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According to the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, he and the lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, wrote "Optimistic" in 1998 while traveling through a desert. [1] The refrain, "Try the best you can / The best you can is good enough", was an assurance by Yorke's partner, Rachel Owen, when he was frustrated with Radiohead's recording progress. [4]
In 2020, the Guardian named "Pyramid Song" the fourth-best Radiohead song, writing: "Lyrics alluding to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, piano seemingly exhumed from ancient civilisation and a newly spiritual Yorke, swimming with 'black-eyed angels' and a shoal of exes towards some nebulous afterlife. Torture for some; otherwise, cult-making."
Radiohead: The Best Of is a greatest hits album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released on 2 June 2008 by Parlophone Records in the UK and by Capitol Records in the US, subsidiaries of EMI .
The lyrics were inspired by the stress felt by the singer, Thom Yorke, while promoting Radiohead's album OK Computer (1997). Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" on piano. Radiohead worked on it in a conventional band arrangement before transferring it to synthesiser, and described it as a breakthrough in the album recording.
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 ] NME described it as "an atmospheric, shifting gloomathon" with a "head-flung-back vocal from Thom, climaxing with some of his highest notes since OK Computer ".
An early version with different lyrics was included in the 2017 OK Computer reissue OKNOTOK 1997 2017. [24] In October 2011, NME named "No Surprises" the 107th-best track of the preceding 15 years. [25] In 2020, the Guardian named it the 29th-greatest Radiohead song, writing: "Can a radical conscience coexist with suburban comforts, 'No ...
Radiohead created the final version of "Fake Plastic Trees" by overdubbing their parts onto Yorke's performance. The drummer, Philip Selway , described following Yorke's fluctuating tempo: "Part of the beauty was the way it would actually slip in and out, but trying to follow it was a nightmare."
"Reckoner" features Yorke's falsetto, "frosty, clanging" percussion, a "meandering" guitar line, piano, and a string arrangement by the guitarist Jonny Greenwood. [4] Yorke said the guitar riff was a homage to the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, "in my sort of clunky 'can't-really-pick' kind of way".