Radiohead: The Best Of
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| Greatest hits album by Radiohead | ||||
| Released | 2 June 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 – 2003 | |||
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| Length | 75:30 130:50 (special edition) |
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| NME | (8/10) |
| Pitchfork | (4/10) |
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| Released | 2 June 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 1992–2003 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
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Radiohead: The Best Of is the first compilation album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 June 2008 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States. The album contains various songs from their first six studio albums, recorded under Radiohead's record contract with EMI subsidiary labels Parlophone and Capitol. The compilation only contains songs for which EMI held the publishing rights, and so contains no songs recorded after Radiohead's final studio album with EMI, Hail to the Thief (2003). Radiohead: The Best Of was prepared when the band decided not to renew their contract with EMI. In 2008, lead 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."
The standard edition of the album contains 17 tracks, and the "special edition" of the album contains a second CD with 13 additional tracks. A DVD compilation with 21 music videos, including 9 videos never released on DVD, was also released. The compilation debuted at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and critical reception was generally positive.
All songs written by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke), except where noted.
﹡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.
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