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Instead, they spliced Floyd 's spaciness with U2 's messianic arena rock heft, bridging the gap with guitar skronk borrowed from the '80s American underground. Jonny Greenwood 's jagged, brutal interjections on "Creep," the band's breakthrough hit, recalled the ugly noise of the Pixies and Nirvana , a sound that translated over the expanse of an ocean, but in the throes of the alternative rock explosion of the mid-'90s, Radiohead were the odd band out.

America remained besotted with their homegrown sensations, so "Creep" was treated as a one-hit wonder, and at home in England, they were seen as dour art-rock students lacking the glamour of neo-glam sensations Suede , and deliberately dodging the beery singalongs of Oasis.

During the peak of Brit-pop in , Radiohead released The Bends, a significant leap forward from their debut, Pablo Honey, and while that gained them some traction, it was 's OK Computer that broke down all the doors for the band and changed alternative rock in the process.

Expanding their sound with electronica and unapologetic prog rock suites, Radiohead turned into a different band with OK Computer, and the world followed suit. Soon, whenever rock bands dabbled in electronics, it was derived not from tightly sequenced rhythms, but rather, from glassy textures and introspection, a sensibility pioneered by the quintet. Radiohead doubled down on this aesthetic on 's Kid A, a record that traded concise hooks for minimal arrangements and jazz, providing a dividing line between an audience that once loved the group for their guitars and those listeners attracted to the band's aspirations.

From this point on, Radiohead would occasionally flirt with concise song structures but were drawn toward unusual paths in both their music and business. Once their contract with EMI expired, they remained an independent band, pioneering different avenues of digital releases.

They issued 's In Rainbows with little warning, letting listeners pay whatever they'd like for the record -- cementing Radiohead's reputation as a band compelled to look forward, not back. Every member of Radiohead was a pupil at Oxfordshire's Abingdon School.

These four musicians began playing in , dubbing themselves On a Friday, and before long they added Colin's younger brother Jonny , who'd previously played in Illiterate Hands with Yorke 's brother Andy and Nigel Powell. Jonny started on keyboards but moved to guitar, yet this incarnation proved short-lived.

By , everyone but Jonny left for university, where many members pursued music, but it wasn't until that the quintet regrouped and started gigging regularly in Oxford. Eventually, they came to the attention of Chris Hufford -- then best-known as the producer of shoegaze stars Slowdive -- who offered the group the chance to record a demo along with his partner Bryce Edge; the two soon became the band's managers.

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Featured in. It was also the first to do better in the USA than on home soil, ranking four places higher at No3 on the Billboard list. Those singles were effectively replaced by remixes. The first Radiohead-related release of was a collaboration between Jonny Greenwood and Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

Recordings of Penderecki's early s pieces Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia are each followed by Greenwood's responses, Popcorn Superhet Receiver and 48 Responses to Polymorphia respectively. Perhaps the most interesting and even most accomplished of Greenwood's non-Radiohead work came when the guitarist travelled to India to work with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and local folk group the Rajasthan Express.

Released in November , Junun was recorded at Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthan, fusing the influence of all three components for an album that sounds far more cohesive than describing it would have you believe.

Produced again by Godrich, it was also filmed by Paul Thomas Anderson for a worthy documentary release. One track you won't hear on film, however, is Radiohead's Spectre.

Recorded to lead the soundtrack for the James Bond film of the same name, after OK Computer outtake Man Of War was rejected due to being ineligible for a Best Original Song Oscar, it was discarded for being too melancholy and replaced by an offering from Sam Smith. Within the space of a week at the beginning of May , Radiohead collectively returned with the singles Burn The Witch and Daydreaming , and their ninth studio album A Moon Shaped Pool. The highlight for many fans, however, was the inclusion of True Love Waits.

More than 20 years after it was first performed — and after failed attempts to include it on OK Computer , Kid A and Amnesiac — the band and Godrich had finally found an arrangement that worked not only for the song but also for the temperament of the album.

Thom Yorke appeared on the track Beautiful People for Mark Pritchard's album Under The Sun a week later, before global touring meant another year-long wait for anything new from the band. And when it came, it was another victory for those yearning for older tracks. It included the original album, all the B-sides from the album's singles alongside previously unreleased outtakes I Promise , Man Of War and Lift.

Between that and the band's next release — the single Ill Wind in January — attention turned to a number of soundtracks. After Ill Wind , Yorke released a download-only EP of outtakes from his Suspiria soundtrack before his computer was hacked and hours of Radiohead demos, performances and rehearsals were distributed online. It led to Minidiscs Hacked , an official download of all the stolen files made available for 18 days via Bandcamp with all proceeds going to Extinction Rebellion, at the end of which Yorke released his third solo album ANIMA on 27 June ANIMA was teased with cryptic posters in around the world advertising Anima Technologies, a company claiming to be able to recover lost dreams.

Calling the advertised number led to a prerecorded message that said Anima Technologies had been seized after unlawful activities, before playing part of the track Not the News. A final release of featured on the soundtrack to Motherless Brooklyn , another collaboration with Chili Peppers bassist Flea on Daily Battles. And so we arrive at the latest installment of this group's vast and running catalogue.

His album Earth was released on 17 April , featuring a certain Colin Greenwood playing bass on the single Brasil as well as turns from artists such as Omar Hakim and Laura Marling. As for Radiohead, Selway has been quoted as saying the group planned to work away from each other in — something which became inevitable due to the global pandemic — so it is likely to be next year at least before this list is added to with any new material.