Radiohead - The Best Of DVD

Radiohead's next video would also win 'greatest ever' acclaim. For "Street Spirit," the band teamed with top music video and commercials director Jonathan Glazer. His work includes the video for Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity," the Guinness "Surfer" commercial (voted the best ad of all time) and he would then go on to direct movies like Sexy Beast. Glazer's rigorous approach and intensity gelled with Thom Yorke, and the result was a mesmerizing and groundbreaking video. Glazer captured the hypnotic beauty of "Street Spirit" in his understated use of special effects and, in particular, high-speed photography. The still-astonishing trailer park-set video became a big award-winner, including Best Video of 1996 at British music video award show The CADS. Glazer later revealed that Thom Yorke encouraged him to simplify his ideas for the video until the slow motion footage became the backbone of the piece.

Radiohead and Glazer worked together again two years later on the video for "Karma Police." With the director preparing to shoot his first movie, the result was suitably cinematic: it's shot from the viewpoint of a Cadillac driver bearing down on a man staggering down a road, with Thom Yorke in the car's back seat. Something bad is going to happen, but there's a scorching twist in the tale. As with "Street Spirit," the perfectionist Glazer insisted on re-shoots before being satisfied with the results.
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