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Radiohead's first-ever career retrospective, this 2 disc Limited Edition CD package includes 17 of the band's most popular tracks including "Creep," "Karma Police," "High and Dry," "Fake Plastic Trees," and "Optimistic," plus a bonus disc featuring 13 more standouts including tracks not featured on Radiohead's prior studio albums. The Limited Edition package also features an extended booklet and deluxe packaging.

User Reviews about The Best of (Special Edition 2CD)

Great CD, but unfortunatly I never recieved it from Amazon due to the incompetent seller "Inuendo ent". Had to open a claim to get refunded, so I bought it elsewhere. Still Great CD though. -- Love Radiohead

This is great road music on my long commute. All the hits are here, without any skippable moments. -- Good road music..all the hits plus

It's hard to tell... Is it a living music or a music for a living. It's a cold cold rock and there's no humanity in it. I was concerned by the title "Creep" but never though it could be so crap in the end. I can't figure out why so many people tells they're great. Yes, this is well produced, well played and recorded, but images that comes along are cold steel, dark cities and strong disturbance. Perfectly tight to this dying society.
Not my music at all.
-- Radio head of a bridge?

I am frequently a late comer to what is hip and cool. I had listened to Radiohead early on (Kid A, the Bends, Pablo Honey) but just didn't get it. In a twisted way I returned to Radiohead after my new found appreciation of groups like Coldplay, Muse, Keane, and the like. This Best of CD may not be all their best music but it is extensive and awesome. I couldn't stop listening to disc one with many of the familiar tunes but eventually found may way into disc two which is just as excellent in its own right. Songs like Let Down and Planet Telex really hold their own, even if they may not be their better known material.

Listening to Radiohead is a unique experience, and the critics were right about this group early on. I remember hearing an interview with Tony Banks from Genesis (one of my musical heroes), and he was asked who he liked in the modern musical scene. His first reply was Radiohead. I tucked that away in the recesses of my cerebrum until I finally "got it" about Radiohead. I can best describe them as a mixture of U2 and Beck. There is clearly the musical talent and the VOICE of Bellamy but there is also a distinctive push into a new style/genre of rock music that sets Radiohead apart.

If you haven't quite gotten into Radiohead, I highly recommend this collection. It has opened my ears to a group that has changed the direction of much of what we here today. -- Harsh EtheReality

Excuse me my hereticism of view , but after listening to this 2 cds back to back for 2 days on good cosmic mind organic self i could be convince that this is the reencarnation of Pink Floyd . The overall music mind set is just that , incredible music for our times , from early Chicago , to King Crimson ( horns and all ) , with some Young Marble Giants in the way , the Smiths and the Buzzcocks ... Anyway , buy it , steal it , borrow it , estimulate yourself with good soul cosmic music ... Inmerse in the times we live , insane and tragic and lovely fearful and who could really care for me if not myself ... -- The Sons of Pink Floyd