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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]
[1] [3] Kid A followed in October 2000, topping the charts in the UK and becoming first number-one Radiohead album on the US Billboard 200. [3] [5] Amnesiac was released in May 2001, topping the UK charts and producing the singles "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out". Hail to the Thief was released in June 2003, ending Radiohead's contract with EMI ...
If you've assigned it a key, you've got music." [1] The "True Love Waits" version of "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" was eventually released on the 2021 compilation Kid A Mnesia. [13] Radiohead also used Auto-Tune on "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" to process Yorke's vocals and create a "nasal, depersonalised" sound. [1]
Abingdon School, where Radiohead 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]
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]
Greenwood's major writing contributions to Radiohead include "Just" (which Yorke described as "a competition by me and Jonny to get as many chords as possible into a song"); "My Iron Lung", co-written with Yorke, [136] from The Bends (1995); "The Tourist" and the "rain down" bridge of "Paranoid Android" from OK Computer (1997); [16] the vocal ...
"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 ...
"No Surprises" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997), in 1998. It was also released as a mini-album in Japan, titled No Surprises / Running from Demons. The singer, Thom Yorke, wrote "No Surprises" while Radiohead were on tour with R.E.M. in 1995.