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As 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on this page. We make these lists in hopes that you guys will chime in the comments and share your favorite musical moments of the noughties.
In the months before “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” was released, Radiohead were given inch after inch of column space of praise and criticism for the innovative marketing and release tactics they employed for their name-your-price 7th LP, In Rainbows. It wasn’t until XL’s proper, industry standard release of In Rainbows that people seemed to remember that Radiohead actually made music.
In a very un-Radiohead like move, “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” — the most The Bends/OK Computer-sounding track on In Rainbows — was released as the album’s lead single. No other mainstream rock act has the audacity or talent to create most of the music Radiohead has consistently delivered over the last 10 years, and with this song, Radiohead showed everyone that they can not only create a devastatingly beautiful electronic album like Kid A, but can also follow basic pop-song structure and still outshine contemporaries likes Muse and Coldplay.
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Radiohead showed everyone that they can not only create a devastatingly beautiful electronic album like Kid A, but can also follow basic pop-song structure and still outshine contemporaries likes Muse and Coldplay.
Love it.
This and Reckoner were just at another level on In Rainbows. Pure greatness.
Is it incorrect for me to assume Idioteque will be in the Top 25 as well?
it woudn’t be correct to assume Idioteque isn’t in the top 25.
watch your double negatives there, we can’t count so well.
I disagree about “Jigsaw” being the most OK/Bends sounding song on “In Rainbows”. What about “Bodysnatchers”?
It does without saying that In Rainbows is the perfect union of… Bends/OKC Radiohead and Kid A/Hail To The Thief Radiohead, so yeah Bodysnatchers, Reckoner, Nude… all of these are very much OK/Bends sounding, but I still think Jigsaw wouldn’t be out of place on the Bends. It would make perfect sense to me if it was on it the entire time.
I love this song but it isn’t better than The Modern Age.
your #1 better be a Strokes song, Luis. if it’s a Britney song, get ready to be removed from my RSS.
Haha, I can tell you that it won’t be a Strokes song. Or a Britney song.
But it’s sad to think that even if it was a Britney song, you’d stop reading. I’ve seen you comment here for months (maybe even a year now). You’ve obv stuck around for a reason, why would my personal favorite song offend you that much?
Anyway, thank you for reading.
whats the over/under line on # of Radiohead songs in top 25
I’m not sure If I like this one better, or Reckoner….and man I do love Reckoner.
Luis, I’m really impressed with how much effort you put into this. Not even just your list, but the fact that you always keep up to date with replying to comments and such. I run TheRealMusician.com, and as another writer I’m just telling you I’m impressed.
Looking forward to more on the list!
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