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In 2009, Radiohead released two non-album singles: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute to the last surviving World War I soldier Harry Patch, [21] and "These Are My Twisted Words", a free download. [22] Radiohead's eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), emphasises the rhythm section with extensive samples and loops.
Hail to the Thief was released in June 2003, ending Radiohead's contract with EMI. It was Radiohead's fourth consecutive UK number-one album and was certified platinum. [1] [3] Radiohead released their seventh album, In Rainbows, in October 2007 as a download for which customers could set their own price; a conventional retail release followed ...
It was the fourth consecutive Radiohead album nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, [75] and the special edition won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package at the 44th Grammy Awards. [36] Q, [76] The Wire, [77] Rolling Stone, [78] Kludge, [79] Pazz and Jop [80] and Alternative Press [81] named Amnesiac one of the ...
"These Are My Twisted Words" is composed in a 5 4 time signature. [9] It opens with a motorik beat from the drummer, Philip Selway, before Yorke's vocal enters. [10] [11] Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone noted a krautrock influence and likened the song to the In Rainbows track "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi". [4]
Radiohead resumed touring in the US in March 1996. EMI, encouraged by the high ranking of The Bends in many year-end best-of lists, began a new marketing push in the US. With the combined force of EMI's renewed efforts and Radiohead's constant touring, the album reentered the Billboard charts, peaked at number 88, and was certified gold. [52]
The music press predicted that the song would be released as a single due to its potential to be a hit, [88] but Radiohead eventually did not release singles from the album. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] However, "How to Disappear Completely" was released in 2000 as a CD promotional single in Poland on Parlophone and in Belgium on EMI Belgium .
It was the fifth Radiohead album nominated for the Mercury Prize, making Radiohead the most shortlisted act in Mercury history, [202] and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song (for "Burn the Witch") at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. [203] It appeared on several publications' lists of the best albums of the year.
The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). Work began at RAK Studios, London, in February 1994. Tensions were high, with pressure from Parlophone to match sales of Radiohead's debut single, "Creep", and progress was slow.