Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Radiohead: A Retrospective, 1992-2003

Radiohead

A Retrospective: 1992-2003

Overview:

Experimental alternative-rock group formed in Oxford, England in 1989. Members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood formed The Smile in 2020 with drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet).


The Players:

  • Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar)
  • Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards)
  • Ed O’Brien (guitar, effects)
  • Colin Greenwood (bass)
  • Phil Selway (drums)


On the Web:


Lists:

Awards:

The Studio Albums:

Hover over an album cover to see its title and year of release. Click on the album to go to its dedicated DMDB page.


Compilations:

Under each album snapshot, songs featured on the anthologies are noted. If the song charted, the date of the song’s release or first chart appearance and its chart peaks are noted in parentheses. Click for codes to singles charts.

Pablo Honey (1993):

  • You [3:29] (5/5/92 on Drill EP) B2
  • Creep [3:56] (9/21/92, 34 US, 37 CB, 25 RR, 20 AR, 2 MR, 7 UK, 30 CN, 6 AU) B1
  • Anyone Can Play Guitar [3:38] (2/1/93, 32 UK) B2
Go to the DMDB page for this album to read more about it.

The Bends (1995):

Go to the DMDB page for this album to read more about it.

OK Computer (1997):

Go to the DMDB page for this album to read more about it.

Kid A (2000):

  • Optimistic [5:15] (10/7/00, 10 MR) B1
  • Idioteque [5:09] B1
  • Everything in Its Right Place [4:11] B1
  • How to Disappear Completely [5:56] B2
  • The National Anthem [5:51] B2
Go to the DMDB page for this album to read more about it.

Amnesiac (2001):

  • Pyramid Song [4:49] (5/16/01, 13 UK) B1
  • I Might Be Wrong [4:54] (5/19/01, 27 MR) B2
  • Knives Out [4:15] (8/1/01, 13 UK) B2
Go to the DMDB page for this album to read more about it.

Hail to the Thief (2003):

  • There There (The Boney King of Nowhere) [5:25] (5/10/03, 14 MR, 4 UK, 12 CN) B1
  • Go to Sleep (Little Man Being Erased) [3:21] (8/18/03, 32 MR, 12 UK) B2
  • 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm) [3:19] (11/17/03, 15 UK) B1
Go to the DMDB page for this album to read more about it.

The Best of

Radiohead


Released: June 3, 2008


Recorded: 1992-2003


Peak: 26 US, 4 UK, 10 CN, 10 AU


Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.3 UK, 1.15 world (includes US and UK)


Genre: experimental alternative rock


Tracks: (1) Just (2) Paranoid Android (3) Karma Police (4) Creep (5) No Surprises (6) High and Dry (7) My Iron Lung (8) There There (9) Lucky (10) Optimistic (11) Fake Plastic Trees (12) Idioteque (13) 2 + 2 = 5 (14) The Bends (15) Pyramid Song (16) Street Spirit (Fade Out) (17) Everything in Its Right Place

Tracks (Special Edition, Disc 2): (1) Airbag (2) I Might Be Wrong (3) Go to Sleep (4) Let Down (5) Planet Telex (6) Exit Music (For a Film) (7) The National Anthem (8) Knives Out (9) Talk Show Host (10) You (11) Anyone Can Play Guitar (12) How to Disappear Completely (13) True Love Waits (live)

Rating:

3.280 out of 5.00 (average of 12 ratings)

About The Best of:

This compilation pulled from Radiohead’s first six studio albums. The special edition added a second disc of material pulled from the same albums with two non-album cuts included: “Talk Show Host” from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack, and “True Love Waits,” a recording from the I Might Be Wrong: The Live Recordings EP.


Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums:

  • Talk Show Host (1/22/96, --) B2
  • True Love Waits (live, 8/20/01) B2

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First posted 6/3/2022.

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