Radiohead : The Best Of
 

Okay the politics of this album aside Radiohead is one of those bands best experienced in album form, not compilation form. However I can't honestly rate an album with Exit Music (For a Film), Knives Out, The National Anthem, Lucky, There There, Idioteque, How to Disappear Completely, okay you know what fuck it. If you put on The Tourist, Optimistic, Life in a Glasshouse, and just more Amnesiac in general all my favorite Radiohead songs would be on here. So honestly how can I rate this poorly?

It's only fault is some of the tracks are weaker than others and it's lack of cohesion. So counting in those I give it a very good. It's such a clumsy compilation and I have a hard time listening to something that's 30 songs regardless of who it is.

what about cohesion matter than much to you?

Huh?

He's saying cohesion is overrated.

Well whatever, I lack my albums to flow it helps me enjoy them more. This doesn't at all. You go from a really amazing track to a subpar one (for Radiohead) or two that are just completely different styles plus 30 songs is alot to listen to which doesn't help.

It is 2 discs though, the second only intended as an extra. I'm glad they did go with 2 discs though, you can't really justify only having a 1 disc Radiohead best of, there's always something brilliant thats going to be left off.
A bit of a difficult task and they did alright with it.

I'll be interested to see how this sells. I'd expect that by now most people who have heard of Radiohead would have already made up their minds as to whether or not they want to buy an album - I'd be surprised if they had that big a casual audience. Mind you, EMI are releasing it in order to burn their bridges.
Perhaps it will sell to people who bought The Bends or OK Computer out of curiousity, didn't quite get the appeal but liked a few songs and want to give the band another chance. Doubtless the sales figures will confound me.

i think this pretty much sums it up.

Yeh, it hit the top 10 over here I think.

Should have been a B sides / Rarities album

0/5

Well at no point did I say it was overrated, but it was nice of you to put words in my mouth. Next time I'm interested in giving an opinon, I think I might just do it myself. No hard feelings or anything, just good buisness.

Ethan, With regard to "huh", I might ask you the same question in regard to your first sentence. I left a letter out, lets take it down a notch.

The reason I asked about cohesion is because I'm wondering what it offers to you. I realize its a subjective thing, but does it make individual songs better for you?

I ask becuase I thought, even a grouping of disjointed Radiohead tracks would have more similarities than a mixed CD, or a Rhino release from a particualr decade. So theres a level of cohesion that exists, if but in much less capacity than you'd see from say, In Rainbows.

So if I'm going to go ahead and make the assertion that cohesion exists on the album, what we're really talking about now is a level of cohesion...thats where my question comes in.

How much do you need, and what does that much do for you, as an artist listening to art?

Ooo that would have made me a happy bunny.

I wasn't using overrated in a literal sense.

I was a little let down that Let Down wasn't on there; and Black Star......
a couple of my favorite songs by them, and apparently they didn't like In Rainbows too much, since a total of none of those songs made it on there.

EMI don't have the rights to use stuff from In Rainbows

Any compilation for a band that is primarily an albums band winds up pointless. It does contain the bare essentials, however, for a passing fan.

I love Radiohead, but I agree with Thom Yorke.
This album was not made by Radiohead, it was made by EMI for a quick buck.

For the most part every song I expected to see is on here.
..and no surprises here that their 2 biggest hits are together.

I think Radiohead fans deserve a B-sides album rather than some stupid ****ing compilation. Isn't True Love Waits a non-album single?

It's certainly not for me or many on this board. But if it makes someone pick up a copy of Ok Computer, then it can't be all bad.

If it wasn't for the Nirvana: Best of cd when I was twelve. I probably wouldn't be who I am now.

why did they release a best of?

best of radiohead eh?
That wont be a long CD!

would rather buy that myself...

Too many amazing songs are left out - Life In A Glass House or Where I End And You Begin to mention a couple... in fact i think HTTF is severely under represented. If i want a best of i'll just make a playlist on my ipod

Karma Police and Creep are the best songs for me in the that album. Any tracks you can suggest? I havent heard all of it

If someone's going to do a "Best Of", they just need to put Radiohead's whole discography on it, because everything they do is the Best. :tramp:

That wouldn't be my exact choice of songs, but a great list of an amazing band :)
Radiohead are the most incredible melancholic band of our time.

This actually surprised me...im not a big fan of radiohead but after listening to this it got me hooked

Looks like a good compilation of some of their best songs - I won't be buying it though, as big a fan of the band as I am... but I have every single track on the darn thing! I could copy the playlist from somewhere online (even this very forum!) and burn my own copy for free...

Plus I've never been a big fan of "best of" albums, particularly ones released by a band's former record company...

Will not buy ever.

Uh, I respect that you feel that way, but do you want to explain why you'll never buy it... any reason is acceptible! And it really would make it worthwhile reading your post if you gave a reason why...

Agreed.

It's horribly predictable, and as a Radiohead fangirl I already have all of their albums.

But musically and as a best of it's spot on. Awesome.

wolverine - thanks for the clarification! I am much the same - I don't see much point in it for me personally because I already have all their albums - but piss me off is kinda right too - if you're looking for a good best of compilation of a great band, its spot on. It's the kind of best of compilation that would most likely lead people to their other albums, and that would be a good thing!

In my opinion, people would more likely be interested after listening to The Bends or In Rainbows as opposed to this compilation. The song selection is fine and all, I just feel that Radiohead doesn't work as well as a 'singles' kind of band.

My thoughts exactly.