Song · Radiohead
“Black Star” by Radiohead
From the album The Bends (1994)
“Black Star” by Radiohead appears on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2009 and 2022. It was first released in 1994 on the album The Bends. Its best result is #321 on The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,346 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Black Star" is one of the songs on The Bends, Radiohead's second album, and the writing credit is shared five ways: Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway and Thom Yorke. The sessions for that record started at RAK Studios in London in February 1994 under real strain, with Parlophone leaning on the band to repeat the sales of "Creep", and after a tour they picked the work back up at Abbey Road and the Manor in Oxfordshire.
On this track John Leckie, Nigel Godrich and the band share the production credit; The Bends was the first Radiohead album made with Godrich. Leckie also helped mix it with Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade and the band, Chris Brown and Jim Warren are among the engineers, and the strings come from Caroline Lavelle on cello and John Matthias on violin and viola.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 829 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1690 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2021 | 662 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 321 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 890 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
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