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"Pop Is Dead" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as a non-album single on 10 May 1993, several months after their debut album, Pablo Honey. It features a chromatic guitar riff and lyrics criticising the music industry.
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 ".
Radiohead released their debut album, Pablo Honey, in February 1993. It reached number 22 in the UK charts. "Creep" and its follow-up singles "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Stop Whispering" failed to become hits, and "Pop Is Dead", a non-album single, also sold poorly.
While "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Pop Is Dead" charted on the UK singles chart, "Stop Whispering" gained no traction. [34] Radiohead rerecorded "Stop Whispering" for the US single as they were not happy with the album version. O'Brien said the new version was "more atmospheric", likening it to Joy Division. [3]
Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, in May 2016, [9] backed by the singles "Burn the Witch" [10] and "Daydreaming". [9] In June 2017, Radiohead released a 20th-anniversary OK Computer reissue, OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including unreleased tracks, [11] two of which were released as download singles: "I Promise" and ...
Radiohead first performed it in 1998 during the tour, and an early soundcheck performance appears in their documentary Meeting People Is Easy (1998). "How to Disappear Completely" is an acoustic-based ballad backed by orchestral strings and guitar effects , with elements of ambient music .
Radiohead's follow-up singles "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Pop Is Dead" were also unsuccessful. [26] [28] In late 1992, the Israeli DJ Yoav Kutner played "Creep" often on Israeli radio, having been introduced to it by an EMI representative, and it became a national hit. Radiohead quickly set up tour dates in Israel to capitalise on the success.
Colin Greenwood is the older brother of the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. [1] Their father served in the British Army as a bomb disposal expert. [2] [3] The Greenwood family has historical ties to the British Communist Party and the socialist Fabian Society. [4]