Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Live) - FIRST PERFORMANCE April 1, 1998 

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Fr, such a life death unique opportunity to be delighted by existence and non existence simultaneously

Watch 1997 Motion Picture Soundtrack live

1998 they werent underground

what if hypothetically i had something in my eye

the song was written after the album released

@@K0NGsure it was written after but the instrumentation is much more okc-like than the final version (or anything else on kid a for that matter)

i'm pretty sure that someone will make this clean someday with A.I.

give this song the john lennon treatment

this is pretty high quality?

​@@titanicf0gnot enough!

​@@joaoflpeai so far is very obvious and sounds bad

True. But this is the recording that I fell in love with and obsessed over in '99. I had listened to this bootleg about 300 times by the time Kid A came out. The album version is lovely, but there is a certain raw energy in this one that went amiss in the studio... like with many of their songs

“I know what I’ve seen, you throw me out and send me back again” is a part I wish was in the original as well, perfect transition which matches the later lines “Fireworks and blown speakers, strobe lights and hurricanes”. It’s like an extended version of the song, giving extra context as to why he’s waiting, he’s had enough of it and lets her and this destructive cycle of the relationship goes, and that the moment to rectify this, in the present is long gone and in the future where ruminating and regretting that decision is pointless since it is final. They likely removed it due to the long run time and that it’s likely better removed to fit a wider context. The other version could be Radiohead’s own experience with EMI, seeing everything and having to do all these concerts were posing them off, being down with the job and having to do it again under the contract.

@@theorangeoof926 Almost sounds like the line "you reel me out then you cut the string" from 15 step. Maybe they decided to recycle it for the later In Rainbows?

@@CL2- That’s actually a kind of interesting idea and I admit I couldn’t see the connection, but it is almost 9 years after the release of this demo to the publication of In Rainbows, implying that it could be coincidental.

@@theorangeoof926 That's true, but most of In Rainbows is made up of old demos that the band touched up later ("Reckoner" was one of the exceptions, some other ones, not too sure). So it's definitely a possibility that some lines came from this era of Radiohead

Could be wrong, but is it possibly a Rhodes piano? Hard to tell.

Love that “blown speakers” and “hurricanes” are swapped here

@@olliejenkins5148or fireworks and strobe lights are swapped

You are welcome.

I forget the model, but it was a Sony microcassette tape recorder.

Damn, this dude was actually there. YOU ROCK ​@@DavidRamos-sr8cx

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