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Radiohead - The Best of (Special Edition 2CD) Audio CD

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Radiohead Band: Radiohead
Title: The Best of (Special Edition 2CD)
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Release Date: 2008-06-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Just 2: Paranoid Android 3: Karma Police 4: Creep 5: No Surprises 6: High and Dry 7: My Iron Lung 8: There There 9: Lucky 10: Optimistic 11: Fake Plastic Trees 12: Idioteque 13: 2+2 = 5 14: The Bends 15: Pyramid Song 16: Street Spirit (Fade Out) 17: Everything In Its Right Place 18: Airbag 19: I Might Be Wrong 20: Go To Sleep 21: Let Down 22: Planet Telex 23: Exit Music (For A Film) 24: The National Anthem 25: Knives Out 26: Talk Show Host 27: You 28: Anyone Can Play Guitar 29: How To Disappear Completely 30: True Love Waits [recorded live in Oslo, 2001; previously released on I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings]

Good road music..all the hits plus
All the hits are here, without any skippable moments. This is great road music on my long commute.


Radio head of a bridge?
It's hard to tell. . Is it a living music or a music for a living. It's a cold cold rock and there's no humanity in it. I was concerned by the title "Creep" but never though it could be so crap in the end. I can't figure out why so many people tells they're great. Yes, this is well produced, well played and recorded, but images that comes along are cold steel, dark cities and strong disturbance. Perfectly tight to this dying society.
Not my music at all.
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Harsh EtheReality
I had listened to Radiohead early on (Kid A, the Bends, Pablo Honey) but just didn't get it. I am frequently a late comer to what is hip and cool. In a twisted way I returned to Radiohead after my new found appreciation of groups like Coldplay, Muse, Keane, and the like. This Best of CD may not be all their best music but it is extensive and awesome. I couldn't stop listening to disc one with many of the familiar tunes but eventually found may way into disc two which is just as excellent in its own right. Songs like Let Down and Planet Telex really hold their own, even if they may not be their better known material.

Listening to Radiohead is a unique experience, and the critics were right about this group early on. I remember hearing an interview with Tony Banks from Genesis (one of my musical heroes), and he was asked who he liked in the modern musical scene. His first reply was Radiohead. I tucked that away in the recesses of my cerebrum until I finally "got it" about Radiohead. I can best describe them as a mixture of U2 and Beck. There is clearly the musical talent and the VOICE of Bellamy but there is also a distinctive push into a new style/genre of rock music that sets Radiohead apart.

If you haven't quite gotten into Radiohead, I highly recommend this collection. It has opened my ears to a group that has changed the direction of much of what we here today.


The Sons of Pink Floyd
The overall music mind set is just that , incredible music for our times , from early Chicago , to King Crimson ( horns and all ) , with some Young Marble Giants in the way , the Smiths and the Buzzcocks . Excuse me my hereticism of view , but after listening to this 2 cds back to back for 2 days on good cosmic mind organic self i could be convince that this is the reencarnation of Pink Floyd . . . Anyway , buy it , steal it , borrow it , estimulate yourself with good soul cosmic music . . . Inmerse in the times we live , insane and tragic and lovely fearful and who could really care for me if not myself .


Excellent music, horrible compilation.

They didn't put this together and it doesn't sound like anyone with even the slightest bit of an ear for flow did either as it sounds choppy to listen to the songs in this order. Don't buy this, buy the individual albums instead, or better yet, actually support the band by going and seeing them in concert.
No money from this compilation goes to the band, it just goes into the wallets of EMI executives.
Support the band, f*ck EMI!.


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