![]() The orchestrations - and Jonny Greenwood’s role in shaping them - marked a pivotal development in the Kid A era. One of the mysteries was seemingly solved when a track titled “Untitled v1” popped up on YouTube, pairing garbled Yorke vocals, electronics and gleaming electric piano into a tumbling soundscape that feels like a mash-up of “Everything in Its Right Place,” “Kid A” and “Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors.” When Radiohead released the “disc box” version of 2007’s In Rainbows, they included a second album of leftover tracks, including a pair of short, ambient interludes titled “MK1” and “MK2.” These three “Untitled” tracks are similarly brief and vaguely titled, leading to much speculation about their origins. ![]() “Untitled v1” / “Untitled v2” / “Untitled v3” Listen to Radiohead's Original Version of 'Like Spinning Plates' After endless experimentation, he wound up with a mostly reversed vocal that, when played forward, has intelligible lyrics - a strange in-between. "We'd turned the tape around, and I was in another room, heard the vocal melody coming backwards, and thought, 'That's miles better than he right way round', then spent the rest of the night trying to learn the melody,” Yorke told The Wire in 2001 (per Citizen Insane). Unsatisfied with the actual song, they reversed the recording, and Yorke was inspired by these new alien textures and the accidental sounds they’d shaped. But the original, synth-anchored “I Will” - later dismissed by front man Thom Yorke as “dodgy Kraftwerk” - was still put to good use. The original song sprung from an aborted take on “I Will,” a tale of post-apocalyptic parenting that the band revamped and rerecorded for 2003’s Hail to the Thief. While this track’s “Why Us?” parenthetical is likely a mystery, hardcore fans already know the tortured backstory of this eerie Amnesiac highlight. “Like Spinning Plates” (“Why Us?” Version) Alas, the band finally announced that long-awaited box set, Kid A Mnesia, featuring a third disc with 12 previously unheard cuts.Ĭonsider this your primer: some spoiler-free history and conjecture on the year’s most coveted rarities. Following the release of 2017’s OKNOTOK, an expansive 20th anniversary package for OK Computer, Radiohead-heads immediately started speculating about a joint Kid A/ Amnesiac reissue: the formatting, the sequencing, the artwork and, crucially, what long-buried treasures might be unearthed. He ended that thread with a kicker that, two decades later, is both fitting and kind of hilarious: “We're saving them for our box set in 20 years when no one's interested in us anymore.” Most of the other versions often get scrapped halfway through.” “We often record different versions of songs, and the new one is the first time it has been strong enough to bear hearing again. ![]() “We literally forgot about ,” guitarist Ed O’Brien told Channel 4’s Planet Sound in 2001, according to the renown fan site Citizen Insane.
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