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"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It is the final track on their second studio album, The Bends (1995). It was released as a single on 22 January 1996 and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, Radiohead's highest position up to that point. It has been covered by acts including Peter Gabriel and the Darkness.

"Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
Single by Radiohead
from the album The Bends
B-side
  • "Talk Show Host"
  • "Bishop's Robes"
Released22 January 1996 (1996-01-22)[1]
Recorded1994
GenrePost-grunge[2]
Length4:13
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Radiohead
Producer(s)John Leckie
Radiohead singles chronology
"Just"
(1995)		 "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
(1996)		 "The Bends"
(1996)
Music video
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" on YouTube

Composition


Songwriter Thom Yorke said "Street Spirit" was inspired by the American band R.E.M. and the 1991 novel The Famished Road by Ben Okri.[3] It features a guitar arpeggio written by Yorke and played by Ed O'Brien.[4] In 2018, Pitchfork wrote that the song "channels a sense of capitalist dread that even class-conscious Britpop artists repressed".[5]


Music video


The music video for "Street Spirit" was filmed over two nights in a desert outside Los Angeles. It was directed by Jonathan Glazer, who described it as a "turning point" for his work. He felt that Radiohead had "found their own voices as an artist" and that "I got close to whatever mine was, and I felt confident that I could do things that emoted, that had some kind of poetic as well as prosaic value".[6]


Release


"Street Spirit" was released on Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995). It was released as a single in January 1996, and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, Radiohead’s highest placement up to that point.[7] After their previous singles had failed to match the success of their 1992 debut single "Creep", "Street Spirit" demonstrated that Radiohead were not one-hit wonders.[7] In 2008, "Street Spirit" was featured on Radiohead: The Best Of.[8]


Covers


Peter Gabriel recorded a cover of "Street Spirit" for his album Scratch My Back (2010),[9] hoping that Radiohead would record a version of his 1982 song "Wallflower" for his album And I'll Scratch Yours (2013).[10] According to Gabriel, Radiohead ceased communication after he sent his version of "Street Spirit" and backed out of the project.[11] Gabriel said his rendition was "pretty extreme", and had since heard that the band did not like it.[12]

In 2012, the Darkness released a cover of "Street Spirit" on their album Hot Cakes.[13] The band had included the song in their live shows in 2003.[14] In 2020, System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan released a cover with M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine as a part of his covers project These Grey Men.[15]


Track listing



CD 1


  1. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" – 4:13
  2. "Talk Show Host" – 4:41
  3. "Bishop's Robes" – 3:25

CD 2


  1. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" – 4:13
  2. "Banana Co." – 2:20
  3. "Molasses" – 2:27

Personnel


All personnel adapted from the liner notes.[16]


Charts


Chart (1996) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[17] 57
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[18] 19
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[19] 21
Ireland (IRMA)[20] 25
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[21] 28
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[22] 26
Scotland (OCC)[23] 7
UK Singles (OCC)[24] 5

Year-end charts


Chart (2001) Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)[25] 105

Certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[26] Silver 200,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.


References


    1. "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 20 January 1996. p. 31. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
    2. DeLuca, Dan (13 August 2008). "Review: Everything right with Radiohead". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
    3. "Chipping Away - Brian Draper talks to Thom Yorke". Third Way. Vol. 27, no. 10. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. December 2004. p. 16.
    4. Amit, Sharma (9 June 2020). "Ed O'Brien: 'The guitar to me is like an oscillator on a synthesizer - it's the start of a sound rather than the sound in itself'". Guitar World. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
    5. "The 50 Best Britpop Albums". Pitchfork. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
    6. Kaufman, Anthony (12 June 2001). "Shooting the "Beast"; Jonathan Glazer Tames the Gangster Genre". indieWIRE. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 8 January 2008.
    7. Randall 2012.
    8. Plagenhoef, Scott (5 June 2008). "Radiohead: The Best Of". Pitchfork. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
    9. "Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back (2010, O-Card, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
    10. Bassett, Jordan (12 February 2010). "Peter Gabriel: 'Thom Yorke won't respond to my cover of 'Street Spirit'". NME. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
    11. Young, Alex (15 February 2010). "Radiohead's Thom Yorke "disses" Peter Gabriel, preps "something" in April". Consequence. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
    12. Rogers, Jude (2 June 2010). "Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
    13. Nelson, Michael (9 August 2012). "The Darkness – "Street Spirit" (Radiohead Cover)". Stereogum. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
    14. Poole, Steven (10 October 2003). "This is not Spinal Tap". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
    15. Blistein, Jon (23 January 2020). "System of a Down's John Dolmayan taps Tom Morello for cover of Radiohead's 'Street Spirit'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
    16. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (single liner notes). Radiohead. Parlophone. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
    17. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 3027." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
    18. "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 13, no. 6. 10 February 1996. p. 15. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
    19. "Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (30.3. – 5.4. '96)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 30 March 1996. p. 52. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
    20. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Street Spirit (Fade Out)". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
    21. "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 15, 1996" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
    22. "Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
    23. "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
    24. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
    25. "Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2001". Jam!. Archived from the original on 26 July 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
    26. "British single certifications – Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 21 February 2020.



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    [es] Street Spirit (Fade Out)

    «Street Spirit (Fade Out)» es un sencillo de Radiohead publicado en 1996, así como la canción final del álbum The Bends, de (1995). Este sencillo fue aclamado por la calidad de sus caras B. "Talk Show Host" alcanzó la fama al aparecer en la película Romeo + Juliet (1996), mientras que "Street Spirit" se ha convertido en un fijo en los conciertos del grupo. El vocalista Thom Yorke dijo que la letra de la canción está inspirada en la novela El camino hambriento del escritor nigeriano Ben Okri (1991), y que su música está inspirada en el grupo R.E.M. "Street Spirit" se convirtió en la primera canción de la banda en alcanzar el top 5 en el Reino Unido, y es uno de los mayores éxitos de Radiohead en este país. Varios grupos musicales han hecho versiones de esta canción, destacando la versión en género metal sinfónico, por la banda holandesa/mexicana Stream of Passion.

    [ru] Street Spirit (Fade Out)

    «Street Spirit (Fade Out)» (с англ. — «Уличный дух») — песня английской альтернативной рок-группы Radiohead. Это последний трек их второго альбома The Bends , выпущенного в 1995 году. Песня была выпущена как сингл и достигла пятого места в британском чарте синглов, на тот момент эта была самая высокая позиция «Radiohead» в чарте. Кавер-версия песни была записана Питером Габриэлем и группой «The Darkness» (с англ. — «Тьма»). В 2008 году песня вошла в Radiohead: The Best Of .


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