Product Description: 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
Best band in the world, but do not buy this My zero star review in no way reflects the music. Radiohead is the best band in the world, but this was released by Capital Records solely to cash in as a way to get revenge on the band after they left their label.
Buy Radiohead's albums, their music is meant to be listened to as albums, not as a collection of singles.
To sum: Capital records = Lame
Radiohead = Amazing
The Best Of or The Most Popular? There always is that fine line that must be toed to determine when it is best to put out a "best of" album. If it is done too soon then the band risks the appearance of being pompous while if it takes too long the disc could likely turn into a rather superficial touching of what the best music of a band really is. And while there is certainly no science behind knowing when is the right time to put out a best of compilation, there are certain factors that need to go into the decision making to ensure that the timing is indeed as good as it should be.
With several successful albums now under their belt, Radiohead's latest release The Best Of is a seventeen track album that is an interesting way to do a best of album. Rather than focus on simply the purely best music of the band, it seems as though perhaps this album instead has gone the route of taking the most popular Radiohead songs and placing them almost in a mix-tape sort of way on this album.
It seems as though the band likely had little oversight in the production of this best of album because really there are no surprises on the album. The songs that you would expect to see on this album simply based upon a perception of popularity do in fact make the track listing for the album. It would be much more interesting to have the band's insight shown on the album relative to which tracks they have produced that they themselves feel are their best music. As is often the case, the band's take on their best songs often varies greatly from what the mainstream radio crowd might think of the band's music.
Again showing no surprise, the majority of the songs, totaling six, on The Best Of come from The Bends album which, again, is perhaps the most popular album the band has released in terms of the general mainstream music listener. Then you have four tracks from OK Computer, three tracks from Kid A and one track each from Pablo Honey, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief.
Though the music of Radiohead sort of really needs no explanation as it relates to The Best Of, the music on this album is nothing more than the studio recordings of the songs listed in the track listing. The lack of creativity shown in the production of this album is rather troubling since realistically most people that like Radiohead for one reason or another more likely than not have each one of these tracks already on their Ipod. A little originality perhaps even in throwing in a live track or two could really have gone a long way for The Best Of.
Radiohead is comprised of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway.
Track listing:
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
Though the music on this album is indeed some of Radiohead's best and most popular works, The Best Of falls grossly short in convincing the listener as to why there was any need to purchase the album. The lack of originality and band input is evident and it is a shame that it appears that the only motive for releasing this The Best Of is simply to reap additional quick profits.
The Best Of is on the Capitol Records label and was all of Radiohead's music was produced by Nigel Godrich, John Leckie, Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie.
For more information about Radiohead, check out their website at www.radiohead.com.
The Most Amazing Collection...If You Can Play It! One of the most amazing collections of music ever put together...BUT...my record player can't play it! These records were manufactured to be just a few millimeters larger than your standard vinyl record and due to the larger size, they won't play on some record players!
I own the Pioneer PL-990. If you own the same player, do not expect to play these records on your machine. It simply won't work.
I will one day play these albums in my home. But I will need to purchase a different record player to do so.
OK Radiohead This is a nice "macro" collection for the uninitiated Radiohead fan. It's neither all-encompassing or groundbreaking but it's a great disc to throw in your car player for that trip to the beach. You needn't bother buying it if you already own most of Radiohead's mainstream stuff.
All the classics on one handy CD This is going to be an 'Indiana Jones 4' of on an album, you're either going to love it or hate it.
Its a great compilation of their best songs, the order is interesting, but any Radiohead fan will already have the majority of these tracks. Its just on one handy CD. For the newbies to Radiohead it's a great listen.
Yes, it's an EMI cash in since the band have left the label. All the classics are on disc one, if you can get hold of the 2 Disc edition I would recommend that more, as it holds some of the more offbeat tracks and gives you more of a rounded impression of their music.
An alternative though would be to buy the Limited Edition Box Set and get them in all their glory, that's minus 'In Rainbows' mind.
This is getting 5 stars for the music. But 4 for the single disc version.
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