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Radiohead - Radiohead Audio CD

A fair review of the Radiohead "Radiohead" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Radiohead reviews here, or go back to the Radiohead tabs.

Band: Radiohead
Title: Radiohead
Rating:

Release Date: 2007-12-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: You 2: Creep 3: How Do You? 4: Stop Whispering 5: Thinking About You 6: Anyone Can Play Guitar 7: Ripcord 8: Vegetable 9: Prove Yourself 10: I Can't 11: Lurgee 12: Blow Out 13: Planet Telex 14: Bends 15: High and Dry 16: Fake Plastic Trees 17: Bones 18: (Nice Dream) 19: Just 20: My Iron Lung 21: Bullet Proof.. I Wish I Was 22: Black Star 23: Sulk 24: Street Spirit (Fade Out) 25: Airbag 26: Paranoid Android 27: Subterranean Homesick Alien 28: Exit Music (For a Film) 29: Let Down 30: Karma Police 31: 7 Fitter Happier 32: Electioneering 33: Climbing Up the Walls 34: No Surprises 35: Lucky 36: Tourist 37: Everything in Its Right Place 38: Kid a 39: National Anthem 40: Now to Disappear Completely 41: Treefingers 42: Optimistic 43: In Limbo 44: Idioteque 45: Morning Bell 46: Motion Picture Soundtrack 47: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box 48: Pyramid Song 49: Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors 50: You and Whose Army? 51: I Might Be Wrong 52: Knives Out 53: Morning Bell/Amnesiac 54: Dollars and Cents 55: Hunting Bears 56: Like Spinning Plates 57: Life in a Glasshouse 58: National Anthem [Live] 59: I Might Be Wrong [Live] 60: Morning Bell [Live] 61: Like Spinning Plates [Live] 62: Idioteque [Live] 63: Everything in Its Right Place [Live] 64: Dollars and Cents [Live] 65: True Love Waits [Live] 66: 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.) 67: Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) 68: Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.) 69: Backdrifts. (Honeymoon Is Over.) 70: Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) 71: Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) 72: We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.) 73: Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.) 74: There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) 75: I Will. (No Man's Land.) 76: Punchup at a Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.) 77: Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.) 78: Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.) 79: Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)

Reissue but not Remaster
One needs to turn the volume up for it to be a comparable sound level of newer discs like In Rainbows. I already own all of these discs, but Pablo Honey and The Bends are in need of remastering. Had EMI remastered these discs I would consider purchasing them. But without the remastering why bother? Some of the Pixies discs finally received remastering last year and I gladly shelled out the $30/piece as the original discs sounded terrible. I will do the same for Radiohead when the remastered versions hit the shelf.

Nothing to complain about
In my case, this is was a perfect gift. Just because you like Radiohead doesn't mean you are forced to buy this. The only Radiohead I owned was "In Rainbows" and a rip of a library copy of "OK Computer. " My brother, a fanatical fan, wanted to correct that on my birthday, so he bought me this box. I'm delighted. It's not a best-of. It has the original artwork (in better packaging). It sounds great. No alternate takes or demos or B sides to clutter up the album sequencing. I have the albums now that my brother listened to as he grew to love this band. That's all I need for now.

Moreover, why be mad at EMI? What would have been infuriating is if they put, say, five unreleased tracks on this set. So you, all of you fans who already have these disks, would have had to ponder whether you now need to get these new disks just to get those tracks. That's a cheap marketing trick that even Steely Dan couldn't resist (putting an alternative demo take of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" on their "Citizen Steely Dan" box set. What SD fan would need that box set, except for that one stinkin' song? And what casual fan would care that it was included?)

This is a great gift for a serious fan to give a casual fan. Or if you just got into the band via the "In Rainbows" hype and want to catch up. But if you already have all their CDs, stop being so obsessive-compulsive. You don't have to buy this. And the fact that you don't have to buy it shouldn't make you angry at its existence.

As for the music itself-- I'll get back to you. Today, I listened to "Hail to the Thief" for the first time. I liked it okay. It's uneven but the good stuff is very, very good. I'm looking forward to hearing "The Bends" next. .

Flawed Execution...
. . but as you allready know, excellent material.

It's all in the details, of the packaging that is. What all Radiohead fans and admirers know is that the band deserves a stellar box set retrospective in the vein of The Velvet Underground's "Peel Slowly and See" or Joy Division's "Heart and Soul. " Instead Capitiol/EMI/Parlophone have just slapped together the 6 core studio albums of Radiohead's ouvre and thrown in the "I Might Be Wrong Live" EP as an added treat (?), incentive (?), ploy (?).

So. . . what you get here is basically a discount on just simply purchasing the 7 cds separately from say, oh I dunno, www. Amazon. com !!! Now if you are going to put together a box set containing the majority (if not sum whole) of a group's output, it's not a terrible idea to leave the original albums and thier packaging intact, as was done here. But the pernicious (in other words [. . . ] up) lack of any rarities/b-sides/etc. is just unacceptable. To include the live EP is a bit strange since it was never considered by the band to be a proper album, live or otherwise. So if the inclusion of live material is the idea here, why not PREVIOUSLY UN-RELEASED live material? Or, if inclusion of EP's was the game plan, where's "My Iron Lung, Itch, Com Lag, and Airbag/How Am I Driving?" ?

At any rate, no rant is worthwhile without a solution. So, I propose that into into this bundling of cds be put an 8th cd containing the following b-sides from throughout Radiohead's career, in this order:

---I'm Okay, How Are You? (the B-sides)----

Palo Alto
Bishop's Robes
Coke Babies
Bannana Co.
Talk Show Host
Lull
Killer Cars (electric version)
Molasses
Gagging Order
Maquiladora
Cuttooth
Pearly
Fog
Paperbag Writer
I am A Wicked Child

-HOPE YOU'RE LISTENING EMI !!!!

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Excellent!!!
Description of item was as stated. Prompt delivery. Would do business again. Thank you.

Great for New Radiohead Fans
I had a friend who would listen to Amnesiac when I was in high school and I never really knew who Radiohead was (besides Creep) or even what the name of the cd was until recently. I just rediscovered Radiohead this year and this was a quick, convenient way to get the entire collection. Needless to say, investigating the matter turned out to be a GREAT choice because I LOVE Radiohead now. Amnesiac was the first cd I really got into, but now it's tied with Kid-A for my favorite. Now obviously if you've been a Radiohead fan for a while then you probably don't need this because, undoubtedly you already have all of their albums! But if you're considering getting this and you're not already a full-blown fan GET IT! You will not regret it! But a word of advice, their music is quite different from mainstream (crap) music so you may have to give some albums/songs a few listens so that your brain and music interests can evolve because Radiohead is at a much higher level than other bands. :D.

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