On october, first, two thousand seven radiohead, quietly the world on notice, in four years since the most influential ban, other generation had released an album radio last for two thousand threes helped the thief had fulfilled their record com. Check with major label. Am I mean, The band was under no legal obligation to release new music in You're being years, all five band members had become fathers. Singer time, york really dispersed solo, album in qatar, the greenwood, had ventured into film scoring having already cemented a place in music history with landmark albums like ok, computer and today it was clear what the future of radio had looked like they had one but then, on october, first, two thousand seven johnny took to the diary section at the bans website, hello, everyone. Well, the new album is finished and it's coming out. In ten days we ve called it in rainbows love from assault.

Back in two thousand and seven surprise. Albums were simply not a thing. Radiohead had just invented them. That was already enough to get people talking, but the real bombshell was discovered when clicking the discrete link embedded in the title in rainbows, which took you to a web store where you could preorder the digital album for download on release day. Curiously, there is no price for the album, but rather an empty box with text that read it's up to you, click on the red question mark below that and a pop up prompt read: no really it's up to you. They were letting, enter your own price and, if you'd like that price could be zero radiohead the biggest banned in the world was giving away. Album for free, while it may not sound extraordinary today in two thousand seven radiohead pay? What you want experiment caused nothing short of bedlam. The time the music industry was facing an existential crisis record sales had been planned.

for ten straight years, and pirating music online have become the new normal for an entire generation, with streaming still years away in rainbows, really inspired hundreds of think pieces speculating what it meant for the future of the music business One major label an hour told time magazine club if you can pay, whatever you want for music by the best banned in the world. Why would you they from music by somebody. Less talented, do you start giving away music legally, I'm not sure, there's any going back. Hence also waited jazzy and youtube. Vano thought the movers brilliant while others like lily Alan claimed it was arrogant and set a bad precedent for smaller artists who can afford to give their music away radiohead themselves claim the experiment was simply response to their specific circumstances, because her Three items have leaked weeks ahead of their official release state. The bandits. It essentially leak in rainbows themselves,

without a record label. They not only have the freedom to try this, but digital download was really the only way to distribute the album entirely on their own, naturally forced the question of how much the charge, and rather than followed, dated industry standards set by corporations. They thought why not let the people side for themselves. We wanted a treat people as responsible, even being the hope. I was a turnaround civil. What do you think? What do you want to pay for? It is not about being greeting, you know, and that's the thing in his game. The whole thing back. What's exciting about meeting its spare the reality of music is. It will always be valued because we all need it. Companies buying and selling themselves and seeing the artist's work as as simply just part of their stock is devaluing music, and if anybody is responsible for devaluing music, it's them.

after ten days ago, The debate in rainbows was officially available to download on October tenth two thousand seven, the to release a side. It was immediately clear that radiohead had made another master. Was the arms opener fifteen step offers a seamless blend of the ban to collect it, influences expertly, homogenized the human for the electronic and a controlled chaos and intricate rhythm. Meanwhile, the delicate undulating beauty of a song like weird fishes or pension is,

capillary of the elms many moments of transcendent intimacy, the album's penultimate song jigsaw falling into place as a self propelling rump, uniquely driven by an acoustic guitar, proving that the band could still the or in rainbows is not the obvious innovation of a computer. Nor is it the radical reinvention of kid. In mobile, cover of this twelve episode season is that the understated brilliance of in rainbows is in its prestige synthesis at the bans vast array of sounds accumulated over there. Twenty plus your career is arguably radiohead, most concise, complete statement as a band.

Ironically run a key for all the discussion in rainbows. Inspired about the value of music. In two thousand seven, the music itself was often overshadowed by its release mechanism, but after the novelty wrong, it's been the music of rumours that sustained because the true value of music cannot be measured. It can only be felt felt in musics unique ability, the soundtrack or format of experiences solar and our times of sorrow and artists. They are deepest emotions when language fall short and that something you can't put a price on. So with that with further do. Let's dissect.

What you just heard is the first, recording of the ban. We know today as radiohead. The group formed a nineteen. Eighty four, I've, while attending an all boys, high school and oxfordshire england. It was here that singer, songwriter thom yorke and bassist Colin greenwood recruited, guitarist, Ed O'Brien and drummer phil, selway and later collins, Little brother Johnny Greenwood the called themselves on a friday named so the day, they rehearsed into schools, music, room influence by bands like the smiths talking heads, elbow Castelo and our yam on a friday recorded a few demo tapes while still in high school, where many sound

included a female saxophone section after high school. The boys put on a friday on hold to attend college, occasionally reuniting over holiday breaks the officially regrouped in oxford during the summer of ninety one after all, but johnny graduated, The band played a handful of shows in oxford and quickly gained the following a studio honour in town, tick interest in the band and became their manager together. They recorded a file song demo tape called manic hedgehog, which captured the bands frenetic, but vocally melodic sound

the hedgehog demo caught the attention of record labels hungry to capitalize on the growing grunge rock movement of the early ninetys in dover, We have ninety one over thirty executives, attended on a friday's eighth show ever at a modest oxford pub a month later and just six months after the band reunited on a friday sign, six album contract with ear my one of the biggest record labels in the world. The only reason we was signed was because of nevada which is hilarious facility. It smells like teen spirit broke in the summer, ninety one and they were influenced heavily. You could tell by the pixies. We were at that time. We that's the kind of we did these quiet, verses and loud choruses. It was literally the reason we were signed. There was a catch, though you

I dislike the name on a friday and gave them a week to change it, never phantom themselves. The band obliged at first kicking around names such as jude and music, before landing on You had named after the title of a nineteen eighty six on by talking heads according to tom, the name radiohead quote sums up all these things about receiving stuff. It's about the way you take information. In the way you respond to the environment. Your put in unquote the fur. Official release under radiohead was a force on e p, called drill the project. Well, it flopped when the ban went to their local record store to buy a copy, the store unaware. He was talking to the band insisted they take it for free because he had too many copies. The army for the ban that would famously give away their album years later, radio

returned to the studio, to record, to songs emma selected as potential signals for their dave. You lp their producer Paul called dairy described. The bandits quote desperately inexperienced in the singles failed to materialise. however, while warming up during rehearsals radiohead played through an old song tom wrote, while in college a song they considered a throwaway after struggling potential singles Caldeira suggested the ban record it. They did so live on the spot in a single. Take spontaneous recording, would not only become their first single but a defining in the nineties across all genres, a recording that would make the ban commercially and nearly break them. Emotionally

but heads creep was released as that and debut single on september, twenty first nineteen any to the irony. This generation defining song is that creep actually flopped on its initial release in the uk, thanks in large part to the country's biggest radio station, the BBC, deeming it quote too depressing and excluding it from rotation. assuming failure. You might even stop printing copies of the single during this time. radio head with supporting the uk ban kingmaker on a brief tour that included a juggling act and radio had played before the juggler.

Then, in december of ninety two enemy, one of the ukase biggest music magazines wrote a devastating review of the band's live show which ended by saying quote: radiohead or a pitiful liver lily to excuse for a rock and roll Unquote. Two months later, radiohead release their debut album, pablo honey, to lack reviews, their second single anyone. Play guitar also made no significant impact. Radio heads to be going nowhere. They feared they be dropped from ear. I when asked about how the ban successive failures made him feel Tom said quote absolutely horribly: gutted unquote quote, but very soon the ban would find a sliver pope an unlikely country outside the uk availability. Any should abide by facade. aids is irregular, bore guns and roses metallica learn currently, seventeen chevrolet my arm and today with synthesis studios radiohead earlier. Ninety. Ninety three and israeli army radio dj began playing creep relentlessly

the sun, would soon spread the stations all over the country becoming a national sensation. In April. Ninety three, when I I sent radiohead israel to play a handful of shows. They retreated like rock stars, recognised on the street and mobbed at the concert. Venue They also made their very first television appearance. What do you think that is sitting there in Oxford? You writing taxed in music and you think of being famous or known, and maybe it stays or europe, and suddenly you find that you're very famous and very popular in the middle east in Israel, yeah. That was weird. Maybe we tap to nerve or something I don't know, but we will just go anywhere? We want anywhere that people want is ready. Radio heads experience and Israel would be just a taste of to come because around the same time, a similar phenomenon with brewing in the united states, a college

Your station in San francisco added creep to the rotation and the song quickly spread across underground radio in California. Soon national stations picked it up. Then MTV added to the regular rotation in mere months creep. Reach number two on the alternative rock charts june of ninety three, at a climbed into billboards, hot one hundred where it would stay for nearly five months. Suddenly, the unrehearsed single take courting by recently reunited highschool band with a legitimate change, your life forever him just had better start rocking or I'll really give them something to cry about check it out, asap that radiohead landed in america for the first time in the summer of ninety three, where they played a handful of shows and perform creep, live on mtv beach. And they are senor hall show later they toward the state support act verbally and peter harvey and immediate

returned home to join a european tour with james and tears for fears by the end of ninety. Ninety three radiohead had play over two hundred shows in the span of just sixteen months this. On top of countless press appearances and interviews ass tom recounts, while the ban was initially excited by their son success. They also felt incredibly out of their death. Arrive in america was the first time and stretch limos bless, and they will go now and good and I remember being in the record company and they laid out a hundred records and we had to sign them, and I was looking at his pen thinking and as I have done, this. I never signed a record before it was mad, so they put us in first class on an airplane on my wall and then it was really kinda out of control and we were being asked to go on. Like live tv meet we'd, never been on, live television, we'd we'd been in a van driving around doing support gigs. So how did it feel it felt

funny a bit of a panic by the end of ninety. Ninety three radiohead had grown a love hate relationship with cream or as they nicknamed it back, then crap never much cared for the song and recorded it on a whim. Yet now it's what's, this we d find them time at the time said quote: if, like it, our song anymore, when we play it feels like we're doing a cover. Unquote, Being onto our also meant, there were few opportunities to record new music, the ban was stuck playing tracks, their debut pablo honey, the first batch of They rode after college and recorded in just three weeks, creed. become a massive outlier here on a mediocre, debut album the classic formula for a one hit, wonder and radio was smart enough to know it great recite the blessing the bane of this band. It was a blessing that we got to tour throughout the world, and that was fantastic, but it was also the you know you have a somewhat on your first album and the history bands having a big hit light on the first. Is that they don't go anywhere in and if it'd been on the third or fourth, it would have been fine. But the frustrating thing is that we always

so we will we knew we had the material. The material adds referring to here were the new saw had been riding on tour songs. They would finally be. What a finnish begin recording and ninety ninety four, but despite their best efforts to finally escape creep the song still shouted over their studio sessions, theirs sure from the label to make another hit as biggest creep self applied pressure to show the world. There are more than creep and crippling insecurity. About whether they can pull any of it off. It was a toxic dynamic that would come to haunt the ban nearly their entire career imbue. The sense that we absolutely didn't deserve this, thus ten years of of compensating for that by never ever ever doing anything that wasn't the best that we could possibly due to the point of total obsessive. Unless you know we'd, we expect to be a build up our ability to do what we need it

to get better at it and then one day the doors would open, but unfortunately, the doors I'm way before we were ready. The stress caused by the band's initial attempts to record nearly broke them up basis in greenwood described the experience? Ass quote: eight weeks of Helen torture, while Tom colleague quote a total fucking melt down for two fucking months, there manager chris hovered almost quit due to constant arguments with tom who had become increasingly computational. A guy angry I got more control. Freak ree became more unbearable. More like it's gonna, be like this, so it's not gonna happen. I said put my hands on the steering wheel and I white knuckles, and I didn't care who got her and I didn't care. Why said until the end of ok computer, just before He reached a breaking point. The band decided to abandon the studio and, ironically, returned to the road a two month: tour of japan and Australia. According to hovered, the trip was pivotal, saying

Well, it made them re, evaluate what they are good at and enjoy doing playing live again. Put the perspective back on what they lost in the studio. Suddenly there was a direction radio had returned to the studio, the finnish recording in a remarkable two weeks, but, unlike pablo honey, it was an album. They were proud of, an album that will mark the beginning of one of the most impressive runs music history stank radio headset more album. The bends was released on march thirteenth. Ninety ninety five, its title is attack, mused by scuba divers to describe decompression sickness caused by rising to the surface, to quickly a metaphor for the band quick rise to fame compared to the inexperienced effort of public,

The bends displays remarkable artistic growth The song writing is more refined, the arranged it's more nuanced, the band members rules more defined and perhaps most importantly, radio had found true multi level, dynamic and emotional range and evolution and from the mostly two dimensional softer loud dynamics of pablo honey. Perhaps us Most indicative of this dynamic transformation is fake plastic trees and compare the original version of the songs, two guns and roses november rain quote it was so pop and bombastic just the worst unquote. However, during the bends rico sessions. The ban went to see singer Jeff Buckley perform whose vulnerability parsley, accompanied high falsetto voice, made a deep impression on time in the group. yeah, yeah

We actually going to see Jeff Buckley the night before or something, and that was the final nail for me like ok. Now I get it because he was just on his own what sort of gradually put all the lads away and said? Okay? Well, sometimes it's just going to be vulnerable and that's going to be ok, even when a singer is singing technically brilliantly. The powerful stuff is the stuff, the weather's, the vulnerability that sense that things could just report any minute, the the bends haunting final track street spirit is another beautiful example:

the band newfound approach, a song, the unanimously considered a creative breakthrough, Tom told mojo quote I'll, never forget the moment. We captured street spirit we spent a day going around in circles until I was thinking this is never going to happen, then suddenly Something happened and I was transported to a place that I've been willing myself to be in for months on end at finally The transition, the whole region to be doing this is to arrive at those moments. the sole reason you spend your entire life in her bedroom playing to yourself. If I ever forgot, why started this as a career streets Here it is. Why start what? Today we recognise the bends as a classic album the reception upon it, release and ninety. Ninety five with extremely mixed, the chicago too

if you gave it one star or enemy the same publication that called radiohead a pitiful excuse for iraq been gave it a spectacular nine out of ten but like creep ben had a long shelf life and grew stronger over time. The almah, pure multiple best almah the year lists and had soared. Two million copies by the end of ninety ninety six proving radiohead more than a one, hit wonder a perhaps about important regulation from the bends, with the bans on realisation that chasing hits of any sort would ultimately destroy them that the very survive full of head depended on an uncompromising, creative well to make exactly what they wanted. Tom said quote: the excitement of the bends being our choice and the fact that no one else was making songs like us with liberating once you ve, tasted that it's like. Ah, ok, I get it now unquote Fortunately, the bends was successful enough for emma to allow radiohead complete creative freedom. The gave no dead further next album and there is no pressure to make a hit. This makes of creative freedom

Colonel validation and internal confidence became the recipe for excellence, as in just two years time Radiohead headwind make what is largely considered, one of the best alms and a history of recorded music. That's right after the break. radio, had began working on their next album after touring the bends throughout ninety. Ninety, five, looking to distance themselves from nineties, bridgeport bands like a wasted and blur the group was determined not to make bends part two. Rather, they want to use their newfound creative freedom to try something new while into. they ve been listening to innovative landmark albums like miles Davis is bitches brew, the beach voice, pet sounds and Marvin Gaye. What's going on, and rating had wanted to make their version of these ambitious records. Johnny told rolling, stone quote in some ways. We are really conceited and we would listen to a record like bitches brew and be so heavy

influence that we wanted to do it rather than bringing a big name. Producer radio had decided to produce their new themselves a pretty bold move, considering their history of studio struggles, with the help of the bends engineer, your cartridge they build their own studio using a hundred thousand pound advanced from E my and began recording in the summer by me, six without a deadline or producer. The ban struggled to actually finnish anything instead meticulously reworking the same for songs. They decided to take a month break to open for a land, more assent in the: u s where they could road test. Their new songs trick that work for them during the bend sessions when they came home in the fall of ninety six, they return not to the studio but rather retreated to.

historic mansion in bath, england called ST catherine's court, one of the u k's, most architecturally stunning properties. The mansion was said to be haunted and during their six week, stay the band claim to hear voices constantly Tom told the rolling stone quote: ghosts would talk to the While I was asleep, there is one point I got up in the morning after a night of hearing voices and decided, I had to cut my hair, I cut myself a few times. It got messy, unquote. The odd phantasmal experience of Saint Catherine court was the perfect remedy for a ban. Historically, stifled by the formal studio environment, the recorded the bulk of the album live in the mansions enormous ballroom famous fort spectacular ethereal acoustic accused

ex, including a for a second long, natural reverberation engineer, Nigel god. Ridge also out grew his initial role as consulted and involved in a copper, dusar beginning a pivotal career, long partnership between the band and god rich, whose now considered radiohead unofficial six member, reflecting on the entire experience at recalled club. It was a time of magic. I really believe stars were in alignment, it all sort of came into focus. Radio heads, ok computer released on june sixteenth, ninety ninety seven, the bandits, did the first single would be paranoid, android, six and a half minute long, three part sweet without a chorus

it's a decision that both now and then feels like a declarative statement and artistic flag in the ground. The songs a section ambiguously, sits between two key areas and Tom's other worldly melody ascends to great heights, as he cheaply observes the absurdities of society consumed by the trappings of capitalism. In the songs be section the group pivots to a risk based part and a new key fluidly, alternating between the standard for for time and much more.

Secure, seven, eight times, paranoid androids third section implodes into an implausibly long. Fourteen court sequence that modulate between two key areas with hunting choir inspired backing buckles Tom sings rain down on me from a great height a perfect bit. A text painting sung over the chord progression which descends down lower and lower from its structure. Meter. Instrumentation melodies and tonality paranoid android takes no standard musical convention for granted, indeed, throughout ok computer the bay

seems to draw from an endless well of creative ideas on the song, let down guitarist johnny and ed plain five for time, while the rest of the ban plays a standard for time, creating a dissociated effect that complements Tom's lyrics about feeling disconnected from an increasingly electronic hyper paste world records that three m in a hunted mentioned ballroom. Let dance themes of detachment by way of overcoming

mission or emblematic of tom's lyricism throughout ok computer, where he made a concerted effort to talk less about himself and more about his observations of the world. As me, through the window of a tour bus, Johnny, said quote: let down is the transit zone feeling your inner space, your collecting all these impressions, but all seem so vacant. You feel very distant from all these. Thousands of people that are also walking their Tom atto quote were bombarded with too many people, emotive, that's the letdown feeling every emotion is fake, or rather every emotion is on the same plain, whether the car advertisement or a pop song, unquote, ok, computers, little emphasis on the dehumanizing effects of technological advancement early prophesies near future. Not simply the rapid integration technology into our everyday lives, the emotional aftermath of this phenomenon. The counter intuitive experience of being connected yet alone stimulated

but none of us gave no self employed drivers and avoid motorway society pragmatism. Not idealism will integrate less chance of illness. However, to this day, Tom insist that any of ok computers, prognosticated, was coincidental. He told rolling stone quote back, then I was getting into the sense of information overload, which is ironic, really scented. So much worse. Now, the paranoia I felt at the time, with much more related to how people related to each other, but I was using the terminology of technology to express it. Everything I was writing was actually a way of trying to reconnect with other human beings when you're, always in train,

but what I had to write about, because that's what was going on, which in itself instilled a cut of loneliness and disconnection when radiohead turn ok camp r and d am I the label, deemed it quote: commercial suicide without an obvious radiohead. They drastically lowered their almshouse sales from two million to five hundred thousand. However, unlike pablo honey or the bend, ok, computer was unanimously

claim from the start. It was their first album to debut at number one in the uk selling one hundred and thirty six thousand copies in it's first week alone, the album received perfect scores, an enemy q select and spin and dominated album of the year lists. Many critics immediately characterize ok, computer. as a turning point in the history of rock, coinciding with the late nineties, decline of brick pop the fading influence of establish rock acts. Like you, too pearl jam aerosmith and our yam radio heads inventive pivot viewed as a new northstar for the genre music scholar, TIM footmen claim that quote not since nineteen sixty seven with the release of the it'll sergeant peppers had so many major critics agreed immediately not only on the arms merit, but on its long term significance and its ability to encapsulate a particular point in history. Unquote, suddenly radiohead was being hailed as the capital saviours of rock and roll a responsibility. They immediately want nothing to do with

the as an I am very much about the alienating effects of touring. The irony of ok computer success was that sent the ban other most gruelling tour, yet a relentless fifteen months schedule that would ultimately demolish the collective psyche of the band tom struggle them. First, seven months into the tour and with many months to go, he suffered a mental collapse. After show in Birmingham he told rolling stone quote, I was a complete fucking mess. I mean really really ill just going a certain way for a long time and not being able to stop or look back or consider where I was at all for, like ten years, not being able to connect with anything basically becoming completely unhinged.

By the time touring ended in the fall of ninety eight. The band was completely fried and the future of the so called saviors of rock was in serious question and you were considered one of the greatest rock bands in nineteen. Ninety, seven or god help us if we fucking work is cause. You know, as far as we're concerned that you know being even being called a rock band was a bit of a nightmare really. Why? Because it sucks fuckin rock music, sucks man, I hate it, I'm just so fucking bored of it or hate it fucking waste of time. It's like that is not really the music. It's not it's not sitting on a stage playing guitar drums and singing at that's. Not what I'm talking about while I'm talking about is wilderness zoology. That goes with it. I have a real fucking problem with whenever I have a real problem with the idea that you have to to yourselves stupid

You know, do certain things and taught certain people, and this is the way you know I just totally snapped at enough of it disillusioned by guitar. Based music tom suffered writer's block for nearly two years, he said quote, I felt like I was going fucking crazy. Every time I picked up a guitar, I just got the horrors unquote in order for the band to survive thompson belated. That radio has next album needed to be a radical departure from anything they ve done in the past. He was most are by electronic artist like effects twin attacker and square pusher, instrumental music that focused on rhythm and sound design more than it did Matt The everyone in radiohead was excited by Tom's, propose shift towards electronically johnny them musically a debt member. The ban was excited by the challenge, but the other struggled to find their place on surprised

lay the bans. Initial attempts at writing an early. Ninety nine were unsuccessful. After four months they had over fifty pieces of songs but hoddan pleaded a single one in four after a few tenths, meaning they agreed to break up if they couldn't agree on an album worth releasing and said quote as a very scary thing at first, everyone feels and secure I'm a guitarist and suddenly it's like well, there are no guitars on this track or no drums. I honestly didn't feel I had a role to play: We all wondered if it was better to just walk away. Unquote in september of ninety nine, the band moved to their newly built recording studio where producer nigel god, rich created, exercises meant to cultivate new approaches to songwriting. He broke the band up in two groups. One group was responsible for creating a sound or loop without using an acoustic instrument, and the other was given the task to develop it. These kinds of experiments, eventually

To what talk considered a key break through the acceptance that not everyone in the band would appear on every song of Ed put it. They had to learn quote how to be a participate in a song without playing and phil. Also, added quote what we ve done is split the band up reform it with the same five members. I think one of the most important ethics of radiohead is that we're not nostalgic. We never talk about what we in the past. We never look back on october. Second, tutor and radio had released her fourth studio, album kiddie its opening track. Everything in its right place immediately make clear. The band had no intention of living up to its reputation at rock music saviours the song and have a single guitar in it. Instead we hear hypnotic court

russian and a unique ten four times signature played on an atmosphere. It profit synthesizer. Meanwhile, behind the main, vocal sampled fragments of tom's voice are warped in reverse, like some disfigured. Quite it's hard to overstate the shock of hearing this opening track in the year, two thousand kitty was being hyped as the most anticipated rock record since in her bonnet in utero and radiohead had gone completely off script to our second song, its title

only reinforce the departure. instead. Synthesizer are accompanied by electronic drumbeat. Tom's distorted here, is not some. Rather. He monotonous, the recited lyrics pulled randomly from a hat, while Johnny manipulated the pitch of his voice with a bow quarter. It's one of the more transparent examples of tom's desire to de emphasise, melody and lyrics. Uses voice like an instrument. I tracked three, the national anthem, kitty cement itself as a completely singular album was still no guitar hard cite the track revolves around a relentless

baseline tom wrote when he was just sixteen years old. Meanwhile, an acoustic drumbeat displayed as if, making a sample, drumbeat or he's foundational elements. We hear any number of sonic oddities from sample, a radio station voices to johnny's obscure analogue sent from ninety twenty eight, the odds martineau to a free jazz horns, in that time and johnny conducted by jumping up and down when they wanted them to play louder. Tom, John so wildly he broke his arms first guitar centred song is track for how did disappear completely those far from a respite. The songs refrain quotes. He had

as our aims Michael stipe, gave time when he was struggling on tour, suggesting that Tom close his eyes and repeat to himself I'm not here. This isn't happening, but also features a hunting strings, proposed by johnny example of is emerging twentieth century, classical music influence in all how to disappear. Com Italy is one of the most harrowing expressions of human disconnection and isolation. You'll ever hear predictably kiddies renouncement of guitar centred music divided critics at the time of its release. Reviews range from the highest praise and perfect scores to vicious critiques and insultingly low marks, the melody makers, one

half star review was especially nasty, calling it at one point quote: tubby ostentatious self congratulatory look ma. I can suck my own cock, whiny own rubbish. Unquote despite the polar rise reception and the fact the ban release no singles for radio play no videos for mtv and adversely no press kitty was the first radio had album today. View at number one, both in the uk and the u s today, kiddie has been widely recognised as one of the most significant departure albums and the history of popular music, with his release near the end of two thousand kiddie sits at the axis between century It has come to reflect more universal shift from qatar centre, music of the twentieth century to computer centred music of the twenty first century. All things considered, as per my personal favorite, album of all time. If her reason. You're not already intimately familiar with both kiddie and ok computer, seek this music out immediately

some of the most significant pieces of art that we have the privilege to be an historical proximity to radio heads next album two thousand ones. Amnesiac would release just seven months after kiddie, the almost it is doing the same sessions as kiddie in the band even considered releasing a double album, but ultimately feared it would be too dense. Amnesia contains a masterful works like pyramid song, unlike spinning play. Most of what we said about. Kiddie is true of amnesiac, but for our purposes the day, we're going to move on to the kiddie amnesiac world tour when the ban was forced to figure out how to proceed,

many of these electronic bass. Songs live oftentimes. The album versions were transformed dramatically, as was the case with everything in its right place. Which have all from the original single cent and vocal arrangement to a full band complete with live drums basing this hybrid of electronic instruments within alive ban setting, ultimately came to shape the direction of radio heads next album Tom said quote: who was the tension between what's human? What's coming from the machines that was stuff, we were getting into unquote. The band made a con This effort to avoid repeating the extended torture of the kid a studio sessions they work for two months, riding in arranging their new songs and then went a two month, tour to cement them live a tactic that worked on both the bends anarchy. Computer, pretty

her niger, god rich than book two weeks at a los angeles studio and had the bank commit recording a song a day. They also decided that everything would be recorded, live even the electronically, be self imposed. Limitations were meant to thwart their tendency to scrutinise to the point of creative paralysis. You know it didn't fit. Like there was a lot little pressure on this record. It totally didn't fail, because the whole thing about this record kind of boats under and dependent is letting go. You know what we've, what we've tended to do is: we've tended to, over scrutinise things. You know you say taking them Ok, computer take attract like no surprises no surprises, one first things we recorded. We then and this journey of spending six months doing different versions and then coming back to the original song. From that first day, So I think that was you know. We recognised that as much as anything when you make a record the differences. The approach that you make an nigel serve instigated that,

saying we're going to ocean way about two weeks there and less to attract a day and that That was kind of the challenge, and in doing so, it means that you let go things can be done in a year become obsessed with many times to radio heads Studio album hail to the thief was released. Do neither two thousand three its opening track, two plus two eagles five, which was real. In just two hours is a clear example of the band stated intention of homogenized the electronic in the acoustic. As we just heard, it begins with the pulsating electronic drum machine over which johnny pluck out two courts in an odd asymmetric

seventy times signature little over half way through the song explodes into a more rock influence section where the electronic drums are replaced by human drummer feel cell, many small on healthy contain no electronic elements, the melodic lead mingled their their features, a booming percussion section in which filled johnny and add all play tom drums, while Tom in call and handle the guitar and base parts. Respectably thematically hail to the thief. Is radio heads most overtly political up to date? A lot

happened in the world since two thousand kiddie, the election of. U s isn't george w bush, the nine eleven attacks and the eu. in uk, led invasion of Iraq. Tom said quote: I desperately tried not to write anything political, anything expressing the deep, profound terror I'm living with day to day, but it's just fucking there eventually have to give it up and let it happen, the hill to the thief was received positively garnering. Forty five hours and most major publications. The band, however, soon view the outcome. As flawed and two thousand six tom told spin quote, we wanted to do things quickly. I think the song suffered unquote at fourteen tracks and fifty six minutes. The ban also agree

the outcome is too long. However, Radiohead also felt held to the thief and its accelerated. No over thinking aloud process was necessary for their survival. Johnny said quote: it was good for our heads. It was good for us to be doing a record came out of playing my after completing a world tour in two thousand for radiohead went on hiatus hail to the thief had fulfilled the bands original six outcome. check with EU. My sign back in ninety ninety to undermine legal obligation to make new music. The ban said

a natural point to pause and reflect, and who can blame them? The little high school band from Oxford had experienced an intense near nonstop. Fourteen year whirlwind, they went from being called a pitiful excuse for a rock band to being called music saviors they went from one hit wonders to one of the most important bands in history. They survive, grew shading, world tours and multiple creative reinvention that each time push them to breaking point was the rush recording of hail to the thief, the beginning of an inevitable decline, a sign of a band had lost their ambition that had run its course after becoming fathers, after hello, albums and independent creative ventures that they have the collective energy to carry on to make another album that lived up to their past work and historic reputation. These were the x, central questions radiohead face when they were united in two thousand five to begin the process of their next album a process that would be every bit as growing as the bends. Ok, computer and kitty, a process that would again bring them to a breaking point: a process,

it will unpack. When we finally begin our song by song note by note line by line analysis of radiohead's in rainbows next time on dissect the effect with britain and produced by be called Kushner be enjoyed. His episode, please tell a friend about the new season or share on social media, really helps no score and audio production by Kevin, pooling additional analysis by brat osborne visa by credit thanks everyone for listening talking.