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.[1] 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. As a parallel release, a DVD compilation featured 21 music videos,[2] 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;[3] 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 re-sign 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".[4] 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.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
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. Fake Plastic Trees
11. Idioteque
12. 2+2=5
13. The Bends
14. Pyramid Song
15. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
16. Everything In Its Right Place
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
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 8.96 MiB
Duration : 3mn 54s
Overall bit rate : 320 Kbps
Album : The Best Of
Track name : Just
Track name/Position : 1
Performer : Radiohead
Recorded date : 2008
Writing library : LAME3.92
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Duration : 3mn 54s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 8.96 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.92
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