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‘Paranoid Android’ tops Ultimate Radiohead Top 20
Radiohead fans have voted ‘Paranoid Android’ as their top favourite song. The track from ‘OK Computer’ was number 1 in the Ultimate Radiohead Top 20, which was broadcast on Phoenix FM tonight.
‘Paranoid Android’ topped the list in the previous edition (2005) as well, when ateaseweb.com and Phoenix FM first asked Radiohead fans for their all-time-favourites. The ‘OK Computer’ album is represented in the Top 20 with 8 tracks. For the first time, fans could vote for tracks from new album ‘In Rainbows’. 3 of those tracks (Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Nude and Reckoner) made it to the Top 20. Forthcoming single ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’ almost made it, but got stuck at 21. The track which Radiohead is most known for, ‘Creep’ surprisingly didn’t make the list. Niether did the other tracks from Radiohead’s debut album ‘Pablo Honey’.
Here’s the full list:
1. Paranoid Android
2. How To Disappear Completely
3. Idioteque
4. Let Down
5. Pyramid Song
6. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
7. Fake Plastic Trees
8. There There (Boney King of Nowhere)
9. Everything In its Right Place
10. Karma Police
11. Exit Music (For a Film)
12. Reckoner
13. Nude
14. Lucky
15. 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
16. No Surprises
17. Climbing Up The Walls
18. Airbag
19. National Anthem
20. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
21. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
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52 Responses to “‘Paranoid Android’ tops Ultimate Radiohead Top 20”
Michael
December 8th, 2007
only one song from amnesiac???
i might be wrong should be one there too
pixilated
December 8th, 2007
but yeah. nice list. 
pixilated
December 8th, 2007
I miss Life in a Glasshouse, Just and Who and Whose Army but again a very nice list.
Karel
December 8th, 2007
You and Whose Army obviously…
Karel
December 8th, 2007
Hmmm..Just didn’t make it. About as good as
a pop tune RH have done. Good list
though.
Mimmo
December 8th, 2007
loving the list, i might be wrong should be on there! impressed with reckoner being on there! *smiles*
Priya
December 8th, 2007
not a bad list. i’m liking HTDC up there. and love that there’s no creep. :thumbsup:
foie-gras style
December 8th, 2007
Lovely list I must say. So happy that Let Down made te list. Favorite.
Jami
December 8th, 2007
I’ll never understand the popularity of “The National Anthem”. Can someone explain it to me? It’s the same fuzz bass riff, over and over, for like 5 minutes. I know Thom likes it a lot. What am I missing?
mjd180 (continued)
December 8th, 2007
That would be one hell of a setlist…..
Scott Pugnetti
December 8th, 2007
for sure…scott but i think with a playlist like that, i will never make it trough all the concert alive…
fred from Quebec
December 8th, 2007
Not a big fan of There There, Everything in Its Right Place, 2+2=5, but it’s pretty good. Glad to have Arpeggi, which I assume sounds great, having not heard the album yet. Bit bored of OK Computer right now, but Airbag and Let Down are always favorites. HTDC and Idioteque are happily high up.
Muldfeld
December 8th, 2007
too much ok computer, not enough of the rest. meh
Sunny
December 8th, 2007
i might be wrong was my #1. ok list though.
Cat
December 8th, 2007
” The track which Radiohead is most known for, ‘Creep’ surprisingly didn’t make the list. ”
I don’t think that statement’s true anymore. Now they’re most known for self-releasing an album online. 
name required
December 8th, 2007
great list, and i agree that it would be the most incredible earth shattering, life altering set list!!! thank you Radiohead for bringing such magic to our lives…
Hojo
December 9th, 2007
Glad to see Climbing Up the Walls on there.
Peregrine
December 9th, 2007
No pablo honey and rightly so.
walrus say
December 9th, 2007
has anyone posted the enhanced material from cd2?
Jos
December 9th, 2007
I’m pretty upset that Subterranean Homesick Alien wasn’t up there!!!! What?! Same goes for Like Spinning Plates. Those songs are key.
Matt Robinson
December 9th, 2007
‘Just’ is screaming to be on this list. Glad to see ‘Let Down’ high up , its my personal fave, and HTDC. High & Dry should be on too, it’s a great pop tune. Idioteque should be lower, and Everything In..(which is over-rated). Need another from Amnesiac - i’d say Life in A Glass House. National Anthem should be higher. I’d replace Climbing Up for Fitter Happier (just for its perfect lyrics). The In Rainbows choices are on the mark. Tis a great setlist.
spikespiegel
December 9th, 2007
What I would like to know is what the amount of votes each song got and the percentage it recieved. From the List, it looks like 21 number ones in my book of Radiohead.
Raymond Swartz
December 9th, 2007
I know this is about the list of Radiohead songs but… Phoenix FM needs to put the times they are going to be playing over the continents of each country… In USA and America its one day behind and 8 hours behind(Pacific Standard Time)… If they want to be heard around the world and anounce their station… Than keep us informed than just the information needed if I was in your back yard! Such Arses or you shites or whatever you guys say to get someones attention. I would love to hear Radiohead and even promote your station but I have no clue when you’re playing the List and went to your website and am lost.
Raymond Swartz
December 9th, 2007
Love the list, love gthe new album. BUT, nobody here misses more of The Bends???? two song is not enough…Just, Blackstar…
Diego
December 9th, 2007
“My Iron Lung” ? I can’t believe it… “Planet Telex” ? Well, maybe too much of a personal choice, that one… But gosh, why isn’t there “Like Spinning Plates” in there ?? Great, great mistake.
a pig in a cage on antibiotics
December 9th, 2007
Nice list, tough.
a pig in a cage on antibiotics
December 9th, 2007
I feel Bulletproof..i wish i was ,Fog & may be Scatterbrain deserved a position,anywyz a nice playlist…
Pranav
December 9th, 2007
If you can choose a single RH track that you think is the best, can you really call yourself a RH fan?
Olh
December 9th, 2007
why has the top 20 got 21 tracks in ? :$
Snag
December 9th, 2007
Where is Kid A?
Craig
December 9th, 2007
Good list. Love to see How to Disappear so high…
Would have liked to see some others on there however, specifically more from the bends, like (nice dream), just, planet telex. Also, maybe some b-sides (fog, palo alto…). And finally, where is True Love Waits????
mark
December 9th, 2007
let down sucks, what the fuck. same with street spirit. android deserves the top spot, though.
Chris
December 9th, 2007
A surprising amount of songs from In Rainbows.
Cacophonaut
December 9th, 2007
and the surprising amount is ponder on the unfair fact that we just have been given IR. I have not listened to it enough yet - I don’t get how many persons can be so certain about the factthat songs from IR are their favourites.
but it might be because i’m only listening to amnesiac/kid a these days…
trine
December 9th, 2007
nah there’s a lot of songs that are missing from the list. Creep should defo be in top 20.
I also think How to dissapear completely doesnt deserve top 20 let alone no#2
Darren Ladbury
December 9th, 2007
Let’s face it, OK Computer is their best album. Every song is a classic. So, the fact that there are a lot of songs from that album should not be surprising. I’m very glad Pyramid Song was in the top five, that’s my number 1. I’m kind of surprised at Lucky, as it’s one of the weaker ones on that disc…I feel that My Iron Lung, Optimistic, and Bodysnatchers should have made it…maybe even Sail to the Moon. But, let’s face it, Radiohead, other than Pablo Honey, have yet to make one bad song. Just one. (Okay, India Rubber is a tad annoying…)
To the person dissing Let Down and Street Spirit…those songs are both classsics, and even if you don’t like them, it’s common knowledge that they are fan favorites (and Street Spirit was a chart hit), so their inclusion shouldn’t be surprising.
T-Cap
December 10th, 2007
My List would be:
1. Idioteque
2. Paranoid Android
3. 2+2=5
4. Creep
5. Everything in its right Place
6. A Punch up at a wedding
7. Exit Music (for a film)
8. Karma Police
9. Morning Bell
10. The Bends
11. I Might Be Wrong
12. Just
13. Nude
14. Lucky
15. Subterranean Homesick Alien
16. Street Spirit
17. Pyramid Song
18. Stand Up, Sit Down
19. No Surprises
20. My Iron Lung
Darren Ladbury
December 10th, 2007
‘all i need’ #1 song by any artist ever.
bw456
December 10th, 2007
1)How to disappear…
2)Let Down
3)Karma Police
4)Reckoner
5)(nice dream)
6)Paranoid Android
7)Idioteque
8)Fake Plastic Trees
9)Kid A
10)Climbing Up the Walls
11)Talk Show Host
12)Fog
13)I Might Be Wrong
14)You and Whose Army
15)The National Anthem
16)Everything In It’s Right Place
17)Dollars and Cents
18)Black Star
19)Just
20)All I Need
12)
mark
December 10th, 2007
no surprises is too low on the list
imatumbler
December 10th, 2007
Great list, would be hard to go wrong
really. I would have preferred more
old stuff, though. ‘Stop Whispering’
as the first political Radiohead song!
And ‘True Love Waits’ too, power in its
simplicity like so much of the new
album. Best wishes. Bill
Bill, Dublin
December 10th, 2007
Pretty good list, would like to see the one, two power house from the Bends that is Just and My Iron Lung and also Like Spinning Plates. Never really understood the appeal of How to Disappear, personally I think Pyrimid Song is much better.
Stevie K
December 10th, 2007
Very good list. My only surprise is Let Down being so high on the list. I like the song, I just didn’t know so many other people liked it. The top 2 are perfect, and those who don’t like HTDC, can simply disappear.
Donovan
December 10th, 2007
Paranoid Andriod… definitely RH’s magnum opus.
JT
December 10th, 2007
uhh…Where’s KNIVES OUT? and personally, THE NATIONAL ANTHEM is my favorite Radiohead Track. Decent list, not the greatest, but decent.
Frank
December 11th, 2007
i don´t understand why there almost isn´t any of the new stuff in the list. they should have waited with the ranking a bit till the discbox is out. down is the new up and bangers n mash would have to appear in the list then…
lausi
December 11th, 2007
where is IN LIMBO you guys?
Julia C.
December 12th, 2007
‘All I Need’ Of In Rainbows deserves
to be in the damn list !!
Fi3nD
December 14th, 2007
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December 14th, 2007
the tourist?!
that’s one of their best
Dickey Beer
December 14th, 2007
That’s a nice list