2/20/2023 0 Comments Download album radiohead kid a rarIt was premiered on Radio 1’s Evening Session a month before release, and when it came out it was hailed as a new Bohemian Rhapsody. But Paranoid Android became the defining moment of the new Radiohead – a creation myth for the World’s Most Earnest Band. The lead single, released a couple of weeks before the album, was a six-and-a-half minute, multi-sectioned epic, that the band said was a bit of a joke, really. It lowered its sales forecast from 2m to 500,000, leaving Parlophone – the EMI imprint that released Radiohead in the UK – as the only ones to offer unequivocal support. What else? Radiohead’s US label, Capitol, took one listen to OK Computer and decided the band had delivered their commercial suicide record. What the critics said: “The album mostly reminds me of Suede trying to rock like Sparks but coming out like U2, or (more often) that hissy little pissant in Smashing Pumpkins.” – Spin The Bends reached No 4 in the UK, and though it went no higher than No 88 in the US, it paved the way for what was to come. It’s easy to forget that Radiohead are very good at the business bit of “music business” as well as the music bit. Did the band revolt at this label interference? No. The album was preceded by the My Iron Lung EP in October 1994, which did badly enough that EMI insisted that The Bends, which had been produced by John Leckie, be remixed by Sean Slade and Paul Q Kolderie. That’s an oversimplification of course, but The Bends was the point when Radiohead went from being a mid-level alt-rock band to an art-rock band with Something To Say. Makes album that consists of 48 minutes of him being fed up. What else? The short and highly partial story: Thom Yorke gets sick of being rock star travelling the world with people screaming out for Creep. How? Conventional physical release on EMI.
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