Description:1998 saw Radiohead perform pop music's most difficult task-their album OK COMPUTER was a critical smash, a worldwide pop hit, and, most importantly, a revolutionary step forward from the edgy, perfectly crafted pop music of their already masterful early efforts. Reintroducing a sense of intellectual adventure into rock music, at times they hearkened back to Pink Floyd, from whose compositional experimentation and epic scale they obviously gleaned a lesson or two. OK COMPUTER's opening track, 'Airbag', serves as a starting point for AIRBAG/HOW AM I DRIVING.The self-proclaimed 'mini-album'opens with the stormy 'Airbag', whose furious drum loop andemotive vocal build slowly into a guitar-led orchestra, where swirling, ghostly melody lines float and dart, crashing dramatically into the song's recurring musical motif. 'A Reminder' sets a gentle, ominous melody against a backdrop of cascading guitar stabs, while 'Polyethylene' contrasts pared-down metrical shifts with raging passages full of arena rock swagger.

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The curious, rambling 'Melatonin' features almost no vocals, and the closer 'Palo Alto' is chaotic and moody, filled with dynamic hurtles and skittering melody linesTracklist:01 Airbag02 Pearly03 Meeting In The Aisle04 A Reminder05 Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)06 Melatonin07 Palo Alto.

Alex LakeThe 14 best Radiohead songs you've probably never heardAt the turn of the millennium, one of the most ambitious box sets in rock music history started circulating across the internet.' Towering Above the Rest' was 10 discs and 187 tracks of rare, obscure and otherwise unheard Radiohead, from singles and b-sides to live covers, acoustic versions, and remixes. At 12-and-a-half hours long, it was roughly three times as much material as the UK band had released up to that point on a few studio albums: over a decade later, it still beats their LPs.And it wasn't even an official release.The painstakingly thorough collection was put together by some anonymous, heroic fans, who understood even a third of the way through the band's career that keeping up with Radiohead was going to be a full-time job.

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'Talk Show Host'A song that stepped back from the full-blast heaviness of their first two albums, 'Talk Show Host' captured a more nimble Radiohead with a minimalist chord change, the smeared sounds of drums and synthesizers, and the kind of textural atmosphere that pointed the way to 'OK Computer.' Along with the song 'Lucky,' it was also the beginning of their longtime creative partnership with producer Nigel Godrich, who has worked with them ever since. 'Talk Show Host' was the only non-album track to make the band's 2008 'The Best Of' collection.Released: 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' single, 1996. 'These Are My Twisted Words'In a mysterious release the band never fully explained, 'These Are My Twisted Words' leaked online two years after 'In Rainbows,' leading to a frenzy of talk about a possible new release—one that even appeared to have a name, 'Wall of Ice,' the title of a website to Radiohead's digital store. The EP never materialized (and Radiohead drummer Philip Selway had no idea about it ), but we did get an official release of 'These Are My Twisted Words,' a drifting five minutes of hypnotic psych-rock.Released: Single, 2009.