I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
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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.
I Might Be Wrong comprises performances of songs from Radiohead's albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded during their 2001 tour. As the songs had been developed through studio experimentation, Radiohead rearranged them for live performance. It also includes an acoustic performance of "True Love Waits", a song Radiohead did not release until their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.
I Might Be Wrong received mainly positive reviews. Critics praised the performances and arrangements, but criticised its brevity and lack of earlier Radiohead songs.
Content
I Might Be Wrong comprises performances of songs from Radiohead's albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), recorded during their 2001 tour.<ref name="Letts2010">Template:Cite book</ref> It also includes a performance of "True Love Waits", by the singer, Thom Yorke, on acoustic guitar.<ref name="p4k3" /><ref name="Reilly-2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Radiohead did not release "True Love Waits" until their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool.<ref name="Reilly-2016" />
As Radiohead had developed Kid A and Amnesiac through studio experimentation,<ref name="rolling_stone">Template:Cite magazine</ref> they rearranged the songs to perform them live. For example, the electronic track "Like Spinning Plates" was rearranged as a piano ballad.<ref name="p4k3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The guitarist Ed O'Brien said: "You couldn't do Kid A live and be true to the record. You would have to do it like an art installation ... When we played live, we put the human element back into it."<ref name="Rolling Stone-2001">Template:Cite magazine</ref> The drummer, Philip Selway, said Radiohead "found some new life" in the songs when they came to perform them.<ref name="Rolling Stone-2001" /> Yorke said: "Even with electronics, there is an element of spontaneous performance in using them ... It was the tension between what's human and what's coming from the machines. That was stuff we were getting into, as we learned how to play the songs from Kid A and Amnesiac live."<ref name="Fricke2">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Reception
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".<ref name="metacritic"/>
The 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."<ref name="ie-review">Andrew Lynch (14 November 2001). Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong review Entertainment.ie. Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref> Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club wrote that the album "cast new light" on Kid A and Amnesiac.<ref name="av-review" /> In Rolling Stone, Jonah Weiner described it as "explosively raw", praising the "twisty, insular" performance of "Idioteque" and Yorke's "beautifully chilling" vocals on "Like Spinning Plates".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Matt LeMay of Pitchfork also praised "Like Spinning Plates", saying it showcased Radiohead's "songwriting virtuosity rather than their sonic adventurousness".<ref name="p4k3" />
LeMay said the performance of "True Love Waits" was "absolutely gorgeous" and that the song "holds its own" against any on Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer.<ref name="p4k3" /> He felt it justified the release of the live album, along with "Like Spinning Plates".<ref name="p4k">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ted Kessler of NME praised Yorke's vocals on "True Love Waits" as "clear and true".<ref name="NME"/> However, the critic Mac Randall felt the performance, with "whiny" vocals, was inferior to a widely shared bootleg version. He wrote: "One gets the feeling that this was a song Radiohead knew they liked and knew audiences liked but the band never came to grips with an arrangement for it; finally they threw up their hands, putting it out as it is."<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>
Several critics felt I Might Be Wrong was too short. Thompson found it "marred by characteristically unrevealing packaging and inexplicable brevity".<ref name="av-review">Thompson, Stephen (12 November 2001). Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings Template:Webarchive The A.V. Club. Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref> Randall wrote that its brevity made it "something of a letdown", and that the lack of earlier Radiohead songs meant it did not capture "anywhere near the scope of a real Radiohead concert".<ref name=":0" /> LeMay also criticised the lack of older songs, and said the album had the feeling of a "promotional item" for Kid A and Amnesiac.<ref name="p4k3" /> Sam Samuelson of AllMusic suggested it could instead have been packaged with Amnesiac as a complete package from the Kid A sessions, rather than a "couple of thrown-together releases".<ref name="AllMusic">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Reissues
Radiohead left EMI after their contract ended in 2003.<ref name="Guardian">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2007, EMI released Radiohead Box Set, a compilation of albums recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI, including I Might Be Wrong.<ref name="Guardian" /> Radiohead had no input into the reissues and the music was not remastered.<ref name="MCCARTHY">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In February 2013, Parlophone was bought by Warner Music Group (WMG).<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In April 2016, as a result of an agreement with the trade group Impala, WMG transferred Radiohead's back catalogue to XL Recordings. The EMI reissues, released without Radiohead's consent, were removed from streaming services.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In May 2016, XL reissued Radiohead's back catalogue on vinyl, including I Might Be Wrong.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the liner notes.<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> Template:Col-begin Template:Col-2
Radiohead
Production
- Jim Warren – engineering and mixing (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8)
- Nigel Godrich and Will Shapland – engineering and mixing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7)
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 |