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"Alright, kids, listen up! In this history lesson we're going to take a look at one of the so-called most important bands from the late 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. It was the time that music still was being released on compact discs - small silver discs, made from plastic [class chuckles]. Yeah, yeah, I know, these things are real vintage stuff, but I'm sure we have some of them left in the basement of our library. If you want to take a look, let me know. But let's go on with the actual topic: a band called Radiohead. They were huge back then, but instead of taking the easiest road to commercial success, they decided to make some more experimental albums. Mind you, back then this kind of music was considered experimental - seriously. They released two albums in that period - 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac' - and not only could they maintain their artistic credibility, they also sold more of those compact dics than anyone could have suspected. But then they went wrong, with the rightfully-titled live recording 'I Might Be Wrong'. For some reason we'll probably never know - or that time machine some people are working on should be a success, but that'll probably never happen - Radiohead released those live recordings with only songs from those two albums I mentioned earlier. But instead of using the full capacity of such a disc, which could take around 80 minutes of music back then, they only covered half of that time and still sold it for the full amount of money that a normal compact disc cost. A few years after the release, people referred to that particular moment as the turning point in Radiohead's carreer. The fact is that they lost a great amount of credibility, and from then on they were regarded as evil capitalists. Also a fact is that 'I Might Be Wrong' didn't add anything to their until-then-impressive song catalogue. For example, the first song 'The National Anthem' - press on your screen to hear the music - misses those brass parts in the end that made the original version so much better, and songs like 'I Might Be Wrong' and 'Dollars And Cents' are boring reproductions of the originals. Even a great song like 'Everything In Its Right Place' loses much of its impact, because Radiohead didn't know when it was wise to end a song. The only improvement was their stripped version of the otherwise rather experimental 'Like Spinning Plates', which gained a lot of power by playing it without effects. Use the third knob on your screen to listen to the original version first and the live version afterwards. Radiohead also added one new song, but even that song didn't make the album any better, since it was just a second-rate leftover from their more conventional period. Alright, study the material, and next week a test will follow about this topic. After the test, we're going to take a look at another classic act from that era that maintained credibility during their whole career - all 30 years of it: Motorpsycho. See you all next week..." [Excerpt from 'Courses In Musical History', University of Amsterdam, January 2112. Used with kind permission.]
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/radiohead/i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings/906/
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