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"High and Dry" redirects here. For other uses, see High and Dry (disambiguation).

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"Planet Telex" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Planet Tolex.
"High and Dry" / "Planet Telex"
High and Dry Planet Telex CD1.jpg
CD1 single artwork
Single by Radiohead
from the album The Bends
Released 27 February 1995 (1995-02-27)[1]
Recorded 1993–1994
Studio
Genre "High and Dry":
"Planet Telex":
Length
  • 4:17 ("High and Dry")
  • 4:18 ("Planet Telex")
Label
Songwriter(s) Radiohead
Producer(s)
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"My Iron Lung"
(1994)		 "High and Dry" / "Planet Telex"
(1995)		 "Fake Plastic Trees"
(1995)
Music video
"High and Dry" on YouTube

"High and Dry" and "Planet Telex" are songs by the English rock band Radiohead. They were released as a double A-side single from Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995), on 27 February 1995 by Parlophone and Capitol Records.

"High and Dry" was recorded as a demo during the sessions of Radiohead's first album, Pablo Honey (1993), and remastered for inclusion on 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".

"High and Dry"

The Radiohead 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] 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 to release it.[7]

"Planet Telex"

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" featured Radiohead performing at the Vasquez Rocks outside Los Angeles.[8] For the American market, Radiohead's American record label, Capitol, commissioned a new video inspired by the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, set in a roadside diner. 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

CD1
No. Title Length
1. "High and Dry"   4:17
2. "Planet Telex"   4:18
3. "Maquiladora"   3:27
4. "Planet Telex" (Hexidecimal Mix) 6:44
Total length:
 18:46
CD2
No. Title Length
1. "Planet Telex"   4:18
2. "High and Dry"   4:17
3. "Killer Cars"   3:02
4. "Planet Telex" (L.F.O. JD Mix) 4:40
Total length:
 16:17
12" vinyl
No. Title Length
1. "Planet Telex" (Hexidecimal Mix) 6:44
2. "Planet Telex" (L.F.O. JD Mix) 4:40
3. "Planet Telex" (Hexidecimal Dub) 7:32
4. "High and Dry"   4:17
Total length:
 22:14
1996 US release
No. Title Length
1. "High and Dry"   4:16
2. "India Rubber"   3:26
3. "Maquiladora"   3:26
4. "How Can You Be Sure?"   4:21
5. "Just" (live at the Forum) 3:47
Total length:
 19:12

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[23] 2× Platinum 20,000
Italy (FIMI)[24]
sales since 2009		 Gold 25,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[25] Platinum 15,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[26] Gold 10,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[27] Platinum 600,000

xunspecified figures based on certification alone
double-daggersales/streaming figures based on certification alone

References

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  13. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 2933." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
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  17. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Radiohead – High and Dry". Top 40 Singles.
  18. ↑ "Archive Chart: 19950311". Scottish Singles Top 40.
  19. ↑ "Archive Chart: 19950311" UK Singles Chart.
  20. ↑ "Radiohead – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Radiohead.
  21. ↑ "Radiohead – Chart history" Billboard Alternative Songs for Radiohead.
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