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I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001)

Where the lyrics of I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings take you, and where it was really made.

This live EP by Radiohead includes an acoustic "True Love Waits", a song the band did not release until 2016.

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Recording place listed for the EP (2001)

Recording site South Park — MusicBrainz lists South Park as the place where this EP was recorded. The source gives no building-level detail, so the marker is placed at the listed coordinates only. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings is a live EP by the English rock band Radiohead
• Released 12 November 2001 in the UK by Parlophone
• Released in the US by Capitol Records a day later
• Contains performances of songs from Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001)
• Recorded during the band's 2001 tour
• Includes an acoustic performance of "True Love Waits" by Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar

Background

• Kid A and Amnesiac were developed through studio experimentation
• Radiohead rearranged those songs for live performance
• The electronic track "Like Spinning Plates" was rearranged as a piano ballad
• Guitarist Ed O'Brien said Kid A could not be played live while staying true to the record
• O'Brien said live performance put the human element back into the songs
• Drummer Philip Selway said Radiohead found some new life in the songs when performing them
• Yorke said the tension between human and machine was part of learning to play the songs live
• Radiohead left EMI after its contract ended in 2003
• In 2007 EMI released Radiohead Box Set, which included this EP, with no band input and no remastering

Recording

• Radiohead performed the songs on the 2001 tour
• "True Love Waits" was not released by Radiohead until the 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool
• MusicBrainz lists South Park as the recording place

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.
• The members met while attending Abingdon School, a private boys' school in Abingdon.
• The band was first called On a Friday, and signed to EMI in December 1991 under the name Radiohead.

Members

• Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards), Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Philip Selway (drums).
• Nigel Godrich (producer) and Stanley Donwood (cover artist) have worked with the band since 1994.

Career

• Debut album Pablo Honey (1993); The Bends (1995); OK Computer (1997) is considered a landmark record.
• Kid A (2000) marked a dramatic change in style, incorporating electronic music, jazz and krautrock.
• In Rainbows (2007) was self-released as a pay-what-you-want download.
• Over 30 million albums sold by 2011; six Grammy Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Received mainly positive reviews
• Metacritic average of 76 from 16 reviews, indicating generally favourable reviews
• Entertainment.ie critic Andrew Lynch: captures the excitement of being there and restores the human dimension
• The A.V. Club's Stephen Thompson: cast new light on Kid A and Amnesiac
• Rolling Stone's Jonah Weiner: described it as explosively raw and praised the Idioteque performance and Yorke's vocals on Like Spinning Plates
• Pitchfork's Matt LeMay: praised Like Spinning Plates for songwriting virtuosity and called True Love Waits absolutely gorgeous
• Pitchfork's Matt LeMay: felt True Love Waits justified the live release
• NME's Ted Kessler: praised Yorke's vocals on True Love Waits as clear and true
• Mac Randall: found Yorke's vocals whiny and preferred a widely shared bootleg of the song
• Several critics felt the album was too short
• Stephen Thompson: marred by unrevealing packaging and inexplicable brevity
• Mac Randall: the brevity made it something of a letdown
• Matt LeMay: criticised the lack of older songs and called it a promotional item for Kid A and Amnesiac
• Sam Samuelson of AllMusic: suggested it could have been packaged with Amnesiac as a complete Kid A sessions package

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Parlophone was bought by Warner Music Group in February 2013
• In April 2016 WMG transferred Radiohead's back catalogue to XL Recordings
• In May 2016 XL reissued Radiohead's back catalogue on vinyl, including this EP
• The EMI reissues were released without Radiohead's consent and were removed from streaming services
• Radiohead did not release True Love Waits until 2016

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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