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20 unusual facts about Radiohead


14 Weeks of Silence

In comparison with her earlier albums it showcases softer and more polished sound, with prominent use of keyboards, inspired by work of such bands as Radiohead.

Architect of This Church

In a similar fashion to Radiohead's In Rainbows album, it can be purchased for any price (although the CD has a minimum donation of £2.95 to cover postage and packaging).

B-Sides and Seasides

Includes two new songs "Hallelujah" and "Make It Right" ( from the touring EP "Kickstarter" and "Nothing Without You" ) and covers of Radiohead's "Karma Police" and of Brand New, "Tautou", where the band has created an extended version for the song.

Bodysong

The entire film has no dialogue, and is set to a score composed by Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead).

Downsview Park

On 16 June 2012, the stage lighting collapsed an hour before gates opened for a scheduled sold-out Radiohead concert, killing one person and injuring at least three others.

Jericho Tavern

In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was an important part of the music scene which spawned Ride, Radiohead and Supergrass.

Las Ventas

In the summer of 2003, Radiohead played a concert at Las Ventas, their only stop in Spain that year.

O2 Academy Oxford

Although the band have rarely played there, the club has had a long history and association with local band Radiohead.

Open Heart Symphony

"Let the Ass Bray" was reportedly written after Mann and Kelly attended a Radiohead concert at which Thom Yorke angrily refused an audience member's request to play "Creep" even though it was Radiohead's only notable hit single at the time.

Paul Lansky

Lansky has written an essay about Radiohead that appears in The Music and Art of Radiohead and he has written a short note online inviting listeners to identify where the sample is taken from in the original piece.

The Radiohead song "Idioteque", from its 2000 album Kid A, features a prominent sample from Lansky's computer tape piece "Mild und Leise" (1973).

Phonetic reversal

On the song by Radiohead "Like Spinning Plates", Thom Yorke actually sings the first verse voiced and sounded out backwards, and then the final cut of the album studio version has that superimposed back-masked as the first verse of the song so it would be cognizant as being sung forward to the listener, albeit with unnatural intonation and inflection apparent in his voice.

SIGG

Special editions include those made specifically for English band Radiohead's tour in 2008.

Stage lighting instrument

LED instruments can and have been used to replace any conventional lighting fixture, and some shows, such as Radiohead's recent tour, have used only LED lighting instruments.

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Allmusic said that "DEP should be careful, or they'll end up the Radiohead of metalcore."

The Famished Road

The novel was the inspiration behind the lyrics to Radiohead's single "Street Spirit (Fade Out)".

The Felix Culpa

After a long, quiet period, 2009 held the release of a digital EP called SoSo Remission. The release consisted of two re-worked songs and a previously unheard track and was offered up for free; the band also had a link to donate to their paypal if you felt so inclined; it was comparable to the model that Radiohead used for the release of their 7th album, In Rainbows.

Tim Cowlishaw

Cowlishaw is a devoted Radiohead fan, and often references their lyrics on Around the Horn.

Tony Juniper

This was supported by his successful "Big Ask" Campaign throughout 2005 and 2006, when he worked with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.

WASTE

The English rock band Radiohead named their website's merchandise and fan WASTE network W.A.S.T.E. after Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49.


Airbag / How Am I Driving?

"Meeting in the Aisle" made its live debut in 2012 on The King of Limbs tour alongside other B sides like The Amazing Sounds of Orgy from Radiohead's back catalogue that had not previously been performed in concert.

Arab Orchestra of Nazareth

The orchestra has collaborated in the past with the singer Sapho (France), Omar Faruk Tekbilek (Turkey), Thom Yorke of Radiohead (UK), Radiodervish (Lebanon/Italy), London Sinfonietta (UK), Hind Laroussi (Netherlands) and even the Israeli progressive death metal band Orphaned Land.

Arena Civica

Other notable artists who performed at the Arena include Chicago, Joe Cocker, Stewart Copeland, The Cure, Little Feat, Ben Harper, Lenny Kravitz, The Manhattan Transfer, Robert Plant, Public Image Limited, Radiohead, Patti Smith, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, Sting and Andy Summers.

Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do

The EP consists of the songs the group composed for Merce Cunningham's dance piece Split Sides, which also involved Radiohead.

Big Heavy Stuff

The band toured regularly with fellow Australian bands such as Powderfinger, You Am I and Something For Kate, and were the main support on Radiohead's OK Computer tour of Australia.

Bowed guitar

Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead, plays bowed guitar live on "Pyramid Song" to make sounds similar to whale cries (his brother Colin Greenwood used to make them on double bass).

Bulletproof Stockings

Their sound has been compared to that of Adele, Nina Simone, Fiona Apple, and Florence and the Machine, while the band themselves has cited influences including Radiohead, The White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Jane's Addiction.

Christopher O'Riley

O'Riley claims his renditions have introduced the music of Radiohead to a classical audience as well as introducing classical music to a wider or younger audience, as he sometimes performs both standard concert repertoire, such as Shostakovich or Mozart, and Radiohead, Elliott Smith or Nick Drake interpretations at the same concert.

Cut-up technique

Thom Yorke applied a similar method in Radiohead's Kid A (2000) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs.

Feed the Animals

Girl Talk's record label, Illegal Art, presently sells the album in a fashion similar to Radiohead's release of their 2007 album In Rainbows – a "pay-what-you-like" system for nonseamless mp3s.

Gregory Markel

The song, with its Radiohead and Pink Floyd like properties and mixed by legendary mixer/producer Bob Clearmountain, (Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and others), stood in profound contrast to the radio fare that year.

Hard 'n Phirm

After the huge success of their song "Rodeohead" (a bluegrass-style medley of covers of Radiohead songs), they released their first and only album to date: Horses and Grasses.

In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster

The final track, "You Can Try the Best You Can", may be a reference to Radiohead, the title in fact being a lyric from the song "Optimistic", found on the album Kid A.

Love Da Records

Among its most famous artists under the company’s representing labels are the Radiohead, The Prodigy, Nouvelle Vague, Tiësto, Vampire Weekend, Brett Anderson, Carla Bruni, Bloc Party, Grace Jones, Crystal Castles, Travis and Phoenix.

Madster

In 2000, for a short time, Capitol Records authorized Madster (which was called Aimster at the time) to provide some Radiohead video files on the service's Web site and to release a skin for the Madster software that had a Radiohead theme.

Mrs Eaves

Radiohead's 2003 album Hail to the Thief prominently used Mrs Eaves in its related artworks.

MXR Distortion +

Thom Yorke of Radiohead has included the + for many of his signature distortion sounds, using a variety of guitars to achieve various tonal options.

Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive

It is a collection of philosophical insights into various aspects of Radiohead’s music, by a varied group of academics and other writers, including David Dark, Tim Footman and Mark Greif.

Radiohead for Haiti

The gig was an unusual one for Radiohead, organised quickly by the band as a benefit for Oxfam, who were then responding to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake of that month.

Sad Kermit

In addition to the video, audio parodies of "Creep" by Radiohead, "Twilight" and "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith, "The Rainbow Connection" (referred to as "The Rainbow Disconnection"), "Something I Can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails and "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen as covered by Jeff Buckley are also available, together with the audio only version of "Hurt".

Stop Whispering

The song was written as a tribute to the Pixies, a band that had an important influence over Radiohead at the time.

The Clapping Song

Radiohead's "Pyramid Song" quotes the line "And we all went to Heaven in a little row boat."

The Nixons

The group capitalized on their success with big tours (about 300 shows a year), including dates with KISS, Slash's Snakepit, Brother Cane, Soul Asylum, Radiohead, and Toadies.

The Waterfront, Norwich

The Waterfront, Norwich has hosted bands including Pulp, Radiohead, Marina and the Diamonds, Nirvana, The Verve, Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Amy Winehouse, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, Buzzcocks, Plan B, MGMT, Babyshambles, Travis, Moby, Ellie Goulding, Foals, Inspiral Carpets, The Horrors, The Cribs, The Undertones and Feeder.

Tripti Ensemble Crew

They are best known for two songs and videos included on the DVD The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time, released by the English band Radiohead in 2004.

Viva Machine

The band draw their influences from such bands as Clutch, Queens Of The Stone Age, Weezer, Jarcrew, Biffy Clyro, Radiohead and The Beach Boys.

XL Recordings

Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Beck, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire Weekend, The Horrors, Electric Six, The xx, Gil Scott-Heron, Jai Paul, Tyler, the Creator, Sigur Rós, Peaches and Adele.

Xpression FM

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, is one of many famous alumni of URE and Xpression, a list that also includes the BBC's Jon Kay, James Pearce, Grainne Landowski, Matthew Sydney and motorsport presenter Ted Kravitz.