Comments on: Listening Booth: Radiohead, “The Best Of”

By: simonok

simonok — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:45:26 +0000

Radiohead never wanted to have this album come out, that's why they have not left the record company.

By: simonok

simonok — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:45:26 +0000

Radiohead never wanted to have this album come out, that's why they have not left the record company.

By: kar

kar — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:46:07 +0000

Does the album come with cheese to go along with the whine? Could never get past Yorke's whinge. The kind that can set off the dogs.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:15:50 +0000

To quote one of my favorite Kids in the Hall sketches (not that I'm a huge KitH fan or anything), “Greatest hits albums are for housewives and twelve year olds!”

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:57:22 +0000

“[W]ho are â€œbest ofâ€ releases really for anymore?” ME! I've recently started buying CDs only, no downloads. Why? Well, Amazon has most CDs priced in the $10 range. This Radiohead comp has 17 songs on it (30 if you get the Special Edition). That's $17 in downloads.
If you spend more than $25 you get free shipping, so I just wait until I am looking for 3 new CDs and for about 30 bucks I get far more songs than I would have from itoons. And I get CD quality ('cause I got, you know, the CD). Plus liner notes, artwork, lyrics.
All in a nice case that I can put on my shelf and regard as part of a collection. I never looked at my hard drive as a “collection.”

By: TaylorTSides

TaylorTSides — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:41:25 +0000

Totally!

By: TaylorTSides

TaylorTSides — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:30:14 +0000

Oh yes, I know. But it's ridiculous to me that they're marketing this as a “career retrospective” when it's clearly not. They didn't even mention the record in the literature that accompanies the release. If they were able to release tracks that were previously unreleased, they might've tried to get their permission to use one from “In Rainbows.” It just points out – even more – that this is about the label and not about the band.

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:58:01 +0000

I really just can't conceive of listening to “Paranoid Android” without having it preceded by “Airbag,” or listening anything from Pablo Honey without listening to the whole album.

By: allen

allen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:09:01 +0000

You are aware that Radiohead left their label last year and this is an attempt, as was the box set, for said label to recoup as much $$ as possible in the wake of the success of the (self/internet released) In rainbows. How could it mention “In Rainbows”? There is no relationship between the label and post “Hail to the Thief” Radiohead.