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Product Description
Disc 1/Side 1:
1. Just
2. Paranoid Android
3. Karma Police
4. Creep

Disc 1/Side 2:
1. No Surprises
2. High And Dry
3. My Iron Lung
4. There There

Disc 2/Side 1:
1. Lucky
2. Optimistic
3. Fake Plastic Trees
4. Idioteque
5. 2+2=5

Disc 2/Side 2:
1. The Bends
2. Pyramid Song
3. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
4. Everything In Its Right Place

Disc 3/Side 1:
1. Airbag
2. I Might Be Wrong
3. Go To Sleep

Disc 3/Side 2:
1. Let Down
2. Planet Telex
3. Exit Music (For A Film)

Disc 4/Side 1:
1. The National Anthem
2. Knives Out
3. Talk Show Host

Disc 4/Side 2:
1. You
2. Anyone Can Play Guitar
3. How To Disappear Completely
4. True Love Waits

Album Description
Four vinyl LP set in deluxe packaging. Radiohead's first-ever career retrospective features the band's most popular tracks including "Creep," "Karma Police," "High and Dry," "Fake Plastic Trees,", "No Surprises" and "Paranoid Android". This four vinyl LP edition includes a total of 29 Radiohead favorites.

Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

A good place for fans to begin? June 3, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

I have never been a fan of Radiohead. But I kept hearing how amazing the band was and how they are considered music royalty of the late 90s and 2000's.
So I picked this compilation up.
Radiohead are an interesting band.
I always thought of them as a boring, overly praised mediocre band.
I can tell now that they are legitimate.
Im still getting used to them...but im hoping the album will fully grow on me!
The tracks are pretty good and I especially enjoy the first 9 or so tracks.
I look forward to listening to some of their full albums as I heard, the songs fully flourish when in company with the context of the other tracks.
I keep hearing about EMIs 'corporate greed' by releasing this.
I say why not? It gives non-fans a platform to hear their music before fully investing in their back catalogue. Im so sick of these people whining about EMIs greed. Look, they distributed Radioheads music since 1993 to all you fans, so why dont they have the right to compile some of the best tracks so new fans can discover them? Without EMI there might not even be a succesful Radiohead.
So 3.5 stars from me. For now.

4 out of 5 stars

4.5 Stars... Excellent overview of Radiohead's EMI studio albums June 3, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

Music: 5 Stars... Compilation: 4 Stars

When Radiohead decided with the "In Rainbows" album not to re-up with EMI, it was only a matter of time before the label would squeeze a few more drops out of the money machine that Radiohead was for EMI. The label simply had to find a good time and excuse to do so, and that time has come (new tour!). The band has made clear that it has nothing to do with this "best of", all the while also acknowledging that EMI has the legal right to do this. Now the question is: is this compilation any good?

"The Best of Radiohead" (17 tracks; 76 min.) not surprisingly focuses on tracks from three albums: a whopping 6 tracks from 1995's commercial breakthrough album "The Bends", including the singles Just, My Iron Lung, High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Street Spirit (Fade Out) and also the fabulous title tracks. 1997's "OK Computer" album, viewed by many as one of the most important albums of the 90s, gets 4 tracks, including the singles Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No surprises, and also Lucky. 2000's "Kid A" gets 3 tracks: Optimistic, Idioteque, and Everything In Its Right Place. With that, 75% of this "best of" compilation is filled. The remaining 3 studio albums get a mere 4 tracks: the monster hit Creep from 1993's "Pablo Honey"; Pyramid Song from 2001's "Amnesiac; and finally There There and 2+2=5 from 2004's "Hail to the Thief".

In all, it is difficult to argue with that selection. Only 2 singles did not make in on here (Knives Out from "Amnesiac" and Go to Sleep from "Hail to the Thief", but this is not "The Singles of Radiohead". I will say that I am not crazy with the sequencing of the album (notice that the 3 tracks from "Kid A" are buried in the second half). But all in all, EMI actually did make a pretty good job of it, imagine that! For anyone not all that familiar with Radiohead, this is a great place to start. If you are wondering whether to buy this, or instead the 2CD "Special Edition" (which comes with an additional 13 songs on a second CD), I'd recommend to buy this single CD compilation. If you like what you hear, the next step is to explore the individual studio albums of Radiohead.

4 out of 5 stars

A pretty good overview of the best band currently out there June 4, 2008
6 out of 19 found this review helpful

First off, let me say that I am somewhat obsessed with Radiohead - they're my favorite band other than the Beatles, and easily the best group currently making music. So when I first learned of a Radiohead compilation, I almost flew into a "Pacifist's rampage". That is, I almost threw assorted harmless objects such as cloth napkins and pillowcases within a five-inch radius in an otherwise empty room. But then I calmed myself down, and realized that this is a great intro to a fantastic band. See, the thing about Radiohead is that a compilation actually works for them. Their albums (particularly the Bends, OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows, though they have yet to disappoint me) are all very good, or at least have very good moments, and they've never made a bad one. But their best songs make perfect sense out of album context (other than "Treefingers", a brief instrumental that serves no purpose other than to link the first and second halves of the album). So they're not like Pink Floyd, whose albums you have to hear entirely in order to get where they're going. Nor are they the Beatles (the greatest band ever, by the way) who have too many hits, famous songs, and whatnot, to fit on four CD's.
So, basically, the casual Radiohead fan should just go for it. It contains all of Radiohead's most significant hits not found on In Rainbows, after all - "Creep", "High and Dry", "Fake Plastic Trees", "Just", "Paranoid Android", "Karma Police", "No Surprises", "Lucky", "Optimistic", "Pyramid Song", "There There" and so forth; and a few album tracks, too! I have to give them the thumbs-up for including "The Bends", which rocks like hell, and the apocalyptic techno "Idioteque", a fan favorite.
I don't know what else to say, really. If you're new to Radiohead, and just want all the hits on one disc, scoop it up. But be warned: this group can be addicting.

3 out of 5 stars

Why Bother? June 5, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

Each of these songs is fantastic, so if you're the kind of person who would like to be able to say that you've "heard" Radiohead, this purchase will be ok. You will at least have 17 great songs that you didn't have before. On the other hand, if you listen to the samples and notice that you like what you hear, you might be interested in knowing that Radiohead now have seven whole albums of songs at least as good as what's presented here.

You should also know that each of their albums is a fairly cohesive work, and is best taken as a whole. So, even if you're not looking to buy seven disks straight up (which is still a great idea if you like what you hear), I think you'd do better to buy one of the complete albums rather than this collection.

Pablo Honey is their first and easily their weakest album, but is still fairly good (and yes, it has "Creep" on it). If you're looking to just satisfy your curiosity about this Radiohead that you keep hearing about (and I'm sorry about that; Radiohead fans can be a rabid bunch), then buy OK Computer. I guarantee you that having one complete album with 12 tracks is better than having this collection of 17. Once you have OK Computer and you want more, you can either go to Kid A and Amnesiac for more weird and electronic, or to The Bends for less weird.

Once you've done that, if you realize that you would still be interested in more (and I hope you are), you might as well just order Pablo Honey, Hail to the Thief, and In Rainbows in one shipment, giving yourself about a week to listen to each of the last two.

I hope that's helpful. Enjoy!

1 out of 5 stars

radiohead doesn't want you to buy this June 5, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

radiohead's music is best listened to in context. BUY THE ALBUMS. buy them one at a time if you find them too expensive, that'll give you time to really get to know each one. the problem with this sprawling collection is that if you really like the songs on it, chances are very good you will also like the rest of their stuff. so you'll have to buy them anyway! unless you're one of those people who simply has to own everything that has the name RADIOHEAD printed on it, in which case let the record company rip you off. you deserve it.

oh, and this box set was produced completely without the band's approval. just so you know.

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