Best Of Radiohead

Author : Steven Hyden
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306845695
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Isn't Happening written by Steven Hyden and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future. For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A. Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant classic; others, such as the UK music magazine Melody Maker, deemed it "tubby, ostentatious, self-congratulatory... whiny old rubbish." But two decades later, Kid A sounds like nothing less than an overture for the chaos and confusion of the twenty-first century. Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs, history, legacy, and mystique of Kid A, outlining the album's pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its twentieth anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism, journalism, and personal memoir, Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic, alluring LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and foreshadowed our world.

Author : James Doheny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780971582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead written by James Doheny and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With complex, haunting soundscapes and raw, soul-searching lyrics, Radiohead has blazed an uncompromising trail to become one of the most critically acclaimed, socially aware, and perennially popular rock acts in the world. Like such predecessors as Pink Floyd, U2, and REM, the band has maintained its underground cred even while residing at the heart of the popular mainstream. Now writer and musicologist James Doheny reveals the inside story behind every Radiohead song in a comprehensive and insightful book no true fan will want to be without.

Author : Brad Osborn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190629231
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything in Its Right Place written by Brad Osborn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned notions. While averting mainstream trends but still achieving a significant level of success in both US and UK charts, Radiohead's music includes many surprises and subverted expectations, yet remains accessible within a framework of music traditions. In Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead, Brad Osborn reveals the functioning of this reconciliation of extremes in various aspects of Radiohead's music, analyzing the unexpected shifts in song structure, the deformation of standard 4/4 backbeats, the digital manipulation of familiar rock 'n' roll instrumentation, and the expected resolutions of traditional cadence structures. Expanding on recent work in musical perception, focusing particularly on form, rhythm and meter, timbre, and harmony, Everything in its Right Place treats Radiohead's recordings as rich sonic ecosystems in which a listener participates in an individual search for meaning, bringing along expectations learned from popular music, classical music, or even Radiohead's own compositional idiolect. Radiohead's violations of these subjective expectation-realization chains prompt the listener to search more deeply for meaning within corresponding lyrics, biographical details of the band, or intertextual relationships with music, literature, or film. Synthesizing insights from a range of new methodologies in the theory of pop and rock, and specifically designed for integration into music theory courses for upper level undergraduates, Everything in its Right Place is sure to find wide readership among scholars and students, as well as avid listeners who seek a deeper understanding of Radiohead's distinctive juxtapositional style.

Author : Radiohead
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476867925
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of Radiohead written by Radiohead and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop/Rock/R&B Piano Solos

Author : Martin Clarke
Publisher : Plexus Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780859653329
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead written by Martin Clarke and published by Plexus Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their award-winning third album, OK Computer, the British rock group Radiohead emerged as one of the most popular and influential bands of the millennial age. In this revised and updated edition of Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless, author Martin Clarke provides an account of all Radiohead s recent activities.

Author : Jonathan Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550223736
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead written by Jonathan Hale and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book ever on this amazing band whose huge international appeal continues to grow. Loaded with photos, trivia, history and information in print for the first time, plus the most complete discography of the band's output available. At once an informed commentary on the contemporary rock scene and a guide to an incredibly popular rock group, this biography offers Radiohead fans a picture packed, story filled music lovers feast.

Author : Marvin Lin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826423434
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead's Kid A written by Marvin Lin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : Dai Griffiths
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826416632
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead's OK Computer written by Dai Griffiths and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seemingly granted ‘classic album' status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World - a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. Through close musical analysis of each song, Dai Griffiths explores the themes and ideas that have made this album resonate so deeply with its audience, and argues that OK Computer is one of the most successfully realized CD albums so far created. EXCERPT But then ‘Karma Police' changes. After the second chorus the track lifts, in various ways. Harmonically, there's a key change of sorts (the sheet music charmingly follows the convention of preparing the reader for the new key signature), from E minor to B minor, although in truth both sections use similar chords. Then vocally or melodically, the key change takes Thom Yorke to his angelic register. Texturally, there's a big shift, with all the instruments doing lighter things. Best to my mind though, there's the one word, phew. Phew's great: it's a cartoon word, like ‘gulp' or ‘zzzz' or ‘bah'. Its precision matters, the fact that it's really there, properly pronounced, not just sort-of-breathed...

Author : Radiohead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571539963
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead: The Acoustic Guitar Songbook written by Radiohead and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459601041
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiohead and Philosophy written by Jason T. Eberl and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only is Radiohead the most innovative and influential rock bandit's also the most philosophically and culturally relevant. Since the 1993 breakthrough hit ""Creep,"" the band keeps on making waves, with its view of the Bush presidency (Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its ecologically conscious road tours, its videos, and its decision to sell In Rainbows online at a 'pay whatever you want' price. Composed by a team of Radiohead fans who also think for a living, Radiohead and Philosophy is packet like a crushed tin box with insights into the meaning and implications of Radiohead's work. Paranoid or not, you'll understand Radiohead better than any android. ""Can a rock band still matter? Can it be a positive force in a postmodern world? For millions, Radiohead can, and these thought-provoking essays address how and why Radiohead makes a difference by working at the margins of popular culture.""