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Radiohead: The Best Of is a greatest hits album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 June 2008 by Parlophone Records in the UK and by Capitol Records in the US, subsidiaries of EMI. It contains songs from Radiohead's first six albums, recorded while they were under contract with EMI. The compilation debuted at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and received mostly positive reviews. Radiohead had no creative input and were critical of the release.

Radiohead: The Best Of
Greatest hits album by Radiohead
Released	2 June 2008
Length	75:30 130:50 (special edition)
Label	Parlophone Capitol
Producer	Sean Slade Paul Q. Kolderie John Leckie Nigel Godrich Radiohead
Radiohead chronology
Radiohead Box Set (2007) Radiohead: The Best Of (2008) In Rainbows - From the Basement (2008)

Release

Radiohead recorded their first six albums under contract with EMI. After they chose not to renew their contract, EMI released The Best Of and a box set of Radiohead albums to boost their revenue.[1] Radiohead had no creative input, and were reportedly "enraged", seeing best-of compilations as typical of artists in commercial and creative decline.[1] 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 ... And now it's like when you move house – you don't want to peer through the window and see what they've done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you.[2]

In 2016, Radiohead's back catalogue was transferred to XL Recordings.[3] The Best Of and the "special editions" of Radiohead albums, issued by EMI in the same year without Radiohead's approval, were removed from streaming services.[3][4]

Content

The standard edition of The Best Of contains 17 tracks from Radiohead's first six albums.[5] The special edition contains a second CD with 13 additional tracks, including the B-side "Talk Show Host" and the live track "True Love Waits", from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001).[6] A DVD compilation with 21 music videos, including nine never before released on DVD, was also released.[7]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
NME	(8/10)[9]
Pitchfork	(4/10)[6]
Rolling Stone	[10]
The Times	[11]

Radiohead: The Best Of debuted at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and received generally positive reviews.^{[citation needed]}

Pitchfork critic Scott Plagenhoef praised the quality of the songs, but felt the compilation was unnecessary as Radiohead did not have a "winding, difficult discography to navigate". He wrote that the standard edition contained too many songs from their 90s albums The Bends and OK Computer, and that the expanded special edition missed an opportunity to collect B-sides or rarities.[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke), except where noted.

Note: "Optimistic (Edit)" is only on some releases of the album.

Special edition

In 2008, Radiohead released a special edition of The Best Of including a bonus disc with 13 extra songs.

Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke), except where noted.

Disc one

Note: "Optimistic (Edit)" is only on some releases of the album.

Disc two

DVD

On 2 June 2008, Radiohead released a compilation of all their music videos from 1992 to 2003, excluding "Lucky", "Palo Alto", "Idioteque", "Morning Bell", "Motion Picture Soundtrack", "The National Anthem" (MTV Latin America contest), "I Might Be Wrong" (Alternative Video) and "How to Disappear Completely" (Live).

Radiohead: The Best Of
Video by Radiohead
Released	2 June 2008
Recorded	1992–2003
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Parlophone
Radiohead chronology
The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time (2004) '''Radiohead: The Best Of''' (2008) In Rainbows – From the Basement (2008)

Track listing

1. "Creep (Radio Version)" (directed by Brett Turnbull)
2. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" (directed by Dwight Clarke)
3. "Pop Is Dead" (directed by Dwight Clarke)
4. "Stop Whispering" (directed by Jeff Plansker)
5. "My Iron Lung" (directed by Brett Turnbull)
6. "High and Dry" (UK version) (directed by David Mould)
7. "High and Dry" (US version) (directed by Paul Cunningham)
8. "Fake Plastic Trees" (directed by Jake Scott)
9. "Just" (directed by Jamie Thraves)
10. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (directed by Jonathan Glazer)
11. "Paranoid Android" (directed by Magnus Carlsson)
12. "Karma Police" (directed by Jonathan Glazer)
13. "No Surprises" (directed by Grant Gee)
14. "Pyramid Song" (directed by Shynola)
15. "Knives Out" (directed by Michel Gondry)
16. "I Might Be Wrong" (directed by Sophie Muller)
17. "Push Pulk/Like Spinning Plates" (directed by Johnny Hardstaff)
18. "There There" (directed by Chris Hopewell)
19. "Go to Sleep" (directed by Alex Rutterford)
20. "Sit Down. Stand Up." (directed by Ed Holdsworth)
21. "2 + 2 = 5" (Live at Belfort Festival) (directed by Fabien Raymond)

Note: Unlike the CD, "Creep" is the censored version instead of the explicit version. The video for "Push Pulk/Like Spinning Plates" is a combination of two songs, "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" and "Like Spinning Plates", both from their 2001 studio album Amnesiac.

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart	Peak Position
Australian Albums Chart[12]	10
Austrian Albums Chart[13]	23
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[14]	1
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[15]	3
Canadian Albums Chart[16]	10
Danish Albums Chart[17]	16
Dutch Albums Chart[18]	9
Finnish Albums Chart[19]	35
French Albums Chart[20]	39
German Albums Chart[21]	38
Italian Albums Chart[22]	7
Irish Albums Chart[23]	1
New Zealand Albums Chart[24]	6
Norwegian Albums Chart[25]	17
Portuguese Albums Chart[26]	3
Scottish Albums Chart[27]	6
Spanish Albums Chart[28]	31
Swiss Albums Chart[20]	12
UK Albums Chart[29]	4
US Billboard 200[30]	26
US Billboard 200 (Two-disc version)[30]	81

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA)[31]	Gold	15,000*
France (SNEP)[32]	Platinum	100,000*
Ireland (IRMA)[33]	Platinum	15,000^
Italy (FIMI)[34] sales since 2009	Platinum	60,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[35]	Gold	10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[36]	Platinum	300,000^
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

Radiohead: The Best Of at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[es] Radiohead: The Best Of

Radiohead: The Best Of es el nombre del primer recopilatorio del grupo británico Radiohead. El álbum posee varios singles, temas y una cara B lanzados por la banda durante el periodo 1992-2003 bajo la discográfica EMI. El primer disco, disponible por separado, posee 16 temas clásicos de la banda y los cuales lograron entrar (la mayoría) en los charts británicos, mientras que el segundo disco contiene temas menos exitosos pero aun así de igual relevancia en la historia del grupo. De forma paralela, un DVD con 21 videos del mismo periodo fue lanzado, de los cuales 21 fueron puestos en DVD por primera vez.

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