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Well this is a first, but then with Radiohead firsts are the norm. Thom Yorke isn't exactly telling Radiohead fans to go out and buy the band's The Best Of album. Why? "We haven't really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose?" Yorke rationalizes.
Back it up though and you might remember that Radiohead's The Best Of album is the final album fulfillment on the band's record contract with their former label EMI , which didn't end on good terms. The album, available as a one-disc and double-disc is scheduled for June 2nd release in the UK and June 3rd in the US.
"Personally I just wanted to forget about it, Yorke told The Word in regards to the EMI contract obligation. "It didn't feel right. And now it's like when you move house: you don't want to peer through the window and see what they've done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you."
"There's nothing we can do about it," Yorke admits about the out-of their-hands release. "The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It's a wasted opportunity in that if we'd behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good."
Does this mean he also doesn't want us to buy the accompanying The Best Of music videos DVD ?
The not-so good The Best Of tracklist (according to Yorke):
DISC ONE
01 "Just"
02 "Paranoid Android"
03 "Karma Police"
04 "Creep"
05 "No Surprises"
06 "High And Dry:"
07 "My Iron Lung"
08 "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere.)"
09 "Lucky"
10 "Fake Plastic Trees"
11 "Idioteque"
12 "2+2=5 (The Lukewarm.)"
13 "The Bends"
14 "Pyramid Song"
15 "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
16 "Everything in Its Right Place"
17 "Optimistic"*
DISC TWO
01 "Airbag"
02 "I Might Be Wrong"
03 "Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased.)"
04 "Let Down"
05 "Planet Telex"
06 "Exit Music (For A Film)"
07 "The National Anthem"
08 "Knives Out"
09 "Talk Show Host"
10 "You"
11 "Anyone Can Play Guitar"
12 "How To Disappear Completely"
13 "True Love Waits"
I'm not buying the CD, but I'm getting the DVDs. I want those videos!
I'm not buying the CD, but I'm getting the DVDs. I want those videos!
Is it just me or does that album cover look like a take on Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here?
Is it just me or does that album cover look like a take on Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here?
I find that most Radiohead fans have everything by them all ready, so...the......is.......no
point.......in.............buying......................................no, they'll get this as well.
I find that most Radiohead fans have everything by them all ready, so...the......is.......no
point.......in.............buying......................................no, they'll get this as well.
sommer - i'm not buying it either.
dave- not so much, except for the fact that two objects are facing each other.but you get an A+ for imagination.
sommer - i'm not buying it either.
dave- not so much, except for the fact that two objects are facing each other.but you get an A+ for imagination.
"Best of..." albums (and "Live" albums to an extent) seem to be just that now a days, contract fillers. How many times have we heard about bands putting these out just to fulfill a contract. Will people buy this? Possibly.
He is right about the "hits" comment. Besides "Creep", do they really have other songs that would be considered "hits"? "OK Computer" is well known, but that is more on the level of an entire piece of work from beginning to end, and not because of a few songs that were semi-popular.
I think "Best of..." albums only function as an introduction for people that do not have any previous releases from a band and finally want to dive in and investigate.
"Best of..." albums (and "Live" albums to an extent) seem to be just that now a days, contract fillers. How many times have we heard about bands putting these out just to fulfill a contract. Will people buy this? Possibly.
He is right about the "hits" comment. Besides "Creep", do they really have other songs that would be considered "hits"? "OK Computer" is well known, but that is more on the level of an entire piece of work from beginning to end, and not because of a few songs that were semi-popular.
I think "Best of..." albums only function as an introduction for people that do not have any previous releases from a band and finally want to dive in and investigate.
I'm w/Sommer, the dvd interests me for the vids but I'll just wait to buy a used copy.
I'm w/Sommer, the dvd interests me for the vids but I'll just wait to buy a used copy.
Why buy what you already have on all the rest of their albums? Are you some kind of slavering fan-boy completist? You are? Oh. Okay.
I think Neill is right: most radiohead fans probably do have those songs, and likely have them on their iPod already. It would take just a minute to arrange that above listing as a playlist.
I do own their albums and I've got tickets to see them here in Cali, but I will not be sending my extra cash to EMI at this point.
davesonic: totally. first thing i noticed.
Screw the obligatory contractual bullshit. They started out with the need to use a major label; now they don't need the label because they have the ears of the public.We all make choices and we also have a right to change our choices.It just seems a little hypocritical to me. I will always be a fan no matter how they they release their material.
T.I.M.S.
seems like Yorke should go have a chat with david lowery
haha, Thom would say that. No way i'd pick this up though. Why? It wont flow/blend/mix well, think about the albums, all the tracks fit together so well from each album. You can t just go mixing and matching albums, thats nonsense.
This is not a contract fulfillment on Radiohead's part. Their contract ended with EMI in 2004 and like the "Box Set" that EMI released about the same time In Rainbows was released, this is another way the financially struggling label is trying to fill their coffers. In 2007/07 the company lost over $500 million and milking the Radiohead catalog is something you can expect them to do for years to come.