Hmm.

It's a 3-way Tie:

We Suck Young Blood.
How To Disappear Completely.
Climbing Up The Walls.

Optimistic...with Paranoid Android close behind

As depressing a final ten minutes as it would likely be, I'd have to say either "Let Down" or "Exit Music (For A Film)."

Black Star - The Bends

Like Spinning Plates

Idioteque - Kid A. Probably my favorite song ever.

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Originally posted by purple:
If you had 10 minutes left to live, which one would be it

if i only had 10 minutes left to live, it would be Videotape... my videotape, my videotape...
...OR Pyramid Song
...OR How To Disappear Completely
...OR...
no, i think you'd actually have to put a gun to my head to make me choose just one.

I can't just listen to one song, I have to listen to the whole album, especially everything post-Bends.

Paranoid Android then fake plastic trees

My opinion of Radiohead's greatest song changes every year.

Two years ago I'd have said Sail to the Moon. Duh!
Last year it was definitely You And Whose Army?. Why did I ever think differently?
This year it's obviously Motion Picture Sountrack...always has been.
Next year I'll be proclaiming Arpeggi as their crowning achievement, as it always...will, have...been?

"Motion Picture Soundtrack" is probably my favorite.

Then "Idioteque".

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"Motion Picture Soundtrack" is probably my favorite.

Then "Idioteque".

Same thing for me.

Thom Yorke's solo record "the eraser" is not bad too, especially the last 3 songs (and it rained all night, harrowdown hill, cymbal rush), which is probably a 1-2-3 sequence that is as good as any other on kid A.

Like the man who started this thread, I'd like to vote for: Let Down. Perhaps my favorite song and the source of my signature on my posts.

How to Disappear Completely! It is perfect as heaven. That short piece of dissonance at the end is such an unusual and gorgeous momemt. I think it inspired a similar moment in Wilco's Ashes of American Flags.

well, with an actual gun to my head I'd probably pick "Paranoid Android", but "2+2=5" and "Everything in it's right Place", "Idioteque", "Exit Music" ....really, there are another twenty that could go ahead of all of these....

I'm glad to see all the "Hail to the Theif" picks. I think that album is unfairly looked over in Radiohead's catalogue. It just suffers from a couple misplaced songs. Plus, "Down is the New Up" would have been all too perfect on that record, and adding the thematic elements of "Up on the Ladder" and "4 Minute Warning" would have made it a masterpiece....had those songs been around then (although I believe "Ladder" was

I don't understand the hate surrounding Hail to the Thief, either. It's a really good rock album!

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Originally posted by smileyface:
It just suffers from a couple misplaced songs. Plus, "Down is the New Up" would have been all too perfect on that record, and adding the thematic elements of "Up on the Ladder" and "4 Minute Warning" would have made it a masterpiece....had those songs been around then (although I believe "Ladder" was

Discussions like this have often ended with me making a playlist and adding/substituting these songs in at different points in the album to see how it changes the feel, flow, etc. After doing that, I honestly think the band made the best possible decisions on song choice and placement (just my opinion).

I do agree that "Up on the Ladder" could have held a pretty convincing spot on that album though.

I would have to say "Pyramid Song". I can't see that song being created by any other band. Just a monster.

It changes daily for me - today it's "There There" tomorrow it may be "Let Down". "4 Minute Warning" is quickly working it's way up the ladder (ha).