Airbag / How Am I Driving?
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1998 |
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| Label (s) | Parlophone , Capitol Records | |||
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Title (number) |
7th |
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24:13 |
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Nigel Godrich , Radiohead |
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Airbag / How Am I Driving? is the fifth EP by the British band Radiohead .
It was released in April 1998 mainly in North America . It is a compilation of most of the songs that were released on the sides of the album OK Computer the previous year .
Track list
- Airbag - 4:46
- Pearly - 3:33
- Meeting in the Aisle - 3:09 am
- A Reminder - 3:51
- Polyethylene [Parts 1 & 2] - 4:22
- Melatonin - 2:09
- Palo Alto - 3:43
Emergence
The contents of Airbag / How Am I Driving? differs slightly from the EP No Surprises / Running from Demons , which was released in Japan a few months earlier.
The transition from Airbag to Paranoid Android used on OK Computer was cut out on the EP.
Meeting in the Aisle is an instrumental piece in which the programming was taken over from Zero 7 .
The opening sample in A Reminder is a sound recording from the public address system in the Prague Metro : Finish getting on and getting off; the doors are closing. The next station will be Jiřího z Poděbrad.
An older version of Palo Alto was called OK Computer .
Publication and reception
Airbag / How Am I Driving? debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 56, with 20,000 records sold in the first week. The EP was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance .
From the EP was a 2007 in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland edition created. In 2009 the album was released by EMI in the ITunes store .
Meeting in the Aisle was first played on The King of Limbs tour in 2012.
credentials
- ^ Mac Randall: Exit Music: The Radiohead Story . Omnibus Press, 2004, ISBN 1-84449-183-8 , p. 181.
- ↑ Got Charts? Busta's New Beginning; Radiohead Might Have Been Wrong on http://www.mtv.com
- ^ THE US GONG SHOW ( Memento from July 26, 2012 on WebCite ) In: New Musical Express
- ↑ Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP added to iTunes ( memento July 26, 2012 on WebCite ) on ateaseweb.com
- ^ Radiohead - Meeting in the Aisle - Miami 2012 First Time Played Live on YouTube