I MIGHT BE WRONG - LIVE RECORDINGS
Radiohead
(EMI)
Some Radiohead is better than no Radiohead. In stores Tuesday, this eight-song live EP from this acclaimed Oxford, England, quintet was culled from four European dates on the art-rockers' 2001 Amnesiac tour.
The track listing breaks down pretty evenly from Amnesiac and last year's KID A, which makes sense, given both wildly inventive albums were recorded during the same sessions.
The one bit of newness is the previously unreleased older concert gem, True Love Waits, which features frontman Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar. Not only is this track worth the price of the CD alone, it's an approach Radiohead should consider on future albums.
Otherwise, getting significant makeovers are Like Spinning Plates, which becomes a piano-based tune not unlike something Rufus Wainwright might sing, and Everything In Its Right Place, which gets some nifty vocal distortion treatment.
The record opens strongly with the space-age oddity The National Anthem before meandering into muddy territory on the title track -- although Thom Yorke's choirboy voice becomes distinctly clearer about half-way through the song.
But for a true sense of the band's trademark intensity, it doesn't get much better than Idioteque, on which the crowd joins in, and the epic-sounding Dollars And Cents.
(More on Radiohead).
track listing breaks down pretty evenly from Amnesiac and last year's KID A, which makes sense, given both wildly inventive albums were recorded during the same sessions.
The one bit of newness is the previously unreleased older concert gem, True Love Waits, which features frontman Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar. Not only is this track worth the price of the CD alone, it's an approach Radiohead should consider on future albums.
Otherwise, getting significant makeovers are Like Spinning Plates, which becomes a piano-based tune not unlike something Rufus Wainwright might sing, and Everything In Its Right Place, which gets some nifty vocal distortion treatment.
The record opens strongly with the space-age oddity The National Anthem before meandering into muddy territory on the title track -- although Thom Yorke's choirboy voice becomes distinctly clearer about half-way through the song.
But for a true sense of the band's trademark intensity, it doesn't get much better than Idioteque, on which the crowd joins in, and the epic-sounding Dollars And Cents.
(More on Radiohead).
Track Listing
1. The National Anthem
2. I Might Be Wrong
3. Morning Bell
4. Like Spinning Plates
5. Idioteque
6. Everything In Its Right Place
7. Dollars & Cents
8. True Love Waits
Total Time: 40:16
