Airbag / How Am I Driving?


Airbag / How Am I Driving? is the fifth EP by the English rock band Radiohead, released in April 1998 in North America. It collects most of the B-sides from singles released from Radiohead's third album, OK Computer, plus the OK Computer song "Airbag". It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Songs

Airbag / How Am I Driving? collects most of the OK Computer B-sides, excluding "Lull" and "How I Made My Millions". Only one had been previously released in North America.
"Meeting in the Aisle" is a "spaced out" instrumental with "orchestral" drones, drum machine and bass guitar. Radiohead did not perform it until 2012 on the King of Limbs tour. The two-part "Polyethylene" begins with softly strummed guitar before a climactic ending. "Palo Alto" features "hummable pop" verses and a "thunderous" chorus. Its initial title was "OK Computer" before this became the album title.

Release

Airbag / How Am I Driving? debuted at number 56 on the Billboard 200, selling 20,000 copies in its first week. In 2009, it was rereleased by EMI on iTunes.

Reception

Airbag / How Am I Driving? was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. In Pitchfork, Ryan Schreiber wrote: "If OK Computer was at the top of your 'best of' list last year, and you had wished for just a few more tracks in that same anti- technology, self-loathing vein that Radiohead so perfectly executes, Airbag goes off on impact." Schreiber expressed surprise that the "impossibly brilliant" final track, "Palo Alto", was not included on OK Computer and felt it would have made a strong single.

Personnel

Radiohead

Production

Packaging