Radiohead
I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Capitol
This settles it. If there is a better stadium-level band in the business than Radiohead, they have yet to reach our side of the world. Radiohead's last three albums have solidified the band's status as the most successful nonconformists in pop music - artists in the truest sense of the word. Yet questions remained. Even the critics who spent the last couple of years drooling over these guys doubted Radiohead's ability to pull off this "difficult" new sound in a live setting. As it turns out, the tracks that emerged from the now notorious Kid A/Amnesiac sessions actually rock-it's all a matter of setting. These cuts, pulled from various stops on their 2001 European tour, prove beyond a doubt that avant-rock, even in its most commercial setting, is capable of selling tickets. Live, these tracks take on a different shape than the album versions. "Like Spinning Plates" is stripped of its manipulations and effects and left in what seems to have been its original state, a lovely piano/string ballad that ends up seeming way too short. Other tracks are built upon rather than downsized. "Idioteque" and "Everything In Its Right Place," for example, use the base track as a starting point; drums, vocals and synth lines are layered on top as the tracks progress. Bravo to drummer Phil Selway who does an excellent job enhancing and executing all of the pre-programmed beats and samples. Overall, the sound quality and performance is excellent.-AW
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