# The best Radiohead songs

The Radiohead songs at the top of The Ringer's 100-song ranking, Rolling Stone's readers' poll and its lists of the greatest songs of the century.

- 236 votes · 12 items
- Oct 3, 2025 · A. Tan
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## Top 12

1. **Idioteque** (26 · ▲28 ▼2) — Kid A, 2000. Electronic panic; eighth-greatest song of the century for Rolling Stone (2025).
2. **Paranoid Android** (26 · ▲27 ▼1) — OK Computer, 1997. A six-minute suite in several sections, often compared to 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
3. **Fake Plastic Trees** (14 · ▲18 ▼4) — The Bends, 1995. Thom Yorke's ballad of artificial lives; a favourite in Rolling Stone's readers' poll.
4. **Everything in Its Right Place** (14 · ▲17 ▼3) — Kid A, 2000. The opening track that announced the band's electronic turn.
5. **Karma Police** (13 · ▲18 ▼5) — OK Computer, 1997. 'This is what you'll get when you mess with us'; a readers' favourite.
6. **Weird Fishes/Arpeggi** (12 · ▲14 ▼2) — In Rainbows, 2007. Interlocking guitars and a slow underwater build.
7. **Pyramid Song** (12 · ▲14 ▼2) — Amnesiac, 2001. Piano and strings in an unusual rhythm; 94th song of the decade for Rolling Stone.
8. **Reckoner** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — In Rainbows, 2007. Ninth in Rolling Stone's 2011 readers' poll.
9. **No Surprises** (11 · ▲14 ▼3) — OK Computer, 1997. A lullaby about quiet desperation.
10. **Street Spirit (Fade Out)** (8 · ▲11 ▼3) — The Bends, 1995. Their darkest song, by Yorke's own account.
11. **Creep** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — Pablo Honey, 1992. The breakthrough hit the band long tried to distance themselves from.
12. **There There** (5 · ▲11 ▼6) — Hail to the Thief, 2003. Tribal drums and a cathartic finale; 196th song of the century for Rolling Stone.

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