Radiohead: 7 Television Commercials

RS: 2of 4 Stars Average User Rating: 3of 4 Stars

Radiohead's combination of mainstream appeal and arty pretensions has always extended to their videos, which have proved both MTV-appropriate and uniquely visionary. The seven videos collected here -- each one from The Bends (1995) or OK Computer (1997) -- are dark, phantasmagoric and mostly brilliant. But you gotta wonder: Why only seven? And no bonus material? You'd think that a band as wary of commercial exploitation as Radiohead wouldn't ask fans to shell out for so slight a souvenir.

CHRISTIAN HOARD
(September 11, 2003)