Favorite Radiohead Song?

Lowbrow Answer: Creep
Gag me. I love Radiohead more than most, but even I skip this song when it comes on. I'm pretty sure the band does too. There's nothing worse than going to a show and standing next to some rich asshole from New Jersey who's wearing an Izod polo, Vineyard Vine pants with whales on them, and docksiders, and who's singing "I wish I were special" at the top of his lungs.

You are special, pal, just not in the way that you think.


Middlebrow Answer: Idioteque
It's blippy, there aren't any guitars, and it's on Kid A. Three points for you right there. And yeah, it's pretty intense when Yorke screams "the fathers leave their children" over and over again at the end of the song. Although, I do seem to recall him doing the same thing with the phrase "the raindrops" at the end of "Sit Down, Stand Up." Minus one on the uniqueness chart.

What really keeps Idioteque from acheiving true highbrow status is that you can dance to it. Dancing is for horny teenagers and drunken coporate secretaries at Christmas parties. The ruling elite don't dance. And if they do, they waltz. With contempt.


Highbrow Answer: Life in a Glass House
Two words for you: Humphrey Lyttelton. You may not be old enough yet to know that haggared jazz musicians playing improvised trumpet lines is the coolest shit ever, but you will be someday. Just wait.

Anything atonal or arrythmic automatically qualifies as highbrow, so full points to the band on that one. Be sure to check out Krzysztof Penderecki if you like Life in a Glass House. He's one of Jonny Greenwood's favorite composers. His stuff is barely listenable, so you know it's high class.