Radiohead Box Set

Radiohead Box Set is a box set of the first six studio albums and one live album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 10 December 2007. The albums were included on CDs and a USB sticks, and as a download.[2] The box set peaked at #95 in Canada's album charts.

Radiohead Box Set
Box set by Radiohead
Released	10 December 2007
Recorded	1992 - 2003
Genre	Alternative rock experimental rock electronic rock art rock electronica
Length	334:23
Label	Parlophone Capitol
Producer	Radiohead Sean Slade Paul Q. Kolderie John Leckie Nigel Godrich
Radiohead chronology
In Rainbows (2007) Radiohead Box Set (2007) Radiohead: The Best Of (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Contents

The box set contains Radiohead's first six studio albums and one live album, recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI:

• Pablo Honey (1993)
• The Bends (1995)
• OK Computer (1997)
• Kid A (2000)
• Amnesiac (2001)
• I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001)
• Hail to the Thief (2003)

The box set was released in physical form as a limited edition seven CD box set, with each album in original digipak sleeves, as a download as DRM-free 320 kbit/s MP3 files with digital artwork and as a 4GB USB Stick. The USB stick contains all seven albums as WAV files and artwork for each album.

Release

Radiohead's record contract with EMI ended in 2003 with the release of their sixth album, Hail to the Thief. They chose not to re-sign with EMI for their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), which was self-released on the Radiohead website and at retail by XL Recordings.[3]

EMI announced the Radiohead box set days after Radiohead signed to XL, and released it in the same week as the In Rainbows special edition "discbox". Radiohead had no creative input into the release, and were reportedly "incensed" by it;[3] commentators including the Guardian saw it as retaliation for the band choosing not to sign with EMI.[4] EMI owner Guy Hands defended the releases as necessary to boost EMI's revenues, and said that "we don't have a huge amount of reasons to be nice [to Radiohead]".[3]

The box set was promoted on Google Ads with an advert reading: "Radiohead – New album In Rainbows now available as boxset". The advert led to an EMI site selling the Radiohead box set, which does not include In Rainbows. EMI removed the advert, saying it was a "data source glitch". A spokesperson for Radiohead said they accepted it was an error.[5]

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Nestruck, Kelly (8 November 2007). "EMI stab Radiohead in the back catalogue". The Guardian. London: Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2007.
3. Forde, Eamonn (2019-02-18). "Chasing rainbows: inside the battle between Radiohead and EMI's Guy Hands". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
4. Nestruck, Kelly (8 November 2007). "EMI stab Radiohead in the back catalogue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
5. "Radiohead speak out about box set mix-up". NME. 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2020-07-17.