Radiohead: The Best Of

Radiohead: The Best Of
Greatest hits album by Radiohead
Released	2 June 2008
Recorded	1992–2003
Genre	Alternative rock, electronic music, experimental rock
Length	75:30 (130:50 2 CD edition)
Language	English
Label	Parlophone, Capitol
Producer	Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie, John Leckie, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
Radiohead chronology
Radiohead Box Set (2007) Radiohead: The Best Of (2008) In Rainbows - From the Basement (2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
NME	(8/10)[2]
Pitchfork Media	(4/10)[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
The Times	[5]

Radiohead: The Best Of is a compilation album of songs by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It contains songs released between 1992 to 2003 while Radiohead was signed to EMI.^[6]

The standard edition of the album contains 17 tracks; the "special edition" contains a second CD with 13 additional tracks. EMI also released a DVD compilation with 21 music videos, including 9 never released on DVD before.^[7] The compilation debuted at number 4 in the UK album charts, and critical reception to the compilation was generally positive.

The compilation only contains songs for which EMI held the publishing rights, and so contains no songs recorded after Radiohead's final album with EMI, Hail to the Thief (2003). Radiohead: The Best Of was prepared when they decided not to renew their contract with EMI. In 2008, singer Thom Yorke said: "There’s nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway... It’s a wasted opportunity in that if we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good."^[8]

Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke), except where noted.

Disc One

1. "Just" (from The Bends, 1995) – 3:54
2. "Paranoid Android" (from OK Computer, 1997) – 6:27
3. "Karma Police" (from OK Computer) – 4:24
4. "Creep" (Greenwood, O'Brien, Greenwood, Selway, Yorke, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazelwood) (from Pablo Honey, 1992/1993) – 3:57
5. "No Surprises" (from OK Computer) – 3:49
6. "High and Dry" (from The Bends) – 4:17
7. "My Iron Lung" (from The Bends and My Iron Lung, 1994) – 4:36
8. "There There" (from Hail to the Thief, 2003) – 5:21
9. "Lucky" (from OK Computer and The Help Album, 1995) – 4:18
10. "Optimistic" (Radio edit)﹡ (exclusive to the U.S. version;^[9] from Kid A, 2000) – 4:53
11. "Fake Plastic Trees" (from The Bends) – 4:51
12. "Idioteque" (Radio edit) (Arthur Kreiger, C. Greenwood, O'Brien, J. Greenwood, Paul Lansky, Selway, Yorke) (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, 2001) – 4:49
16. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (from The Bends) – 4:13
17. "Everything in Its Right Place" (from Kid A) – 4:11
18. "You and Whose Army?" (from Amnesiac) – 3:11 (Japanese tour 2008 edition bonus track)

﹡The reasoning for its inclusion was that "Optimistic" was played on U.S. alternative radio to promote Kid A, an album without any official singles, and proceeded to peak in the top 10 of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, one of only three Radiohead songs to do so.^[10]

Disc Two (Special edition only)

1. "Airbag" (originally from OK Computer) – 4:47
2. "I Might Be Wrong" (from Amnesiac) – 4:52
3. "Go to Sleep" (from Hail to the Thief) – 3:22
4. "Let Down" (from OK Computer) – 4:59
5. "Planet Telex" (from The Bends) – 4:19
6. "Exit Music (For a Film)" (from OK Computer) – 4:27
7. "The National Anthem" (from Kid A) – 5:47
8. "Knives Out" (from Amnesiac) – 4:15
9. "Talk Show Host" (B-side from "Street Spirit (Fade Out)," 1996) – 4:39
10. "You" (from Pablo Honey) – 3:28
11. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" (from Pablo Honey) – 3:37
12. "How to Disappear Completely" (from Kid A) – 5:55
13. "True Love Waits" (Live in Los Angeles, California, 2001) (from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, 2001) – 5:04

Radiohead: The Best Of
Video by Radiohead
Released	2 June 2008
Recorded	1992–2003
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Parlophone
Radiohead chronology
The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time (2004) Radiohead: The Best Of (2008) In Rainbows – From the Basement (2008)

DVD

1. "Creep" (directed by Brett Turnbull)
2. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" (directed by Dwight Clarke)
3. "Pop Is Dead" (directed by Dwight Clarke)
4. "Stop Whispering" (directed by Jeff Plansker)
5. "My Iron Lung" (directed by Brett Turnbull)
6. "High and Dry" (UK version) (directed by David Mould)
7. "High and Dry" (US version) (directed by Paul Cunningham)
8. "Fake Plastic Trees" (directed by Jake Scott)
9. "Just" (directed by Jamie Thraves)
10. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (directed by Jonathan Glazer)
11. "Paranoid Android" (directed by Magnus Carlsson)
12. "Karma Police" (directed by Jonathan Glazer)
13. "No Surprises" (directed by Grant Gee)
14. "Pyramid Song" (directed by Shynola)
15. "Knives Out" (directed by Michel Gondry)
16. "I Might Be Wrong" (directed by Sophie Muller)
17. "Push Pulk/Like Spinning Plates" (directed by Johnny Hardstaff)
18. "There There" (directed by Chris Hopewell)
19. "Go to Sleep" (directed by Alex Rutterford)
20. "Sit Down. Stand Up." (directed by Ed Holdsworth)
21. "2 + 2 = 5" (Live at Belfort Festival) (directed by Fabien Raymond)

Charts and certifications

Charts Chart Peak Position Australian Albums Chart[11] 10 Austrian Albums Chart[12] 23 Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[13] 1 Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[14] 3 Canadian Albums Chart[15] 10 Danish Albums Chart[16] 16 Dutch Albums Chart[17] 9 Finnish Albums Chart[18] 35 French Albums Chart[19] 39 German Albums Chart[20] 38 Italian Albums Chart[21] 7 Irish Albums Chart[22] 1 New Zealand Albums Chart[23] 6 Norwegian Albums Chart[24] 17 Portuguese Albums Chart[25] 3 Spanish Albums Chart[26] 31 Swiss Albums Chart[19] 12 UK Albums Chart[27] 4 US Billboard 200[28] 26 US Billboard 200 (Two-disc version)[28] 81 Certifications Region Certification Belgium (BEA)[29] Gold France (SNEP)[30] Gold Ireland (IRMA)[31] Platinum Italy (FIMI)[32] Platinum Poland (ZPAV)[33] Gold United Kingdom (BPI)[34] Platinum References Allmusic review NME review Pitchfork Media review Rolling Stone Album Guide The Times review Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. "Radiohead to release 'Best Of' compilation". NME. 2 April 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008. "Radiohead 'Best Of' to be released as DVD". NME. 15 April 2008. Thom Yorke Slams EMI For Releasing ‘Radiohead: The Best Of’ Without Consent CMJ Billboard at AllMusic "Australian Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Austria Top-40 – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)" (in German). Austriancharts.at. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Charts Vlaanderen – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Charts Belgique Francophone – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)" (in French). Ultratop. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Radiohead Album & Song Chart History – Canadian Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Danish Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Danishcharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Dutch Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)" (in Dutch). Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Finnish Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Finnishcharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Swiss Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Radiohead – Longplay-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Musicline.de. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Italian Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Italiancharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Top 75 Artist Album, Week Ending 12 June 2008". Chart-track.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "New Zealand Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Charts.org.nz. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Norwegian Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Portuguese Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Portuguesecharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Spanish Charts – Radiohead – The Best Of (album)". Spanishcharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2012. "Chart Archive – Radiohead – The Best Of". ChartArchive.org. Retrieved 18 May 2012. Billboard at AllMusic "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – 2009". Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. "French album certifications – Radiohead – The Best Of" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. "Irish album certifications – Radiohead – The Best Of". Irish Recorded Music Association. "Italian album certifications – Radiohead – The Best Of" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Select Album e Compilation in the field Sezione. Enter Radiohead in the field Filtra. Select 2012 in the field Anno. The certification will load automatically "Polish album certifications – Radiohead – The Best Of" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. "British album certifications – Radiohead – The Best Of". British Phonographic Industry. Enter The Best Of in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search External links Radiohead: The Best Of at Discogs (list of releases)