I've been in a Kid A-mood lately. It's so great, especially when the winter is coming and the world turns colder.

OK Computer - It was so ahead of its time and it's electronic-ambient influence is still prevalent in music today.

I thought there would be a bit more love for Hail to the Thief on here!

Hail to the Thief isn't nearly their best. Some amazing tracks, but more filler than any of their other records. Try defending The Gloaming, Myxomatosis and Backdrifts for me.

The Gloaming almost sounds like it should have been on TKoL. It's more about the texture and mood rather than "telling a story". It's not great, but it's not exactly filler either.

Myxomatosis sounds quite good at the start but doesn't really do anything. I can't really defend it.

I'm a big fan of Backdrifts.

But still, you picked out 3 of 14 tracks. I would kill to hear my favorite bands make awesome songs 78% of the time. HTTT gets too much hate and their first two albums get way too much love.

^ Although Hail to the Thief is not my favorite Radiohead album, it does have some fantastic songs on it. I'm a fan of Sail to the Moon... Very beautiful and relaxing. Nice to fall asleep too. I thought the same thing about The Gloaming being on The King of Limbs too! Ha. I do agree that HTTT is their most underrated album whereas I was never a big fan of Pablo Honey, which seems to get more attention because of Creep...

First two or the two preceding, eric?

I can go on and on about how you can't hate HTTT and like IR when the latter sounds merely like a continuation in many aspects, but i'll just say the Gloaming is, as eric said, a great moody piece, more about it's ambiance and tone than narrative or shifts. I think it sets a great mood, especially considering what the gloaming is, the fact that it refers to being based in "the witching hour," and that it really sets the context for the whole album, in a sense.

I think Backdrifts, though not their most dramatic track, is a very catchy little piece, though maybe not the best on the album.

Myxomatosis has a similar approach, not in understatement but in being really catchy. I like the off-kilter rhythm of the song combined with the reverb of the synths and guitars, as well as the fact that you have organic drumming with technology-based synthesizers, and Thom Yorke's admission that "i don't know why i feel so tongue ties"-- it all culminates to this queasy feeling, being entirely ambivalent in a bad way, uncertain of what way to go or what to say. It could just as easily by used as some sort of military spy sequence as it could at a kid's party where he can't talk to a girl. If we ignore the verses, that is, which i am not so familiar with.

@Pablo Honey & The Bends

But Pablo honey gets, like, no love. Pablo Honey is a scrub.

Still too much.