Radiohead box at a bargain price

I usually avoid HMV these days – too expensive – and have warmed to Zavvi since it was bought out from The Bearded One.

But … HMV’s current sale has a tempting offer on the Radiohead albums box:

Radiohead - Album Box Set: 1993 - 2003: Deluxe: 7cd: Ltd

HMV 15/04/08: Was £55.00 Your saving £25.01. CD £29.99, free delivery


Radiohead
Release date: 10-12-2007
Availability: in stock
Number of Discs: 7
Catalogue Number: 5172292
Label: PARLOPHONE


On 10th December Radiohead are releasing a limited edition deluxe 7-CD box set collection of all their Parlophone albums from 1993-2003. Each CD within the box will be re-packaged in a digipack sleeve featuring original artwork and booklet.

The first six albums Radiohead recorded for Parlophone are collected in this box set, charting the band's journey from the indie rock chancers of 'Pablo Honey' to the seasoned experimentalists and political commentators of 'Hail To The Thief'. In between we see the band's incarnations as prog revivalists on 'OK Computer' and chart-friendly emotional giants with 'The Bends'. Also included is the 2001 live recording 'I Might Be Wrong' which notably features the unlikely live favourite 'Idioteque' from 'Kid A', perhaps their most experimental release. Radiohead's is a difficult career to summarise, but this completist option is possibly the most rewarding choice.

Radiohead burst onto the Britpop scene in the early 1990s with a clamorous, post-U2 take on guitar rock, buoyed by the hit "Creep." They subsequently developed their songwriting and production skills on THE BENDS and achieved iconic status with their breakthrough album OK COMPUTER, making art-rock cool again in the process. The mercurial band's long-awaited follow-up three years later was a sharp left turn full of ambient electronics and Can-like sonic deconstruction, and they've continued the trend with subsequent albums and solo projects. The connecting thread through all the band's phases has been Thom Yorke's intense vocal frenzy.

track listing

disc 1
1. You
2. Creep
3. How Do You
4. Stop Whispering
5. Thinking About You
6. Anyone Can Play Guitar
7. Ripcord
8. Vegetable
9. Prove Yourself
10. I Can't
11. Lurgee
12. Blow Out

disc 2
1. Planet Telex
2. Bends
3. High And Dry
4. Fake Plastic Trees
5. Bones
6. Nice Dream
7. Just
8. My Iron Lung
9. Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was
10. Black Star
11. Sulk
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out)

disc 3
1. Airbag
2. Paranoid Android
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
4. Exit Music (For A Film)
5. Let Down
6. Karma Police
7. Fitter Happier
8. Electioneering
9. Climbing Up The Walls
10. No Surprises
11. Lucky
12. Tourist

disc 4
1. Everything In Its Right Place
2. Kid A
3. National Anthem
4. How To Disappear Completely
5. Treefingers
6. Optimistic
7. In Limbo
8. Idioteque
9. Morning Bell
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack

disc 5
1. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box
2. Pyramid Song
3. Pulk/pull Revolving Doors
4. You And Whose Army
5. I Might Be Wrong
6. Knives Out
7. Morning Bell/Amnesiac
8. Dollars And Cents
9. Hunting Bears
10. Like Spinning Plates
11. Life In A Glasshouse

disc 6
1. National Anthem [live]
2. I Might Be Wrong [live]
3. Morning Bell [live]
4. Like Spinning Plates [live]
5. Idioteque [live]
6. Everything In It's Right Place [live]
7. Dollars And Cents [live]
8. True Love Waits [live]

disc 7
1. 2+2=5
2. Sit Down Stand Up
3. Sail To The Moon
4. Backdrifts
5. Go To Sleep
6. Where I End And You Begin
7. We Suck Young Blood
8. Gloaming
9. There There
10. I Will
11. Punch Up At A Wedding
12. Myxomatosis
13. Scatterbrain
14. Wolf At The Door


Gerry Smith