List of cover versions of Radiohead songs
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This is a partial list of cover versions of songs by the English rock band Radiohead. Remixes and samples of Radiohead songs are also included. This article is not about songs Radiohead have covered.
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[edit] Cover albums
- Classical pianist Christopher O'Riley has put out two albums featuring his piano interpretations of Radiohead songs, True Love Waits (2003) and Hold Me to This (2005).
- Radiodread, a dub and reggae cover album of Radiohead's OK Computer, was released in 2006, and features contributions from luminaries including Toots and the Maytals and Horace Andy.[1].
- Skeet Spirit, a crunk tribute to Radiohead, was released on the Internet in 2006.
- Three String Quartet Tribute albums to Radiohead have been issued featuring The Section string quartet, "Strung Out on OK Computer", "Strung Out on Kid A", which cover all songs in these albums and "Enigmatic", covering other songs.
- A bluegrass tribute to Radiohead was issued, called Corporate Love Breakdown.
- Plastic Mutations: The Electronic Tribute to Radiohead, a compilation album of largely unknown acts, came out in the early 2000s.
- Anyone Can Play Radiohead, another tribute compilation album with various artists, came out in the early 2000s.
- Baby Rock Records released Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead, in late 2006.
- Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads came out in 2006. Many of the cover versions recorded for the album are from more well known acts, and are listed in the section below.
[edit] Cover versions of Radiohead songs
Musicians in various genres have covered Radiohead songs either live or on record, such as:
- Brad Mehldau ("Paranoid Android", "Exit Music (For a Film)", "Everything in Its Right Place" and "Knives Out")[2]
- Hanson ("Optimistic")[3]
- John Frusciante ("You and Whose Army?" and "Lucky")[4]
- Matthew Herbert featuring Mara Carlyle ("(Nice Dream)")[7]
- John Mayer ("Kid A")[8]
- Me'shell Ndegeocello and Chris Dave ("The National Anthem")
- Nickel Creek ("Just" and "There There")[13]
- The Cinematic Orchestra ("Exit Music (For a Film)")
- The Randy Watson Experience (?uestlove and James Poyser) featuring Donn ("Morning Bell")[15]
- The Dresden Dolls ("Karma Police"[16], "Exit Music (For a Film)")
- Tori Amos ("Karma Police")
- Panic! at the Disco ("Karma Police")
- The Bad Plus ("Karma Police")
- Scala ("Exit Music (For a Film)" and "Everything in Its Right Place")
- Osunlade featuring Erro ("Everything in Its Right Place")
- Marillion ("Fake Plastic Trees")
- Alanis Morissette ("Fake Plastic Trees")
- Bilal ("High and Dry")
- Jamie Cullum ("High and Dry")
- Peter Mulvey ("Airbag")
- Mark Ronson featuring Alex Greenwald ("Just")
- Vernon Reid and Masque ("The National Anthem")
- Sia ("Paranoid Android")
- Phantom Planet ("Paranoid Android")
- Sa-Ra All Stars ("In Limbo")
- Waajeed of Platinum Pied Pipers featuring Monica Blaire ("Knives Out")
- Duncan Sheik ("Fake Plastic Trees")
- Our Lady Peace ("Fake Plastic Trees")
- Ian Shaw ("The Tourist")
- Kate Rogers ("Climbing Up The Walls")
- Warren Haynes ("Lucky")
- FourPlay Electric String Quartet ("2+2=5")
- Obadiah Parker ("Idioteque")
[edit] Cover versions of "Creep"
"Creep", as Radiohead's most widely known song, has been covered by numerous bands and singers.
- The Pretenders covered "Creep", a live version is included on their "Kid" EP.
- Tears for Fears covered "Creep" live and it appears as a b-side on their single, "Raoul And The Kings Of Spain" (Epic 1995), but the band didn't credit Radiohead.
- Japanese singer ACO has also covered this song on her single "heart wo moyashite."
- Japanese singer Shiina Ringo has also covered this song live at Club Asia in Shibuya and Ritsumei Kan in Kyoto, which have both since circulated the net.
- Japanese band LUNKHEAD covered the song for the Radiohead Tribute - Master's Collection- album.
- In 2004 Damien Rice recorded an acoustic version of "Creep" at an Irish radio station, which has since circulated the net. He also occasionally performs the song live at his concerts.
- Sophie Koh has covered the song, and can be found on Triple J's cover compilation record "Like a Version"
- Moby has covered the song on various occasions, including a performance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and at the 2003 Glastonbury Festival, which Radiohead headlined.
- Grunge band Pearl Jam covered the song with modified lyrics.
- This song was also covered by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine on his 2000 album, Lounge Against the Machine and on his 2006 album called, "The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese".
- Jessicka Fodera's new band Scarling. covered "Creep" and it can be found on their single "Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole"
- Jeff Buckley once did a cover of "Creep" in one of his live performances.
- Curanderos, a Mexican band, sang "Perro", a Spanish version of "Creep".
- The Filipino band Parokya ni Edgar, famous for their comic themes, recorded the song "Trip" (a tribute to the Chinese delicacy siopao) using "Creep"'s melody.
- A version 'sung' by Macintosh SimpleText voice 'Fred' (also heard in Radiohead's "Fitter Happier") was released on Me and This Army, an album of Radiohead remixes.
- Marty Casey of the Lovehammers performed "Creep" on the television show Rock Star: INXS in 2005.
- Lukas Rossi from the band Rise Electric performed "Creep" on the reality television show Rock Star: Supernova in 2006. He played it as an encore as well.
- Magni Asgeirsson of the Icelandic band Á Móti Sól performed "Creep" in an Elimination Episode on the reality television show Rock Star: Supernova in 2006.
- Frank Bennett recorded an easy listening version on his album Five O'Clock Shadow.
- Dustin Kensrue played the song on one of his solo tours.
- The Scottish singer Carol Laula recorded a cover for her 2002 album, First Disciple.
- Beck did a cover version at the Virgin V Festival and an acoustic version at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival
- U2 frequently snippetted the song at the end of "Elevation" on their Elevation Tour in 2001.
- G4, of X Factor fame, sang it for their first album.
- Scala, a Belgian teenage cover choir, sang the song on their album "On the Rocks". They have also covered Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)" and "Everything in Its Right Place".
- Australian alternative rock band The Final Straw recorded a cover to be released on their 2007 self titled EP.
- Kid606's "This Is Not My Statement" from The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams is a glitch/noise remake of Creep, ending with an increasingly distorted sample of "I don't belong here".
- The winner of Australian Idol Damien Leith performed the song in 2006
- In 2007, Nu-Metal band Korn covered it live on MTV Unplugged.
[edit] Remixes
- Remixes of several tracks have been officially commissioned and released by the band as B-sides on their singles, including "Planet Telex", "Climbing Up the Walls" (Zero 7 and Fila Brasilia remixes), "Myxomatosis" (Cristian Vogel remix, aka "Remyxomatosis"), and "Scatterbrain" (Four Tet remix, aka "Skttrbrain").
- Paul Oakenfold created an unauthorized mix of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" in 2001.
- A variety of club remixes of "Everything in Its Right Place" exist from artists such as Josh Wink and Hybrid.
- James Lavelle, of UNKLE (for which DJ Shadow and Radiohead's Thom Yorke had previously contributed the song "Rabbit in Your Headlights") remixed "Everything in Its Right Place".
- Me and This Army, an album of remixes of Radiohead songs, was released in 2005.
- In 1997-1998, Massive Attack was reportedly working on a remix of all of OK Computer. The group had to abandon the project in order to finish their own album Mezzanine. [17]
[edit] Samples
Several Radiohead songs have been sampled by other acts.
- The Roots sampled "You and Whose Army?" for their song "Atonement" from their 2006 album Game Theory.
- Massive Attack sampled vocals from "The Bends" for their song "False Flags", released on their 2006 greatest hits compilation.
- UK act Plan B sampled "Pyramid Song" in one of his songs, "Missing Links". Permission was denied to release the song with the sample.
- Rapper Chino XL created a song by the name of "Kreep", sampling the lines "I'm a creep, I'm a loser, you're so [very] special, I wish I was special".
- Although not technically a sample, the track "Rodeohead" was created by the acoustic group Hard 'n Phirm. It is a light hearted country and bluegrass style instrumental medley of many Radiohead songs.
- Tenacious D live favorite "They Fucked Our Asses" contains portions of "Paranoid Android" and "Airbag".
| Radiohead |
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| Thom Yorke • Jonny Greenwood • Ed O'Brien • Colin Greenwood • Phil Selway |
| Discography |
| Albums: Pablo Honey • The Bends • OK Computer • Kid A • Amnesiac • Hail to the Thief • TBA |
| EPs: Manic Hedgehog • Drill • Itch • My Iron Lung • No Surprises/Running from Demons • Airbag/How Am I Driving? • I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings • COM LAG |
| Singles: "Creep" • "Anyone Can Play Guitar" • "Pop Is Dead" • "Stop Whispering" • "My Iron Lung" • "High and Dry"/"Planet Telex" • "Fake Plastic Trees" • "Just" • "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" • "Lucky" • "Paranoid Android" • "Karma Police" • "No Surprises" • "Pyramid Song" • "Knives Out" • "There There" • "Go to Sleep" • "2 + 2 = 5" |
| DVDs: Live at the Astoria • 7 Television Commercials • Meeting People Is Easy • The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time |
| Related articles |
| Nigel Godrich • Stanley Donwood • Dead Air Space • Covers of Radiohead songs • Rare songs • Trivia |
| Other projects |
| Bodysong • The Eraser • Spitting Feathers |
