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There There
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"There There" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead. It was released as the lead single from their sixth album, Hail to the Thief (2003), on 26 May 2003. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Portugal, and number 14 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song appears on Radiohead: The Best Of (2008).
Radiohead performed an early version of "There There" on a webcast during the sessions for their 2000 album Kid A, before recording it for Hail to the Thief with their longtime producer Nigel Godrich. They recorded a version at Ocean Way in Los Angeles in 2002, but were not satisfied with the results. According to the guitarist Jonny Greenwood, "Sometimes it doesn't work at all, because you haven't got the real volume of a live concert ... That just doesn't really work coming out of speakers in your front room ... It just sounded a bit like we were trying to make a worthy 'live band playing together' recording."
The singer, Thom Yorke, feared the song may be lost. However, Radiohead returned to the UK and recorded an alternative version in their Oxfordshire studio. Yorke said he cried with relief when he heard Godrich's mix, saying he had dreamed of how he wanted the song to sound: "And one day you walk into the studio and there it is. But you've not been standing there with a hammer and trying to beat it out of the desk or your guitar, it's not necessary. It's just there one day." A demo was released as the B-side to Radiohead's 2003 single "2 + 2 = 5".
"There There" is a rock song with layered percussion that builds to a loud climax. It was influenced by Can, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Pixies. Yorke said it was "supposed to be comforting – 'It's alright, you're just imagining it.'" The subtitle, "The Boney King of Nowhere", refers to a song from the animated series Bagpuss, which Yorke watched with his young son.
Yorke asked Oliver Postgate, the creator of Bagpuss,'' to create the music video for "There There", but Postgate declined as he was retired.
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