Radiohead: 5 Albums Set 2012

Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of

Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals); and Philip Selway (drums, percussion). They have worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. Radiohead's experimental approach is credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock.
                     

At some point in the early 21st century, Radiohead became something more than a band: they became a

touchstone for everything that is fearless and adventurous in rock, inheriting the throne from David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and the Talking Heads. The latter group gave the band its name -- it's an album track on 1986's True Stories -- but Radiohead never sounded much like the Heads, nor did they take much from Bowie, apart from their willingness to experiment.
                         

Instead, they spliced Floyd's spaciness with U2's messianic arena rock heft, bridging the gap with guitar skronk borrowed from the '80s American underground. Jonny Greenwood's jagged, brutal interjections

on "Creep," the band's 1993 breakthrough hit, recalled the ugly noise of the Pixies and Nirvana, a sound that translated over the expanse of an ocean, but in the throes of the alternative rock explosion of the mid-'90s, Radiohead were the odd band out. America remained besotted with their homegrown sensations, so "Creep" was treated as a one-hit wonder, and at home in England, they were seen as dour art-rock students lacking the glamour of neo-glam sensations Suede, and deliberately dodging the beery singalongs of Oasis.
                    

Radiohead signed to EMI in 1991 and released their debut album, Pablo Honey, in 1993; their debut

single, "Creep", became a worldwide hit. Radiohead's popularity and critical standing rose with the release of The Bends in 1995. Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), brought them international fame; noted for its complex production and themes of modern alienation, it is acclaimed as a landmark record and one of the best albums in popular music.
                       

Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), marked a dramatic change in style, incorporating influences

from electronic music, jazz, classical music and krautrock. Though Kid A divided listeners, it later attracted wide acclaim. It was followed by Amnesiac (2001), recorded in the same sessions. Hail to the Thief (2003), with lyrics addressing the War on Terror, was Radiohead's final album for EMI.
               

Radiohead self-released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), as a download for which customers

could set their own price, to critical and chart success. Their eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), an exploration of rhythm, was developed using extensive looping and sampling. A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) prominently featured Jonny Greenwood's orchestral arrangements. Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Selway, and O'Brien have released solo albums; in 2021, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood debuted a new band, the Smile.
                 

By 2011, Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Their awards include six

Grammy Awards and four Ivor Novello Awards, and they hold five Mercury Prize nominations, the most of any act. Seven Radiohead singles have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart: "Creep" (1992), "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (1996), "Paranoid Android" (1997), "Karma Police" (1997), "No Surprises" (1998), "Pyramid Song" (2001), and "There There" (2003). "Creep" and "Nude" (2008) reached the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
                        

Rolling Stone named Radiohead one of the 100 greatest artists of all time, and Rolling Stone readers

voted them the second-best artist of the 2000s. Five Radiohead albums have been included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, and in 2021 they issued Kid Amnesiae, a collection of previously unreleased material from the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions.
                      

Radiohead – 5 Album Set
Label:EMI – 50999 972099 2 8, EMI – 9720992
Series: 5 Album Set
Format: Box Set, Compilation
Country: Australia
Released: 2012
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Experimental, Electronic
                

DISC 1. PABLO HONEY 1993

                        

Pablo Honey is the debut studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 22 February 1993 in the UK by Parlophone and on 20 April in the US by Capitol Records. It was produced by Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie and Radiohead's co-manager Chris Hufford. Pablo Honey was recorded in three

weeks at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire from September to November 1992. The recording was hampered by Radiohead's lack of studio experience. Although Pablo Honey did not receive the acclaim of Radiohead's later albums, it has received praise in retrospective coverage. According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, the songwriting does not always match Radiohead's sound, but when it does, it achieves "a rare power that is both visceral and intelligent".

TRACKS       

                              

  
01. You    3:28
02. Creep    3:55
03. How Do You?    2:12
04. Stop Whispering    5:25
05. Thinking About You    2:41
06. Anyone Can Play Guitar    3:37
07. Ripcord    3:09
08. Vegetable    3:12
09. Prove Yourself    2:25
10. I Can’t    4:13
11. Lurgee    3:07
12. Blow Out    4:42

MP3 @ 320 Size: 103 MB
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DISC 2. THE BENDS 1995

                         

The Bends is the second studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone. It was produced by John Leckie, with extra production by Radiohead, Nigel Godrich

and Jim Warren. The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993). The Bends received acclaim in the United Kingdom. The Guardian critic Caroline Sullivan wrote that Radiohead had "transformed themselves from nondescript guitar-beaters to potential arena-fillers ... The grandeur may eventually pall, as it has with U2, but it's been years since big bumptious rock sounded this emotional." Q described The Bends as a "powerful, bruised, majestically desperate record of frighteningly good songs", while NME's Mark Sutherland wrote that "Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album so

stunning it would make people forget their own name, never mind ['Creep']", describing it as "the consummate, all-encompassing, continent-straddling '90s rock record". Dave Morrison of Select wrote that it "captures and clarifies a much wider trawl of moods than Pablo Honey" and praised Radiohead as "one of the UK's big league, big-rock assets". NME and Melody Maker named The Bends among the top ten albums of the year.

TRACKS       

                       

  
01. Planet Telex    4:19
02. The Bends    4:06
03. High And Dry    4:17
04. Fake Plastic Trees    4:50
05. Bones    3:09
06. (Nice Dream)    3:53
07. Just    3:54
08. My Iron Lung    4:36
09. Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was    3:28
10. Black Star    4:07
11. Sulk    3:42
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)    4:14

MP3 @ 320 Size: 118 MB
Flac  Size: 338 MB

DISC 3. OK COMPUTER 1997

                           

OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in the UK on 16

June 1997 by EMI. With their producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997. They distanced themselves from the guitar-centred, lyrically introspective style of their previous album, The Bends. OK Computer's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. OK Computer was almost uniformly praised. Critics described it as a landmark release of far-reaching impact and

importance, but noted that its experimentalism made it a challenging listen. According to Tim Footman, "Not since 1967, with the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, had so many major critics agreed immediately, not only on an album's merits, but on its long-term significance, and its ability to encapsulate a particular point in history." In the British press, the album garnered favourable reviews in NME, Melody Maker, The Guardian and Q.

TRACKS       

                              

  
01. Airbag    4:44
02. Paranoid Android    6:23
03. Subterranean Homesick Alien    4:27
04. Exit Music (For A Film)    4:24
05. Let Down    4:59
06. Karma Police    4:21
07. Fitter Happier    1:57
08. Electioneering    3:50
09. Climbing Up The Walls    4:45
10. No Surprises    3:48
11. Lucky    4:19
12. The Tourist    5:26

MP3 @ 320 Size: 129 MB
Flac  Size: 362 MB

DISC 4. KID A 2000

                    

Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone. It was recorded with their producer, Nigel Godrich, in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire

and Oxfordshire. In the years following its release, Kid A attracted acclaim. In 2005, Pitchfork wrote that it had "challenged and confounded" Radiohead's audience, and subsequently "transformed into an intellectual symbol of sorts ... Owning it became 'getting it'; getting it became 'anointing it'." In 2015, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone likened Radiohead's change in style to Bob Dylan's controversial move to rock music, writing that critics now hesitated to say they had disliked it at the time.

TRACKS           

                     

01. Everything In Its Right Place    4:11
02. Kid A    4:44
03. The National Anthem    5:51
04. How To Disappear Completely    5:56
05. Treefingers    3:42
06. Optimistic    5:15
07. In Limbo    3:31
08. Idioteque    5:09
09. Morning Bell    4:35
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack    7:01

MP3 @ 320 Size: 113 MB
Flac  Size: 295 MB

DISC 5. AMNESIAC 2001

              

Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 30 May 2001 by

EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records. It was recorded with the producer Nigel Godrich in the same sessions as Radiohead's previous album Kid A (2000). Reviewing the 2009 reissue for Pitchfork, Plagenhoef wrote: "More than Kid A – and maybe more than any other LP of its time – Amnesiac is the kickoff of a messy, rewarding era ... disconnected, self-aware, tense, eclectic, head-

turning – an overload of good ideas inhibited by rules, restrictions, and conventional wisdom." In 2021, on the album's 20th anniversary, The Atlantic wrote that Amnesiac might be Radiohead's best work: "Listening to it 20 years after its release, the album's grumpy wisdom—its dignity in the face of dread—feels more moving than ever." Several publications named Amnesiac one of the best albums of 2001.

TRACKS       

                  

  
01. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box    4:00
02. Pyramid Song    4:48
03. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors    4:07
04. You And Whose Army?    3:11
05. I Might Be Wrong    4:53
06. Knives Out    4:14
07. Morning Bell/Amnesiac    3:14
08. Dollars & Cents    4:51
09. Hunting Bears    2:01
10. Like Spinning Plates    3:57
11. Life In A Glasshouse    4:36

MP3 @ 320 Size: 107 MB
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