RADIOHEAD: Hail to the Thief 06:47 Hail to the Thief Radiohead began recording the follow-up to 'Amnesiac' in April 2002. Colin Greenwood said in March 2002 that work will begin on new music in just a matter of weeks. He commented: "We're going to start work again in April. We're going to give it a bit more of a break than the last time. We're planning to play some shows in Europe in the summer and we'll take it from there." The shows are aimed at road-testing new material recorded in studio sessions booked to start April 2002. The intention is to play to hardcore fans, rather than what they see would be a larger, potentially more apathetic festival audience. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood previously said that the gigs are "to let [Radiohead] get their shit together" and allow the songs the chance to evolve, while fellow band member Ed O'Brien explained that they want to be "pretty self-indulgent" Ed O'Brien added: "We don't know what it will be like yet. You get asked this question before you make a record and we just don't know.

So many times you say it's going to be the three minute pop song record, and other times you say it's the prog rock record and it never turns out that way. We'll just get back into rehearsal and then back into the studio and we'll see what happens." The sessions engineered by Graeme Stewart, who lent a hand on both Kid A and Amnesiac, as well as producing the highly experimental Amnesiac b-sides. The band is likely to reteam with Nigel Godrich for more recording further down the road. While little is known about the new material aside from a handful of tunes sporadically previewed on the Amnesiac tour, one need only examine the band's current listening diet to deduce the future direction of Radiohead. Or not: "We're listening to a lot of guitar music at the moment," guitarist Ed O'Brien told Worldpop. "I like a lot of the new bands like Electric Soft Parade." Of course, Ed also dropped the names of the White Stripes and the Strokes, and he's been saying the next Radiohead album is going to have a big guitar sound since, well, since 1997.

Thom Yorke, meanwhile, has been listening to equal doses of Tim Buckley and glitch. Guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood has been learning both accordian and trumpet. In fact, the guys have been stocking up on all manner of "software, strange instruments, and synths" for the new recordings, according to our sources. Among the new-ish material performed on the Amnesiac tour were the anthemic "Reckoner" (a hooky riff-rocker in its sole performance last year-- who knows how it'll turn out once Yorke sics his ProTools on it), but Phil has said that 'Reckoner' is 'dead and burried'. "Follow Me Around," a holdover from the post-OK Computer period, and "Wicked Child" (actually debuted on their 2002 tour after being played only once at the band's 2000 webcast). The official Radiohead site posted several lyrics and lyric fragments from the works in progress, with bits of "Reckoner," "Bring on the New Blood," "Keep the Wolf from the Door," and "Up on the Ladder" among other, untitled snippets of Yorkespeak.

Colin talks about their plans for the new album "We fly to LA at the end of august. (Longtime producer) Nigel Godrich rents a space there. We're going to spend two weeks working. The plan is like with OK Computer' We'll have loads of songs we know and it'll just be (mimes dumping a pile of books on the table)... there!" He thinks about this: "It means that we'll be in America for September 11. Which will be interesting" Jonny Greenwood said: "We're going to LA to record to the new album. No, it's not very 'Radiohead', but we recorded the last album in a cold northern Europe location because we thought it was us. It wasn't. So we'll try this." Joking about it being a West Coast album in the style of The Eagles or Lynyrd Skynyrd Jonny said:"Well Phil's singing, so it could work out that way," Thom: "Well, the idea is not to use any computers on this record.

(Mirthless laugh) Ha!, we'll see how long that lasts." Thom Yorke did two solo perfomances for the Bridge School Benefit Concert in Mountain View, where he played new songs 'Sail to the moon' & 'There there '. Ed O'Brien said in October 2002: “We’ve done about four weeks.” He explained, “Two weeks in Los Angeles and two in our own studio in Oxford. It’s sounding good. A lot of energy, really good. It just feels really good. As I always say it’s gonna be an album of three minute pop songs. That’s what they always say but that’s what it is this time.” When asked if he was joking, or whether he was serious about the sudden change of style for the band’s, O’Brien remained positive. “Yeah,” O’Brien laughed, “Guitars? Yup, there are a few. In fact there’s a bit of everything. It’s sounding really good. It’s like ‘We’ve honed our thing, we’ve done our thing’ so what we’re doing feels like the right thing to be doing now.

As vague as I am.” In Janaury 2003 Ed revealed that the atmosphere in the band is "fucking brilliant" compared to the frosty recording sessions for their last two albums 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac, and that the new songs contain "space and sunshine and energy". He commented: "You know that time when bands begin to swagger, like when the Stones got in a grove from '68 to '73? In the last two years, I think we've done that. To me, this record feels like the culmination of the best bits of 'The Bends', 'OK Computer', 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac'. Speaking to Q, drummer Phil Selway added: "I don't think we've ever felt so self assured in the studio. This time no shit hit the fan. And Thom's voice has been incredible. That's the stand out element for me. He's reminded us that he's in a league of his own." Recording was completed in January, although sessions on the record are expected to continue until at least mid-February. On March 1st Thom mentioned that the band are listening to the new tracks before sending the record to mastering.

On Myxomatosis Thom said: "well im listening to it now. it has Funk and UGGGGLLLIIIIEEEEEE keyboards". When talking about the working titles '2+2=5' & 'Are you listening?' Thom denied that they were going to be the actual titles ("K O R R e K T ! it isnt. it never was. HA!"). The title of Radiohead's sixth album 'Hail To The Thief' is also an anti-George W. Bush slogan used by protesters at the end of the controversial election campaign that put him into the White House. The phrase 'Hail To The Thief' was coined by protesters at the end of the 2000 US Presidential election, when controversy famously surrounded Bush's rise to office. The battle between Bush and Democrat candidate Al Gore came to a bitter end, with the result in the key state of Florida dogged by recounts, amid allegations of unfairness in the voting process. On the day of his inauguration Bush was greeted in Washington by thousands of protesters with banners, some of who shouted, 'Hail to the thief, our commander in chief'. The phrase has now become well used in anti-Bush circles.

A website, that casts a cynical eye over US policy is active and goes under the banner 'Hail to the Thief! Love your country. Never trust its government.' A number of books and articles have also been written, perhaps most famously 'Mediaocracy 2000 -Hail to the Thief' by Danny Schechter, which looks at the role of the media in the election. In the meantime; Asian Dub Foundation released their new album featuring Ed O'Brien on guitar. Ed collaborated with the band on three tracks '1000 Mirrors' (as well as Sinead O'Connor), 'Blowback' and 'Enemy of the enemy'. Jonny Greenwood has also been recording some original music for a documentary about the human body, called 'Body Song', with "assistance" from the band. The movie premiered in January 2003 and a soundtrack is expected soon. Here are the lyrics of the songs in Hail to the Thief: Radiohead Facts for Kids | KidzSearch.com Thom Yorke Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire . The lead singer and lyrics writer of the band is Thom Yorke , who also plays guitar and piano.

Thom is known for his high voiced singing style and the band is known for their different style of rock music. The band has five members, and three of them play guitar. In their early years, Radiohead was known for their layered and heavy guitar sound. In later years, the band began using other instruments too, and creating more electronic sounds. The band still performs live and attracts large crowds of fans to sold-out concerts, even though they play many different styles of music. Most bands from England are not successful outside their home country of the UK. But Radiohead is successful in the UK and also in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Japan and other parts of Asia. Radiohead does not sell as much as the biggest pop artists in the world, but they are recognized by fans and music critics. Lots of people and magazines have called their albums some of the best ever made. They have made eight albums so far, the latest, The King of Limbs was released in 2011. The band also works to help environmental and peace causes. Contents 8 Other websites History Radiohead started in 1985.

The members of the band went to school together at Abingdon School, a boys' school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire . [1] The band first called themselves "On a Friday". The band would usually rehearse on Friday in their school's music room. [2] On A Friday signed a contract with EMI , a large record label , in 1991. They changed their name to "Radiohead". This name came from the song "Radio Head" on the album True Stories by Talking Heads . [3] They released their first EP , called Drill, in May 1992. It was not very popular. [4] Radiohead started work on their first album. It was called Pablo Honey and it was recorded in 1992 in a studio in Oxford . [2] They released their first single , "Creep", late in 1992. They released Pablo Honey in February 1993. The album did not become popular, but "Creep" did, and the band got a lot of fans because of it.

[5] At the time, Radiohead's style of music was not very popular, and people said it sounded like Nirvana , but was not as good. They said that other Britpop bands, like Suede , were better. [6] "Creep" was played on the radio at a lot of colleges around the world, however. When Radiohead went on tour in the United States in early 1993, the music video for "Creep" was being played a lot on MTV . [7] Radiohead made an EP in 1994. This was called My Iron Lung, and contained the title single, and seven songs known as B-sides (because they were not on a full length album). The main song, "My Iron Lung", was about the way fans had reacted to their song "Creep". The band was happy the song had been a hit, because otherwise they might not have been able to continue the band. But the band, especially Thom Yorke, were reluctant to be celebrities. They were already disturbed by the workings of the music industry. They felt they had no control over things. "Creep" was popular, so they felt under pressure to make more similar songs.

They hated the way "Creep" was the only Radiohead song anyone listened to at their concerts, yet it was all that was keeping them popular and afloat in the record industry. The "iron lung" was a metaphor for such a "life support". Their second normal album, The Bends, came out in 1995. The song "My Iron Lung" was on it, along with 11 new ones. The band released four more songs as singles: "Fake Plastic Trees", "High and Dry", "Just" and "Street Spirit [Fade Out]". None of these songs were as popular as "Creep" around the world. Radiohead was now a one-hit wonder to many people in America. Songs from The Bends did not get played on the radio very much there. But the album became very popular in Radiohead's home of the UK. It also got excellent reviews from music critics, unlike the band's first album. Many said it was one of the best rock records in memory. The album was produced by John Leckie, a veteran at EMI's Abbey Road studios. As a young man Leckie had assisted on Pink Floyd albums in the 1970s.

The band's lineup was the same for The Bends. Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien played rhythm and auxiliary guitar; Thom sang and Ed sang backup. Phil Selway played drums and percussion. Colin Greenwood played bass guitar. Radiohead's lead guitarist was Jonny Greenwood, Colin's younger brother. Jonny was also younger than any of the other members. Jonny was the only member of the band who did not graduate from university. He was also the only member who had attended music school. Jonny had had to leave university after a few months to join Radiohead on a tour when they became popular. But he played in an orchestra when he was young, and he had a knowledge of classical and experimental music and jazz. Thus, Jonny became the band's musical expert. At this stage he already played many instruments, such as keyboard. It was Jonny's complex and cathartic guitar solos in songs like "Just" and "The Bends" that soon began to attract notice. So did his simpler playing in other songs. The circle of Radiohead fans began to grow. Thom Yorke's lyrics also began talking about larger more political themes during this time.

Mostly, they were still about personal disappointments, loves, losses, depression, unease, and anger. But Thom wrote songs like "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Street Spirit" which found the source of the unease in the larger structure of society, not the individual. Radiohead's style of music had gotten more mature, according to most people, without changing too much. Some others felt their songwriting had improved so much it was no longer unrecognizable. The band used more keyboards and acoustic guitar this time, and made a more subtle atmosphere. But electric guitars were the main instrument used on the record. Some of Radiohead's influences this time were: the post-punk band Magazine, the singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, Morrissey's (former Smiths singer) Vauxhall & I, and the music of R.E.M. That band had inspired Radiohead from the beginning. Radiohead would get a chance to tour with them in summer 1995, after releasing the album. Lead singer Michael Stipe became a friend and mentor to Thom, and also a public fan of Radiohead. In 1995 he said "they're so good, they're scary".

The band's influences had expanded once more by the time of their next album OK Computer. With OK Computer, the band started the next section of their career. They started using more sounds from electronic music . They released the album Kid A which had a lot less use of guitar than on previous albums, but was still called one of their best albums (with some people calling it their best). An album of songs recorded during this time, but that did not appear on Kid A was released, called Amnesiac. In 2003 they released the album Hail To The Thief which was a return to a sound with more guitars and less use of electronic sounds. In 2008 they released In Rainbows. It was first released for free on the band's website, then released properly on January 1, 2008. Discography Hail To The Thief - Radiohead - Listen to Free Music by Radiohead on Pandora Internet Radio more Radiohead At some point in the early 21st century, Radiohead became something more than a band: they became a touchstone for everything that is fearless and adventurous in rock, inheriting the throne from David Bowie , Pink Floyd , and the Talking Heads .

The latter group gave the band its name -- it's an album track on 1986's True Stories -- but Radiohead never sounded much like the Heads , nor did they take much from Bowie apart from their willingness to experiment. Instead, they spliced Floyd 's spaciness with U2 's messianic arena-rock heft, bridging the gap with guitar skronk borrowed from the '80s American underground. Jonny Greenwood 's jagged, brutal interjections on "Creep," the band's 1993 breakthrough hit, recalled the ugly noise of the Pixies and Nirvana , a sound that translated over the expanse of an ocean, but in the throes of the alternative rock explosion of the mid-'90s, Radiohead were the odd band out. America remained besotted with their homegrown sensations, so "Creep" was treated as a one-hit wonder, and at home in England, they were seen as dour art-rock students lacking the glamour of neo-glam sensations Suede , and deliberately dodging the beery singalongs of Oasis .

During the peak of Brit-pop in 1995, Radiohead released The Bends, a significant leap forward from their 1993 debut, Pablo Honey, and while that gained them some traction, it was 1997's OK Computer that broke down all the doors for the band and changed alternative rock in the process. Expanding their sound with electronica and unapologetic prog rock suites, Radiohead turned into a different band with OK Computer and the world followed suit. Soon, whenever rock bands dabbled in electronics, it was derived not from tightly sequenced rhythms, but rather, from glassy textures and introspection, a sensibility pioneered by the quintet. Radiohead doubled down on this aesthetic on 2000's Kid A, a record that traded concise hooks for minimal arrangements and jazz, providing a dividing line between an audience that once loved the group for their guitars and those listeners attracted to the band's aspirations. From this point on, Radiohead would occasionally flirt with concise song structures but were drawn toward unusual paths in both their music and business. Once their contract with EMI expired, they remained an independent band, pioneering different avenues of digital releases.

They issued 2007's In Rainbows with little warning, letting listeners pay whatever they'd like for the record -- cementing Radiohead's reputation as a band compelled to look forward, not back. Every member of Radiohead were pupils at Oxfordshire's Abingdon School. Ed O'Brien (guitar) and Phil Selway (drums) were the eldest, followed by a year by Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano) and Colin Greenwood (bass). These four musicians began playing in 1985, dubbing themselves On a Friday, and before long they added Colin's younger brother Jonny , who'd previously played in Illiterate Hands with Yorke 's brother Andy and Nigel Powell. Jonny started on keyboards but moved to guitar, yet this incarnation proved short-lived. By 1987, everyone but Jonny left for university, where many members pursued music, but it wasn't until 1991 that the quintet regrouped and started gigging regularly in Oxford.

Eventually, they came to the attention of Chris Hufford -- then best-known as the producer of shoegaze stars Slowdive -- who offered the group the chance to record a demo along with his partner Bryce Edge; the two soon became the band's managers. EMI bit at the group's demo, signing them in 1991 and suggesting they change their name. On a Friday became Radiohead and they recorded their debut EP, Drill, with Hufford and Edge, releasing the record in May 1992. Next, the group entered the studio with producers Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade to record their full-length debut. The first fruit from these sessions was "Creep," a single released in the U.K. in September of 1992. "Creep" didn't go anywhere at first. The British music weeklies slagged it, radio didn't play it, and it limped to number 78 on the charts. Pablo Honey, the band's full-length debut, appeared in February 1993, supported by the single "Anyone Can Play Guitar," but neither release gained much traction in their native U.K.

and that May's non-LP single, "Pop Is Dead," didn't help matters much, either. By that point, however, "Creep" started to gain attention in other territories. First, the song became a hit in Israel, but the bigger waves came from the United States, which was in the throes of the alternative rock revolution. Influential San Francisco radio station KITS added "Creep" to their playlist and it spread along the west coast and onto MTV as it became a genuine hit, nearly topping Billboard's Modern Rock chart and reaching 34 on the Hot 100, a big achievement for a British guitar band. A re-released "Creep" turned into a British Top Ten hit, peaking at number seven in the autumn of 1993. The band who'd had no success suddenly had more than it could handle. Radiohead kept touring Pablo Honey into 1994, but no subsequent hits were forthcoming, raising the spectre of the band as a possible one-hit wonder -- a criticism that weighed heavily on the group, who were anxious to record their new songs.

They received the opportunity early in 1994, entering the studio to work with producer John Leckie -- then best-known for his work with the Stone Roses -- with My Iron Lung, an EP released in late 1994, being the first music released from the sessions. Muscular and ambitious, the EP provided a good indication of what would come on 1995's The Bends. Released in March 1995, The Bends not only found Radiohead growing musically -- it was dense and expansive, without skimping on songs -- but also in reputation, as critics in the U.K. embraced the band with the audience eventually following: none of the first three singles ("High and Dry," "Fake Plastic Trees," "Just") rose above 17 on the U.K. charts but the final single, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)," wound up reaching five in early 1996. Radiohead's rise may have been assisted by the mania cultivated by Brit-pop, a term that didn't quite suit the band -- they were far artier and rock-oriented -- but nevertheless stoked interest in indie guitar bands, which the quintet certainly was.

Over in U.S., The Bends stalled out at 88 on the Billboard charts but the record gained a cult following among listeners and the band never stopped touring, taking North American opening slots for R.E.M. in 1995 and Alanis Morissette in 1996. During 1995 and 1996, the group recorded new material with Nigel Godrich -- an engineer on The Bends sessions who was now the band's producer -- with songs slowly creeping out during the course of the year. "Lucky" showed up on War Child's 1995 charity LP The Help Album, "Talk Show Host" appeared on a B-side, and "Exit Music (For a Film)" showed up on the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann 's Romeo & Juliet. The latter showed up on OK Computer, the June 1997 album that proved pivotal in Radiohead's career. "Paranoid Android," a twitchy suite released as a single in May of that year, suggested the ambition of OK Computer -- and by reaching number three, it was the band's biggest hit to date in the U.K., placing them on the cusp of a breakthrough.

A breakthrough is precisely what OK Computer turned out to be, a record that proved pivotal not just for Radiohead but for the direction of '90s rock. Greeted with enthusiastic reviews and corresponding strong sales, OK Computer closed the doors on the hedonism of Brit-pop and the dour after-effects of grunge while opening a new path to sober, adventurous art-rock where electronics co-existed with guitars. Over the next few years, the band's influence would become readily apparent, but the album made a sizable impact upon its release, too, debuting at number one in the U.K. and earning a Grammy for Best Alternative Album. Radiohead supported it with an international tour, documented in Meeting People Is Easy. By the time Meeting People Is Easy showed up in theaters, the group began work on their fourth album, once again reuniting with producer Godrich. The resulting Kid A doubled down on the experimentalism of OK Computer, embracing electronics and threading in jazz. Appearing in October in 2000, Kid A was one of the first major albums to be pirated through file-sharing services, but this bootlegging had no apparent effect on the sales of the record: it debuted at number one in the U.K.

and the U.S., becoming their first American chart-topper. Once again, the album took home the prize for Best Alternative Album at the Grammys and although it didn't produce any hit singles -- indeed, no singles were released from the record -- it was certified platinum in several territories. Amnesiac, a collection of new material initiated during the Kid A sessions, appeared in June of 2001, topping the U.K. charts and reaching two in the U.S. Two singles were pulled from the album -- "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out" -- a signal that the album was more commercially accessible than its predecessor. At the end of the year, the band issued I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, and by the summer of 2002, they turned their attention to recording a new album with Godrich. The resulting Hail to the Thief appeared in June of 2003, once again debuting in the upper reaches of the international charts -- number one in the U.K. and number three in the U.S.

-- and the group supported the album with live dates culminating in a headlining appearance at the 2004 Coachella Festival that coincided with the release of the B-sides and remix collection COM LAG, a record that helped close out their contract with EMI. Over the next couple of years, Radiohead entered a hiatus as individual members pursued solo projects. Yorke released the heavily electronic solo collection The Eraser in 2006, and Jonny Greenwood embarked on a side career as a composer, beginning with 2004's Bodysong and then striking a fruitful collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson for 2007's There Will Be Blood; Greenwood would also work on Anderson's subsequent films The Master and Inherent Vice. During all this, the group tentatively chipped away at their first post-EMI album. Some unsuccessful sessions with Spike Stent led the band back to Godrich by the end of 2006, and the group completed recording in June of 2007. Still without a record label, they decided to release the album digitally through their official website, letting users pay whatever they wanted for a download of the album.

This novel strategy acted as the album's own promotion -- most of the articles about the release claimed it was revolutionary -- and In Rainbows allegedly moved over a million downloads on the first day of its release in October 2007. In December, the album received a physical release in the U.K., followed by a January 2008 physical release in the U.S.; the record sold well, debuting at number one in the U.K., and it earned Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. Radiohead toured in support of In Rainbows into 2009, during which time EMI released Radiohead: The Best Of in June of 2008. The band took time off in 2010, which allowed Yorke to form a band called Atoms for Peace with producer Godrich and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers . During this time, drummer Phil Selway released his debut solo album, Familial. By early 2011, the group finished a new album and, like In Rainbows before it, Radiohead initially released The King of Limbs digitally through their website.

The downloads appeared in February, with the physical copies appearing in March; the album reportedly shifted upwards of 400,000 digital copies upon its release. That autumn brought the release of the remix album TKOL RMX 1234567, and the band continued to tour The King of Limbs material into 2012. Once the tour wrapped up, the group took some quiet time as a new round of solo projects appeared. Atoms for Peace released Amok in February 2013 and Yorke put out Tomorrow's Modern Boxes in September 2014, just a month before Selway issued his second album, Weatherhouse. In the autumn of 2014, the band began work on a new album and they continued to record throughout 2015, releasing only "Spectre" -- a proposed James Bond theme rejected by the filmmakers -- that year.

The ninth Radiohead album, A Moon Shaped Pool, appeared on May 8, 2016, preceded earlier in the week by the singles "Burn the Witch" and "Daydreaming." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Radiohead Tour Dates | Tickets 2017 share Radiohead are an English alternative rock group from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The ensemble consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitars, piano), Jonny Greenwood (guitars, keyboards, other instruments), Ed O’Brien (guitars, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass, synthesizers) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). Radiohead released their first single, “Creep”, in 1992. The song was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit several months after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Radiohead’s popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their second album, The Bends (1995). Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer (1997), propelled them to greater international fame.

Featuring an expansive style of music and themes of modern alienation, OK Computer is often acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s. Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) marked an evolution in Radiohead’s musical style, as the band incorporated experimental electronic music, Krautrock and jazz influences. Hail to the Thief (2003), a mix of guitar-driven rock, electronics and lyrics inspired by war, was the band’s final album for their major album label, EMI. Radiohead independently gave us their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), originally as a digital download for which customers could set their own price, and later in physical form to critical and chart success. Radiohead issued their eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011) in a variety of formats. Radiohead’s first six albums, released via EMI, had sold more than 25 million albums by 2007. The band’s work has appeared in a large number of listener polls and critics’ lists.

In 2005, Radiohead were ranked number 73 in Rolling Stone’s list of “The Greatest artists of All Time”. during the band’s earlier copies were influential on British rock and pop music, musicians in a wide variety of genres have been influenced by their later work. Leave a Reply Anyone Can Play Guitar: The 15 Best Radiohead Songs of All Time | PopMatters The 15 Best Radiohead Songs of All Time The recent release of Radiohead's eighth studio LP, The King of Limbs, offers the opportunity to revisit all of the legendary band's classic material. 1 2 3 Next page [10 - 6] Few bands inspire the kind of critical and commercial success enjoyed—and often bemoaned—by Radiohead. The UK-based group formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985, with Thom Yorke (vocals, guitars, piano), Jonny Greenwood (guitars, keyboards, everything else under the sun), Ed O’Brien (guitars, vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass, synthesizers), and Phil Selway (drums, percussion).

The band caught its first break in 1992 with the release of “Creep”, the first single from its debut record, Pablo Honey (1993). The Bends (1995) brought them greater fame and inspired a legion of imitators. Even with that great record, no one saw OK Computer (1997) coming: an ambitious, eclectic, and impassioned album, it topped most of those recent Best Records of the ‘90s lists and became an instant classic. How to follow up? How about by jettisoning your guitars for synthesizers and drum machines, forcing your bandmates to play new instruments, and essentially eschewing everything that made your last album such a hit? That’s what Radiohead did with Kid A (2000), and the results were just as—if not more—exciting than those of OK Computer, with those two albums sitting side-by-side in the list of modern classics. Amnesiac, largely recorded during the Kid A sessions, followed in 2001.

The group released the dense, electronic-tinged Hail to the Thief in 2003 and the more organic, rock-oriented In Rainbows as a pay-what-you-will digital download (and, eventually, a physical record) in 2007. The recent surprise release of Radiohead’s eighth studio LP, The King of Limbs, brought the spotlight back to the band, generating an amount of excitement and universal anticipation that no other contemporary act could create. It’s still difficult where to place The King of Limbs within Radiohead’s superlative catalog, but what better way to investigate than by revisiting the band’s other material? Below, you’ll find a definitive and mathematically inviolable list of Radiohead’s Best 15 songs. Well, you will find a list, anyway (and, if you’re interested, click through here to see numbers 20-16). Read through and then, if you like, post your own list in the comments section. Whatever you do, listen to this band’s records again, with fresh ears. But we didn’t need to tell you to do that. 15.

“Exit Music (For a Film)”—OK Computer An elegy, “Exit Music (For a Film)” mourns the loss of ambivalence: its narrator has finally cracked under pressure. Yorke’s lyrics don’t name the specifics of those pressures, but they don’t need to do so. The important thing is his character’s acknowledgement of the end game. He’s been beaten down, but at least he’s feeling something—when Yorke sings “We hope / That you choke” at the track’s closing, there’s some righteousness in that despair. 14. “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”—In Rainbows “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” is the sound of a band revitalized. After the dense (and, some might say, overstuffed) Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows seems downright liquid, running with the energy and abandonment of a crystal-clear river. Yorke begs a lover to just relax, to “come on and let it out” before it’s too late. Typically charged material for him, but the music itself sounds free from gravity, liberated.

When Yorke kicks his vocals into high gear at the track’s midpoint, it’s one of the most thrilling—and least self-conscious—moments in Radiohead’s catalog. 13. “There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)”—Hail to the Thief “Just ‘cause you feel it / Doesn’t mean it’s there” are words of comfort, in Thom Yorke’s worldview. In “There There”, Yorke takes a walk in a surrealistic landscape of shadowy threats and menacing outlines. But, as he reminds his listener, the danger might be all in your head. A tremendous live staple, “There There” often opens with the band’s rhythm section splitting a three-part tribal rhythm on the drums, which speaks to the song’s beating heart. Something of a red herring on Hail to the Thief, “There There” is one of Radiohead’s most straightforward rock songs in its post-Bends years. By all means, turn it up to 11. 12. “All I Need” and “Reckoner”—In Rainbows (tie) “All I Need” and “Reckoner” represent the chillier side of In Rainbows.

Downcast and downtempo, they nonetheless retain the groove of the record’s head-bobbing rhythms. “All I Need” builds to a showstopping, ethereal climax, while “Reckoner” lets Thom Yorke step into his R&B-crooner shoes. Both tracks positively drip with desire, keeping them full of life even as their pristine compositions try to play coy. 11. “Climbing Up the Walls”—OK Computer Eat your heart out, Sting. “Climbing Up the Walls” is, plainly, terrifying. Yorke puts us squarely in the mind of a stalker, who promises, “Anywhere you turn / I’ll be there / Open up your skull / I’ll be there.” His primal scream at the song’s climax could peel the paint from his victim’s bedroom walls. Don’t stand so close to me, guy. Radiohead · 2017 Tour Dates and Concert Tickets | Thrillcall Track Artist for New Show Alerts Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, formed in 1985.

The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guita... Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar, synthesizers) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992. The song was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit several months after the release of their debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Radiohead's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their second album, The Bends (1995). Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), propelled them to greater international fame. Featuring an expansive sound and themes of modern alienation, OK Computer has often been acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s.

Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) marked an evolution in Radiohead's musical style, as the group incorporated experimental electronic music, Krautrock, post-punk and jazz influences. Although critical opinion was initially divided, Radiohead remained popular. Hail to the Thief (2003), a mix of guitar-driven rock, electronics and lyrics inspired by headlines, was the band's final album for their major record label, EMI. Radiohead independently released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), originally as a digital download for which customers could set their own price, later in stores, to critical and chart success. Radiohead's work has appeared in a large number of listener polls and critics' lists. For example, in 2005 Radiohead were ranked number 73 in Rolling Stone's list of "the greatest artists of all time". While the band's earlier albums were particularly influential on British rock and pop music, their later albums brought them a wide audience. Their work has influenced other musicians in genres ranging from jazz and classical music to hip hop and R&B.

Content: Radiohead | Rolling Stone artists > R > Radiohead > Bio Radiohead Bio Radiohead were one of the most innovative and provocative bands of the 1990s and 2000s, five very serious Englishmen guys who developed their own sound and always tried really, really hard. The band, who were also the biggest art-rock act since Pink Floyd, began as purveyors of a swooning, from-the-gut sound that Alicia Silverstone aptly labeled as “complaint rock” in the film Clueless. But albums like 1997’s space-rock opera OK Computer and 2000’s slippery, is-this-even-rock? Kid A (which was Rolling Stone’s album of the decade for the 2000s) were game-changers—future-shock opuses that showed off shadowy, meticulously constructed electronic textures and inspired thousands of imitators, none of whom had Radiohead’s talents. Born in 1968, singer Thom Yorke formed his first band at the age of 10 despite admittedly having few friends.

An abnormality in his left eye made Yorke the victim of teasing in his childhood, with Yorke telling Rolling Stone in 1995 that he often got into fights with his peers. These youthful experiences no doubt contributed to Yorke's antisocial and confrontational lyrics. In 1985, Yorke met two of his future bandmates at the boys-only Abingdon School and the seeds of Radiohead were planted: Guitarist Ed O' Brien (recruited because Yorke thought he looked like Morrissey) and bassist Colin Greenwood (recruited because he dressed weird and went to lots of parties, Yorke told RS.) Drummer Phil Selway joined soon after, and Greenwood's younger brother Jonny rounded out the lineup, first as harmonica player, then as keyboardist and finally, as guitarist. After parting ways to attend university, the group, then named On a Friday, reconvened to record a series of demo tapes including one called Manic Hedgehog, which caught the ear of EMI in 1991 during the wave of grunge fever. The label promptly signed the group to a six-album deal but requested they changed their moniker.

Thus, in 1992, On a Friday became Radiohead, named after a Talking Heads song that appeared on that band's True Stories. Radiohead's debut EP Drill was released in 1992. Heavily inspired by the Pixies at this time, a group Yorke would champion as one of the greatest ever, the EP featured four songs, three of which would appear on the band's debut 1993 album Pablo Honey. Titled after a Jerky Boys skit, Pablo Honey featured the smash hit "Creep," a song that remains Radiohead's most lasting and successful single even though they've all but disowned Pablo Honey in the shadow of their later work. With Yorke's Kurt Cobain hair, its depressing story about unrequited love and the way "Creep" borrowed the Pixies' loud-quiet-loud aesthetics, many were quick to bunch Radiohead in with the overgrowing pool of Nirvana rip-offs, another one-hit wonder from the other side of the Atlantic plundering Nevermind for instant and fleeting fame.

1995's The Bends proved that Radiohead was no one hit wonder: With its mix of sonic guitar anthems and striking ballads, the band's second album was critically applauded immediately, and Radiohead were elevated above their Brit pop peers on the strength of songs like "My Iron Lung," "High and Dry" and "Fake Plastic Trees." Yorke's lyrics now began to paint a more haunted landscape, with themes of sickness, consumerism, jealousy and longing. While no singles scraped the heights of "Creep," The Bends was a smash success in the U.K. and wound up selling well in the U.S. The music on The Bends was so potent and fresh that bands like Coldplay and Muse, two Brit rock groups directly influenced by Radiohead's second album, would go on to enjoy multi-platinum fame by adhering to its blueprint. The Bends would also mark the beginning of a pair of collaborations with important ancillary members of the Radiohead family that would continue until this day. Nigel Godrich, an engineer on The Bends, would go on to serve as Radiohead's fulltime producer, a fortuitous partnership that has deservedly drawn similarities to George Martin's relationship with the Beatles.

The Bends was also the first Radiohead album to don the artwork of Stanley Donwood, an Exeter College friend of Yorke's whose own artwork seemed to mature visually at the same pace as the band's sound was maturing aurally. On Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time, The Bends placed at Number 110. The success of The Bends scored Radiohead gigs opening for Alanis Morissette—with the band using that trek to road test tracks for their third album—and R.E.M. Yorke and R.E.M's Michael Stipe became friends while their two bands on the road, and the whole experience would go on to influence the trajectory of the band's career. "We were a different band after we toured with R.E.M.," Ed O'Brien told Rolling Stone in 1997.

"They did it their own way, and we spoke about that as the way that we wanted to do it: go out there and gig, and win a few more people over on each album." A collection of B-sides from The Bends were released as the My Iron Lung EP, and the track "Talk Show Host" would appear on the soundtrack for the film Romeo + Juliet. While not on the soundtrack, the end credits song from that film was another new Radiohead composition called "Exit Music (For a Film)," a track inspired by William Shakespeare's tragedy that would reappear a year later on Radiohead's third album. "Everyone said, 'You'll sell 6 or 7 million if you bring out The Bends, Part 2, " O'Brien told RS in 1997, "And we're like, 'Yeah, right.' But we're not going to do that. The one thing you don't want to say to us is what we should do, because we'll kick against that and do exactly the opposite.” Gone were the introspective Brit pop anthems, in their place something bleaker, atmospheric and more sophisticated.

OK Computer's dozen songs touch on paranoia, the repetitive minutiae of suburban life, alien abduction, car crashes, plane crashes and the foreboding computer age. In just four years, Radiohead had gone from "Creep" to OK Computer's lead single "Paranoid Android," a six-and-a-half minute multi-part epic that drew comparisons to everything from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" to the Beatles to prog-rock. Two more singles from the album got heavy airplay, "Karma Police" and "No Surprises," and the success of OK Computer both critically and commercially—the LP would hit Number One on the U.K. Album Charts—jettisoned Radiohead to global fame. The wears of the ensuing tour and Yorke's almost inability to adapt to this new popularity was documented in the film Meeting People is Easy. After the monumental success of OK Computer, expectations were unfathomably high for Radiohead's fourth album. With Yorke suffering from writer's block and the band divided over what direction their music should take—whether to return to rock or go further off the deep end—Radiohead once again teamed with producer Nigel Godrich to begin recording Kid A in 1999.

With Kid A, Radiohead took OK Computer, dismantled it down to its motherboard, added technology both cutting edge and antiquated and rebuilt it all as an actual paranoid android. Radiohead's most recognizable instrument had always been Yorke's unique voice, but Kid A intentionally rendered his vocals mechanized and mutilated. Gone was the tender and elegiac voice that serenaded listeners on "High and Dry" and "Exit Music (For a Film)"; in its place was something distant, alien and largely inhuman. The presence of guitars, the supplier of the riffs that brought Radiohead's worldwide fame on their previous albums, was minimal on Kid A, and when they did emerge that were severely treated. Throughout Kid A, Jonny Greenwood used one of the earliest electronic instruments, the ondes Martenot, in new ways, and it's fitting that on Kid A's centerpiece and most revolutionary track, the apocalyptic disco of "Idioteque," the band sampled Paul Lansky's "Mild Un Leise," an innovative computer-born piece of 1970s electronic music.

On Kid A, Radiohead looked back at all the music that inspired them—rock, jazz, dance, classical, electronic, avant-garde, Krautrock—threw all those influences in a shredder and rearranged them piece-by-piece to form music for a new millennium. "I find it difficult to think of the path we've chosen as 'rock music,'" Yorke told Rolling Stone in his only American Kid A-era interview. "Kid A is like getting a massive eraser out and starting again." It's ironic that songs from an album so intent on being listened to as a singular work of art would leak individually and out of order in the early days of Napster, making Kid A one of the first albums to prematurely appear on the file-sharing program, a problem that would later cripple the record industry. Even though Napster conspired against the way Kid A was meant to be heard, Radiohead became one of the first bands to embrace the Internet as a promotional tool, posting brief snippets of Kid A songs to whet the appetite of fans.

As Kid A yielded no music videos, singles or interviews from the band, these little "blips" were all the band did to promote their album; in fact, the positive word of mouth circulating around the Kid A leak helped create more prerelease buzz than any video or single could have. Despite no singles, no videos and an album that was readily available for free to anyone with access to a high-speed cable modem, Kid A debuted at Number One on the Billboard album charts upon its release. The sessions for Kid A were rumored to have produced enough songs for two full albums, so when Radiohead began playing new songs while touring in support of Kid A, it seemed like fans wouldn't have to wait long for the band's next LP. And they didn't, as Amnesiac arrived in June 2001, just eight months after Kid A, with a more conventional release complete with singles and music videos.

Mistakenly dismissed as an inferior Kid B before its release, Amnesiac did approach many of the similar themes of its older brother, as evidenced by the redux "Morning Bell/Amnesiac." The sweeping, mournful "Pyramid Song," Amnesiac's first single, ranks among Radiohead's most beloved songs, and second single "Knives Out" was the closest thing the band's later output came to The Bends. Amnesiac also produced the anthemic "You And Whose Army?," the orchestral dub of "Dollars and Cents" and the jazz band closer "Life in a Glass House," plus sonic experiments in the form of "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" and "Like Spinning Plates." The album's one true rocker, "I Might Be Wrong," served as the foundation for an EP that showcased the band's stunning stage show, 2001's I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, which proved that Radiohead was still a marquee rock band onstage. While touring in the summer of 2002, Radiohead premiered another dozen new songs onstage.

These tracks provided the backbone for the band's next album, 2003's Hail to the Thief. More song-minded and tuneful than its predecessors, the first sound the listener hears on HTTT opener "2+2=5" is the sound of a guitar being plugged into an amp, signifying the album would be a slight return to the rock Radiohead all but abandoned on their previous two albums. The album was also a reflection of the gloomy state of affairs in the post-9/11 world; George W. Bush's America was marching hand-in-hand into Iraq with the United Kingdom and all the paranoia of Yorke's earlier lyrics suddenly seemed justified. Among the highlights on Hail to the Thief were the Grammy-nominated "There There," a Can-inspired single paced by a thunderous army of drums, the rock-oriented second single "Go to Sleep" and "A Wolf at the Door," a foreboding album closer that Yorke delivers so frenetically it borders on hip-hop.

A collection of Hail-era B-sides and remixes were released on the COM LAG EP in 2004, and after releasing three critically acclaimed albums in the span of three years, Radiohead went on hiatus to begin work on solo projects. Yorke, more fascinated with music born out of computers than guitars, finally placated all his electronic yearnings on his debut solo album The Eraser, released in July 2006. A departure from Radiohead's work but still distinctively Yorke, the album was received warmly by both critics and fans. It wouldn't be until October 2009 that Yorke would finally bring Eraser tracks to a live setting, teaming with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea and Godrich for a band named "????". Yorke's side project was enlisted to perform at the 2010 Coachella Festival. Meanwhile, Greenwood and his continued mastery of the ondes Martenot were drafted to score director Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated film There Will Be Blood. In his first true attempt as film composer, Greenwood's score earned rave reviews.

Recording on the band's seventh album began in mid-2005 through early-2006, but the band grew frustrated with what was coming out of those sessions. For the first time since Pablo Honey, Radiohead tried working without the aid of Nigel Godrich, adding Mark "Spike" Stent for the embryonic stages of the recording. By April 2006, however, Stint was relieved of his duties and Godrich was reinstated. Taking what they worked on during those early sessions, Radiohead crafted their new songs during a tour in the summer of 2006, including the band's now-historic headlining performance at Bonnaroo that boasted many of the tracks that would later appear on their next album. After perfecting the new songs on the road, a refocused and reinvigorated Radiohead reentered the studio in 2006. A year later, the band's official Website Dead Air Space would sporadically come alive with veiled messages, decoded as gibberish. Still, it was apparent that the gears were turning on the Radiohead front.

Then, on October 1st, 2007, a message on the Radiohead Website read: "Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days...We've called it In Rainbows." Six albums into their career and on the verge of their seventh, Radiohead finally found them in a position they hadn't been in since before Pablo Honey, as the band's record contract with EMI expired following HTTT. "If the major labels had their shit together about the Internet… They've been sticking their heads in the sand over new technology," Yorke told Rolling Stone in 2000 as the record industry struggled to adapt to Napster and the digital medium. "They reaped some pretty bad karma doing that, and now they're paying the consequences." Free of their record contract, the stage was set for the band's riskiest masterstroke to date with the 2007 release of In Rainbows. In a move that would revolutionize how artists would distribute their music, Radiohead offered up In Rainbows by allowing people to pay what they wanted for a digital copy of the album, thus letting the fans decide what the music was worth to them.

The theory was, since all of their albums since Kid A had leaked prior to its release—including Hail to the Thief in an unmastered form—they'd leak the complete album the way it was meant to be heard themselves while essentially putting a digital tip jar on the album's official website. The majority opted to download In Rainbows for free, but the band later revealed that the In Rainbows experiment did more for their own pocketbooks means than the release of their previous albums. In addition to the "pay-what-you-want" approach, which was both applauded and criticized but was inarguably an industry-changer, Radiohead also offered up a "disc-box" version of In Rainbows, a physical release that included and a bonus disc sporting eight additional songs from the In Rainbows sessions. Despite being distributed for free legally and illegally—peer-to-peer downloads of In Rainbows reportedly eclipsed legal downloads—the album still reached Number One on the Billboard 200 when it was physically released on CD on January 1st, 2008. In Rainbows itself was Radiohead's most lush and accessible LP since OK Computer, and introduced the band to a whole new generation of fans.

Radiohead toured in support of In Rainbows throughout 2008. 2009 brought a pair of new Radiohead recordings, the charity single "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" and a free download of an IR leftover "These Are My Twisted Words." Thom Yorke also released a 12'' single with two new tracks "The Hollow Earth" and "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" and also contributed the song "Hearing Damage" to the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack. In early 2010, Radiohead began work on their follow-up to In Rainbows. Daniel Kreps contributed to this article. Download Radiohead MP3 Songs and Albums | music downloads Website: Biography English rock-band Radiohead was formed in 1986 in Oxfordshire. The band's lineup remained the same since that time. So, Radiohead consists of: Thom Yorke – leader, vocals, rhythm-guitar, keyboards, programming; Jonny Greenwood – solo-guitar, keyboards, mouth-organ, saxophone, xylophone, etc.; Ed O'Brien - guitar, back-vocals, percussions; Colin Greenwood – bass-guitar, keyboards and Phil Selway - drums.

The band's music styles have often changed, according to the latest tendencies. So, among the works of Radiohead it's possible to find grunge, light-rock, britpop and even IDM (Intelligent Dance Music). Up to 1992 Radiohead hasn't released any recordings. In 1992 their first single Creep was released and then in 1993 Radiohead recorded a debut album, titled Pablo Honey. In spite of the fact that the album was evidently unsuccessful, the single became a worldwide hit. Radiohead's popularity in the UK intensified after the release of their second album The Bends in Fall 1995. An expressive, charming voice of Thom Yorke, which seemed to be coming from Space, and specific guitar sounds were warmly perceived both by critics and the audience. OK Computer - the third studio album of Radiohead, released in 1997, was nominated for Grammy as an "Album Of The Year". OK Computer won in the nomination "The Best Alternative Project".

It has also got into the Rolling's Stones list of The 500 Best Albums of All Time, and occupied the 162 position; on the 110 position the previous disc The Bends was situated. Radiohead reached the top of their popularity after the release of two new discs Kid A (October 2000) and Amnesiac (June 2001). In this period a change of band's style became visible, with influences including electronic music, jazz and modern classical music. The Radiohead's departure from the standards of rock became evident in new songs and in another way of performing. The sound experiments, which were just faintly indicated in OK Computer, occupied a topping position on Kid A and Amnesiac. On these discs the band used a few guitars, drum-machines, wind instruments and computer effects. The musicians have expanded a range of the instruments they played in the studio and at live shows. The sixth studio album Hail to the Thief was released in June 2003. It was notable for mixing various styles, blending guitar-driven rock, electronic influences and topical lyrics.

Radiohead recently completed their seventh studio album, In Rainbows, released through their own website on October 10, 2007 as a digital download, for which users could set any price they liked. In spite of the fact that it was possible to download the album for free, Radiohead earned 5 million pounds during first two days. The band plans to record a deluxe boxed version of In Rainbows that will include a double vinyl disc, a book, eight bonus tracks and two CDs. It will be available in December. Traditional CDs will come into the market at the same time. In 2008, the British band released an extremely interesting compilation album titled Radiohead: The Best Of. The record included the group’s best works, such as Karma Police, Creep, Idioteque and many others. There is absolutely no doubt that the highest level of performance and excellent choice of compositions make Radiohead: The Best Of quite valuable issue not only for Radiohead’s fans, but also for all the lovers of original music. Studio Albums

Question: Which group from Abingdon has issued albums 'Hail to the thief and 'In Rainbows'?
Answer: Radiohead