I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings

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I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
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Live album by
Radiohead
Released12 November 2001
RecordedMay–September 2001
Genre
Length40:11
Label
Radiohead chronology
Amnesiac
(2001) 		I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
(2001) 		Hail to the Thief
(2003)

I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings is a live album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 12 November 2001 in the UK by Parlophone and a day later in the US by Capitol Records. Recorded during Radiohead's 2001 tour, it comprises songs from their fourth and fifth albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001). It received mainly positive reviews.

Content[]

Recorded during Radiohead's 2001 Amnesiac tour, I Might Be Wrong comprises live performances songs from Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001),[1] plus "True Love Waits", which was not released on a studio album until A Moon Shaped Pool in 2016.[2] The electronic track "Like Spinning Plates" appears rearranged as a piano ballad.[3]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[6]
Entertainment.ie4/5 stars[7]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[8]
Mojo2/5 stars[9]
NME4/5 stars[10]
Pitchfork8.0/10[11]
Q4/5 stars[12]
Rolling Stone4/5 stars[13]
StylusA−[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, I Might Be Wrong has an average score of 76 based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favourable" reviews.[4]

Several critics felt the album was too short. Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club wrote it "cast new light" on Radiohead's recent material, but was "marred by characteristically unrevealing packaging and inexplicable brevity".[15] AllMusic's Sam Samuelson suggested it could instead have been packaged with Amnesiac as a "complete Kid A sessions package, rather than a couple of thrown-together releases".[5]

Matt LeMay of Pitchfork felt the brevity was justified by the performances of "Like Spinning Plates", which showcases Radiohead's "songwriting virtuosity rather than their sonic adventurousness", and "True Love Waits", which is "absolutely gorgeous ... it can hold its own against any song on OK Computer".[3] Entertainment.ie critic Andrew Lynch wrote: "Unlike most live albums, this one captures some of the excitement of actually being there and gives Radiohead back the human dimension they've recently been in danger of losing."[7] Rolling Stone described the album as "explosively raw", praising the "twisty, insular" performance of "Idioteque" and Yorke's "beautifully chilling voice" on "Like Spinning Plates".[16]

Track listing[]

All songs written by Radiohead except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)VenueLength
1."The National Anthem" Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
28 May 2001
4:57
2."I Might Be Wrong" South Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
4:52
3."Morning Bell" South Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
4:14
4."Like Spinning Plates" Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA
8 August 2001
3:47
5."Idioteque"Arthur Kreiger, Paul Lansky, RadioheadSouth Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
4:24
6."Everything in Its Right Place" Vaison-la-Romaine, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
28 May 2001
7:42
7."Dollars and Cents" South Park, Oxford, England
7 July 2001
5:13
8."True Love Waits" Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, USA
20 August 2001
5:02
Total length:40:11

Personnel[]

Adapted from the EP liner notes.[17]

Release history[]

Country Date Label Format Catalogue number
United Kingdom 12 November 2001 Parlophone LP 12FHEIT 45104
CD CDFHEIT 45104
United States 13 November 2001 Capitol Records CDP 7243 5 36616 2 5

References[]

  1. ^ Marianne Tatom Letts (8 November 2010). Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely. Indiana University Press. pp. 156–167. ISBN 0-253-00491-8.
  2. ^ "The 21-Year History of Radiohead's 'True Love Waits,' a Fan Favorite Two Decades in the Making". Vulture. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b LeMay, Matt (17 December 2001). "Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Critic Reviews for I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings". Metacritic. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings at AllMusic
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Radiohead". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Andrew Lynch (14 November 2001). Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong review Entertainment.ie. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  8. ^ Brunner, Rob (7 December 2001). "I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings". Entertainment Weekly. p. 105. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  9. ^ "Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings EP review". Mojo: 114. December 2001.
  10. ^ Kessler, Ted (7 December 2001). "Radiohead – 'I Might Be Wrong' review". NME. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  11. ^ Matt LeMay (17 December 2001). Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings EP review Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  12. ^ "Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings". Q (#184): 127.
  13. ^ Moon, Tom (22 November 2001). "Recordings: Radiohead, I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 15 December 2001. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  14. ^ Keith Gwillim (1 September 2003). Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong – Review Stylus. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  15. ^ Stephen Thompson (12 November 2001). Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings The A.V. Club. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  16. ^ Weiner, Jonah (20 June 2016). "Radiohead: A Complete Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  17. ^ I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (liner notes).

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