Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. 2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukeworm)
2. Sit Down. Stand Up (Snakes & Ladders)
3. Sail To the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky)
4. Backdrifts (Honeymoon is Over)
5. Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased)
6. Where I End and You Begin (the Sky is Falling In)
7. We Suck Young Blood (Your Time is Up)
8. Gloaming, The (Softly Open Our Mouths In the Cold)
9. There There (the Boney King of Nowhere)
10. I Will (No Man's Land)
11. Punchup At a Wedding, A (No No No No No No No No)
12. Myxomatosis (Judge Jury & Executioner)
13. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
14. Wolf At the Door, A (It Girl. Rag Doll)
DISC 2:
1. Paperbag Writer
2. Where Bluebirds Fly
3. I Am Citizen Insane
4. Fog (Again) - (live)
5. Gagging Order
6. I Am a Wicked Child
7. Remyxomatosis [Cristian Vogel Rmx] - (remix)
8. There There [First Demo]
9. Skttrbrain [Four Tet Rmx] - (remix)
10. I Will [Los Angeles Version]
11. Sail To the Moon
12. 2+2=5 [Live at Earls Court, London 11/26/03] - (live)
13. Go To Sleep
| Details | | Distributor: | EMI Music Canada | | Recording Type: | Studio | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Radiohead: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, programming); Ed O'Brien (vocals, guitar, sound effects); Jonny Greenwood (guitar, toy piano, glockenspiel, programming, samples); Colin Greenwood (synthesizer, bass, samples); Philip Selway (drums, percussion).
Principally recorded at Ocean Way, Hollywood, California.
HAIL TO THE THIEF won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "There There" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
Personnel: Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, laptop); Ed O'Brien (vocals, guitar); Jonny Greenwood (guitar, toy piano, glockenspiel, laptop, ondes martenot); Colin Greenwood (string synthesizer, sampler); Philip Selway (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Nigel Godrich.
Editor: Nigel Godrich.
Not since the Beatles has a group managed to combine mass popularity and cutting-edge aesthetic triumphs so consistently as Radiohead, who by the time of HAIL TO THE THIEF had been on a roll since 1997's OK COMPUTER (as great as THE BENDS was, it didn't garner the band mainstream attention). While KID A and AMNESIAC had been outre, boundary-pushing attempts to expand the pop-rock palette even beyond the ambitious OK COMPUTER, HAIL TO THE THIEF incorporates the avant-garde techniques developed in that journey, applying them to more formal song structures. In this way, we get the best of both worlds on what just might be Radiohead's best album yet.
Though this isn't a return to the straight-ahead pop structures of THE BENDS, the guitar does make a welcome return here. There are plenty of glitchy electronics and atmospheric keyboards, etc., but they're integrated with traditional "rock" instrumentation" in a completely organic way. Though they remain art-rockers to the end, with Thom Yorke expressing carefully wrought angst both personal and political, Radiohead injects some blood into things as well. The occasional hard-grooving funk rhythm and crazed rock guitar riff keeps even the airiest sentiments well anchored, making HAIL TO THE THIEF as well balanced as it is progressive.
Editorial Reviews
4 out of 5 - ...Radiohead's definition of pop has evolved from guitar-driven tracks with a Beatles influence to textured, willfully complex songs dripping with Pink Floyd-like ambition...
Vibe (07/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Deep, broad and sprawling....It is a magnificently engaging and expansive work...
Uncut (06/01/2003)
...Like all Radiohead albums, it's a slow grower, a densely packed collection of rapidly mutating sounds and surfaces that takes a while to comprehend... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (06/06/2003)
...THIEF seesaws between the chill of sequencers and the warmth of fingers on strings and keys....It's strewn with the burnished, elongated melodies that have made them the most diversely covered band since the Beatles... - Grade: A
Spin (07/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...There are so many delicious melodies here, so much that's both soothing and twisted and catchy, so much to sing along with, even if our prognosis is grim...
Rolling Stone (06/26/2003)
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2003
Rolling Stone (12/25/2003)
Ranked #3 in CMJ's Top 10 of 2003 - Fourteen tracks of political anger, aggressive guitars, [and] thumping drum machines...
CMJ (12/29/2003)
Ranked #26 in Uncut's Albums Of The Year 2003
Uncut (01/01/2004)
Ranked #6 in Mojo's The Best of 2003 - [Marries] Radiohead's cerebal laptop wielding side with the rock might of THE BENDS.
Mojo (01/01/2004)
Ranked #11 in Q's The 50 Best Albums of 2003 - [T]here are classic Yorke moments throughout...
Q (01/01/2004)
[A] well-sequenced collection of songs that finds them internalizing the blend of experimental electronics and straightforward rock they wore so far out on their sleeves just a few years earlier.
Pitchfork
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