It's all been done before

We realize that we're not the first people to rank Radiohead songs, nor will we be the last. Here are the results of the others that have dared to attempt this endeavour, which got us an "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! How am I supposed to rank only 10 songs?" email today. We love it because we don't know the answer.

Mortigi Tempo, the message board at green plastic radiohead, ranked the top 100 Radiohead songs (for the third time!) late last year. Their 84 ballots yielded the following top 10:

1 There There
2 How to Disappear Completely
3 Pyramid Song
4 Idioteque
5 Paranoid Android
6 Everything in its Right Place
7 Nude
8 Street Spirit
9 Airbag
10 Exit Music (For a Film)

Spoiler alert: three songs on this list are in the exact same position on ours. You can see the rest of their list here. The most interesting thing? Three of their "bottom" four songs — i.e., for our purposes, 61-64 — are also the same on our list. For now at least. And on a personal note, the editorial we — that is to say, me — is VERY pleased at the love for There There.

Over at Merry Swankster, they've actually run a 65-song Radiohead Tournament before: the final four matchups were Karma Police vs. Idioteque and Paranoid Android vs. Fake Plastic Trees; P.A. defeated Idioteque, 66-64, to win the tournament.

Our results are a cross between the two tournaments, in both style and substance. Fake Plastic Trees is polling pretty well in our survey; it comes in at number 23 on Mortigi Tempo's list. The fact that FTP is polling well among a larger group of people shouldn't, frankly, surprise anyone. But How to Disappear Completely, a juggernaut in our survey, was a paltry 14 seed in the Merry Swankster tournament, and has been tracking much closer to its Mortigi Tempo numbers for us. And by much closer we mean identically. The nice thing about this is we're obviously getting a lot of Radiohead demographics — should such a thing exist — and, hopefully, a lot more participants. Keep'em coming.

One final tournament to tell you about: We Listen For You ran a March Music Madness poll earlier this year to determine the world's number one indie band... guess who won?