"OK Computer": Classic Or Dud?

I always liked this better than the Kid A version. (And it has a 3rd verse.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmjyUce7kSU

I'll no doubt get around to hearing this stuff at some point, but I'm not exactly in any kind of rush to hear this stuff - I have a huge feeling it's all stuff that's worth hearing once and that's it.

Listening to the cassette is reminiscent of hearing the mixture of music and sound design in Meeting People is Easy.

I'm thinking the box set should hold its value pretty well so once I've had my fill of the tape I'm just gonna flip it, if I lose 20 bucks on it I'll just chalk that up as the cost of the tape

The tape has so many interesting moments that gives you a peek into their creative process. There's per example Nigel sampling a guitar from Paranoid Android which ended up being used as the background ambience in Fitter Happier. You can also hear how Paranoid Android was recorded in different rooms - loud parts where done in bigger rooms apparently and then spliced into the quier parts.

Oh there's also geeky stuff hidden in the tape! The last track "ok computer program" is an actual ZX spectrum program:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDM5YBS6KMc

^^ that's exactly what i'm hoping it will be, awesome

this is really sweet, i love when bands put out the raw sludge of their creative process. listening to that first True Love Waits loop took me aback, I knew I had heard one of those bleeps before- it ended up being incorporated into Pull/Pulk.

the Let Down demo is so amazing

Big fan of the presentation of demo material in this fashion.

Yeah and the Demo/doodle of No Surprises. I too think this is a great idea. And yeah the sound design; bits floating in and out is very Meeting People Is Easy.

the Airbag demo is great, too - i just wish it had double tracked guitars & vox like the Let Down demo

also lol a bunch of Radiohead superfans came into the store the other day and they were talking about how much better the Motion Picture Soundtrack version is than the Kid A one. they repeated the party line - "it's just... it's his best vocal." I don't get that... I love the song, but the mellow/passive delivery on Kid A and all the awesome Disney-esque accouterments are so much better... first of all, the piano on this demo is low in the mix and distorted, it sounds shitty, and his vocal is so saccharine, so glad they saved that one...

I don't really like I Promise or Lift. But Man of War is really excellent.

'Man of War' is the best of the three for me, but I enjoy the other two, even if I don't see what zillions of hardcore Radiohead fans have seen in 'Lift' all these years.

yeah I didn't either, but when the studio version came out it really snuck up on me. not a red letter song, but there's something about it that's stuck with me. i like "Man O War" but don't dig the Bond theme vibe.

look i know we have two active radiohead threads right now but we should talk about the 18 hours of ok computer-era tapes that just leaked maybe?

I still think OKC is one of the greatest albums of all time, and by far Radiohead's best album, but I don't have the slightest interest in listening to this.

there is a lot to dig through here but so far it's very very cool to finally hear the version of True Love Waits they had at the time - it's not that great and it's easy to hear why they were unhappy with it but fascinating nontheless

oh damn, where??

other highlights: a lot of great early versions of Motion Picture Soundtrack, a fair few takes of Lift including one great one that's now the definitive version for me

I'm generally good at this stuff, but I can't find a link. And I'm not looking at fucking *chan.

i kind of lucked out, did a slsk search on the filename (ok minidisc) and found someone sharing the zip file. by this time user is probably swarmed with people in queue though. i'm not sharing it myself because i don't want to spend the next month sending out a 1 gb zip file to everybody on slsk, i've done my service in other ways.

aha, thanks for title.

Smart part of my brain keeps thinking "OK Malware."

is there any funny banter

1 sl5k hit "

file not shared" :(

I would also like to d/l this somehow!

also desperately want the equivalent of this leak but for the Kid A/Amnesiac era

I'd love that. So much material was generated and worked on during those sessions.

Think I might have found it, do a Ggl search for the title in inverted commas and there's a thread from a site a few hits down, you'll have to register to access the link.

google doc breaking down the contents:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kA8u6UhjbutZ-b7TXzmX4qkOTg6nGC1vPg50WwCcZyo/preview

Above link is legit.

1:04:31 start of a song i've heard but i forgot the name (the one that goes pa pa pa pa pa pa)

'Pulled Apart By Horses'?

About Kid A/Amnesiac stuff: https://www.nme.com/news/music/thom-yorke-says-radiohead-plan-something-really-cool-material-kid-amnesiac-2485762

i'm checking out on Radiohead internet stuff til i listen to this whole thing ... over.. some .. time! i'd have lost my mind completely over this in the 90s.

Seems that the version of Lift which is on disc/track 15 around 10 minutes in, is amazing people are saying.

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji596s9vyzw&feature=youtu.be

i only got through the first disc today, am taking my time with it (i.e. occasionally working). i love these just random piles of stuff, this sense of discovery, even when that discovery is "oh look it's yet another fucking live version of 'i promise', i wonder if they'll do 'electioneering' next"

i live for this shit. whatever radiohead winds up doing for kid a/amnesiac, i hope somebody steals thom's minidiscs for that one too

This mid-80s-Bowie take on "True Love Waits" is nuts. Like, imagine the ballroom scene of 'Labyrinth' but "just don't leave, don't leave". Wow.

Tom beatboxing along to the telly playing a clip from Halloween is great.

*Thom ffs, bloody phone

would i be kosher for me to post a link to this stuff on archive.org? cuz it's there.

*it, i'm definitely not kosher

Thanks for that. One 'radiohead' search (sort by archive date) brought it to light.

download/streaming link: https://archive.org/details/nityca100_gmail_12

yes, 'gmail' is in the actual URL

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

omg the alt "exit music" lyrics, i DREAMED of hearing something like this version when i was in high school

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