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Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads is a tribute album to British band Radiohead released in 2006 on Rapster Records and Barely Breaking Even Records.The album features reworked songs from Mark Ronson, Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet, Sia, Matthew Herbert, Sa-Ra, The Cinematic Orchestra, RJD2 and many others.
The lyrics were inspired by an assignment from Yorke's time at Abingdon School to write a piece of "Martian poetry", a British literary movement that humorously recontextualises mundane aspects of human life from an alien perspective. [68] William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet inspired the lyrics for "Exit Music (For a Film)". [65]
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 .
Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded in the same sessions, [12] [13] marked a drastic change in style, incorporating influences from electronic music, 20th-century classical music, krautrock and jazz. [14] Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief (2003), combines electronic and rock music with lyrics written in response to the War on ...
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre: Analysing Stylistic Debates and Transgressions. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-33474-8. Footman, Tim (2007). Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album. New Malden: Chrome Dreams. ISBN 978-1-84240-388-4. Randall, Mac (2000). Exit Music: The Radiohead Story. New York: Delta ...
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."
Yorke in the music video (top) and filming the music video (bottom) The music video was directed by Grant Gee and was shot on November 28, 1997. Initially, Radiohead and their record label, Parlophone, planned to film music videos for each track on OK Computer. Gee pitched concepts for "No Surprises" and "Fitter Happier".
The Music and Art of Radiohead. Ashgate. ISBN 0754639797. Randall, Mac. Exit Music: The Radiohead Story. Delta, 2000. ISBN 0-385-33393-5; Reising, Russell (2005). Speak To Me: The Legacy Of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 0754640191. Reynolds, Tom (2008). Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've ...