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"15 Step" was developed in 2005, when Radiohead was experimenting with odd rhythms. The singer, Thom Yorke, arranged the song on his laptop, [1] inspired by the "clapping groove" of "Fuck the Pain Away" (2000) by Peaches. [2] [3] On March 8, 2006, Radiohead teased the song ahead of their tour later that year through a picture posted to their blog.
The title lyric originates from an inside joke; the members of Radiohead would threaten to call the "karma police" if someone did something bad. [12] Yorke said the song was about stress and "having people looking at you in that certain [malicious] way". [13] He said: "It's for someone who has to work for a large company. This is a song against ...
Radiohead recorded "Knives Out" during the sessions for their albums Kid A and Amnesiac, which were recorded simultaneously in 1999 and 2000. [3] Although the albums moved away from Radiohead's earlier guitar-led sound, the singer, Thom Yorke, said "Knives Out" was "no departure at all" and "survived because it was too good to miss". [4]
Radiohead played "Come to Your Senses" in 2006 at a soundcheck at the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. A minute-long bootleg was circulated before a full bootleg appeared in June 2018. [79] According to Consequence of Sound, the song "sounds like nothing else Radiohead has ever written", with country and folk elements. [80] "Cut a ...
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]
"Nude" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released in March 2008 as the second single from their seventh studio album, In Rainbows (2007). Radiohead first recorded "Nude" during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), but were not satisfied with the results.
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."
"Idioteque" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released on their fourth album, Kid A (2000). Radiohead developed it while experimenting with modular synthesisers. It contains samples of two 1970s computer music compositions. "Idioteque" was named one of the best songs of the decade by Pitchfork and Rolling Stone.