Mid-Week Song: Do You Promise?

The UK's Radiohead is one of the truly iconic bands of the past 25 years. The have the distinction of having their 2000 album "Kid A" named as album of the decade by Rolling Stone, The Times of London, and Pitchfork. Selling 30 million albums worldwide, Radiohead was voted the second best artists of the 2000s by Rolling Stone readers, and have four Grammys to their credit. Our featured song, "I Promise," was part of the band's live set in the 1990s, but was never released on an album. As if to demonstrate beautiful songs never grow old, their 1997 album "OK Computer" is being reissued later this month with today's song (and other unreleased tracks) included. Enjoy.

"I won't run away no more, I promise
Even when I get bored, I promise
Even when you lock me out, I promise
I say my prayers every night, I promise

I don't wish that I'm spread, I promise
The tantrums and the chilling chats, I promise

Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise
Tie me to the rotten deck, I promise"

Mid-Week Plastic Song

Respected British alternative rock band Radiohead has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, has won three Grammy awards, and has been named the second best artist of the 2000s by Rolling Stone.  Their 1995 hit, Fake Plastic Trees, was released exactly 20 years ago this week, and received a lot of airplay.  BTW, the trees in the song's title refer to artificial trees that band members saw along Canary Wharf in London after an evening of "celebrating."  The song's been featured in numerous films and TV shows here and in the UK.

Her green plastic watering can for
her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
What she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber bands
to get rid of itself
It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out