Planet Telex / High and Dry

"Planet Telex" and "High and Dry" are songs by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as a double-A side single from their second studio album "The Bends" (1995) on 5 March 1995. "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." Two music videos were produced for "High and Dry".
Recording.
Radiohead wrote and recorded "Planet Telex" in a single session at RAK Studios. It developed from experiments with a drum loop taken from B-side "Killer Cars", to which the band added piano processed with multiple delay effects. As the band had returned from a restaurant, songwriter Thom Yorke recorded the vocals drunk, slumped in a corner. According to producer John Leckie, "We had the whole thing down within a couple of hours, which was really refreshing and fun to do." The original title was "Planet Xerox", but the band was denied permission to use the Xerox trademark.
Yorke performed an early version of "High and Dry" with the band Headless Chickens while he was a student at University of Exeter in the late 1980s. Yorke said the lyrics were about "some loony girl I was going out with", but became "mixed up with ideas about success and failure". In 1993, Radiohead recorded a demo version with their live engineer, Jim Warren, but dismissed it as "too Rod Stewart". During the recording sessions for "The Bends", the demo was rediscovered and remastered for inclusion on the album. In a 2006 interview with "Pitchfork", Yorke said that the label had pressured him to release "High and Dry" and felt that it was a "very bad" song.
Music videos.
Two music videos were created for "High and Dry": one for the British market, featuring Radiohead in a California desert, and one for the USA, set in a diner. Only the US version appears on the band's 1998 video compilation "7 Television Commercials." Both appear on the "" DVD, released in 2008 by EMI.
Personnel.
Radiohead
Production
Artwork