“There There” by Radiohead

"There There" was the lead single from Hail to the Thief, Radiohead's sixth album, released in May 2003 under its full title, "There, There (The Boney King of Nowhere)". Thom Yorke wrote the words, all five members share the music credit, and Nigel Godrich produced it for Parlophone.

It's a slow-motion ambush. Can, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Pixies all fed into it, and you can hear each of them in the churning, tribal pulse: layer upon layer of percussion piles up like a storm front, the guitars circle warily, and Yorke's voice drifts over the top, unsettled, almost sleepwalking. Then the tension finally snaps into a climax that lands like a dam giving way.

It went to number four in the UK and number one in Canada and Portugal, and reached number 14 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. It was included on Radiohead: The Best Of in 2008, and a live version appeared in 2025 on Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003–2009). That same year, Rolling Stone's rundown of the century's greatest songs so far had it at 196th.

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