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"No Surprises" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997), in 1998. It was also released as a mini-album in Japan, titled No Surprises / Running from Demons. The singer, Thom Yorke, wrote "No Surprises" while Radiohead were on tour with R.E.M. in 1995.
Pitchfork described "Nude" as a "graceful and sorrowful" version of "sneering, knees-up" songs by the Kinks or Blur, or an inverse of Radiohead's 1998 single "No Surprises". [1] The lyrics address "suburban ennui, crushing boredom, unfulfilling go-nowhere lives". [1] The chord progression uses a double-tonic complex, suggesting the keys of both ...
OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997.With their producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997.
Abingdon School, where Radiohead formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
Radiohead's third album, OK Computer, was released in May 1997. It remains their most successful album, reaching number one in the UK and Ireland and the top 10 in several other countries. [3] [4] It was certified triple platinum and produced the UK top-ten singles "Paranoid Android", "Karma Police" and "No Surprises".
Radiohead debuted "Cut a Hole" on the King of Limbs tour in 2012. [81] The song builds gradually to a climax, with "menacing" lyrics about a "long-distance connection". [ 81 ] NME described it as "an atmospheric, shifting gloomathon" with a "head-flung-back vocal from Thom, climaxing with some of his highest notes since OK Computer ".
The track listing is identical to OK Computer and no songs were changed, except for "Fitter Happier" (which has slightly altered lyrics to fit the style, with permission from Radiohead), and "Paranoid Android". The new lyrics are essentially the same, but phrased differently, including some Jamaican patois.
No Surprise may refer to: "No Surprise" (Daughtry song), 2009 "No Surprise" (Theory of a Deadman song), 2005 "No Surprise", a 1998 song by Ratt from the album Reach for the Sky "No Surprises", a 1998 single by Radiohead