Top 15 Radiohead Songs

It's an event, each new Radiohead release. And this time around, they've outdone themselves, first erasing themselves from the internet and then, in a whirlwind four-day period, unveiling two singles - "Burn the Witch", with its dark, stabbing strings and arresting video, and the glitchy, lugubrious "Daydreaming" - and dropping their first long-player in five years.
A Moon Shaped Pool has been warmly received, even if most are still stabbing in the dark as to what the band are on about; what they're trying to do. ("Gosh, it's depressing." "Poor, heartbroken Thom: such a beautiful soul.") It's an unsettling, sonically layered grower; to these ears on par with The King of Limbs and ahead of Pablo Honey but trailing the rest of the band's albums in terms of song quality and richness. But to dismiss it as underwhelming is the easy way out; it demands a slow unfurling, and my views in two weeks' time might well be vastly different. (Indeed, "Present Tense" and "Identikit" are two tracks to bloom dramatically in my reckoning these past few days.)
At the very least, A Moon Shaped Pool is further proof of Thom's elasticity; his need to stretch out; his band, never stagnant.
Here are their top 15 songs to date.

 1.   Let Down OK Computer
 2.   Paranoid Android OK Computer
 3.   How to Disappear Completely Kid A
 4.   Karma Police OK Computer
 5.   Bodysnatchers In Rainbows 
 6.   Kid A Kid A
 7.   There There Hail to the Thief
 8.   Pyramid Song Amnesiac
 9.   Bones The Bends
10.  Subterranean Homesick Alien OK Computer
11.  2+2=5 Hail to the Thief
12.  Like Spinning Plates (Piano) I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings

13.  Present Tense A Moon Shaped Pool

14.  Fake Plastic Trees The Bends
15.  15 Step In Rainbows 

16.  Separator The King of Limbs  
17.  Myxamatosis Hail to the Thief

18.  Blowout Pablo Honey

19.  No Surprises OK Computer

20.  Lotus Flower The King of Limbs

 

Token thought: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "The Dead Flag Blues"

If you think you're having a dark day, then don't listen to this, the musical equivalent of an apocalypse.
Perhaps the most arresting piece of music I've ever heard.
Best to consume while the head's in neutral territory on a Wednesday, or to rein in the office worker's internal affray come Friday afternoon.
Don't use as an antidote to Mondayitis.