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Radiohead - The Best of Audio CD

A fair review of the Radiohead "The Best of" 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.

Radiohead Band: Radiohead
Title: The Best of
Rating:
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

Fair music on this CD
I liked most of the songs, however some were just weird. Recently, I bought this as a gift for my husband. I can honestly say. . . I won't be listening to this again with him. I think whoever made this cd, could've done a little better finding Radiohead's greatest hits. .


I'm addicted
This is the defiantly best song of Radiohead. WOW, this CD is being played on my car for over 2 months. It's is sophisticated music with a lot of fun. I would add more songs.


A pretty great snapshot of an excellent band!
This is a fantastic collection of nearly all of their most memorable and stand out songs. Say what you want about the evil record company or the heavy focus on earlier albums, this best of collection is a near perfect collection of Radiohead's 90's and early 00's work. Essentially, it is a near perfect singles collection and a great cd to have if you don't have a lot of room on your shelf for their full catalog.

The one drawback is that this collection does not include "The National Anthem" off of Kid A. I would say that ranks among their best and should have been included. Oh well, it is on the two disc version. .


Best of Radiohead Review
Any one wishing to get a taste of Radiohead will be satisfied with this CD. Overall, the compilation manages to include all of Radiohead's most influential and popular hits. However, for the hardcore Radiohead fans, there a few omissions and some strange selections. This best of compilation focuses too heavily on "The Bends" album and yet still seems to miss greats like "Nice Dream" and adds "high and dry" which does not belong in a best of compilation. "Airbag", "knives out" and "you and whose army?" are conspicuously left out. .


No Surprises in this Best-of Radiohead Collection.
EMI released Radiohead: The Best Of in June, 2008 without any input from the band after it quit the label, and without any songs from In Rainbows. I'm not usually a big fan of "best-of" compilations, and this Radiohead retrospective explains why. As a result, there are "no surprises" here. The compilation includes singles, album tracks, and one b-side the band released from 1992 to 2005 while Radiohead was with EMI. Because this disc was not sanctioned by the band, one wonders what tracks Radiohead itself would have selected for its first compilation, or whether such an innovative band would have ever released a retrospective package of greatest hits. While this disc offers an excellent introduction to Radiohead at its most radio-friendly, it is basically irrelevant to longtime Radiohead fans. For anyone new to Radiohead, I would recommend investing your money in The Bends and OK Computer instead, and for longtime fans of the band, I recommend getting your hands on a bootleg copy of the band's recent 2008 Hollywood Bowl show (available on the internet). Tracks featured here include:

1. Just (from The Bends) 3:54
2. Paranoid Android (Single Edit) (originally from OK Computer) 6:27
3. Karma Police (from OK Computer) 4:24
4. Creep (from Pablo Honey) 3:57
5. No Surprises (from OK Computer) 3:48
6. High And Dry (from The Bends) 4:17
7. My Iron Lung (from The Bends) 4:36
8. There, There (from Hail to the Thief) 5:21
9. Lucky (from OK Computer) 4:18
10. Optimistic (US radio promotion for Kid A) 4:54
11. Fake Plastic Trees (from The Bends) 4:51
12. Idioteque (Edit) (originally from Kid A) 4:37
13. 2 + 2 = 5 (from Hail to the Thief) 3:19
14. The Bends (from The Bends) 4:05
15. Pyramid Song (from Amnesiac) 4:49
16. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (from The Bends) 4:13
17. Everything In Its Right Place (from Kid A) 4:10

G. Merritt.


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