Since their 1992 debut, the English rock band Radiohead have recorded more than 160 songs, most credited to the band as a whole. They have worked with the producer Nigel Godrich since 1994. Several of their albums are consistently ranked among the greatest of all time.
Radiohead's first album, Pablo Honey (1993), preceded by their breakthrough single "Creep", features a sound reminiscent of alternative rock bands such as the Pixies and Nirvana. The Bends (1995) marked a move toward "anthemic rock", with more cryptic lyrics about social and global topics, and elements of Britpop. OK Computer (1997), the first Radiohead album produced by Godrich, features more abstract lyrics that reflected themes of modern alienation, and subtle, complex and textured songs.
Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded in the same sessions, marked a drastic change in style, incorporating influences from electronic music, 20th-century classical music, krautrock and jazz. Radiohead's sixth album, Hail to the Thief (2003), combines electronic and rock music with lyrics written in response to the war on terror. Radiohead self-released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), as a pay-what-you-want download. It incorporates alternative rock and art pop with more personal, "universal" lyrics. Outtakes from the album were released on In Rainbows Disk 2 (2007). In 2009, Radiohead released two non-album singles: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute to the last surviving World War I soldier Harry Patch, and "These Are My Twisted Words", a free download.
Radiohead's eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), emphasises the rhythm section with extensive samples and loops. The band released four non-album singles in 2011: "Supercollider" and "The Butcher", followed by "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase". After a hiatus, Radiohead recorded a title song for the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, but it was rejected. Their next album, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), incorporates art rock and ambient music, with string and choral arrangements performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra. In 2017, Radiohead released a deluxe remaster of OK Computer, OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including B-sides and the previously unreleased songs "I Promise", "Man of War", and "Lift". Kid A Mnesia, an anniversary reissue compiling Kid A, Amnesiac and previously unreleased material, was released on 5 November 2021.
Songs All songs written by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, except where noted. 0–9ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWYNotesReferences +KeyIndicates song not produced or co-produced by Nigel Godrich
Song Original release Producers Year "15 Step"In Rainbows 2007 "2 + 2 = 5" Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "4 Minute Warning"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "Airbag" OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "All I Need" In Rainbows 2007 "" B-side to "Pyramid Song" (CD1)Radiohead 2001 "Anyone Can Play Guitar" Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "Backdrifts"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Banana Co." (live) B-side to "Pop Is Dead"Radiohead 1993 "Bangers + Mash"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "" 1995 "Bishop's Robes" B-side to "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (CD1) 1996 "Black Star"Radiohead 1995 "Bloom" 2011 "Blow Out"Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "Bodysnatchers" In Rainbows 2007 "Bones" 1995 "Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was" 1995 "Burn the Witch" 2016 "" Radiohead 2011 "Climbing Up the Walls"OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Codex" 2011 "Coke Babies" B-side to "Anyone Can Play Guitar" 1993 "Creep" Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "Cuttooth" B-side to "Knives Out" (CD1)Radiohead 2001 "" Radiohead 2011 "Daydreaming" 2016 "Decks Dark" 2016 "Desert Island Disk" 2016 "Dollars and Cents"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Down Is the New Up"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "Electioneering"OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Everything in Its Right Place"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "Exit Music (For a Film)"OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Faithless, the Wonder Boy" B-side to "Anyone Can Play Guitar" 1993 "Fake Plastic Trees" 1995 "Fast-Track" B-side to "Pyramid Song" (CD2)Radiohead 2001 "Faust Arp"In Rainbows 2007 "Feral" 2011 "Fitter Happier"OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Fog" B-side to "Knives Out" (CD2)Radiohead 2001 "Follow Me Around" Kid A MnesiaRadiohead 2021 "Ful Stop" 2016 "Gagging Order" B-side to "Go to Sleep" (CD2)Radiohead 2003 "Give Up the Ghost" 2011 "Glass Eyes" 2016 ""Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Go Slowly"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "Go to Sleep" Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" 2009 "High and Dry" Radiohead 1995 "House of Cards" In Rainbows 2007 "How Can You Be Sure?" B-side to "Fake Plastic Trees" 1995 "How Do You?"Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "How I Made My Millions" B-side to "No Surprises"Radiohead 1998 "How to Disappear Completely"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "Hunting Bears"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "I Am a Wicked Child" B-side to "Go to Sleep" (CD2)Radiohead 2003 "I Am Citizen Insane" B-side to "Go to Sleep" (CD1)Radiohead 2003 "I Can't"Pablo Honey 1993 "I Might Be Wrong" AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "I Promise" OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017Radiohead 2017 "I Want None of This"Help!: A Day in the Life 2005 "I Will"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Identikit" 2016 "Idioteque"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "If You Say the Word" Kid A MnesiaRadiohead 2021 "Ill Wind" (special edition) 2016 "In Limbo"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "India Rubber" B-side to "Fake Plastic Trees"Radiohead 1995 "Inside My Head" B-side to "Creep"Sean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1992 "Jigsaw Falling into Place" In Rainbows 2007 "Just" 1995 "Karma Police" OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Kid A"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "Killer Cars"B-side to "Planet Telex" /"High and Dry" (CD2)1995 "Kinetic" B-side to "Pyramid Song" (CD2)Radiohead 2001 "Knives Out" AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Last Flowers"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "Let Down"OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Lewis (Mistreated)"My Iron Lung 1994 "Life in a Glasshouse"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Lift"OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017Radiohead 2017 "Like Spinning Plates"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Little by Little" 2011 "Lotus Flower" 2011 "Lozenge of Love"My Iron Lung 1994 "Lucky" 1995 "Lull" B-side to "Karma Police"Radiohead 1997 "Lurgee"Pablo Honey 1993 "Man of War" OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017Radiohead 2017 "Maquiladora" B-side to "Planet Telex" /"High and Dry" (CD1) 1995 "Meeting in the Aisle" B-side to "Karma Police"Radiohead 1997 "Melatonin"B-side to "Paranoid Android" (CD2)Radiohead 1997 "Million Dollar Question" B-side to "Creep"Sean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1992 "MK 1"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "MK 2"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "Molasses" B-side to "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (CD2)Radiohead 1996 "Morning Bell"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "Morning Bell/Amnesiac"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Morning Mr Magpie" 2011 "Motion Picture Soundtrack"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "My Iron Lung" 1995 "Myxomatosis"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 ""Kid ARadiohead 2000 "" 1995 "No Surprises" OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Nothing Touches Me"Pablo Honey (collector's edition)Sean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 2009 "Nude" In Rainbows 2007 "" 2016 "Optimistic"Kid ARadiohead 2000 "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Palo Alto" B-side to "No Surprises"Radiohead 1998 "Paperbag Writer" B-side to "There There"Radiohead 2003 "Paranoid Android" OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Pearly*"B-side to "Paranoid Android" (CD1)Radiohead 1997 "Permanent Daylight"My Iron LungRadiohead 1994 "Planet Telex" 1995 "Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)"B-side to "Paranoid Android" (CD1)Radiohead 1997 "Pop Is Dead" Radiohead 1993 "Present Tense" 2016 "Prove Yourself"Drill (Drill)Sean SladePaul Q. Kolderie(Pablo Honey) 1992 "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong" My Iron Lung 1994 ""Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Pyramid Song" AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "Reckoner" In Rainbows 2007 ""B-side to "Paranoid Android" (CD2)Radiohead 1997 "Ripcord"Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "Sail to the Moon"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Scatterbrain"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Separator" 2011 "Sit Down. Stand Up"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Spectre" 2015 "Staircase" Radiohead 2011 "Stop Whispering" Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" 1995 "Stupid Car"Drill 1992 "Subterranean Homesick Alien"OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Sulk" 1995 "Supercollider" Radiohead 2011 "Talk Show Host" B-side to "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (CD1) 1996 "There, There" Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "These Are My Twisted Words" 2009 "Thinking About You"Drill (Drill)Sean SladePaul Q. Kolderie(Pablo Honey) 1992 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich ManPoor Man Beggar Man Thief" 2016 ""OK ComputerRadiohead 1997 "Trans-Atlantic Drawl" B-side to "Pyramid Song" (CD1)Radiohead 2001 "Treefingers"Kid ARadiohead 2000 ""My Iron LungJohn Leckie 1994 "True Love Waits" (live)I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings(A Moon Shaped Pool) 2001 "Up on the Ladder"In Rainbows Disk 2 2007 "Vegetable"Pablo HoneySean SladePaul Q. Kolderie 1993 "Videotape"In Rainbows 2007 "We Suck Young Blood"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"In Rainbows 2007 "Where Bluebirds Fly" B-side to "There There"Radiohead 2003 "Where I End and You Begin"Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 ""Hail to the ThiefRadiohead 2003 "Worrywort" B-side to "Knives Out" (CD2)Radiohead 2001 "Yes I Am" B-side to "Creep" (re-release)Radiohead 1993 "You"Drill (Drill)Sean SladePaul Q. Kolderie(Pablo Honey) 1992 "You and Whose Army?"AmnesiacRadiohead 2001 "You Never Wash Up After Yourself" (live)My Iron Lung 1994
Unreleased songs Radiohead have written numerous songs that have not been officially released. Live performances of many of the songs circulate as bootlegs. Asked in 2013 about the status of the unreleased songs, Radiohead's producer, Nigel Godrich, said it would all "surface one day". He cited "Nude" as an example of a song that took years to complete.
Song Notes "Come to Your Senses"Radiohead played "Come to Your Senses" in 2006 at a soundcheck at the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California. A minute-long bootleg circulated before a full bootleg appeared in June 2018. According to Consequence of Sound, the song "sounds like nothing else Radiohead has ever written", with country and folk elements. "Cut a Hole"Radiohead debuted "Cut a Hole" on the King of Limbs tour in 2012. It builds gradually to a climax, with "menacing" lyrics about a "long-distance connection". NME described it as "an atmospheric, shifting gloomathon" with a "head-flung-back vocal from Thom, climaxing with some of his highest notes since OK Computer". "I Froze Up"Yorke debuted "I Froze Up" on Rhodes piano during a webcast performance in 2002. In 2010, he performed it at a solo concert in Cambridge, England, and two months later in Chicago while touring with his band Atoms for Peace. Rolling Stone described it as "sparse" and "haunting". "I Lie Awake"Played in soundchecks during Radiohead's 2006 tour. "Riding a Bullet"Played in soundchecks during the 2008 In Rainbows tour. "Slave"Yorke mentioned "Slave" in a 2008 interview, and said he would send it to Godrich for mixing that night. "Wake Me"Played in soundchecks during the 2008 In Rainbows tour.
See also Radiohead discography MiniDiscs [Hacked]
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