Which Four Radiohead Albums Did KEXP’s Listeners Vote As Superior To “Daydream Nation” And “Led Zeppelin IV”?

noah | October 13, 2008 4:30 am

As Matos mentioned earlier this month, the Seattle radio station KEXP decided to mark its annual membership drive by counting down its listeners’ 903 favorite albums–and they’d better realize that however much Radiohead is currently in their playlist, it’s not nearly enough, as four albums by that band are in this list’s top 20. OK Computer tops the list; The Bends is No. 9; Kid A is No. 11; and In Rainbows squeaks into No. 20. Where it’s right behind The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. (You know what I love about Internet polling? The perspective all of the people who care enough to vote on these sorts of things seem to have.) Anyway, the top 50–as well as Nos. 900-903–are after the jump. Take notes on it, as this Thom, Win, Kurdt, and Bono-heavy list will surely calcify into The New Classic Rock Orthodoxy sometime within the coming decade.

1. Radiohead OK Computer 2. Clash London Calling 3. Arcade Fire Funeral 4. Nirvana Nevermind 5. Pixies Doolittle 6. Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 7. Beatles White Album 8. U2 The Joshua Tree 9. Radiohead The Bends 10. Pixies Surfer Rosa 11. Radiohead Kid A 12. Beatles Abbey Road 13. Jeff Buckley Grace 14. Beatles Revolver 15. Sufjan Stevens Illinois 16. The Smiths The Queen is Dead 17. Pearl Jam Ten 18. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 19. Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 20. Radiohead In Rainbows 21. The Cure Disintegration 22. Elliott Smith Either/Or 23. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 24. Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 25. Beastie Boys Pauls Boutique 26. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks 27. Pavement Slanted and Enchanted 28. Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. 29. My Bloody Valentine Loveless 30. Postal Service Give Up 31. Modest Mouse The Moon And Antarctica 32. Built To Spill Perfect From Now On 33. Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism 34. Weezer Weezer 35. Beach Boys Pet Sounds 36. Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin 37. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 38. Replacements Let it Be 39. Velvet Undergound & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico 40. Belle & Sebastian If Youre Feeling Sinister 41. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream 42. Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs 44. Elliott Smith XO 45. Stone Roses The Stone Roses 46. Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West 47. The National Boxer 48. A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory 49. Miles Davis Kind of Blue 50. Band of Horses Everything All The Time

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900. Maps We Can Create 901. Mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That Im Not On Fire 902. Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, And Marches 903. New Order Movement

KEXP’s Top 903 Albums [kexp.org]