Song · Radiohead
“Reckoner” by Radiohead
From the album In Rainbows (2007)
“Reckoner” by Radiohead appears on 18 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2007 and 2025. It was first released in 2007 on the album In Rainbows. Its best result is #40 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #339 alternative song of 2008 and #4,436 alternative song of all time.
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"Reckoner" sits on In Rainbows, Radiohead's seventh album, from 2007, and Thom Yorke himself called it the heart of the record. It grew out of work on a different song entirely, "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses", and ended up somewhere far gentler: a loose, shimmering groove with Yorke's voice floating high above it like smoke. Nigel Godrich produced and mixed it.
As they had with "Nude", the band handed fans the stems to remix it themselves, and those sales carried the single to number 74 in the UK; official remixes came from James Holden, Flying Lotus and Diplo. NME ranked it in 2011 among the finest songs of the previous 15 years, and Pitchfork put it on its list of the decade's best.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 82 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 41 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2008 | 103 |
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