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According to Consequence of Sound, the song "sounds like nothing else Radiohead has ever written", with country and folk elements. [80] "Cut a Hole" Radiohead debuted "Cut a Hole" on the King of Limbs tour in 2012. [81] The song builds gradually to a climax, with "menacing" lyrics about a "long-distance connection". [81]
The song begins with a discordant string harmony, [77] then a strummed D ninth chord acoustic guitar played by Yorke, [78] backed by B ♭ string tunes, creating a dissonant noise that moves between the D major and F ♯ minor chords. [77] O'Brien used guitar reverbs and delay effects, creating a melody that sinks between the A and E chords. [78]
"Go to Sleep" was released as the second single from Radiohead's sixth studio album, Hail to the Thief (2003) on 18 August 2003. [citation needed] In 2023, Rolling Stone said it was not an appropriate choice of single but that EMI had wanted to "retrench Radiohead as a big rock band" to compete with acts such as Coldplay and Muse.
Abingdon School, where the band formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is a reissue of the 1997 album OK Computer by the English rock band Radiohead.It was released in June 2017, the album's 20th anniversary, following the 2016 acquisition of Radiohead's back catalogue by XL Recordings from EMI.
I Might Be Wrong comprises live performances recorded on Radiohead's 2001 tour. [1] It features songs from Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), [1] plus a solo performance of another song, "True Love Waits", by the singer, Thom Yorke, on acoustic guitar. [2] Radiohead did not release "True Love Waits" until their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool. [2]
Hoping to achieve a slower tempo than could be played well on their instruments, the producer, Nigel Godrich, had the band record the song at a faster tempo, then slowed the playback for Yorke to overdub his vocals onto, creating an "ethereal" effect. [8] The bassist, Colin Greenwood, said that "No Surprises" was Radiohead's "stadium-friendly ...
"There There" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released as the lead single from their sixth album, Hail to the Thief (2003), on 21 May 2003. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Portugal, and number 14 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song appears on Radiohead: The Best Of ...