Potential ‘Radiohead Greatest Hits’ album covers
As reported earlier, EMI are set to release a Greatest Hits album for Radiohead. The news wasn’t that well received by the band and their fans, but leaves us with enough speculation from tracklistings to cover art.
Over at Best Week Ever, they took head-start on the cover art. A photoshopped selection of famous ‘Greatest Hits’ albums. Have a look here.
If you have any inspiration to share, post your album covers of Radiohead’s Greatest Hits in the comments.
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30 Responses to “Potential ‘Radiohead Greatest Hits’ album covers”
melmel
February 14th, 2008
i dig the high heels…
you seriously didn’t know the first was billy joel’s?
mindshadow
February 14th, 2008
nice boobs Thom…
brad
February 14th, 2008
HAHAHAHAHHAHA
hpgirl
February 14th, 2008
hahaha “Creep” good one.
Stinky Beetle
February 14th, 2008
Love the Marley cover, now if we could get Thom on the cover of “Burnin” with the fat spliff.
Ernesto
February 14th, 2008
LOL! Whitney Houston
Luke
February 14th, 2008
I found a pretty desperate-looking one, that would mathch pretty well the “oh noooo”-idea…
Janet
February 14th, 2008
That’s the greatest fucking thing I’ve ever seen in my life!
dadsgravy
February 14th, 2008
specialist
February 14th, 2008
Good old EMI cashing in on Radiohead’s popularity once again…
micksta
February 14th, 2008
Still… can you imagine someone actually buying a Radiohead greatest hits album? I wonder just how much money EMI can make on this…
you
February 14th, 2008
eurhhhhh
Sam
February 14th, 2008
Can some one tell EMI this joke isn’t funny anymore? Its too close to home and it’s too near the bone.
Anyway, heres my submission…
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs28/i/2008/045/4/6/Radiohead_greatest_hits_cover_by_DarwinDocu.jpg
darwinDEE
February 14th, 2008
Introducing ‘Radiohead – Fake Plastic Hits’
Featuring the smash hits ‘I’m A Creep’, ‘Street Spirits (Rain Down Again)’, ‘The One From Romeo and Juliet’, ‘The One Where His Head Filled Up With Water’, ‘The One With A Techno Beat From Their Obscure Phase’ and ‘The Acoustic One Like Coldplay’
Bonus tracks – ‘Lift (demo)’, ‘Big Boots (demo)’.
performingmonkey
February 14th, 2008
homebrew
February 14th, 2008
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j226/homebrew56/yorke.jpg
Tried to post directly on this page… didn’t work.
homebrew
February 14th, 2008
Awesome…glad you guys found our story! I had fun making those covers.
KevinV (BWE)
February 14th, 2008
thom the jazz player???
stefano
February 14th, 2008
stefano, jazz? where’s that come from? That’s a piano!
As in Billy Joel. Aaah you youngster, you!
risekevin
February 14th, 2008
bachlevarr
February 15th, 2008
http://pds2.egloos.com/pds/1/200601/18/48/b0041948_13491961.jpg
this one’s perfect as it is
marwood
February 15th, 2008
And still this :
Sam
February 15th, 2008
The only thing that really needs to be discussed on this topic is the ethics of what EMI are doing.
I’m sure everyone agrees that a body of work such as Radiohead’s is impossible to narrow down, but
from EMi’s perspective, the boxset didn’t work and this is possibly their last chance to save themselves, which any business would do(I am not a capitalist, may I add).
I hope their attempt doesn’t save them because of what has happened in recent times has been poor to say the least.
There is no point kicking up a fuss about it as this going to happen so just watch EMI crash and burn.
As for art work, I think a similar approach to the boxset will be taken (plain white with radiohead: greatest hits)
the tracklisting I think Guy Hands will choose (in no specific order):
Creep
Thinking about you
Anyone can play guitar
My iron lung
Just
Street Spirit(fade out)
Talk show host
Paranoid Android
Karma Police
No Surprise
The national anthem
How to disappear Completely
Iddioteque
Knives out
Pyramid song
I might be wrong
2+2=5(the lukewarm)
There There(the boney king of nowhere)
Where I end and you begin(the sky is falling in)
Simpleton
February 15th, 2008
Definitely the greatest song…The Bends, will be on there
KKG
February 15th, 2008
@darwinDEE
nice reference!
tICM
February 17th, 2008
What about High and Dry and Fake Plastic Trees? And Optimistic was on the radio too.
Chad9e
February 17th, 2008
i don’t think this greatest hits should even be made. radiohead seems to make there albums as one whole piece of art and the songs should not be split up.
thescotsbrother
February 18th, 2008
@tICM thanks, that cover was the most productive thing i did last week.
I’m going to do something dangerous here and draw a comparison, THEN i will explain why that comparison is a poor one to draw.
There is a greatest hits album from a band who are as loved and protected as Radiohead, the Echoes collection from Pink Floyd manages to be a good listen and manages to take disperate songs for different albums and reimagines them as a single flowing epic retrospective of some if their finest works. This was becuase it was made with the bands consent and assistance. Radiohead deserve the same treatment, and at a similar time in their career (which has to be at least a few albums away yet) they will not get this from EMI, and lets face it, an album that doesn’t include anything from In Rainbows, will be less than great. For most bands a greatest hits is the nail in the coffin. It wont be for Radiohead.
darwinDEE
February 19th, 2008
Looks like a classical album in which Thom Yorke plays cello..