Your Radiohead Favourites

Diane from Virginia
Graham McGregor from Blackburn is bang on! Totally agree with what he said.

Macmoud
dollars and cents, Fog, Climbing the walls, Video tape......and DEFINITELY the best two....... "how to disappear completely"....and "There There"

Lance
Definitely Let Down from OK Computer. The harmonies of toms voice on top of his own front vocals towards the end are timeless. The whole song is a classic from start to end. Also Reckoner from what i now consider to be their best album, In Rainbows.

rhodri
polyethelene & like spinning plates (live) for sure

Matthew
Blow Out is superb. Other under-reated tracks i feel are Sail to the Moon, Cimbing up the walls and Reckoner

Steve Deeley
The cover of Carly Simons' Nobody Does It Better they did for MTV is absolutely fantastic

Steve
The Tourist has always been one of my favourites. Jonnys' guitar just seems to float along throughout.

Laura Feeties
I think stop whispering is an underrated classic

simon thompson
let down from ok computer.absolutely awesome and beautiful from start to finish

Graham - Offshore on the Total Elgin
I'd have to say Pearly from the Paranoid Android album. I Might Be Wrong also deserves a mention

Yohann
Life in a Glass House is just sublime. It unpretentiously transcends genres and fusions and set ups. Brilliant.

joel
fake plastic trees!! why do people not think this is one of their best and high and dry the same

Frankie
Fog(single version) I think,and Blow out!!

Ben
Polyethylene is my favorite B- Side track, it shocked me the first time i heard it.

Rich
The band are totally underrated, therefore I feel their entire output is underrated. Sounds cheesy but true

harley imms
luke williams 16yrs - i agree with you on electioneering, it's one of my favourite radiohead tracks, underated.

MrHeaphy
I Can't from the their first album. Overshadowed by Creep which is good but not great

mike kenny
There are many fantastic tunes i can't beleive Nice dream hasn't been mentioned, the bends is still my favourite.

Tom
Kid A. The song not the album. Simply beautiful.

Vaughn Highfield
Its a difficult one to choose, but Palo Alto has to be in there, as does Trans-Atlantic Drawl, Maquiladora, and Philippa Chicken eventhough strictly its not Radiohead, but its all the same members, just recorded under On A Friday.

Anthony - Manchester
Punch up at a Wedding is the most underrated in my opinion, but so is the whole Hail to the Thief album.

graham glasgow
bangers and mash is a great track. the way the guitar is played, it actually sounds like its singing 'bangers and mash'. i would love to have been a fly on the wall when the band were mucking around with this track as i'd imagine there would have been serious hilarity in the air. optomistic is probably my b side of choice though.....

theboyloizou
Myxomatosis. Whack it up, take a dose and it will do its work, leave you foaming at the mouth.

Sarah
I think that both Lucky and Reckoner are album tracks that deserve more praise - both are sublime.

Lee
Always liked Lurgee from the first album, a hidden gem

darren
Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box is not my favorite track, but is certainly the most underated

Tim C
2+2=5 fantastic album and gig (Earls cort) opener but black star is great song, the sound of perfection!

gd
Polyethelene, Meeting in the Aisle, In Limbo......all haunting

Phil
Theres so many, but where is Killer Cars, Trickster and above all others Talk Show Host and How can you be sure. All B side classics.

Tedwood Graham Davidson
True love waits is a fantastic track

Crikey
Killer Cars, a Bends era classic that never made it on to the album but is awesome. Follow me around is a beautiful hidden gem. The original acoustic Motion Picture Soundtrack is something to get lost in

Alex N
Fog - a Knives Out b-sideThe undercurrent of emotion in this song, brilliantly conveyed by the hushed arrangements and Thom's restrained vocals never fails to make me blub. Deserves to be recognised as one of their greatest.

Siobhan
Drunken Punch up at a Wedding. They may have the most amazingly emotive and spine chlling back catalogue and be the best musicians around - but they also know how to do a great big dirty bass line and pumping toon.

jlv
blow out for pablo honey - my iron lung (hum.. maybe street spirit) for the bends - let down for ok computer - idioteque for kid a - you and those army for amnesiac - i will for httt - all i need for in rainbows and pearly, polyethylene true loves wait fog gagging order and all the live recording !!

Cathal
The most underrated tracks are Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box and Up On The Ladder, in my opinion.

Tom Fellows
Of the Hundreds of responses, I can't believe no-one has mentioned How Can You Be Sure - b-side to my Iron Lung (or it was on my cassingle version anyway) - Simple, soaring, heartfelt. And again the vocal performance is simply superb.

Lloyd
Liking the fact 'How I Made My Millions' has been mentioned so much. That and 'You Never Wash Up After Yourself' from My Iron Lung EP are my favourite b-sides, but there are so many it is ridiculous.

jordan khajavipour
Polyethylene is the most underrated B-side. Let Down is the most underrated album track. Both are beautiful and although they do get a lot of attention amongst the hardcore fans I feel they could use more attention in general.

Rob S
Follow me Around is absolutely truly amazing, and also from the OKC era Big Boots and Polyethylene are fantastic. Also there's the Kid A/Amnesiac era B-side Worrywort which is one of their strangest and yet most hauntingly beautiful songs, and from the In Rainbows box-set bonus disc Down is the New Up is one of their best.

Saw
Like Spinning Plates live version...I was at the show where they first performed this rendition and used for "I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings"

J Scott
So many choices: How to disappear completely. Optimistic. Polyethylene. Everything in its right place. The national anthem....Yes, National Anthem, Suitably strange and utterly beautiful at the same time. Yu can't help but be sucked into it. But they're all beautiful, transporting you to wherever your mind decides to go.

SonOfAGun
Definitely Fog and I am a Wicked Child are two of my favourites but Talk Show Host, not just as a great b-side but also one of my Favourite songs of all time

Andrew
It took me about 4 years to be able to listen to the ending of Let Down without it bringing tears to my eyes - and I have to say, 4 Minute Warning is now having the same effect...

Wayne W
The electric version of Banana Co - only just over 2 minutes long, capped by a brilliantly bonkers Johnny G guitar solo.

dupes
gagging order - beautiful, wonderful heart breaking stuff.

Ben
obviously polyethylene

Lucas
True Love Waits, Last Flowers Till The Hospital, Airbag

Jules
Many many, but Bones is the one I always come back to, and the one that is most likely to warrant some air guitar.

Thomas Brownlee
How could I forget Cuttooth?Probably their best b-side.

Peter
For me its LIFT. This used to be a set standard on both the Bends and pablo Honey tour.They still have yest to record it.You can find it on You Tube to see for yourself

Thomas Brownlee
Based entirely on rare, b-sides and unreleased: What is that You Say?, Lull, Lift, Gagging Order, Fog, Palo Alto, Follow Me Around, Goodmorning, Mr. Magpie, Big Boots/Man-O-War, How I Made My Millions and True Love Waits (which really should just remain a live track on I Might Be Wrong). Radiohead's b-sides and unreleased stuff is as good as their album tracks, better in some cases.

Rich
talk show host. Never released on any r-head albums ... dreamy. seen it live twice. classic classic classic radiohead

Rod
Spinning Plates - when I first heard it I was utterly haunted - I still am.

mark a
Sulk from the Bends.. My all time favourite Radiohead track...

Mark
Anyone can Play Guitar from Pablo Honey. Not their best song, but it was what made me fall in love with them. 16 years, many albums and gigs in 3 continents and I still love them.

Tommy T
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong - another example of how they could have made 2 or 3 albums just as good based on b-sides

Thom Harrison
Trickster, Polyethyline, Lewis, and Permanent Daylight are four rocking EP tracks which surpass much of the material on the first two albums. As for the 'best' non-album track, there are many, but I'm sure 'Talk Show Host' would ultimately get the vote from most fans.

Gav, Bangor.
Just ! what can i say just utter genius song and by far the best ever music video !

Rob
Pop Is Dead is the catchiest thing ever yet I never hear it played. Awsome track. And Banana Co. should be played more.

Colin T
Nobody has mentioned 'Sail to the Moon' - fabulous.

Mark B, Torquay
4 minute warning. Love it to bits at the moment.

Kathryn
Lurgee...probably the best song on Pablo Honey (itself a very underated album)

Kirsty
Banana Co... amazing. And Polyethelyne (Parts 1 and 2). Oohh and The Amazing Sounds of Orgy :)

graham teddington
follow me around is fantastic.

uptight
I'm going to go with those who said |A Reminder" - I just adore it. "Blow Out" (just because it's on Pablo), "I Want None of This", "How Can You Be Sure?"... I also have a soft spot for "We Suck Young Blood". Often mocked but brilliantly executed and actually funny.

Tim W
4 minute warning and You and whose army. Both have simple chords and simple melodies, but just hit you in the pit of your heart. A sign of true genius!!

Richard Oram
Karma Police - when they played it live in South Parks, Oxford. It was pouring with rain and it was just so atmospheric it made me cry and still chokes me up everytime I hear it

Mark F
Off the top of my head only - Talk Show Host, A Reminder, Polyethylene. Like Spinning Plates (Live and studio versions) due to the outrageous techniques used for the recording process. Down is the new up and Up on a ladder are classic Radiohead hidden gems....They really should record Lift too.

Sheddy
True Love Waits ... would love them to record it in the studio proper loike

Raymondo
Pyramid Song.I remember hearing it on the radio at work and just before I announced it as possibly the greatest thing they had ever recorded, some philistine blurted out "what on earth is this rubbish?"

laurie
worrywort. immense

Marcus
Favourite unreleased song has to be 'how I made my millions' which makes me cry. closely followed by 'gagging order'. The list goes on....

Graham McGregor from Blackburn
I think the most underated track has to be Optimstic off Kid A. The way that song is put together is pure class, drop tuning, the lot. After that, it's probably Bullet Proof off The Bends!

ben kip
true love waits

I.Johnson
Palo Alto from the Airbag/How am I driving EP always reminds me of travelling through the new Hong Kong airport as it was on my walkman at the time. Fantastic track that should have been a single.

Pete N
How I Made My Millions... beautiful

Jason
Pearly

Ben
Maquiladora, Ripcord and Palo Alto

simon t
life in a glasshouse is imperious. other underrated favourites include in limbo, the gloaming and let down. a good b-side is worrywort from the knives out single.

Tom
all of pablo honey - ok its not refined or massively original, but full of passion and an album you can just lose yourself in.. no ok computer, but a necessary foundation for what was to come...

Teddy Davidson
Lull is beautiful. def one on my favourites

Mick
My 5 Fave's : Lift, Airbag, Blackstar, Killer Cars, Let Down.

Amy
Electioneering gets my vote

Rick All
Follow me around, was never released but there is a stunning performance of it on their dvd how to disappear completely, shouldve replaced house of cards on in rainbows.. also a track called polethylene...best ever track has to be how to disappear completely.

Mark
Wolf at the Door. Absolute classic

Lou Osborne
I've just discovered Last Flowers from in IR bonus CD. A truly amazing track that brings a tear to your eye.

O.S
How to disappear Completely - Most Definately

G Kilpatrick
How To Disappear Completely. Mozart would of been proud of it. Genius

Dan
Thinking About You from Pablo Honey. Very underated.

Rory F
I think life in a glass house and the tourist are two of their best songs which quite often go missed. Both end tracks and both stunning.

Stevie H
Mmmmm can't choose between Blackstar and Where I End and you Begin

Tom Bartlett
Polyethylene is bloody brilliant

nino
big boots. never released, but an amazing track. only radiohead could have a song so good in their arsenal and not make anything of it.

Philip, Bristol
A Reminder is other-worldly. Whenever I listen to it it makes me realize they are peerless.

Jonty
Talk Show Host - quite simply their best 'B' and should have been an album track. Trippy, seductive, atmospheric, mysterious, magical.

Paul K
Polyethylene (Parts 1& 2) b side to Paranoid Android also blow out on Pablo Honey album

Matt B
Gagging OrderTrue Love WaitsThinking of YouBlack StarLet Down

super
talk show host & fog need to hear those more

Alex
...Those are all good but by no means underrated tracks. Probably their best underrated song was a wolf at the door. pure genius.

James S. Birchett
Talkshow Host - just a fantastic track, in particular the 2003 glastonbury performance - awesome.

Goldersncc
Down is the new up - should have replaced All I need on IR disc 1. Staggering lyrics and vocals.

Deb
Let down - brings me out in goose bumps everytime, I just love it!!

Iain Lynn
Meeting in the Aisle...

Verandi
SHA and Dollars & Cents

Tim
Airbag and There There and Reckoner andBest gig - Radio City Music Hall, 1997 NYC or Wolverhampton in 2006 x

Dan
Pyramid Song.

Akhil
right now (and my opinion will surely change) electioneering from ok computer...amazing drum line and great work from Johnny (if not incredible then just really catchy!)

zwanovski
Like Spinning Plates (Live Version)Simply brilliant..

Alan
Talk Show Host on Romeo & Juliet got me interested in their B-Sides, I can't call it underrated though, just not as well known as some of their album tracks.Other favourite B-Sides: Fog, Cuttooth, Killer Cars, Banana Co & A Reminder. There are others, but I personally like those the most.

sengokusir
Nude..........enough said

lee brooks
killer cars and lovesick punchdrunk sing a long are great. i love pablo honey and early stuff best

tom
nude is excellent. great build up and wierd fishes. any song about deep sea fish that can make you cry is very clever!!! love radiohead

Ian Porter
I am I the only person that still rates Pablo Honey and all the singles before/from it? I know the band hate that stuff these days but I still love Anyone Can Play Guitar etc...

Paul Desborough
The most magical and underated track in my humble opinion is Pyramid song or Bullet Proof. Both tracks take me somewhere else. But let's be totally honest, does anyone know of a single piece of their work that isn't underated?

stevedave
there are so many including the Tourist, True love waits, knives out, scatterbrain etc

Michael Hughes
Some people on here seem to think just because they've heard obscure radiohead stuff like the rare songs and the b-sides - that these are the best songs. The best song for me is Life In A Glasshouse. This typifies what pioneers the band are (who else in mainstream rock would/could integrate so many instruments? And the harmonies and words are brilliant). Version of it live on the last Jools Holland special took my breath away. Lucky is a masterpiece too. And so many more are.

Chikken
Reckoner, I never want it to end.

benr
true love waits or airbag. but what a collection of music

Felicia
Lull and Sulk.Beautiful song. Never want the song to come to an end. Sulk truly shows how powerful thom's vocals really are.

D
How I made my millions

Ben
Yes Fog, but the live one with just Thom on piano is more beautiful. And Go Slowly.

kat
True love waits but also Talkshow Host

Timmy S
How I Made My Millions (No Surprises B-side) and True Love Waits. Both beautiful tracks.

fluter
Played live: Let Down - inspiring, beautiful stuff. Album track: There there, fake plastic trees, sulk, high & dry they are all incredible pieces of music.

Caroline
'How I Made My Millions' is the first of many hidden gems that come to mind.

Lucy
The Iron Lung EP is amazing but The Bends is my favourite album

S Keegan
Let Down, for me, is the most beautiful peice of music ever written. Mozart had nothing on Yorke!!!

Wes
Gotta be scatterbrain - awesome song, beautiful subtle production!

Spaldingcrow
Nope. Can't be done. Can't choose; don't make me choose.

Alx
Fog, the amazing sound of orgy,lucky, how to disappear completly

leonardo
lull

gunfire
Go Slowly off CD2 from the In Rainbows discbox. Perfect.

Jakub
Reckoner is the most underrated track

Jakub
PARANOID ANDROID (OK Computer) AND RECKONER(In Rainbows); 2 contrasting songs, both magnificent in their own way.

Fattie
Everything. Everything is underrated. Thom Yorke should be king.

Seb Petch
True love waits

Dan Baker
i agree, the original 'Fog', a BSide to Knives Out... anyone heard if they won tix yet?

alex grey
trans-atlantic drawl what a song ? !

Juraj
Best song - In LimboBest Album - Amnesiac

Bluebird007
Most underrated - Got to be Subterranean Homesick Alien ... maybe!?!? ... actually, they're all underrated!! :-P

Macca
I Love Lurgee

luke 16yrs
oh undrated is probably electioneering pmsl

Francis Montes Vazquez
Fake Plastic Trees - incredible

Benjamin Goeltz
Where I End And You Begin...dark and delightful

Ricky
Up on the Ladder...simply beautiful.

KARINA
LETDOWN...AND MORE ALL JIIJIJ

senor trowell
yes i am, creep b-side. starts softly cand just carries on building and building. Awsome!

Emily
It's got to be Black Star!!!!!!!!

John H
Pyramid Song and You and who's army.

Macca
Actually, on reflection, I think Fog (B-Side) is just magnificent. Beautiful and mysterious and atmospheric - you get lost in the it and Thom's rhythmic piano! Truly wonderful!

Macca
Palo Alto (B side and Airbag EP) - absolutely awesome, rocking track. In fact the whole of that EP is awesome and a shame in some ways that the songs (apart from Airbag obviously) never made it to being on an Album.

ken
everything in its right placewhat a song!in fact kid a and amnesiac are two of the greatest albums ever

Jonny 5
How To Disappear Completely - genius

Alex
Cuttooth, from the (domestic) single Knives Out is a great track. It has that clean, timeless Radiohead sound and slow build up that wouldn't have been out of place on In Rainbows, but to find just one Radiohead track that is underated? Can't be done, this band could be the most publicised in the world and still not get the recognition their music deserves!

Swanny
Anything from The Bends (especially High and Dry and My Iron Lung) their one truly great album.

luke williams 16yrs
ummm well all of RH songs are amazin but the ones that stand out are 1.paranoid android 2.electioneering 3.street spirit 4.bodysnatchers 5.sorry tom creep is amazion :P haha

Kyle
In Limbo from Kid A - utterly awesome!

Stuart Truman - Northallerton
I loved the blackpool concert 2 years ago was superb! Thom was so inspirational. Favourite song is Let down. Beautiful

Nick F
Optimistic - This track just does somthing to me I can't explain! Its so uplifting, the drums at the end are like huge waves crashing!

Steve
How To Disappear Completely - I love Kid A and that song always makes me stop what I'm doing and listen.

luke
airbag- brilliant!

adam
gagging order... 'cause it's bloody beautiful. or, failing that, the trickster is quite the barn-stormer.

Tracey B from Warrington
Exit Music is an amazing tune. Listen to it with earphones in for a better effect, the lyrics are great - top tune !

K Sinden
High and dry. Just love it.

Sally Ann Smithson
India Rubber - the lyrics and the laughing and the hypnotic vibe..it's just amazing...I luv it!

Patrick
Bangers and Mash of the In Rainbows Box set is just a great track. Such a shame is was relegated to the box set as so few will ever here it.