Comments on: ‘Nude’ single b-sides revealed

By: Lindy

Lindy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:53:27 +0000

Wow, the negativity here is astonishing! Yes, they’re making tracks available from the discbox, which many of us (myself included) already have. But really — they’re finally back, with a brilliant new album, a gorgeous discbox, and a decent tour coming up, and all you folks can do is complain?! Bloody hell. If you’re so disappointed by the singles, then don’t buy them; why slag off the band? Did you all forget how much they *did* do for us with this new record? This was the first time there was more than one webcast (if my memory serves), let alone a live gig being webcast (if you couldn’t attend) — we’ve had 3 webcasts for this record, not to mention all the radio programmes and things. Come on, people — enough with the petulance. Enjoy the new record and have done with it.

By: Arie

Arie — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:48:17 +0000

Oh, dear God! Radiohead release a CLASSIC new record, and all you can do is be this goddamn petty about b-sides on an upcoming single release?! If your claims that they mustn’t care much about their fans anymore are in fact true, then I can’t say I’d much blame them!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:09 +0000

Great song.Disappointing song selection for b-sides.There’s a huge array of(officially) unreleased material that is top notch.Something from the podcasts would have sufficed.A missed opportunity methinks.Hey guys!Is it too late to heed the pleas and cries of your true fans and change those b-sides?C’mon you’re Radiohead!You can do whatever you want right?Please!

By: Moza

Moza — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:03:58 +0000

Very poor form. I have personally trained my 2 year old to call our stereo his “radiohead”, and then this nude-b-side bollocks happens. Not impressed. You guys (who I know will never read this) had better announce some dates in kiwiland this year. Loyalty has lasted ten years without a show, and it’s stretching pretty thin.

By: _john_

_john_ — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:53:55 +0000

I stand by the “relative dearth” comment. Maybe “dearth” sounds a bit negative, but even with the counts given, it looks just so…there are fewer b-sides so far with this one than most others.
And though I don’t know exact counts (seems to be some disagreement above), I thought there were quite a few more than given in the first claim/estimate…but i’m including official & unofficial b-sides, remixes, officially-released live stuff, as well as the soundtrack stuff for Lying Mouth…
Also: how come I’m the only one curious about all the extra song titles from the blackboard photograph?

By: Accountant

Accountant — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:22:59 +0000

Curious about “OKC” B-side #11 anyway

By: Accountant

Accountant — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:20:18 +0000

@Josh, explanation for 12 B-sides

Pablo Honey singles :
“Creep” + Inside My Head (1), Million Dollar Question (2)
Japanese “Creep” + Yes I Am (3), Blow Out (remix) (4)
“Anyone” + Faithless (5), Coke Babies (6)
Aussie “Anyone” + Pop is Dead (7), Thinking About You (EP version) (8), Killer Cars (9)
“Stop Whispering” (remix) (10) + Creep (acoustic) (11)
“Pop is Dead” + Banana Co (acoustic) (12)

I didn’t go for “Drill”, which I’m not rich or crazy enough to have in my possession.

By: Hector Gull

Hector Gull — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:38:01 +0000

The DiscBox is a work of art, all the songs in CD 2 are available on the internet anyway, so if you want to “build” CD2 by burning the songs in the same order well they can, so why not release the songs as B sides?, many people may have the songs off CD2 but they do NOT have the DiscBox, I don’t think other songs complement In_Rainbow like these songs do, paz y amor…cuiden el planeta o nos jodemos todos.

By: Leo Davidson

Leo Davidson — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:32:38 +0000

“well you know they did release a whole extra cd and stuff.”

Half a CD, really. In Rainbows CD1 and CD2 are 70mins of music total and could have been released as one CD if the band had wanted to.

(Not that longer is always better, and the band said they felt they let HTTT get too long and compensated for that with IR, but CD2 is good so I think it would’ve been fine to release the whole thing as one album/CD.)

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:57:02 +0000

I certainly won’t be buying the single, seeing that I already own all the tracks on it. Like many others who have commented, I find this to be a sadly disappointing release.
I don’t know what’s going on with this band, looks like they don’t give a shit about their fans any more. Well, I don’t really care any more either.