Radiohead rarity list

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Material that appeared on the OKNOTOK cassette is also excluded.)įor decades, the unreleased “Lift” – showcased live in post- The Bends concerts but never placed on a studio album or B-side – was Radiohead fans’ great white whale, a perfect synthesis of The Bends‘ Britpop brilliance and the looming OK Computer‘s arthouse aspirations, weaponized with the band’s best hook since “Creep.” When “Lift” finally did arrive as a bonus track on OK Computer‘s 20th anniversary reissue, the version – restrained, decelerated and boasting an uncharacteristically blasé Yorke vocal take – failed to capture the magnitude of those live renditions. Note: This summary matches timestamp-wise with the unofficial leaks and not the Radiohead release, which edited down the 18-disc dump and removed non-Radiohead material (like the 15 minutes of James Bond score that appeared on Minidisc 6) and exceedingly superfluous stuff (like the 12-minute field recording buried within Minidisc 13, which was edited down from 51 minutes to 18 minutes in its official release).