Song · Radiohead
“All I Need” by Radiohead
From the album In Rainbows (2007)
“All I Need” by Radiohead appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2007 and 2025. It was first released in 2007 on the album In Rainbows. Its best result is #38 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #308 alternative song of 2007.
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"All I Need" is the slow, heavy heart of In Rainbows, Radiohead's seventh album from 2007, a downtempo song about obsession and loving someone who doesn't love you back. It broods on a murky, throbbing low end before swelling into a wall of noise, and Nigel Godrich produced and mixed it. The band first played it at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on 20 June 2006, with Thom Yorke warning the crowd they had only just sketched it out; later, in the studio, they used a fan's mobile-phone video of that show, posted on YouTube, as a guide.
It went out as a promotional single in January 2009. The video, made for MTV's EXIT campaign against human trafficking and modern slavery, sets the days of two boys from very different worlds side by side, and it picked up 16 awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 38 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2007 | 89 |
| 2007 | 95 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 287 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2018 | 664 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs | 892 |
| 2024 | 662 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 299 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 372 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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