Before I give you the six through ten slots of my Radiohead top ten, I should mention that it's really tough to do this sort of list with this group, and not just for the usual reason (i.e. too many good songs - although that is true here, too), but because the albums from which they're selected are very carefully balanced and really should be listened to in their entirety. That said, the center of their craft is always the song, and it's interesting to note that almost all of their tracks clock in at between 3:30 and 5:30 - average radio-friendly pop song length, in other words. You might also notice that many of the tracks are guitar-based. Now I don't think that the fact that I play the guitar influenced my choices, but it may have: one of the first things that I noticed about their sound was that all three guitarists have both great touch and great originality on the instrument. Anyway, here goes:

6. "Paranoid Android" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF8khJ7P4Wg): The astonishing texture of the opening gives way to all kinds of wonderful musical moments. A through-composed masterpiece. 7. "Climbing up the Walls" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtZyuOMdHI): In which they turn their gifts for cinematic musical expression to the genre of horror. All kinds of beautiful (and frightening) details to discover. 8. "Knives Out" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRzRbxd5YKA): In one way, it's probably the most straightforward song on either Kid A or Amnesiac, but in other ways, it isn't. I think its interesting structure and chord changes will make it a jazz standard some day. (Check out Brad Mehldau's version, if you don't believe me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaXHgdUirkE) 9. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRCvG9YtYI): Another beautiful guitar-based texture. The seeming simplicity of the opening is deceptive. Another song that could only have been created in the Radiohead way of working. 10. "All I Need" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYBeuM5KHY): A rare love song, but a wonderfully strange one. The song's formal and harmonic ideas will be studied in music theory classes for many years to come.