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Twenty years is a lifetime, yet it’s doubtful that Radiohead takes perverse pleasure in just sitting on songs at the expense of their dedicated fan base.
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Until the 2016 release of Pool, though, the only iterations of these songs existed as bootlegs, unreleased B-sides, or through hearsay from excited fans lucky enough to nab tickets to see them in the flesh. 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool included another crop of older show favorites: “Identikit,” “Ful Stop,” and “True Love Waits,” a cut that finally made it onto a studio album 21 years after Radiohead started playing it in their live shows. The OKNOTOK release isn’t the first time Radiohead has withheld long-standing live favorites and chosen to release them much later.
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But they didn’t, and fans have been scouring for clues about when (or if) they’ll be put to tape ever since. Given their steady circulation on Radiohead’s tour that year, it seemed only natural that the two songs would make it onto OK Computer when it was released a year later. The elegiac “Lift” and “I Promise,” for instance, were both part of the band’s live show in 1996. Radiohead’s been performing them live for years. Later this summer, the band will release newly remastered versions of their now-classic 1997 album, entitled OKNOTOK, that promises eight B-sides, a cassette featuring OK Computer demo and session tapes, a hardcover art book, over 100 pages of Thom Yorke’s journal entries, and more ephemera.įor longtime heads, though, the holy grail of the OK Computer reissue is the three previously unreleased songs it contains: “I Promise,” “Lift,” and “Man of War.” While it’s the first time these tunes appear on any record, they’re hardly appearing out of the blue.
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Photo: Trixie Textor/Getty Images for Coachellaįollowing a series of characteristically cryptic clues sprinkled around major cities worldwide, Radiohead finally put obsessive fan speculation to rest on Tuesday with the announcement of OK Computer’s 20th-anniversary reissue.