i have to admit that i was skeptical about this just because i wasn't as thrilled as i thought i would be with the tape that was included as part of the recent ok computer super deluxe blablabla reissue.
but even the 'living in a glass house' bit on the early version of exit music, at the very beginning, is worth the (free) cost of admission
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
omg the alt "exit music" lyrics, i DREAMED of hearing something like this version when i was in high school
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
yeah it's wild to hear that 'life in a glasshouse' and 'exit music' used to be the same song. i haven't even begun to dig through all the previously unheard thom acoustic demos
― ufo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
v excited to get to the 11 minute "paranoid android," another thing i feel like i dreamed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
it's only about 8 minutes, not quite the fabled 11, but still cool to hear
― ufo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
i didn't realize that in the early versions of paranoid android, it was going to rain down on YOU
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
i realize i could technically skip past the ten minutes of ambient recordings of dyno-mutt cartoons, but i'm not
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
i want to get the FULL EXPERIENCE
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
the cool thing about the dynomutt recordings is they finally provide context to the title of unheard song 'dogwander'
the deepest radiohead mystery finally solved
― ufo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
I've always wanted to hear the demo of the middle section of "Paranoid Android" that they briefly play in Meeting People Is Easy. They make it sound like it was demo'd originally as its own separate song.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
what if the ambient recording of the dyno-mutt cartoon _is_ the song "dogwander"? ever think of that? (i still want to hear "jonny's scott walker song" myself!)
i'm enjoying discovering the highs for myself - the 'tronned-out full-band "true love waits", motion picture soundtrack going into the ending vamp of "big boots", a couple minutes vamping at the end of "let down" - who cares if "paranoid android" is eight or eleven or forty-one minutes?
one disc a day seems about the right pace for me
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
Also there’s a cover of Ride to Atlantis, by Marvin Hamlisch, from the soundtrack to The Spy Who Loved Me. Hands up who saw that coming?
― piscesx
i didn't but i love the idea that somewhere out there there's a tape of radiohead covering the entire soundtrack to that film (admittedly they've already done the two best songs but come on tell me you wouldn't love to hear their take on "bond 77", radiohead simply don't have enough disco-funk in their repertoire)
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
I thought the cartoon was Space Ghost :)
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
you're lucky, i grew up with that ruby-spears horseshit on the usa cartoon express
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
The leak version of True Love Waits is dreadful, just a plodding mess - I love the version on AMSP tho.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 6 June 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
these Motion Picture Soundtrack versions are great
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 06:52 (five years ago) link
early Airbag sounds like Sparks
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link
I can confirm that the track 15 Lift totally destroys all other Lifts.
― Auld Drink of Misery (zchyrs), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
fucking thom yorke, now i have to take the stairs everywhere
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
xp I forgot that Motion Picture Soundtrack is originally OKC era. The acoustic/solo version has always been my preference.
― billstevejim, Friday, 7 June 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
I probably won't bother tracking this down anytime soon unless anyone discovers something earth shattering.
― billstevejim, Friday, 7 June 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
that archive.org streaming link is still up right?
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
made it through the end of disc 6 today (was going to try to stick to one disc a day, but it was a slow day!) there's like 17 minutes of cool jams on the fifth disc, and then another full-band take on "attention", which is really starting to grow on me as a song. then there's some massively lo-fi hotel room demos.
disc 3 has a fun 808 jam stuck in the middle, though the disc 5 jams are better. disc 4 and 5 also have some good jams on the early "paranoid android" before they got the ending together and a pretty nice early run-thru of "airbag". then disc 6 has some better than usual solo yorke demos (including last flowers and life in a glass house) and then ten minutes of random bits copied off the "spy who loves me" soundtrack, cool process shit
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link
Finished. "Funky Cloak" is a jam.
― maffew12, Monday, 10 June 2019 11:40 (five years ago) link
http://www.on-a-friday.com/OKComputerLeakedMaterialCues/very handy cue files and splitter script for the 18 mp3s
― maffew12, Monday, 10 June 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
it was fun just going through everything before I read what was on them. things get A bit bogged down sometimes and, then, whammo, Thom sings "A Reminder" acapella into the wind three times through.
― maffew12, Monday, 10 June 2019 11:46 (five years ago) link
truly the Beatles Anthology of our time
― maffew12, Monday, 10 June 2019 11:50 (five years ago) link
archive.org link down. Anyone willing to shar3?
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 10 June 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
I got it off PB about an hour ago
― nate woolls, Monday, 10 June 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
Really love the full band version of True Love Waits on D1, never really been a huge fan of either released versions
― nate woolls, Monday, 10 June 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
ah thanks, maffew
― brimstead, Monday, 10 June 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Well that version of True Love Waits is not good.
To me the real version will always be that Belgium live performance with just acoustic guitar and the winding organ line. Always felt like that should've been the arrangement.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
This is fascinating. I wonder would a band ever sanction releasing something as sprawling and undigestible as this on a bonus reissue. Feels like it would've been appropriate for OK Computer's one a few years ago. Deluxe 17-minidisc edition.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 06:33 (five years ago) link
the irony is if the ever did do that so many people would call it pretentious and ridiculous and ludicrous to suggest that anyone would ever listen to 17 hours of random Radiohead studio tapes
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 06:46 (five years ago) link
it's fun, I'd like to do this with most bands
i don't get the "not good" takes on the d1 true love waits. maybe it just sounds good to me sandwiched in with three different live versions of "i promise", idk
i think part of the reason i like it is precisely because it's not releasable. it just doesn't cut it as product. honestly even having the songs tracked and identified takes a little of the pleasure out of it for me.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 06:57 (five years ago) link
still hunting and not finding. wld love to listen.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 07:26 (five years ago) link
It's very easy to find on soulseek
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 08:02 (five years ago) link
And Pirate Bay, downloaded in about 20 minutes this morning
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
https://t.co/iTcF2VjYRdhttps://t.co/6Pao0hThbU pic.twitter.com/OepiMlEL73— Jonny Greenwood (@JnnyG) June 11, 2019
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link
released for one quid apiece. pay up before James Bond's lawyers catch on!Looks like we get to see the writing on each disk case
― maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
Actually the durations look different. Maybe already removed things that aren't theirs.
― maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:25 (five years ago) link
Disc 6 looks like it stops before all the Bond stuff.
13 is also much shorter
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link
Apparently they can be downloaded in FLAC. The 192kbps MP3 weren't far from the actual minidisc bitrate anyway, were they?Anyways classy move
― maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
OMG, looking at Thom's hand-written tracklists, Dogwander literally is a field recording of a Dynomutt cartoon. That rules.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
wow great that they did that
looking through the tracklist most of the shortened durations do seem to match with various bits of things they don't have the rights to being edited out (the bond soundtracks, various tv recordings etc.) but there's still a few minutes here and there unaccounted for so i guess i'll wait for that tracklist document to be updated with this version of it
― ufo, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
yeah I'm just going to check the Reddit tonight.I missed any hype about "dogwander", don't remember that coming up in the 90s. I just searched it on YouTube and I'm only more confused about whether it's a thing (beyond the cartoon recording)
― maffew12, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link
I love that they've done this, it's a great way to handle it.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
"dogwander" is just a track title that was listed on their website among all of thom's notes there while they were recording ok computer, not much is really known about it. there's a brief soundcheck recording that people think might be it but that's all.
https://citizeninsane.eu/music/pile/dogwander.html
citizen insane is the go to for unreleased radiohead song trivia though with the minidiscs it's well out of date now
― ufo, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
yeah classy is the word. I imagine they're pretty pissed that this leaked. this way of dealing with it is admirable.
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link