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Chris_H_2 wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

swan wrote:How can the Radiohead answer not be Paranoid Android?

Why would it be?

its 3 distinctly different songs all perfectly sown into 1. there's a weird time change you dont even notice. obscure story. lead single thats over 6 minutes long. it starts with computer beeps. i'm not sure there's another answer

But how does any of that best represent nearly 30 years of the band’s music? It sounds nothing like anything on arguably two of their best albums.

its on their best album

i think the 3 separate pieces best show radioheads diversity. again, i cant even think of another song that is going to incorporate the straight forward rock songs of the bends and the weird ambient sounds of a moon shaped pool.

but the point of the exercise is not to identify a band's best song, or most quintessential song, or even defining song. it's to identify the song that best represents the band's entire career. and paranoid android doesn't do that. when i listen to it, i have no idea that a song like daydreaming, or nude, or everything in its right place even exists.

it's a great song to be sure. possibly their best. but it definitely does not do the best job of representing the band's catalog over the course of 9 albums.

disagree, but 2+2=5 is also a great choice. what song do you think best represents radiohead?

i would choose Optimistic, but i can live with 2+2 = 5.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Pearl Jam’s is Around The Bend while we’re at it

This is a joke right

spike wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Pearl Jam’s is Around The Bend while we’re at it

This is a joke right

It’s 90s Pearl Jam, yet the Hawaiian leanings of the song serve to represent the later Boom era that’s still going today. 24 years of a 30 year career covered.

warehouse wrote:Faithfull for Pearl Jam

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

verb_to_trust wrote:People suggested all three of those but we ultimately decided it was Tighter and Tighter.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

spike wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Pearl Jam’s is Around The Bend while we’re at it

This is a joke right

It’s 90s Pearl Jam, yet the Hawaiian leanings of the song serve to represent the later Boom era that’s still going today. 24 years of a 30 year career covered.

All Those Yesternays

tragabigzanda wrote:Pearl Jam’s is Around The Bend while we’re at it