"OK Computer": Classic Or Dud?

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

v excited to get to the 11 minute "paranoid android," another thing i feel like i dreamed

it's only about 8 minutes, not quite the fabled 11, but still cool to hear

i didn't realize that in the early versions of paranoid android, it was going to rain down on YOU

i realize i could technically skip past the ten minutes of ambient recordings of dyno-mutt cartoons, but i'm not

i want to get the FULL EXPERIENCE

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

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.

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

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)

I thought the cartoon was Space Ghost :)

you're lucky, i grew up with that ruby-spears horseshit on the usa cartoon express

The leak version of True Love Waits is dreadful, just a plodding mess - I love the version on AMSP tho.

these Motion Picture Soundtrack versions are great

early Airbag sounds like Sparks

I can confirm that the track 15 Lift totally destroys all other Lifts.

fucking thom yorke, now i have to take the stairs everywhere

xp I forgot that Motion Picture Soundtrack is originally OKC era. The acoustic/solo version has always been my preference.

I probably won't bother tracking this down anytime soon unless anyone discovers something earth shattering.

that archive.org streaming link is still up right?

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

Finished. "Funky Cloak" is a jam.

http://www.on-a-friday.com/OKComputerLeakedMaterialCues/

very handy cue files and splitter script for the 18 mp3s

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.

truly the Beatles Anthology of our time

archive.org link down. Anyone willing to shar3?

I got it off PB about an hour ago

Really love the full band version of True Love Waits on D1, never really been a huge fan of either released versions

ah thanks, maffew

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.

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.

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

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.

still hunting and not finding. wld love to listen.

It's very easy to find on soulseek

And Pirate Bay, downloaded in about 20 minutes this morning

https://t.co/iTcF2VjYRdhttps://t.co/6Pao0hThbU pic.twitter.com/OepiMlEL73

— Jonny Greenwood (@JnnyG) June 11, 2019

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

Actually the durations look different. Maybe already removed things that aren't theirs.

Disc 6 looks like it stops before all the Bond stuff.

13 is also much shorter

Apparently they can be downloaded in FLAC. The 192kbps MP3 weren't far from the actual minidisc bitrate anyway, were they?

Anyways classy move

OMG, looking at Thom's hand-written tracklists, Dogwander literally is a field recording of a Dynomutt cartoon. That rules.

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

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)

I love that they've done this, it's a great way to handle it.

"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

yeah classy is the word. I imagine they're pretty pissed that this leaked. this way of dealing with it is admirable.

First time listening to this on bandcamp, that Motion Picture Soundtrack version is making me angry because it’s beautiful and I think it’s better than what they released.

Yeah, I have to applaud the band for handling this in the best way imaginable.