Bodysnatchers (song)

"Bodysnatchers" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, from their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007). In May 2008, it was released with the song "House of Cards" as a promotional single in the United Kingdom, and it was serviced to United States modern rock radio by ATO Records. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, Radiohead's highest placement since "Creep" in 1993.

Recording
The Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, and the lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, debuted "Bodysnatchers" in May 2006 at their performance for the Big Ask at KOKO in London. For their album In Rainbows, Radiohead recorded "Bodysnatchers" with the producer Nigel Godrich at Tottenham House, a dilapidated country house in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Yorke said the atmosphere of the house was captured in the recording. According to Yorke, "Bodysnatchers" is the only track on the album that was recorded as a live take with the band members playing together.

Composition
Yorke described "Bodysnatchers" as a combination of the German band Neu! and "dodgy hippy rock", likening it to the Australian band Wolfmother. He said it was inspired by Victorian ghost stories, the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives and the feeling of "your physical consciousness trapped without being able to connect fully with anything else".

Release
"Bodysnatchers" was released on Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows (2007). In May 2008, it was released with the song "House of Cards" as a promotional single in the United Kingdom. ATO Records and its sister label, Side One Recordings, Radiohead's record label in America, serviced "Bodysnatchers" to American radio stations as a promotional single in late 2007.

"Bodysnatchers" achieved significant airplay on modern rock radio stations, and reached number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in February 2008. It was Radiohead's highest place on the chart since "Creep" reached number two in 1993. A performance of "Bodysnatchers" was included on the 2008 live video In Rainbows – From the Basement.

Personnel
Adapted from the In Rainbows liner notes.

Radiohead
 * Colin Greenwood
 * Jonny Greenwood
 * Ed O'Brien
 * Philip Selway
 * Thom Yorke

Production
 * Nigel Godrich – production, mixing, engineering
 * Richard Woodcraft – engineering
 * Hugo Nicolson – engineering
 * Dan Grech-Marguerat – engineering
 * Graeme Stewart – preproduction
 * Bob Ludwig – mastering

Artwork
 * Stanley Donwood
 * Dr Tchock