Radiohead: Top 100 Songs

Radiohead Top 100 Songs

This experimental-rock group formed in Oxford, England, in 1989. Since the beginning, the group has maintained the same lineup of singer Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar) and Colin Greenwood (bass), with Ed O’Brien on guitar and Phil Selway on drums. Click here to see other best-of lists from performers and here to see other best-of lists from songwriters and/or producers.

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Awards:

Top 100 Songs Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists (see sources at bottom of page) as well as compilations and live albums by the featured act. Also includes are songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. The two-letter codes after songs indicate which albums and EPs the songs appear on. DMDB Top 1%: 1. Creep (1992) PH, B1 2. Paranoid Android (1997) OK, B1 DMDB Top 2%: 3. Karma Police (1997) OK, B1 4. Fake Plastic Trees (1995) TB, B1 DMDB Top 5%: 5. High and Dry (1995) TB, B1 DMDB Top 10%: 6. Just (1995) TB, B1 DMDB Top 20%: 7. Idioteque (2000) KA, MW, B1 8. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (1995) TB, B1 9. There There (2003) HT, B1 10. No Surprises (1997) OK, B1 11. Pyramid Song (2001) AM, B1 12. Lotus Flower (2011) KL Beyond the DMDB Top 20%: 13. Everything in Its Right Place (2000) KA, MW, B1 14. Let Down (1997) OK, B2 15. My Iron Lung (1994) IL, TB, B1 16. Reckoner (2007) IR 17. Jigsaw Falling into Place (2007) IR 18. Burn the Witch (2016) MP 19. Lucky (1995) OK, B1 20. Optimistic (2000) KA, B1 21. Knives Out (2001) AM, B2 22. Nude (2007) IR 23. The Bends (1995) TB, B1 24. Exit Music (For a Film) (1997) OK, B2 25. How to Disappear Completely (2000) KA, B2 26. 2 + 2 = 5 (2003) HT, CL, B1 27. True Love Waits (2001) MW, MP, B2 28. Planet Telex (1995) TB, B2 29. Go to Sleep (2003) HT, B2 30. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (2007) IR 31. Anyone Can Play Guitar (1993) PH, B2 32. Talk Show Host B2 33. The National Anthem (2000) KA, MW, B2 34. I Might Be Wrong (2001) AM, MW, B2 35. House of Cards (2007) IR 36. Stop Whispering (1993) PH, IT 37. Bodysnatchers (2007) IR 38. Airbag (1997) OK, AH, B2 39. All I Need (2007) IR 40. Codex (2011) KL 41. Life in a Glasshouse (2001) AM 42. Where I End and You Begin (2003) HT 43. Myxomatosis (2003) HT, CL 44. Videotape (2007) IR 45. Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2) (1997) AH 46. The Daily Mail (single, 2011) 47. Pop Is Dead (single, 1993) 48. You and Whose Army? (2001) AM 49. Daydreaming (2016) MP 50. Bloom (2011) KL 51. Kid A (2000) KA 52. 15 Step (2007) IR 53. Like Spinning Plates (2001) AM, MW 54. Fog (2001) CL 55. Rabbit in Your Headlights (Uncle with Thom Yorke, 1998) 56. Pearly (1997) AH 57. A Wolf at the Door (2003) HT 58. Scatterbrain (2003) HT, CL 59. Morning Bell (2001) KA, MW 60. You (1992) PH, B2 61. Blow Out (1993) PH 62. Separator (2011) KL 63. Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000) KA 64. Spectre (single, 2006) 65. A Reminder (1997) AH 66. Thinking About You (1992) PH, IT 67. Killer Cars (1993) IT 68. I Will (2003) HT, CL 69. Black Star (1995) TB 70. Climbing Up the Walls (1997) OK 71. Banana Co. (1993) IT 72. Sail to the Moon (2003) HT 73. Cuttooth (B-side of “Knives Out,” 2001) 74. Palo Alto (1998) AH 75. The Tourist (1997) OK 76. Lurgee (1992) PH 77. Subterranean Homesick Alien (1997) OK 78. Bones (1995) TB 79. (Nice Dream) (1995) TB 80. A Punchup at a Wedding (2003) HT 81. Gagging Order (2003) CL 82. Staircase (single, 2011) 83. Little by Little (2011) KL 84. Last Flowers to the Hospital (2007) IR2 85. Morning Bell/Amnesiac (2001) AM 86. Meeting in the Aisle (1997) AH 87. Electioneering (1997) OK 88. Dollars and Cents (2001) AM, MW 89. Vegetable (1993) PH, IT 90. Give Up the Ghost (2011) KL 91. Down Is the New Up (2007) IR2 92. These Are My Twisted Words (single, 2009) 93. Four Minute Warning (2007) IR2 94. How I Made My Millions (B-side of “No Surprises,” 1998) 95. The Trickster (1994) IL 96. Permanent Daylight (1994) IL 97. Worrywort (B-side of “Knives Out,” 2001) 98. In Limbo (2000) KA 99. We Suck Young Blood (2003) HT 100. Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was (1995) TB Albums and EPs PH Pablo Honey (1993): 8 songs IT Itch (EP, 1994): 5 songs IL My Iron Lung (EP, 1994): 3 songs TB The Bends (1995): 11 songs OK OK Computer (1997): 11 songs AH Airbag/How Am I Driving? (EP, 1998): 6 songs KA Kid A (2000): 9 songs AM Amnesiac (2001): 8 songs MW I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (live, 2001): 8 songs HT Hail to the Thief (2003): 11 songs CL Com Lag (EP, 2004): 6 songs IR In Rainbows (2007): 8 songs IR2 In Rainbows: Disk 2 (2007): 3 songs B1 The Best of (compilation, 2008): 17 songs B2 The Best of: Special Edition (compilation, 2008): 13 songs KL King of Limbs (2011): 6 songs MP A Moon Shaped Pool (2016): 3 songs Resources and Related Links: DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Radiohead Dave’s Music Database: “Best-of Lists for Performers” Dave’s Music Database: “Best-of Lists for Songwriters and/or Producers” American Songwriter Billboard Buzzfeed Chaospin Classic Rock History Consequence of Sound Culture Map Houston Culture Sonar The Death of the Mix Tape Diffuser Discogs Exclaim Fact Mag Guardian Guitar Junky Louder Oregon Live Paste Pop Matters Ranker Rate Your Music Red Bull Return of Rock The Ringer Rolling Stone Spinditty Sports Alcohol The Top Tens Uproxx Wandering Tunes First posted 5/24/2022; last updated 6/2/2022.

Radiohead released Amnesiac

Amnesiac Radiohead

Released: May 30, 2001 Peak: 2 US, 11 UK, 11 CN, 2 AU Sales (in millions): 1.02 US, 0.33 UK, 2.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: experimental alternative rock

Tracks: Song Title [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box [4:00] Pyramid Song [4:49] (5/16/01, 13 UK) Pulk/ Pull Revolving Doors [4:07] You and Whose Army? [3:11] I Might Be Wrong [4:54] (5/19/01, 27 MR) Knives Out [4:15] (8/1/01, 13 UK) Morning Bell/ Amnesiac [3:14] Dollars & Cents [4:52] Hunting Bears [2:01] Like Spinning Plates [3:57] Life in a Glasshouse [4:34] All songs written by Radiohead. Total Running Time: 43:57 The Players: Colin Greenwood (bass) Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards) Ed O’Brien (guitar, effects, backing vocals) Philip Selway (drums, percussion) Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards)

Rating: 3.573 out of 5.00 (average of 26 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album: “Faced with a deliberately difficult deviation into ‘experimentation,’ Radiohead and their record label promoted Kid A as just that – a brave experiment, and that the next album, which was just around the corner, really, would be the ‘real’ record, the one to satiate fans looking for the next OK Computer, or at least guitars. At the time, people bought the myth, especially since live favorites like Knives Out and You and Whose Army? were nowhere to be seen on Kid A.” AMG “That, however, ignores a salient point – Amnesiac, as the album came to be known, consists of recordings made during the Kid A sessions, so it essentially sounds the same. Since Radiohead designed Kid A as a self-consciously epochal, genre-shattering record, the songs that didn’t make the cut were a little simpler, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that Amnesiac plays like a streamlined version of Kid A, complete with blatant electronica moves and production that sacrifices songs for atmosphere.” AMG “This, inevitably, will disappoint the legions awaiting another guitar-based record (that is, after all, what they were explicitly promised), but what were they expecting? This is an album recorded at the same time and Radiohead have a certain reputation to uphold.” AMG “It would be easier to accept this if the record was better than it is. Where Kid A had shock on its side, along with an admirably dogged desire to not be conventional, Amnesiac often plays as a hodgepodge. True, it’s a hodgepodge with amazing moments: the hypnotic sway of Pyramid Song and ‘You and Whose Army?,’ the swirling I Might Be Wrong, ‘Knives Out,’ and the spectacular closer Life in a Glasshouse, complete with a drunkenly swooning brass band. But, these are not moments that are markedly different than Kid A, which itself lost momentum as it sputtered to a close.” AMG “And this is the main problem – though it’s nice for an artist to be generous and release two albums, these two records clearly derive from the same source and have the same flaws, which clearly would have been corrected if they had been consolidated into one record. Instead of revealing why the two records were separated, the appearance of Amnesiac makes the separation seem arbitrary – there’s no shift in tone, no shift in approach, and the division only makes the two records seem unfocused, even if the best of both records is quite stunning, proof positive that Radiohead are one of the best bands of their time.” AMG Notes: In 2021, Kid A and Amnesiac were issued with a bonus disc of previously unreleased material. The unreleased material included two songs, “If You Say the Word” and “Follow Me Around,” which were released as singles.

Resources and Related Links: AMG All Music Guide review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine WK Wikipedia Other Related DMDB Pages: First posted 10/9/2008; last updated 6/2/2022.