I often skip over “Glass Eyes” and “Present Tense,” and I’m not as into “Daydreaming” as a lot of people seem to be. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful.Ī Moon Shaped Pool does feature some songs I’m not crazy about.
The Moon Shaped Pool version is arranged on piano. Nobody else can sing like that.Īlbum closer “True Love Waits” has been around since 1995 and in the past had been performed with Yorke solo on acoustic guitar. “This is a low-flying panic attack” is one of my favorite lyrics on the album, and when Yorke belts “We know where you live”…wow. Album opener “Burn the Witch” features some deadly strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra. I love “The Numbers” as well, with its eerie, soft mood and unbelievable imagery (and possibly offers some hope for us yet in this dark world: “The future lives inside us”).Ī Moon Shaped Pool is bookended by two songs that were floating around long before the album was released. “Ful Stop” builds and builds with a sound that is other-wordly. “Decks Dark” would sound right at home on OK Computer with its UFO imagery, and it features one of those classic subtle-but-so-powerful Colin Greenwood bass lines. Sobering stuff.Ī Moon Shaped Pool, while still lower on my list, has some truly great tunes. I can see that in places (“When I see you messing me around, I don’t want to know…Broken hearts make it rain,” Yorke sings on “Identikit”), and throughout the album it sounds like Yorke has surrendered to the evils and darkness in the world. Released shortly after Thom Yorke’s separation from his partner of 23 years, A Moon Shaped Pool is considered by many as a “break-up” album. Radiohead’s most recent album, A Moon Shaped Pool took some of Radiohead’s past sound found on albums like OK Computer and mixed it with what we heard on The King of Limbs. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I do enjoy a bit more rocking out in my Radiohead. Overall, The King of Limbs is a transition album into more slow electronic stuff (it’s sorely lacking Ed O’Brien’s presence, both in guitar and backing vocals), similar to what you might find on a Thom Yorke solo album. I do think they should have included the second song from that performance, “The Daily Mail,” on The King of Limbs-I think it’s a better song than any other on the album. I have found the album’s songs are more enjoyable live than on the album (especially “In Bloom” and “Morning Mr Magpie”), and the Live From the Basement performance made me like King of Limbs more. But I wouldn’t say there’s a single song on The King of Limbs that I definitively love. “Lotus Flower” and “Separator” are solid songs (and I still love the use of “Codex” in the Season 2 finale of Westworld). Probably the most disappointing Radiohead album for me, The King of Limbs was released a long four years after In Rainbows. Radiohead rarely plays songs from Pablo Honey live, but I was fortunate enough to see them play “Blow Out” last time I saw them, and it rocked the place. Other than “Creep”-my initial introduction to Radiohead- Pablo Honey featured singles “Anyone Can Play Guitar” and “Stop Whispering.” This album ranks here for me mostly because of the greatness of the band’s other albums Pablo Honey isn’t a bad album by any means. The band’s debut album was released during the “grunge” era and was (unfairly) lumped in with that type of music. I’m putting Pablo Honey here by default as it’s the Radiohead album I’ve listened to the least over the years. Here is how I’d rank one of my favorite band’s albums. My ranking is seemingly always shifting, but I wanted to establish where I am at the moment. I could honestly see any one of Radiohead’s albums being someone’s favorite. I don’t have kids but I imagine choosing a favorite Radiohead album is a bit like declaring which child you like best. It’s fun to take a look at this evolution through the years and the progression of styles on their nine albums.Įach one is special in its own way. Radiohead has evolved quite a bit since they released their first album in 1993.
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