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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]
Having completed over 20 songs, [21] Radiohead considered releasing a double album, but felt the material was too dense, [22] and decided that a series of EPs would be a "copout". [23] Instead, they saved half the songs for their next album, Amnesiac, released the following year. Yorke said Radiohead split the work into two albums because "they ...
In 2017, Radiohead released a deluxe remaster of OK Computer, OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including B-sides and the previously unreleased songs "I Promise", "Man of War", and "Lift". [32] Kid A Mnesia , an anniversary reissue compiling Kid A , Amnesiac and previously unreleased material, was released on 5 November 2021.
[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 ...
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 .
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]
Optimistic is the adjective form of the word optimism. Optimistic may also refer to: Optimistic bias in psychology; Optimistic Cave, Korolivka, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine; a gypsum cave "Optimistic" (Skeeter Davis song), 1961 "Optimistic" (Radiohead song), 2000 "Optimistic" (Sounds of Blackness song), 1991
Radiohead stressed that they saw Amnesiac not as a collection of B-sides or outtakes from Kid A but an album in its own right. [79] It topped the UK Albums Chart and reached number two in the US, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and the Mercury Music Prize. [19] [69] Radiohead released "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out" as singles, their first ...