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    Radiohead

    I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings

    (2001)

    Reviewed by Damian McVeigh

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    Label Capitol RecordsOpus2002
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    Originally published at Opus →

    There may have been a few murmurs of complaint about Radiohead doing something as supposedly "commercial" as releasing a live album. But it seems a tad ungrateful for a fan to moan about a third Radiohead album in just over a year, after the time that elapsed between OK Computer and Kid A.

    The inclusion of the previously unreleased "True Love Waits" seems like a purchase sweetener for the uncertain. The song made its live debut in the mid-1990s, and better versions than the one found here can be tracked down in cyberspace. It's hearing familiar Radiohead songs get twisted into sometimes wonderful new shapes that makes I Might Be Wrong worthwhile.

    "Like Spinning Plates" is transformed from the alien experience that lit up Amnesiac into a piano ballad; it's as if the band travelled back in time with the song. Hearing a stadium crowd sing along to "Idioteque" turns it into a joyous celebration of doom. If Amnesiac was a more engaging, involving piece of work than its predecessor, I Might Be Wrong is another step in the same direction (did someone say "rocking out"?), and it still leaves questions as to Radiohead's next move wide open.

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