For some reason I've been some kind of idiot who ignored Radiohead's non-album singles and other b-sides collections. I'd heard the In Rainbows bonus disc was good but didn't check it out till today, along with the Airbag EP and their two big singles from last year.

I'm also intrigued by this 8 Outtakes from Amnesiac thing, but don't know where to find it.

I didn't start checking out their b-sides until a few months ago, but since then Gagging Order has become one of my favorite songs by them.

I added 8 Amnesiac Outtakes to the dropbox (I think...this is my first time adding something so I'm hoping it's as simple as pasting the files there)

The Trickster til I die.

Ok, if you cut out We Suck Young Blood, Backdrifts to I Will is one of the strongest sequences on any Radiohead album. HTTT is still inconsistent, but it has a core that is up with the rest of their output. My claim of the other day was overstated.

I like WSYB, it's definitely cheesy in an unintentional goth rock parody kinda way, yet I find it effectively creepy regardless.

I used to hate it, then I went through a brief period where I found it very effective in much the way you mention, and now I don't hate it but do at least actively dislike it again.

I think its the most Waitsian Radiohead has ever gotten, which is probably why I like it. It really shocked me the first time I heard it...during that part where you think its really going to get groovy and then just stops and goes back to the piano part. If you took it out of H2tT the album just wouldn't be the same (in a lesser way). To borrow a phrase from someone else, it's "supernatural dread", and that's something I really like in Radiohead's music.

Drew, you've gotten me obsessed with Reckoner.

Exit Music is a song that has the tendency to get me emotional in some way or another 9/10 times.

I think the problem with OK Computer is that the first side is so good but the second side is..what?

I would fill in the blank with "just as good"

Not at all

No Surprises is excellent but Climbing up the Walls, Electioneering, Fitter Happier, The Tourist, and Lucky are nowhere near as good as the first side.

It's not really bad, I just don't like it as much as certain other songs