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?
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
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.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
oh damn, where??
― maffew12, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 10:49 (four years ago) link
I'm generally good at this stuff, but I can't find a link. And I'm not looking at fucking *chan.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
aha, thanks for title.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Smart part of my brain keeps thinking "OK Malware."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
is there any funny banter
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
1 sl5k hit "
file not shared" :(
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
I would also like to d/l this somehow!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
also desperately want the equivalent of this leak but for the Kid A/Amnesiac era
― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
I'd love that. So much material was generated and worked on during those sessions.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
google doc breaking down the contents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kA8u6UhjbutZ-b7TXzmX4qkOTg6nGC1vPg50WwCcZyo/preview
― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Above link is legit.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
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'?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
About Kid A/Amnesiac stuff: https://www.nme.com/news/music/thom-yorke-says-radiohead-plan-something-really-cool-material-kid-amnesiac-2485762
― maffew12, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
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
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
Tom beatboxing along to the telly playing a clip from Halloween is great.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 June 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
*Thom ffs, bloody phone
would i be kosher for me to post a link to this stuff on archive.org? cuz it's there.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Thursday, 6 June 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
*it, i'm definitely not kosher
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Thursday, 6 June 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
Thanks for that. One 'radiohead' search (sort by archive date) brought it to light.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 6 June 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
download/streaming link: https://archive.org/details/nityca100_gmail_12
yes, 'gmail' is in the actual URL
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
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
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
omg the alt "exit music" lyrics, i DREAMED of hearing something like this version when i was in high school
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
v excited to get to the 11 minute "paranoid android," another thing i feel like i dreamed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
it's only about 8 minutes, not quite the fabled 11, but still cool to hear
― ufo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
i didn't realize that in the early versions of paranoid android, it was going to rain down on YOU
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
i realize i could technically skip past the ten minutes of ambient recordings of dyno-mutt cartoons, but i'm not
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
i want to get the FULL EXPERIENCE
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
the cool thing about the dynomutt recordings is they finally provide context to the title of unheard song 'dogwander'
the deepest radiohead mystery finally solved
― ufo, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
I've always wanted to hear the demo of the middle section of "Paranoid Android" that they briefly play in Meeting People Is Easy. They make it sound like it was demo'd originally as its own separate song.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
what if the ambient recording of the dyno-mutt cartoon _is_ the song "dogwander"? ever think of that? (i still want to hear "jonny's scott walker song" myself!)
i'm enjoying discovering the highs for myself - the 'tronned-out full-band "true love waits", motion picture soundtrack going into the ending vamp of "big boots", a couple minutes vamping at the end of "let down" - who cares if "paranoid android" is eight or eleven or forty-one minutes?
one disc a day seems about the right pace for me
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
― piscesx
i didn't but i love the idea that somewhere out there there's a tape of radiohead covering the entire soundtrack to that film (admittedly they've already done the two best songs but come on tell me you wouldn't love to hear their take on "bond 77", radiohead simply don't have enough disco-funk in their repertoire)
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
I thought the cartoon was Space Ghost :)
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
you're lucky, i grew up with that ruby-spears horseshit on the usa cartoon express
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
The leak version of True Love Waits is dreadful, just a plodding mess - I love the version on AMSP tho.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 6 June 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
these Motion Picture Soundtrack versions are great
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 06:52 (four years ago) link
early Airbag sounds like Sparks
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 06:56 (four years ago) link
I can confirm that the track 15 Lift totally destroys all other Lifts.
― Auld Drink of Misery (zchyrs), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
fucking thom yorke, now i have to take the stairs everywhere
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
xp I forgot that Motion Picture Soundtrack is originally OKC era. The acoustic/solo version has always been my preference.
― billstevejim, Friday, 7 June 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
I probably won't bother tracking this down anytime soon unless anyone discovers something earth shattering.
― billstevejim, Friday, 7 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link