The Best of Radiohead
Jun 6th, 2008 by Ben
I drove to Newcastle today on some family business with my cousin.* We’re both big RH fans and on the way back, he asked me if I had any of their CDs in the car. Just one, I said. With their entire catalogue on it in mp3!
We listened and commented for about an hour and a half.
In related news, Radiohead have released a best of album. Here’s the tracklist.
- Just (The Bends, 1995)
- Paranoid Android (Ok Computer, 1997)
- Karma Police (OC)
- Creep (Pablo Honey, 1993)
- No Surprises (OC)
- High and Dry (TB)
- My Iron Lung (TB)
- There There (Hail to the Thief, 2003)
- Lucky (OC)
- Fake Plastic Trees (TB)
- Idioteque (Kid A, 2000)
- 2+2=5 (HTTT)
- The Bends (TB)
- Pyramid Song (Amnesiac, 2001)
- Street Spirit (Fade Out) (TB)
- Everything In Its Right Place (KA)
Two things. Firstly, this isn’t Radiohead’s best of. I’ll post the real best of another time. Secondly, you should own these six studio albums anyway, so what’s the point?
\* He’s my cousin’s husband, in actual fact, but I don’t think you can have a cousin-in-law, so I just stuck cousin in there.
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Technically Radiohead didn’t release it, the record label did. You’ll notice it has no InRainbows songs on it, because the band ditched the record company after Hail.
I own all their albums and good deal of b-sides, but Icouldn’t bring myself to buy this one.
Of course, you’re right, Geoff. The six-album deal with EMI expired after Hail and EMI are trying to make some extra cash off the back of the In Rainbows launch.