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Radiohead Is An English Rock Band Formed In Abingdon Oxfordshire In 1985. The Band Consists Of Thom Yorke Vocals Guitar Piano Keyboards Brothers Jonny Greenwood Lead Guitar Keyboards Other Instruments And Colin Greenwood Bass Ed O'Brien Guitar Backing Vocals And Philip Selway Drums Percussion . They Have Worked With The Producer Nigel Godrich And The Cover Artist Stanley Donwood Since 1994. Radiohead's Experimental Approach Is Credited With Advancing The Sound Of Alternative Rock. Radiohead Signed To EMI In 1991 And Released Their Debut Album Pablo Honey In 1993 Their Debut Single "Creep" Became A Worldwide Hit. Radiohead's Popularity And Critical Standing Rose With The Release Of The Bends In 1995. Radiohead's Third Album OK Computer 1997 Brought Them International Fame Noted For Its Complex Production And Themes Of Modern Alienation It Is Acclaimed As A Landmark Record And One Of The Best Albums In Popular Music. Radiohead's Fourth Album Kid A 2000 Marked A Dramatic Change In Style Incorporating Influences From Electronic Music Jazz Classical Music And Krautrock. Though Kid A Divided Listeners It Later Attracted Wide Acclaim. It Was Followed By Amnesiac 2001 Recorded In The Same Sessions. Hail To The Thief 2003 With Lyrics Addressing The War On Terror Was Radiohead's Final Album For EMI. Radiohead Self-Released Their Seventh Album In Rainbows 2007 As A Download For Which Customers Could Set Their Own Price To Critical And Chart Success. Their Eighth Album The King Of Limbs 2011 An Exploration Of Rhythm Was Developed Using Extensive Looping And Sampling. A Moon Shaped Pool 2016 Prominently Featured Jonny Greenwood's Orchestral Arrangements. Yorke Jonny Greenwood Selway And O'Brien Have Released Solo Albums In 2021 Yorke And Jonny Greenwood Debuted A New Band The Smile. By 2011 Radiohead Had Sold More Than 30 Million Albums Worldwide. Their Awards Include Six Grammy Awards And Four Ivor Novello Awards And They Hold Five Mercury Prize Nominations The Most Of Any Act. Seven Radiohead Singles Have Reached The Top 10 On The UK Singles Chart "Creep" 1992 "Street Spirit Fade Out " 1996 "Paranoid Android" 1997 "Karma Police" 1997 "No Surprises" 1998 "Pyramid Song" 2001 And "There There" 2003 . "Creep" And "Nude" 2008 Reached The Top 40 On The US Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone Named Radiohead One Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time And Rolling Stone Readers Voted Them The Second-Best Artist Of The 2000s. Five Radiohead Albums Have Been Included In Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time Lists. Radiohead Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 2019. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Radiohead Studio Albums
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The Lyric "Not Sleeping OK/Trapped In Hyperspace" Is A Probable Reference To The OK Computer Sessions During Which Thom Was Often Not Able To Sleep And Would Spend Many Hours At Night On The Internet Chatting With People And Posting His Thoughts On The Band's Website. 'Up On The Ladder' Was First Attempted By The Band During The Kid A Sessions. A Number Of Entries From Ed's Diary Relate To It As Below Extract From Ed's Diary Thursday July 29th 1999
The Last Two Days Were Brewing Up To This.....Working On 'up The Ladder'. 30 Seconds Into It & It Sounds Utter Shite. Thom Stops It. Lack Of Energy. Phil Gets Pissed Off. We Talk A Bit. Start Up Again With A Dose Of The 'fuck You's. Sounds Better Almost Immediately. Funny That. After No Releasable Version Came Out Of The Kid A Sessions The Song Was Most Likely Demoed Again By Thom In Late 2001 Or Early 2002 And Then Rehearsed By The Band In Spring 2002 As It Was Played Live Seven Times On The Iberian Tour. The Lyrics At The End Varied Slightly Each Time.
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Radiohead Is An English Rock Band Formed In Abingdon Oxfordshire In 1985. The Band Consists Of Thom Yorke Vocals Guitar Piano Keyboards Brothers Jonny Greenwood Lead Guitar Keyboards Other Instruments And Colin Greenwood Bass Ed O'Brien Guitar Backing Vocals And Philip Selway Drums Percussion . They Have Worked With The Producer Nigel Godrich And The Cover Artist Stanley Donwood Since 1994. Radiohead's Experimental Approach Is Credited With Advancing The Sound Of Alternative Rock. Radiohead Signed To EMI In 1991 And Released Their Debut Album Pablo Honey In 1993 Their Debut Single "Creep" Became A Worldwide Hit. Radiohead's Popularity And Critical Standing Rose With The Release Of The Bends In 1995. Radiohead's Third Album OK Computer 1997 Brought Them International Fame Noted For Its Complex Production And Themes Of Modern Alienation It Is Acclaimed As A Landmark Record And One Of The Best Albums In Popular Music. Radiohead's Fourth Album Kid A 2000 Marked A Dramatic Change In Style Incorporating Influences From Electronic Music Jazz Classical Music And Krautrock. Though Kid A Divided Listeners It Later Attracted Wide Acclaim. It Was Followed By Amnesiac 2001 Recorded In The Same Sessions. Hail To The Thief 2003 With Lyrics Addressing The War On Terror Was Radiohead's Final Album For EMI. Radiohead Self-Released Their Seventh Album In Rainbows 2007 As A Download For Which Customers Could Set Their Own Price To Critical And Chart Success. Their Eighth Album The King Of Limbs 2011 An Exploration Of Rhythm Was Developed Using Extensive Looping And Sampling. A Moon Shaped Pool 2016 Prominently Featured Jonny Greenwood's Orchestral Arrangements. Yorke Jonny Greenwood Selway And O'Brien Have Released Solo Albums In 2021 Yorke And Jonny Greenwood Debuted A New Band The Smile. By 2011 Radiohead Had Sold More Than 30 Million Albums Worldwide. Their Awards Include Six Grammy Awards And Four Ivor Novello Awards And They Hold Five Mercury Prize Nominations The Most Of Any Act. Seven Radiohead Singles Have Reached The Top 10 On The UK Singles Chart "Creep" 1992 "Street Spirit Fade Out " 1996 "Paranoid Android" 1997 "Karma Police" 1997 "No Surprises" 1998 "Pyramid Song" 2001 And "There There" 2003 . "Creep" And "Nude" 2008 Reached The Top 40 On The US Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone Named Radiohead One Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time And Rolling Stone Readers Voted Them The Second-Best Artist Of The 2000s. Five Radiohead Albums Have Been Included In Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time Lists. Radiohead Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 2019. Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Radiohead Studio Albums
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The lyric "Not sleeping OK/Trapped in hyperspace" is a probable reference to the OK Computer sessions, during which Thom was often not able to sleep and would spend many hours at night on the internet, chatting with people and posting his thoughts on the band's website.
'Up On the Ladder' was first attempted by the band during the Kid A sessions. A number of entries from Ed's Diary relate to it, as below:
Extract from Ed's diary:
Thursday, july 29th 1999
The last two days were brewing up to this.....working on 'up the ladder'. 30 seconds into it & it sounds utter shite. Thom stops it. Lack of energy. Phil gets pissed off. We talk a bit. start up again with a dose of the 'fuck you's. Sounds better almost immediately. Funny that.
After no releasable version came out of the Kid A sessions, the song was most likely demoed again by Thom in late 2001 or early 2002, and then rehearsed by the band in spring 2002, as it was played live seven times on the Iberian Tour. The lyrics at the end varied slightly each time. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.