Radiohead have always had a knack for packaging their product in unusual ways. With The Moon Shaped Pool destined for a, we take the opportunity to roundup 10 of the most interesting objects from Radiohead’s groundbreaking catalogue.Words: Martin AstonRadiohead are now old hands at the practised art of sudden album releases. RadioheadPablo Honey(Parlophone, 1993 & 2015) /Coloured vinyl editionsIt was 1992, and the Oxford band On A Friday – soon renamed Radiohead – were less preoccupied with the art of packaging than, as bassist Colin Greenwood called it, “this trajectory toward other people’s music that we’ve fallen in love with we try to emulate these people and we always fall short.” So while their 1993 debut Pablo Honey soaked up Pixies, Nirvana and U2, on their breakthrough hit ‘Creep’, Scott Walker, their record label EMI decided to release a white and pink marbled edition.

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2015 reissues in separate blue, cream and red marbled editions pay tribute to the original. RadioheadClimbing Up The Walls (Remixes)(Parlophone, 1997) /Promo limited edition 12″Radiohead’s second album The Bends was their first to truly maximise their potential. It’s also the least collectable of all their records, with no fancy-schmancy versions available, but 1997’s OK Computer came in a double-vinyl edition – the best way to hear its expansive grooves as Radiohead eschewed the limitations of Brit-pop for the influence of trip-hop, jungle and electronica. A picture disc edition of lead single ‘Paranoid Android; on lovely shiny blue transparent 7” is also covetable but the rarest is the album highlight ‘Climbing Up The Walls’ in beautiful, stripped-back Fila Brazillia and Zero 7 remix versions.

RadioheadKid A & Amnesiac(Parlaphone, 2000) / & (Parlophone, 2001) /Limited double 10” editionsRadiohead entered the 21st century with twin releases that made full use of popular music’s ever-evolving digital palate, which they presented in individual double 10” formats, bringing out both records’ rhythmic fizz and throb. The only singles of the era were from ‘Amnesiac’, ‘Pyramid Song’ and ‘Knives Out’, with the former made available again in 2009 as part of their former US label Capitol’s From the Capitol Vaults series on 180 gram, with its sleeve embossed with a silver Radiohead logo and a 10 x 5” wraparound sticker of the original release artwork attached to the sleeve. DJ Shadow Vs. Radiohead ‎‘The Gloaming (DJ Shadow Remix)’(Reconstruction Productions, 2004) /Limited edition 10″ picture discThe Hail To The Thief album, pitched between OK Computer’s avant-rock and Kid A / Amnesiac digitalism without truly emulating the best of both incarnations, got the now-requisite double vinyl issue, but played at 45rpm. But more desirable was DJ Shadow’s picture-disc remix of the album’s glitchiest chapter, ‘The Gloaming’. Though the trip-hop maestro eschewed any trip-hop makeover for a heavier, industrialised soundscape with cut-up samples of President Bush (though it’s Vice-President Dick Cheney on the cover). Only 2000 copies were pressed up, on 10”, though the playing area (at 33rpm) is actually 7”.

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RadioheadThe King Of Limbs(Ticker Tape Ltd., 2011) /Limited edition double 10″Apart from not being sold with a pay-what-you-want option, and being constructed by more sampling and cut-up manipulations, Radiohead’s eighth studio album followed the same musical and distribution pattern as In Rainbows: download first, then physical releases, and finally a special edition. The so-called ‘Newspaper Album’ included newspaper-format fold-out artwork, alongside two clear 10″ vinyl, single CD and – according to the sales-speak, a “perforated blotting-sheet containing 625 tiny pieces of artwork” while, “a full-colour piece of oxo-biodegradable plastic film holds it all together.”. RadioheadThe Brighter North – Live In Canada – Vol.1 & Vol.2(Darwinism In The Falkland, 2015) /Unofficial coloured vinyl editionsThis is where it gets tricky. Are these two double vinyl albums bootlegs, or legitimate Italian imports?

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Can you have ‘semi-legitimate’ releases? The label concerned, Darwinism in the Falklands, suggests this could be iffy, but it’s nevertheless commercially available through reputable sources. Either way, they comprise an entire live show from Canada from 2001, plus several bonus tracks recorded in Europe at the same time, as perfect a Radiohead’s Greatest Bits Live album as you’ll find from that era. World in conflict cd keygen steam. The 180 gram vinyl is available in silver and marbled grey/brown editions.