Airbag
The drums are a few seconds of Philip Selway’s playing, cut up on a computer, after DJ Shadow.
Rhune
OK Computer
Radiohead’s American label called OK Computer “commercial suicide”, and cut its sales forecast from two million to 500,000.
They recorded most of it in the autumn of 1996 at St Catherine’s Court, a mansion near Bath owned by the actress Jane Seymour, with Nigel Godrich. It went to No. 1 in Britain and won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.
Tracks 12 · 54 minutes
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Paranoid Android
Stitched together from separate songs, after the Beatles’ Happiness Is a Warm Gun.
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3
Subterranean Homesick Alien
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Exit Music (For A Film)
Written for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. Recorded on a stone staircase in the mansion, for its echo.
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Let Down
Recorded at 3 a.m. in the mansion’s ballroom.
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6
Karma Police
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Fitter Happier
Read by Fred, a synthesised voice from a Macintosh text program.
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8
Electioneering
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9
Climbing Up the Walls
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10
No Surprises
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Lucky
Recorded in 1995 for The Help Album, a charity record for War Child.
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12
The Tourist
Notes from listeners 2
No Surprises
this was the first track (other than the infamous creep, of course) that made me notice radiohead as a young 13 year old girl. to this day at 27, it’s one of my favourite songs of all time & i will never get sick of it. no surprises reminds me of a haunting lullaby, one that doesn’t shy away from the darkness and th…
maddison
Subterranean Homesick Alien
fernweh [German] /ˈfɛʁn.veː/ a deep-seated, melancholic longing for distant places, unknown horizons, or lands you have never even visited. <i never thought a song could describe such a unique feeling of longing or ache to meet the obvious beings that exist outside our world. sadly i’ll die an old woman without eit…
Lace.
