful sadness.

Done

The last of Roadiohead's rock sound, I miss it dearly.

MILR- Man I Love Radiohead

Radiohead tax 👍

Helter skelter, great live 2 + 2=5 Sit down stand up We suck young blood There there

This was extremely hard to rate objectively. But that’s not the point of this is it? It’s far from their best album in terms of individual tracks, but as a cohesive piece, it’s arguably a masterpiece. Musically, it’s a great mixture of their (at the time) newer electronic experimentation and alt-rock origins. Of all the Radiohead albums, this one has the strongest attachment to time and place for me, and the memories that entails. Listening to this album gives me such a delightful feeling of nostalgia, the way Don Draper described it: “It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. . .It takes us to a place where we ache to go again.” It’s a 5/5.

I LOVE THIS ALBUMS TOP 3 RADIOHEAD PERCHANCE???

Dark, moody, brooding, and that’s just Jonny Greenwood’s haircut. Hail To the Thief is an album that I never paid much attention to as a Radiohead fan until recently, and despite my ignorance, I’m actually glad for this album to be so fresh to me. It’s bloody brilliant. There’s a definite theme, and many tracks follow a similar format - starting slow and wistful, before growing and finally exploding into a burst of pained energy. It’s a winning formula. This album feels like a perfect mid point between the slightly more conventionally rock-sounding In Rainbows, and the experimental, electronic Kid A. As an appreciator of all forms of Radiohead, this is a great balance to have. It is also the album that to me sounds most like Muse (or rather, Muse sound like IT). Many tracks feel straight out of Origin of Symmetry or Showbiz. A top tier album that has recently become one of my favourites by Radiohead.

Tried to listen with fresh ears but it's so difficult. I have a real history with this record. It was difficult to imagine how they could make the production interesting after kid a and amnesiac, but I really think they managed it. The super saturated live feel production is definitely not what I would go for first but it works here. Some tracks are like indie band meets trance anthem. And there's still beautiful songwriting at the heart.

I found this quite a hypnotic listen. It seems very layered and like multiple listens will be rewarding. A bit melancholy, mostly languid, and a bit angry.

прекрасный опыт

Muy bueno

This is the fourth Radiohead album I've gotten so far, there's six in here. I feel bad for anyone who hates Radiohead, but I will literally end up giving all of these a 5 I'm sorry.

It's Radiohead. It's a great album, lots of cool sounds that I've never heard before. I don't think you could hear something similar from other bands as well. 5/5

Very good!

i listen this album live actually and thought it was phenomenal

Perfect mix of Radiohead's mastery over analog and electric instruments

Sonical Masterpiece, well put together album

Dug it, a lot. Haven't listened to it in years and it kinda took me by surprise as I'd felt like I'd had my fill of Radiohead. Reminded me of why they're such a great band.

"¿Sos un soñador que querés arreglar el mundo? Yo me voy a quedar en mi casa eternamente, donde 2 + 2 siempre es 5" Así abre este disco genial. Otro que podría referirse al mundo de hoy, al de la posverdad y el oscurantismo medieval en el que vivimos. Yo pensaba ponerle a este disco 4 estrellas, porque Radiohead tiene tres discos que me parecen mejores que este, pero después de escuchar los primeros segundos, y a medida que fui reescuchando el disco le tengo que poner las 5. Es un 9/10 estrellitas, un 5 débil. Pero le tengo demasiado cariño a este disco como para ponerle menos: 2+2= 5, Sail to the Moon, Where I End and You Begin, There There (mi canción favorita del disco), We Suck Young Blood, A Punch Up at the Wedding y A Wolf at the Door están entre las mejores canciones de la banda. O sea, 7 de 14 canciones están entre las MEJORES canciones de la banda. Y el resto del disco está muy bien también: Scatterbrain, Sit Down, Stand Up, I Will, Myxomatosis... son muy buenas. Hay un par de canciones que no me gustan mucho. Un par de canciones DE CATORCE: Backdrifts es la "mayor ofensa". Simplemente porque es una canción que no me dice mucho y dura más de 5 minutos. Entre comillas, tampoco está mal. Hay efectos con la guitarra que están buenos. Algunos electrónicos también. The Gloaming es la otra que nunca me convenció mucho, pero su electrónica es más interesante. ¿Y qué es Hail to the Thief? Es un disco que rompe con su pasado reciente, los electrónicos Kid A y Amnesiac, con Johnny Greenwood volviendo a agarrar la guitarra para patear culos. También creo que es el disco más cancionero de Radiohead, tal vez junto a The Bends y In Rainbows. HTTT es el disco con más canciones de la banda y es el disco que tiene más canciones cortas (si bien también Backdrifts y There There superan los 5 minutos y hay otras cuantas que duran más de 4). También es el disco más variado de la banda: tiene canciones como Backdrift que podrían haber estado en Amnesiac o Kid A, más electrónica y con weas raras; tenés canciones que rockean como 2+2=5, Go to Sleep o There There; baladas radioheadianas como Sail to the Moon a A Punchup at a Wedding, y también tenés canciones raras que solo Radiohead puede hacer: la marcha fúnebre de We Suck Young Blood, el recitado (super melódico) de desgracias como A Wolf at the Door o la pequeña balada minimalista de I Will. Después están las letras. Este sería el disco "político" de Radiohead, como dije al principio. Un comentario pelotudo porque Radiohead casi siempre fue político. ¿OK Computer y Kid A no son discos políticos? Pero sí es un disco que tomó inspiración a partir de los discursos de Bush y su Guerra contra el Terror. Dicho eso, Radiohead siempre fue una banda muy inteligente y va más allá. Todo bien con American Idiot y ese tipo de discos, pero Hail to the Thief no es un disco anti-Bush, sino que refleja el estado de neurosis y psicosis que tenemos las personas comunes en la vida moderna. Los Bush son la consecuencia (y tal vez también la causa) de eso, pero el tema es la vida de hoy. Entonces, tenemos letras que son explícitamente políticas, como 2+2=5 (que describe la distopía orwelliana en la que estamos viviendo hace 20 años) o ese lamento a las corporaciones (los vampiros de la vida real), We Suck Young Blood; pero también tenemos canciones que hablan sobre la distancia que hay entre las personas, como Where I End and You Begin, o sobre las neurosis que aquejan al hombre cotidiano (A Wolf at the Door). Hasta la tapa es totalmente icónica, presentando distintos carteles y panfletos que nos forman y deforman. En fin, DISCAZO. No es tan bueno como Kid A, Ok Computer y A Moon Shaped Pool, pero eso solo nos muestra lo increíble que es esta banda.

Myxomatosis reminds me of weather top lotr

I've mentioned before that OK Computer was the last Radiohead album I really liked before they got fully Weird with a capital W. As I listened to the first couple of tracks, I thought, "Here we go again." How wrong I was. At first, I just appreciated a lot of the songs that were based in regular instruments rather than electronica (e.g., Sail to the Moon, Go to Sleep, A Punchup at a Wedding), but it was on repeat listens that I started to get pulled into more and more tracks (incl. Myxomatosis and A Wolf at the Door). I was busy this week and it took a while to get to a close listen, but I was already clearly at a 4 for the album by then. Then, I did my close listen and frankly was blown away by how much better the album was when paying close attention. The lyrics are sheer poetry and horror - the sense of foreboding throughout the album is palpable. It's a shame Thom Yorke doesn't enunciate well when he sings (and I know he's capable - that always irks me) because the lyrics are outstanding. Every single song hit me on close listen, so much that I'm not even going to list "favorite tracks" (but a few that really hit me for the first time during the close listen included Where I End and You Begin, We Suck Young Blood, and The Gloaming and if I had to pick one track to call a favorite it would be A Wolf at the Door). Simply put, this is an amazing album - can't believe they pulled this from the book - I slept on this one and I'm glad the 1001 got me to give it another chance.

Listens: A LOT (20+ listens, 430+ song scrobbles) Standout Tracks: 2+2=5, Sail To The Moon, Where I End And You Begin, We Suck Young Blood, There, There, A Punchup at a Wedding I have listened to this album somewhere in the range of 20-30 times according to Last FM, and more recently a Maloja container I've been running in Docker. Look it up; its basically a locally-hosted Last FM deployment, but more simplistic. But I digress. When I first started listening to Radiohead, this album didn't even register on my radar. I was all about In Rainbows and OK Computer. Jigsaw Falling Into Places, Karma Police and especially Climbing Up The Walls are some of my favorite Radiohead songs and perhaps some of my favorite songs of all times. As I explored their extensive catalog, I got into The Bends (which is the first entry of my 1001 Albums Journey) and A Moon Shaped Pool before discovering Hail To The Thief. It was only in the last ~12 months that I tried out this album, and damn does it hit hard. I am hard-pressed to name a bad song on this album. Some are more forgettable than others, but not a single one is skippable or un-listenable. This album isn't quite the perfection that is OK Computer, but its in my top 3 I think. If I had to pick favorites, it would probably be We Suck Young Blood; Such a haunting, creepy tune, and There, There which has a killer, trippy third "verse" where they really go ham on the instrumentation. But honestly, this album is just full of bangers, and its one of the easiest 5-stars (so far) I will give out during this journey. And just recently, Radiohead released a live version of this album, a live recording of each song on the album put together in the same order as the studio album, so I've been listening to that as well.

I really liked this one.. 4.5?

One of the great bands releasing a fantastic mix of music. 4.5/5

omfg

I know there an important band but don’t know there work, it’s very good it’s more a way of working, like some process they have to go through as do we as listener. they’re doing something brilliant

holy shit man, what a fuckin album. incredible. 5/5

Vivid memories of my first listen. As I’ve gotten older, I enjoy this album more and more.

Perfectly encapsulates the feeling of living through the W Bush era

It’s a good album, not great but good nothing outstanding.

Seems a bit rough around the edges, maybe, but it's got the Radiohead song structures, Radiohead chord progressions, the Radiohead treatment of time signatures and Radiohead's compelling, often off-kilter instrumentations with all this relative weirdness still hitting the right spot for me. I may have to face the fact that I'm kind of a fan, after all: every album past (but also including) OK Computer happens to feature some of my favourite music. Plus, they're just the ultimate band to do a horizontal head-shake dance to. Naturally, 5/5.

I very much enjoyed, the vibe was very correct and the balance was lovely

Sucks about thom though

Masterpiece! It is a very balanced album. There is no new super hits, but it is really good.

Radiohead has always looked good on paper to me, but when I listen, I think, yeah, they're pretty cool, but I don't understand the rabid fandom. I think I really need to rethink that attitude--Radiohead has produced so much compelling music. Even "Hail To The Thief" seems like it was a reaction to GW Bush and Tony Blair, but really it was of its time without those figures. Modern problems are not about individual people, but the despair we all feel and the reactivity that we're prone to. Combine this album with its two predecessors and you've got a hell of a run.

Another masterpiece from the best band still going.

Eerie, mournful continuation of amnesia but this time more dynamic. Notable tracks: There There, 2+2=5.

Underrated Radiohead album. I think it gets lost being smack dab in the middle of one of the greatest album runs ever. It's a wide-ranging album, with some of their strangest and most complicated songs. "Sail to the Moon" is so beautiful and strange! Anyways. The raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops FIVE STARS

Absolutely excellent. I've never really listened to much Radiohead but now I completely get the hype. It was an experience and an adventure

it’s just so insanely good i’m sorry. this was the album that really made radiohead click for me. i remember listening to it and thinking that i finally understood why thom yorke always dances like a nut while performing, because the music courses through you like an electric current. it’s that immediate and devastating…you’re just helpless to move… it was specifically ‘where i end and you begin’ that got me way back in 2022, because it has all the hallmarks of an Instant Emilia Favorite—prominent bass line, lyrics about a codependent relationship, spiky guitar, throbbing percussion. this album (like *in rainbows*) is fairly bass-heavy, or at least heavier than their earlier albums, which is maybe why i like it so much…? i think thom’s voice was also really strong in this era—he started singing in a slightly lower register and relied less on his falsetto. i like it when he sings through his teeth, lol. i like when male vocalists sing in a way that rings as desperate but NOT whiny. i love ‘there, there’ and all the footage of them playing it live on the HTTT tour—it was almost always their opener because it requires three sets of drums and i just can’t imagine how fucking exciting it was to see them kick off a set like that. “just ‘cause you feel it / doesn’t mean it’s there” is such a brilliant lyric. in general i love how so many of the songs on this album seem to lend themselves to dual interpretations, simultaneously menacing and comforting… ‘myxomatosis’ is another favorite…i love that revving guitar sound and the absolutely gut wrenching lyrics. don't you just want to go ape shitt? unfortunately, my attachment to this album and its intentions as an anti-war record are the main contributing factors to my hesitance to enjoy radiohead fully now in light of their support of zionism (EXCEPT FOR ED!!!). i don’t actually care a lot about the political implications of this album—i think many of radiohead’s lyrics referencing politics are their weakest and most trite (see: “kicking squealing gucci little piggy” in ‘paranoid android’ which makes me want to puke, or even the reference to 1984 with ‘2+2=5’. eye roll). but that’s what THOM wanted to convey with this album, and i just can’t square it with his refusal to fully condemn israel’s actions. blah. as a record it’s still gorgeous. but my ability to get lost in it is significantly diminished now, which does make me very sad. fav tracks: WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN!!!!!!; myxomatosis; there, there; a wolf at the door; sit down. stand up.; 2+2=5; a punch up at a wedding; the gloaming

My favorite album from one of my favorite bands! This is the album that got me into Radiohead. Thom Yorke’s voice is otherworldly.

this is another one of those albums that i listened to obsessively as a teenager so giving it anything less than a 5 feels dishonest to myself even if ~objectively~ it probably isn't a 5* album. like it's messy and not all of it works perfectly but that's why i always loved it, you know????

more frenetic than their other stuff

Нз защо ама все повече ми харесват тия, коеот не е добре

Hard to believe some would consider Radiohead a “one hit wonder.” I was lucky enough to catch h them on this tour, hands down one of the most beautiful and energetic live shows I’ve been to. This album holds such a dear spot in my heart. Front to back perfection and a must listen on headphones. So many treats buried in the mix.

Ein Album das Aufmerksamkeit braucht - sehr cool! Super ungewöhnlich, quasi wie Tool ohne Metal. Nichts für nebenbei, wyld, aber auf ne gute Art.

Für mich nach ok computer eines ihrer besten Alben. Sehr zwingend.

Love this album. Always have, always will.

One of my fav bands and one of their brightest albums. This album generator thing really loves Radiohead. I’m not complaining, but sheesh, there have to be some other influential bands from the last 10,000 years.

Tied with okay computer as my favorite radiohead album.

At this point in their career I had fully given up on Radiohead ever bringing back a guitar driven album. Why they won’t? Who the hell knows, only they know. Much like the 2 other post Ok Computer albums, I wanted to hate this album. I really did. You see, it’s not a perfect listen at first….listen It’s a grower before it’s a shower. Ok Computer wasn’t like that but here we are. This album continues the deep dive into a music genre only fit for them. It’s like Electonicpoprockalternatindy, to sum it up. Gosh darn it, it works Choice cut: A Wolf at the Door

4th favorite of what I've heard on the list so far

fuck i wish i got some radio(((head))) from a 12 year old girl preferably

A lot of people were wondering where could Radiohead go from Kid A/Amnesiac, which représented a hard turn for them after the success of Ok Computer. They went for full on Radiohead : unhinged, unpreoccupied with fashions and trend, and used their new world-class stature to make a statement: not in our name. More than a decade later, this album still sounds fresh and true. A timeless masterpiece

Such a good album- beginning to end

It's Radiohead's best album. I acknowledge I'm in a minority of one here but I don't care. It's the best mix of all their electronic and guitar work with mysterious and beautiful songs. Everything works (after multiple listens, mind you). The last few songs are a bit disjointed but I still love them. The middle is the highlight.

Great album. It was the first album they released after I was introduced to them and thankfully was a return to more guitars (I never got on with amnesiac). Fascinating rhythms, an interesting range of vocal approaches, incredible weird timing guitar work. I feel like this album is heavily underrated even by Radiohead fans.

Good songs

Radiohead is one of my favorite bands. Glad to see they are well respresented in the list.

While this is not one of my favorite Radiohead albums, it still has some great songs.

-Makes me want to kms, classic Radiohead

It’s good, admit it

I’ve always felt that Radiohead are far darker, far more sinister, and cast an aura of evil and doom at a stronger, more authentic register than your typical ‘dark’ bands. There’s something about Thom Yorke’s voice that feels like it can spread cancer like a virus. Goth, metal, and the like are all in league with the lord of darkness, but Hail to the Thief-era Radiohead are satan’s heart incarnate. Case in point, there’s a song on this album where Yorke says he’ll eat you alive over and over and over. And even if this is a commentary on the war on terror, a big part of me does believe that Yorke sucks young blood. Hail to the Thief is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Radiohead album, but if it weren’t for The Bends, Kid A, or In Rainbows, this sure would be. In other words, this is a damned fine album that’s often overlooked among their repertoire. When I listen to this, I sometimes wonder if this is the most personality-defining album by Radiohead. The upheaval of Kid A and Amnesiac have settled, but they hadn’t quite matured to the point of In Rainbows. HttT is an entity in between, while also still offering its own worlds, its own distinct style. When I listen to HttT, I usually find myself wondering if it’s my favorite Radiohead album. It may not be the best one, but yeah, it may be my favorite. The jury is still deliberating.

Enfin un album qui ne sort pas des boulamites. Mon pref à date. J'ai découvert "I Will" que j'ai trouvé vraiment puissante. Peut-être que c'est la parentalité qui vient me toucher dans les tripes, mais ça m'a parlé et les vocalises sont magnifiques. J'ai trouvé que c'est un album doux, émotif et vibrant.

2 + 2 = 4 .... ????????? 😍😍😍😍😍

Rien à redire sur cet album. Très belle oeuvre.

The raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops the raindrops! Album parfait, transition entre l'électro-horreur (cut the kids in halfff) de Kid Amnesiac et les compos plus recherchées de In Rainbows. Les build up sont incroyables. Le talent de lyriciste de Thom Yorke explose (In pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape. Broken branches trip me as I speak. Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there.)

It's a fantastic album. Not my favourite Radiohead album, but it does have the best opening track. 2+2=5 is such a banger.

Great

Damn. I was going to rate this one down based on memory, but it hit better than I remembered.

Stunning album, the song Sail to the Moon is one of my favourites.

Radiohead does not miss

A classic Radiohead album. So many great tracks

No comment. Just amazing

This album came out when I was 13. At that time, I listened to Radiohead because I wanted to have something in common with the boys. Re-listening now and reading up on the political jabs at GW Bush and the War on Terror, Orwellian euphemisms and poetic children themes intertwined throughout.. Sheesh those AIM away messages had a deeper meaning. Bravo Thom Yorke.

I didn't know George Bush was a Radiohead man! JK. I love all Radiohead, can't go wrong.

Better loud! I love this era or Radiohead although not my favorite album of theirs

-waow I didn’t know this one was even on here… ugh biased again but such a phenomenal album. probably Radiohead’s most eclectic in terms of blending their electronic and rock sensibilities. it’s always been one of my favorites to listen to in full because of how diverse it is -maybe a 4.5 because of the infamous Rushed Mixing but it still feels like a flawless album to me -Favorites are Sail To The Moon, Go To Sleep, Myxomatosis, and A Wolf At The Door

Classic ofc

A lot of my favourite Radiohead songs are on this album. The bookends are nothing but amazing. I could say that about the whole album. I'm just so happy that I finally got another Radiohead album. There's a chance I might get lucky again. 5 stars for "Hail to the Thief".

10/10 I'll go listen to it now

easily one of the radiohead albums of all time

I like it more than The Bends

4.5

I really planned on giving this a 4 but then the second half was really hitting. Sorry

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

An absolute gem - instant 5/5. Not my favorite Radiohead album, but in the context of these 1001 albums, its great. @joe this is MY college feels.

I'm not the biggest Radiohead fan, but even I can admit this is a hell of an album.

Yeah, pretty much adore everything thing these guys do. Their only albums I don't consider masterpieces are Pablo Honey and King of Limbs. I dig every track here. I can remember listening to this in the Bush era when it came out, and was immediately floored by the opener "2 + 2 = 5", which was the strongest political statement they had made at the time. The whole sounds just as timeless and relevant as the day it came out to my ears. And this also has some of my deeper cut favorites like "A Wolf at the Door" and "We Suck Young Blood". Easy 5 for me

Low-key one of my favorite Radiohead albums. I love the shaky rage, the introspection harmonies, the way the digital aspects flood in through the cracks of a rock band. Phasers set to melancholy. Also, the best album cover for a band that makes definitive album cover statements. It's not the Titanic-sinking iceberg that OK Computer or In Rainbows are, but I love how it looms out beside you in the fog.

I was over Radiohead by the time this landed but man this album this band doses alienation and dystopia so well it doesn't feel like a twenty year old album it feels like now.

Not their best but better than many.

Fantastic album love it

With "The Bends", Radiohead proved that they weren't a one hit wonder. With "OK Computer", they fought against being typecast into one genre. With "Kid A", they addressed their superstar status by rejecting everything and trying some bold, new experiments. With "Amnesiac", they demonstrated that those experiments could still feel human. The most interesting thing about Radiohead's sixth album "Hail to the Thief" is that it's not particularly interesting. This is the first instance of the band having nothing really to prove any more and just setting out to make a good album. There's not much that's really challenging or novel compared to their previous work. Their approach was to work quickly and stop overthinking things. They finished a ton of works in progress and quickly recorded them (about a day per song). Even the lyrics are relatively simple, focusing mostly on post-9/11 political themes, fatherhood, heaven and hell. It's maybe a rushed album to get out of their contract with EMI, but it's done with the confidence and skill of a band that spent the previous decade proving themselves to audiences and critics. "Hail to the Thief" is not one of the great Radiohead albums and arguably could have been left off of this list. It's feels slightly too long and less cohesive than their other work. Despite that, it's a great collection and there's no bad song on it. Not all albums need to be works of art. Sometimes it's refreshing to just get a good collection of songs.

I love Radiohead but hadn’t spent a lot of time with this record in particular. Listening to it with a critical ear at this point in the world political climate, I’m saddened (beyond the usual post-Radiohead malaise) that the subject matter of this album is still so very relevant.

No private session used for Spotify, I used to listen to this album a lot when it first came out. I liked the previous albums, Kid A and Amnesiac, but like the more upbeat rock despite the album being a commentary on the 2000 US election(we thought we had it bad then, simpler times).

emotional, instrumental

8/10

Amazing. A modern Classic. Textures.

This is the least accessible Radiohead album, but I think that's why it's one of my favorites. Even the band criticises it and suggested it had too many tracks. Their suggested omissions were Backdrifts We Suck Young Blood I Will A Punchup at a Wedding "I will" is one of my all time favorite Radiohead tracks and I think 'We suck young blood' is very 'Hail to the Thief' I don't love all of Radiohead's albums, but I absolutely love this one

I needed this album for a bit longer to decide how to rate it. Although I adore Radiohead, I’ve never listened to this album all the way through. It was important to me to give it time to permeate and I’m glad I did. Main thing I’d cut would be the intro crackles to many of the tracks. Overall I enjoyed it It’s not my favourite of Radiohead’s music - but it’s really grown on me in a short time. 4.5 for the music, extra 0.5 for the 1984 reference.

not my first listen for sure lol

Much swagger

This sounds so good today. Might have to rethink my radiohead rankings I think this is a 5. It's a little bit long, but everything on it is great. Really enjoyable. I should be listening to them way more than I do. It's just such a good album. Everything fits, everything roles into the next thing. Production is superb. All good

Cet album est bon, vraiment. Il est très important aussi, dans ma vie ou dans l'histoire de la musique des 2000. Mais il a des moments faibles. Certaines chansons qui ne semblent pas abouties. Ce n'est pas un défaut, j'aime bcp d'album avec des chansons pas abouties. Et il y en a juste 2 ou 3. C'est peut-être parce qu'en sortant de Ok Computer, Kid A et Amnesiac, on s'attendait à la perfection. On est pas loin de la perfection. Mais tsé. 5 étoiles, j'adore, mais c'est pas leur meilleur, quoique souvent mon meilleur.

Le retour rock de Radiohead en mode invincible après son exploration Kid A/Amnesiac. Ils ont maintenant plus de cordes à leurs arcs qu'à leurs guitares. Leur album le plus dark et angoissant. Ça va pas ben. C'est tellement bon que c'est sûrement la fin. Pourtant ils deviennent encore meilleurs après. Dans leur top 6.

Went back and forth because Radiohead has a couple better albums, but this is amazing regardless. Sail to the moon is my current favorite among many other great songs.

They try their best to live up to the whinge-rock moniker that detractors throw at them, with the pointless 'Scatterbrain'; the dirge of 'We Suck Young Blood'; the aimless 'Backdrift' and the directionless Apex Twin attempt with 'The Gloaming'. Get rid of those and you've got an album just shy of 40 minutes which would be utter perfection. Take the absolutely barnstorming '2+2=5'. Orwellian imagery, political disillusionment and pounding altern rock in an unsettling 7/8 time signature resolving to common 4/4 in a massive crescendo - glorious! There is no other band could do this. The 15 minutes of dirge drags it to a lower 5. But still a 5.

So incredibly good. One of the best albums ever made.

I bought this album the day it came out, and while I wouldn’t call it Radiohead’s best work, it might be the one I’ve listened to the most. It’s a sprawling, moody mix of their experimental and rock sides, with enough variety to keep pulling me back in. It may not be as groundbreaking as some of their other albums, but there’s something about it that sticks with me.

Just cause you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.

First received to my ears as Radiohead's partial return to rock after their bleep bloop records, but with all of that interest in beats infused into it. After not getting on board with Kid A until years later, and still take or leave much of Amnesiac, I loved it. Possibly the most variety of styles on any Radiohead record? There There is obviously brilliant, Where I End And You Begin with its eerie melody and haunting sighs (which always reminded me of The First Samurai on the commodore Amiga), the slow hand claps in We Suck Young Blood. Myxomatosis is an incredible noise, what a bassline, Sit Down Stand Up's tension resolves into a wonderful cacophony of techno. Wolf at the Door is a fantastic slurred screed to finish on. There's only really The Gloaming here that is merely ok. Pretty much everything else is a masterpiece. Almost certainly my 3rd favourite Radiohead album behind The Bends and In Rainbows. I'll never see them again if I squeal to the cops.

Masterpiece. One of several for Radiohead.

This is one of my earliest favorite albums. My 3rd grade teacher Jesse was (and still is) a cool guy. He was a huge Radiohead fan, and singled out me and my friend Keenan as music kids who he could hook on Radiohead at an early age. In early 2003, he gave us both a pre-release bootleg of Hail to the Thief, which had wrong track names for almost every song. I listened to it nonstop, and its consistently been one of my favorite albums ever since. Later in college, this was a big album for me, Pete and Dylan at 55 Calumet. In 2018, the three of us met up in London, and we found that a local arthouse theater was having a lights out/pitch black playthrough of Hail to the Thief. It was a great experience, and felt tailor made for us that the album we all agreed on the most between the three of us happened to be playing in London at the time we were all there. All that said, it is not perfect. I don't like Backdrifts or The Gloaming. I skip those songs 99% of the time, with the 1% being to rtemind myself why I skip them. There There is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Its been one of the few songs thats survived every 10/10 playlist revision I've made. Sail to The Moon, Go to Sleep, and I Will are similarly beautiful. Myxamatosis was one of my earliest heavy rock memories. A Wolf at the Door is the first curse word I remember in a song. I love this album. I get why its not for everyone, but I'd say give it a second chance. Album cover: (A+) Look at it! Its cool!

Here we go again! Churzes Review aber grossi Wort: Es album wo bi jedem mal lose nomal besser wird. S hüt morgige Lose het mer denn au entgültig de nuggi usegjoolet

When this album came up this morning, I immediately thought that it was going to be an underwhelming low four stars, because you obviously contextualise it as a bit of a dip in Radiohead's trajectory between the twin highs of Kid A and In Rainbows. However, while it is worse than those, it's still so much better than almost anything else. I'd pretty much forgotten about the rollercoaster of the first three tracks, and just what a strong single There There is. Throw in the woozy jazz of Glasshouse at the end, and it truly deserves its place on here and among the five stars. Bonus points for being just about the most 'definable point in my university days' album.

4.5, very creative

This is the album that I listened to for the first time while driving across country to see my dad for the last time. It's not Radiohead's best album, and it's not my favorite of theirs, but in some ways it means the most to me.

I probably wouldn’t say this one is as flawless as OKC or In Rainbows or KID A Amnesiac for that matter, but it’s still underrated in my opinion. It stands on it’s own. It has one of my all time favorite somgs There there and it’s just a banger at times. Low 5

Did not think I would care for it. Loved it. His voice is perfect for the music but I think I would hate it in any other band.

Нравится так же как и в первый раз когда я его услышал

Great album by one of my all time favorite bands. Dark, symphonic, textured rock. Great great stuff.

Radiohead is one of my absolute favorite bands. I've been listening to them and this album for decades at this point so I'm perhaps a little biased. Thom Yorke stated that the album was a statement on the "the general sense of ignorance and intolerance and panic and stupidity" following the election of George Bush in 2000 and used many Orwellian references throughout. "Hail to the Thief" was a common phrase in reference to that election and is a play on the phrase "Hail to the Chief", the presidential anthem. This is one of those albums that takes a few sittings to truly begin to appreciate, especially for someone that's overall unfamiliar with Radiohead so I understand the low ratings from people who are probably hearing this for the first time with zero context. So many haunting songs on this album, which fits the overall theme and purpose of the album.

This is an absolute five if you removed three tracks and maybe shortened a couple of others. There There is easily one of the best things they ever recorded. Scrapes a five, and I'm probably being harsh because this band are on another level.

Great album is great. I'm actually unsure why I don't go in for this album more frequently. This is some high quality Radiohead with a slightly more "poppy" lean relative to some of their other works. I think the end result is one of their more widely accessible records with solid song writing, mostly-legible vocals, and satisfying alt-rock music. Really there are no misses here. Love the driven poppy electro-rock (2+2=5, Backdrifts, Myxomatosis), electro-forward experimental stuff (The Gloaming), stripped down melancholia (We Suck Young Blood, Sit Down. Stand Up, Sail To The Moon, I Will), and otherwise great fusion (A Wolf At the Door, A Punc Up at a Wedding, Where I End and You Begin). I could go into each track, but don't feel like taking the time. Frankly everything here is a treat. I think as far as closing tracks go, Radiohead usually get it just right. A Wolf At the Door is on my short list for best album closers ever written. Deeply uncomfortable if you listen to the lyrics -- dripping with despair and paranoia. 5 / 5

Fuckkkkkkk yes more Radiohead on here than I thought and probably have 2 more. This is probably the most jumbled album they have but tbh I think it works well especially with the themes and artwork. Just obsessed with their ability create sounds instrumentally and electronically. You have not been paying attention!!!! The raindrops x42 Sail To The Moon is fucking beautiful. Bass on Where I End and You Begin slaps. We Suck Young Blood is scary af I love the crooning. I saw someone pass out during the Gloaming once. Shit goes hard live. There, There is one of my favorite songs of all time and like Pyramid Song, if it doesn't make you feel something you're a robot. At the beginning it sounds like a bunch of meow's I've always thought. Fuzzzzzzz on Myxomatosis. Scatterbrain another beautiful jam. Fucking LOVE Wolf at the Door. Thom rapping? Check. Twisted and dark? Check. Flan in the face? Check. Flan/10. Yeah I'm biased and I don't give a flan in the face.

I understand that loving Radiohead is a matter of living on this or the other side of some great cultural divide? Interesting thought, though potentially completely unjustified.

I love that every song sounds so distinct. The problem with many of the other albums I've listened to is that all the songs sound the same. It feels like I'm listening to a thirty minute long song. But in this album every song had variety. 10/10

Wanna hear something crazy? Even though I absolutely love Radiohead, I've never listened to this album before. And what a mistake, this is another beautiful rendition of the signature Radiohead sound. What a treat. If I'm stuck on a deserted island, send me radiohead records

I may have listened to this album more than any other, except for those related to Pink Floyd and Roger Waters. I bought the CD and played it so much that it started skipping too much from scratching. I would describe it as prescient. The album cover is also really helpful.

Radiohead all bangers all the time it never stops.

the flan in the face

For me, it gets a bit overshadowed by some of their other albums. But then I put it on and remember that it is another absolute banger. I love following the path the radiohead has taken...blazed even. There is so much going on here. Layer upon layer of sound, percussive and insistent, evocative and present. Sometimes a cacophony verging on unraveling at points, but poignant and beautiful as well.

I haven’t listened to much Radiohead- probably just Creep, actually, unless they have some other singles I might’ve heard on the radio- but this isn’t at all what I expected. Beautiful in its ugliness. With a great variety of sounds. I’m guessing there’s a whole lot of Radiohead on this list and I’m excited for more.

One of their best.

Some classic Thom Yorke vocals, with a huge variety of music. Fusion of electronic and guitar sounds, with some slower, more acoustic stuff too. I loved some of this but some of it didn't quite hit as much. EDIT: Upon repeat listening, the less immediate tracks have wormed their way in, and I now love them.

4.6 - Great album

nice chill vibes

There, There. Go to Sleep and think of this album.

Smashing. Immaculate vibes. Fave: Myxomatosis

This album is the perfect in-between of alternative Radiohead and experimental Radiohead. I still think OK Computer is their magnum opus, but I've really grown to love Hail to the Thief over the years.

спасибо большое что для меня открылись такие гении как радиохед, музыка прекрасна, но дам 5 авансом, потому что уверен, что есть работы сильнее

Weird I literally just had this album on over the weekend without knowing it was next. It’s a banger as is everything Radiohead

Not their best album but still brilliant. A rockier sound and it doesnt have as many stand out tracks but the quality is so high throughout i loved every second of this.

Þetta er ásamt OK Computer sú Radiohead plata sem ég hlustaði mest á í gegnum tíðina. Sé ekki eftir þeim hlustunum, svo við vinnum aðeins með understatementin.

Even at their most vague and uneven, Radiohead is great. It’s widely known that three of the tracks are poor by the band’s standard. And yet this album is still great, filled with memorable songs, such “There There” or “2+2=5”. If you are unconvinced about the track order, try Thom Yorke’s tweaking of the track order. With it, both the length and flow works better.

I had forgotten how much I like this album. I must have spent half of college listening to this because I remembered every part of every song. Somehow in hindsight it's become "the one that 'There, There'" is on, but there is really great stuff throughout. It felt a little long listening to it now but it's an hour that's packed with ideas. 4.5

True story: Went and saw Radiohead at Red Rocks on this tour with my little brother and we locked the keys in his mint green Geo Prizm ... so we called my dad in Boulder and told him to drive to Red Rocks during the show, find "Minty" in a sea of cars, and break in to get the keys out, which he did. Talk about a great dad. The show was pretty epic, too.

Their 6th studio album was well awaited and didn’t disappoint. Track after track of awesomeness, beauty, or beautiful awesomeness. Check out the video for There There as well, fantastic stuff. I enjoyed the limited edition version in which all the tracks had somewhat creepy second names such as There There (The Boney King of Nowhere). The Boney King of Nowhere being a song used in the children’s classic TV series Bagpus.

I never checked out this one before, despite liking Kid A very much, but I can confirm this is another really good album.

Very much liked it! Describe as "cake, with better voices". It was reminiscent of "Creep" but had a lot of variety.

Well it's Radiohead innit? Even a lesser political album is still head and shoulders above most albums by other bands. Oddball sounds and rhythms, electronic and drum orientated with an occasional Rocky-interlude it blends together rather than having stand-out tracks. I know it's not for everyone but it is for me.

I have never listened to this album but what a great work of art. A perfect combination between electronics and rock music. I really enjoyed Tom's voice on this album. 5/5

Phwoar. Now we’re talking! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this for the first time in probably 20 years. Plenty of different ideas on here, which I’m into. At first my instinct was to champion the big riffs, electronic crescendos and general return to upbeat alternative music, but on reflection the quieter and drawn out moments are as much of the band’s back catalogue as anything else up to this point. This feels like a band confident enough to ignore the pull of constant invention and look back on their previous releases, revisiting whatever ideas they still find exciting. Oh, and the drums sounds incredible on this album.

Great band, class album. Probably one of my favourite of Radiohead.

Enjoyed quite a bit

I think its an underrated album. it has the real "radiohead thing."

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LOVE this album. The first seven songs are seven of my favorite from them. The buildup on Sit Down. Stand Up, man, I was sitting down, then I had to stand up and boogy. Then, I sat back down for Sail to the Moon. Such a beautiful song. The Gloaming, I could do without. There, There picks it right back up to be my favorite on this album. It's an easy 5 from me on this one.

Not every band has a masterpiece, let alone more than one. Radiohead's first two albums developed their guitar rock style and sound. By their third album, OK Computer, they introduced electronica into their sound and changed the musical landscape of rock forevermore. The pendulum swung all of the way to the left. Their next two albums explored that electronica almost exclusively. Here on Hail To The Theif--their sixth studio album--the pendulum swings all of the way to the right and brings the guitar rock back to the front, keeping all that they learned from their experiments with electronica and bringing a more tempered approach to incorporating it. I only find a small handful of misses on this album. I love almost every song. "Backdrifts", "Go To Sleep", "Where I End And You Begin", the single "There, There", and "A Wolf At The Door" are easy to like on early listens, but "Sail To The Moon" and "Scatterbrain" took some listens before I truly embraced them; now I think they are some of the very best songs Radiohead has ever written. And the theme of "We Suck Young Blood" is one I see around me more and more as I age. It just so happens I'm catching up on some of my past missed reviews where I left off, and I happen to be on this album the day that Trump won his second term in 2024. This album was written in protest of the Bush administration ("W"), and it's very fitting and haunting to revisit this album today. This album will always be great, but hopefully the bleak viewpoint will one day be less relevant.

5 stars, no notes.

This is such a good album - I personally rate it as only just behind Kid A, Amnesiac and OK Computer. I totally get why some people just don't gel with this album, but there's so much really good stuff here - There There (which is amazing live), Sail To The Moon, Scatterbrain, A Wolf At The Door are amongst their very best material in my opinion. Brilliant, brilliant album

I am biased but this is also brilliant

Radiohead kokoaa albumit "voimakkaiksi yhtenäisiksi lausunnoiksi" siihen nähden Smile-albumit muistuttavat kokoelmaa kaikesta, mitä ollaan työstetty viime aikoina.... mf's antamassa tälleä vähemmön kuin muile eivät ymmärrä albumin tärkeyttä thom yorken skaalalla... Ei olla tähteä alemmalla tässä.. Noh ollaan ollaan mitäs tässä pölisen heh... noh... emt... ei olla.. annetaas vitosta 2.99 looking ahh

Love it!

I’m currently reading Steven Hydens book on Kid A. So I’m deep into Radiohead lore right now. I often forget about this one as it comes between what we now largely consider the best album of the 2000s and what now people call the album for millennials with In Rainbows. I didn’t even think I had heard this one all the way through before. Turns out though I know every song so I just have spun it back in the day. This is really good, not any bad tracks on it. Certainly more of its time though than any Radiohead album between 1995 and 2007. Kid A especially just exists out of time. This though you have to understand he’s talking about George W Bush and the war on terror. Doesn’t make this any worse, just an outlier for them.

2+2=5 : Banger Didn’t expect the progression in track 2 Piano chords and time sig prominent in Sail to the Moon Listening to the rest of the album for sure

Dark, chaotic, bitter, and confused. Beautiful tunes written and recorded during a tumultuous time in world history. Yorke’s talent for writing a melody for any chord progression shines so brightly on this album.

yeah

Loved it

I really enjoyed this album right off the bat. 2 + 2 = 5 has a distinct Radiohead haunted wispiness to it that is so recognizable, though it's a song I'd never heard before. Much of the album is solid, with only one being a single I've heard a lot of, being There There. I also really liked Sail to the Moon and Where I End and You Begin.

I know this isn't their strongest album, but it's still one of my favorites of theirs. It's miles better than anything before OK Computer, and more palatable than King of Limbs or Moon Shaped Pool. It's also the album that convinced me they're not quite as overrated as I had stubbornly thought. I was listening to an Andrew Bird Pandora station high as fuck, washing dishes at the end of a shift at a bagel/coffee shop I worked at after college and "Punch Up At A Wedding" came on. As they layers built on themselves I thought "who the fuck is this and why haven't heard them before" and then Thom started singing and my heart sunk. Fuck... do I like Radiohead now?

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Mix of everything Radioheadish they’d made so far. Somehow overlooked in their catalogue but still masterful IMO

Not the best Radiohead but still an amazing album.

This one (like a lot of Radiohead) requires the right mindset to enjoy. If you’re not in the right head space it would be a big miss. But it has an incredibly haunting quality that rewards concentration and focus, and if you’re in the right headspace it’s perfect. Not Radiohead’s best, but definitely their most underappreciated. I was mesmerized by this one. Didn’t rock out to this by any means but a great album nonetheless.

Album title is a shout out to dictator Marcos Sr. and to all corrupt politicians, plutes, oligarchs and their minions.

It's a stunning masterpiece that never fades.

"Radiohead is washed up" You know how I know....? Because it's 2025 and shit is happening and the most you hear from Radiohead and Thom Yorke is some wishy-washy bullshit on Palestine. Take a motherfucking stand, man. You had the world cheering you on with this album. And, I lived through those Bush years and guess what, they were terrible. "United we stand. On the rest of the world." Bush, Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales, destroying American's rights with the Patriot Act... hah! Invading nations on crappy intel. Killing, torturing, humiliating human beings for little reason. Laughing at the world with that shit-eating smug grimace. That shit is laughable by today's standards. I WISH for those days again. So, where the fuck are you @Radiohead?! Thom Yorke? Are you swimming in your money, being artsy-fartsy and conceptualizing videos with Paul Thomas Anderson? Where is that punk rock angst that you had when you were younger? Where's that overwhelming need to scream at all that is unjust? ...ahh, yeah. I know. Those were the days. If only you had something to shout at today. Get off your fuckin' ass and make us proud again!

I had forgotten how good “Hail to the Thief” was. In my memory I had it ranked multiple rungs below “Kid A” and “Amnesiac,” but then I listened again and realized that I love it from start to finish. It has an incredible variety, bouncing around from subtle piano and guitar to discordant electronica. By the time “Hail to the Thief” came out, Radiohead had departed far from their original guitar-focused sound. However, they show here that they can do it all, sometimes all at once, and somehow they make it work.

I used to think Radiohead was too slow and sad for my taste so I shunned them. Then they came to play in my city and I got tickets mostly because there is a lot of hype surrounding them and they do not come here very often. I decided I would listen to their discography before the show. I ended up finding at least something off of every album that I enjoyed. And then I saw them live. My seats were so far from the stage that they looked like ants, but the music and the energy and the lighting all contributed to an amazing experience I will never forget. Sure I didn't see Thom's wonky eye up close but the music sounded amazing and that's what I was there to discover. This album was probably my least favorite of their discography, but I couldn't tell you why. It just didn't excite me as much as the others. But upon listening to it again, I've found myself enjoying almost every song. I need to read the lyrics because old mumble mouth just mumbles right along through this one too, but musically this is a beautiful album. I like the political stance as well even if it does seem out of place for Radiohead. It was definitely the right time to protest what was happening in global politics. Radiohead is a slow burn. One definitely needs multiple listens to digest this music, and I've found those types of bands and albums my favorite.

This was exactly what I needed today. It's dark & gloomy with off & on rain. Which is exactly the mood of this album, too.

Ok I used to slag off this album bc it was not my fav Radiohead album but listening again after a few years!! Wow!! I rlly rlly enjoyed this. Favs: 2+2=5, sit down. stand up, There, There, punch up at a wedding, Myxomatosis and wolf at the door

one of the best albums of radiohead (possibly, i'm writing this on every album...)

One of my three favourite albums from my favourite band so… it’s gonna be a 5.

Often overlooked this album, listened to it a few times over the years but it’s only really now I realised how good it is. My favourite records all tend to be slow starters, perhaps this one will make my list. Either way, it’s quintessential Radiohead: experimental, simple and complex at the same time, and like no one else. I can’t name a single British band that set their own bar so high and consistently reached it with each record. I’m a big fan, if not a die hard Radiohead fan, but I havent heard a bad record yet from them. 4.5

I love Radiohead and it brings me back to simpler days.

This was my first Radiohead album back to front when I was 16 and I absolutely loved it. I had to go back and fill in the gaps - as in OK computer, bends etc. so this one is hard for me to judge as I’m insanely biased and this has a special place in my formative years

M'y all Time favorite Radiohead album! Soo Much souvenirs

I am a machine that turns Radiohead album recommendations into 5 star reviews, it's what I do.

Consumerism = bad?

What an excellent album. Although not my overall favourite Radiohead album, it has my top two songs as openers. 2 + 2= 5 and Sit down, stand up. I can never decide which I prefer but they are so banging. The whole album is fantastic.

9/10.

no one likes a smart arse but we all like stars

Dark clouds gather close, Whispers of chaos and fear— Hail to the thief's reign.

Really good album. Distinctive vocally and musically. Recommend this.

Experiência musical intensa e emocional capaz de ressoar uma narrativa sombria com guitarras hipnotizantes.

This is hard to rate because it is not as concise and solid as OK Computer, the Bends or even In Rainbows, but I still find it fascinating. It sprawls and draws inspiration and influence from what came before. I think Yorke sounds raw and panicked and it works well. It may be my personal favorite a great album to listen to while making art.

This album has never transcended to "masterpiece" in the way some other Radiohead albums have for me, but I still have no complaints. 2+2=5, There There, and A Wolf At The Door rank among the highlights of Radiohead's discography.

Been a favorite for a long time. No notes. Just peachy.

Otra banda que tuve el privilegio de ver en vivo, esta vez, en Chile. Fue un quiebre en mi vida, sumado a que todo el show estuvo llena de romanticismo. ¿Qué decir de éste disco y de esta banda que no se haya dicho? Ahí está el reto. El disco empieza súper arriba y tiene sus vaivenes, siempre completamente pasional. Disco oscuro, experimental. Lleno de paisajes sonoros y de un temón tras otro, como lo es Radiohead. Todo de esta banda es un 10.

Admittedly I am now a big Radiohead fan after years of them growing on me, and this album is one that still continues to grow on me to this day. There are points I don't care for but the opening 2+2=5 is a super exciting blend of a lot of sounds they'd explored prior to this album and There, There is a nice call back to sounds before Kid A. Overall just another great Radiohead album surprise surprise

Really cool album, will have to give another listen, but love how seamlessly Radiohead can transition out of darkness and into beauty and back.

Fantastic

5 stars obviously gets better with each kisten

RAAAHH RADIOHEAD 🦅🦅🦅

Det er ikke Radioheads bedste plade men hold kæft hvor er det fed. Integrerer guitarrock og elektronisk bedre end de gør på nogen af deres andre plader

Love Radiohead

Hail.

Actually a 5 despite not even being in Radioheads top 3 albums. I don't know how they do it, but the more I listen the better it gets!

bliss cat

One of my all-time favorites by any band of any period or genre, including RH. Stellar!

i ❤️ radiohead

Goat

classic

Buenísimo!

Excellent album

Sadly 4th in total rank, but Radiohead is Radiohead

Perfect.

I liked this one a bunch, even if I don’t have a lot to say. I like the electronic and rock fusions. I liked this just as much as Kid A. Great one!

I need to listen to this one again sometime. I don’t think I’ve listened to it since high school

FUCK YES PERFECTION!!

Lostened to this whilst washing loads of dishes

Oh yeah

love radio head

although it’s a little bloated and i think this is easily one of their weaker albums, im bias and i don’t care this is simultaneously radiohead at their peak

Love Radiohead