It's so good. It's so good.

- [Man on Record] : You're doing a great job.

- Okay, sorry. A brief history of Radiohead.

(groaning)

- What!? Shut up.

- You already talk about Radiohead like, all the time.

- We know everything. Please no more.

- Alright, listen.

I was very respectful during your presentations.

I just ask for the same respect back for mine.

Okay?

(pencil snapping)

May we begin?

Thanks.

- [Narrator] : In 1985, at a 750 year old boys' school in

Oxfordshire, England, a band formed.

- Originally calling themselves On A Friday,

because that was the day they would usually practice,

they would casually play gigs around town

until the band members had to leave for college,

and the band went on hiatus.

- Their new label, E.M.I.,

insisted they pick a less terrible name than

On A Friday, so they chose a title

taken from a Talking Heads song.

- It was then, that the greatest band of all time

Radiohead, was born.

(heavenly music)

Clap.

Clap for Radiohead.

Ah, no!

- [Girl] : The title track was an immediate flop

because citizens of the '90s were not ready

for their brilliance,

and the lyrics were kind of a major downer.

- Radio hated it.

Record buyers weren't buying it,

and even the band, quote unquote, thought it was crap.

- [Girl] : They quickly moved on to promoting

their next two singles.

- [Girl] : Thom Yorke consistently complained

about the stress of being in the public eye,

and was openly disdainful to the mainstream

American audiences that made the band famous.

- [Boy] : In 1995, the band released a relatively

straightforward, sophomore album, The Bends -

one of the greatest sophomore efforts ever made.

- [Girl] : In 1997, Radiohead released,

unarguably, the greatest album of all time,

OK Computer, giving prog-rock a turn

of the millennium update.

- [Boy] : OK Computer came out just as

the internet was starting to enter everyday life.

- [Girl] : Newly launched fan sites offered devotees

forms to pick apart the album's puzzles

and share theories about what it all meant.

- [Boy] : As a result, they produced the greatest

album of all time, Kid A.

Signaling a shift to a more electronic based sound,

which was even more intelligent

and less pop-friendly than OK Computer.

- It solidified the band's reputation

as the most world's most aesthetically

challenging rock-stars.

- The greatest album of all time.

- By the time the group tackled the

messed up state of world politics on the

more guitar-heavy greatest thing of all time,

Hail to the Thief, the band had abandoned

the radical transparency and had embraced

an aggressively more cryptic approach.

- [Girl] : In 2007, after leaving their label E.M.I,

they let fans pay what they wanted for

the digital version of In Rainbows,

which would become one of their best reviewed albums.

Because it's basically the greatest album of all time.

- [Boy] : The more dedicated of us scoured the record

for hidden clues that connected it back to OK Computer

and used fan sites to exchange theories

and talk about how if Radiohead were an ice-cream flavor,

it would be every flavor mixed together.

- [Girl] : 4 years later they pulled

the greatest prank of all time

by releasing The King of Limbs digitally,

a day early before its scheduled release date.

- [Boy] : Breaking new creative ground by sampling

and looping their own recordings, the album

had a more noticeable emphasis on rhythm.

- 2016 saw a Radiohead shift into digital obscurity

by deleting their entire social media presence.

This led to the release of their

9th greatest album of all time, A Moon Shaped Pool.

- This album represented a return of form,

with songs that dated back to as far as the mid-90's.

Just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary

of OK Computer with a new expanded reissue,

which we'll be selling in the hall after our presentation.

- Making increasingly difficult albums that seemed

almost intentionally designed to make them US popular,

whilst still filling arenas full of fans with

the intellect to recognize the music's importance.

(sniffing)

- And we think they're really, really, really, really,

really, really, really, really, really good.

The end.

(distant clapping)

- They're right! Radiohead is the greatest band of all time.

- Hello peachy, I'm Thom Yorke from Radiohead

and I would love for you to join our band.

- Cool, yeah!

(gasp and sigh)

(funky xylophonic music)