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"High and Dry" / "Planet Telex"
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from the album The Bends
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Recorded1993–1994
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"My Iron Lung"
(1994) 		"High and Dry" / "Planet Telex"
(589) 		"Fake Plastic Trees"
(1995)
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"High and Dry" and "Planet Telex" are songs by the English rock band Radiohead, released on their second album, The Bends (1995). They were released as a double A-side single on 27 February 1995 by Parlophone and Capitol Records.

"High and Dry" was recorded as a demo during the sessions for Radiohead's first album, Pablo Honey (1993), and remastered for The Bends. It is credited as an influence on the bands Travis and Coldplay. "Planet Telex" developed from studio experimentation with drum loops. Two music videos were produced for "High and Dry".

Recording

Radiohead's songwriter, Thom Yorke, performed an early version of "High and Dry" with another band, Headless Chickens, while attending the University of Exeter in the late 1980s.[4] He said the lyrics were about "some loony girl I was going out with", but became "mixed up with ideas about success and failure".[5]

In 1993, Radiohead recorded a demo at Courtyard Studios, Oxfordshire, with their live engineer, Jim Warren.[6] They dismissed it as "too Rod Stewart".[5] However, the demo was rediscovered and remastered for inclusion on their second album, The Bends (1995).[6] In 2006, Yorke said "High and Dry" was "very bad" and that Radiohead's record label at the time, EMI, had pressured him into releasing it.[7]

Radiohead wrote and recorded "Planet Telex" in a single session at RAK Studios while working on The Bends. It developed from experiments with a drum loop taken from another song, the B-side "Killer Cars", to which Radiohead added piano processed with multiple delay effects. The band had recently returned from a restaurant, and Yorke recorded his vocals drunk, slumped in a corner. According to the producer, John Leckie, "We had the whole thing down within a couple of hours, which was really refreshing and fun to do."[8] The original title was "Planet Xerox", but Radiohead were denied permission to use the Xerox trademark.[8]

Music videos

The first music video for "High and Dry" was directed by David Mould and features Radiohead performing at the Vasquez Rocks outside Los Angeles. For the American market, Radiohead's American record label, Capitol, commissioned a new video set in a roadside diner, inspired by the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. It was directed by Paul Cunningham. After MTV objected, the video was edited to remove a shot of an exploding car.[8]

Critical reception

Pete Stanton from Smash Hits gave "High and Dry" four out of five, writing: "It has a Suede-ish vibe to it, minus the whining, and is a mellow-but-not-boring track."[9] In 2017, Pitchfork credited "High and Dry" and another Bends song, "Fake Plastic Trees", for influencing the "airbrushed" post-Britpop of Coldplay and Travis.[10] The Irish Times said that "High and Dry" had "essentially invented Coldplay".[11]

Track listing

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Personnel

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Charts

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Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[19] 2× Platinum 160,000 
Italy (FIMI)[20]
sales since 2009 		Gold 0 
New Zealand (RMNZ)[21] 2× Platinum 0 
Spain (Promusicae)[22] Gold 0 
United Kingdom (BPI)[23] Platinum 600,000 

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Partridge, Kenneth (13 March 2015). "Radiohead's 'The Bends' at 20: Classic Track-By-Track Review". Billboard. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barker, Emily (26 January 2015). "30 Albums That Made 1995 A Vintage Year For Music". NME. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rare Footage Surfaces of Thom Yorke Performing "High and Dry" With Pre-Radiohead Band". Pitchfork. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bambarger, Bradley (17 February 1996). "The Modern Age". Billboard.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Randall, Mac (15 May 2015). "Radiohead's 'The Bends,' 20 Years Later: Reexamining a Modern Rock Masterpiece". Guitar World. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Plagenhoef, Scott (16 August 2006). "Pitchfork: Interviews: Thom Yorke". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
  8. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Randall, Mac (1 February 2012). Exit Music: The Radiohead Story Updated Edition. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-1-4584-7147-5.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stanton, Pete (1 March 1995). "New Singles". Smash Hits. p. 53. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 50 Best Britpop Albums". Pitchfork. 29 March 2017. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Power, Ed (12 March 2020). "Why Radiohead's The Bends is the worst great album of all time". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
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  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 12, no. 11. 18 March 1995. p. 27. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."EHR Top 40" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 12, no. 16. 22 April 1995. p. 25. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (15.4. '95 – 21.4. '95)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in íslenska). 12 April 1995. p. 62. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Major Market Airplay: Italy" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 12, no. 16. 22 April 1995. p. 27.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Airplay Monitor Best of '96: Modern Rock Tracks". Airplay Monitor. Vol. 4, no. 53. 27 December 1996. p. 24.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Canada's Top 200 Singles of 2001". Jam!. Archived from the original on 26 July 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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