Hold Me to This

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Hold Me to This: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead
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ReleasedApril 12, 2005
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Genre Classical
Length58:45
Label World Village, Harmonia Mundi 468034
Producer Rene Goiffon, Da-Hong Seeto
Christopher O'Riley chronology
True Love Waits
(2003)
Hold Me to This: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead
(2005)
Professional ratings
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Pitchfork Media (6.2/10) 22 Apr 05
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Hold Me to This: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead is the second tribute album by classical pianist Christopher O'Riley of songs by the rock band Radiohead, the first being True Love Waits . Like O'Riley's earlier album, Hold Me To This surveys a broad range of Radiohead's work, producing piano arrangements of complex tracks such as "2 + 2 = 5," "Like Spinning Plates" and "Paranoid Android."

Track listing

All songs by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway, and Thom Yorke), arrangements by Christopher O'Riley.

  1. "There There" – 4:05
  2. "(Nice Dream)" – 3:40
  3. "No Surprises" – 3:26
  4. "Polyethylene Part 2" – 3:03
  5. "How I Made My Millions" – 3:22
  6. "Like Spinning Plates" – 3:31
  7. "Sail to the Moon" – 3:54
  8. "The Tourist" – 4:10
  9. "Cuttooth" – 5:11
  10. "2 + 2 = 5" – 3:16
  11. "Talk Show Host" – 7:10
  12. "Gagging Order" – 3:19
  13. "Paranoid Android" – 5:37
  14. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" – 5:02

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