Radiohead: The Best Of

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Radiohead: The Best Of is a greatest hits album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released on 2 June 2008 by Parlophone Records in the UK and by Capitol Records in the US, subsidiaries of EMI. It contains songs from Radiohead's first six albums, recorded while they were under contract with EMI. Radiohead had no creative input and were critical of the release.

The Best Of debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart. While reviewers praised the songs, some felt the compilation was unnecessary, did not suit Radiohead's music, and contained too many songs from Radiohead's early albums. In 2016, after Radiohead's back catalogue was transferred to XL Recordings, The Best Of was removed from streaming services.

Content

The standard edition of The Best Of contains 17 tracks from Radiohead's first six albums.[1] The special edition contains a second CD with 13 additional tracks, including the B-side "Talk Show Host" and a performance of "True Love Waits" from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001).[2] A DVD compilation with 21 music videos, including nine never before released on DVD, was also released.[3]

Release

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Reception

Template:Album ratingsThe Pitchfork critic Scott Plagenhoef praised the songs, but felt the compilation was unnecessary as Radiohead did not have a "winding, difficult discography to navigate". He wrote that the standard edition contained too many songs from their 90s albums The Bends and OK Computer, and that the expanded edition missed an opportunity to collect B-sides or rarities.[2] In Consequence of Sound, Alex Young also criticised the lack of songs from Radiohead's later EMI albums, and said Radiohead's discography did not lend itself to compilations. However, he felt The Best Of achieved its goal of giving new listeners a starting point.[7]

The IGN critic Todd Gilchrist wrote that The Best Of was "a great buy for a budding Radiohead fan", but otherwise "superfluous", and that Radiohead's music did not lend itself to "singles or other forms of pop digestibility".[8] In The Times, Ben Machell also found it superfluous, but wrote that it was otherwise a "near-perfect compilation".[9] In 2019, NME named The Best Of the 12th-best greatest hits album, writing: "It's actually a foolproof collection of their best The Bends and OK Computer-era material. Just don't tell Thom you like it."[10]

Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke), except where noted.

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Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart Peak
Position
Australian Albums Chart[11] 10
Austrian Albums Chart[12] 23
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[13] 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[14] 3
Canadian Albums Chart[15] 10
Danish Albums Chart[16] 16
Dutch Albums Chart[17] 9
Finnish Albums Chart[18] 35
French Albums Chart[19] 39
German Albums Chart[20] 38
Italian Albums Chart[21] 7
Irish Albums Chart[22] 1
New Zealand Albums Chart[23] 6
Norwegian Albums Chart[24] 17
Portuguese Albums Chart[25] 3
Scottish Albums Chart[26] 6
Spanish Albums Chart[27] 31
Swiss Albums Chart[19] 12
UK Albums Chart[28] 4
US Billboard 200[29] 26
US Billboard 200 (Two-disc version)[29] 81

Certifications

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External links

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