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Forbes
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Radiohead's Huge Week On The Charts — And It's All Thanks To One Song
Radiohead is having a fantastic week on the charts in the United Kingdom, where the English rock band hails from. The group has two singles bouncing back onto the nation's most competitive songs ranking, and interest in its Grammy-winning discography is growing as it delivers only its second-ever live set, Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003–2009). Three different albums by Radiohead appear on various charts in the U.K. at the moment. All three titles make a home on at least a trio tallies apiece, with one managing to live on four – and they're all growing in popularity again. OK Computer Stands Out as Radiohead's Biggest Winner OK Computer jumps to No. 66 on the Official Albums chart this week, while also soaring into the top 20 on the Official Physical Albums and Official Albums Sales lists. The decades-old alternative set even returns to the top 10 on the Official Vinyl Albums ranking. The Bends and In Rainbows Both The Bends and In Rainbows can also be found on the Official Albums Sales, Official Physical Albums, and Official Vinyl Albums charts, though OK Computer is the only Radiohead project to find space on the all-encompassing albums roster. The Bends is the bigger winner of the two, with both sets living inside the top 40 on all lists. 'Let Down' Pushes Radiohead's Catalog North Radiohead's entire charting discography is climbing largely thanks to the virality of 'Let Down.' That album cut, originally featured on OK Computer, became a hit seemingly out of nowhere earlier this year after spearing like wildfire on TikTok. The continued success of the track has propelled OK Computer higher and reignited interest in all things Radiohead, lifting more than just OK Computer itself. 'Let Down' and 'Creep' Return 'Let Down' and 'Creep' — two of Radiohead's most successful songs — both return to the Official Singles chart. This time around, 'Let Down' reenters the tally at No. 88, just a few spots beneath its No. 85 peak, while 'Creep,' arguably the band's most familiar composition, lands at No. 95. Both tracks are also growing on the Official Singles Streaming chart, lifting to Nos. 62 and 68, respectively.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Radiohead Release New Live Album Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) : Listen
All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by Pitchfork editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Radiohead's Thom Yorke, June 2003 (Peter Pakvis/Redferns) Radiohead have surprise-released an album of live recordings drawn from their 2003 album, Hail to the Thief. Recorded between the year of its release and the end of the In Rainbows tours in 2009, the 12-track album is newly mixed and mastered by Ben Baptie and Matt Colton, respectively. Physical editions follow on October 31. Listen to Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) below. In a statement explaining how the record came about, Yorke said, 'In the process of thinking how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail to the Thief theatre production I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played and it really helped me find a way forward. For us, back in the day, the finishing of this record was particularly messy and fraught, we were very proud of it but there was a taste left in our mouths, it was a dark time in so many ways. Anyway we decided to get these live recordings mixed (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves) by Ben Baptie, who did an amazing job. It has all been a very cathartic process, we very much hope you enjoy them.' Though foundational for many fans, Hail to the Thief occupies a curious place in Radiohead lore, which generally holds that it is too long. Five years after its release, Thom Yorke posted a revised tracklist on Radiohead's website omitting four songs—'A Punchup at a Wedding,' 'We Suck Young Blood,' 'I Will' and 'Backdrifts'—and Nigel Godrich later said its lack of editing, while charming, made it 'probably [his] least favourite of all the albums.' (All of them?!) In 2008, the band modestly reframed a handful of Hail to the Thief tracks on the live studio recording In Rainbows From the Basement. Before that, a searing live version of '2+2=5,' recorded at Earl's Court, appeared on the 2004 EP Com Lag. As noted in his statement, Yorke recently adapted Hail to the Thief for a spin on Hamlet that opened in Manchester, England, in May. The new live album marks Radiohead's first activity since forming a new business entity—a limited liability partnership (LLP)—this March, etching a faint question mark beside their dormant status. Today's release does not necessarily answer the question that business entity raised: Radiohead typically form LLP entities for tours, not reissues, and, historically, the band has not toured without a new album to fine-tune or promote. Read Daniel Dylan Wray's review of the aforementioned recent theater production, 'Radiohead's Hail to the Thief Brilliantly Recontextualized by New Staging of Hamlet.' Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) $35.00, Rough Trade Originally Appeared on Pitchfork Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Radiohead Salutes ‘Hail To The Thief' With Live Collection
Radiohead is turning back the clock for a look at material from its 2003 album Hail to the Thief, in-concert versions of which have been assembled for the just-released digital collection Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009. Mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton, the project will also be available in a one-off vinyl pressing on Oct. 31 from the Thom Yorke-led band's online store. Radiohead has shared a live video of 'There, There' from a 2009 Buenos Aires to mark the occasion; the rest of the songs were pulled from shows in London, Amsterdam and Dublin. More from Spin: Elbow Keeps Going 'Til the Wheels Fall Off Daron Malakian: 'I'm Blessed to Have Both Scars and System' 'AngelHeaded Hipster' Finally Brings Marc Bolan's Legacy to American Screens As Will Hermes wrote for SPIN at the time, 'Hail to the Thief is driven by psychic stress — in this case, the strain placed on people of conscience by a world in which so-called democracies bum-rush the electoral process and attack nations in lieu of practicing diplomacy. Beginning with its title (a common George W. Bush-dissing protest-poster slogan), the record is filled with war-haunted narrators ready to sandbag and hide ('2+2=5') or lie down in a bunker ('I Will'). Some of them imagine walking amid bullets ('Scatterbrain') and dragging out their dead ('A Wolf at the Door'); others want to suck your blood or eat you alive. And naysayers are powerless. 'We tried, but there was nothing we could do,' croons Yorke on 'Backdrifts,' a conspiracy blues riding antsy digital beats. 'All tapes have been erased.'' 'If the motivation for naming our album had been based solely on the U.S. election, I'd find that to be pretty shallow,' Yorke told SPIN in 2003. 'To me, it's about forces that aren't necessarily human, forces that are creating this climate of fear. While making this record, I became obsessed with how certain people are able to inflict incredible pain on others while believing they're doing the right thing. They're taking people's souls from them before they're even dead. My girlfriend—she's a Dante expert—told me that was Dante's theory about authority. I was just overcome with all this fear and darkness. And that fear is the 'thief.'' Yorke was inspired to release these recordings while working on a newfangled version of Shakespeare's Hamlet set to music from Hail to the Thief. 'I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs [and] I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played,' he says. 'I barely recognized us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.' Radiohead hasn't performed live since 2018, but there are rumors the band may be returning to live activity more sooner than later. As for Yorke, he recently contributed the song 'Dialing In' as the opening theme for the Apple TV+ crime series Smoke. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here. Solve the daily Crossword
