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“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by Radiohead
From the album In Rainbows (2007)
“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by Radiohead appears on 13 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2007 and 2025. It was first released in 2007 on the album In Rainbows. Its best result is #29 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century.
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"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" comes from In Rainbows, the album Radiohead released in October 2007, and the second half of the title is the tip-off: this is a song that circles and overlaps on itself until it feels like a current pulling you under. Nigel Godrich produced and mixed it, with engineering help from Dan Grech-Marguerat, Hugo Nicolson and Richard Woodcraft, and the whole band shares the writing credit.
It starts out restless and skittering and builds to a swell that seems to swallow everything, the sound of a band that had stopped fighting its own prettiness. Countdown listeners came to it late, but they have kept it close.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 34 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 90 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 of 2008 | 94 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 733 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs | 892 |
| 2018 | 207 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2019 | 143 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2020 | 1159 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 569 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 258 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2023 | 820 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 96 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 45 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 29 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 129 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
Also listed as: Weird Fishes Arpeggi; Weird Fishes / Arpeggi.
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