Thom Yorke Slams EMI For Releasing ‘Radiohead: The Best Of’ Without Consent
Alternative British rockers Radiohead left their long time record label EMI last year and decided instead to put out In Rainbows over the Internet for free in an experiment which has seen many copycats.
However, EMI obviously still wants to make some money off the band, and so are preparing to release a greatest hits compilation called Radiohead: The Best Of this summer.
Outspoken frontman Thom Yorke isn’t too happy with this blatant attempt at making profits from the group even though they are no longer with the label, and has slammed EMI’s plans in an interview with music magazine The Word.
“We haven’t really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose?”
“There’s nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It’s a wasted opportunity in that if we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good.”
He also had quite a lot to say about the band’s departure from the label, which became big news due to the arguments and accusations behind the scenes which occurred.
He said:
“Personally I just wanted to forget about it. It didn’t feel right. And now it’s like when you move house - you don’t want to peer through the window and see what they’ve done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you.”
Then Yorke turned on the record label’s boss Guy Hands, who last year claimed that the band had asked for £10 million to sign a new deal. Yorke argued:
“The idea what we were after so much money as to stretching the truth to breaking point,”
“That was his PR company briefing against us..I was so angry…it was a clear indication that the relationship was over.”
Radiohead are now with XL recordings, the label which released In Rainbows on physical formats earlier this year.
I have to agree with Yorke about the greatest hits album, as I just don’t think Radiohead are a best of type of group. They’ve had some success with singles, but they are much more an album band than anything else. You really have to listen to their full albums to appreciate their work on any level.
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