Radiohead: Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Johnny Greenwood, Phil Selway, Ed
O'Brien.
Engineers: Jim Warren, Nigel Godrich, Will Shapland.
Recorded live in England, Germany, and Norway.
So you're one of the most innovative, admired bands in the world. Your last
three albums have been among the most glorified and scrutinized in post-Beatles
rock history. What's your next move? In the case of Radiohead, that crucial
next move proved to be the live album I MIGHT BE WRONG, which documents the
intense performances of material from the last couple of albums and gives the
envelope-pushing creative team a much-needed breather before unveiling their
next masterpiece.
Not that I MIGHT BE WRONG bears the slightest hint of filler or contractual
obligation; these fever-pitch versions of cuts from KID A and AMNESIAC add much
to the band's legacy. From the driving, Can-like bass line of the opener “The
National Anthem” through “Like Spinning Plates”'s moody, piano-led
majesty and the quirky, minimalistic electronica of “Idioteque,” Radiohead
is at the peak of its powers here. These European concert dates find the band
employing its vast array of sonic weaponry in the service of a forward-looking
vision that I MIGHT BE WRONG catches in an exciting sonic snapshot.
What the critics say…
Rolling Stone (11/22/01, p.89) – 4 stars out of 5 – “…Offers a clue
about why Radiohead are so compelling live…the peaks are still somehow shaped
by Yorke's sense of beautiful understatement.”
Q (12/02, p.67) – Included in Q Magazine's “The 50 Best Albums of
2002.”
Q (12/01, pp.126–7) – 4 stars out of 5 – “…Listening to this live
album, aside from its musical pleasures, you alight on a striking sound indeed:
the most intelligent music of the age being received by thousands upon thousands
of cheers…”
Uncut (12/01, p.124) – 3 stars out of 5 – “…Radiohead prove here that
they can conjure blazing intensity, visceral physicality and raging rock
dynamics from even willfully opaque jazzoid chuffing…”
NME (Magazine) (11/10/01, p.40) – 8 out of 10 – “…This sounds
significantly better than both the studio albums that spawned it…”
