Radiohead – The Best Of (2008) [Parlophone] repost

Radiohead: The Best Of is a compilation album of English alternative rock band Radiohead. The album features singles, album tracks and one B-side the band released from 1993 to 2003 while with EMI. The first disc, also available separately, comprises the majority of the band's charting hits, while the second disc concentrates on less commercially successful singles and other tracks. All of the material on both discs had been previously released. The sleevenotes for the compilation were written by British music journalist Chris Salmon. As a parallel release, a DVD compilation featured 21 music videos, of which nine were released on DVD for the first time. The compilation debuted at number 4 in the UK album charts, and critical reception to the compilation was generally positive.

This is the first released compilation of Radiohead's songs, but it had not been sanctioned by the band; it was prepared by EMI after the band's departure, and Radiohead band members did not participate in selecting the tracks. Nevertheless, according to interviews the band had major input through their career in the choice of most of their singles that were later included on the compilation. A few non-singles which remain regulars in the band's live sets were also included, such as "Idioteque" and "Everything in Its Right Place" from Kid A, their only album without singles.

Members of the band have expressed their disapproval of the compilation; they once stated in an interview in 2003 that they would never release a greatest hits collection. Radiohead: The Best Of was prepared soon after they decided not to renew their contract with the label. In 2008 singer Thom Yorke said, "We haven’t really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose? There’s nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway… It’s a wasted opportunity in that if we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good". The compilation contains only songs to which EMI holds the publishing rights; all of the tracks were recorded before Radiohead's seventh studio album, In Rainbows (2007), as the band ended their contract with EMI in 2004 and signed with other labels for future distribution.

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Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead

Disc One

01. "Just" (from The Bends) – 3:54
02. "Paranoid Android" (from OK Computer) – 6:27
03. "Karma Police" (from OK Computer) – 4:24
04. "Creep" (from Pablo Honey) – 3:57
05. "No Surprises" (from OK Computer) – 3:49
06. "High and Dry" (from The Bends) – 4:17
07. "My Iron Lung" (from The Bends) – 4:36
08. "There There" (from Hail to the Thief) – 5:21
09. "Lucky" (from OK Computer) – 4:18
10. "Fake Plastic Trees" (originally from The Bends) – 4:51
11. "Idioteque" (from Kid A) – 4:37
12. "2 + 2 = 5" (from Hail to the Thief) – 3:19
13. "The Bends" (from The Bends) – 4:05
14. "Pyramid Song" (from Amnesiac) – 4:49
15. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (from The Bends) – 4:13
16. "Everything in Its Right Place" (from Kid A) – 4:11


Disc Two

01. "Airbag" (originally from OK Computer) – 4:47
02. "I Might Be Wrong" (from Amnesiac) – 4:52
03. "Go to Sleep" (from Hail to the Thief) – 3:22
04. "Let Down" (from OK Computer) – 4:59
05. "Planet Telex" (from The Bends) – 4:19
06. "Exit Music (For a Film)" (from OK Computer) – 4:27
07. "The National Anthem" (from Kid A) – 5:47
08. "Knives Out" (from Amnesiac) – 4:15
09. "Talk Show Host" (B-Side from "Street Spirit (Fade Out)") – 4:39
10. "You" (from Pablo Honey) – 3:28
11. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" (from Pablo Honey) – 3:37
12. "How to Disappear Completely" (from Kid A) – 5:55
13. "True Love Waits" (live in Los Angeles, 2001) (from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings) – 5:04






Personnel

* Engineer – Nigel Godrich (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-9, 2-12)
* Mastered By – Geoff Pesche
* Mixed By – Nigel Godrich (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-8, 1-9, 1-11 to 1-14, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-6 to 2-9, 2-12)
* Performer – Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway, Thom Yorke
* Producer – Nigel Godrich (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-8, 1-9, 1-11, 1-12, 1-14, 1-16, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-6 to 2-9, 2-12, 2-13), Radiohead (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-6, 1-8, 1-9, 1-11, 1-12, 1-14, 1-16, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-6 to 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
* Written-By – Radiohead

Release Date: 2 June 2008
Recorded: 1992–2003
Format: 2 × CD, Compilation
Length: 130:50
Producer: Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie, John Leckie, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
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