Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has slammed EMI over the record label’s decision to release a greatest hits compilation of the bands songs.

"We haven't really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose?" Yorke said, in a new edition of Word.

"There's nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least.

“It's a wasted opportunity in that if we'd behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good."

Radiohead left EMI last year in order to release their latest album ‘In Rainbows’ independently from a record label.

In October they made the album available for fans to download from their website at whatever price they were willing to pay for it.

Speaking about why the band left EMI, Yorke said that their contract “didn't feel right”.

“And now it's like when you move house: you don't want to peer through the window and see what they've done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you,” he said.

He also dismissed claims that the band had asked for £10million to resign with EMI as “stretching the truth to breaking point."

"That was his PR company briefing against us...I was so angry...it was a clear indication that the relationship was over."

(by Jason Gregory)